You may call it a nickname, I woud call it another, may be wrong, pronounciation In Hebrew the sister of Moses and Aharon is MiR'JaM (from the root "mar" - bitter, or ram) with the accent on "a". The

Lots of Jews from Eastern Europe left from Libau, Antwerp, Rotterdam. I assume that they had train tickets for Antwerp and Rotterdam, or took boats. Hamburg was about half the emigrants, and Bremen

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I have several questions dealing with how ancient Jewish genealogies worked. Due to the soc.culture.jewish.moderated Google Group being inactive for years (where such questions were originally

I use Family Tree Builder on a Mac (Version 8.2.0.8516) and the personal data page provides for entering data in Latin and Hebrew characters. That is, Hebrew and English rubrics are side by side so

Thanks Avivah. The following may corroborate the point about the missing manifest. I include the details only to underscore how difficult it may be to ferret out family information once the older

Here is an excerpt of an article I wrote on the subject: Preserving family history research Many of us, as we age, think about how all the work we have put into researching and documenting our

Consider also the possibility of Constantinople, now Istanbul, as a gateway from Hungary and any other country connected to the Black Sea in some fashion. Yale Zussman

According to Cyndi's List, Duro Tree is the only genealogy software that allows users to enter information in both Latin and Hebrew characters. You can find out more at: https://www.dorotree.com/ .

The name Maryam is at least to me a nickname for Miriam . Is that always the case or does it stand as a Jewish name in own right Hillel

London stonecutters also indicate their names on side and occasionally back of stone. Adele Lester

Aranka usually turned into Goldie in English (since that is literally what it means), which I would not consider a name change. Turning it into Gladys (which may be from an old Welsh name that's

Are the records indexed? Harvey Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland

Since my message yesterday folks have asked me where to find lists of immigrants assisted by Baron Hirsch. Below is a list of the Baron Hirsch archives around the world. Almost all are NOT digitized

Hello, All my mother's family adopted the name JABLOW when they came to the U.S., but I can't find records for them in Minsk. Does anyone have any idea what their name in Minsk might have been? Many

Did she receive Social Security? If so, you can check with them to see what name she used when she was assigned an SSN. What name did she use in census records? The earliest census record for her

Hi Lee. Bremen or Hamburg, I would say. Trieste and FIume were closer to Hungary but the travel to the U.S. would have been longer and maybe more expensive. Jorge Sexer

Shelley Please let us know if/when you find Aunt Zippe!! Rhonda Post rhonda.post@... SIlver Spring, MD

My family all lived in a small village of Raslavice, northeast of Presov. I am researching the area and would appreciate any information about life in the city itself. My family's migration started

I had heard that during the era of conscripting children into the army at young ages, that because the Army wouldn’t take an only son, sometimes the family would change the last names of one of one