Vladimir, Your ggfather would have had to undertake a step to register with another society to no longer be considered a Slonim meschanin. This was not mandatory. My ggfather was also born in

Beware that some of these name lists are far from being complete. There are more comprehensive lists that exist for towns of Radomysl uezd: census of 1815-1816, 1834, 1834 supplemental, 1850, 1850

Hello Hannah, Per the JewishGen Town Finder, Liski might have been known as Lishke in Yiddish or Mala Hlusha in modern-day Ukraine. If this is true, the village is quite a way from Kolomea. However,

This is beyond frustrating. I'm not about to switch my mail tool. Can't we fix this? Jeff Knisbacher main@... Search Tools

The Yiddish speaker (e.g. my GF from Tomaszow Mazowietsky) pronounced it "Russisch Polen"

Philip, Chaim, Henry, irka, Nathan, Halina

Has any one had experience with notarial records? What are they and what kind of information might they contain? The Grodno archive has an index online and there are a number that seem to relate to my

Note: The screen on the right in the screenshot is not relevant. I have "reply" but I am not logged into Jewishgen. I use Firefox on Windows 10 using yahoo mail. In the screenshot, the "reply" is in

I have been searching records for years for my great grandfather. He came to the USA to visit his family before emigrating to Palestine to die. He supposedly arrived in New York at the end of WWII,

Is Naftali Schwarcz the same as Nátán Schwarcz, married to Elka Fruchter?

A temporary help is free on Ancestry.com. It's pulled from the same database. You can look in the catalog and select it, and you can create a box for it on your home page.

It's been mentioned a few times that "Ellis Island wasn't open." Please remember that Ellis Island opened up in 1892 but before that, Castle Island was open from 1855-1890. Immigrants were received

This is in response to the complaints about not being able to access the Given Names Database. JewishGen’s Database Administrator has found that the problem with the Given Names Database appears to

When you click on reply there is a "Reply to group & sender" button bottom left and a "private" button bottom right. If you click on "private" then "Reply to group and sender" changes to "Reply to

Hi Sally, Yes I was talking about papers to EXIT Russia, not to Enter the US. Sarah

"I need to clarify something about the dates. My paternal ggf, the one who "bought" the false papers in Russia (I think the Odessa area) arrived in 1884, which was well before the opening of Ellis

Thanks. Will check it out later today. Seems to me this is clunky at best. Why the extra step? Jeff

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The Given Names Database is one of the most helpful "extras" on the JewishGen website: little known but, once discovered, and you learn how, it opens many avenues of research thile in the JewishGen

Hello Mr. Oland, You asked to know if a certain book was in a library where you could read it, but you did not indicate where you are located so that the nearest library to you holding the book could