Brianna, Archives in the former Soviet Union have a hierarchical 3-part identification of specific documents. Fond might have hundreds or thousands of "opis". Each opis might have hundreds or thousand

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Try Yad Vashem database for testimonies submitted a land list of those murdered or sent to other places in the Soviet Union . I found there which of my great grandfathers siblings and descendants eith

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Thank you! Very interesting! Where do you look for bank records?

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Hello, I wrote the following message to the "National Historical Archives of Belarus". Their response, Google Translate told me, was a link to a request form and a link to info on their 'reading room'

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Thank you - yes - I have his surname from his marriage certificate from a Belarus database. Alas, I have not found him on any other sources and I think likely he did not immigrate. The marriage certif

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You might want to contact The Together Plan, a Jewish charity based in London and Minsk that is helping Jews there become more self sufficient. One of their projects is doing genealogical research for

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Brianna, Sherri is right; if you haven't searched the All-Belarus Database at JewishGen, you should. But as in any research into Jewish family history, keep in mind that the surname when they lived in

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A mass grave of more than 1,000 Jews shot in the head by the Nazis during World War II uncovered in Belarus in 2019. Source: Screenshot. A mass grave of Holocaust victims has been discovered near the

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I have been able to find what professions were common in the early 1900s in the Siauliai district of Lithuania, based on the Jewish bank records that are for the town. The 1910-1913 bank records are m

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Hi Brianna, My father Oscar/Usher Harast was born in 1902 in Dumbraveni, Soroki, Bessarabia/Russia/Romania, now Moldova. He had said that they owned an inn which had been in the family for several gen

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Here are two examples from Yizkor books that describe occupations https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/sopotskin/sop024.html https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/slutsk/slu041.htm Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD

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Many Yizkor books have chapters on this very subject. Unfortunately, for those towns you named that have books, I did not see one. Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD

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Many City Directories are online at genealogyindexer.org. Although they don’t indicate an individual’s religion, you could use first and/or last names to make a logical guess, then see their occupatio

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Brianna, Have you searched at The JewishGen Belarus database? https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/ I see lots of people named Briker there. Good luck in your search, Sherri Bobish

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There are 2 cities named Mogilev, one on the river Dnieper, the other on the river Dniester. The correct name is either Mogilev or Mogilev-na-Dniepre (literally Mogilev on Dnieper). The other was call

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Hello, I am searching for information on my family that hails from: "nad Dneper, Mogilev, Russia" / "Mogilow, Russia". JewishGen uses the name, "Mogilev-na-Dniepr." I used the JewishGen tools and type

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Hello, I am interested in learning about the types of employment opportunities available for Jews in the Pale of Settlement. I know that in some areas Jews were not permitted to serve as civil servant

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This appears to be an internal passport rather than one for crossing an international border. Every subject in the Russian Empire was registered at a particular location (not necessarily the place of

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I had my grandfather's 1911 Russian passport translated by the Russian manicurists at a local shop. (They were so excited to help!) Turns out it was in "old Russian" but they had no trouble. Barbara C

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As a JewishGen yizkor book project coordinator, we would be grateful to receive contributions to our translation fund to see the translation of this book completed. Memorial Volume of Steibtz-Swerznie

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