As Nick mentioned, openarch.nl has quite a bit of data on this name. Leeuwarden, being capital of Friesland, you will get more data from Frisian records site allefriezen.nl. The site is down for

I have memoir of one Esther STEIN, who states that circa 1922 her grandmother Sarah VINIKOVSKY had an elderly male cousin living in a small town near Sokolka, Poland (53.408, 23.500). A good guess for

Would somebody have the Riga and Latvia phone books from 1945 onwards (or any selection from 1945 to 1980 approx) or would know how and where to find them? Best regards reply to

Any descendants from refugee ship, Villa De Madrid out of Barcelona, June 21, 1941, finally arrived in US July 13, 1941. What happened to the refugees?

Ethnicity is used as a way to sell tests but not the most reliable part of testing - as Others have said. And if you are even 1/2 Jewish as I am your Jewish "cousins" may be much farther out than what

David Rosen is correct about the totals representing the count of males and females on the manifest page. The reason for the various subtotals as you move down the page has to do with the tally of

Translation please. Have no idea what it says or who it is from or to. It is from someone in Russia or Hungary, I think. Thank you. Barbara Schoenburg Researching:

Hi Anita, Otaki also known as Ataki is a town in Bessarabia, a distinct territory in Moldova. During the history, Otaki was under Russian rule, Romanian rule and now is in the Republic of Moldova.

Upcoming IGRA virtual programming: IGRA "Show & Tell" Zoom sessions and our Webinar series continues! The IGRA "Show & Tell" sessions for the first two weeks of June are listed below. The sessions

Hoping all readers and families are all safe and healthy. This sheltering in time has given me an opportunity to review and edit family archival records. I've come across two which have

Are there lists of deceased of the Spanish flu in Jerusalem? Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem <yonibenari@...>

Thank you. for your precise and wonderful (which I Hope I can mange.. printing it out first..andfollow the directions -just like knitting directions!) I hope to learn more and be able to manage it

Looking for information about a specific family "Atyi" or Atwi from Zaragosa Spain that is now in northern Israel, Nazareth and Haifa Signing your full name to all your messages furthers the spirit of

These numbers in the last column are a count of the males - females on the passenger list. It is easily confirmed by looking at the column with the heading "Sex" and adding up the males and the

Looking for descendants of Leibl/Leibel Goldberg (d.o.b 15 Dec 1890 in Falticeni), son of Moshe ben Avram/Morris Goldberg (killed by a mob outside a synagogue in Falticeni) and Rosa (nee

In Paris, at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the International Jewish Genealogy Conference Professor Dov Cohen presented a list of names of 7,300 Brides and Grooms from the Jewish community of Izmir. That

I have 2 questions about Sima Silberstein (my great aunt)'s designation on the passenger manifest that I was hoping someone could shed some light on. I've outlined both in red. The first question

I would appreciate a translation of the Hebrew writing on this gravestone. Thank you so much in advance. Erika Gottfried, Teaneck, New Jersey Reply o n l y to <erikagottfried53@...>

A Detroit free press article in July 1913 describes a family of a wife and three children being held at Elis Island for potential deportation back to Russia having been described as potentially

What happens when there are two hashtags – one of which you have muted and the other one was not muted? Also if you did not mute a hashtag does that mean that you are following it? Sarah Lee