There is a town in the Jewish Communities Database called Sverzhen Novyy. And if there is a New one, there should be an old one as well, nearby. But in any case, the 'w' in Polish sounds like a 'v' in

The names of 1,867 registrants whose family names began with the letter W have been added to the Reichsvereinigung der Juden card collection. While most registrants were born in Germany, many

Hello, I have posted an 1862 marriage record for Abram Elo WAJNGARTEN and Marjem Perla ZILBERWASSER from Lomazy. It is in Polish and Yiddish. I would greatly appreciate a complete translation. I am

My paternal grandfather, Herman SAFIR born 1888 also in Zbaraz. I think he must also have gone to a German speaking gymnasium because he then went to Vienna in 1914. Any info on schools gratefully

I am searching for Faiga Tsiva Khaikind who appears on the 1874 Borisov Revision List. She is the daughter of Berko. Any information regarding Faiga Tsiva such as who she married as well as any

I'm inclined to think it should have been "paralysis" where either the source didn't know the word began with a p instead of s, or the recorder made a mistake or misheard. I think the 3rd letter

Hello, I have located immigration records (ship manifests) for three of my direct ancestors. I had hoped to be able to determine their town of origin from the 'Last Residence' field, but the

One thing I know for sure is that Jews learned several languages. Polish to deal with the locals, and German to do business. Most considered the German language to be the language of a classier group

It is possible to make a formal enquiry of the Population Register. See https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ConsularServices/Pages/Requests_Population_Registry_and_Israel_Police.aspx There is a small fee of 15

Or Sclerosis. -- Shelley Mitchell NYC searching KONIGSBERG/KINIGSBERG, TERNER, MOLDAUER, SCHONFELD - Kolomyya PLATZ - DELATYN. All Galicia.

I have the same question. Lots of German “cousins” around the 3rd to 4th range, but my grandparents came form Poland and Ukraine. The one thing I know is that where the family in Poland lived, in

It reads "Saralasis" to me, but could well refer to saralasin. However, saralasin appears to be a normal body chemical or a drug, and would be unlikely to be a cause of death. I'm a former medical

As used in this medical journal article, "saralasis" means "infusion of saralasin". This is an old drug that was given to control blood pressure, but it had to be given intravenously (or maybe also

The Population and Immigration Authority (part of the Ministry of Interior Affairs) provides a service to locate any resident of Israel. It is inexpensive (15 NIS) and they can try and locate a

I would imagine that migration is the explanation for the mysterious matches I mentioned in my original post as well as for what Ms. Goldberg describes. But when did that hypothetical migration occur?

It would seem that I forgot to include a couple of important statements in my initial post: 1) The people telling me that their ancestry was German Jewish all had done a lot of traditional archival

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Is anyone aware of any existing school records from the gymnasium in Zbaraz or surrounding communities, eg, Tarnapol, etc? Do the records still exist? Where would they be housed? Are there files

Hello, I am asking for assistance from the community of great genealogy mavens. Is there any way to find out the original European surname after someone has made aliyah and changed their surname into

John, I thought the word looked more like "saralasis," so I Googled the term + "medical." I found an article in what appears to be a medical journal that mentions the term and a substance called