1. Looking for grave of my paternal grandfather,Yehuda Leib SCHECTMAN, buried probably in Volchiniz, near Ataki, Bessarabia, died 1922. 2. Looking for grave of my paternal grandmother, Raissa Levenson

I am hoping to figure out relationships between the Lindheims of Rennerthausen. Many came t the US in the late 1880s but others did not. There also seem to be a couple of step families as well.I am

We all receive these emails headed "possible family match". Is't it our responsibility to confirm the source cited, if one was, by the person submitting the "match". Initially, when I first received

I've posted several vital records in Polish for which I need a translation. The primary page is on ViewMate at the following address

Hi, "Most people emigrating to South America in the late 19th century & early 20th century did so through the Baron de Hirsch JCA organization ..." is right, but in my opinion most people didn't

Hi Steven, My father's paternal side came from Lyubcha and I have translated revision lists from 1834, 1849, and 1858. I would be happy to email them to you. Best regards, -- Karen Calmon

The Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Savannah Jewish Federation, and the Southern Jewish Historical Society will be offering a summer speaker series including talks on Rabbi Jacob Rothschild of Atlanta

Sometimes you will see "X or Y" for a family name in Revision or Family lists. Whether an "or" is missing in this case... You may need to look at the original record. It may help to look at earlier

I have always been told that my grandfather, Moshe Schwartz, was an "orphan" when he married my grandmother in Kalish (now in Ukraine). Does anyone know if there were orphanages? I do not know how

Today we mourn the passing of Irina Weinberga the Head of the Department of Genealogical Research in The Latvian Historical Archives .Irina Headed the team of Rita Bogdanova and Lena Polovceva who

Robert, My translation of the gravestones you posted are below. Yours truly, Keith (Osher) The translation of VM82259 is as follows: First line (in the decorative top portion of the gravestone): po

Thank you Bernard. This will prove very useful! Actually I am french and also living in Paris!! I have 2 questions for you. My great uncle Mordko Bespaloff died on june 44 at St Jeannet. My grand

Once more: Shliomovich not a secondary name in many cases it "otchestvo" in Russian. And Could be sometime a Lust name in a region of Belarus, Poland or Ukraine. Please give a full sentences where

Regrettably, the several genealogical sites that accept family trees have become vast digital garbage dumps, made worse by the uncritical cut-and-paste method many amateur genealogists use to generate

It is mostly in Yiddish.

Dear Jill, What I do is to delve much deeper than a basic K36 report. A personal genographic report will go a long way towards parsing out the various ethnicities you mentioned, allowing you to

My Polish great-grandfather was in the Russian army and died or was killed around the time his son (my grandfather) was born, so 1880 to 1883. Nobody knows his first name nor am I certain how he spelt

I am searching for my relatives named FERTEL from the Ukraine, who had emigrated to America shortly bevor or shortly after the Russian Revolution 1917, from Shepetovka or another place. I am not

I have published a birth certificate in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82129

I have published a birth certificate in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82112