On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:11 AM, fredelfruhman wrote: I apologize for the two typos. I should have written: The groom was from Nordenburg. His parents were the vinegar manufacturer Katzke Lieberman

Dear Group, Does anyone know of a resource to locate and possibly photograph the tombstones of my g-g-gp's, in Oradea? I know there are three Jewish cemeteries there. The Valenta has many tomstones

I realize that in some places this might not be applicable right now, but public libraries often have subscriptions to Ancestry that can be used for free. They won't offer a free trial, nor will they

This is a wedding certificate from 1876 that may be of my wife's great grandmother in Markuszow, Lublin, Poland, then under Russian control. The family names are Neirensztein and Goldzycher. Thank you

Dear Friends, The webinar series from Gesher Galicia returns today with this engaging presentation by Jakub Nowakowski and Jonathan Webber from the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków. They take you on a

There is another excellent book on the history of the Jewish Legion. "The Jewish Legion and the First World War", by Martin Watts. Publisher - Palgrave (Macmillan) 2004.

Eileen, I sent you an email concerning a similar search I am conducting, however I do not have any of the first names you are looking for. Maybe we have lines that connect further back! Good

It might help if you include the location of the Mt Sharon and Mt Lebanon cemeteries you were talking about. There are several Jewish Mt Sharons that come up in a google search and many more that are

Stanislawow is included in well more than 100 directories on https://genealogyindexer.org, but most of them have geographic scope of all of Poland or all of Galicia, rather than being limited to just

Thank you to Karen, Richard, Moishe, David, Diane and Allan. You each had helpful suggestions that got me poring over records again!. -- Susan Goldsmith San Francisco Bay Area, CA,

People should use common sense. I had the same thing when I looked once at Ancestry and was proposed a 14 day free trial. I accepted it and was straight away directed to a page asking me my credit

Podenszczyk = an archaic Russian word for a temporary worker hired (paid?) on "per day" basis.

Jerychem is the Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew name Yerocham, Yerocham appears in the book of Samuel as the father of Elkanah. It has nothing to do with Jericho. It is related to the word

Hi Annette: There certainly is a similarity of names - even beyond your story, but I do not see a clear family connection just yet. The similarity in names arises from the fact that my grandfather,

Yes MyHeritage has some great benefits! MyHeritage hosts small trees free of charge, so it has family trees that are not on other sites. I have found DNA matches on AncestryDNA but the trees are on

Dear Friends We are delighted to invite you to the annual meeting of the Jewishgen Latvia Research Division. This year the meeting will be held virtually during the 40th IAJGS International

I'm a retired newspaper copy editor. I don't know what the procedure was in 1908 at the Boston Globe, but I can tell you that when I was working, this sort of information was very often provided by

Try: https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/

There is a theory that maternal great great grandmother Sarah Hinde (married to Shlomo KANTOR of Pinsk/Karlin) was a descendant of Reb. Chaim of Volozhin. I do not know her maiden name. In one

Mt. Sharon does not seem to have a website, so searching for any interments there which are not on the general cemetery databases (Find-a-Grave, Billion Graves, etc) cannot be done from your computer.