Hello, everyone. I have been trying unsuccessfully to find birth and other vital records for relatives on my father's side. My father was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1944. Based on some notes he mad

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I suggest you contact "The together Plan", a charity based in London UK and Belarus, which helps local Jews learn to be able to earn money. They have the huge advantage of being fluent in the relevant

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I suggest you contact The Together Plan, a charity based in London UK and Belarus.. One project is to do genealogical research on an individual basis. They have the huge advantage of speaking all rele

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There are a couple of hundred photos of tombstones in the Jewish section of the Bloemfontein Memoriam cemetery at https://jewishphotolibrary.smugmug.com/AFRICA/AFRICASouth/SOUTHAFRICA/FreeState/ZABloe

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I would appreciate if someone can translate the inscriptions on these two gravestones. Thank you.

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You could also try posting on the Genealogical Translations FB site. Mike Coleman, London U.K.

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Have you tried the Chicago Jewish Historical Society or the information desk at Asher Library at Spertus Institute? I looked in my copy of H.L. Meites's History of the Jews of Chicago and in Bea Kraus

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Just as an example - On Ancestry I had an occasion where someone put on their tree that a relative of mine was theirs, it was in the wrong order and so it changed my relatives relations to me on thrul

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Good afternoon Did you know there was a website also for this ? It's called findagrave you can join free and then request someone take a photo. It might already be uploaded on the site by others who m

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Hi, I could not translate the site. Could you let me know how to do it? Also, our Haberman relative came from Minsk. Thanks, Rita Haberman

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To see a complete description of the Briceni cemetery project: 1. Click on the RESEARCH tab on the JewishGen home page 2. Click on RESEARCH DIVISIONS 3. Select BESSARABIA 4. In the blue box on the lef

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Not second marriages; just a child born after an earlier sibling had died. Perhaps named after a grand-parent whose name the parents wanted to preserve in the family. Martyn Woolf London Sent from Mai

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No synagogue records for Briceni have been found nor are any of the synagogues still standing. The last of the able-bodied returnees after the Shoa eventually paid to have the Great Synagogue bulldoze

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What a beautiful job of translation Michael. Mazel Tov. You not only provided a valuable service to the person that asked for the translation, but also to myself and many others who used your work as

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Ed, Search at JOWBR: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ A search for town name Briceni finds many records of people buried in the town, and also people who were from Briceni and are buried

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I cannot match the example of five times for giving subsequent children the same name, but again using my Edinburgh Browns, there were three Rachel Leahs in a row. This seemed to be more likely in fir

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Adam, One way to search for other KAPLANs from Motol is to go to www.stevemorse.org and search the Ellis Island Database for surname KAPLAN and town name Motol. I got 2 hits: Kaplan, Leie, arriving 19

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It was even common amongst non-Jewish communities. Vincent Van Gogh was named after a sibling who died before he was born. He had to walk to school every day past the grave bearing his own name - not

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Hi June, I am afraid that there is a misconception. According to the 1920 census (as well as in other documents), Rose Hollander and two of her children were born in Ekaterinoslav (misspelled Katrines

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The Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles, the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, and Los Angeles Greek Film Festival announce a ten-day virtual event, Her

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