Hello YaleZuss, Ancestry has a tree, maintained by user Kathryn Thorner, and it lists Annie Fisher, born 1869, as the mother of Alvin Joseph Thorner. It also lists a Brooklyn, NY marriage 10 Apr 1917

Aron LEVIN - born approx. 1875. Never came to US as far as I know. Father Yosef, brother Sender. garyelevin@... <garyelevin@...>

Please advise your private email address so I can forward entries, as requested. I replied to your email sent via this site but it bounced back as undeliverable.

Hi Molly .. another lead might be to contact Facing History and Ourselves in Brookline, Ma. I think I heard Ervin Staub speak through their organization.

I've posted a death record from Tarnow (1854) in German (Fraktur) for which I need help reading. These records are tabular, but the handwriting is hard to decipher. While I understand whose record it

Most likely Alexander Fisher, or in Russian (Александр Фишер) Possibly Alexander converted to Christianity.. It’s very uncommon name for a Jewish man in a middle of 19-th century.

Hi everybody am trying to help my russian teacher to find her great grand father who never came back to the Soviet Union after WW2. He was captured by the germans in january of 1945 and was allegedly

Hello every one I tried to locate the street where my great grand parents lived in Zoppot. It seems that all the streets since WW2 have polish names and I could find no map to locate Cecilien strasse.

When I was still in the USA teaching (I happened to have also been going for my MLS degree at the time at the same institution), the campus library discarded their microfiches of US telephone

Hi Alexandra Do you have more details on family members? My GGG aunt Creina Schwartz (born circa 1865 in Moinesti) was married to Moisa Zalman (born circa 1865). Moisa Zalman was son of Burah /

Why is it that I haven't been able to find the names of my Grandfather or Great Aunt on passenger lists to the USA? I have checked on Ancestry all combinations of names and all records from their

I am working on the late Florence MARMOR 35,000 records of burials inMokkom Sholom. Hope to have that done before too long The data has very many still births. Where no name had been chosenit is

When you next visit the JewishGen.org website, you’ll notice that the homepage has been modified. We’re pleased to report that plans are underway to upgrade and modernize the website. In the

In Netherlands your cousin is called your nephew, nicht for neice. neef for nephew. Maybe it is something similar in Poland.

I've posted the reverse side of a postcard written in Russian (?) for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address:

I would like to add my own first hand experience as an answer to you. My father's eldest brother was older than him by 10 years. My Uncle's 1st son was 18 years older than I was & the 2nd son is 15

Trying to make contact with the family of Zoe FLOOD, daughter of Frank CHATTERTON (who was a British Office in Mandate Palestine born about 1915) and Miriam nee ZNAMIROWSKI, descendants of the

I've posted two short handwritten notes for which I need translations. One in Yiddish on ViewMate at the following address - http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM80856 A second in

This is not always strictly the case. The Chevra Kadisha will generally circumcize the deceased baby boy prior to burial (not a bris ceremony). I know of at least one case where a name was put on the

I am looking for a cousin born YARMOLINSKY in the US . His last place of residence was Atlanta Georgia about 1960 at age about 20. May have been a medical or science student .May have used the name