Harvey Kaplan of Glasgow asked - what was the original question? Someone had posted in a digest some days/weeks previously if anyone had information on the relatives of Kindertransportees to the

Samuel and Solomon are not the same names. But that does not mean that one person could not have used both at different times. Israel

I am searching for anyone who is a member of the JONAS family from Tashnad in Transylvania and in any other area of Transylvania in the old Austrian-Hungarian empire and present day Romania. The

I was saddened to read of the passing of my first genealogy mentor, former JewishGen VP Carol Skydell. I blogged a few years ago about one of our first interactions, when I found the grave of her

A big thankyou to all the members of JewishGen who have contacted me. I now have the information I was seeking. May we all get safely through the current world-wide emergency. Beverley Davis in

what was the original question? Harvey Kaplan Glasgow

A nice fellow searcher has made me realized that I had not given any details about locations and languages used in the records... my mistake ! Actually my search has started here in France with a

Unless you have proof in some other way to verify your theory, it is still a theory. But keep in mind that if it is not them, there is probably some connection. Case in point are my paternal

I wish I had known she had moved to California, as we lost touch years ago. Many years ago, on one of my first trips to visit my son, who had moved to MA, she invited me to stay with her for a couple

There have been numerous talks in GB given by surviving Kindertransportees during the past 18 months to commemorate the 80-year anniversary of Kristallnacht. Contact Jewish Museum, Association for

I thought to title this post“Accidental Book Review” since I hardly ever write them so this isto share that a new book was published, which is an important, if not a mustread, for those with roots

Maybe the Grand Central Hotel, later renamed the Broadway Central Hotel. Grand, although maybe not as grand as the Waldorf-Astoria, but I remember an orthodox cousin's wedding there, so it had to be

Beautiful clear description, as always! Thanks. Martha Forsyth Newton, MA

I would urge my fellow GerSIGgers, or ex-GerSIGgers, to be patient with the JG staff and volunteers as the bugs get worked out of this new system. After all, we may all have gotten used to not typing

Up until 1919 and the WW1 Peace Settlement, and for most of the 19th century, Kalvaria was part of the Suwalki Lomza gubernias in NE Poland. Many people from Kalvaria and the other main towns in

I just searched The NY Times web site for “weddings,” limiting the search to the 1930s. The results had links to scanned imagines archived at timesmachine/nytimes.com. Some of the venues mentioned

Dear Jewishgeners, I wonder if it is common for a same individual to be named Szlama in his birth record and then Szmul in all other records (marriage + death record). Knowing that in each document

My Great-Great-Grandparents Levi Elsoffer ? ? Bertha Bickhardt ? ? had a daughter, one of my Great-Grandparents: Rosalea Elsoffer 1831-1907 born at Schwarzenau,

Thank you for the link, I am adding it here too. https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-to-use-hashtags/ The article is about various social networks, but not mailing lists.. I am still confused by 2 subjects

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