The name Sylvester is a Latin origin name meaning 'wooded' or 'wild' without a Christian origin which made it acceptable to languages short on neutral religious origin given names.

I'm trying to confirm the marriage between my Great Aunt Anna (Annie, Channa) SHAPIRO to Adolph ELSNER. I'm unable to find this marriage in any searches and unfortunately, I forget where I even made

@Rabbi Neil Kominsky: I have Rothstein family from Poland (Kosow Lacki, to be specific); if that sounds at all familiar to you, please contact me directly. Paul Weiss San Antonio, Texas, USA

Thank you all for your responses. They give me some information and context. I do not have any passports of my ancestors so I am also looking for any archive in Ukraine or Poland that might have files

I have a Sylvester King COHEN (12 Jul 1882-08 Sep 1949) who was also born in St. Louis......how common, I have no idea, but Sylvester combined with King! How about that? John Anderson Orlando

Seeking Information About Grandmother’s Father and his ABRAMOWITZ Family. My grandmother, Sura/Sarah Leah ABROMOWITZ KNEPLER was born around 1888 in Bivolari and emigrated to the United States in

Could someone translate this for me. Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching: SECHESTOWER, THAU, SPIERMAN (Kolomea, Stanislau) KANNER, SMITZ or variations, WERNER (Dobrowa

Helen: I knew a Francis Soyka who was an olympic level tennis player and fine artist. For many years he was the tennis counselor at the summer boys camp I attended (Camp Androscoggin).I have sent you

Hi Marek, I am very interested to learn more about your project and any responses you may have had; is this an Official or a Private endeavour? Sadly, I do not speak, read, or write Polish but do have

My great great uncle, from Suwalki (who emigrated to Sheffield) was named Shepsel Bloch. Shepsel means lamb, but I don't know an equivalent English name. Seek the peace of Jerusalem Abe Lebowitz

Please help me break down a brickwall! I have posted 2 items that need PARTIAL translations This is page 2 of a letter of a letter to my grandfather on VIEWMATE It is in yiddish. I am looking for

Record number 1837 one thousand eight hundred thirty seven. In the city of San Luis Potosi, at 12 twelve o'clock of the 15th fifteenth of November of 1938 one thousand nine hundred thirty eight before

New Year's Eve is referred to as Sylvesterabend in German. You said that your great grandmother died at the end of 1905. Perhaps the children's names refer to the date.

Who were Francis' parents? If they were Josef Soyka and Anna, née Pick, then there was a nephew Georg/Jiří/George, draughtsman and engraver, who was born on January 17, 1913 in Vienna, who fled to

Hi: I'm new to this process and hope my first text works! I am researching my maternal grandfather and his family from Cherikof, Mogilev. His name was Louis (Lazer) Witkin born in 1890. His father

I had an uncle, born c. 1900, named Sylvan, probably after his GF, Simon. Lee MESSING Hover

Has anyone else who uses Microsoft Outlook to read their E-mail had problems replying to messages received from people who have seen your entries in the Jewish Genealogy Family Finder? Several replies

Perhaps I should mention that the family was Ashkenazi, from Russia, and my father was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1917

I've been following this thread with interest and some bemusement. Whether the online genealogy sites are useful depends a lot on what you're trying to get from them. Those that post images of

Hello Jill, It sounds like it may be the Sephardic version of the Hebrew name Shabtai. Shalom, Malka Chosnek