Our Ida was Eide. Maria Krane Florida

Terry, My paternal grandparents and many of their Family members left Yedinetz starting in 1898 and I have done lots of research on this shetl. My friend Eric Schwartzman manages a FB page dedicated

Yes indeed, there are two Jewish places in Ukraine known as: 1. Horodok (ex Gorodok and ex Gorodok - Proskurovkiy) in Podolia region, 2. Gorodok (ex Gródek Jagielloński) in Lwow region of

There are too many trees elsewhere to keep up-to-date except for these wikitrees and I only have (barely) enough time to keep one up-to-date. Using Ancestry and MyHeritage, I am enhancing and

Thanks so much, Judy, for the detailed response, which is so helpful. Two followup questions: Why would there be two sets of records? I believe I've heard that after a certain date (perhaps 1895 when

My grandfather, who was 18 in 1880, didn't want to marry the girl chosen for him, so he got on a. ship and came to New York City. He married my grandmother in NYC in 1889.

It's been decades since I took a couple of years of Russian in college, but the letter Г was always pronounced has a hard G; never a soft G or H. On the other hand, Г, when it appears in a place

Thank you for sending this, Bruce. I always read your news about Yizkor book excerpts. The murdered of Kovel are being remembered, and Kaddish has been said many (many) times. How sad that none of

This seems to be under Rubric 5 for Lvia. -- Paul Hattori London UK SHADUR, SADUR, SHADER, SADER, CHADOUR, SADOUR, SHADOUR, SZADUR from Salakas, Lithuania MINDEL, MINDELL from Utena and Vyzuonos,

The passport was lost when a cousin passed away. But the 1914 ship manifest says Galicia-Austrian-Hebrew, born in Poland. When he brought over children in 1920, that ship manifest said Polish.

I'm so tired of people complaining here about geni.com. If you don't like it don't use it. Personally, I have found some good info on geni and some bad info on geni. I don't use it as MY family

I get very annoyed with Geni because people add so much misinformation. Someone I’ve never heard of made me an uncle to my sister’s son. Problem is my sister never had a son. I’m not going to

I am trying to find information about my great-grandfather, Samuel Gluck (maybe 1947-1929). I have very little. I believe that he was born in Budapest, immigrated to NYC around 1879, and at some point

Hello Rosalie I didn’t see an email address for you, so I am posting my response here. My paternal great grandmother was Miriam Konigsberg (born 1856). Her father was Gabriel Konigsberg (born 1830)

Joel, Are there more recent (mid- to late 1800s) revision lists on this website? I'm mainly interested in the Kaunas/Kovno region. -- Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and

Contact JRI-Poland's Tomaszów Lubelski Town Leader Sonny Putter at sonnyputter@.... For information about other towns in the Zamosc Area, contact me at rkpollero@..... -- Shelley K. Pollero Severna

Hi Evelyne In which archives and collections did you already search? Did you search for their death records in Paris Archives? If they died in Paris their death records must be online there. Also the

My mother was named in honor of a deceased young sister named Etta or Yetta. She was given the name Chaya Sura or Sarah Ida in English. The Chaya or Health was to keep her healthy and safe and having

Names that appear on passenger manifests (lists) were based on the information provided by the purchaser when a ticket was first acquired. Most of those purchasers did not speak English. That

My mother’s Hebrew name was Chaya Sarah and English name Sarah Ida. Jeff Miller Maryland