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

Over the years I have gotten tested by both the GiftOfLife and BeTheMatch registries. At a local drive for a Jewish patient run by DKSM I was told that there was no need to be added to their system

Looking for information about the Kantor family. Looks like they came from Tetiev, Ukraine, but need help getting unstuck in my search. Can't find them in any research there. Brothers Aaron (went by

Dear Sarah Rose Werner, I'm tying into this thread late, but would like to share an angle that might still be insightful to you. After years of intensive research on the origins of Jewish ethnicity, I

I recently posted on this site about my Russian family Glauberman and its many spellings. Through other genners I learned about conscription There was no formal adoption like today. Many families

My great grandparents and children did the same route from Vilna in early 1888 . Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Hi. I am a Mancunian. Strangeways was a predominately Jewish area in the 1880s and early 1900s. Prestwich was part of Manchester, Lancashire and is now part of Greater Manchester. It has a very large

Hi Judy, I'm not sure I can help with tracing the family, but I can certainly supply you with information about the area, as I live in Prestwich! Incidentally, your N.B. is a little wide of the mark