Does anyone know how to find naturalization requests that were not actually awarded prior to deportation? i know that my father in-law filed a request in the 1936-1939 time frame. He was deported in

To whom are you responding ? I have the Beider book and can look up David Lewin London

I know someone who is of Persian background (non-Jewish) whose name is Maryam. I've always assumed it was a variation of Miriam, not a nickname. My late aunt who was killed in the Holocaust was named

Please look up Alexander Beider's book Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. It is available on Avotaynu.com or may be available through inter-library.com -- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER,

My great-aunt Miriam was nicknamed Mae. She was Mae to everyone. Susan Sorkenn

It seems to me, whatever language keyboard you have set would be the language that any genealogy program would take. Am I missing something? I just tried it out with GenoPro, the tree program I use,

I found my grandmother's brother's 1911 naturalization papers (online), and attached them. He put down that he was born in Wilkennie, Russia. I have never heard of it, and couldn't find it in a

Meeting - Sunday 6th September 2020 Geni.com aims to build a collaborative family tree of humanity. Many love it. Others - notably Sephardic genealogists - complain that enthusiasts and fantasists

My father-in-law changed his name from Sylvan to Sidney. He continued to use Sylvan on legal documents but otherwise was known as Sidney. Judy Floam

Hi David, A rabbi might be able to answer these questions better, simply because the primary sources here are religious - whatever we can extrapolate about actual practice from the Torah (i.e. 5 Books

These files are troves of information. Many files contain information that goes largely beyond the date of the naturalization of the person. You find all the documents the candidates for

In my family, the various Miriam's were shortened to Mary, Marion, Mimi and Mim in the UK. One of my great aunts known as Cissie Miriam (but born Miriam) was named after her grandmother Cyza Malka

Hilel, I wrote you about things you probably had known before. Now I have at last understood your question. No, Hebrew has no name MAriam. So, it should be, if not the pronounciation difference, a

I have to precise that this means only that the date and number correponding to naturalizations are on line. But to each decret correspond an important file of several pages of information about the

How could I resist jumping in here? :) Dr. Joseph Ash is correct. Maryam is not a nickname for Miriam but a variation of the same name. Miriam is just the commonly accepted English version of the

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Many thanks to David Choukroun for previous search. Additional family information, Arlette née BRANDCHAFT married to Christian PINAUD. Children Valérie PINAUD and Franck PINAUD, born July

There are at several books about 16th Division, mostly inLithuanian, perhaps there were some books written in Yiddish and Hebrew. Also,check the message archives (always a good idea). I think the

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My great great grandfather, Yaakov Schnee was a chassidic rabbi in Bolechov, Poland. Although he had semicha, in all likelihood he did not lead a congregation. Yet, I am interested in knowing to what