I have also had great response from John and Brother’s Keeper has the ability to “Add spouse or partner (same sex)”

I am seeking a photo of my great great grandfather, Moses Petschek, born in Kolin, Bohemia in 1822, died in 1888. Any other photos of the Petschek family and/or information on descendants, especially

Hi Moses, One branch of my family was from the nearby towns of Tyrawa Woloska and Ustrzyki Dolne. I have been doing genealogy for 25 years, and have found virtually no records relevant to my family

I too have several relatives who came from Kapyl to Sioux City, Iowa. They were siblings: Shmerel PASSMAN and Chaya (Passman) HARLOW. They were the children of Yekusiel and Finkel (Perlman) PASSMAN.

Looking for connections in Petrikov, Belarus. Louis (Leib) Offenhenden was from this town. I believe his father Samuel was sister to Miriam Offenhenden (married Samuel Gutman). Her son Chaim Gutman

Hello, my name is Judy Bowman. My great-grandfather Israel Bowman's last name was Baumgarten, born in "Wladyslawow, Poland" (which is surely Lithuania) May 18, 1880(sometimes other dates given).

FRANCI'S WAR, a manuscript my mother Franci Rabinek Solar Epstein (1920-1989) wrote in 1974 has just been published in the US, Canada, UK, Czech Republic and Slovakia. There wlll also be French,

If the person knows the date of death and place of burial, it is possible to get a death certificate. It is the first step to have the exact date. Rose Feldman, Israel Genealogy Research

Hi Molly, I do not have information regarding Ervin STAUB (but the email Valentin found looks good), but I found out your husband Martin (assuming his father was Adolf, 1897-1944 and grandfather was

Dear Moses: Unfortunately the Jewish vital records of the town of Bircza have not survived. Bircza was a registration town where Jews from Bircza and many other smaller towns and villages registered

Two lists of Jews held at the Sered, Croatia concentration camp have been added the USHMM (HSV) collection. They may be accessed and searched at Sered Concentration Camp XXVI/1, Slovakia (ID:

There is no set rule for name "translations" from Yiddish to English, but in my research I've typically found that Louis is Leyb, William is Velvel (diminutive of Vulf), and Celia is Tsilya. But

The answer depends on the software you are using. I suggest you write the developers and ask them for help. I have had good responses from John at Brother's Keeper. I have not tried your problem, but

Trudy - if we are addressing contemporary gay couples most people I know use "partners" until or if they marry. Then gay men refer to each other as husbands and lesbian couples refer to each other as

Does anyone have a photo of Moses PETSCHEK, my great-great grandfather? Thanks! -- Nancy Petschek-Kohn, Westchester, NY

This is my first post; hope I'm doing it right! Per 1896 UK Naturalization Certificate of MAX CLARKE, his parents, who would be my great-great-grandparents, were MARKS/MATTHEW and ZLATO/LOTTIE CLARKE.

My paternal grandfather Solomon LABUSHINSKY left his wife and 2 children abt 1921 to live with his mistress, Emma RUBINOFF, in Whitechapel, East London, England. They had a daughter Judith

There may be a simpler explanation. When one is transliterating back and forth from Cyrillic into Latin characters, in a moment of inattention it is easy to forget which alphabet one is looking at.

Amira, You have misunderstood this record. It is from a census of those who were alive in the Vilna ghetto in May 1942 (as part of a country-wide census at that time). His listing implies nothing

Hi all Schelly Talalay Dardashti recent lecture for Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston is now is available for free at https://youtu.be/ywoXcY2YRis The lecture will introduce the growing