This refers to Alderney Road cemetery now administered by the United Synagogue and included in their Find a Grave listing. Jeffrey Cohen London

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I would appreciate knowing some wording on this gravestone of Nathan Rothstein from Louisville Kentucky. It is not very clear but I would mainly like to know if it refers to any offspring. Kind regard

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AncestryDNA has just started automatically to assign some matches to each of one's parents. I have checked this out but not found it to be very useful as I suspect it is done by analysing geographical

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I would very much appreciate obtaining the basis details from these two Polish record of the Lorek family. Kind regards Jeffrey Cohen London, UK

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#translation I would appreciate a translation of the words below a photo. Jeffrey Cohen London, UK

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I would very much appreciate a translation of this marriage certificate in Polish from Kalisz in 1832 of Montag and Recht. Kind regards Jeff Cohen London

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I’ve found the London Gazette very useful especially for name changes where often the whole of the family is stated. I suggest searching directly on thegazette.co.uk as searching from google may miss

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Try gravez.me Jeff Cohen London

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Many thanks for the advice I have received. In answer to Sherri I attach the complete document. I know the bride’s family well and she had four brothers but I am trying to confirm the family of the gr

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Hello David, I believe the entry in Hebrew on the form is referring to the groom having no brothers. I am very familiar with the bride’s family and she had four brothers. Jeff Cohen, London, UK

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#general I wonder if anyone can make out the word next to “Witness” on this London Beth Din Marriage Authorisation. The groom had no brothers (as it states at the bottom) but the bride did and it may

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This is a very interesting article about the private sale of synagogue documents https://www.timesofisrael.com/are-online-sales-of-pre-holocaust-communal-records-their-doom-or-salvation/ Jeff Cohen Lo

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An uncle named Gershon Lorek who became George Lawrence, is shown as an inmate in this mental facility in NYC in the 1930 Census but does not seem to appear anywhere in the 1940 Census. My assumption

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On this headstone Dora's father seems to have an unusual name מתת I do not see anything like Matet in Jewishgen. Can anyone throw any light on it ? (Cemetery in UK and families from Poland). Jeff Cohe

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In my experience My Heritage’s “Theory of Relativity” is weak and of not much use. 23 and Me’s “Predicted Family Tree” is deeply flawed and dangerously misleading, whilst Ancestry’s “Thrulines” produc

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Yes but those are first names and I was referring to family names that are modified.

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Does anyone know why an I (or yod) was sometimes removed from start of names ? In my family Italienner became Talyena, and Israel became Srul. Jeffrey Cohen, jeff59471@...>

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I've posted a marriage registration for which I would very much appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83183

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My thanks to those who provided answers to my question and the consensus is that “hay mem apostrophe” means “known as”. In this case Ariye known as Leib.

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On a document a relative has a name that looks like HAY MEM YOD. Does anyone have any idea what this is ?

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