Hopefully some extra eyes will help me in my search as I know the power of the JewishGen Discussion Group! I am looking for the family of Manashe Grabel, I believe born in Streliska, Austria around 18

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Deborah Hospital is in Browns Mills, NJ and started out in 1922 as a TB sanitorium. They then began doing some of the first heart surgeries. You can google it. Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, OK President, JGS o

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The Russian Empire Internal Passports began in the early 18th century by Peter the Great. They were used to control migration and for travel within the Empire outside of their place of residence. Not

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There has been a lot on the National News this week regarding the Tulsa Race Massacre. President Biden is in Tulsa today for the 100th anniversary of one of the worst racial massacres in United States

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Congratulations to Jan Meisels Allen, President of the JGS of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County! At the Society Fair of the New England Regional Genealogical Conference, the Massachusetts Genealogi

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As a follow up...someone asked me a question if there was an old name for diabetes that might be on a death certificate. The answer is that there is not an old name for diabetes. The term diabetes was

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The following came from Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter today and might be useful to JewishGen Discussion Group members. As a 4th generation pharmacist and researcher for 35+ years, I did n

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You might also try the Congregation Sons of Israel cemetery in Lakewood, NJ on 7th street. The congregation has been around since 1904. If anyone had relatives from Lakewood, I have the 90 year Histor

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Actually the Russian Internal Passports began in the early 18th Century by Peter the Great issued to control migration in the country. It was abandoned after the October 1917 Russian Revolution. There

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State invites you to a second/repeat free Zoom presentation Monday evening, 3/8/2021, at 7 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time: "The Alex Krakovsky Project: Naviga

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The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton debunks a string of myths about his origins to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. For more than two centu

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On behalf of the JewishGen Discussion Group Moderators, thank you very much for all your posts. We are ahead of last year’s messages for the first two months by 570 posts and the month of February isn

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One other caveat to this issue. There could be a difference between what is actually written on the ship manifest and what someone who transcribed the manifest has written. An example is my great gran

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I am very pleased to announce a new presentation titled “How to Utilize The JewishGen Discussion Group Effectively”. This one-hour presentation is for anyone who is using or thinking about using the J

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To: All JewishGen Discussion Group Members I am in the process of completing a presentation titled "How to Effectively Utilize the JewishGen Discussion Group" and am looking for individual Discussion

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While Discussion Group Guidelines does not allow political postings at all, this post from new Georgia Senator Jon Issoff goes to the heart of genealogy and while not political, it was inspiration for

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An interesting story in today's New Yorker: Inside the U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art | The New Yorker Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, OK Researching Leet, Brom, Gitow, Goldfarb, Merin

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To: All JewishGen Discussion Group Members A happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous New Year in 2021 from your JewishGen Discussion Group moderators. The JewishGen Discussion Group unites Jewish genealo

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The lead story in Gary Mokotoff’s Nu? What’s New? this week was a lengthy article about Miriam Weiner’s updated website of The Routes to Roots Foundation at www.rtrfoundation.org . In addition, she al

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I have a relative by the name of Barnett Mulmed who was born in Brest-Litovsk on July 17, 1879. He went to London and changed his name to Mulmed and arrived in the US on the SS New York on Feb. 25, 19

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