I am trying to resolve an apparent discrepancy between information in the JewishGen online world burial registry (JOWBR) and information I extracted >from old Russian census records. This concerns one

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I am trying to resolve an apparent discrepancy between information in the JewishGen online world burial registry (JOWBR) and information I extracted >from old Russian census records. This concerns one

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I am trying to contact Anna Landa or her descendants in Israel. According to a Yad Vashem testimonial written in Russian by Ms. Landa, she is a grand-daughter of Emanuel and Blyuma Murakhovsky of Tara

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I am trying to contact Anna Landa or her descendants in Israel. According to a Yad Vashem testimonial written in Russian by Ms. Landa, she is a grand-daughter of Emanuel and Blyuma Murakhovsky of Tara

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I've been making some inquiries about the possibility of obtaining Polish citizenship by descent. My father's parents both came from towns in Galicia that became part of the restored Republic of Polan

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I've been making some inquiries about the possibility of obtaining Polish citizenship by descent. My father's parents both came from towns in Galicia that became part of the restored Republic of Polan

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I realize there is little chance of success here, but I am asking if anyone with roots in Tarashcha or Koshevata, Ukraine, might have any idea of whatever happened to Shifra Moshkovna Luchanskaya (pro

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I realize there is little chance of success here, but I am asking if anyone with roots in Tarashcha or Koshevata, Ukraine, might have any idea of whatever happened to Shifra Moshkovna Luchanskaya (pro

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I'm looking for searchable Argentine web sites as I try to find information about my mother's father, Pedro KIZNER. He left Russia in 1913 at the age of about 16 and went to Argentina. He came to the

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I'm looking for searchable Argentine web sites as I try to find information about my mother's father, Pedro KIZNER. He left Russia in 1913 at the age of about 16 and went to Argentina. He came to the

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Greetings. I am trying to resolve the parentage of Hannah BLONDER, born Chane Luchansky in Koshevata, Ukraine. She was born about 1861 and died in New York 11 May 1929. I believe her father was Shmul

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Greetings. I am trying to resolve the parentage of Hannah BLONDER, born Chane Luchansky in Koshevata, Ukraine. She was born about 1861 and died in New York 11 May 1929. I believe her father was Shmul

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I am trying to locate descendants of my maternal grandmother’s siblings in Ukraine, Russia or Israel. My grandmother was Enta Ester Murakhovskaya from the town of Tarashcha, about 100 km south of Kiev

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I have posted two vital records in Russian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM75988 http://www.je

I have posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is for part of the LUCHANSKIY family of Koshevata, Tarashcha uyezd, Kiev gubernia, and may be found on ViewMate distributed o

One of the thus far enduring mysteries of my DNA matches (on Ancestry) is the appearance of moderately strong matches with people who, when contacted, tell me something along the lines of "I can trace

It would seem that I forgot to include a couple of important statements in my initial post: 1) The people telling me that their ancestry was German Jewish all had done a lot of traditional archival re

I would imagine that migration is the explanation for the mysterious matches I mentioned in my original post as well as for what Ms. Goldberg describes. But when did that hypothetical migration occur?

The LUCHANSKY family appears to have lived in and around Koshevata (which is about 100 km south of Kiev) since records with surnames first appeared in the early 19th century. Immigrants to the USA fro

In connection with trying to understand an apparent DNA match, I have come across a Galician marriage record that may be pertinent.This marriage record comes from Drohobych records and is for Mechel J