I cannot answer your question directly but this may narrow your search. If Morris is part of the family also known as Charkin, there are many indications on Ancestry UK that they came from

Did this family have children in Vienna? If so, what was the family name? Johann genealogyaustria.com

There is not such a place in Romania. There are some places with names sounding close (and derived from Philips): Filipis Mare (the big ) and Filipis Mic (the small), Filipesti, Filipesti de Padure,

The myth that immigration officers intentionally changed the names of arriving immigrants keeps coming up like a bad dinner. Because family lore says so doesn't make it fact. To be sure, the person

If sourced online a link to the original document might make it easier to view, able to enlarge etc. -- Pieter Hoekstra <sold@...>

Open Archives added 10 million historical personal references, in particular, certificates of the Civil registry. These are documents from the following Flemish and Walloon archive

There is no way to conclusively prove through DNA that someone is a Cohen. The child of a non-Jewish woman is never a Cohen, even if he properly converts to Judaism and his father was a Cohen.

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I would appreciate it if you could look for my great uncle Meir Colonis (or Colon). His first name might also be spelled Mejer. He came to Argentina in the 1920s, and he was likely born about

I attended the Bronx High School of Science, took the bus down the Grand Concourse and worked as the hospital's switchboard operator from four to late evening. This was from 1952 to 1954. They were

Looking for a descendant of Rabbi Binyomin Beinush Atlas, son of Rabbi Meir Atlas of Shavel (Siauliai, Lithuania), who was a rabbi in Glasgow, Scotland for 30 years c1918-1948. Harvey Kaplan

I agree with Eva Lawrence's view. In my own search for my maternal grandmother's ancestors, I have run into several instances of families A and B with the same family name, same father's given name

Hello, My ancestors lived in Bukovina, more specific: Bojan, Vienna (later). I found my second great-grandfather David Hersch Marczak (born around 1835), who married three times and had children from

Hello Altman and Bulach (Bulakh). Great grandparents were Chaim Altman and Ysroel (Srul) Bulakh. My father was born there too. He was Mordko (Srul) Bulach but the Altman emigrated to US and the Bulach

My mother and members of her family fled Antwerp in 1940, spending the war years in southern France. The last 2 years or so they were in the area around Grenoble. I have been in contact with the

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Dr. Leff moved his maternity clinic from Manhattan to the Bronx sometime between the birth of my mother and her brother - late 1930s or early 1940s. Scandals aside - including arranged abortions as

I am not sure of the exact spelling of this place or where it is. I am told that one of my relatives is from there. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. Marilyn Feingold

I, too, have at least 6 members of my husband's family who are not listed in Florence's data for Acacia. I will gladly send the information to you, David, but I think it best for you to contact me

Three of my grandparents are from Krynki. I would also be interested in forming a Krynki interest group! Surnames are Sofer, Sklar, Jedwab... I know that some members of the Sofer family were