Our group (JGSBC) is looking at the history of people buried in the Vancouver Jewish Cemetery. I'm investigating George Crale, b Dec 2, 1925, Glasgow, Scotland, d Feb 5, 1998, in a care home in Vancou

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In the 1901 UK census some relatives have their birthplace as Russia: Geever Gerberne, which does not seem to exist I imagine the census taker was making a guess as to what the foreign sounds represen

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Dear All, I've noted a pattern in the records of my family: if the husband's father dies, the first-born male after this event will be given the same name as the (deceased) grandfather. I'm guessing t

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Dear All, I've noted a pattern in the records of my family: if the husband's father dies, the first-born male after this event will be given the same name as the (deceased) grandfather. I'm guessing t

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My great-uncle Wolf Kramarov (later known as Ze'ev Carmi) arrived in Rohatyn 1906-7 to teach Hebrew at a school run by Raphael Soferman. Wolf also acted as secretary of the Stanislawow Hebrew Teachers

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My great-uncle Wolf Kramarov (later known as Ze'ev Carmi) arrived in Rohatyn 1906-7 to teach Hebrew at a school run by Raphael Soferman. Wolf also acted as secretary of the Stanislawow Hebrew Teachers

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Thank you, everyone, for your responses. Some of you have requested that I report back. The consensus opinion is that the two charities involved are the "Poor Jews Temporary Shelter" and "The Jewish B

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Thank you, everyone, for your responses. Some of you have requested that I report back. The consensus opinion is that the two charities involved are the "Poor Jews Temporary Shelter" and "The Jewish B

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Dear All, My great-uncle, Wolf Kramarov (later Ze'ev Carmi), writes in his autobiography that when he arrived in London >from Amsterdam he was met by "an emissary of some charitable institution, Schla

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Dear All, My great-uncle, Wolf Kramarov (later Ze'ev Carmi), writes in his autobiography that when he arrived in London >from Amsterdam he was met by "an emissary of some charitable institution, Schla

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I have come across a few records where people appear both in the 'Lwow Ghetto' database and in the 'Forced Laborers in Boryslaw and Drohobycz' database. The Lwow Ghetto records are all sparse, just in

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I have come across a few records where people appear both in the 'Lwow Ghetto' database and in the 'Forced Laborers in Boryslaw and Drohobycz' database. The Lwow Ghetto records are all sparse, just in

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This is an abbreviated repost of my query to JewishGen of Friday 26th September to which I received no replies, so I'm trying again in this more focused forum. My great-grandfather Dawid RUSS lived in

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This is an abbreviated repost of my query to JewishGen of Friday 26th September to which I received no replies, so I'm trying again in this more focused forum. My great-grandfather Dawid RUSS lived in

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I have a genealogical query that I would like some independent opinions on. It concerns the RUSS family of Drohobycz & Boryslaw. Until recently, all I knew of my grandfather Dawid RUSS's family was th

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I have a genealogical query that I would like some independent opinions on. It concerns the RUSS family of Drohobycz & Boryslaw. Until recently, all I knew of my grandfather Dawid RUSS's family was th

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I have posted a Russian/Ukranian annotation dated 1940 that I found on a birth record >from a woman born in Drohobych in 1911 I would like to know what it says. It is on ViewMate at the following addr

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I have posted a Russian/Ukranian annotation dated 1940 that I found on a birth record >from a woman born in Drohobych in 1911 I would like to know what it says. It is on ViewMate at the following addr

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Dear Genners, I'm trying to get information about graves in the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Long Island, NY, which are not listed in the JOWBR 1) Blanche Haber (nee Pomeranz) b ~1890 d 1969. This g

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Dear Genners, I'm trying to get information about graves in the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Long Island, NY, which are not listed in the JOWBR 1) Blanche Haber (nee Pomeranz) b ~1890 d 1969. This g

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