I just learned why my research for LOBEL in Roman, Romania dead-ended. The name LOBEL that my uncle assured me always had been Lobel, was not accurate. E.G., mostly it was first name and then son of L

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My son who lives in Israel is a Talmudic scholar and is fluent in Hebrew. He transcribed your headstone --see attached PDF. He said it was an interesting description. Scroll down the attachment for hi

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I need to clarify my earlier statement that my ancestor LOBELS in Roman, Romania were illiterate. That was not the case with most Jewish males. Luc Radu read my post and further explained that many, i

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I am looking for a service or person who, for a fee, can translate a 4-page letter written in Yiddish in 1919 by my great-grandfather Jacob Josef (Yaakov Yosef) COLLE. This probably has no bearing on

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I have been unable to find the ship that transported my great-grandparents and their several children who arrived in Montreal in 1900 from Romania. There is a possibility that they first went to Bueno

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My great-aunt Sarah COLLE Goldner traveled from Montreal to the United States in 1937 to visit her married daughter. She reported on the border-crossing document that she was born in 1886 in BOHUSS NE

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The COLLE family may have immigrated to Montreal through Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, not Buenos Aires, Argentina. There is disagreement among family members about this MY ORIGINAL EMAIL IS BELOW: I have b

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Make sure you have the document conserved, not restored. There is a difference. If you care about maintaining original worn look, then you need conservation, which also helps monetary value. Restorati

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