I would appreciate any help in finding the Polish estate on which my relatives lived from approximately 1875 to 1905. We think it was called Stepanivka. It was near Bela Tserkva, Ukraine. My male

I won't defend Geni, but I have had distant relatives make incorrect entries about my immediate family on FTJP, and I have often found conflicting information about relatives I've researched. As I've

This is the Spanish way of naming people. The Y means and. So they are using both the father's and mother's surnames. It is not a double surname. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy

To combine the various replies about the date of death: The Hebrew date was the 7th of Tevet, 5690. This date began at sunset on January 6th, 1930, and ended at sunset on the 7th. As to the

But to be fair, Geni does alert me to 'inconsistencies' - eg child has different last name to father, age of mother when child was born is inconsistent etc. I think the secret is to keep your master

It may be that they're just not very traditional. It actually happened in my Ashkenazic-but-very-not-religious family in Vienna, Germany and New York. My great-grandfather Henry (Heinrich) was named

Hi, I found something similar in the case of an aunt of my GFather, also from Belarus. Her maiden name was YUDKIN, and she married MERPERT before they moved to Argentina at the 1900's. In various

I don't see any of the sites validating user-submitted data. But they have no problems charging us for access to information, often flawed, provided by other customers! It's hard to balance the

Dear researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia Research Division projects for the month of May 2020. See also at What's New at Bessarabia SIG website. Bessarabian Databases.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws David Lewin London Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who, despite the passage of so many years since World War II,

Does anyone know what happened to the Berger family of Panevezys, Lithuania during WWll?

If anyone happens to know anything about any of those named below, I would be very grateful if you would contact me. I believe the first of the CLARKES in S. Africa were MAX and ESTHER (nee LANDSBERG)

I can't improve on the suggestions for the 1905 state census - you have to find the enumeration district. But for the federal censuses, if you are an ancestry.com user, navigating to the census

In response to Jill Whitehead's post, I don't think that you can fault Geni totally for the problem of people adding misinformation to your work. I think that for the most part there are too many

Since I am actively involved with this project, I am sorry to inform you that the Jewish people are in urgent need of assistance to stop the desecration of the cemetery. Before Corona, the Lithuanian

If you are serious about your work, stay far, far away from Geni. The last time FTJP stopped updating trees, there was some message that said you could upload it to Geni and it would get to FTJP.

Good morning Karen, Here lies or here is buried (abbreviation on top) Mordechai Re’uven Son of Yehuda Levine Passed 5 Iyar 5696 May his soul be gathered in eternal life (abbreviation on

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.