Yes, I have done research on these families... however, I am searching for living relatives with whom to have a conversation...sometimes harder to find than the deceased.

Yefim I have no information about my grandfather Moishe (Moshko) Koifman. All I have is this military notebook. This document I think I use as a passport. So the 2 stamps are seen in Russian. In 1936

This is how you say. regarding steam Zeelandia Dutch Can you identify the 2 Russian stamps on page 16?

Hello - I am a Kaminsky, researching the Kaminsky name for a long time. Our family originally settled in Philadelphia from Russia. I'm still searching for where they came from in Russia. I had one

I hope to find information of a period in the life of my grandfather of which I know very little. I am looking for details about him during 1937 - when he arrived in the U.K. after a period in The

Hello Marvin, please download the document and upload it to ViewMate. You normally don't only get a translation but it will also be revised by fellow researchers. I for instance have the German

How right!!! Not only did the Mormon Church spend its money freely to preserve our heritage, but they made it freely available to us. Members of the Church actually have a deeper access to records

Ancestry announced its launch of AncestryHealth powered by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). It is designed to help people understand their risk for developing certain inheritable conditions, such as

I've posted three vital records in Polish regarding persons named SCHWARZ for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following

The city directories may well have information about the family. I was able to follow my great-grandparents for the years they were in New Haven from 1900-1903. Actually also noted that they left

JewishGen is pleased to announce that a new data set has been added to Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) This is a small collection, put together by the World Jewish

Shil is probably a diminutive of Shia, short for Yehoshua/Joshua. to be distinguished from Chil, short for Yechiel.

I am getting acquainted with the discussion group. Need help to crack a brick wall. I am searching for any records from Romania ( Baccau and Monesht) or Bessarabia ( Kishinev and Kalarash) related to

Hi Sharon: The only Jewish vital records that have survived for Maryampol near Stanislawow are 1922-1932, 1936 births, marriages, and deaths that are now held by the civil records office (USC) in

The only documented departure records that I'm aware of are from the port of Philadelphia -- see the article "NARA Coast to Coast: Emigration Records at the National Archives at Philadelphia, Part 1":

Michele, 7015983 is your grandfather's citizenship certificate number, which was issued 4/8/1952. You can skip the initial index search and go straight to a request (for a fee) for his "C File" from

Hello, For those that might want to create and share a Family Tree online, I just got an invite from someone using "FamilyEcho". I do not know much about it, but it seems free and "share-able",

I have recently inherited a quantity of family photos, and much to my surprise there was a photo postcard printed in Bucharest that was identified as my great grandmother's eldest brother, Morris

I have a similar question about my grandmother. According to her naturalization papers, Peppi/Bessie (nee BRODER) BERKOWITZ (her husband's name, married in Romania) traveled to the US under the name

Hello, I would greatly appreciate your help with translating a short Yiddish note posted here. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83543 The note was written in 1939. On the