Hi Rob, I don't have any family history to offer you, but I took a about 12 photographs of him captured in abt.1971 at the University of Sydney, School of Physics. Prof.J. S. Miller at this time

Phil has asked: Is there information on the record image that's not in the index? I'd love to know any or all of these facts from the image: Who made the original record? Birth location (hospital or

Dear Kenneth, There is a ready-to-hand explanation for your Italian/Greek/Ashkenazy mix. It applies to my family as well: Romitic Jews who lived for centuries in Greece. Romitic Jews migrated

Graz, Landeshauptstadt, Oterreich, 1901: Graz, State Capital, Austria, 1901: Can someone please translate the listing for Marie Markovik? Marie Markovits/Markovik owned farmland near the castle at

JRI-Poland has indexed the 1904 Marriage Registration of Sura Ruchla FRYDMAN & Chaim Icko WOLINSKI as AKT #43, in Wegrow, Siedlce Gubernia, but the parents of the bride and groom are not named in the

Tomorrow at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. Our genealogy librarians will discuss how to find archives in other

Try stevemorse.org Gold Form Search for Hersche Shore using "sounds like" option on both first & last name. I found these. You will have to look at the manifests to see if any are your person. 3

Thank you, Krzystof, for posting this website of old Warsaw photographs. I found the building where my great aunt lived. Elissa Burnat

Hi, I am by no means an expert, but the writing is old German script. What I see on the left is the name Fani Weis g. Taub and I can't make out the rest of the letters. Based on that I can tell you

Hi Roberta, Have you tried searching passenger manifests using a soundex search? A very quick soundex search on Ancestry for surname SHORE finds alternative spellings, i.e. Schur, and many

S. Geller, Have you tried searching passenger manifest databases using a soundex search? The surname may have had a somewhat different spelling at that point, or been transcribed incorrectly into the

Hi, We spent 5 days at the Zemplen County Records Center in Satoraljaujhely about 4-5 years ago with Karesz and a young Masters student from Israel referred by her Professor at the University of

My grandfather's last name was "Yellen" but his family that came at different times were named "Levin"! Think we might be related????

I’d guess that the birth info was included in a pile that included births as well as christenings… and then it was entered into a record book they created an all-inclusive title. I THINK THAT

Hi Linda, The one on the right- Here lies or here is buried (abbreviation on top on both sides o the star of David) My husband and our dear father Our teaching rabbi (abbreviation) Ze’ev

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83105 Please respond via

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83113 Please respond via

Julia - you are an absolute marvel and extremely kind, thank you so much, what a wonderful list full of fascinating information, I certainly hadn't got as far as working out numbers of children or

I applaud Emily Garber’s approach to genealogical research and her admonition to take into account historical context when approaching a question or a problem. I would add to this that it can be

Susie: It is probably possible that some of your ancestors who fled way back (you don't say how far back your research has gone) may have gone to Greece instead of the Ottoman Empire and there is a