Yiddish name "Ber" (בער) was derived (cognate with "bear") which was common among East European Jews. David Rosen Boston, Mass

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Try here: https://www.hias.org/records-search-requests David Rosen Bosto, MA

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Go to the Fallingrain Global Gazeteer. http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LH/a/D/e/v/ Devenishkes/Dieveniskes David Rosen Boston, MA

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Yom Tov Lipe son of Moshe died 7 Kislev 5697 David Rosen Boston, MA

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Both her Hebrew name and father's Hebrew name are on the stone. Leah daughter of Hersh David Rosen Boston, MA

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I am only commenting on the wording of the original statement: "A cousin's grandfather listed Russia as his country of origin, but German as his language on the 1910 census. His wife listed Yiddish as

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Your question has come up on this forum before. See the explanation of manifest markings here: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Manifests/ David Rosen Boston, MA

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You should be able to us Gimp , a free open source image editor. https://www.gimp.org/ The most useful tools for tombstone photos are brightness adjustment and contrast enhancement. David Rosen Boston

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Does not look like but sounds like Chernigov http://www.fallingrain.com/world/UP/02/Chernihiv.html David Rosen Boston, MA

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Myer Liss and Dora were reported as having moved West in 1923. I located them in Los Angeles in the census of 1930 and 1940. She is not difficult to identify in the census because she was born in Engl

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Dora and Meyer are in the US census for both 1910 and 1920 in Springfield MA. (Indexed on Ancestry as Si?s in 1920 and Liss in 1920). No children in either year. Myer is in the Boston City directory f

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I have a similar story, told to me by my father. He emigrated from a town in Poland in 1913 as a sixteen year old, was hidden in a hay wagon and taken over the German border to a nearby railroad stati

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I asked Google "When did Virginia start keeping birth records?" Answer: With the exception of the years 1896 to 1912, the Office of Vital Records has records of births, deaths, and marriages since 185

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The gravestone photos for Martha and for Isaac can be found JOWBR. David Rosen Boston, MA

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I have found about a dozen of these for my own extended family on Ancestry. They are called Family Groups. From Google: Definition A family group record is created to show at least the names of the hu

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Michael: I recently found an immigrant who arrived in NY from Rotterdam aboard the Ryndam on Dec 11, 1907. After a hearing before the Board of Special Inquiry (BSI) and an appeal she was deported for

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Joel Weintraub has addressed the problem of missing manifest entries on this forum before. I recommend his Jewishgen Info File on the subject. https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Degradedmanifests.htm

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Here lies a woman, Chana Ester daughter of Moshe Yechiel, died 2 Kislev, 5678. May her soul be bound up in the bond of everlasting life. Here lies a dear man, Feivel son of Yosef, died 21 Tevet 5683.

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There was good news for Ethel Rand. Upon her return to Rotterdam on the Statendam she quickly re-booked passage to New York on the same ship. She arrived at Ellis Island as Ittel Rand on Feb 6, 1908 T

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Sorry, I have to correct my response. r means correct, i.e., the correct version is given. David

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