Finding names of his two daughters. Have you tried looking on Passenger arrival records for their visit to USA. There were fewer immigrants in the 1930's and you might get lucky. Judy Salomon New

Hello All, I've posted a family letter in German from 1914 I need help translating. The 2 pages are on ViewMate at the following

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My father was a dress cutter starting after WWII. A dress cutter was a person who worked for a company that made dresses. His job was to pull rolls of material back and forth along a long table. When

Ilan, I searched https://stevemorse.org/vital/nymarriages-igg.html?index=bride with broad parameters on name spelling, etc. and did not find a record using bride's surname Baunstein, or Jaffe

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It makes sense. When I was involved in the garment industry 60 years ago, the electric cutting machines (capable of cutting a pile of fabric 8 or more inches high) offered little protection to the

Judi, Can you clarify some things about Miksa HIRSCHFELD's wife and two daughters? Do you mean you do not know their first names, or that you do not know their surname because Miksa's wife

Ida Friedman was the daughter of my maternal Great Uncle David Friedman who was murdered in Auschwitz. The family lived in Nagytarna. Ida contacted the family in 1949 and that is the last we heard

For many years if was known by New Yorkers S the rag business. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

For the most part, you would likely not be able to assume this match's ancestors were your *direct ancestors* even along the direct female line that is traced by mtdna. The issue is that the common

A cutter is more than someone who just cuts fabric. When I did theatre (props) in my prior career, the Cutter translated what the designer sketched, into actual pattern pieces, and designed how to

Rollie Stamps JewishGen ID#51898 Jody, I am not an expert on the subject, so I contacted FamilyTreeDNA, due to your issue on the mtDNA sequence. This is their reply : Thanks for contacting

A cutter is usually in the garment business. Also if your Karlin family was from Belarus And possibly originally Karlinsky, we should talk further. Diane Jacobs geniediane@... Sent from my Verizon,

mtDNA certainly serves a purpose, but one must be cautious about reaching any conclusions regarding its actual value. My 92 year old mother belongs to haplogroup K1a1b1a, likely the most common group

In the movie "Breaking Away" (a great sports movie, if you don't know it- check it out), a cutter was a pejorative term for the local Indiana students on campus at Indiana University, named after

The person cuts things. In NYC, usually he cuts fabric for sewing. In Polish records, he often cuts grain (like kasha). Sally Bruckheimer Princeton, NJ

Hi Barbara, NYC did not enforce the filing of marriages until circa 1900. It is very possible that a rabbi married them and never filed any civil paperwork. I searched here:

Altho not a Litvak, my paternal GF came in through Galveston and went to KC (my maternal side is Litvak--the name is LAP(P)IN).

Hi, My ggparents and their 8 youngest children left the town of Puchovichi, Russia in either late 1913 or early 1914 on a journey to Brazil where they had been offered land and an opportunity to