Sherri Thank you, for that info, To clarify Dora and the boys came over on the ship alone and it was there rules for them to stay at the hospital till they are picked up, they mere there for 3

https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/88/767/0/-/12/skan/medium/gwkU32MOfUJvSUuXXtGtjA Maybe someone know in polish where it's written lejzor bergerfrajd?

In Bob Malakoff's reply to this post he says: "a Jewish naming convention where Jewish names consisted of a Hebrew name followed by an equivalent Yiddish name". I am wondering if Abraham Hermann is

My grandmother, Sora Yenta Sheskin, was born in Vilna c. 1884. She married Yitzhak Golomb in 1909 and they together had 4 children (including my mother). Sadly, Sora Yenta died in Vilna in 1919. The

Perhaps you mean Ansel? That would be a Germanic/Yiddish form of the Hebrew name Asher. It’s a man’s name, also spelled Anschel, Amsel, Amschel etc. Zammel (also Zemmel, Semmel and the like) Is a

Jeri, You forgot to inform us if you are computer comfortable. Do you know how to create backup and can you create the data on your own computer? If so, I suggest Brother's Keeper for almost

I find MyHeritage valuable because of their great analytical tools, and ability to search in multiple languages. I feel that they have a wonderful chromosome browser that actually identifies

Fascinsting! Thanks for adding your knowledge here.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that. My brother took an AncestryDNA test and reported 16% Ashkenazi, and my sisters took 23andMe and one's report estimated 16% Ashkenazi and the other's report

Unfortunately we don't have that information from my dad's cousins on paternal side. My dad's cousin on maternal side tested and report no Ashkenazi results, so we concluded it had to be his father's

I had something similar happen regarding my father’s immigration. The family members wrote ”Servio,” which I couldn’t find. The late, very knowledgeable Phyllis Kramer told me that immigrants

Carol, I have a twofold suggestion: share the manifest for the 1907 arrival. It most likely gives name, relationship and address of a relative in the "old country" and the same for their destination

I'm trying to find out the maiden name of my paternal great-grandmother who immigrated to Palestine from Proskurov (Khmelnytskyi) in 1925 with my Great Grandfather, Ya'acov Helfman and three of her

A friend from the Bessie family has asked me if I could connect the father of the immortal pianist Rosina Lhévinne, "Jacques" Bessie, with my friend's family, known diamond merchants in the

Thanks Adam! I appreciate you sharing your experience and insight with me. My brother took an AncestryDNA and it reported ~16% Ashkenazi. Two sister took 23andMe and it reported ~16% for one and ~8%

Judi, I see they landed on April 6, 1940. The 1940 U.S. census was April 1st. If they had arrived a few days earlier than you might find them on the census. I'm glad that these two girls were able

"Keep in mind that all admixture reports from all companies are still at the level of "for entertainment value only" -- and MyHeritage is the absolute clown of the bunch. They predict ancestry that is

Every historical record match that I've seen on MyHeritage (or more accurately, glimpsed through the paywall) has been from FamilySearch, which is free. MH is not actually a repository, but a data

I have a problem I have 17% European Jewish DNA , only one is my grandfather possibility He was born in Via Austria his mother left him at the border to Hungary and He had a note pined on saying his

Do all descendants of your great-grandfather all have similar Jewish DNA markers? If they are only seen in one of his children's line it suggests differing parentage. Every child inherits 50% of DNA