Hi, I posted some documents for translation on Viewmate. They are Polish Book of Resident entires written in Russian. I would appreciate any help in translating, thank you! Julie

Items hidden by Auschwitz prisoners were recovered from a chimney in the concentration camp. The objects were found in Block 17 of the former Main Camp at Auschwitz as part of the renovation work

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Recent Records Update We are pleased to report the following updates to our collection: Bessarabia: Revision Lists - 10,873 records have been added. In total, this collection now has 214,601

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1000 years is approximately 40 generations. If in each generation, the average number of children who go on to have their own children is 2, after 40 generations there could be a trillion

Both the American Friends Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee worked in the camps in south France. USHMM has these records which are mostly indexed. If you haven't

I totally agree with you. In some of my lectures many years ago I had a section with a PowerPoint slide that asked 'who in this room is descended from King David?' I then went on to show the

Carol, I concur with the majority of people who responded to your question; don't reveal information about living relatives. You would be violating their right to privacy and could potentially

Meron, From your description, I get the same sense you have about him not being "Husband of the Year." If I were in your shoes I would visit the cemetery office and ask to see its file about this

Search for sisters Marjorie Bonnie and Pamela DAVIS born in the 1950s California. Children of Donald DAVIS (1927 Minneapolis to 1986 California) and Joanne LASKOWITZ DAVIS 1928-1999 Granddaughters of

If anybody has a HEISER or two lurking in their family tree, please let me know. The family originated from KEMPEN (now Kepno in Poland) and my great great grandfather, Abraham Heiser, became a dealer

"RR" means via rail. See: https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/manifests/detained/ Regards, David Oseas Researching: HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York KLEIN:

Based on ship manifest records from 1899-1909 and from the Auschwitz-Buchenwald Transport during January 22 & 26, 1945, I discovered that my Samovics relatives were from Benedike (a.k.a. Benedikovce

These mathematical issues are my cup of tea. Besides Tom Klein´s comment reproduced below, I suggest the original poster to look in the Jewishgen archives for my 1994 (yes, not a typo) post titled

Jason - I have a copy of 1929 South African Jewish Yearbook which shows an entry for Abraham Liberman, born in UK in 1874, married Dora Buirski in 1899 in SA and had four children. He was listed as a

Thank you ryabinkym and @vshklyarnik and Joseph and anybody else that may have replied and that I have not read yet. And Judy Golan. There is so much info I received in the last few days and more to

Hi, I recently found a photo of a relative's grave, a married woman with a young child, who died in 1910. The headstone has "BELOVED MOTHER" inscribed above the woman's name, and concludes at the

Tom Klein writes "either King David's line ended, and no one is, or after 1000 years everyone was his descendant" The theory that everyone's family branches out indefinitely is fallacious. In any