Birth records often contain a reference to the marriage of the parents. And that's where the grandparents should be found. Johann

Try the Association of Jewish Refugees https://ajr.org.uk/searchnotices.htm#Misc David Lewin London

Searching the JewishGen Gazetteer for "Vidugora" gives two places with the name Vidgiriai, both not far apart from one another, in the general area of Panevezys that could be candidates: 55°38' N

Udel is a womans name and was first used by the famous Ba'al Shem Tov (1698-1760) to name his daughter, a famous woman in her own right.

A woman's maiden name and married name can be the same if she marries someone who has the same last name as her father did. For example, (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt, was the daughter of Elliott Bulloch

From time to time people ask me for help or directions on research in Argentina. This is my updated suggestion: Eighty percent of Argentine Jews live or lived in Buenos Aires (city) or Greater

May I please request any of the Chicago researchers that may attend Gravier Memorial Gardens, Broadview, Illinois, kindly take grave photos of Jack KOMINSKY, died 2 Oct 1969, and his wife Jennie

Marcia, What are your relatives' surnames from Khotyn? Mine are BARAK and CANTORCZY or KANTORJI. Marc -- Marc M. Cohen, Los Gatos, California, USA BARAK/CANTORCZY: Khotin, Bessarabia;

I want to thank all of you for sending me your thoughts. I will be following up on them. Right now, I have a theory which fits the data I have (data that I do not have italicized in parentheses): In

Haven’t nailed down the exact name on the early 20th century Passenger List yet, but I suspect it was GOLDSTEIN. GOLDSTEN was listed in the 1920 Census. It became GONSALVES at a later date, and even

I located a September 1928 list of donors to the Home for the Aged in Boston. Abraham Kaslick is on the list. David Rosen Boston, MA

You can find the Death Certificate on Ancestry. Date of Death, Feb 14, not the 17th, back then Montefiore records listed date of funeral...not date of death. Use the name, Leah Fleysker, that's how

It's my understanding that it is very common for multiple family members to be named for the same ancestor. My mother has 3 cousins on her mother's side all named Michael for their grandmother. My

Dear Fredel, Thank you for your response. The document (VM82889) has apparently been mislabeled by basia.famula.pl. (I just compared the document described there as Ernestine’s death certificate to

My father's written name was Udel (or it could be Jdel, hard to tell from the handwriting on a document). On other things, his name was Yehuda. His American name was Julius. His mother's name was

To the original poster: It may help to know that the last time Abraham Kaslick appears in the Boston city directories is 1924. That may be of some help when searching arrival records of the

I am looking for birth data for individuals born in and around Flamersheim before 1850. I do not know precisely where these births would have been registered Flamersheim is about 10 kilometers south

Burial records including pictures of most headstones from Montreal cemeteries are online at JOWBR (reached through JewishGen). You can also do research at JGS-Montreal.org. (Scroll to the bottom

Looking for information about the fate of Charlotte (Lotte) FRIEDMANN from Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), who was a refugee in Scotland during the Second World War, living in Aberdeen. The trail goes

Looking forward seeing the 2021 British Census to see if my Great Grandfather Wolf Labowitch with his wife Rebecca. Son Reuven and Daughter Kittle(GITTLE). He died in 1922..Have seen the two previous