Yes, Tysmenica was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and is now in Western Ukraine. In fact, my grandfather's brother was born there! He and his brother and their parents later moved to Stanislawow

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It looks like Carrie's maiden name was Kahn, which is a variation of Cohen, so it's possible that her family wanted her heritage to be recognized, even though the hand symbol is usually reserved for m

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FYI, Philip is not solely a Christian given name. I had a paternal uncle Philip and his parents were Orthodox. Also, there were also females from Kohen and Levite families who "broke the mold and left

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My maternal great grandmother's name was Helen, and her Hebrew Name was YEHUDIT. Annette Weiss aweissny@... Searching for: Wajs/Weiss, Pakula, and Dziedzinsky (Poland/Russia) Teiksler/Teicksle

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Hi All, I am seeking any B/M/D, census, revision lists, and military records that are available for Stanislawow (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Tysmienica, Nadworna and surrounding towns for the years 1850-191

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In the Austro-Hungarian Empire which included parts of what is now Poland and Ukraine, only "civil" marriages were considered "legal." If your ancestors had only a religious marriage and not a civil o

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I took a DNA test several years ago with MY Heritage and found a 2C1R ... and she was the great granddaugther of my grandmother. I never knew about my grandmother's much younger sister, who was left i

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Hi Harry, I'm not sure this will help, but we may have a connection somewhere along the line. My Paternal great grand mother's name was Helen (Yehudit) Teiksler born 1858, and her ship manifest from 1

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My grandfather's name was Mordecai in Poland and he changed it to Max when he came to the US. My brother was named after him,and his name is Marc,

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Here's a shot in the dark ... my maternal grandmother was Dora Siegel from Seirijai, which is a shtetl in the Suwalki region. She emigrated to NYC in 1905, and married my grandfather Abraham Teiksler

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My great grandmother's Hebrew name was Yehudit, which was Americanized to Helen, but on her ship manifest her name was Udie. She came from Stanislawow, now IVno-Frankivsk, in Ukraine

My maternal grandmother was Dora Siegel who immigrated from Seirijai Lithuania around 1907, and her mother's name was Syvia (Tsvia?) Katz..

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I am also searching for Siegal/Siegel on my mother's side, from Lithuania/Russia

For the last 4 years I have been the volunteer leader of a group at the JCCManhattan for a program called the Memory Book Project, where I take pairs of volunteers and assign them to an elderly person