Correction -- Secureni is actually at the "border" between Bucovina and Bessarabia and between 1812-1918 was part of the Hotin county of Bessarabia. Therefore the pre WW1 civil records are from the

thank you for the email. I am trying to locate the first data base with no luck. I do have an account and clicked on the link but not able to get to it. please help thanks j Dr. Judith Shamian RN,

In the IGRA Show & Tell Zoom series the week of June 22 is devoted to Research in South Africa with important information coming from Rose Lerer Cohen. All are welcome but advance registration is

The German Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that many rejections of applications were not legal because the courts interpreted the laws too narrowly. This means that some negative decisions can

You didn't note the chronology of your interests. Let's me suggest that you meant Censuses of 19th century. All the files regarding Cherikov before 1917 are in NIAB (National Historical Archive of

I have Botnick relatives who came to the USA from places near Minsk (Borisov, Zembin) circa 1900. They first went to Binghamton,NY, where some remain to this day, while others moved on to Mississippi

Consul Mendes spent 72 hours without sleep after his announcement writing the visas as described. His son, an artist, was a faculty member at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA., US until

I recommend that you go to Jewishgen.org and link to "Town Finder" and look up Hotin/Khotin. It was a fairly good sized town As was true in many towns in eastern Europe, the town was part of

Now is the time! Last year adoption records became public in NY state.

Hi all, I've posted a few marriage certificates from Parczew from the 1890s that I believe are in Polish, but could be in Cyrillic, for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following

I would appreciate an accurate translation of the name signing this postcard shown in the link below.. Some kind people have translated Polly, Pali and Fali. However, since I do not identify the

I don't know if everyone is aware of this new teaching app for children about the Holocaust but our Genealogy Society will be using it in conjunction with our local Synagogue, Temple, and Jewish

Gardalegen has been of special interest to me, and if researchers find individual survivor names of interest to them, and contact me, I shall try to provide more details and where they went after the

Any tips on how to best research an adoption record in NYC.? My grandfather Henry ABRAMS was born 1888 0r 89. He was adopted by Rachel LEVINE ABRAMS and Barnet ABRAMS. In 30 some years I've had no

A project is underway to place all the Reichsanzeiger listings on the web and we hope to have this project completed in a few months. In the meantime if anyone has specific inquiries they may contact

Recieved many replies regarding KATZOFF = Butcher in hebrew. In our case it seems that the name is a variant on a slavic word for some one working with lumber which actually was my paternal ancestors'

YOAV ARAN Hi there, Hope everyone is well. I was wondering if someone could perhaps translate this extract from a book, or just some of it . It should be about the Holocaust in Rezekne. Thank you

I don't know for sure if you are related. However, I find that minor spelling differences, especially when names were previously written in other alphabets/languages, are common, at least in my

This town is part of Russia today. If this is the correct Kamenka, there were few, if any, Jews there prior to the Russian Revolution. There are two Kamenkas in Ukraine that had significant Jewish

Anyone come across Wikin (Vitkin) in Cherikov, Mogilev? Thanks -- Judy Cannon judith.cannon4@...