The best answer to my question came privately and I wanted to share the gist of it as part of this thread. The suggestion was to use the citation feature of whatever system you are using to document (

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This is the area where some birth records will say child's name surname = mother's maiden name r father's surname. Did your grandfather have siblings? If so check their birth records. Otherwise the on

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Have you tried contacting the Rabbis in your area? I had some emails sent to me from Belarus and Russia, in Russian and I contacted a local college here. I found a professor who had spent some years i

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The registrations for Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Mukachevo area, 1871 - 1880 (it was called Munkacs then) though it's in the Ukraine today - are kept in the Archives of Uzhorod (called Ungvar

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Could you please post how you get reparations files from Germany? My father in law had a large amount and we would like the details. Lustig in Berlin. Thank you eleanor Lind

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Dear Sarit, As far as the ship lists you can obtain from Atlit Museum, I believe they have it on line as well For the Cyprus Camp lists, check with Dorot ha’Hemshehe website Since your grandparents we

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I live within a short distance of the National Archives at Kew. The UK naturalisation records are held there in a series of large volumes. Names of people recorded in these volumes are indexed through

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I would like to know the address of the parents on the two birth records (of siblings) which I posted on ViewMate at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM896

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We used Dr. Wolfgang Fritzsche. We were very pleased with him and his work. w.fritzsche@... regards Jason Hallgarten

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I would appreciate an English translation of the tombstone I posted on Viewmate. The image can be found at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89642 Thank y

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The Utah JGS is having its first virtual meeting of the year on January 18th, 6:30pm Mountain time. Our speaker will be Janette Silverman, of Ancestry ProGenealogists and former IAJGS board member, pr

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I've posted a vital record in a language that might be Yiddish, German or Russian. (I do not know.) I need a few small translations. It is on ViewMate at the following 4 addresses: 1. https://www.jewi

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Just to respond regarding the website https://jewishphotolibrary.smugmug.com and to clarify its contents. It's certainly an interesting site, but it does not at all cover all the graves in any cemeter

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Thanks. Just an FYI for those suggesting the JGSI database - I actually searched it before making my post, but it's only of limited usefulness for my purposes here. The only records in the database th

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The British magazine Who Do You Think You Are has an article on the best websites for finding Holocaust records: Arolsen Archives, Yad Vashem, Every Name Counts, Wiener Holocaust Library, United State

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Sorry for the late reply! Yes, my DNA is on Ancestry.com. Let me know if there is any connection. I also have a public tree on Ancestry.com. Still no new information about Ben Press. I am trying to ge

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Trying to make contact with the family of Florence (nee Lehman) and Stanley Sultan who lived in the Roxbury, CT area. Their daughter, Miriam Mindel, married Dr. Jonas Reuben Kagan, a general practitio

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"A father's name is much more likely to be missing if the parents weren't married. " A father's name is much more likely to be missing if the parents weren't married CIVILLY. Couples were often not al

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Germany is a big place. Where in Germany are you interested in? Sally "We are looking to hire a genealogist to trace ancestors in Germany"

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In answer to your headline question - https://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/GEO_Town.asp?id=321

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