One likely possibility for image one ofiaruję moją podobiznę mojej drogiej mamusi I am offering my likeness (i.e., image, photo) to my dear mother. at the bottom, there is "od", that is "from" the nam

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Number four: The caption reads cabinet portrait The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a

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The first one is in Polish. I can translate this part: ofiaruję moją z..... mojej drogiej mamusi. I am offering my (indecipherable for now) to my dear mother (more like mommy, since mamusia is dimunut

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Hello, I've posted photos for which I need a translation and identification. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93539 https://www.j

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I couldn’t find my great grandmother on a manifest for years! Her US name, as found in census records and her death certificate, was Jennie Goldstein! She was a widow who was never natualuzed inthe US

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Looking for relatives in Jonava. My Grandmother SULE SELMANOVICAITE (ZELMANOVICH)who was born in Jonava (Kaunas) in 1906. She had Internal Passport Card Nº 2519/821121 of AGO/1/1922 and KRA 71/3/2772.

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Hi Tracy, I agree with Giannis that the town could be Jedwabne. In Yiddish it was called Yedvabna. You can see the similarity between Edvadno / Yedvabna -- it seems a likely candidate. In 1909 there i

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My mother's father's father came from Butrimonys. His name in English was Bernard Romsisky which according to the ship manifest was actually Rumsiski. They lived in the South End neighborhood of Bosto

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I also have relatives from Butrimonys (Pailet) and Merkine & Varena (Godofsky) who are listed as being "farmer from Leipalingis colony", another Jewish agricultural community, and would appreciate any

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Assuming the info above is correct that Jennie's parents were Faiwusch and Sarah Berman arriving NY Aug. 1921, they were going to son (Edward) Baer in Dover, NH. Attached is the link to Edward's nat.

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Arthur Pronin <aspronin@...> wrote: "I am searching for my great grandmother's immigration entry to America. Ive searched many times and ways. Jennie Baer- born 1887 in Salat Russia, sometimes

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I suggest you talk to Chaim Bargman who is a historian and researcher living in Kaunas, Lithuania. If anyone is able to find out things like that, it would be him. https://www.visitlithuania.net/guide

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Hi Arthur, Did you try other American entry ports, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and Galveston? I solved one such mystery by checking immigration through Canada. Good luck Molly Arost Staub

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David, The JewishGen Gazetteer https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp lists three locations in Lithuania with the name Daukniunai. Good luck in your search, Sherri Bobish

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Hi Tracy, Perhaps you are looking for this place Jedvabno https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Community.php?usbgn=-505687

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"I am searching for my great grandmother's immigration entry to America. Ive searched many times and ways. Jennie Baer- born 1887 in Salat Russia," Did she marry before she came to the US? Where did s

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I am looking for where my grandmother lived in Lithuania. She came to the United States in 1914, and on the ship manifest she lists her place of birth as Edvadno. On later documents she says she is fr

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Hey- I am searching for my great grandmother's immigration entry to America. Ive searched many times and ways. Jennie Baer- born 1887 in Salat Russia, sometimes lists Riga. Census says she came to USA

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JewishGen is pleased to report that 13,971 new records from our colleagues and partners at LitvakSIG are now searchable via the JewishGen Lithuania Collection. This update features a unique list of Je

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According to an 1879 birth record, my paternal great-grandfather was a “Farmer in the Daukniunai Jewish Agricultural Community.” Two further birth records for the same year and one death record from 1

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