Hi Sean, your family seems familiar to me....my gm Ida Goldstein Goldberg Leibowitz(Lebowitz) brother Michael married a Bessie Leibowitz and had 3 children. Bessie had many siblings with the names

My husband's grandfather was a cohan and when he immigrated to the USA he was given the last name Cohan. About 10 years ago I discovered that his family name in Russia (maybe Lithuania) was Podgar. I

How do I find the Ekaterinoslav Area Study Group?

How do I find the Ekaterinoslav Area Study Group?

For some technical reasons I have not seen a posting by Alan Kania about the GRAZI Family. I do not have Alan's email and would ask him to contact me since I published several months ago an index of

My great grandfather, Mayer Kaplan, married Zeitzel and had 3 children, including my grandfather Joseph.. She apparently died in childbirth with their 3rd child in 1882 and Mayer married her sister

I am looking for help breaking through a brick wall. My great-grandfather Jacob WITTY came from Poland to Boston in the early 1890s. I haven't found a record of his arrival in the US or any

Carol: I have been to Hungary many times with my father, who passed away last year at 93. He was born in Nagykaroly (I have not been there) but his father was born in Demecser. That Jewish cemetery is

I am searching the name KRIEGER from Ramagala and nearby Krakanova, in Lithuania. First names Ester (or Bertha), Rose, Harry and Morris. They came to New Jersey in the early 1900s.

Seeking information about Yakov Meir Sokolovsky who lived in Brooklyn, NY. He was know as Meyer.

Just to add that there's an English version for the page about death certificates here: https://www.gov.il/en/service/death_certificate Best, Theo R.

Death certificates for 1976 and 1982 should be available from Israel's Ministry of Interior but only for first degree relatives and they're free.

Hi Barbara, Have you considered doing a search for NEIBERG (NIEBERG) in the UK? If not you should use the following free website at www.freebmd.org.uk Regards, Michael Hoffman Borehamwood HERTS UK

I am searching for information of any type on these families. My grandparents. thanks, Chris

Hi Melinda I should have written, in my first answer, that my (jewish) family, that lived in Torma (family name was "Paas"), most likely had their roots in Hungary. I could not follow up this (yet)

I’m trying to understand how my family name changed from GEN(N) to GANDZ when my grandfather emigrated from Shpikov, via Łódź accompanied by his wife, Leah and three children Annie, Isaac (a.k.a.

I am looking for information on the Ames family, that emigrated to NY after WWI. The names include Jacob Ames (served in WWI), his father Leizer Ames (died around 1922), Max Ames (Jacob's brother,

I am pretty sure that members of my family, Shulmans, Gelmans, Schliefers, spent some time in the Pechora camp. They were from Shpikov and were removed most likely to Pechora. Does anyone have any

Hello Yaron, when I lived in Weimar, I dealt with Buchenwald history, so I got the Book "Nachbar Buchenwald. Die Stadt Weimar und ihr Konzentrationslager 1937–1945/ Jens Schley, Köln/Weimar/Wien

Yaron, The end of 1939 and the start of 1940 were a period known as the "phoney war". After Poland was divided between Germany and Russia in September 1939, there wasn't much fighting until Denmark