Following Sally Bruckheimer post: Many smaller shtetls names have been added to the latest edition (2002) of WOWW2 (Where Once We Walk). Since 2002 publication, hundreds of the additional smaller shte

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1 Aleksandrów Kujawski and Aleksandrow Łódzki in Poland, and Aleksandriya, Wołyń region, Ukraine 2. Droyanov - Trayanov (Polish: Trajanów), Zhitomir area, Wołyń region, Ukraine 3. Pomoza - Pomoryany (

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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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Hey everyone My previous post wasn’t really clear, I would like to know if I can find a book of residents for the town of Minsk Mazowiecki ? What would be the archives where to find it and how ?? It i

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Relly, Using The JewishGen Communities Database (soundex search) is helpful: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp Droyanov perhaps: Troyaniv [Ukr], Troyanov [Rus, Yid], Trojanów [Pol], Tro

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The Jewish Communities Database on Jewishgen gives the names of a place in Yiddish, Polish, Russian, whatever is appropriate. The only drawback is that it only has big Jewish Communities, so if your f

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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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A suggestion for Hanovak https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Community.php?usbgn=-503896

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Tried both, but could not figure out from the Yiddish name what the Polish one is. I was hoping that someone in the forum might know. Relly Coleman

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try Towns | Virtual Shtetl (sztetl.org.pl) or Jewishgen

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Hello, I've posted an 1890 Lomazy birth record for Perla Marja WAJNSTAJN on View Mate for which I'd greatly appreciate a translation. It is in Cyrillic. Here is the link: https://www.jewishgen.org/vie

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Dear Group, I would appreciate help in translating these Polish words, submitted to Warsaw court following WW2. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=93697 Thank you very much! - Yar

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There are several issues here. 1. When you do a search and a marriage record matches you get rows returned for both bride and groom. You might not understand why one row was returned for the search bu

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I just make an add about my previous email, Minsk Mazowiecki is in Poland close to warshaw Hi everyone Do you know if I can find a book of for Minsk Mazowiecki ? What would be the archives where to fi

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Sounds like uses Daitch-Mokotoff soundex and produces many false positive results. Phonetic uses Beider Morse phonetic matches and removes most of the false positives. It is worth trying both but phon

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"A "Phonetically like" search on Surname can get odd results for Suwalki records. For example, searching "Silberman" I find a low percentage of odd given names that include : Sorry, Well then, The cir

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A "Phonetically like" search on Surname can get odd results for Suwalki records. For example, searching "Silberman" I find a low percentage of odd given names that include : Sorry, Well then, The circ

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I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... Birth Record of Eljazor KORNSTEJN: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?u

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I am translating a Hebrew article from the Wloclawek Yizkor book and need help translating names of villages/towns from the Hebrew/Yiddish to English or Polish names. The article title is: Alexandrov

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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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