RESEARCHER: Can anyone refer me to a researcher who can look for records on my family from Kalarash? Last name Harol/Kharol. First name Itzik, Duvid, Ita. See previous messages which includes

Hello to all, I’m looking for thoughts and guidance about a family surname, from Gorodische (the location that is supposedly about 100 miles from Kiev). My research has led me to the name Omborow

I am looking to find more about that portion of my family that came from Romania, particularly the parents and siblings of my maternal grandmother, Feiga Singer. My grandmother and her siblings were

In the Lodz Ghetto records from USHMM, a relative’s occupation is described as ‘Scherer.’ I have used Google translate for a literal meaning which is ‘clipper/shearer’ but that doesn’t

There was no immigration officers checking the status of passengers arriving in the UK before at least 1905, passengers just walked off the ship.

My second cousin, during an interview I conducted, informed me that his grandfather, Frank Kanserstein, had his name changed at Ellis Island. Frank's was the husband of my great aunt, and I never met

Have you tried the Marienwerder records available from this link ?: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/228694?availability=Family%20History%20Library I am only aware of surviving Jewish

I'm hoping that someone out there has information regarding Yaakov Lustbader, b. 1899, Novy Sanz Poland, d. 1980, Israel, Parents; Shimon Lustbader & Rachel unknown. Neilan Stern. searching:

Here is a translation of the headings for Odessa records that I made and posted years ago http://sites.rootsweb.com/~ukrodess/page8.html -- Alan Shuchat Newton, MA

I had already answered some days ago; no idea where my posting has gone. My wife's paternal grandmother was the daughter of a rabbi in the Bobruisk/Azarichi area in Belarus. Her Russian hame was

A cousin by marriage and family friend, Edja Rosenzweig, jumped from a train going from the Hasag in Czestochowa to Auschwitz in mid-January 1945. She was about 21 at the time. My father interviewed

Was it ever common around the 1930s for families that had adopted a baby to announce their child's arrival as if it was an ordinary birth? I am researching an unexpected match in a number of cousins'

This, clearly, is NOT your aunt, but a namesake, Maybe it connects ? I am in the process of collating 30 year's work of Forence MARMOR at Mokkom Sholom/Acacia/Bayside cemeteries Notes from Florence

My point was to refute the claim that absolutely no names were changed on Ellis Island at any time, before or after they went through immigration, that whatever name a person had on the ship was their

While names may not have been changed at Ellis Island - the names might have been changed before getting on the ship! My great-grandmother traveled under the same last name as another family from her

I don't know what applies in these specific cases - but both of them are after the area changed from Hungarian rule to Czechoslovakian following the Trianon agreement of 1920.

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My earlier KRAUSE search has now progressed into a search for Marsha/Marcia/Martha (COHEN) KRAUT, h: Martin KRAUT, New York and New Mexico. She would be the daughter of Beral William ‘Willy’

Here's the grain of truth: Someone in the family changed their surname. Not surprising, since many "last names" were, literally, "son of X," and changed from generation to generation.

I am looking for an friend somebody who can do a research in or nearby Cluj (Klausenburg). My friend tried to get hold of Ladislau Gyemant, an Avotaynu contributor, but probably his email does not