There was nothing to “get”. All immigration official did was to match the name on the manifest to the name on the immigrant’s tag…. He did not have to write anything down. v See the

Toivy, I would've been very glad to respond to your ViewMate question, but you closed it, apparently within minutes of receiving an answer. As Jacob points out, said answer has some errors. In this

Hi all, I can read some of this but some of these words I do not recognize

I hadn't previously come across this meaning of "notions". In the UK these items are "haberdashery". "England and America are two great nations separated by a common language". (G.B. Shaw). Nicole

Peter, Well said. To say that name changes at Ellis Island NEVER happened is as wrong as it is to say that all name changes were the result of immigration officials willfully changing names. With

JewishGen will offer a new writing course, "Sharing Your Stories - Writing Short Family Narratives." July 13 - August 2, 1920 Have you been working on your family history and now want to share your

From what I'm seeing, Samuel's older children (Katie, Morris, Rosie, Fannie) were born in Hungary in the 1870s and early 1880s and the younger ones (Estelle/Esther, Joseph) were born in the US in the

My uncle's wife (my aunt Susan) is a Kessler. Her father was Jack Jacob Louis Kessler born in New York. His dad was Abraham Kessler born in Russia about 1886. If it rings a bell, I will be happy to

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