Does anyone know the prevalence or geographic relationship of the custom of eating dairy meals for Friday night dinner? When I was growing up, the default dinner for Shabbos was milchig. Both sides

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Hello Nick, yes your interpretation of bothe sentences is correct, especially legally correct language is tricky to translate: "vollständig frei verfügen" should be interpreted as "do as he/she

Thank you, yes, I have carried out an online search on Hungarikana/Arcanum. I am now looking for additional information beyond those, such as resident lists and the like (which I'd expect to find in a

That just leaves the NYC Board of Education and NY Department of Education. I believe it was NYC that provided me with a copy of my IQ test taken while I was in school.

Thanks for the response. I am not troubled by the different surnames. In the late 18th century, when surnames were a new phenomenon for Jews in Lithuania due to laws that had been passed, it was not

Hi Yaron, MACSE (Hungarian Society for Family History Research) www.macse.hu is an excellent resource for post 1895 Budapest vital records. Its database is compiled by volunteers, so it is

Following. I have the same issue. Old letters from a relative for which I’ve hit a brick wall. Thanks

Alegata are supporting documents to a vital event. Prior to registering a civil marriage, documents were submitted to corroborate the age of each spouse; a statement of death for a widowed spouse

I want to contact my relatives in America, who are the descendants of ABRAM /AVRUM LEJB FERTEL from LABUN (Poland, Ukraine) in the 1920th. In September 1921 they have taken a ship from Danzig/Gdansk

My father survived from holocaust from Poland

Hi There I would have translated the sentence: Der Überlebende von uns soll über den Nachlaß vollständig frei verfügen, as follows: The survivor of us shall have the estate freely at his/her

HI.I have a relative his exwife is named KIEVSKY . Her cousin DINITRY KEIVSKY lieves in N.Y. My relative named IGOR -PATLASHENKO.you can find him in FACEBOOK. All so at U.S. TAKE-CAR-NETA

In Toronto a Cutter was a person who worked in a clothing manufacturing factory and cut the fabric using a pattern for the manufacture of the clothing. Eleanor Richmond

Hi, Did you try www.hungaricana.hu or www.arcanum.hu These contain useful info. Some of it can be accessed only locally.

My ancestor is also from the Dumbravena area, Soroca. His surname is Goichberg. Have you met?

The 1908 Odessa births are visible in the index posted at https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B8/%D0%94%D0%90%D0%9E%D0%9E/39/6 but some haven't been uploaded yet. As

Looking for any information on the family of Velvel BLUMSTEIN and wife Fiege, formerly of Goworowo, Poland. Per the Yizkor book, the town was burned to include all the historical and vital records in

If it accurately translates to a fortune teller or soothsayer as an ancestor's profession it could be that the family wasn't very knowledgeable or observant of Jewish law. An opposing possibility

I suggest that you contact the Israel Genealogy Society - someone there may be able to helop you. -- Avivah R. Z. Pinski , near Philadelphia, USA