My grandmother had neighbors in Kolomea. When they all arrived in NYC, they would visit and my grandmother always referred to them as distant cousins. I later learned that this was her reference to

The overwhelming amount of stillborns on my tree were given a name. With the exception of stillborns on the ship, many have a grave. But I have to admit, I never had a need to search out their burial

I'm not sure if this would be relevant to you but I descend from a BARTAK family of Druja, Belarus (then Lithuania). Though the name has meaning in Slavic languages and was used by non-Jews, my

IMO, it's absolutely possible. Because my grandmother had her children late in life, some of her cousins were actually young enough to be nieces and nephews, so that's how she referred to them and

There is another website: zabasearch.com You can search the name by state, or states, or the entire country. Good luck. Ruthie Zaionz, Toronto, Canada.

Hi Lisa The Hamburg Passenger lists don't have a second page, but the New York Passenger and Crew Lists, which you should find on familysearch for free. On this second page should be mentionned a

Dear Chuck, With all due respect I must say that your comment is puzzling. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea: "In 1783, Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire as the result of the

Yes, online directories still exist, but they are for landlines, not cell phones. Lots of Americans (like others) only have cell phones now. There aren't directories for them that are published.

Aron LEVIN born ~ 1875 great uncle Gary Levin

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Yes, I’ve looked at census reports on Ancestry but didn’t find any records. On the Hamburg passenger list, I only have the one page from ‘Ancestry.’ Living in Utah now, I suppose I could try

Sorry, he came from Kisvarda, Hungary and would have returned to the same.

-- I am looking for descendants of Mordechai Maisel from a village in Vohlin county called Brezne ,now in Ukraine. I was told that two of his suns went to the U.S before the war.one of them had a

Does JewishGen have a list of approved/safe genealogical researchers-for-hire that specialize in research in Poland? I was told there is such a list but I cannot find it. Thank You, George Mason USA

I've definitely seen friends called cousins. In fact, in on case, I traced one of these friends' families back several generations just to see how they might be related, Nothing. They are barely even

My grandmother Ethel (Gittel) Cohen emigrated to Montreal as a young girl on the SS Montezuma on July 10th 1910 with her mother Ida (nee Shapiro) and siblings to join their father Moses Cohen. She

Another option for finding phone numbers for people is https://people.yellowpages.com/whitepages/ Eric Mack, Jerusalem

Continuing the response of Yohanan: Lipot seems to have been the Hungarian equivalent for "Leibe" (Yiddish) which often combined with Yehuda (Hebrew) as in Yehuda-Leibe. Susan H. Sachs, Beit

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I hope someone can answer this question since I've been dealing with a similar situation. I have a photo postcard to my grandfather from Lviv in 1920 from his "niece," but I haven't been able to find