Geni is more accurate and complete than any individual tree on Ancestry or MyHeritage in almost all cases, since it is a collaborative tree. Why? Think of it this way. What would be more accurate

Sorry I can't help you on your Resnicks but my grandfather Lieb Frankel was from this Pohost. Stuart

Hi Toby, Simchat Torah is celebrated on Tishrei 23rd outside the land of Israel. Brest-Litovsk was in the Russian Empire in 1866 and Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar only in 1918. Therefore, two

Correction for Kazhan - Haradok There are 80 entries for this town by Genners in JGFF database. The total number for all searches for five towns named Haradok, Belarus is 504, by 242

I think we are getting very defensive. I haven't seen anyone who claims that names were intentionally, willfully changed. I don't believe they were. What I think many are saying is that the system,

GOOGLE is your friend. Searching for simchat torah 1866 brings up a site a genealogist should know. www.hebcal.com try it, it’s easy to use. Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ

This became oddly contentious. Like many others, I'd heard to stories about Ellis Island name changes and later learned that this would not have happened. My own tree shows numerous name changes, both

I haven't been following this topic, but my grandmother's name in St Petersburg was Ita, pronounced /EEta/. If you say it with an American accent the t becomes d, and you get Eda, which was her

Dwera (Dora) Wejswaser came to Rochester, New York around 1881. Would like to know of siblings she left and those who may have immigrated with her. Many thanks, Judy Cohen Sent from my Verizon

Searching for Riwka Kumelanski, nee Tokarczyk. Would appreciate any information. Thank you, Judy Cohen Sent from my Verizon ASUS tablet

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Genners, The name seems to suggest – nesicha which means princess in Hebrew. Shabbat Shalom, Malka Chosnek

Would someone be able to tell me when Simchat Torah was in 1866? A memoir states that my 3great-grandmother died in the middle of Simchat Torah in 1866 (cholera plague in Brest). Thank you. Toby

Hi, there seems to be confusion as to the number and location of towns named Horodok in Belarus. JGFF database has identified only 5 (five) Horodok (s) in Belarus that had Jewish population. 1.

It is WONDERFUL to have this free access to all of their records, particularly those from other countries. I want to point out an issue, though: When you "view" the original source, you will usually

The IGRA Show and Tell sessions this week deal with the Census and Registry information available on the All Israel Databases (AID) as part of the IGRA Collection. Rose Feldman, the IGRA Databases

Simon Lazare FRIDMAN (or FRIEDMAN) and Chaïa Hinda Haya SAKNOVITZKI SAKHNOVITZKI Ladies and gentlemen, I'm looking for the cities of birth, date and place of death for the following people: Simon

With so many stories focusing on Ellis Island, one fact remains unspoken. You could always use any name you wanted. You still can, except to deceive creditors. When it came to Naturalizations,

The two questions are related, and hopefully begin to narrow my search further. The name 'Reische' likely bears some relationship to either the city or county of Rzeszow'. For Jewish families

If it's that easy, please do so and send us the link. Except connect me to the Queen of Sheba, please.