When I raised this proposal at my synagogue, there was some resistance that it was a privacy violation. I have encountered similar objections when photographing gravestones. In the the case of

Name reversal, or simply going by a middle name was common, not only among immigrants, but also shows up in records from 19th century Eastern Europe. You also see the same thing today among some

I've seen it with just about any double named individual, especially if it was Hebrew/Yiddish in the 19th century.

Hello, I would greatly appreciate if someone would please translate the inscription of this grave for me. Thank you, Tammy Weingarten

Not a physician, but a former French-English translator... My take would be "brain disorders," which yields a million or so hits on Google.

Are you speaking of a place or name. I'm sorry I didn't quite understand. My relatives were Freiberger or Frieberger and I have found no one who has been abale to help me.

Information needed for Pinkus ancestry. Harry (Pinchos) Pinkus born possibly in Sochachev Poland (near Warsaw) about 1888 and emigrated to US in 1912.. His brother Maier Pinkus was given as contact

Shepsie: Possibly the diminutive of the name: Shepsel. My first cousin, born near Bialystok, emigrated to Montreal in 1939 and never changed his Yiddish name up to when he took his own life. I heard

I am looking for any relatives of my paternal GGM, Rochel Shereshevsky (1860-1922?). Her father and mother were Abram (Avrum, Abba) and Gitel Shereshevsky. Her grandfather was Efraim Shereshevsky. Her

Yes, this was exceedingly common in the US. I have seen it in my husband's non Jewish family many times. -- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM,

Re: "Sylvesterabend in German" -- my Hungarian cousin, Eva, who survived the Holocaust in and out of hiding in Budapest, called New Year's Eve "Sylvester Night." This date was particularly harrowing

We are pleased to invite you to attend a free webinar presentation in our JewishGen Talks series, with our speaker, Jordan Auslander. Researching NYC Resources Remotely (English) Wednesday, June 17,

I am trying to find information on a few families from Tsybuliv and Monastyryshche, Ukraine. They include: Samuel and Elka (Voskobinik) Meyerson Samuel Magnes last name Bogomol or Bogomolny I have

Would like to know if someone is willing to take some gravestone photos at Har Nebo Cemetery in Phila. Please respond privately for information needed. Thank you! Rachelle Litt Palm Beach gardens

Hi Aline, Felester (or some minor variations like Falester, Folester,....) is a family name found predominantly in Bessarabia (territory in the modern Republic of Moldova) and in Romanian Moldova.

American physician here. I don't speak French but it does not sound like one needs to for this. You are right to be irritated, "brain trouble" is extremely non-specific. Anything in the entire

Double name reversal was very common. My late father Max Knisbacher was Markus Mendel on his Palestinian Citizenship Order (British Mandate) of 11 January 1937 and entered the U.S. in October 1938

In curating these weekly Yizkor book excerpts, I have come across numerous accounts of pained Jewish parents, facing death for themselves and their families, who would put children in the keeping of a

I have three ways of doing research on my family history (a) I gather my own research that I can clearly document with primary-source information (NOT family stories), (b) for difficult areas of

Doing a quick Google search of the term makes it look like that it could refer to Alzhimer's/Dementia. Alyssa Freeman Henrico, VA