My grandfather emigrated from Ukraine to Canada in 1912 and was naturalized as a Canadian citizen in 1920. When my father came to Canada in 1922, he assumed, that as a dependent of my father, he

The same card is on Ancestry.com The card is explained on Ancestry: Arrival Date is June 13, 1930. Another card on Ancestry indicates his naturalization took place at the Princeton

David, I'm not familiar with the El Paso manifests. However, it is curious that his arrival in 1921 was indexed in a collection that supposedly starts in 1924. Also, a note within the introductory

I guess I haven't been paying adequate attention. If the original poster is looking for Kremer in Podolia or Volhynia, I'd like to correspond. Kremer is how my paternal grandmother originally

The second letter of the second name isn't a vav or a nun, but a zayin. While I cannot rule out it's being an error, if it really is intended to be a zayin, the two names are unlikely to be the

My cousin presented me with her mother’s Naturalization certificate. “How can this be”she exclaimed. My mother was born in Pennsylvania. Shocking, she married an alien in 1919. Sad at the time,

Hi Carl: That Ancestry database came from JRI-Poland at a certain point in time. The indexes for eastern Galician towns (towns now in Ukraine) should only serve as a finding aid. Whether a match is

The 1930 census for Princeton, IL for Jake Brostoff gives his year of immigration as 1921. So, I believe the "ar. 4-6-21" on the index card is his date of arrival. The 1930 census records his

I found a database: Source Information Ancestry.com. Galicia, Ukraine, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1789-1905 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original

Ruth First - are you sure you have the right town - there are two towns with similar names - the JG town page for the town you refer to has the warning:Not to be confused with Ladyzhinka, Kiev

Thanks to everyone who answered my previous post! I now have a follow-up question: I know that men sometimes took the name "Chaim" after the death of their father, but did they ever do so after the

Jeremy Lichtman's tip is good. Even better, LitvakSIG translated that tax list long ago and it has 25 ZUNDEL/ZUNDELOVICH entries (all males). It's all available on the ALD

VM86815 In Russian: #12 Гершель Шаульштик и Миндля-Сурля Бекер Состоялось в городе Сташов 23 марта (4 апреля) 1878 года

As part of IGRAs recognition of Heshvan as International Jewish Genealogy Month (https://www.iajgs.org/ijgm/) we are sponsoring our Heshvan Event on November 8, 2020. The event is free. The theme this

A 1932 Group photo of the students of the Jewishprofessional vocational in Puliny, Ukraine (Chervonoarmiisk or Krasnoarmeiskduring Soviet times) was submitted to ViewMate and can be viewed

VM86682 In Russian: 32 Нахум Вайсблех Состоялось в городе Люблин 13 (26) января 1914 года в 5 часов вечера. Явился еврей

VM86681 In Russian: 31 Лейб Вайсблех Состоялось в городе Люблин 13 (26) января 1914 года в 5 часов вечера. Явился еврей

I think you mean records of Jewish conversion to Catholicism, not of conversion to Judaism. And if your grandfather adopted an orphaned Jewish child (for example, a baby orphaned in the wake of a

Father's name would be pronounced Manish on Joseph's stone. Assuming the letter vav is an erroneously engraved nun on Samuel's stone, the pronunciation Manish would be the same. David

"How common is the surname Kremer in that area?" Although Kremet may not be common in the area, Kramer is very common (I don't know about that specific area), and since the clerks that wrote our civil