Do try to scan at the highest resolution possible; you never know what you will see in the picture. My husband scanned a picture of a building that was included in the family album. Imagine our surpri

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Hi Catherine My great-grandfather is also from Danzig, so this was interesting to me. I found this web site where it shows in Zoppot, Cecilienstrasse = Czyżewskiego http://www.danzig-online.pl/nazwy/u

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We watched this excellent documentary yesterday. I used the link at the bottom of the article in the Jewish Journal to register https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/320367/holy-silence-documents-the

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Hi Rick, I recently requested some documents from NARA via their website https://www.archives.gov/research/order and got this e-mail last week (about 2 weeks after the request): Thank you for providin

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Hi Rebecca, On 12/23 you asked if anyone has been able to get a certified copy of a naturalization certificate… In early August I sent an e-mail to sanbruno.archives@... (this is my local NARA, n

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I was not able to obtain the article mentioned by Sherri Bobish using the link she provided, but if you enter the title Paradise Lost? Postwar Memory of Polish Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union into

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I want to thank Logan for this post. I accessed it (there is an option to use it in English) and searched for my family name Furstenberg (with an umlaut). Nothing under Fur, but when I looked under Fu

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I have come across a record for my family from Berlin in the 1911 Zuruckgefuhrtes Erstregister. Can anyone describe to me what kind of registry this is? Than you in advance!

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I am trying to determine the maiden name of the mother of the bride on a marriage record for my grandfather's cousin. Here is the excerpt of the name. Looks to me like Hirscmann or something similar.

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Has anyone come across or created a translation of the preprinted portions of German vital records (c1800s-1940s or so) that you can share? For example, for a death record [apologies for this very rou

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I am kindly requesting a translation from German of the document posted on View Mate (image number 97926) at the following address https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww

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Thank you to everyone who responded to me on this. To summarize there appears to be no standard, and tools available on Ancestry and elsewhere on the internet can be helpful in translating. The link t

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The 1937 Berlin Telephone Directory lists a family member's occupation as Photo-Kopieranst. Is this similar or the same as a photographer? It is not listed on the German Occupation Definitions - Engli

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