@ Carol, Ilya, to find the decret reference, you have to search into the "Journal Officiel de la République Française" via Gallica.fr for

Hi Ethan, Thanks for your note. My Litvaks mostly went to Chicago, but somehow a Chicago Goldberg met/married a Kansas City Ginsberg. And one of the Ginsberg siblings married a

Hi Ralph. I contacted Estela at AGJA (Argentinan JGS) and she was so helpful. Her email is consultas.agja@... Also check out their FB page Good luck -- Lia Sragovicz

1936 births will not be public for decades yet. (The new law is so insanely badly written that many archives are erring on the side of caution and using 130 years as the cutoff for birth records.)

Same principle: names get shortened.. Many Steinkopfs became Stein, Hautkovich became Kovich, Sotomayer became Mayer…... BTW, your initial post did not specify family names: "Does anyone

There have been two different readings of the date of death for William Jaffe. It is the 10th of Shvat. -- Fredel Fruhman Brooklyn, New York, USA

I'll add: Yitshak become Tsahi, Yehezkel - Hezi, Yehoram - Rami, Yonatan - Nati Jeffrey comes from Ephraim. Weren't YOU called at home Frojm, (or smthng like)? It is natural in every language to

Yes but those are first names and I was referring to family names that are modified.

grundwirth = BASIC grundwirt = LANDLORD

The letter Yod י or Yod Heh יה are names of God, hence, there is a custom among observant Jews to forgo writing them down. Examples: Yehudit יהודית was Hudes, Yehoshua יהושע was

Lazy speech 'street - slang' ??

My father, Moses (Max) Koch was born in Potok Zloty, in 1911. He left as a young child, but I am aware of several family that remained. I have just found some house ownership data but the first names

Hi Marilyn, It's possible that this Michal Rotman who has a Page of Testimony at Yad Vashem is the man you are seeking (https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=558549&ind=1).

Thank you Rodney, I'll post it to Viewmate too like you suggest, with column headers as it sounds like that really helps! But great to see the German word for fruit seller, old German script is pretty

Thank you! and I will post on ViewMate too as you both suggest, that's very helpful.

It is incorrect to say that "the Spanish Inquisition started in March, 1492." The Spanish branch of the Inquisition was set up in 1478 by the same so-called Catholic Sovereigns who signed the Edict

Birth records, especially those attended at home were not as formal as they are not. Wisconsin had a requirement to register births, but normally a midwife or doctor kept a journal or list of births

Carolynne Veffer asked: > In 19th century Poland could you get a civil divorce? If you were divorced (at least a Jewish get), could you remarry and have a civil second marriage? Civil marriage

There were a few pages toward the beginning that were very faint, so I may have missed a family or two. Óbuda is likely to be "fun": it was twice the size of Balassagyarmat. Population circa 1850,

I would like to thank Bernard Flam in particular for his clear and concise summary of research resources in France posted on July 11. I've been trying to find this information for many years and have