My great grandfather was Joseph Bernard Friedman. I cannot get any further back than about 1870. Please bear with me through this long plea for help. I have two levels of information about him:

My paternal grandmother Ernestina STECKMAN immigrated to the United States from Rotterdam on the SS Ryndam on October 7, 1911. She is the second person listed on the ship’s manifest. See

This is a question I've had forever, so thanks for posting it. Re Gallego, I have a friend who grew up in Galicia, and learned from her that the language is mutually intelligible with Spanish, but

I looked at the New York Times story referenced and read in it with some amusement that GEDMATCH "contacted the F.B.I. to see if the agency would investigate" and "The F.B.I. did not respond to a

Sziasztok barátok! Greetings friends!! The JewishGen Hungarian /Research Division (formerly the Hungarian SIG) will meet virtually on Wednesday, August 12, from 11:15 am - 12:15 am, U.S. Eastern

Yefim, I can't help because I can't read Cyrillic. But, I am very interested in the results. My grandfather's brother Itzka Barer claimed to have been born in Beltsy.

One of the interesting aspects about the purchase of Ancestry by Blackstone is the history of both. In 2016, GIC, a Singapore state company, with Silver Lake, were the majority owners. Before this

I have had my trees on FamilySearch, wikitree, my heritage and probably others. No issues found family, found documents. But recently FamilySearch has recruited "volunteers" who now add whatever they

My great-grandfather's name was Feivel Tsibulsky (Zibulsky?). He perished with his second wife during the holocaust. They died as martyrs, heroically, and I need information to proceed with a search.

It is a very rare surname so everybody must be related. I've copied everything that can be found on the USHMM and Ancestry web site. For some reason, the name does not show in SSDI, perhaps it has

Thank you for your interesting etymology, Dr. Ash. My family - so far as I am aware - never made it to Germany, so I don't think that could be part of the equation, (although I could be wrong). The

Well, In Ukrainian Galicia is known as Halychyna - there is the relation between Halych and Halychyna. In year 1206 Hungarian king Andrew II, following occupation of The Duchy of Halicia adopted

Halych: the H & G are cognates between Polish and Russian. I have read that Halych referred to the salt mines in Polish Galicia, But it could also refer, as the Spanish place does, to Celtic Gauls who

The X by some person's name on the census means that is the person that the census taker talked to and got information from. Sally Bruckheimer Princeton, NJ

Hi Harvey The BMD records of the IKG Wien are online on familysearch, also the Wiener Meldezettel (registry records of the inhabitants). The Wienbibliothek (Library of Vienna) has the Lehmann city

Hi Barbara, Should we assume you have checked JewishGen's All Hungary Database? There are a few NUSZDORF names there, mostly from Galicia, but also a few in Putnok, Hungary. Do you have

Hi All Max was born about 1863-65, and his second wife Hannah/Anna Morgenstern was ten years younger than him and was born about 1875. I have a few death dates from the online death index, but have no

Geni most certainly has a Sources tab for each profile and one random one I pulled up has links to 1920 and 1930 censuses. There is also a Media tab for each profile, Discussion, Revisions, etc…

I think you meant to say meeting will be at 245p EDT ( Eastern daylight time.). It’s summer and the conference is running on EDT

Al Lederer recently posted the link to the long-awaited Baiersdorf, Bavaria cemetery documentation. This cemetery contains the graves of a number of my ancestors and many other family members on at