Hi Robert, USCIS would unlikely be of any help to you unless you have been unable to find a naturalization record for one of your great-grandparents. USCIS does not have passenger manifests. They

Barbara/David, the suffix is transliterated from Russian/Belarus/Ukrainian as "vich". Polish doesn't have a letter "v" and uses "w" for the same purpose. While different letters are used to write

All 4 of my grandparents and 2 of my great grandparents came to the US, arriving at Ellis Island from eastern Europe between 1906 and 1914. Now that our objections to the change of fees for USCIS have

This last name doesn't appear in Beider and Menk reference books:

Since the following material requested could be of interest to other researchers... have you looked to LIBRARIA (Ukrainian Online Periodicals Archive)? URL: https://libraria.ua/en/ About the

Dear friends, Further to Omri Sharet's inquiry, here is a link to the website of the Galati Jewish Community, including the contact details: https://sites.google.com/site/cegalati/-introducere- I

LitvakSIG is pleased to announce an update to the free, searchable, All-Lithuania Database. The new records include the following: -In the passports category, 1,948 applications for a foreign

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76498 Please respond via

Hi Ellen, I would agree with David that the surname is probably based on Kishinev now in Moldova. If you are unsure of your cousin's account of the surname have you checked what is recorded in the

Howard, The genealogy site www.GenTeam.eu Gazetteer of Austrian, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian Republic that includes places in Hungary that are now part of Slovakia or Ukraine. The site is free but

The JewishGen website is currently missing links to the individual Sigs, and Donations to Sigs is not available under the DONATE button. To get to the Bessarabia Sig website, I used Google and

My husband, Thomas Rose, is descended from Napoleon Jonathan Roos who was born about 1778 in Alsace Germany and died in Speyer Germany in 1857. My husband’s great grandfather was Isadore Rose, born

To all interested in Bessarabia life and genealogy! I suggest you to watch Mamaliga Blues, a film about a Jewish family >from Bessarabia. It is now available for free viewing

The JewishGen website is currently missing links to the individual Sigs, and Donations to Sigs are not available under the DONATE button. To get to the Bessarabia Sig website, I used Google and

Thanks for the correction. I usually can't remember which it is. Diane Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Dear Gersigers, In 1809 an indirect ancestor of mine by marriage, Abraham LIEBMANN from Bacharach, married Ma(g)dalene KAHN >from Trier, then Treves (E grave). If I understand correctly, both Trier

In a recent reply to the above question, it was written that : “there is no G in Russian and H is used instead”. Actually it’s the other way round. G is used in Russian where in the Roman

LitvakSIG is pleased to announce an update to the free, searchable, All-Lithuania Database. The new records include the following: -In the marriage category, a total of 532 records from Jonava

Hello, I have added my translation. Gershon -- Gershon S. Lehrer E-mail: Gershon.Lehrer@... CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any accompanying data are confidential, and intended only

The marriage of my relative Feiga Frimet HAAR to Friedrich KOWAND in Vienna in 1921 ended in divorce. Friedrich was baptized at birth and I'm trying to understand why the marriage record appears in