Thanks so much to all of you who participated in our LitvakSIG Birds of a Feather session on May 22 for the Lida and Oshmiany Districts. A recording of the session -- as well as a PDF of the slides an

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Amit, Is this the town? https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp Byenitsa, Беніца, Bienica, Benitsa populated place 54°21' N 26°33' E G Belarus 51.3 miles NW of Minsk 53°54' N 27°34' E It see

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Dear Amit, i´m researching all KRULL;KRUL;KROLL;KROL Family connection too. especially Julie Kroll from near Wronki / Poznan Region. Julie Kroll was born 9.6.1865 , Father Michael Kroll ; Mother Julia

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Hello all, I'm looking for the (Abe) POZNIAK and (Chana) KRUL families from the town Benitsa, currently in Belarus (but also appears in LitvakSIG). Are there any more sources available for this town?

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I met Barbara Tevis "Barbie" Meyers at the 2006 IAJGS Conference in New York, and we discovered a possible connection between our families - her grandfather Benjamin MEYERS ne LUBINSKY was most likely

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Looking for connections between my Karklinsky family (from Lithuania) to the Blumrosen and Rosenthal families in Texas. We know there was a close family relationship but it has been lost over the year

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My grandmother who died in 1991 had in her address book "Sarah Sneider, Shangrila, 114 Francis St., Bellevue, Johannesburg, S. Africa" and notes she is my grandfather's niece. My grandfather was born

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I took a quick look at my family tree and I didn't see anyone with the names "Morris & Leba (Bresky) Wolk" (nor similar). I do have family with the "Walk/Wolk/Valk" surname variants, but I'm not sure

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My research to date has yielded little but I remain committed to finding information on my Lithuanian great grandparents(born circa 1850) and their ancestors. Their family may have lived in or near Pe

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9 May 2022 Good morning, I’ve just read the query from Janet on the daily page from Janet re Margolis in Panevezyz. My husband’s maternal grandmother was Channa Margolis (I don’t thinks the spelling m

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Need info on my great grandmother Etta "Itka" KAUFMAN(N) b. ~1849; d. 1/5/03 Chicago; m. Hillel "Eli", "Gilel", "Hirsh", "Abelovich", MARGOLIS b. ~1849; d. 1/5/03 Chicago. She had a brother Ephraim an

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Researchers with connections to towns in the Lida and Oshmiany Districts (see list below) are invited to a free “Birds of a Feather” Zoom session for the LitvakSIG Lida District and Oshmiany District

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Hi Group I have a transcribed Jewishgen death record for Peisachas Sames (Shames). He died Dec 14 1935 in Vieksniai Lithuania. Death recorded in Mazekiai. I know this is the Peisach Shames involved in

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Regina is the best guide available. She’s extremely knowledgeable, interested and interesting, and very able at brokering sensitive conversations with the locals. I was also very happy with the driver

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For what its worth, I will add my experience...I also used Regina Kopelovich and was very satisfied with her services. I rented a car from Avis, which I picked up and returned to the airport. Regina's

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My great-grandfather was Leib Kasdan, born around 1875 in Krucha/Mogilevy/Belarus. His parents were Barney and Gertrude Kasdan and he married Bella Shulman in 1894. Leib immigrated to NYC in July 1903

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Hi Robert, I did both a phonetic and then a soundex search at The JewishGen Unified Database. A soundex search finds in this database The Vsia Rossiia 1903 & 1911 Minsk, 1903 & 1911 Mogilev & 1911 Vit

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Dear friends, My grandfather, Morris (Mosche?) Kasdan was born in "Minsk" in 1881 and emigrated to NYC and lived in Cleveland and the Bronx until his death in 1955. He always referred to his home as M

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This is a followup to my last message. I contacted the guide we used, Regina Kopilevich. She says she knows many drivers and offered to let me give you her name. BTW, it sounds like Barbara has alread

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When we were in Lithuania, we used Viljamas Zitkauskas of Jerulita. http://www.jerulita.lt/ He took us around Vilnius and drove us to Panevezys where he took us to a site where my cousin's mother's fa

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