Yes. In Town Finder search for a town in the district or government you want. Then in the boxes on the right you will see underlined district and "province" names. Click on the the district or

I'm so grateful for the work all the JewishGen volunteers do in indexing files. For some indexes - at the moment, I'm looking at the Máramaros Vital Records Births index - the images don't seem to be

Does this include merchants from Malat/Moletai?

Try contacting Baruch Huber from Ungvar. His email :huberbelay@... All the best Mark Friedman

Myshmar is a Hebrew Word that means "Watch". In the Talmud it refers to either a Cohen (mainly) or Levite (also) but it has come to mean those "on guard." In fact, in the Yeshiva Movement, studying

I just learned why my research for LOBEL in Roman, Romania dead-ended. The name LOBEL that my uncle assured me always had been Lobel, was not accurate. E.G., mostly it was first name and then son of

"He matches me at 234cM total, with 10 matching segments, high enough not to be significantly influenced by endogamy" I have a match, 450+ cM, who is no way we can determine related to me. Her

Is anyone familiar with the given name, “Mecie”? Is it a male or female name? Is it a diminutive? Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching: SECHESTOWER (or variations), THAU,

Does anyone know how to find death records from Baku in the 1920's. There does not seem to be much out there about Ajerbijan.

I left France from Barcelona to Lisbon and eventualy New York in August 1941 -- Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco

I am writing a book about my grandfather Lewis Ziff born in 1902 in Edinburgh. His sister Sarah Ziff, born 1898 in Edinburgh nicknamed Sadie married the British amatuer golf champion Charlie Abrams

For Ukraine, one way is to go to the Ukraine Research Division. There is a map showing the various gubernias. Click on one and you'll see a map of the gubernia and a list of the districts and main

Dear Helen, read this article about Gottesmans of Mukachevo, Munkács in correct Hungarian. http://dna.reinyday.com/gottesman/lines.html Klári

Wendy, Did he naturalize? Sometimes a name change occurred at time of naturalization, and was noted on the nat papers. I believe that many people that chose to change their names did not bother with

Barbara, Is this your Louis on the 1930 federal census? Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ 1930 census Name:Louis SloniniskyBirth Year:abt

Hello Jewish Genners, I am re-posting 2 vital records (one death record and a marriage record) in Polish for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following

Thank you for your excellent guidance - that is great. However, I have a problem. Is the URL you gavecorrect? I get :- I use FireFox 99% of the time David

Wendy, I assume that you are referring to Joseph Kirshman. As you observed, he appears with that name in all documents in the US, such as the 1930 census. People were free to be known by whatever

Your kind offer is greatly appreciated, Mark. I recently found a treasure trove of letters (1932-39) written to my late father from his parents. Several were from his father, Wolf Aron “Wilhelm”

Have you looked for Lazarus (Eleazar) Finkelstein in old city directories? Is there an address of last residence on his death cert? You can find that address on the 1910 federal census, and hope that