I have posted the back of a photo postcard on Viewmate and would be grateful for a translation of the handwritten Yiddish on it. (There are relatively few words but the writing seems to be particularl

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FamilySearch (free) will have it: <https://www.familysearch.org/en/info/us-census/1950-census/> David Brostoff

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I have posted two images from a passenger list of the S.S. Zeeland, arriving in New York on Oct. 2, 1906. (The second image, ViewMate 96928, is for handwriting comparison.) <https://www.jewishgen.org/

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Find a Grave <https://www.findagrave.com> has volunteers all over the world. David Brostoff

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What browser are you using? As far as I know, Avotaynu does use https, although there may be a coding error that is causing it not to display properly in the address bar of all browsers. With my setup

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Could you please explain the funding part of this? Which towns have records that have still not been uploaded? Thank you, David Brostoff Berkeley, California

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Minor correction: The article at the link above was published on the same day as the one at the original link, not a few days earlier. David Brostoff

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Here is a link to the same article in a different newspaper a few days earlier: <https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-family-hid-their-bible-in-an-attic-as-nazis-invaded-almost-80-years-later-i

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For what it's worth, I had success in using "Suggest Edits" to get Find A Grave to do make a substantial change to a memorial I didn't own. David Brostoff

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If you create a virtual memorial on FindAGrave, you can request a photo from a local volunteer. David Brostoff

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Beider gives two etymologies and cites several locations where the name appears in records -- in what sense was this not helpful? David Brostoff

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At the above link, under "The Format of the Vital Records," it says, "The left side is completed in Russian [or very occasionally in German, in the case of Courland]; and on the facing page the same d

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I have posted images on ViewMate of two photos: <http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89763> <http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89786> I would like an estima

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I found an index record for "Brostoff, Jankel or Jacob" in "Texas, El Paso Alien Arrivals, 1924-1952" on Family Search, which I am attaching to this message. A search for his last name in "Texas, El P

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Where are these records accessible? Thank you, David Brostoff

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I don't seem to be able to find a searchable online database for German WWII reparations records. Any recommendations? Thank you, David Brostoff

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Thank you for clarifying this. Until now I misunderstood the issue and sincerely apologize if my previous post -- citing matches with known relatives under 20 cM total (but well above 8 cM) -- added f

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Similarly, I have two known third cousins, one 3C1R and one half-1C2R under 20 cM. More importantly though, I have a 14 cM match that led me to a cousin from a branch whose father had changed his last

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Thanks to an off-list suggestion and some further research that led me to an earlier passenger list on which Simchon Brostow was listed with a traveling companion from the same small shtetl, Nachman L

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I have posted an image from a passenger list of the S.S. Palatia, arriving in New York on July 20, 1900. <https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85216> I would be grateful to know t

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