Kudos to Michael Moritz for his labor of love in translating and indexing the Altona records. I remember looking them up years ago and they were, in many places, almost impossible for me to decipher.

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Nothing beats the scope and evocative nature of Howe’s World of Our Fathers. With that said, Jeff Kisseloff’s You Must Remember This has a number of great oral interviews about Lower East Side life; J

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Yes, to all of the above. In addition to Fried's book, I looked at the information about him in Ron Aron's The Jews of Sing Sing and Joselit's Our Gang. What I've already discovered about him is more

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In 1896, the NY papers were filled with the sensational news of Isaac Zucker/Zuker, who headed a gang of arsonists, and who was sentenced to 36 years at Sing Sing prison. I’m writing an article about

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Please note that there is also a discussion on Jewish Gen between a number of us about stories concerning family members who maimed themselves to get out of the draft. I've been collecting these stori

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Steve: Your question of how settlers were selected for the Woodbine colony is one that pertains to other Jewish agricultural colonies that were set up, as well, during this time across the US by the H

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I have several columns of text that appeared in a New York German newspaper in the 1860s that are a little too long to impose on the kindness of Jewishgenners to translate and so am looking for sugges

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I've posted a picture of a distant cousin in an unknown military uniform. It’s either US, British or German. If one of you has skill in this area, I would appreciate knowing in which country I should

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I’m reaching out, once again, to the kindness of my fellow genealogists. I've posted three vital records in German (2 birth records and one death record) for which a translation will provide important

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Dear friends: I would appreciate help in translating the German death record for Samuel Lazarus Samuel, to provide some vital information: his parents’ names, wife’s name, his place of birth and resid

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I've posted an 1899 Altona death record, in old German script, for which I need one name deciphered. It is the name of my 4th great-grandmother, that, up to now, has been unknown. (I believe it will l

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For those of you researching Jewish agricultural colonies in the US, especially in Kansas, my article on the history of the Touro and Leeser colonies was just published in Kansas History: A Journal of

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When it comes to deciding which name to use in a family story (as opposed to a database), I use the most recent name they utilized, followed by their original name in parentheses: Louis (Lippa) Schwar

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The JGS of LA has a nearly-complete set of the journal, stored in the Family History Library of the LDS Temple in Westwood. I should add that, though, indeed, much (but not all) of the material that a

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Carl: If you haven't already, for additional names, look at Marni Davis' book, Jews and Booze, and also see Hannah Sprecher, "Let them Drink and Forget our Poverty," in American Jewish Archives XLIII,

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I've posted a half-page autobiography of Moshe Lieb Light written, in 1910, on his 60th birthday, in the form of an alphabetical acrostic. It is in legible Yiddish script. I would be grateful for a tr

I've posted a one-page 1910 letter in neatly-written Yiddish script from a 65 year-old relative reflecting on his life. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vi

Dan Leeson’s thoughtful JewishGen Info File, “Military Conscription in Russia in the 19th Century” (find by clicking on “Get Started” button at top of JewishGen homepage, then click “InfoFiles,” and t

There are a number of practical reasons why still-births should be recorded on your family tree. First, the 1910 U.S. census asked families to indicate how many children the mother had birthed and how

According to family lore, my great-grandfather decided to come to the U.S. from Skala, Galicia, in the late 1880s, after receiving glowing letters about America from his brother, who had already immig

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