It is quite interesting that this topic came up just as I was sharing with a distant cousin what I thought was her downfall when trying o find family members… She is always getting stuck on how

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86609 Please respond via

Could someone please translate this -was at back of photo of Rachiel Gurwitch to her brother Joseph. Joseph was last in Paris and then "disappeared". We think he joined the French Foreign Legion. I

Hello David In these archives, the files are most often linked to the surveillance carried out by the French police. Thus, you can find "confidential" reports about political activities, about

By misspelled family names, I assume you mean misspelled surnames. Myself, I've stopped thinking of them as misspelled, and instead as alternative spellings of the same or similar name. My own simple

Judy, To be honest, there is no guarantee of absolute privacy with a DNA test. All you can do is add levels of anonymity to your test results. Examples: Do not use an identifiable name. Do not attach

I have located the 1920 New York City marriage record for a great aunt who was born in Ukraine (in or near Odessa), in about 1900. In the record she lists her mother's maiden name as 'Morrison', which

Alan - there are index files available on Alex K wikis for Odessa but only from 1903-1919.....I don't see anything else on his site...the JG database does have the 1895 revision list online again not

Wildcard searching It’s important to remember that names are often misspelled or mis-transcribed, so doing “fuzzy” searching on names can often help you find a good match, even though the name

Relly, Other options for finding names of parents of the original immigrants: Circa 1910 passenger manifests for the U.S. listed not only the person the immigrant was bound for, but also closest

Deborah, Do you mean Tarnobrzeg? https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-532659 There are records for Tarnobrzeg at: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/ Regards, Sherri

Katja, Try: https://www.familysearch.org/search/ They seem to have some records from Perleberg. Regards, Sherri Bobish

Nancy, Many databases allow a soundex (sounds like) search on surnames, some allow a soundex search on first names as well, If the surname was totally mangled (either in the original document or the

These are references to articles/books about Babi Yar: "Memory of Babi Yar. Book of Martyrs" / Author V. A. Zgursky. Kiev: newspaper "Moment of silence" and "Young Guards" 1991, page

Are there birth and marriage records for Odessa going back to 1830's to 1881? I can't seem to find many. My grandfather, his parents and siblings left Odessa from 1881-1885 for New York. I'd love to

I have a 1920 photo postcard with a handwritten greeting from Cila/Cirla IGEL (my grandfather's niece from the family that adopted him) that I'd like to share with any descendants of her family. Cila

On my grandfather-in-law’s naturalization form he lists “Gizejikanis” as his birthplace. Could someone tell me where this is located? My guess is that it around Kaunas/Kovno Lithuania because

Does it cost $180-$200 for the offline data of each town/village? Is there a global amount that allows access to a number of offline towns? Thanks, Relly Coleman

les evenchick <levenchick@...> 06/19/1999 #9418 There are lots of problems with town names on JGFF - one is requested to use current name as listed in a standard cartography publication at least

Visa files were started in 1924, as their own file series, and as of 1944, were rolled over into the newly-created A File series (Alien files). Both are held by USCIS as part of their Genealogy