I was able to successfully locate, retrieve and extract Florence's original research report from October 1995. I have posted it on the Internet Archive

I've found that my parents are cousins by marriage before they got married to each other. I'm not clear on the whole 1st/2nd/3rd cousins once/twice removed, etc, but I'm guessing it's probably 7th or

Ancestry predicts that my wife and I are 6th to 8th cousins with 10 cM shared. I have slightly more with her maternal uncle. We have two very healthy and successful adult children. We also discovered

Is there any possibility father was not Jewish—or not halachically Jewish because his mother wasn’t? That is most often my experience with Hebrew names that only reference the mother. Neil

Can anyone suggest how I can find the exact date when my grandfather died and the cemetery where he was buried? His name was Siegfried Rosenberg and he was born in Usingen, Germany, on 23 February

Many people insist, vigorously, that names were never changed at Ellis Island. So clearly, your great grandfather was mistaken. His name really was Berg.

I want to go back past my 2nd great grandmother, Gussie SCHOENHERTZ. I have tried to research on JewishGen, JRI-Poland and Gesher-Galicia but I cannot get information to confirm. I do not know how

Have you been working on your family history and now want to share your stories? The objective of this class is to provide the opportunity to write a report of limited scope that you can complete

All of the surviving 1915, Warszawa Birth records have been indexed and are live and searchable on the JRI-Poland database. That means Birth records for districts - I, V and VI See the JRI-Poland

Hi Nancy, I think you're referring to the collection housed at Temple University: https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/custom/blitzsteinbank M.L. Blitzstein and Co. M. Rosenbaum and

Thanks to those who took the time to carefully read and respond to the specific question I posed. Here is the additional bit I alluded to in my first message: Virtually none of my family on this side

Hi Nancy, I think you are referring to the banks located in Philadelphia which handled all American-paid tickets: See https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/custom/blitzsteinbank M.L.

Hi Nancy, Could you be thinking of this database? Philadelphia Bank Immigrant Passage Records, 1890-1949 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1366/ Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ

Greetings, My wife's family has only recently learned that my wife's grandfather (Abraham Louis Snader) was briefly married before his marriage to my wife's grandmother. This is a surprise. The

The gravestone of my great-grandfather Moritz Gunzenhäuser in Memmelsdorf in Unterfranken in Bavaria designates him as the son of his mother instead of the son of his father as is usual. See line 7

I have just found two commercial directories of 1916 that locate Adolf Tarnower at Orla 5, so that must be where his son Olek was born in 1915! Thanks very much for your help!

An ancestor of mine died in 1895 and was buried in the Mt Sinai section of Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens. According to the Mount Sinai Archives: "Initially plots to bury indigent patients were

My 3rd ggreat grandmother, Reisie ZIEGLER, was born in Zurawno, L’vivs’ka. Her daughter, Etie GOLDSCHEIN, was born in Skala-Podilskaya, Ternopil. If this helps. -- Shelley Mitchell, NYC

JDC - American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - See https://archives.jdc.org/. There are 329 results for Finkelstein. And as a JDC volunteer, I can tell you that we have indexed many Remittance

Is there a way to get birth records from New York from about the 1920s? My grandparents (Eisenberg) had two children prior to having my mom and my uncle. Both supposedly died shortly after birth. I