Hi Allan, their English names. I've had relatives change their English names several times. In fact, my grandfather, born "Sollie" (we assume it was short for "Solomon") eventually became Saul. I woul

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Hi Allan, their English names. I've had relatives change their English names several times. In fact, my grandfather, born "Sollie" (we assume it was short for "Solomon") eventually became Saul. I woul

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I have seen other examples of this such as the enumerator writing down the specific city of birth for immigrants. Unfortunately, he did this for relatives of mine whose city of birth was already known

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I have seen other examples of this such as the enumerator writing down the specific city of birth for immigrants. Unfortunately, he did this for relatives of mine whose city of birth was already known

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Hi All, I know that the OP requested private responses, but since my search story is of general interest, I decided to respond here as well. I immediately looked up "Feivel BERNSTEIN" in the www.castl

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Hi All, I know that the OP requested private responses, but since my search story is of general interest, I decided to respond here as well. I immediately looked up "Feivel BERNSTEIN" in the www.castl

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a US Federal Census (I usually search in the 1900-1930 range), despite my being absolutely certain of his address. I was scratching my head about that, when my non-genealogist girlfriend asked innocen

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a US Federal Census (I usually search in the 1900-1930 range), despite my being absolutely certain of his address. I was scratching my head about that, when my non-genealogist girlfriend asked innocen

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I have found in the 1930 census a person whom I believe is a relative of mine, born 1894. The wife's name, his profession and the neighborhood all seem to be a match. The only catch is that the relati

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I have found in the 1930 census a person whom I believe is a relative of mine, born 1894. The wife's name, his profession and the neighborhood all seem to be a match. The only catch is that the relati

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I was corrected off-line, and wish to pass on the correction: The Russian word for gold is "Zoloto" and not "zolata". I hear more Russian than I read, and many Russians pronounce the written "o" as a

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I was corrected off-line, and wish to pass on the correction: The Russian word for gold is "Zoloto" and not "zolata". I hear more Russian than I read, and many Russians pronounce the written "o" as a

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"Gold" in Russian is "zolata". I don't recall ever hearing it as a surname. Meron Lavie

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"Gold" in Russian is "zolata". I don't recall ever hearing it as a surname. Meron Lavie

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Hi all, I have lots of family >from Buchach, Ukraine (nee Buczacz, Galicia) who definitely lived there >from at least the early 19th century until the late 19th century; yet I can find next to no reco

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Hi all, I have lots of family >from Buchach, Ukraine (nee Buczacz, Galicia) who definitely lived there >from at least the early 19th century until the late 19th century; yet I can find next to no reco

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As in many aspects of life, here too - in DNA testing, discretion is the better part of valour. When I took Genetics 101 in college (somewhere around the Jurassic period, according to my children), I

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As in many aspects of life, here too - in DNA testing, discretion is the better part of valour. When I took Genetics 101 in college (somewhere around the Jurassic period, according to my children), I

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Actually, this success story is a few months old - but I just remembered that JewishGen encourages publishing them, so here goes: I knew that my ggg-grandparents >from my all-maternal line came >from

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Actually, this success story is a few months old - but I just remembered that JewishGen encourages publishing them, so here goes: I knew that my ggg-grandparents >from my all-maternal line came >from

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