Hello, What is the significance of the number written next to my Great Grandfather's name on the ship manifest of 1911? 2-475862-10/13/30 or 31 Thank you, Loren Greenberg Los

My great grandfather was also Mordechai in Poland was was known as Marx in England.

I researched the history of my great-grandfather in World War 1. He served in the 131st Tiraspol regiment. I selected all the Jewish names of this regiment.

This subject is probably going to end being another of those "whipping a dead horse" subjects. In any research I have done, it is common to see Mordecai, Modcha, Mottel, Markus, Marcus, Max used for

The Latvian State Historical Archives, which runs the Raduraksti site, has changed it and none of the links that were indexed will work. The website to look at the books of records has been changed to

I agree, i think this is a lot of money to pay. I am looking for my grandparents and great grandparents from Suwalki, but not paying that kind of money. Barbara Kenzer

David, and I mean David Lewin (not David Selig). When you receive the message digest, each message is followed by a line of links. Click on "View/Reply Online". This will bring up the message in your

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Would it be accurate to describe this document as a Russian Imperial Military Passport, Yefim? And to clarify for me: the pages with the Argentinian stamp are not a document separate from the military

My grandfather's name was Mordecai in Poland and he changed it to Max when he came to the US. My brother was named after him,and his name is Marc,

Anne, that was always an interesting question for me. I should tell you that there were one more reason, Jews returned back and that is they did not like it here... Here is an interest article on

Speaking from experience I can say it is not likely you will find a ship sailing from Rotterdam to Caracas unless it was part of the Shell fleet of tankers. You should look for a ship from Netherlands

JewishGen is pleased to announce that this new significant data set has been added to Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) Beginning in 1933, the German Government

I'd like to ask for help understanding practices or conventions or ... among Portuguese Jews, both in Portugal before and during the Inquisition, and then in diaspora as they settled (?) in new

Thanks for the advice, I found it helpful. I was looking for Abram BERKOVICH/BERKOWITZ born in 1878 in Bessarabia. I found the JewishGen record, but had trouble finding the image (not 75, as given in

The Kupiskis SIG will be holding a virtual BOF meeting at the IAJGS conference on Thursday, August 13 at 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm, Eastern time (NY time). [Its 10:15 pm in the UK, 1:30 am in Israel (oy), and

# ukraine Zhitomir name Dear Genners, I've been searching for my maternal great grandmother's maiden name for decades, with no results. She was known in the family as Riva the Booba (meaning

No, she calls her husband Jared:)

Gedmatch is still down

Yitzhak (יצחק) is also the common form for Isaac in Yiddish. Although, the tombstone of my grandfather Isadore says אייזיק בר יעקב Aizek bar Yakov, Isaac son of Jacob. The Aizek is