For years, I have dutifully included in my family tree an individual with the given name "Motchi." That was how it was provided to me by a great-aunt, now long dead. When pushed for more

My husband's grandmother, Anna Moskovitz (I've used all the variant spellings), came from Hertsa. She had 4 older sisters & came to NYC in 1906 when she was 12, so she was born in1894. She lived

Often the name change is automatically done with change of country in charge. For example, my family named Platz became Plac when Ukraine was in charge. -- Shelley Mitchell NYC searching

Shmuel: Depending on who you plan to interview for family information you can either set up an appointment with them and have your list of questions for the information you want to know or if they are

My fathers name was louis rafky, and his brother was herbert ravka. I believe ravka was the singular version of the name (I am herbert ravka) and rafky was the plural version (I am a member of the

Hello, Here is the correct URL: https://www.kazernedossin.eu/EN/ Cheers, Gershon -- Gershon S. Lehrer gershon.lehrer@... www.gershon-lehrer.be Antwerp, Belgium Searching: DORF, FISZLOWICZ,

The LUCHANSKY family appears to have lived in and around Koshevata (which is about 100 km south of Kiev) since records with surnames first appeared in the early 19th century. Immigrants to the USA

I have posted to Viewmate (VM 78249) the 1934 death record of my ggf Hersch (Tzvi) Bloch. I can determine that he was born in 1855, died on the 15th of Adar, & was buried in the Kurseniai ( Yiddish:

Just want to react to Dani's remark that Brother's Keeper, in addition to genders: "Male" and "Female"... does indeed also have the third choice: "Unknown". Kind regards, Alan Ehrlich Geneva

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The Governor of Massachusetts has proposed legislation that will prevent access to birth, marriage, death, and other previously-public records by anyone but the person requesting the record, or

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Several times I’ve seen mention of a DNA match’s failure to respond to an inquiry. I know this might sound simplistic but what’s amazing is the amount of non-spam that I find in my Spam file. I

Hi Avraham, The website is now https://www.kazernedossin.eu/EN. The website of their archives/ documentation center is

I have had best luck by sending what information I have, even if it is not documented. People are much more willing to correct you and then add info than they are to reply to a, “please tell me what

This is extremely common. Sometimes there may be a minor spelling difference and sometimes it could be a complete name change. You ask "what is the best solution?" I'm afraid I don't know what the

Arie, Please note that these are not census records, they are however books of residents detailing local residents as well as movement of residents Daniella Alyagon נשלח ממכשיר Huawei שלי

I have one last name that has been permutated 10 other ways from the original. I put the original down for the oldest family member and then put each permutation for those who use it. I will use my

My great grandfather was from there. His name was Adolph Abraham Greenberg. He was born about 1883 and immigrated to America in 1907 with his fiancee family named Markowitz who was from neighboring

I've posted a vital record in Polish and Russian for which I need a translation.. These are extracts from the Kozienice town census dating back the spanning from early 1900's to 1948. These are the