The term "notions" is used for sewing accessories like buttons, snaps, etc. Here's a link to a wiki.

I am attaching a photo of what I believe to be my maternal grandmother's family. She was Roza Friedman Stein came from Tarne-Mare Romania and died in 1937 in Chicago. My own mother is now 101 and

I will answer Yale point by point: This second paragraph is ironic coming after your affirmation of your careful reading. I think almost everyone understood that I did not say there was someone

I may also be naive to think that the immigrant would not be asked to pronounce their names if the clerk/officer could not read it. These folks were not mute.

About "changing the spelling" -- the manifests I've seen have all been written in English or German, in any case, using our Latin alphabet. Whereas many of our ancestors would have written their

JoAnne: Your Gedmatch cannot be M131535 as indicated in Jewish Gen. I have a number of names in your listing. Can you give me the Ancestry or Family Tree Maker ID Henry Lobbenberg Toronto, ON Gedcom:

Have you ever known a government employee who didn’t generate paper? There is only 1 file backing up (sort of) the “name was changed at Ellis Island claim” and that was of a woman traveling

Keep in mind that Jewish folks in Eastern Europe got last names fairly late. many families choose different last names and different and different spellings. even brothers had different last names.

Family lore says that my maternal grandfather and his uncle escaped Czarist Russia (now Belarus) hidden in a hay wagon in 1905. On the other hand, my great-grandfather often worked in NYC, so it is

Families often changed their names or at least the spellings. I found this on both sides of my mother's family. Zlates became Slatas and Sanktin became Sancton. The Zlates change came some time

Sandi, I know the Kessler family well. Stuart was my father's best friend growing up in Brooklyn in the '30s-40s; they attended Brooklyn Tech together. Sadly, Stuart died a year or two ago, but I am

Almost all the Orthodox Jewish marriages were arranged. Most times by a matchmaker. This is still being done in some Jewish communities. Most times the couple meet once or twice before they are

All evidence shows names were not changed at Ellis Island. My great- grandparents named KRAUZE from Bialystok were told by their fellow Landsman at The Bialystoker Synagogue on the Lower East Side of

This is not David-Horodok - My town is just Horodok in another area.

Sometimes a person bought someone elses ticket and travel documents..my great aunt Rose Lowenkron bought her sister s though she was much younger..she changed back to her legal mame on becoming a u.s

I'm unfamiliar with this website is there an ID and password that I can use or do I need to register?

I am fascinated by the assumption in many of these responses that I haven't done my homework. No-one, including in a flurry of personal contacts, has mentioned an item that I hadn't seen already in

The story is that one of the Shepsenwol families (Solomon) moved to Voloshin because he was at the Yishiva.. He was born in Horodok Bette

I have to disagree with Eva Lawrence's characterization of the arriving immigrants as "a ship full of excitable and exhausted immigrants, some suffering from cholera, perhaps, many of them filthy

Were surnames changed at Ellis Island, either voluntarily or involuntarily by Immigration Authorities, and then used in the U.S. after going through that Immigration Station? The current consensus is