My grandmother Rosa Weisberg nee Brucha Horowicz grew up in Radom. She always spoke of an orphan girl (who was older than her) her parents took in for a while after the Przytyk pogrom in 1936 named

The reason there was no immigration control in New Orleans in 1852 is that the first federal law restricting immigration was passed in 1882. Before then, immigration was left to the states. --Yale

I'm pleased to announce the posting of an infofile I wrote about how to find your ancestor's town of origin: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/latvia/FindingTown.html The file is listed under

If one were born in Tomaszów Lubelski in the 1920s or 1930s and was living, would one's birth record still exist, and if so, how would one request a copy? Thanks. Steve Stein Highland Park, NJ

If Tsarist Russia was anything like the USSR, the paperless Goldbergs could easily get replacement papers for the "lost" papers from a local official for the price of a bottle of vodka. Jules Levin

I, too, have an ancestral connection to Kopyl -- sort of. I have very little documentation for my KIRZNER grandfather and his family. In some U.S. documents he is listed as coming from Kletsk, a

Re why was this story perpetuated if there is no basis? I would counter: Do Italian-Americans, Greek-Americans, German-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc, etc., have the same stories of name

My Lithuanian ancestors arrived in the 1880s pre-Ellis, and since I haven't found ship manifests I still don't know where they entered the country, or under what name. However, family lore is that

My father was born in Sapanta(Spinka). The family last name is David.

Googllng “Todd Knowles” email address “ 1. brings up the website of the Utah JGS. that has an "about us “section which has him listed as a Board member and activities@...

Eva Lawrence I also suggest you Google the topic and you will be hard pressed to find any articles confirming your suggestion that name changes did take place on arrival by immigration officers. See

With respect to dating photographs and making assumptions about the economic class of people please consider that it wasn't unknown for the people being photographed to borrow clothing and jewelry in

As the addition to my previous message regarding Horodok near Molodechno, please refer to the entries in town’s 1921 statistical data as shown in 1929 Poland Business Directory at

Eva Lawrence you misunderstood my posting. The clerks I was referring to were those who created the manifests on departure from Europe. I am not suggesting people did not change their own surnames

Smoke pours from the ears of veteran genealogists when they hear “his name was changed by the immigration authorities”. Numerous analyses of the experience of immigrants through Ellis Island and

Searching (probably Brooklyn, NY) family of Beatrice (COHEN) KESSLER, husband: Harold KESSLER. They have 1 (known) child: Stuart KESSLER, b. 1949. Beatrice is one of two daughters of my

Hi genners, Recently I watched a webinar presented by Todd Knowles. He gave his contact address at the end of his presentation and unfortunately, I can not find his address. Does anyone have

I have 2 remarks regarding the excellent translation posted on ViewMate: jaras is district both Bator (Nyirbator) and and Nagykallo were districts in Szabolcs (and not Szabolc) county The mother's

My grandfather came from a village in the region near Gorodok. The village was called Trellisey. My brother and I visited the whole area (including Gorodok) in 2008. My grandfather, Shimon

My grandfather whose family came from Minsk, now Belarus, was put as a Pole on a letter to British Home office applying to come to live and work in Britain in 1931. As far as we were concerned, he was