Hebrew Jargon - Literally Hebrew, but in actuality Yiddish, b/c Hebrew was reserved for worship and study of religious text. Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ

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Google “hamburg lists”. Barbara Stern Mannlein Tucson, AZ

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1. Not common at all. In Poland only the noble class was entitled to bear armorial signs. 2. Very few Jewish families had them: Coats of arms belong to specific individuals and families and there is N

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Klauznik, Klauznikiene, and Klauznikaite are all the same name. Lithuanian has suffixes that denote the sex and marital status of the name bearer. as (us): suffix used to denote a male. iene, aite: su

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Your kind offer is greatly appreciated, Mark. I recently found a treasure trove of letters (1932-39) written to my late father from his parents. Several were from his father, Wolf Aron “Wilhelm” Stern

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I can make out: OCCUPATION: Janitor, EMPLOYER’S NAME: Issac (prob should be Isaac) Isacowitz 1414 Eastern Parkway, Kings, NY Kings refers to the county that encompasses the borough of Brooklyn. Barbar

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What do you mean, Lisa? Are you worried about posthumous baptism? The purpose is to ensure that ancestors can join church members in the afterlife. Individual Mormons submit to the church the names of

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Toda raba, David… and that’s about the limit of my Ivrit… Does it give any other info about him or his family? Barbara

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How kind of you, David. My Weisser/Weiser are from BUCZACZ (today called BUCHACH)a Galician shtetl that belonged to Poland between the World Wars and is today in Ukraine. Per wikipedia: It was in Habs

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INCORRECT: McKiev bought FTM four years ago and supports it. Older versions (pre 2017) are not able to sync with Ancestry. Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ

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Ben Avraham is used on tombstones when the father’s name is unknown, or when the deceased is a convert. https://kolshalom.net/hebrew-names/" "Traditionally, adult Jews-by-Choice are called up to the T

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St Marks Ave, Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ

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Give us more to work with: approx DOBs, children's names, mother's Hebrew name, if known. occupation Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ

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Same principle: names get shortened.. Many Steinkopfs became Stein, Hautkovich became Kovich, Sotomayer became Mayer…... BTW, your initial post did not specify family names: "Does anyone know why an I

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Srul is one of many Yiddish nicknames for Israel. Why do we use Betsy for Elizabeth Liza “ Elizabeth Gene for Eugene Pat " Patricias Bill “ William Babs “ Barbara Madge “ Madeline Sadie “ Sarah Could

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I’d guess that the birth info was included in a pile that included births as well as christenings… and then it was entered into a record book they created an all-inclusive title. I THINK THAT RECORDIN

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But those were not recorded in NYC records, b/c they were not contemporaneous.. The LDS baptisms were recorded ONLY in LDS records NOT municipal records. Barbara Mannlein Tucson, AZ.

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Phil, I suspect that it is just the way the info was transcribed and categorized. It appears that Rebeke’s birth record was recorded in at least 2 places. Note that one transcription included the cert

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Bob, You are beating a dead horse. Names were NOT changed at Ellis Island. Bureaucrats generate paper -- that's how the justify their positions...If changes occurred at EI, there would be documentatio

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David and Eva both cite the difficulties with the new reply format. More than ¾ of the responses are useless, because one has no idea to what they refer This is my work around: On a MAC, I have the op

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