I keep my master family trees on my own computer, where I have complete control. I have versions of my trees on JewishGen FTJP, My Heritage and Geni, but don't always have time to update them all. I

My great-grandfather died or was killed while in the army (would have been in Russian army most likely if he was a RUSSIAN POLE, as was his wife). This would have been between 1880 and 1883. Nobody

In the responses to a recent post (FTJP-Family Tree of the Jewish People) there was some discussion about Geni and some other sites failing to check the soundness of data in submitted family trees.

All, The JCA applications names for Argentina have recently been added to Jewishgen.org. For now, it can be found through a global search. Rob Weisskirch Former moderator, Latin American SIG

Susan, I just sent a reply and then searched for the Branitsky (sorry, used to Russian spelling) in Russian. Here is what Wiki says: "Countess Alexandra Vasilyevna Branitskaya, nee Engelhardt, known

Hi Susan, My maternal grandfather's line is from Belaya Tserkov (Averbukh, Kuppershmidt, Gabovich, Zurakhov) and my grandmother frequently mentioned the Branitskys. They were Polish which was not

Rollie Stamps curtstamps@... I agree. A group discussion on Dutch Jews would really help. My Mother's line immigrated to New York in the early 1800's.

I have a lot of Edelbergs from Rosario and also Cosakov. You can view my tree at https://www.sarahsgenies.com. Try different spellings of Cosakov - I also am in touch with living cousins on the

it's interesting that the name was samuel, because there's a whole long thread in the jewishgen archives about "samification", where immigrants to the united states adopted "american names", and "sam"

I have my family trees on Ancestry and MyHeritage. I also have DNA results on FTDNA and 23 andme but I do not use their family trees. Geni belngs to MyHeritage (or the other way round), and both sites

IGRA is holding its Annual Seminar Day on June 23, 2020. Entrance is free. There is one registration for the entire day allowing you to join with the same link as often as you like. The first three

Can someone help with the Hebrew translation? Thanks, Karen

I agree with Nicole regarding Geni. I have never contriuted any information there, but every other day I receive a notice that "someone has been added to your family tree." I have occasionally

Hi Adam, How will this differ from the K36 reports available from a number of different sources? I obtained a K36 from a European genetics person last year (at a very reasonable rate), both for the

Hello, I am looking for informations about the Sandomir family, they lived on the island of Norderney until they leaved for emigration (?) in the late 1930s. If you know something or you know someone

I would like help translating this letter written on paper from Congregation B'Nai Abram, Minneapolis, MN.

I am looking to resolve contradictions in chronology of these hate laws which child witnesses still alive report starting years before the codex legislature passed in 1941. I need also dates of when

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Our dear mother is the first two words. Phonetically eemainu hayikara. The rest of her name and the dates of her life.

If you examine the microfilm records many of the Litvak records were translated from, you'll find that LitvakSIG translated virtually all data shown. The data filled in on the forms answer the