I have one great grandfather that took the first name of Sam - his Hebrew name was Sheftel. I have another great grandfather that also took the name of Sam even though his older brother had taken that

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My family came from a small town about 35 mi. SE of Minsk. Two of the sons became Sam's in the USA. Their names on the ship manifest list were Schmerel and Schlajme.

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Well I can speak with experience on this. My husbands grandfather was Samuel Block from around Kiev, Russia. I looked for probably 15 yrs before I finally found his passenger list. And I was skeptical

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Thanks for sharing that, Mr Goldfarb- I hadn't seen that page. I'm the daughter and granddaughter of refugees from Vienna and have been working on my family tree since I started the Austrian citizensh

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Sorry about that. I've been neck-deep in a search for a 3x great-grandfather Szymel these days and once I started with SZ my fingers automatically filled in the rest. The point stands, however, that t

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You may want to search the birth/death/marriage announcements from the German-Jewish newspaper Aufbau, which I believe are now on Jewishgen. Megan Lewis USHMM

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There are many different spellings of Schwartz. For example Czwarc, which I believe is the Polish equivalent. It would be a good idea to check out all spellings. Jeannette Tsoulos Sydney, Australia

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My grandfather Was Sam who’s Hebrew name Yeshiah. Yiddish name was Shiah. There are many combinations and permutations. One can only guess with reference to Samuel Black. In fact, in many genealogical

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Actually, Sam was very popular as a secular name, as it wasn't seen as 'odd' like some Jewish given names. Schwartz (Gerrman) and Szwarc (Polish) are both Black. Sam is most likely Schmul, but could b

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Using the SteveMorse.org search option for checking the NYC marriage license indexes, for a person whose first name starts with Lil, and last name starts with Loeb, I found two possible entries. In 19

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Funny, I just watched the latest episode for Finding Your Roots on PBS and Lewis Black finds out that his relative's name on the ship manifest was Leib Blech, which was changed to Black. So that might

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How about the simple Schwarz, which is German for black. Frank Szmulowicz

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Thank you, Lee, for a thorough response. One point: Shimel/Szymel is Yiddish for Simon. Szmuel/Shmuil is homophonic search-wise but is Samuel. My ggf Shmuil had a brother Shimel. Fred Millner flmillne

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Several things come to mind for you to search. 1. Try stevemorse.org for NYC death and marriage indexes 2. Look up NYC Directories for 1946 and after. 3. The 1950 US census is due to be public info Ne

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"when he arrived in the U.S. in 1875 from Wroclaw, Poland." makes no sense. If you mean Wroclaw in Silesia, it was a German city till 1945, so Polish spellings are not relevant. If you mean another Po

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Samuel could have been any of a dozen Jewish given names or maybe something not connected at all. Black could be a translation, in which case it would depend on the place he came from. Or it could be

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You write "my grandfather signed his name Samuel Black on the ship manifest when he arrived in the US in 1875.." There is no passenger manifest for a Samuel Back arriving in the US in 1875. Where did

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In response to: What would likely be the Jewish name for Samuel Black? It is possible that the name is Blach (German Jews have changed their Blach name to Black). Leslie Koelsch

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I am trying to find out what happened to my Aunt, Lilli Karoline Loeb. I know that she was born on 10 October 1912 in Sprendlingen, Germany. ( I am also interested in joining a Sprendlingen research g

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My mother collected old books and among them was a Taber's Medical Dictionary from 1930. It is a treasure. Many modern terms and obsolete terms are included. Now if I could find it easily every time I

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