Natan Nama Or Not a son of Abraham Hope this helps Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Hebrew Jargon = Yiddish Doug Cohen Sarasota, Florida Lexington, MA

Going through the letters my mother had translated (plus the couple a few folks here helped with), I now have a mystery. I knew my mother's maternal grandmother's American name was Gussie Squire. The

Hi Bernard What actually happened to the naturalization processes during the war? I know there was an edict to "de-naturalize" Jews who had been naturalized after 1927. I can only assume that no new

Thanks to Renee Steinig for helping me find one of the Schwartz siblings and her family. Clara SCHWARTZ ROITER had a son Isidor ROITER. He changed his name to IRVING ROIDER after WWII and we found

Can someone help me translate the Yiddish portion of a letter written to my grandmother in 1938, shortly after they immigrated to Canada? It is on Viewmate" from David to Pearl 1838? Thanks for your

All upcoming classes are at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, thanks. ----------------------------- Hello, I will be conducting interactive one-hour online genealogy classes this Fall on a wide array of

Hi Nancy, First, it is US Citizenship and Immigration Services (not Customs). Second, are C-files likely to have anything interesting in them? The problem is, as always, it depends on the date and

Hello Group, I am enrolled in a JewishGen research class and would like to research the Fisher family in Russia before they emigrated to Philadelphia in the late 1890's. I have attached a photo of my

Are A Files actually available for people who become citizens? I filed both an index and search request some months back for my grandparents on my mother's side who had filed a Petition for

I tried ordering an A-File via a FOIA request, but I was told I was only allowed to request the file through their Genealogy Program, the one that is about to cost a lot of money.

In 1938 my family, living in Manchester, UK, took in an 10 year boy whose name was Josef Fleischman. His parents ran a successful patisserie shop in Vienna but, in view of the rising antisemitism in

Hi JoAnne, I read your post on Jewish Gen and wanted to contact you. I have done genealogy for over 40 years, searching for both my own and my late husband’s ancestors, all of whom lived for

Hi Nancy, You'd be better off requesting the A-File which contains every document your ancestor filled out since arriving in the country, including the naturalization file. Also, don't waste your

Hi from Paris, Dear detectives, This forum is a very powerful tool and when you have a question, always ask you if there isn't already a reply somewhere... Use hashtag or key words to recover past

I am amazed that any Ashkenazi have success at total less than 200 cM. I have been autosomal testing well over a decade and don’t waste time below totals of 200 cM unless there are strong name/place

Hi, all! I am trying to determine the parents, and family, of Johann G Bergrath, who is in the Cologne 1920 Directory at 53 Dunnwalder Str. in Mulheim, with an occupation of restaurateur. Also at the

Hi from Paris, Daniela, Concerning Paul, I can add these facts : he was Austrian : thus he was citizen of a foe when WWII started on 1939, September 2nd he was surely obliged to register and be

Attached is a photo of my great grandmother and her children. I do not know her name. The man in the picture is my great uncle David Friedman. All were killed in Auschwitz. I am hoping someone

He is going to daughter and sil Mare or More Lauren, Louron or Louton Or similar spelling. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone