The 7th season of Finding Your roots with Henry Louis Gates begins on January 19 8Pm/7PM Central on your local PBS station—this is in the United States and possibly Canada. There will be ten episodes

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German authorities have now handed over all 14 works from the art trove accumulated by late collector Cornelius Gurlitt that so far were proven to have been looted under Nazi rule. In 2012, the public

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The practice of naming later-born siblings after deceased older siblings are something I have also encountered many times with Litvaks. Ruth Leiserowitz, Warsaw / Berlin

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My grandfather was named after his brother. Shimen Mendel b. 1896 d. 1897 in Lithuania. Simon Manuel b. 1898 in New Haven.

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Degrading refers to the town that lost it's "city rights" and became a village. In Polish this is knowns known as "utrata praw miejskich". Alexander Sharon

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We invite you to attend another free presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars, with Inna Vayner and Yefim Kogan. Workshop: Researching Your Bessarabian and Transnistria Jewish Roots with

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Are the synagogue records of the 7 shuls of Briceni digitalized? If so, how does one access them? Cheers, Ed Gorn/ Canada

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Are the Cemetery Records for the Jewish Cemetery digitalized. If so, how does one access them. Thanks, Ed Gorn/ Canada

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has added a major collection, “Camp Westerbork Memorial –A Name and a Face”. This collection, https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?sourc

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I noticed that all the responses are in the past tense. This is probably still practiced. I have an acquaintance who is named for his older brother who died in the holocaust. Chana Bonn, Philadelphia

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Yes, my great-uncle, who was born in London, and my great-aunt lost a baby in 1918 and gave the same name to their second child a few years later. Irene Plotzker Wilmington, DE

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There were certainly small rural Jewish communities in neighboring Baden in the 18th century, so I believe there would have been Jewish communities in Wurttemberg as well. My own HOFMANN ancestors, go

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I have examples of this in my Edinburgh Brown family. My great grandparents' two eldest sons Julius and George died as infants in the 1870's. They then had twin girls whom they named Julia and Georgin

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Pilica alert!!! Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, the home of Jewish vital and other types of records of Poland, has indexed ***all*** surviving Pilica vital records back to 1808. And just like most o

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Kalwaria was part of Suwalki Gubernia in NE Poland until the WW1 Peace Settlement in 1919 when it went into Lithuania. This area was on the front line in both WW1 and WW2. Most emigrees left early bec

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“My Experiences” is a chapter of a long section in the Yizkor book of Kurów, Poland titled “In the Bunkers, Caves, Stalls, Fields and Forests (September 1939–May 1945): Memories from the Survivors.” I

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I would appreciate help with translation the first name. Please respond on the ViewMate page. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?showmaster=1&viewmateid=89514 Thanks, Bob

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I'm researching my great grandfather Uri perlman died 1962 made aliyah 1933 we have no info regarding his family. The little that we do have is that his father was elyakum getzil and his mother was tz

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And that goes for everything in genealogy. Even vital records and other documents can contain errors by the person whose data it is, by the clerk filling it out and by the person translating it, proof

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There are no vital records remaining from the Lithuanian archives. I have been to that archive, and saw what was available. There are vital records online from the city of Vilna - you might have some

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