Looking for descendants of Mates KONIGSBERG, KEHGSBERG, Sara VOGEL, Sara VISMAN #poland #israel Hello Rhonda, This is the only way I can figure out how to reply to you. Also I am not familiar with

Yes, parents and grandparents lied to their children and grandchildren for a great many reasons. My grandmother who came in 1904 told me she was born in Kiev, that they had their own house and their

I am searching for a woman from Lomza, Poland, who was on a train to Auschwitz and jumped off. Did she survive? Did she make it to Israel? What was her name? Thanks for your help. Dale Zeidman New

Jules Levin asked: Oh, yes. In spades. _Everyone_ believes it, totally without regard to specific origins. I've heard the "name changed at Ellis Island" myth from Italians, Hungarians, Jews,

I recently connected with a 2nd cousin, and she sent me a picture from around 1905 (taken in New York or still in Russia) of her grandfather, his wife, and their first four children. One of the

Hello fellow 'genners, Has a study ever been conducted as to the percentage of immigrants to the U.S. that did, or did not, at some point make the personal choice to alter their surname? None of my

I have found educated guesses, noted as such, to be extremely valuable is breaking through brick walls.

Amazing. No sooner than the "community" discards the canard that immigration officials changes people's names, another canard that name changes were effected by HIAS officials. Wow. That is even more

My mother in law Ida was Idalia

I have a maternal great-grandmother named Heitler; I've traced her grandfather and great-grandfather to Sikátor in Veszprém county, Hungary in the early 1800s. (They redrew the county lines and it's

FAMILIES FRIDMAN AND KAMIENIECKI I I would like to know the members of the family below have a family link with my great grandparents Zelman KAMIENIECKI born in KOBRYN in 1872 and his wife Chaya Khaya

Genners, The Hebrew equivalent for Ida may be Ada (or Adah) which means jewel or adornment. Shalom, Malka Chosnek

ALWAYS build your family history using primary sources such as census records, birth, marriage, death records, wills, and if your are fortunate to have living relatives interview them. Actually, do

To the best of my understanding, the original passenger lists were drawn up and handwritten by the pursers of the ship. And I agree totally that they wrote down the names as heard by them. In my own

Russian has NO sound "H" or Hebrew ה and NO letter for it. in foreign words Rissian changes it to G (Г) like in Gematoma, Gemoglobin. Sometimes it dissapears (as in hystory - История) in

There is no real H sound in Russian, and possibly in Byelorussian, as we know it in English/German. What comes close is the sound Kh in Russian (pronounced like the German ch) and represented by the

Thank you, Bob for injecting some sanity...In case it was not obvious, my original post stipulated from the outset that it was not a government official that changed anyone's name. What I am saying is

Hi Bob, I suggest starting your search by locating Samuel on U.S. census records. You can use www.familysearch.org to look at census, and many other databases. I believe I found Sam GLUCK on the 1900

The Forward published an interesting article a couple of days ago about Coney Island history, including Seagate, from the perspective of Jewish immigrants:

Shalom, Looking for cousins(Baunstein( of my grandmother Rebecca Feld who passed away in New Jersey in 1958. The Baunsteins were Butchers(MAX)? in Newark, New Jersey in the 1950's-1960;s!.My Mothers