Yes Jews like all men were "drafted" into the Russian Army during the Tsar's time. My great grandfather ran >from central Ukraine for that very reason in 1904. He waited six months after his youngest

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Yes Jews like all men were "drafted" into the Russian Army during the Tsar's time. My great grandfather ran >from central Ukraine for that very reason in 1904. He waited six months after his youngest

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Hello everyone -- can someone help with a name? My great gandfater when he came to the United States wrote down (or told) the clerk at the court for naturalization that his name was Schei JORDAN. That

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Hello everyone -- can someone help with a name? My great gandfater when he came to the United States wrote down (or told) the clerk at the court for naturalization that his name was Schei JORDAN. That

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Help I hit a brickwall. I need some ideas. I know Joseph REICHER married a woman named Sima in 1942, 1943, 1944, or thereabouts. New York City Clerk tels me that a) I can not do a personal search of t

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Help I hit a brickwall. I need some ideas. I know Joseph REICHER married a woman named Sima in 1942, 1943, 1944, or thereabouts. New York City Clerk tels me that a) I can not do a personal search of t

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Anyone have any information on Judge Leon SANDERS. I know he was born in Odessa in 1971 and came to the United States as a child. He gained prominance in New York as a Judge, memeber of the state legi

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Anyone have any information on Judge Leon SANDERS. I know he was born in Odessa in 1971 and came to the United States as a child. He gained prominance in New York as a Judge, memeber of the state legi

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A big opps to everyone on my prior message about Judge Leon Sanders -- if you did not guess it should be 1871 not 1971! If you have any information about him I would love to hear >from you. Thanks. Al

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A big opps to everyone on my prior message about Judge Leon Sanders -- if you did not guess it should be 1871 not 1971! If you have any information about him I would love to hear >from you. Thanks. Al

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I am looking for the records of a New Jersey Burial Society by the name of Moses Montefiore of Hoboken, New Jersey. The cemetary where my ggf is buried tell me that the Society is defunct. I assume th

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I am looking for the records of a New Jersey Burial Society by the name of Moses Montefiore of Hoboken, New Jersey. The cemetary where my ggf is buried tell me that the Society is defunct. I assume th

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This is a very famous public school in New York and is still there. Try one of the internet phone books like Big Yellow (http://www.bigyellow.com) or alike -- go the white pages section and I am sure

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This is a very famous public school in New York and is still there. Try one of the internet phone books like Big Yellow (http://www.bigyellow.com) or alike -- go the white pages section and I am sure

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Thanks a million. I just told a friend about this system and I told her it rocks! You proved it again! I tried my library for exactly that information and it did not have the right books. This is exac

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Thanks a million. I just told a friend about this system and I told her it rocks! You proved it again! I tried my library for exactly that information and it did not have the right books. This is exac

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The Manhattan Public Library at 42nd Street in Manhattan has the 1925 New York Census as well as earlier ones they tell me. Have not tried to use it yet but they said the way to do it is take the addr

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The Manhattan Public Library at 42nd Street in Manhattan has the 1925 New York Census as well as earlier ones they tell me. Have not tried to use it yet but they said the way to do it is take the addr

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Does anyone remember Milgrim's (sp?) Department Store? They were a specality retailer I am told covering the Northeast as well as parts of the Midwest and even Florida? If you remember anything about

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Does anyone remember Milgrim's (sp?) Department Store? They were a specality retailer I am told covering the Northeast as well as parts of the Midwest and even Florida? If you remember anything about

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