I have always been told that Ashkenazi Jews do not name a child after a living relative. However, I am wondering if there is more nuance to this general practice. For example, I have seen one Latvian

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A number of years ago I paid the Latvian Archives to do some family research for me. I also have some research obtained by other researchers and we are trying to connect the dots to put branches of th

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We know absolutely nothing about the families of my husband's great-grandparents, who arrived in the US with their children in 1908. However, I have located a ship manifest listing them as going to Ne

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Thanks so much, Arlene. This is very helpful. Maybe I can ask you a more particular question. When I last had the Latvian Archives research for me, I was displeased with the way they did their citatio

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Is the 1958 Revision List for Jacobstadt, Latvia extant? If so, is there a translated version? If so, where can it be accessed? If no translation exists and it is extant, where can the original be acc

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So sorry, it was a typo. I did mean the 1858 Revision List. Thanks, Arlene, I am going to get your book and will take a look at the Latvia SIG page. Ava Nackman

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Joel, how did you come by a translated version of these records? My husband's grandfather had a sister who ended up in St. Petersburg. She was married to someone with surname Pekar (that is all I know

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