I have seen the same thing on u.s. Certificates. My relative,s mother,s maiden name was listed as Sophie sheinerockel on his death cert in 1921. it took me a few minutes to figure out her name was

Hi Barry, Yes I have seen this in NYC death records where the parent's names were Americanized but the parents never set foot in the US. It can be very frustrating if you were hoping to find the

Judith asked about birth record for her grandmother from Strzeliska. If you look at the listing of records on JRI Poland it shows the years for which records exist. There are missing years from

I can successfully access ProQuest using my New York Public Library. However, I can not find the link to Ancestry.com. In ProQuest genealogy sites I only see newspapers. I have the same result when

YOAV ARAN Hello, Attached is a handwritten Soviet report of the Nazi atrocities that occurred in Rezekne. I would be extremely grateful if anyone could translate parts of it to English. Shabbat

Can I suggest you make contact with a group called the Together Plan which is working with Jewish communities in Belarus, by helping them to help themselves. They have recently branched out into

Your response and confirmation much appreciated. Seems likely the case is the same in the UK. Thanks, Barry Clarke

Hi Peter, Have you had a look at www.genteam.at? It is a valuable source for research in Austria but also covers parts of neighboring countries. It is absolutely free, just requires resgistration, and

Bennett Muraskin compiled in 2012 some of the origins and meanings of Ashkenazi last names. The photos and links inside the article are dead

Judy, Have you searched all the passenger manifests arriving other than new York? Go to stevemorse.org and see all the other ports. Also search the Canadian passenger Manifests and Canadian Border

Hi from Paris, I reply in English to be understood by most of our fellow detectives. When persons lived in France for some decades, as Daniel Stenberg did, there is a high probability they became

I have found the se with the name Israelovici from Romania, I do not know if it has something to do with your search... Cristina Ichim

Hi from Paris, Two days ago, you had the perfect answer in post #643578 by Jenny Schwartzberg : May 28 #643578 "A lot of these phone books are searchable at: https://genealogyindexer.org/ A list

Thank you very much Ernst Peter Winter. -- Reuven Stern, Kfar Vradim Israel Researching families Behr, Stern, Markovits, Lebovits, Suessholz, Joseph

Looking particularly for relatives of ROSENBAUM (ROZENBAUM) and KATZ in the town of Pruzana around 1900 and before. M. Bekken MODERATOR NOTE Please reply privately with family information

I've posted a marriage record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82139 If possible, I

I have a somewhat similar situation where people who my mother had always told me were relatives had been using a newly-adopted surname (WERNER) since their arrival in the U.K. in 1907. On their

Does anyone know where I can access pre-war telephone directories for Warsaw and Brest Litovsk? Thanks Michael Rosenberg Canberra AUSTRALIA searching for Rosenberg, Golomb, Chani

Jews in Galicia were emancipated and given rights of citizenship by the Austrians in the 1860s, the right to a passport would be included. Some people obtained passprts, but passports were not needed

I have been unable to determine when my maternal grandmother, Fanny RECHTSCHAFFNER, came to the US and the town of her birth. I know her sister came with her parents in 1899 from Strzeliska, which at