Barbara My wife's grand aunt Anna/Nesya Fin (Debeikiai, Lithuania) married Morris Passin b. Yosef (Tokmak, Ukraine) in NYC in 1909. They later lived in the Iron Range of Minnesota where Morris worked

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Following up on SA birth records- I talked with the SA born cousin about this last nite. The birth records are not typically posted online. If you want to see something you need to go in person to the

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Deborah- The short answer is no. The SA records we have found to date are marriage and death records which were found by a cousin originally from S Africa, but now living in Austrailia. These records

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Between 1900 and 1910 my wife's maternal grandparents went from Lithuania to London where they first met, thence on to South Africa where they were married, then back to London where the first child w

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Joe Maceva is in the process of digitizing the Kaunas cemeteries. I believe they may have 2-3000 headstones posted to date for one of the Kaunas cemeteries with more on the way. I had briefly perused

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Shaeffers (Chaim and Dovid Aryeh ) can be found attending the former and nearby synagogue in Chesterfield, CT-Possibly these are family. See link below. https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/NEHFES/names.

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I too have found the online City records to be inaccurate -usually understating the actual age of a structure- and often by decades. Recommend looking at the online real estate records found at the Co

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I noticed the same thing. My wife's Cohen relatives from Debeikiai/Anyksdciai, Lithuania were also called 'Kagan' in Lithuania. After arriving in Chelsea, Mass. in the early 20th c, the name was chang

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I concur with the other commentaters-Gerson.Compare the first letter of the name with the "g" in Hamburg on the ship's manifest at the top of the page. Richard Brown Glastonbury, CT

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Carl Here is a photo taken of the corner of Willets and Delancey Streets.circa 1901. I found it via Google from some NYC records. The photo tells us a lot..... I suspect NYC has more. Also believe the

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This is likely a last name Videtzkiy. There are a number of results on Yad Vashem for this last name, including in Lithuania: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&s_id=&s_lastName=videtzk

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Henry Thank you for all the thoughts. I believe you are correct specific to Fatta Yosa and Mooma Minnie. With respect to Videchki, I need to dig in more. If it is a surname I should be able to find it

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Michele Typically I see the Anyksciai rabbi's name spelled as Kalman Yitzhak Kadishevitz and I believe he was the only Anikst rabbi of that name. I suspect that Kalman and Kalonymus are one and the sa

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David I am pretty sure they are all related but the Kadishevitz family of Anikst was very large with much duplication of given names. My wife's Grandma Finn' nee Kadishevitz 1st Cousin, Ida Tamara Kad

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Carol I have Max and his wife Miriam Kaner in the tree. While this is very much a work kin progress, I believe he was 1st cousin to my wife's Grandma Sarah Finn nee Kadishevitz via her father Moshes/M

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My late mother in law left us a box of family history notes regarding her Kadishevitz grandparents and g grandparents who were from the shtetl of Anyksciai, Lithuania. Several of the names in her note

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In my wife's Fin/Finn family from Ushpol, Lithuania it was spelled "Shaya" typically and "Shaia" occasionally. The Hebrew name from which it was derived was Yeshayahu. Richard Brown Glastonbury, CT

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