Although a town named "Rubacca" remains elusive, those of you researching locations in the Austro-Hungarian empire might find it useful to check this terrific resource: Josef Kendler’s Orts-und

My great grandmother came to the NY in 1900 via Hamburg. On the ship manifest the town from which she came was listed as Rubezen. Her family was originally from Rubezhevichi in Belarus, but she

I would agree with Sheri Bobish that a "missing" note is possible. Also, in my experience, 20th century lists can list people who had emigrated or, who, given their age, were probably dead without

Although "a variation of Moses" that is ancestral for me, Mock is often a Gentile name. A Wyss-Frye Swiss family is ancestral for the Vice President. An early Pennsylvania Isetts family is my

Could it be this place? Rußbach, Austria (village and site of a ski resort): " Rußbach is in the Austrian Alps in Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Gmunden, Austria. Salzburg is just one

Attached is the book you are seeking, in four parts.

My maternal grandfather, Harry Smit, was a descendant of Dutch Jews. I am the sixth generation in a direct line of descent from This line in America.

The first edition is found in Hebrewbooks.org

Those of us who don’t have Galician ancestors would benefit from this webinar and in my opinion it should be made available to all Jewish Gen members, since the information is not specific to

You can view or download a pdf copy here: https://beta.hebrewbooks.org/46793 David Shapiro Jerusalem

My great great great grandmother, Kitty Millingen (nee Solomons) died in London in 1835. Her Hebrew name is Gila bat reb Dov according to Hambro Synagogue burial register. I have been told that Kitty

I have listened to the tune of the suggested song on YouTube. May well be the one however, I am not sure and I am definitely not going to divulge the length of time since I last heard my grandfather

Hi guys, want to learn more about my relatives from Belarus - Babushkin is my grandma family name. We leave in Zhlobin and Area close to Rogachev in Gomer oblast (before war is Mogilev

Shalom everyone 🙋 I found Tauba Bukowska and Israel Shapiro's wedding record Please,translate it for me. Thank you very very much . Jenny Kanadov Bukowsky jenya. kanadov@...

First, lets clear us some terminology. By 1907, these lists are referred to as family lists, not revision lists. I too have the issue of people remaining on a family list after they had actually left

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 it

Hello everyone, This is from the birth record of Sussel,Sara's daughter from Skole.The question where is this record from? I know that this area in Ukraine, maybe anybody knows,which archive is it

Emma, The 1910 census is unfortunately not edited, which means that there is no possibility to search for names, for example. You would have to know the exact address to find the inhabitants of a

Jeremy, Do you know their native tongue or the region from where they originally came from?

One of the episodes on the June 7th (US) 60 Minutes program (CBS) was about prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps making music: The Lost Music. An Italian composer and pianist researched the music