I searched the seller's name, and saw Kedma Dena is an auction house that also uses BidSpirit's platform. https://il.bidspirit.com/ui/houses/kedmatdena,false?lang=en (This link also gives and email ad

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During that era there was a huge famine -- this woul not have to do with someone being a good person or letting another starve -- but Stalin's policies created this famine and millions died. It may ma

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My Berman family was originaly named BURDA and they came from a tiny agricultural colony in founded in 1859 by settlers from Volyn and Podolia as a Jewish agricultural colony in the Tiraspol district

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I am looking for suggestions or help regarding the 1875 census. According to the Lipes Database, my great great grandfather Srul-Itzko Abramovich Gershberg was 14 y.o. in the 1875 census, In Berdichev

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I've asked for help in Facebook groups, but the mystery still remains. Two of fours siblings were Anna Rabinovitch (nee Kelmansky) and May (or Mae) Kelmansky. I turned to a FB group when I was only ab

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I came across an item about a book for Mogilev Podolsky that was acquired a decade ago. See https://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/RES_collection.asp?id=1171. From what I gather here, the boo has been scan

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In tracing relatives of my husband, I found that, per Yad Vashem, two daughters in one family from Panyola, Hungary survived the Holocaust: Iren Weisz, b. 1928 (https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.

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Thank you. I was able to see with my account. Regarding restricted records, I think there are different levels. For some American ones, I was able to go to my library, which is I guess an affilaite ce

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For JewishGen search results, I understand that the reference in the right hand column (e.g., LDS 642919 item 4 which was listedi in Hungarian births) signifies the source, and am guessing that LDS is

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This intrigued me -- I've been looking for a Jewish orphanage on Long Island without any success (for my grandfather and his brother, around 1922 for a year or two), and someone had also mentioned Ple

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Hi Naomi, If you open in Chrome, you can opt to Translate to English (right click if it doesn't automatically pop up). I did that -- and although I do not see the specific town syou mentioned, there a

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Thank you! Would you know if JewishGen has any plans to index, transcribe, include in its databases, etc.? Wendy Kalman Acworth, GA wendybkalman@... Mogilev Podolsky: BERG and TEPLITSKY Kamenetz

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According to a search on the Lipes database, I see vital records from 1860-1920 filed in the Podol Gubernia that I would like to find another way to access. If JewishGen has them, I've not seen. Would

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I thought you might want to see this article -- there is a massive effort right now to back up all kinds of archives in Ukraine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/ukraine-digital-hi

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I amin metro Atlanta and just made a small donation. I am curious, would you know if similar projects are taking place in other cities? (I ask because this past year I learned I have a great great gra

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Sounds like my situation is similar. My great grandparents and siblings emigrated to the US from a tiny Jewish agricultural colony that was considered in the Kherson district then but now isn't. It wa

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There is a record in JewishGen's Maramaros vital records database that I'd like to see (the listing shows identifying info for book, page & row). According to https://www.jewishgen.org/new/maramaros-v

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I am seeking records for those who moved to and lived in a tiny agricultural colony called Berdynove in the Tiraspol district of Kherson region but also as Shiryaevsky district of the Odessa oblast,.

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As it turns out, officiants on marriage records are not indexed by Ancestry or FamilySearch, so am I asking if people could check any New York Marriage records they have (most likely Manhattan, Kings/

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I am also reading a book called "When Rabbis Bless Congress" and they noted that for WWII 50% of all rabbis in the US served as chaplains in the armed forces. 50%! Wendy Kalman Atlanta, GA

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