I have some thoughts for you if you would like to connect privately. I am not sure how to contact you however.

Itka is a diminutive for Ita

Hi, this subject is close to my heart! A story I have told before and am happy to share again .... My ggrandfather Mordechai KASSEMOFF was born in Rezekne in Latvia. On his papers that I had

All telephone books are on the web Esther

I have the same for my grandfather in the Ukraine. Rose Feldman Israel Genealogy Research Association Winner of 2017 IAJGS Award for Volunteer of the Year

Yes, I have an example of adoption to avoid the Tsar’s army, which I've told in a family story on the Byerazino/Pahost KehilaLink. The details are reported here:

We were told that my husband's surname "Madnick" was not the original family name, that when the Russians recruited boys to their army by force, if you were an only son, you could avoid the military.

I'd like to request a translation of the Polish/Russian text of a birth record from Warsaw in ~1913. It is on ViewMate at the following

Dear Genners I have found a close relative living in the same house, with the same surname who appears as witness in the birth act of a boy (by the way my grandfather) I think he was his

DOES THIS STORY SOUND FAMILIAR? a branch of my family had 5 sons around the mid-late 1800s. In order to avoid the military, 4 of the sons were "adopted" by families which had no sons. Thus, this

On behalf of the Board of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, I would like to heartily endorse the election of our long-time society member, Robinn Magid, to the position of

A digitized database of Turkish cemeteries has been launched online and made available to the public by the Goldstein Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University. It is called A World

My family, the Meirovitz/Meerovitz/Meirivitch family was from Smorgon, and I have records from Vilna and Kovno confirming the connection. However, I've contributed/joined the Oshmiany group and

Hi! I have a great aunt who was institutionalized by her family, I don't know the reason, but I do have reason to believe she died at Pilgrim State Hospital in New York. I've contacted Pilgrim, and

Dear SIG, RD, BOF, RG leader, As you are probably aware by now, this year’s IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be a “Virtual Conference”. The good news is that the conference Chairs

When searching for adoptees' potential biological relatives, DNAGedCom is an absolute must. https://www.dnagedcom.com/ Unlike GedMatch which requires downloading raw data by contributors, this site

I agree. There was a stigma associated with adoption. We’ve come a long way Thank G-d -- Deanna M. Levinsky, Long Island, NY

Even much later, in the 1950s, there were families who were anxious not to tell an adopted child that it wasn't theirs. A newspaper announcement seems a bit extreme, but they may have wanted to make

It would be helpful if you gave us your G GM’s date of birth, your GM Anna’s DOB and told us who the father of Rosa and Lena were.

My great grandmother, Clara (don't know her original husband's name but remarried someone named Seidler) moved with my grandmother, Anna Ziegler/Pimselstein (who perished in Auschwitz) from