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

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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

When I receive emails from apparent DNA matches (many too distant to match), correspondents often say they cannot find common surnames in my family tree. This is usually because the match goes back

My mother Rosa, her mother Batsheva, her daughter (my half-sister) Miriam (Mia) were expelled from Czernowitz with other Jews in the summer of 1941. Earlier, Rosa's brother Jascha was exiled to

Please provide a translation from Polish of the 1922 Bolechow marriage record of my relative Mattel GOTTESMAN to Aron Meier GOTTESMANN, who was probably her half

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW) will host the program, Maximizing a Journey to One’s Roots presented by Tony Hausner, at B’nai Israel Congregation (6301 Montrose

I am trying to find more information about the descendants of a sister of my great-great-grandfather, Yussel SOBOTA (1830-1911). He had a brother, Moshe SOBOTA (died 1882), whose descendants adopted

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Hi Gary, Boris is a professional researcher in Kiev. He created these surname lists for the Jewish Roots Forum, a Jewish Russian language genealogy message board. They are very useful, especially when

Please help. I don't see any Reply To under this message. It used to be, in the old system, that the sender's email address was right there and you could just copy it. Hannah had also sent

Many archive wiki pages posted by Alex Krakovsky also have an entry that looks something like this: An alphabetical index of Jewish names. Written by Boris Finkelstein. It may appear above the