My family comes from Kamenna Poruba, a town near Zilina in Slovakia. My brothers and I visited the town in 2017 and arranged a meeting with the mayor. He told us that our great-great-grandmother, Juli

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I have read in several references that the decree forcing Jews to take family names, promulgated by Emperor Joseph II in 1787, included a list of about 1500 specific names (some also say: "of which 10

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By the late 19th century, the children are identified individually, but a caveat: the ages and even sexes of the children may not be correct. Jim Milch Rochester, NY

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