FWIW, we applied in August 2019. At the time they said it could take 18 months to two years to process. Of course that was pre-COVID and pre-full Brexit - no idea what the lead times look like now.

I don't see the full image of the manifest. In lieu of that, if you could provide the first names of your great grandparents, approximate ages in 1906, where they eventually settled, and how they

Found a marriage record on ancestry. Also, try family search. If you need help translating, I will be happy to help you. Good luck. Lia -- Lia Sragovicz

Gesher Galicia is not JewishGen, we are a separate and independent organization with our own membership and our own website. This is one of the many benefits of being a paid member of Gesher Galicia.

Thank you for this excellent suggestion. One can imagine RABKA, spoken or written in Yiddish ( ראבקה), coming to be pronounced as RUH-Beh-Kuh (?)...maybe. Looks like it had a tiny jewish

Every once in a while I want to put all of the family names I search out there with the hope of new, solid connections. It doesn’t hurt to try, right? Besides the U.S., the countries involved

If both spouses spoke Yiddish exclusively, this indicates that they came from the East - eastern Poland, western Ukraine. Novograd was located in Volhynia and today belongs to the Ukrainian oblast of

I suggest Rabka, Poland, which at the time was in the Austrian Empire. Search "Rubacca" with the Sounds Like option in the JewishGen Community Database.

Nizhne-Studënyy is in Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) Oblast of SW Ukraine at grid ref N 48°42′00″ E 23°22′00″. It’s closer to the Slovakian and Hungarian border and the towns of

I have one person who contacted me to share that my great-grand uncle was married to his grandmother's sister (correct) and that they had lived in another state and had a daughter (not correct, it was

Thanks for this suggestion...Rußbach seems lovely, and I wouldn't mind a chalet there, but it does seem unlikely in the absence of any references to a jewish community there, but who knows? Was

Marriage records in Mexico can sometimes be a bit hard to find. I have a world explorer subscription and can see if I can find anything for you tonight. Death records are a bit easier (but the

My great-grandmother is the one I know about whom I know the least of all, alas She (née SCHMIER) and her husband (KATSOF) only spoke Yiddish. They came over to Canada in 1906 already married, but

I'm searching for more information on the family of Yosel MILER (b. Luoke 1903, son of Heshel MILER and Chaja VAIRIBERG) and his wife Mina nee LEVITAN (b. 1887 Siauliai, daughter of Yudel LEVITAN and

Hi Joyaa, I see you are interested in the Schur famliy. Are you aware of the publication ‘Judaism in Namaqualand’? It contains an interesting piece on Moses Schur in het part on earliest jews.

Although a town named "Rubacca" remains elusive, those of you researching locations in the Austro-Hungarian empire might find it useful to check this terrific resource: Josef Kendler’s Orts-und

My great grandmother came to the NY in 1900 via Hamburg. On the ship manifest the town from which she came was listed as Rubezen. Her family was originally from Rubezhevichi in Belarus, but she

I would agree with Sheri Bobish that a "missing" note is possible. Also, in my experience, 20th century lists can list people who had emigrated or, who, given their age, were probably dead without

Although "a variation of Moses" that is ancestral for me, Mock is often a Gentile name. A Wyss-Frye Swiss family is ancestral for the Vice President. An early Pennsylvania Isetts family is my

Could it be this place? Rußbach, Austria (village and site of a ski resort): " Rußbach is in the Austrian Alps in Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Gmunden, Austria. Salzburg is just one