My Lithuanian ancestors arrived in the 1880s pre-Ellis, and since I haven't found ship manifests I still don't know where they entered the country, or under what name. However, family lore is that

My father was born in Sapanta(Spinka). The family last name is David.

Googllng “Todd Knowles” email address “ 1. brings up the website of the Utah JGS. that has an "about us “section which has him listed as a Board member and activities@...

Eva Lawrence I also suggest you Google the topic and you will be hard pressed to find any articles confirming your suggestion that name changes did take place on arrival by immigration officers. See

With respect to dating photographs and making assumptions about the economic class of people please consider that it wasn't unknown for the people being photographed to borrow clothing and jewelry in

As the addition to my previous message regarding Horodok near Molodechno, please refer to the entries in town’s 1921 statistical data as shown in 1929 Poland Business Directory at

Eva Lawrence you misunderstood my posting. The clerks I was referring to were those who created the manifests on departure from Europe. I am not suggesting people did not change their own surnames

Smoke pours from the ears of veteran genealogists when they hear “his name was changed by the immigration authorities”. Numerous analyses of the experience of immigrants through Ellis Island and

Searching (probably Brooklyn, NY) family of Beatrice (COHEN) KESSLER, husband: Harold KESSLER. They have 1 (known) child: Stuart KESSLER, b. 1949. Beatrice is one of two daughters of my

Hi genners, Recently I watched a webinar presented by Todd Knowles. He gave his contact address at the end of his presentation and unfortunately, I can not find his address. Does anyone have

I have 2 remarks regarding the excellent translation posted on ViewMate: jaras is district both Bator (Nyirbator) and and Nagykallo were districts in Szabolcs (and not Szabolc) county The mother's

My grandfather came from a village in the region near Gorodok. The village was called Trellisey. My brother and I visited the whole area (including Gorodok) in 2008. My grandfather, Shimon

My grandfather whose family came from Minsk, now Belarus, was put as a Pole on a letter to British Home office applying to come to live and work in Britain in 1931. As far as we were concerned, he was

If this information is from a transcription, perhaps the word should have been transcribed "interment".

I want to thank Debbie Lifshitz (and Leya Aronson of Toronto, who posted a reply separately) for bringing up a possible reading that had completely slipped my mind: b'sayvah tovah, meaning that

This town was entered into JGFF database as: Haradok, (near Molodechno), and there are 134 entries by the Genners for this location in the

Hi all, As to the abbreviation (bet-)shin-tav (ש״ט) I have an ancestor who died at age thirty who had this abbreviation on his stone. Therefore it does not mean “b’seiva tova (in old age). It

I would also go with the late 1890s. But I would also check out pictures in books and those posted online of people in Europe, especially in Germany, and compare the clothing they are wearing with

I visited Suwalki in 2016 and by lucky chance, went to the railroad station, which was the likely departure place for our ancestors in 1886. There were no trains scheduled when I was there so I stood

Did you try Googling for it? https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=27995