i'm looking for the descendants of Izrael MAUSKOPF andRóza KLEIN from békéscaba, hungary. to the best of myknowledge, one of their children, Ernest, survived the holocaust, andemigrated to st

Sherry, If Frank Kaplan was divorced than they may have married outside of NY, perhaps NJ. My husband's grandfather was divorced in NYC in 1913. The divorce papers specified that his ex-wife could

Just wondering if you have considered the possibility that GAVRIN also could have had the Polish spelling GAWRON - the "w" would be pronounced like "v" by a speaker of Polish. Gawron means raven

I'd look at the rest of the document not shown in the snip provided. The mystery is the final letter. I'd hope that same typewriter key was needed elsewhere on the document and can be deduced from

"My question is: How complete are Ancestry's marriage records? Is it possible that marriage records are lost or misplaced?" If you don't trust Ancestry, try stevenmorse.org or italiangen.org. Both are

From the town Brody in Lviv district. There is a big Jewish cemetery there

I'm requesting the translation of 4 page letter written in 1923 from my great uncle, Obercantor in Vienna, to my maternal grandmother, his daughter, on the death of his wife, Chane..

o yes. This is Aramic. the document is called "KeTUBA" - Marriage agreement. "on Tuesday 13 of Siwan (Hebrew calendar month ) year 5683 (~May-June1923) the groom Yosef Khaim son of reb (Mr) Shim'on

Looking for relatives of Abram Babin from Sloboda Russia, cousin to my husband's grandfather Sam Schaje Dobrinsky/i Dobrin. Abram was the cousin Sam was meeting upon his arrival to the US in 1914. I

Beth, Several NY (and one NJ) cemetery is searchable here: Searching the Cemetery Databases http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/erc-scdb.htm You can search NYC death cert index

Hello, seeking translation of a short inscription on the back of a photo of my husband's great grandparents: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=83778. Thank you, Evelyn Senior

Hi Maggie, I am interested in finding my Werner ancestors. My Grandfather Armin Werner Born 1886 Beel, Arad, Romania My great-grandfather Benjamin Werner Born in Derecske , Romania/Hungary. He

Shalom. Thank you very much. Seeking clarification: you wrote, "It is possible that 'mem-vav-hey' indicates that he had semicha, but that that he had a official position." Did you mean to write, "but

Hindsight being 20-20 I forgot to share at yesterday's JewishGen Yizkor Book Research Division Meeting two benefits I have experienced from volunteering: 1. When I started coordinating the

YIVO launched the first exhibition of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum which is free to see. The exhibit is interactive storytelling using hundreds of artifacts from the YIVO

I've been searching Ancestry for the record of my late grandmother's second marriage. I found the record of her first marriage easily. But there is nothing under her name (Sarah Zimmer) (maiden name

Hello The school was Gimnazjum żeńskie Janiny Pryssewiczówny located at ul. Sienkiewicza 35 (in the year 1923). (Pryssewiczowna's Girls Gimnasium) http://genealogyindexer.org/frame/d1335/207

I vote for Rauchlese. Blowing up the image, it's clearly an "e" after the "l". There's no serif sticking up from the blob that is the last letter, so I don't think it's an "s"

It's an affidavit saying David FRANKFURTER, son of married couple Josef L. FRANKFURTER and Kati KOLMAN, was born "here" (in Galanta) in 1848 in wedlock.

My grandfather's grandfather Joel Meir CHAIKIN had a sister supposedly living in the same town where Joel's friend Rabbi Moshe Nachum Yerusalemsky. In a letter which was sent by Joel from Jaffa in