Seth J.Bookey wrote: At JewishData.com, they have a database of headstones, for $18 for three months of access. snip.... If you are a member of the JGSNY, you get free access to all the wonderful mate

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Further to a posting by Steve Lasky on April 30, while lookups for burials can be found at the Mount Carmel website (http://www.mountcarmelcemetery.com/) as Section 4 (Hungarian Union Field), this por

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Further to a posting by Steve Lasky on April 30, while lookups for burials can be found at the Mount Carmel website (http://www.mountcarmelcemetery.com/) as Section 4 (Hungarian Union Field), this por

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I am part of the transcription team doing the indexing of the Brooklyn Brides. I just finished work on the marriage certificates only for Brooklyn and only for the period >from mid-Dec 1928 to Feb. 11

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I am part of the transcription team doing the indexing of the Brooklyn Brides. I just finished work on the marriage certificates only for Brooklyn and only for the period >from mid-Dec 1928 to Feb. 11

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While researching a book on a Louisville-born film director over a dozen years ago, I visited the non-Jewish funeral home that handled the burials of his parents in the 1920s. The funeral home was ver

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While researching a book on a Louisville-born film director over a dozen years ago, I visited the non-Jewish funeral home that handled the burials of his parents in the 1920s. The funeral home was ver

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I thought I'd post an interesting strategy I have been playing with on Facebook to find some branches I was having trouble locating. I was searching for three grown siblings with a relatively common l

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I thought I'd post an interesting strategy I have been playing with on Facebook to find some branches I was having trouble locating. I was searching for three grown siblings with a relatively common l

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The misspellings might be in the index or they might be in the actual certificate. I have noticed numerous NYC marriage certificates with variations of surname spellings on the front of the certificat

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The misspellings might be in the index or they might be in the actual certificate. I have noticed numerous NYC marriage certificates with variations of surname spellings on the front of the certificat

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I'm hoping readers of this group can keep an eye out in their local newspapers for an Associated Press story on my late father's record collection being donated to Syracuse University. I have the full

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I'm hoping readers of this group can keep an eye out in their local newspapers for an Associated Press story on my late father's record collection being donated to Syracuse University. I have the full

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Further to my query less than 12 hours ago, one reader (thanks Barbara Zimmer!) found the important details I overlooked and provided the address and phone for contacting Ellen. Isn't JewishGen grand!

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Further to my query less than 12 hours ago, one reader (thanks Barbara Zimmer!) found the important details I overlooked and provided the address and phone for contacting Ellen. Isn't JewishGen grand!

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Ellen appears to be the daughter of Louis LEIGHT, who is on my step grand-father's tree I am researching. This small branch apparently settled in Roslyn Heights NY (and possibly NYC) but I don't think

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Ellen appears to be the daughter of Louis LEIGHT, who is on my step grand-father's tree I am researching. This small branch apparently settled in Roslyn Heights NY (and possibly NYC) but I don't think

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Further to Renee Steinig's post, I tested out the website this morning and 12 hours later I had found a new 5th cousin on my wife's side. The Krakow DEICHES were found amongst the Texas records cited

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Further to Renee Steinig's post, I tested out the website this morning and 12 hours later I had found a new 5th cousin on my wife's side. The Krakow DEICHES were found amongst the Texas records cited

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There is an even easier way to streamline this process courtesy of Steve Morse (who else?). Visit, and bookmark, his Accessing the New York City Bride and Groom Indexes in One Step. http://stevemorse.

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