Barbara, Did Israel and Sora Michla (Margolis) Katz and their children stay in Latvia? Did they emigrate to another country at some point? Sharing that info will enable people to offer you research

UPDATE Entitlements have dramatically changed in the past 1-2 years for these survivors and/or their families. For those who do not yet know. This is true there are multiple opportunities NOW

I've looked at JGFF and the LitvakSIG databases and I haven't found them. I wrote to a number of researchers in the JGFF, and they haven't come upon them either. I know that Svencionys is a good guess

My father had a friend named Haskel Masters in Saskatchewan whose name had been Chatskiel. The story is his first grade teacher made the change, although I think of it more like an adaptation. I don't

Hi, Dr. Yaakov Rotem is my mother’s uncle. Are you related? Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545, Israel alyagon.genealogy@... Researching: ALYAGON (Israel),

My grandfather was born in 1880 in Chrazanow, Poland, in the general area of Galicia. Is that town part of your records? Thanks. Barbara Schneider Cohen

I have gone to the LitvakSIG All Lithuanian Database, and looked everywhere for their names. I have not been successful. I have looked at Svencionys through the JGFF, and I was not successful there.

I received this reply from FTJPHELP on July 10th when attempts to update my tree on the FTJP were not successful: "We are not processing files at this time." I was not given any time estimate on when

If he crossed as a tourist, it is very likely no record was ever made. You were usually just waived through, particularly if you were a USA or Canadian citizen. John Hirschmann Washington, DC

There are border crossing cards which FamilySearch and Ancestry have. We used to bike to Canadian beaches from Buffalo when I was a kid - you didn't need a plane or a train if you were in the US or

Yoel, I had sent an email to Przemysław Szpilman at the following email in 2016 beisolam@... with a similar questions. He was kind enough to research and respond. If interested, there is an article

Maybe 25 years ago, I met a bunch of Scots at a resort in the Caribbean, and they said they were Jews. Apparently, in the late 19th c. when their ancestors from eastern Europe left a European

We are busy translating records and over the coming year there should be some new databases coming online. Family Search is busy imaging millions of records so there is a lot of new data on their site

Dear Andrew, Arolsen Conference registration is absolutely free of cost. Yvone Stern

JewishGen is in the process of updating our family trees. Please be patient. Iris Folkson

Good day colleagues I’m having problems identifying if there are any ISERSTEINs alive out there I may be related to I am the son of Herbert Charles Iserstein from Vienna born 1921, whose father

Based on hits on the JGFF and the LItvak SIG database, I would guess Svencionys. Steve Stein

Hi Valerie My grandfather was born Israel Krevitsky in Aleksandria/Oleksandrya Ukraine (but it was then Russia). We know his parents were Abraham and Yetta Krevitsky and that he had a sister named

My great grandfather was called Nathan Abrahams and he came to Manchester, UK in 1867 from Suwalki town in NE Poland. He was born Chackiel Ceglarski but dropped the Ceglarski in favour of his

Carl, You asked "When did the practice start for using the first letter of a deceased relative's name for a child, rather than the whole name? Example being naming a child Carl, after his grandfather