Yonatan Ben-Ari <yonibenari@...> wrote: <<Tom's mother and grandmother may have lived in the Sea Gate area and Tom would visit his mother during the summers. Are Coney Island and Sea Gate close to

Jews in the Pale of Settlement (Poland, Lithuania) and nearby areas would have been at least as familiar with the Roman alphabet as with the Cyrillic. Very few Jews were completely monolingual in

My great grandfather left Vistinetz (Vistytis) via Hamburg, Germany for the USA in 1867 aboard the ship Bavaria. The ship record says he was from Wystetten, Russisch Polen. His name on board the

Yoni, You can see a 1910 photo of The Whitier Inn at this link. The poster claims that Isaac Bashevis Singer spent time at The Whitier Inn. https://www.flickr.com/photos/80454089@N00/5533313670 This

My uncle, Mates KONIGSBERG was born in Tarnogrod, Poland 06/17/1902 to Shrage Fajwel and Meite He moved to Danzig, then Berlin, then Amsterdam, then Barsingerhorn in Holland. Sara VOGEL was born in

Dear Yale, It sounds most likely, given the paucity of documentary proof, that most of these stories originated out of embarrassment about having chosen another surname. Perhaps some wanted to hide

The term "notions" is used for sewing accessories like buttons, snaps, etc. Here's a link to a wiki.

I am attaching a photo of what I believe to be my maternal grandmother's family. She was Roza Friedman Stein came from Tarne-Mare Romania and died in 1937 in Chicago. My own mother is now 101 and

I will answer Yale point by point: This second paragraph is ironic coming after your affirmation of your careful reading. I think almost everyone understood that I did not say there was someone

I may also be naive to think that the immigrant would not be asked to pronounce their names if the clerk/officer could not read it. These folks were not mute.

About "changing the spelling" -- the manifests I've seen have all been written in English or German, in any case, using our Latin alphabet. Whereas many of our ancestors would have written their

JoAnne: Your Gedmatch cannot be M131535 as indicated in Jewish Gen. I have a number of names in your listing. Can you give me the Ancestry or Family Tree Maker ID Henry Lobbenberg Toronto, ON Gedcom:

Have you ever known a government employee who didn’t generate paper? There is only 1 file backing up (sort of) the “name was changed at Ellis Island claim” and that was of a woman traveling

Keep in mind that Jewish folks in Eastern Europe got last names fairly late. many families choose different last names and different and different spellings. even brothers had different last names.

Family lore says that my maternal grandfather and his uncle escaped Czarist Russia (now Belarus) hidden in a hay wagon in 1905. On the other hand, my great-grandfather often worked in NYC, so it is

Families often changed their names or at least the spellings. I found this on both sides of my mother's family. Zlates became Slatas and Sanktin became Sancton. The Zlates change came some time

Sandi, I know the Kessler family well. Stuart was my father's best friend growing up in Brooklyn in the '30s-40s; they attended Brooklyn Tech together. Sadly, Stuart died a year or two ago, but I am

Almost all the Orthodox Jewish marriages were arranged. Most times by a matchmaker. This is still being done in some Jewish communities. Most times the couple meet once or twice before they are

All evidence shows names were not changed at Ellis Island. My great- grandparents named KRAUZE from Bialystok were told by their fellow Landsman at The Bialystoker Synagogue on the Lower East Side of

This is not David-Horodok - My town is just Horodok in another area.