I want to thank all of you for sending me your thoughts. I will be following up on them. Right now, I have a theory which fits the data I have (data that I do not have italicized in parentheses): In 1

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It's my understanding that it is very common for multiple family members to be named for the same ancestor. My mother has 3 cousins on her mother's side all named Michael for their grandmother. My gre

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I am looking for birth data for individuals born in and around Flamersheim before 1850. I do not know precisely where these births would have been registered Flamersheim is about 10 kilometers south a

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Good morning all. This book of Wolfhard Klein, "Juden in Jugenheim", has just been published. It is a real gold mine for everyone whose family comes from Jugenheim in Rheinhessen I believe it can be o

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Hi genners, I have posted German and Polish vital and census records which need translations You can find them at the following links. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?s

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Strange. My uncle Julius Jacobs known here as Jay lived in Corsicana Texas and passed in 1970s or 80s. If that holds any interest let me know and zI will try and see if dates and connections are possi

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I think they are two different persons, by chance with the same name, and with a dance teacher father. 1. the ages are different - 1st is 88 in 1901, 2nd is 84 in 1890 2. mother of 1st is Henriette Li

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Dear fellow gersigers, I have posted two parts of a document written in Dutch. I will appreciate help in translating this document into English. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=

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At the present time, I am trying to contact any of my mother's paternal family. They would be related to her maternal grandfather Samuel Mezger born in Crailsheim, Germany (formerly known as Goldbach)

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Dear Dmjacobs, Julius Jacob, born 5-May-1876, died 14-Jul-1957 is buried next to Berta Jacob (nee Rheinganum), born 11-Jun-1887, died 5-Jul-1941. She is presumably his wife. You can do the search your

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Subj: ViewMate translation request - Handwritten German I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/vie

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My two Max brothers were Moshe and Mordechai. Neither one of them came to the US, but their descendants Anglicized both their names to Max. It took me a long time and several documents to figure out t

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She died, was reincarnated, and died again. I'm kidding. Seriously: This may mean that her death was falsely reported when she was still alive (in 1890), perhaps either so her husband could marry some

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I'm on the trail of a 1st cousing once removed, born in Willmars, Germany (1876), who emigrated to Australia in 1939. I have just ordered documents from the Australian National Archives (thanks to a s

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Hi Barbara, Here is a variation on that them. I had two great-uncles, Meloch and Manya Tzipershteyn. Their two sisters and brother became Silverstein here. However, Meloch and Manya became Max Selvers

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Why my Brooklyn family was buried in New Jersey. My grandfather belonged to the New York Social Club which had a section in the large Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn probably since the early 1900s. Bu

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Re: "I would be happy to donate 4 plots to a worthy Jewish organization". Perhaps the "Hebrew Free Burial Association" would be interested. Here is their website: https://www.hebrewfreeburial.org/ Fre

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Could they be cousins or sisters born to the same father but different mothers? While it is unusual for sisters or cousins to have the same name, if they were named for the same person, it's not impos

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Hi I have found a number of gravestones with the mother’s name on them in Hungary and Slovakia, including the gravestone of my great great grandparents, Wilhelm LOVINGER and Amalie LOVINGER nee MILCH,

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Although it’s possible the father’s name was not known (maybe he had died many years before or there was a messy divorce and people didn’t want to remember the name), Jews in Bratislava and a few surr

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