You should check out LitvakSIG on Jewish Gen. There is a district called Oshmiany which is part of the wider Vilnius (Wilna) region. That may offer you some clues about the origin of Moshe Oshman. The

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Looking for maternal grandfather of Maria Gordon Kosfiszer. Her maternal grandmother was Miriam Goldzicher, born on December 22, 1888 in Warsaw,Poland. Miriam had 5 siblings Miriam Married around 1915

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My grandmother, Ida KOT, appeared as Slate (Zlata) Kott on the ship’s manifest. She was from Ziezmariai, Lithuania. Although I never found Zlata in the Revision lists, she is probably the daughter lis

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My great grandmother was also called Ida. But her name on arrival to the U.S. was Chaje which was changed to Ida.

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I am researching Phinehas ben Avraham Abba Shapiro born 1726 in Belarus and died 14 Aug 1791 in Shepetovka Ukraine. It is family lore that he is the 6th (?) great-grandfather of my brother-in-law whos

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I am Laurie Bricker, and with the incredible help of Jewish Gen, I located my family in Alsace Lorraine several years ago. I am looking for my husband's family who lived in the Minsk region. My husban

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"I have been researching my family's genealogy since the 1980's. My father Louis (Leo) Lurie was one of 8 siblings from Bobruisk which is now in Belarus. His 3 oldest siblings were brought to the U.S.

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The Baron de Hirsch cemetery in Montreal has 17 Holocaust memorials: JGS-Montreal.org/link/BdH-Memorials. These have been photographed and over 1900 names of the fallen with local (Montreal) ties have

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Hi, Elena! Louis’s wife wasn’t from Bobr. Louis’s parents may have stayed in Bobr, but I don’t know for sure. His mother’s maiden name was something like “Feigen” or “Fagen.” Best regards, Wendy Starr

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Hi Sherri! I want to find the living descendants of emigrants from this town. They are the 3rd or 4th generation. Of course, they have another surnames, but I hope that they keep the old history.

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Yelena, Try these tips to find people that emigrated from a specific town. It is easiest with small shtetls. At Steve Morse's Ellis Island portal you can search for anyone from a certain town. You do

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No, Bobr is not Bobruisk https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1941394

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Oops, NOW I see that there really IS a town/shtetl Bobr (how WOULD that be pronounced? I know Slavic pronunciation pretty well, and few of the languages have the sounds B+R with nothing between them!

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I guess that's different from Bobruisk? I have a photo of a couple people who I believe are from Bobruisk: Boris and Hasya Bobruskin (both b. around 1885 iin "Homel, Mohilev" and arrived 1905 or so -

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Hi, Wendy! Very interesting Do you know about his relatives who stayed in Bobr? Surnames of wifes?

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Elena, My great-grandfather Louis Soskin (Leiba-Yankel Abramov Sos’kin) was from Bobr, Belarus. He later moved to Mariupol, Ukraine, before emigrating to New York City in 1904. I would be happy to con

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Schelly, Talalay is Талалай in Russian. But I would recommend not using online databases (these are old databases), but searching by name on Facebook. Sincerely, Elena

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Thank you, Linda. I know this adress. I want to find descendants of Bobr jews who emigrated before 1917 or later.

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My 2nd g aunt came to the US in 1870 and was caught by the 2nd enumeration of the 1870 census in NYC as Ada. She had arrived only 18 Oct 1870, so she didn't have much time to change her name (although

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