I would say "Yes", my maternal grandmother's maiden name was actually Karmelek with the -ek being a Polish diminutive meaning "little". There are many people with the surname Karmel listed in Jewishge

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Try this for phone numbers - Paginas Blanca are white pages. The others should be yellow pages https://www.thisnumber.com/ar

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First it depends - It may be possible on some of the sites. Secondly as far as privacy is concerned - all of the major genealogy sites do NOT show any information for LIVING people unless you invite t

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My Zeidi's middle name was Tzvi which is Hebrew for deer. However I only saw that on one document, otherwise he used Hersh (which is Yiddish for deer). Our son's name is Isaac Zvi and his Hebrew name

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Are you sure that you have a MyHeritage DNA kit? They are not allowed to sell to Israel (Legal reasons involving the chief rabbinate) for the purpose of finding relatives. You may have an Ancestry.com

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These services are not as accurate or helpful as they used to be because so many people now only have cell phones. Only landline phones show up in phone directories. You may have to check several of t

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While I appreciate the health of the federal employees has to come first, I believe that the issue is two fold: First the lack of honesty about the timeline and second keeping the funds for 2+ years w

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In my case the download did NOT work, these were Polish records>

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For the Family History Library: Bring a large capacity flash drive. When you find a record that you want, RIGHT click and choose Save image as to your Flash Drive. I had someone say save them to your

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Actually it is the US census that is applying the OCR and AI to index the census and that is the way that Ancestry will receive the data. https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950

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Joyce, In Galicia (Southern Poland, Eastern Austria, Western Ukraine) this was common because the civil authorities limited Jewish civil marriages so many Jews only had a religious one. Then the child

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While to access all of Ancestry's records and databases, a subscription is required, some of Ancestry's databases are free. Don't dismiss Ancestry until you have seen a padlock on the data. I have a s

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The family story is that my great grandfather Fishel the son of Joseph Perchik bought the surname Meyer to avoid Czarist conscription. What we do know is that he came to the US in 1884 under the name

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Peter, People often had both Hebrew and secular names. They could have been Hebrew and Yiddish (caiques) or Hebrew and English, etc. Also in more recent times people may have chosen a secular name tha

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If you know the town, I suggest homelocator.com ( go to search city/state). An alternative is to google city name, state and the word county.

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A bit different time frame, but my Zeidi who immigrated to Chicago in 1913 sent money to his wife in the Warsaw ghetto via American Express. She received the funds regularly until she, my uncle and mo

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I have attended many JGS meetings as a guest over the past year, and am considering joining some of the societies. But since I live in Georgetown TX, I want to know if the various JGS will continue to

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Do you know where she died? Can you get a photo of her tombstone? If there is Hebrew on it - that would indicate that she was Jewish. Just English or another language would be non-informative.

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What do you mean by accurate? If you mean ethnicity, it is a science in its infancy, and is generally accurate for most people to the continent level because people moved around and intermarried. If y

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Now I fully understand your question. Once the donations for each of your towns reaches the level necessary to pay for the records (and possibly) translations, the records become part of the public pa

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