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Jewish Genners- I am helping my daughter's friend piece together information about her non-biological grandmother who may be a Holocaust survivor but won't share anything about her past (and will not

Hello, This is my first post on the group and I would just like to start by saying thank you for accepting my membership request and hello to all of the group members. I am trying to trace my family

Boris, If you have access to NYC directories for the early 1900s you may be able to look up the two photo studios year by year and that would probably give you a reasonably good idea of how long they

The best russian forum in jewish genealogy is www.forum.j-roots.info Welcome! sincerely, Elena <yelena.v.volk@...> Signature: Please “sign” your posts and replies by including your full name at

Trying genealogy forums in Russian is an excellent idea because English-based web sites like Ancestry and Myheritage have little to no information about Soviet Russia and other Soviet republics. Most

Do Revision Lists limit the number of children listed from one household? My great grandfather was born in 1851 in Ziezmariai, Lithuania. He had several siblings who were born earlier. Five of them

Gesher Galicia’s journal, the Galitzianer, invites members and non-members of Gesher Galicia to submit articles with a clear connection to Jewish life in Austrian Galicia (1772–1918).

This is a Part 2 to my previous message on Latvia SIG@lyris from April 9, 2020. To review, following a preliminary exchange of emails, I sent the Latvian Archives my initial deposit of 70 Euros on 23

The last of our available town maps for Bessarabia has been translated and uploaded to the Sig website. The map for Bender was from the Yizkor book, and I have asked Binny Lewis to also upload it to

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