Hi Nancy, I think you are referring to the banks located in Philadelphia which handled all American-paid tickets: See https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/custom/blitzsteinbank M.L.

Hi Nancy, Could you be thinking of this database? Philadelphia Bank Immigrant Passage Records, 1890-1949 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1366/ Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ

Greetings, My wife's family has only recently learned that my wife's grandfather (Abraham Louis Snader) was briefly married before his marriage to my wife's grandmother. This is a surprise. The

The gravestone of my great-grandfather Moritz Gunzenhäuser in Memmelsdorf in Unterfranken in Bavaria designates him as the son of his mother instead of the son of his father as is usual. See line 7

I have just found two commercial directories of 1916 that locate Adolf Tarnower at Orla 5, so that must be where his son Olek was born in 1915! Thanks very much for your help!

An ancestor of mine died in 1895 and was buried in the Mt Sinai section of Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens. According to the Mount Sinai Archives: "Initially plots to bury indigent patients were

My 3rd ggreat grandmother, Reisie ZIEGLER, was born in Zurawno, L’vivs’ka. Her daughter, Etie GOLDSCHEIN, was born in Skala-Podilskaya, Ternopil. If this helps. -- Shelley Mitchell, NYC

JDC - American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - See https://archives.jdc.org/. There are 329 results for Finkelstein. And as a JDC volunteer, I can tell you that we have indexed many Remittance

Is there a way to get birth records from New York from about the 1920s? My grandparents (Eisenberg) had two children prior to having my mom and my uncle. Both supposedly died shortly after birth. I

This fascinates me. My great-grandfather's last name in Russia was Bershadsky (I know this because of family stories and a calling card from Russia that I have). After Ellis Island, it was Berg! My

I am trying to figure a time line on my father and his family's travel to the US via Ellis Island, arriving February 22, 1921. His passport has a stamp "American Consulate General at Warsaw, Poland

On July 2 the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case during the 2020-2021 session regarding descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a

I am trying to get some information on Abraham Friedman he lived in Mukachevo and died there in 1983 He is buried in the new Jewish cemetery how can I find more info on him? i would like to find out

A branch of my kolatnik family from Lodz and Klwow, Poland came to NYC in 1910. Two siblings Sarah Kolatnik (born 1890) and Lejbus Kolatnik (born 1894). Sarah Kolatnik married Mordke Weiss in Klwow,

Hello all. Has anyone else had the experience of finding their parents identified as "cousins" on Ancestry.com? Mine are on the threshold between 4th-6th and 5th-8th at 20 cm shared over 5 segments.

Searching on Filae site, I found some information about Pepa Lokacher. The information shows that Pepa participated in the Resistance and show the file number (see below). The link repeats the file

Two very different things loomed large in Zalman Wendroff’s memories of growing up — his hard-to-approach but awe-inspiring mother and the centrality of the family’s large samovar. (Wendroff

Yes thank you! I was in contact with Florence many years ago when Bayside was being “cleaned up” by a Mormon group during the litigation. My great-Uncle was buried there & is on the list (Isak

Survivors from Krinki/Krynki, Poland near Lithuanian border c. 1914?

When JRI-Poland added the Belchatow Book of Residents to the database over 13 years ago, we were limited to adding people that were born in the 19th Century. Now that the Polish State Archives had