My wife's great-grandfather left Russia and emigrated to New York in the late 1800's. His name was isaac Barr. On his tombstone in New York the name was Yitzchok Yehuda. He was taken in by a family in

When I look at your lInk, the transliteration says SISSEL but the Hebrew letters there would sound more like ZEESIL. That might be an option to look for. Reba Harris Solomon New York, USA

Yoram, Most of the names of the victims of the Kishinev pogrom are listed on Jewishgen as part of Kishinev's KehilahLinks

The Israel GenealogyResearch Association (IGRA) is proud to collaborate with SephardicGen andannounces today “The Jeff Malka SephardicGen Database Collection”, a Sephardiccollection commemorating

Joe Lonstein asked how to obtain Jewish vital records from Vienna. The birth, marriage and death records of the Jewish community in Vienna have been indexed by GenTeam. For the years 1794-1911,

Please join us for the annual meeting of the JewishGen German Research Division (formerly the German-Jewish SIG or GerSIG). This meeting will take place virtually at 1:30 PM EDT on Tuesday, August

Dear Ronnie, please find below more information about Arlette Brandcharft with the date/place of birth and death. It is possible to find the acts themselves -- Regards,

It indicates who the informant was.

Trying to make contact with the Rosenblum family of Toronto who trace their ancestry back to the Horowitz Rabbinical family from Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Horowitz of Frankfurt and author of Machneh Levi

This virtual Birds of Feather meeting will take place August 11, 11:15 am to 12:15 pm Eastern time. Towns in the area of the former Chernigov gubernia include: Bakhmach, Berezna, Borzna,

Yoram, we do not have anything from Moldovan archive about Jews leaving for Israel... You probably may find some records about them in Israel. I would be also interested to see such records. All

I'm hoping to find the names of the parents of an Adolf Grossbard, who married in Vienna in 1917 to Fanny Kupferstein-Binder. I'm particularly interested in his place of birth and his mother's maiden

George, If Bertha Friedman was alive in 1890 she may have been enumerated in the special census called: The U.S. Census of Union Veterans and Widows of The Civil War. It can be searched

The town is Liczkowce, Husiatyn District. Do you notice passenger on line 4 is her relative? He is from Trybuchowce, Gal. Passengers 2,3 and 4 all have the abbreviation Gal. after their

Thanks Corinne - appreciate your work on this. I'm really only thinking about Otto and his parents because he came to Scotland, so not trying to trace the family backwards. Harvey Kaplan

The first letter is an L as you can see elsewhere on the page Luxembourg. The town also is listed as the town her father is from followed by Gal. (Galicia). On the Gesher Galicia town finder,

Could Steckman be Stockman. I have Stockman in my family. He came from Przeworsk, also Galicia. Marcel Apsel

It also refers to someone originating from Galitzia.

Be advised that some countries do not accept double nationality. Some require you to renounce your existing citizenship. On the other hand, some countries don’t allow you to renounce your

(Several times have been corrected) The annual JRI-Poland volunteer meeting will take place virtually this year at the upcoming IAJGS conference on: Tuesday, August 11, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm U.S.