I was told that my GF, Jacob Messing, was a nihilist and left Warsaw after a Cossack cat o' nine tails blinded him in one eye. About a year after arriving here, his wife, Zipporah (Sophie) arrived w/

Alizah: These records, of course, will be a huge help to anyone doing research in the records of the Ukrainian portion of the former Russian and Austrian Empires. We are all looking forward to seeing

Hello Moses, You asked for assistance in finding the towns mentioned in a German census card. It looks to me like the first (and third) name is Karlsruhe, Germany, also spelled Carlsruhe in the

Hello Autosomal DNA is the way to go in this case. You inherit 50% from mom and 50% from dad. You will match people on both sides. Jewish autosomal DNA tends to be fairly challenging. But top

Just as a point of interest, someone I knew in high school had the last name ‘Godfrey’ and the story was that it had been changed from ‘Gottfried’.

Hi Rhonda, I can't believe I actually wrote "beloved husband". Of course I meant "beloved wife". The husband in question was very much alive. He subsequently married another woman and then deserted

Translation of word after woman a Woman of Importance (chashuvah)

Trudy Barch asks: What is the correct term nowadays for… A) 2 males living together as an unmarried couple? Married couple? B) 2 females as an unmarried couple? Married

I have a very old and distant memory of my grandfather singing a song with a title that sounded like Toni Godl. The o in Toni is short and I have failed to find any reference. He was allegedly from

Okay I don't know why I didn't find this when I looked before, but it would appear the records are at NARA in DC, included within RG 21. From their catalog (ONLY items that would cover 1922): NAID

There is a legend in my family, which I first heard from a distant cousin when I was in my 40s, that our ancestors fled Galicia for Maramures (then, Hungary; now Romania) because their non-Jewish maid

As far as I know, a couple is a couple, regardless of the genders involved. People sometimes talk about same-sex couples/marriage, but they're still a couple. Alyssa Freeman Richmond, VA

I think a kinder (and actually more accurate) way of describing these stories is "family legends" or "family stories". My sense is that a good many of these stories aren't made up from a whole cloth

Just for the record, the name of the book is "Wine and Thorns in Tokay Valley: Jewish Life in Hungary; The History of Abaújszántó" by Zahava Száz Stessel. Most of my BLAU family is mentioned

Decades ago, I went to a doctor in Atlanta whose surname was JOVE. I think the following cut and paste is the family: Nathan Jové, M.D. is a third generation orthopedic surgeon. Dr. Jové has

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-----Original Message----- From: Daniela <sciakyd@...> I'm trying to find out what it means when a record says Naturalization: Supreme Court of Washington, DC 1922. Could this be a naturalization as a

I have just finished reading House of Glass by Hadley Freeman, who is a US journalist based in London. It is a biography of her grandmother Sala Glass and her siblings Henri, Jacques and Alex who

Hi Ryan, Here is the translation from Hebrew to English from the tombstone Woman (a word that I do not recognize) Mrs. Bela daughter of Shmuel died on the 5 Menahen Av 5684 (hebrew date which

My mother’s family were I believe from the Ukraine. Her father’s name was Asher Aron Weinstein (in EnglishOscar) Her name was Rahel Yetta Weinstein. Her mother’s name was Chaya (Ida) Skora