Hi Jeff, your great-grangmother's first name was Rebecka and her maiden name indeed was Samuel. It doesn't say where she was from, but her last place of residence was the city of Kiel on the

As a spouse in a same-sex marriage, I suggest spouse as a valuable term for any people in a marriage, regardless of gender(s). When we got married, the celebrant congratulated us as now being "

Ancestry World subscription has a number of documents in addition to the birth record: death record for Max, several border crossings from Mexico into the US, US naturalization papers (original) for

Immigration recollections are not always correct. For some reason (I haven't conducted a scientific survey, however!) people seem to remember the ship name more often than the precise date. If you

My grandfather told my mother (before she emigrated to Canada, 1956) that we had family in Boston and that one member was even a rabbi. Once we arrived in Canada, she tried to find him but had no

HI Everyone, I hope you all are safe and well. I'd like to list my family surnames as I have not done this in a while to see if anyone is researching the same names. I'm not sure if the format I'm

Hello. I have located what I believe to be a partial manifest for the SS Paris, sailing from NY to Plymouth, arriving August 8th, 1929. I located the manifest on Ancestry, UK and Ireland, Incoming

Emma may want to try searching for her family and their restaurant in old city directories. This site is free, and has a large database of Eastern European directories from the

FWIW, we applied in August 2019. At the time they said it could take 18 months to two years to process. Of course that was pre-COVID and pre-full Brexit - no idea what the lead times look like now.

I don't see the full image of the manifest. In lieu of that, if you could provide the first names of your great grandparents, approximate ages in 1906, where they eventually settled, and how they

Found a marriage record on ancestry. Also, try family search. If you need help translating, I will be happy to help you. Good luck. Lia -- Lia Sragovicz

Gesher Galicia is not JewishGen, we are a separate and independent organization with our own membership and our own website. This is one of the many benefits of being a paid member of Gesher Galicia.

Thank you for this excellent suggestion. One can imagine RABKA, spoken or written in Yiddish ( ראבקה), coming to be pronounced as RUH-Beh-Kuh (?)...maybe. Looks like it had a tiny jewish

Every once in a while I want to put all of the family names I search out there with the hope of new, solid connections. It doesn’t hurt to try, right? Besides the U.S., the countries involved

If both spouses spoke Yiddish exclusively, this indicates that they came from the East - eastern Poland, western Ukraine. Novograd was located in Volhynia and today belongs to the Ukrainian oblast of

I suggest Rabka, Poland, which at the time was in the Austrian Empire. Search "Rubacca" with the Sounds Like option in the JewishGen Community Database.

Nizhne-Studënyy is in Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia) Oblast of SW Ukraine at grid ref N 48°42′00″ E 23°22′00″. It’s closer to the Slovakian and Hungarian border and the towns of

I have one person who contacted me to share that my great-grand uncle was married to his grandmother's sister (correct) and that they had lived in another state and had a daughter (not correct, it was

Thanks for this suggestion...Rußbach seems lovely, and I wouldn't mind a chalet there, but it does seem unlikely in the absence of any references to a jewish community there, but who knows? Was

Marriage records in Mexico can sometimes be a bit hard to find. I have a world explorer subscription and can see if I can find anything for you tonight. Death records are a bit easier (but the