Evan Fishman asks: Evan, http://www.jewishgen.org/Infofiles/Manifests/other/ is your friend! This is a magnificent document that explains almost everything that puzzles people on passenger manifests.

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Evan Fishman asks: Evan, http://www.jewishgen.org/Infofiles/Manifests/other/ is your friend! This is a magnificent document that explains almost everything that puzzles people on passenger manifests.

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I'm scratching my head about a marriage record >from 1903. Can anyone help? The record says (Russian available on request): "... a bachelor petty-bourgeois >from the Belitsa Community of Homel uyezd,

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I'm scratching my head about a marriage record >from 1903. Can anyone help? The record says (Russian available on request): "... a bachelor petty-bourgeois >from the Belitsa Community of Homel uyezd,

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Daniel Eig asked about images of Revision lists. By searching around on google, I found a page at the National Historical Archive of Belarus, http://niab.by/obr_skaz/ that has a couple of examples. I

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Daniel Eig asked about images of Revision lists. By searching around on google, I found a page at the National Historical Archive of Belarus, http://niab.by/obr_skaz/ that has a couple of examples. I

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Liz asks for assistance in locating Norman Horowitz or living family memberrs: Have you tried the simple expedient of searching this page? http://wp.superpages.com/ Yes, there are 20 Norman Horowitzes

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Liz asks for assistance in locating Norman Horowitz or living family memberrs: Have you tried the simple expedient of searching this page? http://wp.superpages.com/ Yes, there are 20 Norman Horowitzes

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You could try searching the cemetery on FindAGrave, or you could contact the cemetery itself through the contact information that FindAGrave gives: Sharon Gardens Cemetery 273 Lakeview Avenue Valhalla

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You could try searching the cemetery on FindAGrave, or you could contact the cemetery itself through the contact information that FindAGrave gives: Sharon Gardens Cemetery 273 Lakeview Avenue Valhalla

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Try FindAGrave.com - if there's no page there for the person but you have info that they're buried there, simply start a page for them (you'll need to become a [free] member), and "request a photo". T

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Try FindAGrave.com - if there's no page there for the person but you have info that they're buried there, simply start a page for them (you'll need to become a [free] member), and "request a photo". T

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I just learned of this collection, which will probably interest many in this group. The collection contains some 400 hours of video made between 2000 and 2009, of Yiddish-language interviews with some

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I just learned of this collection, which will probably interest many in this group. The collection contains some 400 hours of video made between 2000 and 2009, of Yiddish-language interviews with some

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Check out Google Maps - the town of Vitebsk looks to be about 80 miles due north of the town of Mohilev (which, if you look on the Jewishgen town finder, is called Molev in Yiddish. Mogilev has also b

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Check out Google Maps - the town of Vitebsk looks to be about 80 miles due north of the town of Mohilev (which, if you look on the Jewishgen town finder, is called Molev in Yiddish. Mogilev has also b

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Since finding my paternal grandparents' marriage record and learning new information about their fathers' first names, I've been having fun discovering potential sisters for my grandfather. Gf's fathe

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Since finding my paternal grandparents' marriage record and learning new information about their fathers' first names, I've been having fun discovering potential sisters for my grandfather. Gf's fathe

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I found a record: http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5901623&language=en, or Tiny: http://tinyurl.com/peowou7 Per the list shown there, Feyga Hershovna Shekhter (on l. 4), born 1877

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I found a record: http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=5901623&language=en, or Tiny: http://tinyurl.com/peowou7 Per the list shown there, Feyga Hershovna Shekhter (on l. 4), born 1877

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