My great-grandfather Bernard Ackerman was born in 1874 in the northeast Hungarian village of Benk (near present-day borders with Ukraine, Slovakia, and Romania). After his birth, the next record I hav

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Sally, thank you for the explanation. Now a follow-up question: how do you record these names in your family tree? Do you use the "correct" name (which, as I understand it, is "correct" only because t

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In the marriage abstract below, which I copied and pasted from Gesher Galicia, what does the "r" signify after the bride's surname (Lea Frenkel r. Lustig)? Another abstract for the same couple lists t

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Vivian Kahn, I should have asked: is Mr. Abolson digitizing all civil registration records, or just those for Jewish births, deaths, and marriages? Thanks again.

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Vivian Kahn, Thank you very much. The records I'm looking for are from the Kosice Region — from the town of Gelnica or thereabouts — and are more than 100 years old. Are any digitized records online?

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I've been unable to find Hungarian Civil Registration records for what is now Slovakia. Are they available online? If so, where? Many thanks. Carole Bass

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I perhaps should have mentioned that I have many U.S. records for the family. None of them says where Bernard was born (except for one reference to the nonexistent "Darthmouth, Austria"), which is why

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I have hit a brick wall in researching my ACKERMAN ancestors and am looking for advice. In a breakthrough early this year, I found the birth record of my great-grandfather Bernath/Bernhard Ackerman in

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I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM80687 Please respond via the f

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My great-grandparents, Bernard A(c)kerman and Paulina Frits, emigrated separately from then-Hungary to Germany around 1900 (I think — possibly earlier). They lived in Sodingen, Germany (now part of He

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I've posted two files from Hungarian vital records, for which I request translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM77891 h