Here lies my dear mother Golda daughter of Moshe died 22 Tamuz 5688 May her soul be bound up in the bond of everlasting life. (Acronym) This story is from the NY Times Archives. David Rosen Boston, MA

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See if you can find a naturalization record for a member of your LISS family. It could give the name upon arrival and/or the ship. David Rosen Boston, MA

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If you go to the Jewishgen Memorial Plaque Data Base and enter the given name (Sounds like) Nellie you will get a list of Nellies, many with Hebrew/Yiddish names. The most common is Nechama/Necha/Nech

#russia #names

This subject has come up before in the discussion group. You can do a search on the word "recte" in the discussion group archives and see 50+ messages. r = recte It means the correct name, in your exa

#galicia

I looked up the ship Statendam, arrived NY on 4 Sep 1898. Child is male. I would say Ksyel is short for Yekusiel David Rosen Boston, MA

Rivne / Rovno / Rowno in Ukraine are one place. See https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/rovno/index.asp David Rosen Bosto, MA

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There is a good description on-line at the GG Archives: https://www.gjenvick.com/Immigration/Emigration/1903-10-08-EmigrationToTheUnitedStatesViaHamburgGermany.html David Rosen Boston MA

You can do a google search for the El Cortez, San Diego and find a wealth of information on line. In addition to hotel rooms an apartment hotel has suites for rent at a monthly or longer rate. In 1928

My father took a similar route in 1913. Hamburg to Hull or Grimsby, then a train to Liverpool where other ships would take on their US bound passengers. I transcribed the passenger list for his ship t

I believe I may have found the Shlissel family on Ancestry's Canadian Border Crossings. The ship is the Tunisian, arriving Quebec on May 19, 1900. Destination is Pincus Shlissel 340 Hastings St. Detro

I found the gravestones in Richfield, MN on Findagrave. Nathan's father is Yehuda and Sol's father is Moshe. If you go to Ancestry and Search > Public Member Trees for Nathan GOTTSTEIN you will find a

Are sure it is not a misspelling of Grodno? https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/hrodna/Home.html David Rosen Boston, MA

Maybe the clerk was told Faigela and heard it as Fikela David Rosen Boston, MA

Wilhelm Wolf can be found on Ancestry.com arriving New York aboard the Admiral on 16 April, 1857. He is 16 years old from Bavaria. The passport application, if it is by the same Wilhelm Wolf, has mis-

The ship manifest is for the September 6, 1924 NY arrival of the S.S. Stuttgart. What is interesting is on the second page. Her Baltimore destination is her uncle, Markus NUSSBAUM. I found Bertha WEIN

David Goldman and family continued on to Philadelphia, arriving from Glasgow on the Hibernian on 28 July 1887. That manifest gives Poland as the place from whence they. came. This narrows your search

I cut and pasted into Google Translate. In a few seconds I received a very clear translation. David Rosen Boston, MA

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Symcha AJZENGOLD was in transit because Sugihara visas were transit visas. If you google "Sugihara Visas" you can read the details. 270 Madison Ave. NYC was merely the 1949 address of the office of Am

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Symcha AJZENGOLD was in transit because Sugihara visas were transit visas. If you google "Sugihara Visas" you can read the details. 270 Madison Ave. NYC was merely the 1949 address of the office of Am

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For the answer to your question about derivative citizenship in 1916 see the last paragraph on this website: https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/naturalization-process-in-u-s-early-history/

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