Hi, I recently found out that my maternal family was originally from Bobriusk. Searching for Harry Kohn (great grandfather) (Cohen, Kohen, Cohn), Lena (my grandmother), George (great uncle) and Shirle

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Hi all! I’m new to messaging, but been researching, on and off, for about 10 years. My current brick wall involves my maternal great grandmother’s family, Mendelso(h)n. Like everybody else, I’m trying

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Hi, I’ve been researching the Grobstein family, as my great grandmother was Shirlee Grobstein Cohen. I have quite a bit of information from other researches, but I don’t have anything about Shirlee, e

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I found the 1921 England census with information on my gggrandparents. Can anyone read the city names in between “Russia” and “Kovno”? Nancy Newmark Smith

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What’s the best way to translate given names to English? How do you know if the names are Russian, Polish, Hebrew, or Yiddish? Nancy Newmark Smith

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Hi, My great grandparents were Harris (1842-1922) and Pessah (Betsy) (EISERMANT) (1844-1935) MENDELSOHN. I’ve been told Harris came to England, in 1884, from Telz, and lived on Pimlott St., Manchester

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