I recently received a photo of my great grandfather and great uncle’s grave stone from Saddle Ridge, NJ. The dates match my research. My mother is doubting its authenticity because her family lived

I have one such case in my family in Bavaria. The father was definitely Jewish but he was married more than once and I believe that the mother's name was used simply to identify her. Werner

Hello, Can anyone advise me where I might find online access to the Melsungen Amtsrechnungen (Tax Rolls) for the years 1799-1804? Or, If you have a copy, do a look up in them on my behalf... Thank

From Paris, Hi Ilya, "Memoire des hommes" (Keeping memory of soldiers, resistants, deportees,..) is the official service of French Ministry of Defense (Army) in charge of history and

From Paris, Hi Simon, You could ask Auschwitz camp archives : http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-prisoners/ With this advice, available for Arolsen archives : these two institution display

Do you know how can I download a copy of a ledger page? Daniella Alyagon Israel alyagon.genealogy@... Researching: ALYAGON (Israel), SHOCHETMAN (Kishinev / Letychev / Derazhnya), AGINSKY

. *** a little long post + 2 questions*** My paternal great grandmother's brother Samuel Weiszberger, was born in what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire on the 10th of October 1878. My father who

My aunt and uncle were divorced. When their son died, his mother put her name instead of the father’s name on his gravestone because the father abandoned them. The rabbi told her that it made her

The form is in Slovak and Hungarian, the handwriting is in Czech I have no idea what "Řezajictvo" mean -- perhaps Butcher Sperber | Lazar | apartment owner | male | married | 20-Jul-1867 |

Oliver Marshall <olivermarshall@...> asked: <<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

Hi Stephen, You could try using the free site www.familysearch.org and put the town of birth into "birthplace" and leave all else blank. You can browse through all the hits you get and perhaps see a

Hello all. I am very new at this. I am trying to find out information about my Mother's family. Her maiden name was Piesklaik. I have found her parents -my grandparents - who I never met as they

I don't know about name changes upon arrival in a new country except to say you may cal yourself anything you wish as long as you do not seek to gain criminally from the new name. I have in my direct

Neil, No there is not. His father, that is the grandfather of the person whose stone that is, was the Rabbi in another town in Bavaria and officiated at his son's wedding. Is there any possibility

Zacharia Simon who lived in Leadville, CO in 1880, he was 25 years old. He may have married Bertha Rosental from Cleveland <OH She was the sister of Rosa Frye and Minna Machol. Rosa was my wife's,

Maybe this is him? https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/jowbr.php?rec=J_NJ_0064748 -- Jeff Goldner Researching Goldner, Singer, Neuman, Braun, Schwartz, Reichfeld (Hungary/Slovakia); Adler,

Philadelphia marriages are available to view on FamilySearch Use the catalog and search on place, Philadelphia, keyword marriages You can browse through the images and it is easy when you have the

I have many ancestors who died in NY and were buried in NJ. There are multiple cemeteries in Northern New Jersey but I would start with Riverside in Saddle Brook as that's probably the largest

Hi Polly, Bershadsky to Berg? After Ellis Island? What’s needed in any of these name change stories is to go back to the records, and see 1. what was his name was on the ship manifest 2. the

I recall reading that all Ashkenazim are, on average, 5th cousins of one another. Sorry, unknown source. -Jim Gelbort