You will do well to contract Yuri Dorn who is excellent. He knows his way around the archives there and is able to speak English well. I have used him as have many others and I recommend him totally.

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I am looking for a researcher to access and provide me with copies of the section of a handwritten document that is located in The Stefanyka Libray in Lviv. It is called "The Inventory of Brzozow Coun

#galicia #records

We have all poured over those ship manifests recording the arrival of our ancestors on these shores. However, I have always wondered about ships that may have been lost at sea and along with them, the

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Sacurov is a village in the district of Vranov, east Slovakia my grandfather named Rabbi Shimon Keller resided there and was also the Shochet my father and his family also lived there for a while are

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Wolfgang KLAPPHOLZ (born on March 5, 1934 in Magdeburg, Germany) was the son of my uncle Alfred KLAPPHOLZ (born on Oct 18, 1909) and Ilse JORDAN (born on June 19, 1916). Alfred and Ilse divorced about

#germany #holocaust

If you upload them to jewishgen, somebody will help you (if they are readable and short), there are many yiddish speakers here including myself. Menachem Schreiber

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The NYC property tax office took photos of every building and house in all five boroughs in 1940, and again in 1980. Did the city of Philadelphia have a similar program to photograph buildings? My gre

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My mother's cousin is 81 and a Holocaust survivor, living in Southern California. She was born in Debrecen Hungary and her father was taken into the Labor Battalion (6th Battalion) in 1942 or 43, when

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I had several relatives that immigrated to the United States from Moscow in the late 1980s, I'm wondering if anyone else would they filled out immigration papers in Moscow or the United States more li

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Please post or send privately: recommendations for the names of researchers who have accessed the Archives in Minsk, Belarus within the past two years. Strong English skills and with references prefer

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The Hoffert branch of my family came from Kolbuszowa, Galicia (now Poland). It's not a common name, and given the size of Kolbuszowa, I received some scholarly agreement with my assertion that there i

#galicia #names #poland

I am searching information about Ella Kramerman or Kremerman, born in Lubaczow, Poland in 1918. She stayed in the Föhrenwald 'displaced persons' camp near Münich, Germany in 1946 and probably married

#holocaust #poland

r is recte 'correctly'; f is falshe 'falsely'. Usually on a birth record it says child's given name, father's surname r mother's surname or child's name, mother's surname f father's surname. In these

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Christine, You can try searching the surname DRAY at www.familysearch.org Using Morocco as place of birth gets 109 hits. Using Morroco as place of death gets two hits. You can also search old digitize

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Hello all, I am researching my family history. I am posting with the goal of identifying and hopefully connecting with cousins of mine living in the U.K. that got separated from my family at the begin

#unitedkingdom #belarus

The next Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society meeting is Sunday January 24th at 10:00 am Pacific Time. Alexander Beider is speaking on What's in a name? Unravelling the Mystery of Jewish

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Stuart, It seems that "Yelizabetgrad" was the Yiddish variant town name, and today it is called Kirovohrad, Ukraine. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1041993 Here are some da

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Dear Christine, DRAY is sometimes spelled DERHI or DERI. Worthwhile to check these spellings as well. Jacob Rosen Jerusalem

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On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:10 PM, David Choukroun wrote: Dear Christine, To my knowledge, Morocco was a French protectorat from 1881 to 1956. There are some archives in France (Nantes, La Courneuve) D

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The Sussman News was compiled and published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from March 1934 to December 1939 by three Sussman cousins, all descendants of Yisroel Zisman (1837-1902) and Hinda Rachel Lev

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