I'm following this with interest as my husband's ggrandfather appears on US censuses from 1895 until 1910 with his wife and all his children listed too. He certainly travelled to America and back from

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Many thanks for that Jill. I was wondering what was going on after finding today that another family also put down an area and not a town - in fact I wasn't sure I had the right people until I checked

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Thank you to all who replied. Looks like it is Courland - the area and not a specific town. Which is why the community database doesn't show it. More research necessary I think!

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Thanks Diane. I thought it looked something like that too but JewishGen communities database has no matches for that name. Unfortunately you need three letters to search for 'begins with'.

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Great excitement! The 1921 Scottish census is up on https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ I looked for my husband's family and found them in two different places - the head of the house and one son in o

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I've posted the two sides of the final postcard in Yiddish for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM996

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I've posted postcards in Yiddish and Russian for which I would like translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM99642 https:

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I've posted two one page letters, one in Hebrew and one in Yiddish, for which I would like word for word translations. The second was written on the back of the first. The first is from my G Grandfath

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Please could someone translate the following which I've posted: an inscription that is from a Russian book given to my great grandfather as a prize. It's on Viewmate at the following address: https://

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Thank you so much for making this available. I wish I'd known all these tips for searching the Polish archives before I did my research :) Now I can go back and revisit where I got stuck and hopefully

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Thanks Stephen. That link is really helpful. Any idea where I could look for records for the Strassberg you found?

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Thanks Rodney I've tried looking for the family, Ickowicz, in Brodnica/Strasburg but didn't find anything, Maybe I'm not looking in the right record sets. I hadn't heard of the other place you mention

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I'm trying to find out if there was a place called Strasburg in Silesia in 1875. A family member always said they were born in Strasburg in 1875 and stated their nationality as German/Polish depending

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Please could someone translate the Russian birth document I've posted on Viewmate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96397 Please respond via the form

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Wow Odeda thanks for that! I did wonder about translating the dates from the secular to the Jewish calendar and whether relevant festivals had an effect. But I couldn't think of why it would apply in

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Thank you Daniel and Stephen for replying. The difference in calendars was my first thought but as Stephen says that's only 12 days so doesn't seem to work in this case.

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Interesting thought. Does that mean there will be another marriage record for them in Poland as I haven't seen one. Mind you it was hard enough to find this one :) I'm not sure exactly when they moved

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Please could someone translate the Polish birth record I've posted on Viewmate at this address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96357 I think it's my great great grandfather's

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Thanks for replying! Good idea but the first one was definitely a religious one.

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Thanks Marcie I know my husband's grandmother thought her birthday was 25 December as she was born on Xmas. But she was born in Russia so it was really on 6th January :) This is a much bigger differen

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