I am seeking information on my GGU Yekka (Yekke) Sachs of Kelme, Lithuania. His parents David and Rebekah Laller of Lal, Russia died young. He, his brother Koppel Halevi Sachs, and his sister Chaiah P

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My great-grandfather was Koppel Sachs, a timber/fur merchant in Papile. Anyone have connections with my family or with the town? Hallie Metzger, hallie.metzger@..., #716198

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To all: My maternal grandfather, born David Yalovsky, Yedvabne, Poland about 1883, documented six different surnames assigned to his own father's six brothers although the true family surname was Free

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This is amazing. I found a family transfer on my very first try!! Thanks so much for this information as it gave me the name of the town where my grandfather grew up and also, for future research, a p

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I am seeking information about Shora Golda Shapira (Father= Gilel), a widow who in 1878 married my 2nd Great Grandfather Girsh Tsineman, a widower from Baisogala, in Panevezys, Kaunas Uzed. The record

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My grandfather David Yalofsky Freedland (1885-1988) claimed that when his 2nd or 3rd Great Grandfather got married, an illustrious Rabbi named Yitzchak Elchanan came from Vilnius to attend the wedding

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I am seeking information about Jeanette Futernick, born in Philadelphia about 1885, who married my great uncle Louis Sachs in Connecticut on September 4, 1914. Father's name on the marriage certificat

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Were wooden sailing ships still carrying passengers from Europe to the USA as late as the 1880s? My grandfather David Yalovsky Freedland, born about 1885 in Yedwabne, says his father Cantor Jacob Yalo

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Jill, This is very helpful. I did not know about the University of Hull website and now have another clue to follow. It's also interesting that your ancestors came by sailing boat as it makes my famil

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Good point! There may indeed have been a storm and a delay but the story got embellished. Thanks for a lively viewpoint. Hallie Metzger, halmetz@... SACHS (Kelme), TSIN(I)(a)MON, FREEDLAND, FRIE

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Jill - Thanks for letting me know about this website. I'll check it out. Another piece of the puzzle could fall in place. And Bill has con firmed that my great-grandfather could indeed have been on a

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Bill - I had no idea all this information was out there. So, even allowing for som exaggeration and for the fact that my grandfather was just a boy when he heard this story, it could have happened. Th

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Barbara - I never thought of that! That is a much more likely scenario since he came to sing in New York City synagogues but didn't intend to stay. So, like the game of telephone, whatever my grandfat

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Pieter - I an gobsmacked! It would be amazing if this seeming tall tale could be true. I had no idea when I posted my query how much information was out there. Thank you so much for this insight. I'm

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To all: Thank you so much for all these responses! It's incredible that this story actually has some truth The responses have given me a wealth of leads to follow up and the hope that I might even fin

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I seek help finding the "small village of Kroshty" cited in Dr.Alexander Beider 's "A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames of the Russian Empire" as the source of the family surname "Krost," also spelled "Cr

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Can anyone identify members of this Visokidbor group, especially the young man wearing the light colored suit, 4th from left in the middle row? You can see him in Viewmate 101587 viewmate@...

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Can anyone identify members of the 1925 Visokidbor Maccabi Sports Union, especially the young man wearing the light colored suit, 4th from left in the middle row https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vie

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Can anyone identify members of the 1925 Visokidbor Maccabi Sports Union, especially the young man wearing the light colored suit, 4th from left in the middle row https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vie