spbarchives.ru The metrical records are held in Fonds 422 and I think 1129. Don't forget to use Google Chrome to translate. Joel Ratner

Google Translate transliterates ער רעד זיך אפ וויא פייוויש אין האלץ קאממער as "er red zikh af vya feyvish in halts kammer" and translates it as literally meaning "He

Part of the answer to this question is the family’s Jewish “Affiliation.” There was a famous Chernobyl Hasidic Rabbi, Menachum Nuchem. Many followers of him named children after him. On my

The U.K. Outward Passenger Lists on Ancestry sometimes show how a passenger leaving the U.K. arrived there. I’ve found this information for someone who left from Libau and then took a ship from

Following up on my earlier post (https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/640980), I think there are translation errors in the death records for Dina and Elya Shumyatskij that Judy Kaufman posted

Noting that there is a post today about the very rare occurrence of kids being named after their living parents, I recalled a Yiddish saying that I love dearly, meaning "drop dead:" "May you have

Yes. You can see the variations in the JewishGen Gazetteer athttps://www.jewishgen.org/databases/gazetteer/gazetteer.php: More Info Rivne, Rovno, Rowne, Ruvne populated place

Dear members and friends of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal: We regret to inform you that our Monday, April 06th, featuring JGS-M President Stanley Diamond, and Tuesday, May 05th,

Edward, Are you looking at a copy of the actual certificate, or a transcription? If you have a copy of the certificate than please post it on Viewmate so that we can help you decipher the

Rivne / Rovno / Rowno in Ukraine are one place. See https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/rovno/index.asp David Rosen Bosto, MA

I just had an Op-Ed published in the Jewish Exponent (in Philadelphia) that describes eastern Galicia in the years leading up to the great flu pandemic of 1918. You can check it out

FWIW, my grandfather and his uncle had the same name, according to my mother. I can't say for sure, but I assume that they were both named after the same deceased relative. I don't have any names

I was under the impression that there was information published in "Landsmen" the quarterly publication of the Suwalki-Lomza Interest Group that cannot be found anywhere else. I don't believe that

Dear fellow researchers I hzvd documents indicating my Fogel family is from Rivne, and some documents state they are from Rovno. Is this the same town? Also is Rivne or Rovno the name of a region,

Both of my Grosser great -grandparents were board members of a burial group from Makhnovka but neither was from there. They and several of their children are buried in the society’s plots. The

Do you have a link to the archives? I haven't been able to find it. Nancy Summers Maryland USA

I was surprised to find quite a few books in the National Emergency Library that may be of interest to this group. Some of them are either out of print or not available in my local library

Every subject in the Russian Empire was registered in a social class and at a particular location, but didn’t necessarily live there. “Residence” means where the person was registered.

Town reflects either where the document was registered or the town in which the individual was registered. It was very difficult to change your registration, and it persisted for generations, even

Anuta (pronounced Anutza in Romanian) is the diminutive for the Romanian name Ana or the Hebrew equivalent Chanah / Hanah. Valentin Lupu ISRAEL