I've followed the name changes of my maternal grandfather's surname. My grandfather, with the last name Leapman' had led me to believe that the name was originally 'Liebman', and had told me that we

I have a paternal aunt that appears to have been mentally retarded, and institutionalized in the 1940s in Pennsylvania. I had thought this woman died around 1945 or so, but it turns out that she died

Dear Abe: Zabie, now Verkhovyna, Ukraine was part of Galicia near the border of Bukovina. The AGAD Archive in Warsaw holds the following records: 1877-1907 B; 1891-1936 M; 1884-1918 D. The 1877-1907 B

And we used the local library for many of our nooks. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

I corresponded with this person some 4 years ago and wish to contact her again. I believe she lives in Israel. Shel B. Calgary, AB, Canada

Thank you, Emily. As always, you are very knowledgeable and, like all historians, need to find proof to confirm or deny family history. I agree. I didn't realize that there was no real process for

Re: Murdered in Holocaust: BORENSTEIN (BERNSTEIN), KACHKA (KACZE), #Kishinev, #Romania about 1941 My grandmother’s sister, Yidus KACHKA , her husband BORENSTEIN (or BERNSTEIN?), and their

The error means that you do not have a default program set up for torrent files. However, it is a small file (only about 4MB), so you should have no problem downloading it by clicking on the direct

Hi….I am looking for information about my mom who was born in Radom, but there are no birth records. There is nothing documented from birth until five years old. Is this anyone else’s story? She

I like your disciplined research. I was under the impression that when a boy child Was born to a family that he was given the name of a family without boy children So from the start had another name

While looking for information about a troubled relative--I'll call him Max--in my husband's family, I did a broad search this man's first and last name in Ancestry.com and stumbled on an index entry

Concerning children’s books-1744 was the first children’s/picture book I was born in the late 1930’s and had plenty of picture and story books The depression and war years put a crimp on the

As I know from my late mother, this meant the ‘black shirts’ - auxiliar forces from Lithuania. Norma

I commiserate and attach the file David

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Thank you for posting this! It seems to be a combination of cemetery info and death certificate info. A record for my 3x great-grandfather, Pesach Novinsky, is in the file with information from his

David, I am not tech savvy…. and now that I am alone there is no one to help me. This is the message I get when I tried to download the info via torrent: " Safari can’t open the file

I am afraid not. It happened to be one record in nearly32,000 of burials data in New York David

The word 'feuerwehrkommando' is German for Fire Department.

From English dictionary. Relative probably worked making clothing. 1. clipper - an instrument for cutting or trimming small pieces off things. 2. shearer - a workman who uses shears to cut