My wife's grandfather's brother, Ruben Myer ROSEN (JERUSALEMSKY) was born in Schucin (Europe) about, 1860 and moved to the USA . He married Sophie BRANSON daughter of isadore (died 1945). Their childr

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Here's Dave Mates: https://alba-valb.org/volunteers/dave-mates/. I'll see if he's profiled on the Geni tree and will list him if not. (just done.) Very small bit about Helen North on ALBA-VALB, nothin

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I am currently transcribing an Index book from a Galician town from the years that it was part of Poland. And Dwoire, a common name, is the spelling that is used. I have not yet seen Devora or Devorah

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I am looking for a descendant of Ida Krasnowsky. She died in 1988 in California, if I have the correct Ida. I have a spouse for her but after checking with the cemetery, he has a different wife not Id

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I have three relatives/family connections who were active in the Spanish civil war. Helen North, my father's first cousin, served. Her husband Joe was a war correspondent and volunteer, and my father'

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Hello, Binyamin Zeev Kornitzer davens in my shul and lives around the corner from me in the Midwood section of Flatbush, here in Brooklyn, NY. Moishe Miller

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Bob, would you like the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois to host your records permanently? If you do, ask Martin and he can direct you to Mike Karsen who is the database manager.

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Any possible connection to the Kornitzers in Rijeka, Fiume, Yugoslavia? Reuven Koffler, Jerusalem

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I am working on the date of the late Florence MARMOR who collected data on the Mokkom Sholom. Acaia and Bayside cemeteries She has Location Surname Given Name Place of Birth Date of Birth Place of Dea

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-----Original Message----- From: Alan Reische Would US citizens be required to hold passports for 1927 travel ex US, and if so, what information would have been required? Yes by the late 1920s US citi

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Many thanks for these links, Martin. I have made a number of treks to the Waldheim Cemetery complex in search of relatives' graves, some successful, and some not. The Waldheim staff has been very help

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Would US citizens be required to hold passports for 1927 travel ex US, and if so, what information would have been required? Please respond privately if mods deem this of insufficient interest. Thanks

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Martin, thank you SO much for this invaluable resource. I have visited Waldheim (virtually) many, many times when researching Chicago families, but until now did not understand the history of the ceme

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This was in 2006; perhaps I spoke with the wrong bureaucrat at the library. Oftentimes, bureaucrats (library or otherwise) at academic institutions are students who are pleased to get some sort of pal

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Trying to make contact with the family of Feige Rachel (Faye), daughter of Rabbi Avarham David Rubin who was the Lacunt Rebbe. Faye married Moshe Yehoshua Kornitzer. Children are Binyamin Zeev and Sha

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Hidden in a 30x30- foot storage locker in Dixon (Illinois) , an executive from the Chicago History Museum found more than 225 containers inside the storage locker containing about 5 million negative f

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The community newspaper article linked below from Forest Park, Illinois, is not new, but I only became aware of it this week. It tells the story of an important leader of the largest Jewish cemetery i

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Not sure why Ken Ryesky had trouble getting access to the ALBA Archives. The vast ALBA collections at the Tamiment Library at New York University are, and always have been, open to everybody, but one

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Hi Barbara, United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2185145 Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ

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Hi Molly, This NARA page has detailed info on U.S. passport history and regulations. https://www.archives.gov/research/passport From the above site: Passports were recommended, but not required, by Pr

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