When my grandfather’s cousin died in 1938, he left bequests to his two sisters: Anna (neé DRUYAN), wife of Isaac EPSTEIN Gitel DRUYAN All were living in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia when the will was

I also had positive contact with the Latvian Archives this winter. I requested the birth, death and marriage records on one line of my family. What I actually received was a compilation of the

My mother has always believed that her father came from a Jewish family. Mum is now 85 and the last remaining sibling is 90. Mum remembers being taken as a child to her 'grandmother' in Bow, East

The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre in Glasgow (www.sjac.org.uk ) has copies of research notes made by its chairman, Dr Kenneth Collins, who is an expert in this area. He covered the subject in his

Lee, please check your dates. If your ggf Henry was in the US since 1875, then your gg-uncles had to be considerably older than 9 and 7 in 1893. Unless Henry’s arrival date of 1875 is a typo.

On a document a relative has a name that looks like HAY MEM YOD. Does anyone have any idea what this is ?

It is not impossible that your ancestor arrived unaccompanied or at a different time to the rest of the family. Part of my family arrived in Edinburgh in 1870 to join other family already there who

Edinburgh University and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre in Glasgow keep such records, and there are varioius memoirs of scientists you can Google. There is also the British Library's sound

Thank you for putting this research work online. Your site is really very useful. Best Regard From france

Hello Bris Thank you very much. I have created an account on jroots and will post some requests with the help of my russian teacher (I am a first year student !!) I fully understand the impact of the

Dear Yellena Thank you very much for your answer. I will write to the red cross. Can I do it by email or is it only by mail.Do you have any ideal about the lifting of quarantine in russia? In France

Dear Michael, Thank you very much for your reply. I have found the burial information so when this pandemic is l over I will try to find out if the stone still exists. Thanks very much for your

New pages dedicated to the Jewish community of Monastyrshchina (Mstislavl uyezd, Mogilev gubernia) were added to my website at http://shl2gur.tripod.com/Monastyrshchina/ Shlomo Gurevich Hoshaya,

My cousin Kenneth Collins has written extensively on Scottish Jewry and in particular those involved in the Medical profession. He writes: "My records show that Ernst Rachwalsky requalified in

A need Russian translation for 5 certificates of Zelazo family from Sarnaki. I don't need word-for-word but details such as names, dates, locations, occupations, and so on are very helpful. A

I am researching my maternal grandmother's family name FROST. Her maiden name was ITA FROST, born in 1898, and her parents were Arye (Leib) and Rachel Frost. I do not know where my grandmother was

Locking for information about Maxim (or Max) Kotzin, born 1862 in Kaunas, who was a doctor and professor in Moscow from before 1899 until he died about 1936; his wife Sophie outlived him and was in

Thanks for that tip, Steven. Although there were no details of the publisher in the listings, I can add M. Goldfarb to my list. I can also try to find copies of the books listed to see if there is

Trying to make contact with the family of Eli and wife Sara POLLAK of Brooklyn, parents of 1. Gloria, married -----, living in Brooklyn 2. Yocheved, married. ----, living in Brooklyn and 3. Michael

This a question I posed about a year ago to the FB Tracing the Tribe group with no real help. I thought I'd try again here. I found a found a manifest record for my great-grandmother Bessie JAFFE's