I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=85183 This is a marriage rec

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I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=85181 I am interested in as

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I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85000 This is a death reco

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I'm aware of some WALDER ancestors who migrated from Lvov in Galicia to either Vienna or to German cities (Berlin, Leipzig, and others) in the latter half of the 19th century. Are there any databases

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Most users of Ancestry and MyHeritage, say, to the extent they create family trees at all. simply connect names with no supporting data other than perhaps birthdates and country of birth. That descrip

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The defects of Geni are well known and well described in this discussion thread, but I keep a tree there nonetheless, and it paid off in spades when I was trying to research old Tsarist-era Russian-la

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Klara SORKIN née KRAMER was born in Ukraine in 1923 and died in Israel in 2014. Her parents were Chava Moisevna MURAKHOVSKAYA (1884-1941) and Shaul (Sheilyk) KRAMER (1886-1941). Chava was a sister of

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Viewmate images 82055 and 82056 are the left- and right-hand sides of a birth record for Rachel WALDER from Lwow. I would be grateful for translations of both images. Column 7, which is on the right-h

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TO THE MODERATOR: My message yesterday about this failed to provide hyperlinks to the Viewmate items, so I would be grateful if you would post the following message. **********************************

The quality of the record I need translated is poor enough that I frankly cannot tell if it is in Polish or German. This birth record for Mincze WALDER is indexed by JRI-Poland but there may well be i

In connection with trying to understand an apparent DNA match, I have come across a Galician marriage record that may be pertinent.This marriage record comes from Drohobych records and is for Mechel J

The LUCHANSKY family appears to have lived in and around Koshevata (which is about 100 km south of Kiev) since records with surnames first appeared in the early 19th century. Immigrants to the USA fro

I would imagine that migration is the explanation for the mysterious matches I mentioned in my original post as well as for what Ms. Goldberg describes. But when did that hypothetical migration occur?

It would seem that I forgot to include a couple of important statements in my initial post: 1) The people telling me that their ancestry was German Jewish all had done a lot of traditional archival re

One of the thus far enduring mysteries of my DNA matches (on Ancestry) is the appearance of moderately strong matches with people who, when contacted, tell me something along the lines of "I can trace

I have posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is for part of the LUCHANSKIY family of Koshevata, Tarashcha uyezd, Kiev gubernia, and may be found on ViewMate distributed o

I have posted two vital records in Russian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM75988 http://www.je

I am trying to locate descendants of my maternal grandmother’s siblings in Ukraine, Russia or Israel. My grandmother was Enta Ester Murakhovskaya from the town of Tarashcha, about 100 km south of Kiev

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Greetings. I am trying to resolve the parentage of Hannah BLONDER, born Chane Luchansky in Koshevata, Ukraine. She was born about 1861 and died in New York 11 May 1929. I believe her father was Shmul

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Greetings. I am trying to resolve the parentage of Hannah BLONDER, born Chane Luchansky in Koshevata, Ukraine. She was born about 1861 and died in New York 11 May 1929. I believe her father was Shmul

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