My grandmother Edith Joroff Schwartz was born in Shchors in 1901 and immigrated to the US with her family in 1905. In the 1910 census she is recorded as Ida. In the 1920 census she is recorded as Yett

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I'm assuming from your note that the person in your case was an adult at the time he immigrated, since you don't mention parents or other family. I think the case gets more complicated if someone immi

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A couple points about the census not already discussed. One of my first encounters with census data was hearing about a research project at U of Penn where they were mapping ethnicity/country of origi

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This a question I posed about a year ago to the FB Tracing the Tribe group with no real help. I thought I'd try again here. I found a found a manifest record for my great-grandmother Bessie JAFFE's ar

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A few follow ups, corrections and comments about my post and the replies I received here and privately. I didn't provide as much detail as some asked or expected. I didn't imagine that others would tr

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My grandfather told me that the tax system in his town (Suchowola) involved an auction for the right to collect taxes based on animals slaughtered. An amount to be levied by type of animal was set and

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Thanks. I was finally able to get from the stevemorse site to Ellis Island. I found the same results you found. My great uncles – Sender and Gedale – are there but don't see any possible entries for m

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I'm curious to know how you know the date of the "actual event," relative to the registered date. I have yet to encounter anyone from that region and period who reports their date of birth -- day, mon

#warsaw

I know this list is usually used to ask for help or announce new programs or resources. But I've just had a such a remarkable experience where a rapid series of coincidences resulted in an unexpected

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I was the privacy officer at my university library and I can tell you that, in legal terms, privacy protection applies to only specific pieces of personal identity information in combination. I doubt

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I want to add one perspective that I didn't see elsewhere: that genealogy is a moving target, that any tree may be just the latest draft. I may add a questionable record to see where it leads and remo

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Thanks for moving the discussion to a new thread. I have a name change case in my family and a more general related question. My great-grandfather was born Mendel Stzejnsapir. In Bialystok in 1864 We

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I'm looking for information about children and other family connected to Hayyim Falk (or Falcon) 1708-1782. I'm trying to follow-up leads suggesting I'm descended from Chaya Jozefa Falk (1717-1751) wh

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I'd like to ask for help understanding practices or conventions or ... among Portuguese Jews, both in Portugal before and during the Inquisition, and then in diaspora as they settled (?) in new countr

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I haven't seen anyone mention "Yitzie" I have a possible 4x great-grandfather in Suwalki whose name In JRI-Poland records is Ick or Icko. We assume this was the local variation on Yitzhak. And I've se

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I tried to answer this question about possible fatal accidents your "cutter" ancestor might have suffered earlier but the moderator misunderstood my reference to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and rejec

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I was wondering if anyone can shed any light on the given name "Slawa." In particular I'm wondering if it is a nickname for another name, say a Polish equivalent for a Jewish name. I'm researching my

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Mt. Sharon is partially indexed by Find-a-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/45540/mount-sharon-cemetery 23,892 added (64% photographed). My family has a plot there. Lee Jaffe

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I think that each site offers different strengths and weaknesses and, if you are have to choose between the two, you will be making a compromise. First, let me point out that all of these sites have t

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Barrons FEATURE Blackstone Group is Buying Ancestry for $4.7B By Luisa Beltran Aug. 5, 2020 4:41 pm ET Blackstone Group will become the latest private-equity firm to own Ancestry, a provider of digita

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