Please contact me offline if you would like updates to the extraordinary Jewish cemetery cleanup project happening now in Lyubar, Ukraine. A team headed by Viktor Vahofsky of Novograd-Volynsk is commu

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I'm familiar with this merchant class in the Russian Empire, although I've not seen one of these passports. My ggf was a member of what our family called the "first glitzy," and it was rare for Jews t

#russia #general

I've posted 5 marriage records from Poland, in RUSSIAN, for which I need translations of names. These are siblings, and we are most interested in confirming their parent names, although additional tra

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Please post or send privately: recommendations for the names of researchers who have accessed the Archives in Minsk, Belarus within the past two years. Strong English skills and with references prefer

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Alice - Can you please send me your email address. I'm interested in your Denver Hellersteins/Farbers and would like to compare trees.

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Albert, Because you mention that David Levy served in a German battalion unit at Valley Forge, and his wife was born in a German-speaking area, it raises the question about whether he might have been

#unitedkingdom #usa #sephardic

In Sephardic religious practice, what is an escaba or escabas referring to? Does it mean prayer, or specifically a misheberach prayer? Is there another word for misheberach prayer in the Sephardic lit

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Try: https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/

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#USA #jgs-iajgs Introducing the newly-launched JewishGen U.S. Research Division - focusing on all time periods 1654 - present! Collaborating with JOWBR, the Memorial Plaques Database Project, the Seph

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Has anyone taken the “U.S. Religious Records Part 2” including Judaism, from the University of Toronto’s National Institute of Genealogical Studies? https://www.genealogicalstudies.com/ Any feedback o

#canada #education

The two Google Drive documents are not hyperlinked. Please re-post. Local municipalities have been selling these Jewish cemetery and mass grave properties for years. What are the ramifications of this

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#earlyamerican Although the full text of this book is available online, and free, through the American Jewish Archives, I'm interested in obtaining a hard copy for my personal library as I embark upon

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No remote access to my knowledge. Wanted to let you know Ed Richard z'l passed away last summer. Ellen Kowitt Erie, CO

I have an ancestor Lea KAMINSKY born 1800 in Vistytis, Lithuania - an area just north of modern-day Suwalki, Poland border. She had two brothers, Leib and Elkan Sheye, that perhaps you descend from? I

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I have had great success working with local school teachers in both Lyubar, Ukraine and Chudnov, Ukraine. Although noted that these towns are further east in the former Novograd Volynsk and Zhytomir A

There are so many genealogy projects going on for the city and administrative district of Novograd Volynsk! #1) Significant progress has been made on translating the Novograd Volynsk Yizkor Book since

#yizkorbooks #ukraine

Introducing the "Lyubar, Ukraine Revision List Indexing Project" < https://jewishfamiliesofostropol.com/lyubarmatrixindex> conducted by our friend and partner Deborah Glassman. Based in Washington sta

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Introducing the "Lyubar, Ukraine Revision List Indexing Project" < https://jewishfamiliesofostropol.com/lyubarmatrixindex> conducted by our friend and partner Deborah Glassman. Based in Washington sta

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KAMINSKY is a surname in my family from the small town of Vistytis in modern-day Lithuania. It is located just north of the Polish border near Suwalki and also across a lake from the modern Russian bo

Hi Rachel - Your Yizkor Book Project covers are beautiful. Any chance you will be creating one for the Novograd-Volynsk Yizkor Book I am project lead for? I live just south of you in Erie, Colorado. R