I asked this question of 5/18: Does anyone know what the abbreviation “OT” next to a name in the 1910 US census signifies? See, for example, the entry for Harriett HARRIS in the cropped attachment

Hello, (I tried to use the links at the bottom to reply, but it opens some email window that I am unfamiliar with.) To everyone, please add dates to ggggrandparents, such as

Hi Larry. Just an aside -- are we sure that this grave is in Odessa? Who is in the picture? What does the grave say? My dad's grandmother (Zelman's daughter Leike/Elisabeth)

Another factor is that Polish does have German influences since Poland-Lithuania rules Prussia for 250 years. As a result Rabinovitz was in Polish Rabinowicz, pronounced as Rabinovich.

This is from Prof. Ing. Felix Gundacker, Vienna from GenTeam.eu: The website is: www.GenTeam.eu Initial checks of the archival fonds of the "Vermögensverkehrsstelle" (Assets Transfer Office)

I am researching an illegitimate birth in the Stanislawow region of Galicia in 1906. The story in the family was that the mother was later sent to America because of the shame, but the child was a

you are looking for consistency in transliteration between at least 3 different alphabets, and 5 or more different languages? -ovich, regardless of spelling, is a slavic suffix meaning "son of". it's

When your message includes the name of a place that's not familiar to everyone (Proskurov) please include the country. The JewishGen Gazetteer says Ukraine for this one. - Moderator Searching for

Any way to find family club /landsmanshaft? My father remembers his grandmother going to meetings somewhere in ny either lower east side or the Bronx. My gg grandmothers maiden name was Hanna Neumann

Moderator note: If your message mentions towns or regions that aren't well known places, please add the country to the local name. Does any of this ring a bell? If so, would be interested in hearing

Hi Siggers, My great grandfather, Zelman BERKOWITZ, died in Odessa on 16 Dec 1924. I want to get a copy of his death record. How do I do it? A photo of his headstone is attached. Do any of you

Following the Roman conquest of Judea, Jews were scattered throughout the Mediterranean, Europe, and indeed, the world. The Romans (and before them, the Greeks) took many Jews as slaves, and, as

Avigdor Ben-Dov asked: "Does anyone know a linguistic reason to prefer a transliteration of the Hebrew suffix bet-yud--tzadik sofi such as in the name Rabinovitz in the absence of documentary

Marty Rice asked: Is there a source for the names of Romanian survivors who made it to Israel 1946 to 1960? It isn't that lists don't exist, it is the fact there is privacy laws and lists of less than

Hello all, I am looking for information on Bercu (Beryl) LITVAC and Golda YUZVINSKY, my paternal grandparents, who traveled from Vinnitsa, Ukraine, through Bucharest, Romania, where their first son

Shana, You said: "I have been trying to find any documentation/information about my great-grandfather Shimon MILLSTEIN. He was married to a woman named Dora who bore him 3 sons: Harris (b. 1885 in

One point in history not frequently discussed was the enslavement of Jewish immigrants from 1870 to WWII. They were forced into prostitution, mostly in Argentina. And many of their “owners” were

My g.g.grandfather wrote of his experience in the early and mid 1800s in Kastel (across the river from Mainz). When he wanted to get married in 1829 he had to get permission from the town, community

A few weeks ago I viewed an Ancestry map of potential DNA matches and saw a friend, Susan Breslauer, as a potential 4th cousin. I called her and she exuberantly said that she had recently discovered

Shalom, I am continually searching over many years for the origins of my paternal grandfather’s family BERNSTEIN. lsrael Zvi and his wife Cissie (Shayne) gave birth to my paternal grandfather Simon