My great-grandmother and her children came to NY from Romania in 1905. I was wondering if they would have had any photos taken in order to come here and, if so, how I could access such a photo. They

Would Bashel be a diminutive of Basya (Batya)? (And is Batya itself a diminutive of Batsheba?)

As others have said, the name is Dov, frequently Dov Ber. Look for Berko in Russian Revision Lists. In Yiddish, Berel. Americanized to Bernard, Barnet, Barney.

Unless it is simply a platonic, roomate or flat sharing relationship, I term the unmarried couples as Domestic Partners. If they're married, I term as Married and have created, in TMG, a special

2 males = Husbands 2 females = Wives As for unmarried heterosexual couple, last time I looked it Partners -- Shelley Mitchell, NYC shemit@... Searching for TERNER, GOLDSCHEIN, KONIGSBERG,

-- Shelley Mitchell, NYC shemit@... Searching for TERNER, GOLDSCHEIN, KONIGSBERG, SCHONFELD, in Kolomyya; PLATZ, in Delaytn; and TOPF, in Radautz and Kolomea.

Yes. I had one great-grandfather who was supposedly brought over by HIAS, even though HIAS insists that they didn't bring over anyone in those days, and that they helped immigrants only after (or

Since the word partner has appeared in some of the other answers, something to be aware of is that civil unions were called "registered domestic partnerships" in California law, and the two

I was told that my GF, Jacob Messing, was a nihilist and left Warsaw after a Cossack cat o' nine tails blinded him in one eye. About a year after arriving here, his wife, Zipporah (Sophie) arrived w/

Alizah: These records, of course, will be a huge help to anyone doing research in the records of the Ukrainian portion of the former Russian and Austrian Empires. We are all looking forward to seeing

Hello Moses, You asked for assistance in finding the towns mentioned in a German census card. It looks to me like the first (and third) name is Karlsruhe, Germany, also spelled Carlsruhe in the

Hello Autosomal DNA is the way to go in this case. You inherit 50% from mom and 50% from dad. You will match people on both sides. Jewish autosomal DNA tends to be fairly challenging. But top

Just as a point of interest, someone I knew in high school had the last name ‘Godfrey’ and the story was that it had been changed from ‘Gottfried’.

Hi Rhonda, I can't believe I actually wrote "beloved husband". Of course I meant "beloved wife". The husband in question was very much alive. He subsequently married another woman and then deserted

Translation of word after woman a Woman of Importance (chashuvah)

Trudy Barch asks: What is the correct term nowadays for… A) 2 males living together as an unmarried couple? Married couple? B) 2 females as an unmarried couple? Married

I have a very old and distant memory of my grandfather singing a song with a title that sounded like Toni Godl. The o in Toni is short and I have failed to find any reference. He was allegedly from

Okay I don't know why I didn't find this when I looked before, but it would appear the records are at NARA in DC, included within RG 21. From their catalog (ONLY items that would cover 1922): NAID

There is a legend in my family, which I first heard from a distant cousin when I was in my 40s, that our ancestors fled Galicia for Maramures (then, Hungary; now Romania) because their non-Jewish maid

As far as I know, a couple is a couple, regardless of the genders involved. People sometimes talk about same-sex couples/marriage, but they're still a couple. Alyssa Freeman Richmond, VA