Given names in all areas of Eastern Europe were the same or similar. I searched the JRI-Poland database for Seiva and similar spellings and the results were: Seiva 4 Siva 1 Seiwe 14 (in Polish the

Just to add a note. The following Hebrew names would be nicknamed Sheva and Shevy (apparently Seiva and Sheiva too): 1) Sheva 2) Bas-shehva/Batsheva 3) Elisheva Yitschok Margareten

My 4th-great-grandmother, Elisabeth BECKER (called Leids, Leitz, or Leize Benjamin before 1808), was born on 6 April 1776 in Niederzissen (Landkreis Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz) and died there on 10

I have documents and specific names I would like to post in message board for my husband's parents, seeking information from anyone who might know them from wartime or after. What would be the best

Hi, My maternal grandmother from Czernowitz was called 'Sheiva' or 'Sheive', a Yiddish diminutive of the biblical Hebrew name 'Batsheva'. 'Seiva' might be an alternative spelling. Regards, Zev Cohen

Paul, The headers are explained on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire_Census Regards, Mike Vayser

I haven't seen "Seiva," but here's a person in my tree (Galicia, 1800s) named "Schewa" whose Hebrew name was Batsheva. --Nevet Basker (Bellevue, WA) Researching: Zolkiew, Brody, Uhnow, Rawa Ruska,

Almost every Jewish community had a mikveh, where Jews went for the ritual bath to cleanse themselves of deeds from the past. Unmarried women went to the mikveh prior to their wedding, and married

During World War ll over 190,000 British and Commonwealth troops were taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army. Many were held captive in the Far East and conditions were brutally harsh, including

Vel is the polish equivalent of "aka", or "also known as." Harry Auerbach

Does anyone know of any databases of internal passports and travel permits for Tsarist Russia? Birth records prove that my grandfather's family came from the Chernigov oblast in what is now northern

Years ago I ordered Pryluki records to find my grandfather, David Binstock, POLTAVA 1898 birth record. I ordered from Utah LDS, familysearch.org to a nearby Family History Center. There is one in

I am working on a reply to this original post, since I have several unresolved questions about these El Paso cards. For the moment, I'm not convinced all these cards are indexing the El Paso manifest

I found this photograph of Nathan and Anna COHEN in the photos of my Ellis family from Kishinev. I would love to find its rightful family, but there are many couples with those names in 1910-1920

From: Jill Anderson <ja324435@...> Subject: Harold B Krom Z"L Date: 9 October 2020 at 12:30:40 BST To: main@... The Board of LitvakSIG would like to express its sincere condolences to the family and

Anita Hasson, Try this link: Перепис населення Російської імперії. Місто Бердичів Київської губернії. 1897 Hopefully it'll

Although my recent experience is not for birth records but for evidence that my mother was in Kosciuszk(ow) dp camp, near Iserlohn. I was advised by the Iserlohn archives that because the camp was in

Hi Alan I was able to find my great grandparent's marriage records at the Grodno Archive in Belarus. They were married in Lida, Belarus. Some information was on the Jewishgen site and then, with the

Relly, "Vel" in Latin means "either...or" Think of it as AKA. Izrael used LEWIN and WARSZAWSKI interchangeably. Maybe his family was originally from Warsaw and used WARSZAWSKI (a Toponym) before

Hello, My grandfather was recruited to the Polish army in 1939 fell for the Red Army and was sent to Arkhangelsk. Is there a way to find records from there regarding him? Best regards, Aviv Yahav