My cousin Miriam was known as Mura. She was born in Russian Empire, grew up in Berlin, then France and lived out her life in New York. So was Mura a Russian version? It took years for me to realise th

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It is a long time since you made this post. I hope you found photos and information that you were looking for. I am interested because my great uncle, Moisha Mikhail Friedland, moved from Odessa, I th

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I like your disciplined research. I was under the impression that when a boy child Was born to a family that he was given the name of a family without boy children So from the start had another name r

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My grandfather whose family came from Minsk, now Belarus, was put as a Pole on a letter to British Home office applying to come to live and work in Britain in 1931. As far as we were concerned, he was

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Regarding Jenny Rapaport's search in 1920s and 1930s for family records in Belarus, we have had amazing results >from the Belarus state archives in Minsk. We found FRIEDLAND family going back to 1814

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Regarding Jenny Rapaport's search in 1920s and 1930s for family records in Belarus, we have had amazing results >from the Belarus state archives in Minsk. We found FRIEDLAND family going back to 1814

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Please does anyone know how to do research about Harbin? Are there records? Where would they be kept? How do we access them? We were told by our family that our grandparents, Victor Moisha Friedland a

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Please does anyone know how to do research about Harbin? Are there records? Where would they be kept? How do we access them? We were told by our family that our grandparents, Victor Moisha Friedland a

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Please would you post this about a recently published book called The Friedlands - business and family. It is a not for profit book, being sold at a price that helps to cover costs. The Friedlands - B

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Please would you post this about a recently published book called The Friedlands - business and family. It is a not for profit book, being sold at a price that helps to cover costs. The Friedlands - B

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I have a matriculation certificate for my aunt, Ida FRIEDLAND, for her period of schooling >from 1915 to 1917 at the A.F.Grossman gymnasium school in Moscow, then part of the Russian Empire. She was a

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I have a matriculation certificate for my aunt, Ida FRIEDLAND, for her period of schooling >from 1915 to 1917 at the A.F.Grossman gymnasium school in Moscow, then part of the Russian Empire. She was a

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Does anyone know about the Rabbi Nachum >from Minsk? Apparently he is our ancestor. My uncle, Efim Friedland, carried a visiting card that said he was the grand grand son of the genius Rabbi Nachum of

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Does anyone know about the Rabbi Nachum >from Minsk? Apparently he is our ancestor. My uncle, Efim Friedland, carried a visiting card that said he was the grand grand son of the genius Rabbi Nachum of

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We are looking for a researcher for our Heifetz family who were definitely living in Orscha in 1905. We don't know how far back they were there. We would like to research >from about 1890 to 1920 to b

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We are looking for a researcher for our Heifetz family who were definitely living in Orscha in 1905. We don't know how far back they were there. We would like to research >from about 1890 to 1920 to b

#belarus