Hello I wonder if someone could help me with the translation of the following birth certificate? It is in Polish. I hope you can help me. George Frankel San Francisco.

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The best-known place that resembles this name is not in Belarus: Ekaterinoslav (now called Dnipro), named for Catherine the Great. It is in central-southern Ukraine and had a very large Jewish populat

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Does anyone know anything about the people involved in the early history of Anshe Motele in Chicago? I am researching a KAPLAN family with at least two sons who were connected to this shul: Shachne ak

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Hello Peter, 1. Bernard SPRUNG is known under Ber SPRUNG name, born the 05/04/1865 @ Brody Bernard married Gitel Esther FRIEDEL (born around 1868) and they had at least Berthe SPRUNG ( Born the 24 Oct

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Hello David, I have at least one example in my family where a "Chaïm" selected "Léon" as French version of his first name I have no clue if this was a choice or imposed by the French officiers (they w

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Dear Barbara, The name Nussdorf is not so common. However I cannot find any reference easily in the French regular databases Can you please provide a little bit more : any deviation in the orthograph

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Ancestry announced today, January 14, 2021 they are discontinuing AncestryHealth which they started in 2019. It will no longer be available for sale as of January 15, 2021. Ancestry will continue to s

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ALL THE TIME!!!!! With one family, they kept giving the same name to their kids who kept dying. They did it for 5 kids. I said to myself "Give it up already, this name is jinxed". I have seen it over

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My mother was born in Czechoslovakia in 1921. She was given the name of her deceased older sister who had been born and died the previous year. Julia Trainor Canberra, Australia Researching in the Aus

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Hi David, I noticed your very generous offer to assist in efforts to identify family in France from 1900 on. I've been researching members of my family that I believe moved to Paris in approximately t

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Kalwaria Zabrzydowska was a smaller town in Wadowice region of Poland. The proper Polish Kalwaria is known as Góra Kalwaria or Ger in Yiddish, located within Grójec district, some 20 miles distance fr

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Hi Sherri, The reasons for the degradation were various, although you are correct, mainly economic (the settlements were small and the population worked mainly in agriculture), sometimes political (e.

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Hi Rita, Until about a month ago, was a Ukrainian genealogist named Alex Krakovsky who uploaded scans of every page of entire record books onto the Ukrainian wikipedia page for "shtetl". His lists of

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Hello Kalwaria (after 1890 called Kalwaria Zebrzydowska) lost its town privileges in 1896, so it could not effect your ancestors emigration in 1892. Town privilleges meant: self administration, possib

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When I've been at a lost as to how to locate a relative who I know little about, I check out Ancestry.com family trees, to see if anyone else includes the person that I'm interested in. With Abraham W

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Peter Absolon updated the 2,468 records from the Bardejov, Slovakia data set in JewishGen’s Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) The set has now been retitled “Slovak Je

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Yolanda, For those of us who did not see the announcement of your talk until the next day, if there is a recording of your talk can you kindly post a link here on the discussion list? Thank you, Sherr

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You might contact The Los Angeles Times archive department. I found an article mentioning the bakery - maybe they have pictures Dassy Wilen dasw5@...

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Alexander, Did "utrata praw miejskich" result from a city having a smaller population than previously, or were there political reasons? Thank you, Sherri Bobish

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According to the 1920 census the person I am looking for, Rose Margolis Hollander, appears to have been born in a place called "Katrineslav" which is the Mogilev gubernia. I say "appears" because the

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