My great grandfather's brother ,David ABRAMOWITZ left New Haven, Ct., sometime around the turn of the 19-20 th. cent. (maybe earlier) to seek his fortune in Boston. He found work in a dept. store and

the commercial sites hold out the promise of magically finding all your relatives, neatly laid out for you by their genealogical pixies, and all you have to do is click on the link (and please have

anybody who’s been doing research for more than a few days has come across bad information, because there’s so much of it, and yes, it’s made worse by being copied-and-pasted into hundreds of

I have searched major sites for arrival information of Avram/Abraham BERCOVICI/BERKOWITZ born in Romania around 1884, arriving in US around 1903/4, and settling in Philadelphia (appears there in 1910

Jana: I have been doing a long-term community study of the town of Labun (called Lubin in Yiddish and now known as Yurovshchina, Ukraine), which is 18 miles from Shepetivka. In 1921, a family of five

JoAnne can we "chat" offline and compare families? jerome-yankowitz@...

Shalom, I found Sussel's birth record, Anybody knows,where is this archive ? I understand,this is sub carpatia but where can i see the records? I am trying to check it with Lvov's archive,but

Not the site but the Submitter. The keyword is Submitted. The submitted information is only as good as the quality check done by the original submitter, not the site itself. Matches and Hints are

I transferred from My Heritage because my tree got too big for free membership. I am now with WikiTree and find it excellent, it is totally free. A different format from most of the sites but the

1. Looking for grave of my paternal grandfather,Yehuda Leib SCHECTMAN, buried probably in Volchiniz, near Ataki, Bessarabia, died 1922. 2. Looking for grave of my paternal grandmother, Raissa Levenson

I am hoping to figure out relationships between the Lindheims of Rennerthausen. Many came t the US in the late 1880s but others did not. There also seem to be a couple of step families as well.I am

We all receive these emails headed "possible family match". Is't it our responsibility to confirm the source cited, if one was, by the person submitting the "match". Initially, when I first received

I've posted several vital records in Polish for which I need a translation. The primary page is on ViewMate at the following address

Hi, "Most people emigrating to South America in the late 19th century & early 20th century did so through the Baron de Hirsch JCA organization ..." is right, but in my opinion most people didn't

Hi Steven, My father's paternal side came from Lyubcha and I have translated revision lists from 1834, 1849, and 1858. I would be happy to email them to you. Best regards, -- Karen Calmon

The Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Savannah Jewish Federation, and the Southern Jewish Historical Society will be offering a summer speaker series including talks on Rabbi Jacob Rothschild of Atlanta

Sometimes you will see "X or Y" for a family name in Revision or Family lists. Whether an "or" is missing in this case... You may need to look at the original record. It may help to look at earlier

I have always been told that my grandfather, Moshe Schwartz, was an "orphan" when he married my grandmother in Kalish (now in Ukraine). Does anyone know if there were orphanages? I do not know how

Today we mourn the passing of Irina Weinberga the Head of the Department of Genealogical Research in The Latvian Historical Archives .Irina Headed the team of Rita Bogdanova and Lena Polovceva who

Robert, My translation of the gravestones you posted are below. Yours truly, Keith (Osher) The translation of VM82259 is as follows: First line (in the decorative top portion of the gravestone): po