During that time period, economic expansion did not provide enough jobs for the young Jewish men coming of age. All studies suggest that economic motives were more important than draft dodging.

Hi Carl, You might try searching old Eastern European city directories at this free site: https://genealogyindexer.org/ Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ

Barb, If I understand you correctly, you are trying to find out if Rose GLAZER KLINE LIPMAN had four or five children? Have you found Rose on the 1900 or 1910 census? Both of those census asked each

Hello Michele Lock. Your account about Abram and Rose Schiffman reminded me about a similar incident involving my ggm, Shulieh Devorah Epstein, nee Zalman. On the ship manifest her given name is

I am looking for a descendant of Ida Krasnowsky. She died in 1988 in California, if I have the correct Ida. I have a spouse for her but after checking with the cemetery, he has a different wife not

Good Afternoon, I hope I won't make this to long. I will try to give as much details as possible. I will appreciate if anyone could please read through it. So you can understand what I am trying to

Thank you Jewishgen for the completion of the Suwalki Yizkor Book. It is a well-done book which I will purchase several for my family. My Siegel family (GF and GM) according to the 1920 federal

I have three relatives/family connections who were active in the Spanish civil war. Helen North, my father's first cousin, served. Her husband Joe was a war correspondent and volunteer, and my

Tom, The anchors, shield, and eagle make it a navy symbol. I would do some more checking with the National Personnel Records Center about his military status. During WWI in the UK, anyone who didn't

Have you looked at FamilySearch? I just looked at it to see if there was information there about your GG and there seems to be quite a bit. I assume this is the record you found but there are many

Navy. You can google "Eagle Shield and Anchor" I don't see anything about a feather. David Rosen Boston, MA

"i was surprised to find this emblem, crossed anchors and a shield under an eagle, which i think is navy, on a relative’s gravestone in texas. "there are similar symbols online, as naval

It is possible that the document was prepared for some unpleasant purpose. However, in that case I'm surprised that it still exists, and wasn't destroyed by its owner to avoid the post-war Nazi hunt.

I'm posting an 1851 woodcut of the steerage of a passenger ship which should help inform further discussion on the subject. I hope that the background is clear enough to show how unpleasant the

i posted a page from the 1940 us census to viewmate, and i would like some expert advice on figuring out just one line, EPSTEIN Antol line 78, and exactly one field, "marital status". the original

Hello, Binyamin Zeev Kornitzer davens in my shul and lives around the corner from me in the Midwood section of Flatbush, here in Brooklyn, NY. Moishe Miller

VM 83073 In Russian: 842 Состоялось в городе Лублин 9-го декабря (21-го декабря) 1890-го года в 9 часов утра. Явился

Sometimes the symbols and devices on grave markers (and memorial plaques) represent some sort of preference or quirk of the decedent (or ascribed to the decedent by one or more survivors). My sister,

VM 83076 In Russian: 296 Витля Вейсблех. Состоялось в городе Лублин 20-го июня (3-го июля) 1907 года в 10 часов утра. Явился

Hi Yann and Michael Bernard Flam only wrote about different archives in Paris. This archives only have documents about people who lived in