Hi Marilyn, Perhaps a Page of Testimony was written for him? You can search at Yad Vashem. This is the link to the advanced search

"I have noticed that when a midwife was involved, the midwife likely kept records of a number of births before reporting the births. This sometimes led to issues with the actual date of birth." I

Note that there are two 1870 census for Manhattan. The City believed it was under counted, and a second enumeration was done six months after the first enumeration. Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton,

Hi Elise, Have you checked to see if the society's records were donated? https://www.cjh.org/pdfs/Landsmanshaftn07.pdf From above site: "Landsmanshaft Records at the Center for Jewish History You

I've made immense progress since I started 5-6 years ago, largely through the generosity of JewishGen members, but I seem to have hit a brick wall. Here briefly is where I am: I have found my

Surnames appeared only some two hundred years ago. Until that men used names. And continued to do the same.

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@ Carol, Ilya, to find the decret reference, you have to search into the "Journal Officiel de la République Française" via Gallica.fr for

Hi Ethan, Thanks for your note. My Litvaks mostly went to Chicago, but somehow a Chicago Goldberg met/married a Kansas City Ginsberg. And one of the Ginsberg siblings married a

Hi Ralph. I contacted Estela at AGJA (Argentinan JGS) and she was so helpful. Her email is consultas.agja@... Also check out their FB page Good luck -- Lia Sragovicz

1936 births will not be public for decades yet. (The new law is so insanely badly written that many archives are erring on the side of caution and using 130 years as the cutoff for birth records.)

Same principle: names get shortened.. Many Steinkopfs became Stein, Hautkovich became Kovich, Sotomayer became Mayer…... BTW, your initial post did not specify family names: "Does anyone

There have been two different readings of the date of death for William Jaffe. It is the 10th of Shvat. -- Fredel Fruhman Brooklyn, New York, USA

I'll add: Yitshak become Tsahi, Yehezkel - Hezi, Yehoram - Rami, Yonatan - Nati Jeffrey comes from Ephraim. Weren't YOU called at home Frojm, (or smthng like)? It is natural in every language to

Yes but those are first names and I was referring to family names that are modified.

grundwirth = BASIC grundwirt = LANDLORD

The letter Yod י or Yod Heh יה are names of God, hence, there is a custom among observant Jews to forgo writing them down. Examples: Yehudit יהודית was Hudes, Yehoshua יהושע was

Lazy speech 'street - slang' ??

My father, Moses (Max) Koch was born in Potok Zloty, in 1911. He left as a young child, but I am aware of several family that remained. I have just found some house ownership data but the first names

Hi Marilyn, It's possible that this Michal Rotman who has a Page of Testimony at Yad Vashem is the man you are seeking (https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=558549&ind=1).