The Jewishgen Given Names Database will give you some more ideas https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/search.htm. There is a DM Soundex option that is often worth using. Note that you can

Although I always knew her as Hinda, my father's aunt, who came to the US in 1933, is shown on the passenger manifest as Genia and was known to her immediate family (don't know about her friends) as

I have many family members, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles at Mount Judah. They are all buried at the Sefardim of Harlem plot. I notice that many 'plots' have plaques.... Have you considered

I believe it's "Varpa" in the last pictures, which ties in with there being a Latvian Baptist community in Varpa, Brazil. The greenery and some indigenous faces also point at that. Perhaps the

I wonder, if it is any interest to you: My mother-in-law's father was Izsak-Yitchok Yaakov Friedmann --a Kohen- son of Dayan, Harav Zvi HaKohen Friedmann from Beregszasz? Kezmarok? Izsak,--

Gedalia could have become George. Hinda often became Anna or Hannah. But they could have chosen any names they liked, whether or not they sounded similar to what they had.

How would information about the deceased be an invasion to them?. What is different from information developed from a headstone which could also provide leads to children, grandchildren, siblings,

Hi Roberta Your comment about reverting back to the patronymic surname is very interesting, because Jewish people had to register a name in 1811 during the French occupation of the Netherlands.

Hi Daniela, I found them in the National Archives online Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov, which is a little different than the National Archives website itself. At the catalog I searched

And Daly City does not have an A in Daly…it’s outside of San Francisco. Sharon F. Yampell Voorhees, NJ USA GenealogicalGenie@...

I came across a similar situation during the same decade. Husband was a widower raising a young child. He remarried 6 months following the death of his first wife. By the time the headstone was

I am looking for information about my paternal grandparents and great grandparents and any siblings and children of these people I only became interested in genealogy only 2 years ago. As only 1 of

The one placing the head stone generally decides upon the inscription. Usually it is the surviving spouse, sibling, or child. If the couple was divorced, then the one writing the inscription may not

A memorial Plaques Database IS a great idea. That’s why we started one in 20917. :} Please see https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ for the home page for that database, which works

I am currently working on the late Florence Marmor Data - some 35000entries for Mokkom Sholom, Bayside and Accacia cemeteries. I have been searching for any surviving co-workers whose

Jewish Heritage Lithuania has created an interactive map of the Jewish cultural heritage in Lithuania. The map now has more than 200 hotspots that offer information and images about Jewish shtetls

The area code for Camarillo, CA, 388-xxxx phone numbers is 805 (not 806). (However, Amarillo, TX, is 806!) Stephen Weinstein Camarillo, CA, not TX.

Not sure if they did newspaper ads, but try the Red Cross International Tracing Service Stephen Weinstein Camarillo, CA, USA

Using the big sites, I mean Ancestry primarily and FamilySearch, can be very helpful as long as the sites are used judiciously. When looking at trees, I only use them with skepticism. I look at

Synagogues sometimes keep member information such as family lists & yahrzeits of deceased family that the member observes . They also may have lists of how the person is called up to the Torah. This