The person that sends the postcard is the brother of the recipient but I can not make up his name. Angel Kosfiszer Richardson, Texas

My grandma Ida's name on the passenger list of the ship she was on when she came to the US with her three youngest children, including my father, shows as Udlea. My father's name shows as Udel, which

I have a somewhat unusual take on the 'the name got changed at Ellis Island' story. Mysimple last name "Lock" has puzzled myself and cousins for a long time, and we've individually wondered what the

Here is another option. According to A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names by Alexander Beider Ida is a derivative of Yudes/Yehudis

1895 is the opposite end: the record-preservation contracts with the Mormons were for the pre-civil-registration vital registers. The law requiring archive copies of registers was enacted in the

Is there someone at Jewishgen willing to create a web site to act as amemorial to Florence Marmor? I would my assembled burials list as well as some poof her writings to gothere I have no idea how tha

The quality of the data completely depends on the specific family/branch and the habits and abilities of the users who have worked in your part of the tree on that platform. I find it vastly easier

I found the Grundbuck (land registery) for my great grand parents from Zemschen Bohemia, now Tremesne in Cz Republic. Looking for person to translate these German records. Thank you. Florence

English translations of the headings for the original records/forms ARE available… I don’t recall if they are on JG or on JRI, but I made crib sheets 20 years ago. Take a few minutes and look for

Orthodox marriages are often still arranged. My former rabbi and his wife at Chabad in CT met that way and married. They have at least five children now, all girls, and are very much in love with

On one side of my family, the name Jashonovskey was changed to Jay (most likely spelling or brevity). Roz Bornheim-Allina

My Father's Kessler family came from Baligrod in Poland, His sister and a cousin married a Kessler from LItovisk and my first cousin married a Kessler from Cisna. I did a DNA test on all no genetic

With so many digitized records now available and online for researchers to inspect, it would be so helpful if English translations of the headings for the original records/forms were available. I

With the volume of messages about name changes, I was finally prompted to return after a hiatus to research my wife’s grandfather Nathan RICH né REICH, born 1885 in Rzeszów, died 1944 in Brooklyn,

I would very much like to congratulate Robinn on her new position and I am sure she will do a great job for JRI Poland as she has done with everything else she has taken on. Ina Getzoff President,

Yefim, Thank you so much for your response. Your suggestions give me a starting point as I didn't know where to begin. I do not have any postcards, letters, or anything like that. Thanks to

I need help finding Jewish records from Szászrégen, now Reghin. The person I am looking for is Mendel Schwarz, a famous saw-mill owner in the mid-19th century.

Hi all, Translation needed for these pictures. I am pretty sure that the people in these documents are my Friedman ancestors (before they had surnames)

Ok, now this is probably the same man Avraham writing to his sister Ruchel Leah. Perhaps this is my grandmother Lena Rosenblum Ticotsky.

Grandfather Velvel (William) Wolf (Zev) Zlotshewer Grandmother Freida Blechner Grandfather Osher Aron (Oscar) Weinstein Grandmother Chaia (Ida) Skora or SHmuckler