Try putting it on Genealogical Translations on Facebook. You'll need to join the group first but they have translators who can handle many different languages and handwriting. Best of luck. Ava (Sherl

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Alex, have you tried looking at the Revisionist records from the town the Arbarbanel and/or Dickman family is from? I found a previously unknown relative who was taken at age 8 and sadly died at age 1

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Judy, this uniform appears to be a WW1 uniform from the U.S. However, to make a positive uniform identification, it is always advisable to post the entire photograph rather than a cropped version so t

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Unfortunately, the link originally posted was incorrect. I have answered Diane's question at the other link. Her tintype is from the 1880s. The paper sleeve and other clues make it possible to date th

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Your question is a bit complicated since we cannot see the actual "portrait photographs" you are referring to. Though photography was invented in 1826, portraits of individuals were not commonly taken

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These are real photo postcards and would need to be first identified and dated to tell if they are in fact pre-WW1 cards and from Russia. Without seeing the actual fronts and backs of the cards it isn

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The use of the words "Cabinet Card" "Cabinet Portrait" or "Cabinet Photograph" are generic terms for the type of photographic mounting that measures roughly 4 1/4" x 6 1/2". It does not refer to the i

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Hello, Boris. As you know, I'm very familiar with looking up photographers. I do it all the time. The M. Smith studio was located at 331 Grand Street, between Orchard and Ludlow Streets in Manhattan.

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I understand that you have a lot of photographs but PLEASE do not discard any of them. I know from personal experience the pain of knowing that someone has thrown away images of my family and that the

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It is a trying time for all of us and I appreciate your sentiments about staying at home to work on our genealogy.The idea poses a number of different questions as to how this would work. I would thin

Thank you for posting these. Since the photographs bear an Oak Park stamp, it's most likely that they are from nearby Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, IL. Please share these with the Jewish Genealogi

The uniform will help you find out which country and the date of the photograph will help also because the Russian army only participated formally in the war until the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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