I have just finished receiving a number of documents from the Latvian Archives, documents such as birth and marriage records and copies of passports with photographs. Given the extensive destruction

According to a story in our family, my great great grandmother, Gittle ABRAMOWITZ married , in a second marriage a gentleman from London, Isaac LAZAROV (sp. ?) who was a widower (or divorcee) with

I am trying to contact Joanne Brodkin. Last week, she sent a short note to me through YouTube, and mentioned Tarnopol and Zbaraza. I am hoping she is a member of Jewish Gen. Please let me know how I

PRITZKER/“STEPANIKA”,KIEV GUBERNIA/POLISH ESTATE Would appreciate any help in finding the location of a Polish estate where relatives lived. They called the town “Steponika/Stepanika”,

Hi Dick, Thanks for considering helping out! I know just about everything there is to know about my grandfather, and I have Anna's birth certificate from Poland so I know her father's name. Yes, the

There is a chapter devoted to Malat/Moletai in my recent translation of the Utyan/Utena Memorial Book. These two locations were close enough together, that there may have been mention of relatives. If

I am trying to find a *definitive* source for the ancestry of the Ohr LaShomayim (Rabbi Meir Rottenberg of Apt), specifically whether he was a descendant of the Sh'loh HaKadosh. Much appreciated.

Still looking for any information about my gt grandmother. Her name with second husband was Sarah or Sura Hanna or Chana Aurebach. First husband was Kalman Blackiroff or Blyiakheroff or Blyiakirov.

I came to a brick wall sarching for my Yurovskii ancestors. They come from Lubny (in the Poltava region) which was the site of a mass shooting (no vital records or cemetry left Luckily I discovered

I am so sorry to hear this news. My thoughts are with his family, who I know meant so much to him. Avrum really understood what community meant. He was always eager to share and to teach. Early in

Hello Joanne from lockdown in Paris, Concerning names spelling, always remember that our ancestors left Yiddishland countries to other places : there, their name was phonetically transposed from

Boundaries were very fluid in the past, due to wars, conquest etc. The area that was East Prussia around Olstyn/Allenstein went into Poland in 1945. When I visited my ancestral area in NE Poland in

Joyaa, I looked up Julius Gerson at https://www.mappingthelives.org and it shows that he was born at Bischofsburg in 1899, but was living at Koenigsberg in 1939. So "Bischofsburg-Koenigsberg" is two

Very sad news. Avrum and I corresponded some 25 years ago about a possible Lenitz (aka Ilintsy) connection. My condolences to his family and the Jewish genealogy community. Glenda Rubin. San

Trying to make contact with the Silver (originally Zilber) family who settled in London. Abraham Silber (1940-2020) was married to Rikel Breuer was the son of R. Dr. Mordechai Zvi Silber, born in

Here's a sort of primer on naturalization records for New York City. Naturalizations in the New York City area happened either in the Federal or State courts up until the 1920s. The Federal courts

I need a translation of my Russian grandfather's attached marriage certificate. Names, places and dates. Thanks in advance. Shmuel Laufer Rehovot -Israel Research: Laufer (Przasnysz, Poland);

I have my grandfather's original paper passport issued by the Kingdom of Hungary in 1911 in Nagykaroly that he used to travel to New York in 1912. It does not include a photograph. His village of

I've posted a death record in French of Ursula HALFF for which I need a translation. I am especially interested in the name of the mother. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...

Translation of the birth of Jojna Goldsztern in 1899, possibly in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Terespol, Pizszac or even Brisk/Brest. I don't need word-for-word but details such as names, dates, locations,