There were a few pages toward the beginning that were very faint, so I may have missed a family or two. Óbuda is likely to be "fun": it was twice the size of Balassagyarmat. Population circa 1850,

I would like to thank Bernard Flam in particular for his clear and concise summary of research resources in France posted on July 11. I've been trying to find this information for many years and have

I have found some elementary school yearbooks on hungaricana.hu, in case someone is interested in hunting. (I was searching by family name, which is viable for unusual family names but hopeless for

Me too, would like to find out how to get the decree of naturalization. I have the number and the year of naturalization (1947), but could not figure out how to get it… Any working suggestion is

Hungaricana (https://hungaricana.hu/en/) has some yearbooks, but most of them are on ADT+ (the pay portion of Arcanum.hu: https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/en/). (School records are fun. My grandfather

In the Justingrad Yizkor book, the Wegodner family chapter tells of the brother of Joseph Wegodner changing his surname to Weinberg because he was afraid he would be drafted. My great grandmother,

"In 19th century Poland could you get a civil divorce? " Yes, at least in some parts of Poland at some time. I have be extracting birth, marriage, and death records for a long time, and sometimes, for

While I have deep roots in Kansas City - back to Leavenworth during the Civil War - my earliest ancestors there were not Litvaks. My Litvak ancestors settled in Chicago and Des Moines. In Des Moines

A syncope of unstressed syllables? Like veg(e)table, cam(e)ra. Kris Murawski Raleigh, NC

Hello Svetlana, this is a city directory with all sorts of information on the city and structure of the community. It includes companies and inhabitants and a list of streets. In the second volume

I’m looking for translation help with a similar common word for an occupation or status which appears in numerous family documents from Galicia Province in the 19th-century. The word is

Its the same today. Eric is called Rick or Ricky, Elizabeth is Liz, Emanuel is Manny David Rosen Boston, MA

Srul is one of many Yiddish nicknames for Israel. Why do we use Betsy for Elizabeth Liza “ Elizabeth Gene for Eugene Pat " Patricias Bill “ William Babs “

My friend recently discovered a paternal uncle she was never told about remained behind in Poland after his siblings and mother emigrated to the USA. This uncle was mentioned on his mother's ( Rose

An interesting research article on this topic is: Greenberg, Jason H., "From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants to the

Interesting point. As I noted previously, the record we're looking at is dated July 29 1870, but she appears on the 1870 Census, dated July 15, which says she was born in May. Could the midwife have

Does anyone know why an I (or yod) was sometimes removed from start of names ? In my family Italienner became Talyena, and Israel became Srul. Jeffrey Cohen, jeff59471@...>

I am researching the FENICHEL family from Tarnow and surrounding towns. One of my great great grandfathers was Chaskel ELLEND who died in 1894. He was a sexton in Tarnow. The name KARANEK was added to

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83105 Please respond via

I would like to piggyback on this question to ask Fran where she got the records she mentions? I don't know how to do that, and I have a couple of people I would love to find. Any help from anyone