Hi, Mykola, A very quick search at this site, https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=_Gritskevich&gender=m&name_x=_1, brought up a number of entries with the first possible surname you offered. I actua

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Dear Michael, The ‘39 registry was during the Second World War because the 1931 Census burnt! We are so very lucky that they made it available before one hundred years! Kind regards Mark Paul Stone

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I'm specifically looking for them before they came to the United States. I've already combed through Ancestry.com and familysearch.org and didn't find anything about them prior to being in Philadelphi

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I read the second name as "Marisha" and was wondering if you were named after her. The Hebrew month is Mar-Cheshvan, commonly called Chesvan.

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Hi group, My late great uncle, Josef Maier Stauber, b. 1909 (parents Lazar Stauber and Czipre/Tipora Stauber), from Viseu De Jos (Also Visso) was married to Marta/Mindel Fischman b. ~ 1910 (parents Ye

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Hi all, I should add that Jack's SS application has him from Lodz, but other family records are from areas around Kielce & Rado. Also, Jack was born in April of 1917, and came to Canada with his fathe

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Here is buried (abbreviated ) The honored rabbi (abbreviated, and not necessarily a rabbi) Dov Ber Pichler of blessed memory (abbreviated) died at age 50 years on 7 (maybe 6) Tamuz (5)681 (I think) Th

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Hi Steven, Please contact me at LatviaRD@... All good wishes, Paul Cheifitz Co-Director, JewishGen Latvia and Estonia Research Division.

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This is the tombstone of an important woman good in deeds and a glory to her children To her dust she returned in old age and long years Ms Feiga daughter of Shaul Tuvia died on the seventh day of Sec

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Gesher Galicia’s quarterly journal, the Galitzianer, invites members and nonmembers of Gesher Galicia to submit articles with a clear connection to Jewish life in Austrian Galicia (1772–1918). We welc

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Your brief remarks on first name acquisition in Prussia prior to 1850 raise some critical questions. Did the state give names or were parents free to choose names? Naming a child after a monarch was c

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Dear Friends, The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library's Sunday Salon invites you to join us for our April 18th event at 10:30 AM ET. Warm regards,

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Many of us have sent our DNA off to a firm, curious about what we might find. We receive an ethnicity estimate followed often by a long list of matches ranging from 2nd cousins to more distant ones. S

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My son in law Benjamin Sanderson has one DNA match on Ancestry with surname Schneirow. Do you know the town of origin? We know Sanderson was an adopted English form. The original surname is not known.

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Hi, There was actually another person asking about the Laniado family (from Livorno Italy, I believe). My only comment is that there were Laniados from Syria (Sam Laniado from Brooklyn NY sent a congr

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In the last ten years I am searching for information about my great grand grandfather Naftali (Eli) Hertz Raskin, who lived in the village of El'nya, close to Hotimsk, Mogilev, Belarus, and was a cant

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It seems to be a card of displaced persons during world war II. Arrived in Barcelona on Mar 23, 1944 and he was moved to Lerida (Lleida) on June 23 1944, or arrived in Lerida on June 23, 1944 and from

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I am looking for a person in Liepaja, Latvia who can go to Liepaja Jewish cemetery and make a photo of Maimind gravestone. Information from Liepaja Jewish Cemetery Book 1909-1941 from website http://w

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Search in Russian for Исаак Шнеиров Schneirow and Шнееров Schneеrow. Janet Furba, Germany

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Search in Russian for Исаак Шнееров. Janet Furba, Germany

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