Hi genners, 1) Is there a specific place I can look to find a Polish Rabbi in the late 1880s early 1900s? Rabbi Joseph Reicht or Recht lived and died in Poland. He and his wife, Hallah Snider (as I fo

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Hi Judy, I wonder if this 1906 manifest could be your Cheyka SILVERMAN? Age matches. She is married, and going to Montreal to her husband (no name for the husband given.) The departure port is Liverpo

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Hi, I need help to find a relative... Looking for Robert Joseph (Prensky) Preston and Eleanor nee Steiner Robert or Bob changed his last name to Preston They moved from New York to Westport, Ottawa, C

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Dear Genner, Just found out that Rachel Gottesman nee GOTTFRIED resides in Toronto. She is the daughter of Liba (Liebe Reisel) KONIGSBUCH (1914-1998) who was born in Brzesko,Poland and is a relative o

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Thank you to the dozen or so people who took the time to respond and offer help. I have now managed to make contact with this family, so my quest is at an end, for now! Chag Pesach Sameuch to all! Fro

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Our next FAMILY TREE WORKSHOP, hosted by genealogy guru Stanley Diamond, will be held on Sunday, April 10 from 10 am to noon. The workshop will feature another TOOL TIME mini-lesson, with our IAJGS aw

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Real estate transactions in Montreal were done at a Notary Public. They also did bank loans, wills, and other such documents. Not all notary files have been digitized and those that are digitized may

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Alan, my children, born in 1975 and 1979 in Moscow, did not have disposable diapers too. I remember, especially with first child, after my wife breast fed him at midnight, we had to wash all the cloth

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Dear Colleagues, I am trying to contact George ROMAN or his mother, Georgina ROMAN (nee Kauders). Georgina is likely to have passed away since she was born in 1921. Georgina and her mother were Hungar

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In 1973-75 the Province of Alberta Archives tape-recorded interviews with many of the Jewish pioneers in Edmonton and Northern Alberta. Most of the interviewees would have been born between 1890 and 1

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The next FAMILY TREE WORKSHOP of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, hosted by genealogy guru Stanley Diamond, will be held on February 20 from 10 am to noon. The workshop will feature anothe

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The caterers at Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto that you are referring to were Michael ("Mickey) Firestone (1917-2012) and his wife Anne Chernofsky (1918-2000). Her parents, Frank Chernofsky and F

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My LOVAT/LAVOUT/LAVUT family (my maternal grandmother and family) emigrated from Stavische, Ukraine (Russia) in 1924 to Canada via Romania. They left behind 1 brother and we believe they or their chil

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The Drouin records are on Ancestry, but are often not well indexed (despite work of several dedicated volunteers who have GREATLY improved the Jewish records). The JGS-Montreal has its own index of th

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I am seeking contact information for Perla Rozen (or her family), living in Montreal in 1996, who submitted a Page of Testimony for her uncle, Aron Kalkstein. Aron Kalkstein was likely a relative of m

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Have you considered the possibility that the child did not die at birth, but that your parents gave the child up for adoption? The fact that your parents were never willing to discuss the birth certai

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Trying to make contact with the family of Moshe Yechiel Uhr of Toronto, son of Chaim (Herman) Uhr, born in Slančík, Slovakia on July 11, 1876 and died in Kosice on February 9, 1935. Moshe Uhr's brothe

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Trying to make contact with members of this Toronto family whose matriarch was Ariela (married Rojek). She posted a Page of Testimony for her grandfather, Mayer Langsam in 1977 in Willowdale. Mayer's

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David, Thank you for drawing this matter to our attention. A correction to the date of death recorded in JOWBR (as well as the alternate spelling of the family name) will be submitted in the next semi

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The Hebrew date, 6th of Tishrei 5679 on the gravestone, corresponds to Sept. 12th 1918. I never heard of the name Bagdanoff, but know a Bogdanoff here in Israel.

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