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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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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

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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

Trying to make contact with the family of Reizel Schwartz, born in Mad on June 30, 1893 and died in Bnei Brak on21 Tamuz 1981, married BenZion Rosenszweig of Debrecen, perished in BergenBelsen on 21

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern who wrote that article on Miliary Service in Russia in the YIVO Encyclopedia also wrote a book on the topic, "Jews in the Russian army, 1827 - 1917 : drafted into modernity".

Hi Andrew According to a tree on Ancestry (Jeremy HERZ Family Tree), Karolina [sic] GUNDELFINGER born MAIER was born on 20 June 1837 in Ichenhausen, Guenzburg [ u umlaut], Bavaria, and died in Ulm

My mother z"l always remembered her father's friend, "Schuster," whose pointer finger had been cut off "long ago, so he wouldn't be taken into the army" in Galicia. She knew Schuster when she was a