Searching for my grandmother’s sister Fela Schumer. #Galicia Chris alexchrissmail@...

Ricardo, that is very good question, and many people asked it before. There were many ways to get to Humburg, and two of them you mentioned in your message were valid means of transportation in

I would strongly suggest you file FOIA requests to get the records. You can thus avoid the $65.00 fee for each record, which is going up to $255.00 on, I believe, October 2nd. Go

I am the administrator of 9 DNA Tests. The 9 family members tests were taken at FTDNA 10 - 6 years ago. All have been transferred to MyHeritage. They are all autosomal and either YDNA or MTDNA. I

Ricardo : I’m not sure there were any passenger ships along the Danube in 1905. Taking a ship from Odessa to Hamburg and then another one to Argentina seems unlikely. But : they can very well have

Robert....I post photos of children but no one can see them if my tree is marked "private for living persons". right? Unless I send the tree to family and allow them to see living persons (check

As a newbie researcher, I chanced upon an online family tree of a cousin's ancestors, set up by someone I didn't know. I emailed the tree's owner, thanked him for all his work, and offered to send

Hi Jewishgenners I live in Paris. I seek information on the two following people : Benno SELIG bn. 10.05 1885, d. 17.01.1931 Mannheim Is it possible to discover, WHERE he was born? He was a factory

The town of Belz, Ukraine (pre-WWII in Poland, pre-WWI in Galicia) is of course famous for being the seat of the Belzer hassidic rabbinical dynasty, and with the tombstones of the first, second and

Even more appreciation to Professor Lazerow for not only detailing the facts of the case, but for providing a meta-critique of the structure of the Euro-American legal system (and its lawyers). Not to

Rick posed a number of questions on Naturalizations in the US. 1. A woman marrying a naturalized citizen in 1921 would have become naturalized as a result of that marriage. This changed shortly after

Sephardim do name children after relatives who are still living, so that could provide an explanation for any father-son sharings of a given name. Yale Zussman

“Russia,” in earlier days was the broad name used to cover numerous areas which today are separate nations. I can only speak of my experiences. When I went to bury my aunt, all the paperwork from

PS: I neglected to mention that I learned about my family's losses in the Holocaust from Eva. Until then, I accepted the story that "we didn't lose family in the Holocaust because we all were safely

VM84858 In Russian: Состоялось в городе Лублин 13-го (25-го) октября 1874 года в 6 часов вечера. Явились евреи Тобиаш

VM84857 In Russian: Состоялось в городе Лублин 13-го (25-го) октября 1874 года в 10 часов вечера. Явился еврей Вольф

The attached text is from the 1834 revision list and has data on my gr-gr-grandfather Elias (Elihu) Seligson (b.abt 1808), who was registered in Tukums but probably resided in Liepaja. I would

First question: My wife's grandmother came to the US in or around 1915 when she was less than 18 years old (the story is she lied about her age to get here). Her parents did not come with her, but I

VM84855 In Russian: Состоялось в городе Лублин 11-го (23-го) октября 1889 года в 8 часов вечера. Явился еврей Вольф

I would really appreciate some help in pinning down the birth record for Katalin Grunbaum, married name Groszmann, from Csitar in Nograd. Her children were born in Lucenec/Losonc from the 1890s so I