I’d guess that the birth info was included in a pile that included births as well as christenings… and then it was entered into a record book they created an all-inclusive title. I THINK THAT

Hi Linda, The one on the right- Here lies or here is buried (abbreviation on top on both sides o the star of David) My husband and our dear father Our teaching rabbi (abbreviation) Ze’ev

I've posted a vital record in Polish 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've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83113 Please respond via

Julia - you are an absolute marvel and extremely kind, thank you so much, what a wonderful list full of fascinating information, I certainly hadn't got as far as working out numbers of children or

I applaud Emily Garber’s approach to genealogical research and her admonition to take into account historical context when approaching a question or a problem. I would add to this that it can be

Susie: It is probably possible that some of your ancestors who fled way back (you don't say how far back your research has gone) may have gone to Greece instead of the Ottoman Empire and there is a

Hi Marilyn, My great-great grandmother Ida Zacharowicz was born in Russia and emigrated to the U.S. in 1890. Ida was NOT too anglicized to be given to a Jewish girl! In fact Ida was quite popular for

Following the Roman conquest of Jerusalem and the dispersion, many Jews were taken to Italy. Jewish slave labor built the Coleseum and other Roman tourist trap monuments. So it is not so much a

Thank you Barbara. So do you think that the "christening" was not one per se, but merely that the dataset included christenings, so a christening was assumed to have occurred by the dataset

Since the trip you described took place in 1914, it’s likely that they were being evacuated or that they chose to flee as the Russian army advanced. The Austrian government was active in evacuating

10. Name: Samuel Waisz Jr., age: 29, birthplace: Hungary, Bgy, residence: ditto, income source: vinegar-maker, behavior: good, children under 10: daughter Rézi his wife, 25, ditto 21. Samuel Waisz

But those were not recorded in NYC records, b/c they were not contemporaneous.. The LDS baptisms were recorded ONLY in LDS records NOT municipal records. Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ.

I received several pages from "Elementary School Yearbooks" for years 1894-98, for grades 1-3. These are formal printed pages with up to 40 student names (all boys) and their scores in up to 14

The left one reads: Feivel Zevulun, son of Yisrael, died Shvat 26, 5697 The right one: My husband and our dear father (Rabbi) Zeev, son of Tzvi, died Shvat 10, 5697 Normally the American names

For a period of time, the LDS church engaged in the controversial practice of posthumous baptism of Jewish individuals: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ldsagree.html They have since stopped the

Hi, I need translation of records from Lomza Poland that are written in Russian. There are three birth records and one death record. May I have a full translation for one of the births. The other two

Hi: If someone could translate these, I'd really appreciate it. I'm basically looking for their Hebrew names. Thanks so much! Linda Mallin Frydl Maryland, USA

VM83146 In Russian: 298 Маша Вейсблех. Состоялось в городе Лублин 20-го июня (3-го июля) 1907 года в 10 часов утра. Явился

Phil, I suspect that it is just the way the info was transcribed and categorized. It appears that Rebeke’s birth record was recorded in at least 2 places. Note that one transcription included