Can anyone suggest how I can find the exact date when my grandfather died and the cemetery where he was buried? His name was Siegfried Rosenberg and he was born in Usingen, Germany, on 23 February

Many people insist, vigorously, that names were never changed at Ellis Island. So clearly, your great grandfather was mistaken. His name really was Berg.

I want to go back past my 2nd great grandmother, Gussie SCHOENHERTZ. I have tried to research on JewishGen, JRI-Poland and Gesher-Galicia but I cannot get information to confirm. I do not know how

Have you been working on your family history and now want to share your stories? The objective of this class is to provide the opportunity to write a report of limited scope that you can complete

All of the surviving 1915, Warszawa Birth records have been indexed and are live and searchable on the JRI-Poland database. That means Birth records for districts - I, V and VI See the JRI-Poland

Hi Nancy, I think you're referring to the collection housed at Temple University: https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/custom/blitzsteinbank M.L. Blitzstein and Co. M. Rosenbaum and

Thanks to those who took the time to carefully read and respond to the specific question I posed. Here is the additional bit I alluded to in my first message: Virtually none of my family on this side

Hi Nancy, I think you are referring to the banks located in Philadelphia which handled all American-paid tickets: See https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/custom/blitzsteinbank M.L.

Hi Nancy, Could you be thinking of this database? Philadelphia Bank Immigrant Passage Records, 1890-1949 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1366/ Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ

Greetings, My wife's family has only recently learned that my wife's grandfather (Abraham Louis Snader) was briefly married before his marriage to my wife's grandmother. This is a surprise. The

The gravestone of my great-grandfather Moritz Gunzenhäuser in Memmelsdorf in Unterfranken in Bavaria designates him as the son of his mother instead of the son of his father as is usual. See line 7

I have just found two commercial directories of 1916 that locate Adolf Tarnower at Orla 5, so that must be where his son Olek was born in 1915! Thanks very much for your help!

An ancestor of mine died in 1895 and was buried in the Mt Sinai section of Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens. According to the Mount Sinai Archives: "Initially plots to bury indigent patients were

My 3rd ggreat grandmother, Reisie ZIEGLER, was born in Zurawno, L’vivs’ka. Her daughter, Etie GOLDSCHEIN, was born in Skala-Podilskaya, Ternopil. If this helps. -- Shelley Mitchell, NYC

JDC - American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - See https://archives.jdc.org/. There are 329 results for Finkelstein. And as a JDC volunteer, I can tell you that we have indexed many Remittance

Is there a way to get birth records from New York from about the 1920s? My grandparents (Eisenberg) had two children prior to having my mom and my uncle. Both supposedly died shortly after birth. I

This fascinates me. My great-grandfather's last name in Russia was Bershadsky (I know this because of family stories and a calling card from Russia that I have). After Ellis Island, it was Berg! My

I am trying to figure a time line on my father and his family's travel to the US via Ellis Island, arriving February 22, 1921. His passport has a stamp "American Consulate General at Warsaw, Poland

On July 2 the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case during the 2020-2021 session regarding descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a

I am trying to get some information on Abraham Friedman he lived in Mukachevo and died there in 1983 He is buried in the new Jewish cemetery how can I find more info on him? i would like to find out