Hi Christine You don't give your great-grandparents' name, but have you looked for them in the Warsaw address book? The 1930 edition (which would have gone to press in 1929) is here: https://polona.pl

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I have a birth record for my Aunt Krajndla Klepfisz from 1865. It indicates her parents' names as Dawid Mordka Klepfisz and Etta Laia Ruda, information I know to be correct. It also indicates they are

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Phonetically, Gendha reminds me of Gęsta which is pronounced Gensta. However, ulica Gęsta was a short street with numbers not exceeding 20, thus there was no such address as 73 Gęsta Street. Gęsta Str

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Thanks, a lot for your answers (and for the map). It is an extract of an administrative document which has been fulfilled by an official to whom my grandfather gave the answers. The French official wr

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The whole of the Jewish section of Warsaw was flattened and obliterated after the Warsaw uprising. Photos at the Polin Museum show the thorough destruction of this area. My mother and her family lived

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I believe it was Gęsia street (ulica) which was located near the Jewish cemetery. The street’s name, as well as the city’s name were misspelled (most likely by a foreigner). Dr. Joanna Zimmerman

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Those streets that were rebuilt weren't always in the exact same place. They may be a bit off. That is why they say you can only really know where it was by the sewers. Rose Feldman

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There is a Warsaw city map from 1938 that claims to have all the streets listed. https://polona.pl/item/plan-wielkiej-warszawy-z-wymienieniem-wszystkich-ulic-miasta,MzU2NDQ1NA/0/#info:metadata On its

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I would have thought that many streets in Warsaw were flattened during the war and not necessarily rebuilt. Harvey Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland

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The list of modern streets in Warsaw that start with "Ge" are Gedymina Gembarzewskiego Genewska Geodetów Geologiczna Geranii Gersona (first name Wojciech, I believe) http://www.warszawska.waw.pl/ulice

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Hi everyone I am looking for a street in Warsaw where my Great grand parents lived in 1929, I don’t find it with google maps: 73 Gendha Street. Perhaps this is misspelled Thanks a lot for your help. C

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I am looking for anyone with anything that might be linked with Rose/Raizel Segall, who married Lazarus Zimbler in 1909 in Mile End, and lived in Whitechapel with Lazarus (Eliezer) and their new daugh

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I am providing a map to accompany the translation of an essay in the Yizkor Book of Mizoch about the story of a partisan. Several of the geographic references are obscure, some being small hamlets, an

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Would you be able to translate this letter written in German to English on ViewMate? I would be incredibly thankful! Here is the link: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM90007 T

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Dear Paul Silverstone, On the picture of the gravestone appears : Leah daughter of Rabbi Yaakov Baruch, wife of Rabbi Ezra Hashan Died 26 Elul (5)669 equals to September 12, 1909. Sincerely, Miron Chu

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I have posted a picture of the grave of my great-grandmother who was buried in Warsaw before WWI. Her married name was CHRZAN but the Hebrew on the stone seems to say something different. https://www.

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Record No. 681 Signed in Warsaw City District 4 on August 20/September 1, 1865. Recorded birth on August 13/25, 1865 at house 1101 of Krajndla daughter of husband and wife , Dawid Mordka Klepfisz age

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I believe this article, over 3 years old, is still relevant to "your proof you are related": https://clevertitletk.medium.com/no-you-dont-really-have-7-900-4th-cousins-some-dna-basics-for-those-with-j

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Phil, Thank you for providing this informative chart. I could not find it due to the abundance of information on the Wiki. Can you please provide the exact link. (I have a similar situation with “cous

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Unfortunately FTDNA counts segments as small as 1 cM, while MyHeritage only counts from 6 cMs up. Both overstate the true identical by descent cMs (the others are Identical by State). The standard is

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