Sally, I've researched through thousands of FamilySearch image collections since they started their digitization project and I've yet to encounter a single one where they've dropped the original film

Can anyone please advise me how me how I can learn if two people are really the same? The first is Mallter, Gittel Mann who in 1944 lived in the Bronx. Her name was first given to me by a cousin in a

Yes, I had a similar question. That is, what kind of cemetery was this? Perhaps a non-Jewish cemetery would have allowed Jewish markings, but only if a cross also appeared or maybe this was military?

Hi Avivah, The link for the birth, marriage and death records is as follows: http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1073/inventar/ If you expand the first plus sign you will see all the available records. The

Hi Teodora. I have been researching the Plutzers and Rosenblatts, my paternal grandparents. I know that the Plutzers were from Lusan, current day Luzhany Ukraine and Lujeni Romania inter-war. I

I am doing what may be the first serious study of the meme that immigrant names could not have been changed involuntarily on immigration. With two exceptions, addressed below, every claim on behalf

Thanks Eva. That could well be the case, but it still begs the question of why the fathers' names appeared in the records when they weren't Familiants. According to the law at the time, the two

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Emily Garber wrote:"Film numbers may still be used to search via the catalog. While FamilySearch has been digitizing old microfilm and assigning new digital numbers to those rolls, digitized

It seems strange that they would keep both symbols and not try to erase the past. I am guessing this is a relatively recent tombstone, I don't think that changes of religion were such an accepted

My father-in-Law's uncles left the Szchuchin/Graive area around the turn of the 19-20 th cent. Their name in Europe was JERUSHALMY but I was informed that in the USA they changed it to ROSEN, At some

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Thank you fo much for this post! Just opened the link. Grateful to have this information!! Deborah Annex

Hello Peter, first of all we need to know where you located the family and what sources you have already evaluated. Which literature (also German?) have you analysed? Have you located the family with

I've now found what I am looking for. Thank you to those who reach out to me privately. Kind regards Richard Gilbert Hertfordshire, England

I'll gladly have a look at it though I am Dutch and my German stemms from school and what I picked up when I worked in Germany. Regards, Ron Peeters

Hi David For the most part, imigration records into the UK were not kept during the late 19th or early 20th century. Very few of us can claim to have found any, as either records were not kept or they

I worked with Prof. B.S.J. Isserlin, Department of Semitic Studies, University of Leeds, before his passing. It is said that he is a descendant of Rabbi Moses Isserles. You might ask his son if he

Hi Nolan and Richard and anyone else interested in the Lodz cemetery. I have done intensive research on Lodz and on my own family from the city, many of whom were buried in the cemetery, and I have

I agree with Risa that the record number is by far the easiest way to navigate to the right record. Keep in mind, though, that males and females are numbered separately. The reference to record F266