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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I am researching my maternal grandmother, Zelda Ginn, and her parents, Zalmon Ginn and Sara Serefsky. Her alien Registration file provides no information. other than her entry port (NYC). I can not fi

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While publication of Landsmen has halted and many of the other activities of the Suwalk-Lomza Interest Group have been temporarily placed on hold, its goals and efforts as described at https://www.jew

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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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I have a Lena Leibowitz on my tree but she married Jack Leibowitz and I have her originally as Lena Markowitz. I don't have other info about her.

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have you tried familytreenow.com? lmk, sonja marder

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I am starting again on a branch I got stuck on a long while ago and would appreciate any help I could get finding info on the lady or her descendents. My great-grandma Mary (Feige Mara) who came to th

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The JGS of LA has a nearly-complete set of the journal, stored in the Family History Library of the LDS Temple in Westwood. I should add that, though, indeed, much (but not all) of the material that a

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I’d love to know as well – I was lucky to put a reference up on Jews of Grajewo on FB and got a translation of the reference. I’ve tried writing to see about ordering the collection but got no respons

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My great great grandparents came from Lomza. Their names were Mowsa and Rochla Judes Szumowski. One of their daughters, Pezza Malka , was my great grandmother who went to England in the 1890s.

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Landsmen was a privately issued journal covering the Suwalki/Lomza areas of Poland,owned by Marlene Silverman,the editor of the publication. None of the material published in these journals can be pub

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I have some info from the Landsman Journals in my ancestry.com tree and am trying to use my gedcom file (with Landsman references in the birth place name) to put data on other sites. I put one file on

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My wife's grandparents BERKOVITS/BERKOWITZ are from Suwalki. Her grand mother said they were from Minsk area. Was this Minsk Geburnia ca the 1900's Maurice Kessler

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I think it is true that Marlene (not Marilyn) Silverman obtained data from some sources that could not be obtained elsewhere (e.g. from Galina Baranova of the Lithuanian archives), though I think subs

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LitvakSIG is pleased to announce that batch 10 of the Vilnius household registers is now available to qualified donors. The registers were created between 1919 and 1940 when Wilno (Vilnius) city and W

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I was under the impression that there was information published in "Landsmen" the quarterly publication of the Suwalki-Lomza Interest Group that cannot be found anywhere else. I don't believe that the

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I think that at least part of the reason for Marilyn dropping the Suwalki - Lomza SIG and journal, was that there wasn't much that they hadn't published. The last journals were republishing previously

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Marlene Silveman decided to end the group and its journal a few years ago when a family member became ill, I think. it seems there is still a demand for Suwalki Lomza themed information,which would be

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Does anybody know what became of the private Suwalki-Lomza group run by Marilyn? Used to receive a quarterly newsletter. Would appreciate an update. Diane Jacobs

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