Thanks for responding I have no paper - or image - records I am working on a 30K collection of burials in Mokkom Sholom / Bayside /Acacia cemeteries assembled by Florence Marmor David

Perhaps there was a difference between a full name change to a spelling modification. My cousin arrived in the US in the 1930's from Germany. His name was SCHULMANN. He told me that the immigration

Erika, These are the child's Hebrew/religious/Jewish/Yiddish name. First of all, I say Hebrew/religious/Jewish/Yiddish because they are essentially the same thing. Whether the name is of Hebrew

One of my biggest finds was the actual surname of my maternal grandfather's name and what hooked me on genealogy. They came in 1888 to NYC from Vilna AND I FOUND them using the 6 volume set Migration

I am sure this picture was taken in the 1890s. London certainly had electricity in the home, Brixton , (a London suburb) had Electric Avenue, which was to the best of my knowledge, the first street

Yes it could be a transcription error for "internment". But if it is not an error, an "Instrument" in England is a document by which something of legal significance is done. For example a document

Hi Anna Belarus used to be part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Settlement until the wars of the 20th century, when it frequently changed hands It became part of Russia in 1922,

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Perhaps the date of instrument is the date of signing of the certificate and the date of record is the filing date with the registering authority. It would help to know where this happened. Link to

Jan Allen Maisel reported here recently that Aristides de Sousa Mendes - Portugal’s consul in Bordeaux in 1940 - finally received his country’s recognition for his salvation action. Let me just

Whose Birth certificate are you looking for ? Are you trying to find the relationship between Daniel & Erich Blumenthal ? Erich's birth and marriage certificate are digitized on Ancestry.com

David, my guess is that this is referring to the date of the original legal document. An instrument in contracts/legal terminology is usually a formal legally binding signed document -- Cynthia

As Corinna said, it is very difficult to find sources before 1700, even for German fmilies. In addition, the Hessian region before 1800 is a patchwork of many individual independent territories. For

Contrary to the stories we hear so often, the borders of northeastern Europe did not change between 1815 and 1914, with only very minor exceptions. Prussia became part of the German Empire, but its

Of course! Note the assumptions underlying the claim: the immigration officials were ignorant hicks who just didn't get them foreigners [half were themselves naturalized, and understood 40

This "meme" as you call it, is discussed at length in an official statement from the Immigration Service, and is available at some .gov web page. I suggest you reconsider your skepticism until you

Check marks were most of what the officials did write on the manifests, and they're generally quite large. What manifests are you referring to? Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA research coordinator,

As each new immigrant was processed at Castle Garden, Ellis Island, or other reception center, how did officials keep track of who had passed through? Why didn't the clerk put some sort of check-mark

Mazal Tov = that’s wonderful. Thanks for all of your perseverance Esther Levine Brill Looking for Jablonsky – Jankel,(Elchanan David), Mortchaj , Chaja ; from Szcuczyn and Golberg -Estera,