Yoram, everybody, please use information at our bessarabia website, Kishinev kehilalink website, JewishGen. For these questions, here are the answers: 1. See the lists of all Revision Lists

As you know, anyone can choose any English name, whether or not it "corresponds" to their birth name. However she might choose an English name beginning with the letter L. For example, Louise,

Those of you versed in the practices and protocols of a respectable marriage in the shtetls of Eastern Europe also know that the path to the wedding involved more than a quick trip to City Hall or a

Ah, that is my problem with Ancestry and MyHeritage – “billions and billions” of siloed trees with imperfections and the benefit with a One World Tree like geni, a single tree of humanity with

I am originally from Providence and my sister married into a Silverman family. So many Silverman's in Providence. In addition, my fathers family has a Silverman coming out of Latvia. I believe in

I was told that indeed all direct descendants - including certainly grandchildren. I didn't ask abou great grandchildren, but I don't see why they would exclude them.

In Reply to: ” The annual Belarus meeting will be held at 2:45 pm (EDT) on Monday, August 10. The conference is virtual this year but you will still need to register for the conference to get a

I know someone who got a foreign passport because she didn't want to travel with a US passport due to terrorism. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Jeri, I answered exactly this kind of question the other day, with step-by-step instructions. You can find the question and my answer at messages #647943 and #647956 -- Alan Shuchat Newton, MA

Dear All, I am looking for the two volumes of the Encyclopédie des changements de noms by Emmanuel Ratier. It was most probably published in 1995. If you have access to it, please contact me

Hi if you go on the FINDAGRAVE website. You can make a request, they have many people that will do that, I made a request once and someone did it in a couple of days. my great great grandfather is

Ozer and Ezra are not the same name but you are correct that they derive from the same word meaning help and that they have no connection to the name Asher. The most well known use of the name Ozer

More possible her name Shoshe. My grandmother's name Shime-Shoshe

The only reason I signed up for MyHeritage several years ago was the marketing hype about their new Theory of Family Relativity. I waited and waited and finally after a year or two I was notified

From a UK viewpoint, this will mean that I can retain much-valued EU citizenship when Britain leaves the EU fully at the end of the year. As we also have substantial savings and investments in Vienna

Good example why you should think twice of using your DNA for genealogy. I prefer to stick to the traditional ways of research.

When I submitted my comments to the old JewishGen discussion groups regarding the 2 February 2012 House Ways & Means Committee hearing on the Social Security Death Master File (specifically, the Agin

Barrons FEATURE Blackstone Group is Buying Ancestry for $4.7B By Luisa Beltran Aug. 5, 2020 4:41 pm ET Blackstone Group will become the latest private-equity firm to own Ancestry, a provider of

It's not a silly question at all. I intend to apply, as I can hopefully regain the Austrian citizenship my Parents had forcibly taken from them in 1939. Robert W Fraser, Perth, Western

I have found that putting it on ancestry is much better because it remains yours and no one can change it. In geni it’s a public mishmash as you have found, and anyone can add to it or remove things