Jeremy, There is a Jewish Genealogy Society of Buffalo. I don't know how active it is, but you may want to contact the organization and see if someone there is willing to photograph the grave for you;

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Peter, you do not mention where "your" Lessers were from. The Lessers in my family tree came from Lithuania and Latvia. One family member adopted the surname Levy. According to family lore, the origin

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As Janice mentioned, many states have digitized additional newspapers. Here is one example: the NYS Historic Newspapers site - https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/ I've found the website especially usef

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Jill, I would suggest checking a few websites. One contains volumes of the American Jewish Year Book in PDF, which you can search. The yearbook didn't begin until 1899, but perhaps the rabbi was still

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Tara, I've had good results with two South African websites: SA Jewish Rootsbank, the South African Jewish Database National Archives of South Africa FamilySearch has some South African records, but I

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I'd suggest tracking down the photography studio to see what you can find out about G. Grossman and the time period in which he was active. I checked Langdon's List of 19th & Early 20th Century Photog

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Thanks for sharing the link, Myra. Not only do these yearbooks contain statistics on Jews in countries around the world, they also have information that would be of interest to genealogists: Biographi

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For what it's worth, I have photos of my great-grandmother wearing similar shoes, taken in the late 1920s.

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David, I can't promise they will be able to help, but I'd suggest contacting an organization called Friends of New Jersey Cemeteries, Inc. It is based about 30 minutes from Oheb Shalom, and someone in

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What is the proper way to cite sources used in family research, when the sources are databases and spreadsheets containing transcribed and/or translated records? For example: Extracts of Latvian vital

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Deborah Glassman's website, The Jewish Families of Ostropol, has some records from Revision Lists for Lyubar. https://jewishfamiliesofostropol.com/revisionlists-lyubar

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Assuming that the marriage record Giannis found is correct, it appears that Rose's first husband died in Manhattan in December 1927 - only a few months after they married. Ellen

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I've posted part of a Dutch document for which I'd like a translation. The image is on Viewmate at: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94467 Thank you very much. Ellen Ellen Mor

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I use a spreadsheet, as it can be sorted easily. I think I started with a spreadsheet generated through MyHeritage and adapted it for my needs. In the file, I have one sheet sorted by the name/usernam

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Steve Morse has a list of street name changes in Brooklyn at https://stevemorse.org/census/changes/BrooklynChanges.htm, but Boyd Street isn't on the list. So the question now is whether Adrien's ances

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Benjamin's place of birth is written as Galess. (At first I thought it was Gabess, but look at the formation of the letter "L" in the word Belgium below it.) JewishGen TownFinder suggests the modern-d

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The Albany Public Library has city directories from 1813 to the present; unfortunately, they are not available online. Apparently, the U.S. City Directories collection on the MyHeritage website includ

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Thanks for sharing this, Tema. I have saved in a file the names of my ancestors' towns in Cyrillic, so I was able to search for diary entries that mention those places. I also tried searching for refe

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I set up Thru Lines on Ancestry awhile back, but I must say I've been disappointed, as it has errors that apparently can't be corrected. For example: Thru Lines identifies my grandmother's paternal au

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After I sent my last message, I found a Peter Goldberg (1905-1982) in a family tree on Ancestry. His wife's name was Elise, and they had three children (names are private). They are buried in Oceanpor

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