I have male relatives from Hungary, Austria-Hungaria or SubCarpathia whose Jewish name was Yitzhak (or variation of same) who were known as Ignatz.

I am not familiar with MorleyDNA, and so I can't comment on how it is predicting your father's haplogroup based on his autosomal data. But I would be very wary about taking MyHeritageDNA's ethnicity

Use of ben Avraham is generally for converts. I think that ben Yisrael ("son of Israel") would be more appropriate for the scenario you mention. David Ziants dziants@...

Do make contact with a Jewish charity helping the small scattered communities in Belarus. It's called the Together Plan, with a director in London and one in Minsk. They will know how to connect

Yad Vashem has two lists from Dubno massacre. One from the Soviets and one from a researcher named Gennadiy Vinnitsa. Only about 1/6 of the murdered were found. Try contacting Yad Vashem.

Access: MyHeritage did not permit access to the DNA section when my cousin was visiting (Israel) from the US. She had no problem accessing other databases. Data: The data from Ancestry is probably

I currently subscribe to the full Ancestry.com and Newspapers.com and I see there are special offers on My Heritage. Can anyone tell me about the European records that My Heritage offers? Just trying

Jerry, At www.familysearch.org I found Dora Kleinman's naturalization papers. Some very interesting info there. She was born in Warsaw. It lists her husband as George, born in Lebrina, Poland. It

Go to https://stevemorse.org/ and try the four links that say "Searching the New York City Birth Index".

Jeff, There are many possible explanations: 1. The birth record or the tombstone are incorrect. 2. Meier was his birth father, and Avraham was a step-father. 3. The birth record you found was for

OMG, I think I found them!!! Eliane 11 and Vilet 10 arriving on the USS Manhattan from Genoa 6 Apr 1940 going to uncle, A HIRSCHFELD ( my grandfather was Alexander) at 3055 33rd St in Astoria, they

Em, I see this family on the 1900 census in Deerfield, Cumberland County, NJ. According to the census, Samuel's wife (spelled Clarrah) has given birth to 9 children and 5 are living. If this is

Sherri, I do not know the name of the first wife, or the daughters of Miksa. His second wife was Pepi. They lived abroad, and the girls came to the US in the 1930s. I am guessing they still lived in

My husbands maternal grandfather was Charles/Kalman WEINSTEIN/VAYNSHTEYN, and he was born in Khotyn/Hotin Bessarabia in 1901. His father was Samuel/Schmuel WEINSTEIN and his mother was Sarah/Sure

Is the name MOVSHA another name for Moses?

I'm researching an ancestor, Max Finkelstein, and I think I found him on the last line of the attached manifest page. Under "Last Residence," it appears to say "Gachef." He's Romanian, but there

VM 83204 In Russian: 406 Состоялось в городе Лублин 22-го августа (4-го сентября) 1901 года в 10 часа утра. Явился еврей:

After many years of searching, at last I found one record where it mentions my 2nd cousin once removed, Vera KRAUS. According to Vera, her grandfather David WEISZ and my father’s grandmother

Is the last name Arcushin in your family? I discovered this name through a DNA test.

Julia, Upon further review, I think the record is for the same person because the spouse mentioned in the 1861 marriage you reference, and the 1869 birth you reference, do match the same spouse listed