I need to find one or two Moderators who will be responsible for running the technical part of the Hungarian Division meeting at the virtual IAJGS Conference. IAJGS will provide a professional

Hello Yefim, thanks for your reply. I found on Czernowitz.geneasearch.net the reference to the Cz marriage record. I never found the original. According to this site David Hersch Marczak was "aus

I am trying to find my great uncle and his family. They escaped from Hungary and arrived in NY in 1956. His name was Edward Kohn/Kahn and he came with his wife, son and daughter, whose names I don't

In Russian: #12 Меер Желязо Состоялось в Посаде Янов 6-го мая 1886-го года, в 10 чаов утра явились евреи Меер

My mother born in 1909 in Chicago, 3rd child, parents still did not have a name ready (?waiting for a relative to die? ;-) ) so she was listed as Baby Goldstein on the birth certificate. Some time

Google maps shows a village named Ulanów with a Nowe Miasto about 65 km away. It appears that Nowe Miasto was absorbed into Rzeszów but it still shows up on the map. The other Nowe Miasto villages

Due Date – July 15th! Dear SIG, RD, BOF, RG leader, As you are probably aware by now, this year’s IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be a “Virtual Conference”. The good news is

When my great aunt and her first cousin wanted to marry, they had to come into New Jersey because it was illegal for first cousins to marry in Philadelphia in the1930’s. Sharon F.

Many families changed either the spelling or the entire name to Americanize it. My father and his brothers switched from Slonimsky to Sloan sometime around 1940 or so. However, one uncle entered the

One of the bitterest divisions among the Jews of Eastern Europe — which persists among Jews to this day — was the clash of beliefs between the Hassidim and Zionists. The very religious were

Hi Jewishgenners I live in Paris. Can anyone help with information re Salomon Blumenthal ?? Born17.07.1861 inWormditt / Braunsberg (Ostpr.) / Ostpreußen "Race":JJJJ Died

Re my entry above: Arlene's parents, who were first cousins, lived in New York City. They also had to go out of state to marry.

I don't know where to search for passport information, but I have a copy of my great grandfather's passport issued in the mid-1890s in Russia. For that reason, I think you are correct that he would

Hi from Paris, To be sure you are aware of all possible books, Brody's Yiskor Bukh has been translated in English and printed by JewishGen YB project in June 2018. Full title is :" An Eternal Light :

Hello John, This is indeed very interesting. My great-grandparents, Simon Lazarus Lansburgh and his wife Rebecca lived in Panama City. After he died, Rebecca came to San Francisco with her two young

Hi from Paris, According to various French genealogical web sites, "Lajous" is a rare name, only 560 persons born since 1890, mainly in South West counties near Pyrennées mountains and Spanich

Thanks for your response, but my question was more about them traveling under the name of GROSSMAN, rather than BERKOWITZ. Under what circumstances would that happen. And to make it more confusing,

Here is another helpful site: https://www.hebrewsurnames.com/search Semion Sucholutsky

To Mashiach: Thank you for correctly summarizing the Ellis Island name situation in your maingroups note below. As you noted, if someone did not want to use their name on the manifest or change

Hi All, My paternal grandfather Einoch Harast arrived in New York (heading to Philadelphia) in 1907. HIAS located him as entering Great Britain in 1917, name now became Emil Harost, because his