My family came from Horodok, Vilna Gubernya. It is near Minsk and this letter is from Jewish Members who live in Minsk and who are trying to gather information for a Museum. I think this should be

It could be almost anything as people have responded. My grandmother's aunt was Ida in English but her Yiddish name was Hotke/Hotka which is how we call her, which I believe is a diminutive for Hodes

I believe the area west of Poznan was Germany for a while. In that area of Europe the borders changed frequently.

I enjoy using geni/MyHeritage and Ancestry to bounce back and forth, filling in many records and blanks, but it does consume a significant amount of time. I have over 21500 hints on outstanding on

Hello, I cannot figure out how to answer the tombstone request by Mary Ellen. However all the guesses as to what the Bet Shin Tet before the date of death stands for BESAIVA TOVA...in old age

Family History Today: Jewish Refugees & the U.S.-Mexico Border Watch Live on Zoom - Monday, June 29, 6 PM ET Between the world wars, more than 200,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Europe and the Middle

Thanks for posting this. My understanding is that not all of these original documents are currently translated and indexed in Jewishgen. Is that correct? What would be the best way to have them

I take issue with the majority of sources on My Heritage and Geni being from trees. Both sides have Social Security, Census, birth, death, and marriage records and public records, among others.

The USHMM has linked digitized documents with 24,133 names in the existing collection Dutch Survivor Lists in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims database. This collection, indexed by Jewishgen

I am standing “on the shoulders” of the above replies in composing my response. Here lies Our dear mother A modest and honest woman Beloved to all those who knew her Mrs.

Do you have the Polish passport? I would be very surprised to see a Polish passport issued in 1914. Before the end of WWI, Poland was divided up between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian

I love to go to and to photograph synagogues in every city I visit. Here is the link to my photo galleries of synagogues of Europe: Synagogues-of-Europe

This picture was taken in Germany, but can anyone identify at least the decade? Susan Lubow Researching: SCHWARZ, HIRSCHINGER, AMSEL Sent from Mail for Windows 10

There are a number of discrepancies among the replies that were given. I hope to come back with a full reading later. Meanwhile, I would like to point out: 1. Her middle name might have been

Sometimes Chaya becomes Ida. Also Ida is sometimes from Eidel - sweet/gentle - in Yiddish Susan WOLMAN researching WOLMAN - Minsk, Minsk, Belarus, Brooklyn, Albany, NY PALEY - Shatsk, Minsk,

Although they are not organized at all, you can find some 560 images of tombstones in the Lodz New Jewish cemetery in this Wikimedia collection Wikimedia Commons collection of Lodz cemetery photos The

Hello, Sally Bruckheimer indicates that the "Vaz Dias Collectie" used to be LDS Microfilm #'s 899932 and 899933. Searching for those numbers on FamilySearch, does seem to still show them as she

My great grandmother's (Yiddish) name was Eiga, sometimes spelled in English as Aega. One time someone wrote her name as Ida, but that was definitely not her name. Joan Baronberg MESTER, WEISSER,

Hi Iris, Please let me know if your researcher comes through. Thanks. LISA BRACCO

Hi Jeff, Could you provide contact information for Dr. Gyemant? You can send directly to me at lisa5bracco4@.... Thanks. LISA