it is not clear if you refer to some other thread, of if your query is standing alone. You don't mention any specific location. The last name Liffmann/Leiffmann can often be based on the first name

Why don't you contact an British/Belarussian charity, the Together Plan ,which is helping people in the remaining Jewish communities to become self-sufficient. One of their many projects is to carry

Question to al, I am very much aware of the differences between Litvaks and Galitzianas but my question really questions where and how did the term Galitziana come from? I ask this because about 18

Hi Ellen and Carol, Thanks for your inputs. The jgsgb site has good information. It has a history of Jews in Massachusetts that elaborates on Ellen's comment. It also cites the book Water Street by

Yoram, This record from Ancestry points to a digitized microfilm that is available on FamilySearch. 2085799/2 means item 2 on film 2085799. In this case, M39 means male birth #39. Here's how to find

Yes, I have done research on these families... however, I am searching for living relatives with whom to have a conversation...sometimes harder to find than the deceased.

Yefim I have no information about my grandfather Moishe (Moshko) Koifman. All I have is this military notebook. This document I think I use as a passport. So the 2 stamps are seen in Russian. In 1936

This is how you say. regarding steam Zeelandia Dutch Can you identify the 2 Russian stamps on page 16?

Hello - I am a Kaminsky, researching the Kaminsky name for a long time. Our family originally settled in Philadelphia from Russia. I'm still searching for where they came from in Russia. I had one

I hope to find information of a period in the life of my grandfather of which I know very little. I am looking for details about him during 1937 - when he arrived in the U.K. after a period in The

Hello Marvin, please download the document and upload it to ViewMate. You normally don't only get a translation but it will also be revised by fellow researchers. I for instance have the German

How right!!! Not only did the Mormon Church spend its money freely to preserve our heritage, but they made it freely available to us. Members of the Church actually have a deeper access to records

Ancestry announced its launch of AncestryHealth powered by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). It is designed to help people understand their risk for developing certain inheritable conditions, such as

I've posted three vital records in Polish regarding persons named SCHWARZ for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following

The city directories may well have information about the family. I was able to follow my great-grandparents for the years they were in New Haven from 1900-1903. Actually also noted that they left

JewishGen is pleased to announce that a new data set has been added to Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) This is a small collection, put together by the World Jewish

Shil is probably a diminutive of Shia, short for Yehoshua/Joshua. to be distinguished from Chil, short for Yechiel.

I am getting acquainted with the discussion group. Need help to crack a brick wall. I am searching for any records from Romania ( Baccau and Monesht) or Bessarabia ( Kishinev and Kalarash) related to

Hi Sharon: The only Jewish vital records that have survived for Maryampol near Stanislawow are 1922-1932, 1936 births, marriages, and deaths that are now held by the civil records office (USC) in

The only documented departure records that I'm aware of are from the port of Philadelphia -- see the article "NARA Coast to Coast: Emigration Records at the National Archives at Philadelphia, Part 1":