Yossel is a secondary name, not father's name. My name is Moishe-Nochum. Secondary name Nochum. For Russian a secondary name will be Yosselevich, given to man and women. For example: Haya

I have a very large POTAŻNIK family from Radom. I am wondering if there is any link. Patrick Atlas

The description of that record group in the Lithuanian State Central Archive, as translated by Google, is "Lists of persons evacuated from the Lithuanian SSR to the depths of the USSR at the beginning

Hello, if you got further information (where did the jews come from, when were they deported), you could search here - or I could help you: http://statistik-des-holocaust.de/list_ger_mid1.html Best

There is something to consider when asking for corrections in Indexed record 1. If the index does not reflect the actual historic record, usually due to issues figuering out the hand written record

Rick, it is not logical to assume anything based on census records, except possibly that the person shown in the census was already born when the census was taken. The census records just indicate

I'm trying to find out when my husband's relative changed his name from Abraham Epstein to A Lincoln Epworth. He was born in New York ca 1903 and seems to have changed his name before 1930 probably

This is a reminder that the fees for all records including genealogy requests through the USCIS are going up on October 2, 2020. If you are planning to order any records this is the time to do so.

Thank you! Was there any more information that you could discern from this document which might be helpful? Like the parent's names? Anything else? Thank you! Blessings, Brad

On 13 July 2020, I sent a request to support@... asking what steps I should take to go about correcting the spelling of the names of my grandparents in the Vienna Marriages database. I haven’t

Greetings! I am hoping to help a friend who is trying to decipher a number of seemingly important letters written between her parents in the early 20th century. The letters were written in an archaic

Dear all In his long discussion Mr. Cherson writes that Camille Pissaro was of Danish-French descent. Wrong! Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was born Jewish, to a father of Portuguese marrano

Berlin Jewish Museum reopens with totally revamped new Core Exhibit Berlin Jewish Museum has reopened with a totally revamped core exhibition that prioritizes Jewish life in Germany — including

I am some how related to R' Shlomo Boruch Tennenbaum, born in 1891 and married Chaya ?. He was a Dayin in Stropkov. I have names of his children (but I cannot verify that): Wolf, Eliezer, Binyomin and

These records from about 1835 to 1895 have been available on line from the Family History Library for years. However since recently they are now only available at the Family History Centres.This is a

All records from Volozhin...especially Revision Lists...have been translated under the auspices of the LitvakSIG Oshmiany District Research Group (DRG). You can search them by surname/Town in the

By way of a map, see the attachment which shows the Pale of Settlement within the Russian Empire. Map courtesy of YIVO Joel Ratner Newton, MA. Sent from Outlook

Are there any comprehensive lists of Jews transported to and murdered at or on the way to Belzec? Zev Cohen

My wife's aunts , Chaya HOROWITZ and Malka GREENSPAN (ne: EIZEN) were thought to have perished in the holocaust. There now arose a possibility that one of them may have survived and was seen

Some women who were naturalized before 1922 by marrying husbands who were American citizens filed their own naturalization papers in th 1930s or 1940s. It is worth checking because the naturalization