This is a good question for Genie Milgrom....https://www.geniemilgrom.info. If anyone knows the answer to your question, she does.

We may have corresponded in the past. I, too, have conducted an extensive search on Jewishgen and found little that can be used decisively. My maternal great grandmother was Rachel Leah Press/Pres

If you are ordering an autosomal test like Family tree DNA's Family Finder, it is better to order it from either Family Tree DNA or MyHeritage than from Ancestry because Ancestry provides minimal

I had a similar question recently and called FTDNA. They told me that they do sell to Israel all their DNA tests. Why are you looking at mtDNA? Unless you are interested in a very specific maternal

pls let us know what you find out as if they were detained, the actual manifest does not seem to be findable !! judy glock az

Milchig was not part of my growing up family experience, but my wife's maternal ancestry is Sephardic. Their Shabbos meals were often milchig and included fish. Since I am the family cook I have

Could Hoffert be a previous husband's name and Nuseaue (or whatever it actually is) Esther's maiden name? As others have implied, an index is simply a finding aid. Trust nothing, verify everything

I'm sure there is a library system in Israel. Have you spoken to the librarian re obtaining the article ?

We were not religious, but every Friday nite it was chicken soup & chicken. (And my mother was a lousy cook!)

Does anyone know the English equivalent of Asnel or Zammel? Are these names Yiddish or Hebrew? I found them in a letter written in Yiddish to my in laws but cannot connect them to anyone in the family

I have read in several references that the decree forcing Jews to take family names, promulgated by Emperor Joseph II in 1787, included a list of about 1500 specific names (some also say: "of which

Tom, I think the Ellis Island meme now is recognized as false for how it is usually understood--a US official caused the name change. Before I started my research in my own family, all my older

Thank you to all. In aggregate you've painted the picture I was looking for. I'm looking forward to hunting down the death certificate. Phil

Thanks for fultonhistory.com, I did not know this website. I could find no mention of the accident there. I am planning on tracking down the actual death certificate. Covid-19 is getting in the way

I was wrong. Angielczyk is Englishman in Polish, not angel.

i'm looking for the descendants of Antal EPSTEIN and Hani KLEIN who were maried in tiszapolgár, hungary, and immigrated to new york in 1914. their children were: Cornelia, born 1895, married

Hello, I'm living in Israel, and trying to order a DNA test kit on Myheritage, or Ancestry results in a note like "not available in your country". Israel seems to have a law not allowing this. Now I

Dear Group, I have auto-translated, and then manually refined the translation of a relative's post-WW2 travel record from written in Portuguese (Brazil). The Portuguese language is shown size-by-side

Since your cousin is in Israel: there is a branch of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, too. -- Fredel Fruhman Brooklyn, New York, USA

Rosa GAVURIN WEISSBERGER was one of my grandmother, Bessie's, sisters. Bessie was born in Grodno in 1901, Rosa was one of seven children, born about 1907. The story goes that Rosa married Mr. SIKUN