It would be helpful if you gave us your G GM’s date of birth, your GM Anna’s DOB and told us who the father of Rosa and Lena were.

My great grandmother, Clara (don't know her original husband's name but remarried someone named Seidler) moved with my grandmother, Anna Ziegler/Pimselstein (who perished in Auschwitz) from

I don't know how to search these records, but I can tell you that my grandfather and his family had passports when they traveled from the area in the late 1890s to the US. -- Barbara Sloan Conway,

Nancy Schlegel asked about connections to families from Tarnow. Perhaps the additional years of records of Tarnow extracted by JRI-Poland in the last month may have some clues. To learn the current

Sonny immigrated with her parents, Bernard and Helene (nee Harpuder), in December 1946. Their manifest mentions a Kanner relative in Baltimore. The family settled in Joliet, Illinois. According to

And his father's first name was Shaun, because he replied " Schoin fargessen". Jonathan Wreschner Efrat, Israel

Do not reply. He has been abusing JewishGen to take names and emails to sell poor quality images of records that are available for free on Alex Krakovsky's page and are being indexed by JewishGen.

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First two ViewMate: In Russian: Состялось в городе Люблин 18-го декабря 1886-го года, в 12 часов дня явились евреи Моник

At some point, I hope, people will focus on the name change rather than on where it took place.

Alan Gordon wanted to know about a family story where his Kanserstein relative claims his real name was Thomaspol, but when asked what his name was at Ellis Island, he replied Kanserstein or I can’t

This has all the earmarks of a name-change joke: Like the Jew whose last name was Fergason because when his father was asked a question he said "Ich hob fargessen..." Never happened... Jules Levin

Alan Gordon writes: "My second cousin, during an interview I conducted, informed me that his grandfather, Frank Kanserstein, had his name changed at Ellis Island. Frank's was the husband of my

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C Chaykin writes: "Here's the grain of truth: Someone in the family changed their surname. Not surprising, since many "last names" were, literally, "son of X," and changed from generation to

I think the place the name was changed was at the port of embarkation, like Hamburg or Cherbourg. The story devolved into Ellis Island because that was the universal place that most remembered. It

Trying to make contact with the family of Rav Yitzchak Abadi who returned to live in Lakewood NJ in 2009. His wife Chaya Rivka is a sister of Avraham Leiser and Necha (married Heschek Parnes).

I am looking for family member Sunny BERNARD who came to the United States from Amsterdam in the 1940’s. I believe we are part of the same Reisfeld / Lewin / Kanner family of Rzeszow and later

No, it makes no sense. 1. Names were not changed at Ellis Island. Read the previous posts which supplied a reading list. 2. The German would be "Ich kann es nicht verstehen.: or

Hello I was contacted by a man named Boris Makalsky from the Ukraine. He found my name in the JewishGen list of people looking for Posternak family in Zhitomir. He claims to have details of my