I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address

I've posted a marriage record for Szmul Dluzniewicz and Sora Tobiasz in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address the top half of the record is Image #82234,

I've posted a Proskurov grave stone fragment in Hebrew for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address

by Valerie Beaudrault, Assistant Editor The city of New Haven is located on Long Island Sound, in New Haven County, Connecticut. The New Haven Jewish Cemetery Database website is a valuable

Hi everyone, I'm trying to untangle the many Murowchick/ Muravchick/ Murawczyk lines of relatives from David-Gorodok, Belarus who emigrated to the US and Canada. I would very much appreciate help

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a full translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82248 The document is

Any genealogical tidbit that you find online is only a clue, whether it is a family tree on FTJP, Genie, Ancestry, MyHeritage. You need to verify it, then evaluate it. If it is a NJ marriage, you

Try this link for Leo Baeck Institute. http://opac.cjh.org:8991/F/A1C69S3GBR7D6MPCKY848D9SS17U2QUMV1MJUMFS1LLJ8FJISB-00053?func=direct&local_base=CJH01&doc_number=000199110 Alex Woodle Groton, MA

As I mentioned in my post, as shown in the revision list, Fayvush's father was apparently Iosel, not Shliomo. Which is why I'm confused. None of Fayvush's sons are named Shliomo, whereas Fayvush's

My paternal grandmother came to the US in 1914 using the passport of one of her younger sisters, claiming to be 19 rather than 24 or 25, because of age restrictions on immigrants at the time. I've

I would appreciate any help in finding the Polish estate on which my relatives lived from approximately 1875 to 1905. We think it was called Stepanivka. It was near Bela Tserkva, Ukraine. My male

I won't defend Geni, but I have had distant relatives make incorrect entries about my immediate family on FTJP, and I have often found conflicting information about relatives I've researched. As I've

This is the Spanish way of naming people. The Y means and. So they are using both the father's and mother's surnames. It is not a double surname. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy

To combine the various replies about the date of death: The Hebrew date was the 7th of Tevet, 5690. This date began at sunset on January 6th, 1930, and ended at sunset on the 7th. As to the

But to be fair, Geni does alert me to 'inconsistencies' - eg child has different last name to father, age of mother when child was born is inconsistent etc. I think the secret is to keep your master

It may be that they're just not very traditional. It actually happened in my Ashkenazic-but-very-not-religious family in Vienna, Germany and New York. My great-grandfather Henry (Heinrich) was named

Hi, I found something similar in the case of an aunt of my GFather, also from Belarus. Her maiden name was YUDKIN, and she married MERPERT before they moved to Argentina at the 1900's. In various

I don't see any of the sites validating user-submitted data. But they have no problems charging us for access to information, often flawed, provided by other customers! It's hard to balance the

Dear researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia Research Division projects for the month of May 2020. See also at What's New at Bessarabia SIG website. Bessarabian Databases.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws David Lewin London Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who, despite the passage of so many years since World War II,