Dear Group, I hope you are all safe and healthy. I am researching the family of my great-grandmother, Sarah (Sally) Schonfeld nee Miller (1879-1952) who was born in Tisza Keresceny. Gratefully, the vo

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I am searching for anyone who is a member of the JONAS family from Tashnad in Transylvania and in any other area of Transylvania in the old Austrian-Hungarian empire and present day Romania. The phone

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Dear friends, I am 90 years old. I presume you did not know that. Still reading (4 languages) still using the PC as you see. With greetings >from Tel Aviv, Maud Mihal Beer, nee Stecklmacher, born in P

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Shalom Genners Some of you may recall I wrote a while ago about my late father's 3 year imprisonment in Ferramonti during the war. He was a Galician-born Jew, who grew up in Vienna in the 1920s and ha

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Dear Michael, You hit the point. Moravian Jewry was much reluctant to adopt both surnames and given names by force of the decree issued in 1787. Something must have happened around year 1828; since th

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Please join us for the following program, presented by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute and Gesher Galicia. Family History Today: Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering Wo

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JewishGen offers the popular class, "Brick Wall or Dead End", starting February 2 - February 23 Frustrated and at a Loss ? Are you at a Dead End or just experiencing a Brick Wall? Are you stumped by a

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January 27, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Between now and February 22, but mainly between January 27 and 31, a series of commemorative events is planned in 35 towns i

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The preservation of Jewish culture and heritage in the former lands of Galicia is very important to us. With that in mind, we at Gesher Galicia are proud to join the other fine organizations on this p

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Hi All I've posted a vital record in Hungarian Line 33 for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM76681 M

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Hi All, I've posted a vital record in Slovakian Lone 12 for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM76680

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Hi all, I've posted a vital record in Slovakian Line 15 for which I need a translaton. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM76679 P

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Hi All, I've posted a vital record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM76678 Please r

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Hi All I've posted a vital record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM76610 Please re

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Are you a current member of Gesher Galicia? It is the Gesher Galicia 2020 membership season. You can become a member or renew your membership by going to: https://www.geshergalicia.org/membership Brin

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This project, as announced earlier, aims to identify the town of origin of 577 books of Jewish records held in the Przemysl State Archive. Nearly all are index books of vital records, with most of the

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My relative Feiga Frimet HAAR marriage to Friedrich KOWAND in Vienna in 1921 ended in divorce. Friedrich was baptized at birth and I'm trying to understand why their marriage appears in the register o

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Since introducing our improved online inventories for individual archives earlier this year, we have worked to upgrade their functioning. These inventories can be found in the pull-down menu in the ho

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Since the last update a few months ago, indexes of the following vital records have been added to the All Galicia Database, at: https://search.geshergalicia.org/ Vital records - Podhajce (Pidhaitsi) J

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Much has been written on the adoption of surnames by Jews in the Austrian lands, but less on rules governing given names. I have found two Czech-language sources on a decree of 27 August 1787 (under J

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