My paternal grandfather was born in Odessa in 1876. Around 1900 he transliterated his surname from Cyrillic MEEPCOH to Roman MEERSON, and remained Michael Meerson for the rest of his long life. Someti

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If the name isn't "son of Morris," it could be Morozov or Morosoff (which actually means frost). A website I looked at suggested Moryson and Moritsan as possible alternatives, indicating that these su

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My Morrison ancestors from Ukraine (Uman and Vinnitsa) were Morofsky or something very similar. Steve Chernoff: Researching

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I have located the 1920 New York City marriage record for a great aunt who was born in Ukraine (in or near Odessa), in about 1900. In the record she lists her mother's maiden name as 'Morrison', which

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Katja, Try: https://www.familysearch.org/search/ They seem to have some records from Perleberg. Regards, Sherri Bobish

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Hello, I searched really long, but unfortunately couldn't find anything. Is there anyone who could help me? It's about my direct ancestors, Isaak Mann and Nanny Lichtenstein. The only documents I have

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Babi Yar (Babyn Yar) is a ravine outside the Ukrainian city of Kyiv (Kiev) where Einsatzgruppen mobile squads killed at least 34,000 Jews over a one week period in September 1941. Jews were marched in

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I am trying to find out the names of the parents of Nathan HAASE who married my great great aunt Pauline ANKER. Nathan was born 5 May 1838 and died January 3, 1912. I found Nathan’s death notice but i

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I recently tried to find FRIEDMANs in Poland in JGFF and found many, but I wanted to grab the data, condense it and sort it by locality or perhaps other things like the person submitting it. This woul

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For the second link, for the older records, I see a search field for searching all the records at once. But I don’t see that for the first link, for the newer records? Judy Kaufman Irvine, CA

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Please would Harvey Kaplan use the program and send me a list of all researchers who study the name WEINSTEIN ( or have that name themselves) David Lewin

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Thanks for everyone's comments about this. Of equal importance to our archival collections, is our community and network of researchers around the world who join together in support of our mission. Wi

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"It used to be that family names in capitalization were a required part of our signatures." This was never true. Surnames were required to be capitalized, and you were allowed to include 6 lines of su

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I have observed that the "old timers" mostly listed their family names and towns in the Family Finder, but that people joining JewishGen more recently rarely do. For example look at any fairly common

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Already exists as you describe: Do a name search on the JewishGen Discussion Group archives. 1993 - current. here: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main Aug 1999 - current and here: http://data.jewishge

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I do use the JGFF, but I agree with the idea of cleaning it up. So many of the researchers have not been on in the last 10 years. I do know that they do add RD for the deceased researchers, when someo

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It used to be that family names in capitalization were a required part of our signatures. That requirement should still be in place so other Jewish genners can discover new relatives. Recently when lo

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I think it does. If you search by a particular surname, it lists surname, town, researcher. Harvey Kaplan

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Not only do you see the last name you are looking for, but you get the member name or number and a link to contact them with. No matter what the subject is, as soon as I am done reading a post to the

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I think what you describe does already exist. Look for the Family Finder. https://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ Binyamin Kerman Baltimore MD

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