I have good luck with genealogybank.com - a subscription service. It looks for ANY mention of a name, so I can find wedding announcements and interesting articles about people. -- Susan Gray,

Trudy, As Barbara said, where to look for obituaries depends a lot on where your relatives lived. I know of several websites that provide access to upstate New York newspapers, for example. This

I have found some obituaries in https://fultonhistory.com/fulton.html Beth Erez Hod Hasharon, Israel

Hi Sophia, I believe the old LDS records may have gone to only 1890 or so - but the Polish archives has been scanning records and it appears that birth records past 1900 are available (and some are

Reba...thank you for this info. I was just about to see if I could put my tree on Family Search but now I know we can't. I am going to try my old Family Tree Maker disc, like Marcel Apsel from

I do not like to cite to Wikipedia, but my time is now pressed to do other projects. Never mind the Arabs whose total life aspirations are to exterminate Jews, "Plastun" in Russian or Ukrainian

Eva, I have found town Plastun on the map. It lays in the far-far East of Russia, on the Japan sea. from the linguistic point in may work: PaLeSTiN=PLaSTuN. the problem is - it had got its name in

Hello, I would like to find records from around 1900-1903 from Tomaszow Poland on my mother Pesa Apfel. I have located the people she claims were he family, but cannot locate any documents on her

Dear Everyone, I hope my note finds you well, safe from the pandemic. Would anyone have experience in obtaining a picture of a tombstone from the Lodz Cemetery? I looked up the person of interest at:

Agne, let me post what FamilyTreeDNA says about mtDNA. The boldface-underline is mine:That means the people with whom you match could have common relatives older than 500 years. In other words,

"A painter then is the same as a painter now, somebody that puts paint on a surface. It didn't matter if it was applied inside or outside a building or to a canvas on an easel. If the person were a

My grandfather and his brothers were in real estate in NYC with many apartment buildings. The brothers employed all of their relatives as they arrived as shmirers (house painters). The relatives

ViewMate - Hebrew translation - 1897 Starokonstantinov Death Records Cause of Death#ukraine I have posted 1897 Starokonstantinov Death Records I need the Cause of Death

Hi Agne, I test as 100% Ashkenazic Jewish, but I have found links to Syria (relatives seeking religious freedom who emigrated to my father's native town in Bessarabia in the 19th century), Brazil and

my late father used to refer to "ship painters" - a mildly derisive term for people who decided that they were "painters" during the voyage to america. ....... tom klein, toronto -- ....... tom

Jefferey - In order to offer advice, it would be good to know exactly where this tree is posted. Can you go to the website and look at the URL and let us know what it starts with? (For example, the

I am researching the Bloch family from Raslavice Hungary. My entire family migrated to the USA by the early 1900s. I am particularly interested in the early history of Judah (Julius) Bloch, married

Family History Today: Portuguese Citizenship - Reconnecting with your Sephardic Iberian Ancestors Wednesday, September 9, 3 PM ET While Spain has ended its Law of Return for descendants of Sephardic

A painter then is the same as a painter now, somebody that puts paint on a surface. It didn't matter if it was applied inside or outside a building or to a canvas on an easel. If the person were a

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/12/26/photo-essay-tracing-the-history-of-budapests-dohany-street-synagogue/. This was sent to me by a good friend that emigrated to the US after the 1956