I know that my paternal grandmother, Anna GRUBER, who was a seamstress, was very involved in labor unions in Chicago. Specifically, I don’t know the details or to what capacity, but my father always m

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Hi all, My paternal grandfather, Sam (Shimon) BUZILA, was born in Soroki in 1893. I’ve been told by two different Romanian people that BUZILA means “big nose” or “big mouth or lips” in Romanian. Not t

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This is the Buchenwald Concentration Camp record for Josef Mundel Feingold, who may have been my paternal great grandmothers brother or first cousin. I know he was born on Jan 12, 1858 in Kolomea, Pol

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I’m researching my brother in laws maternal line. His maternal grandfather, Louis Amsterdam, born circa 1882, claims to have come from Kemlef, Austria, according to his New York petition for naturaliz

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I had a first cousin who was estranged from her surviving daughter and her family. He husband preceded her in death and her son, who had mental illness, was homeless and lost contact with the family.

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Thank you for your reply, Lee, I got the address from the 1909 city directory, although, when I went back and checked just now, I read 4116. Not sure if 4110 was a typo or just my eyes not what they u

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Thank you all. I should also mention that I checked all the pages of the ED including the last few. The building in question was never listed. It’s a shame that, for whatever reason, some buildings or

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Thank you David. Yes, I just ran it off Stephen Morse and also found the census page it should be on as well. As you mentioned, the 4110 building was never enumerated. Has anyone ever seen that before

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Hi all, Would someone be able to help me find my grandfather and his family in the 1910 census? I haven’t had any luck at it. The head of the household was my great grandmother, Rose Bluestein (someti

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Happy New Year all! I have a couple of questions that maybe some of you experts can help me with. While researching my father in laws paternal line, MNUSHKIN from Bobruisk, I’ve come across some confu

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I would guess by the styles, the early 1920’s. Steve Buzil researching: BUZILA and KILYAN from present day Moldova GRUBER and FEINGOLD from present day Ukraine SEIDLER/ZEIDLER, GROSSBARD, BERLIN, WICZ

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My paternal grandmother always told us that her mother, Rivka GRUBER, née FEINGOLD, was killed during World War One as a member of the medical corps. I assume with the Austrian army as they lived in G

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My cousin came across about 15-20 old photographs of her ancestors and most have what looks like Yiddish writing on the backs. There’s not a lot of writing, mostly just a few words, hopefully identify

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Does anyone know why whenever I search JewishGen for birth, marriage or death records from Bessarabia, only records from Kishinev are found? Where are those records for the smaller towns? I’m mainly l

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I want to thank everyone for their answers and opinions on this topic. I guess i should’ve been more specific in the initial post. Meyer MNUSHKIN was born in Bobroisk in 1903. The birth record listed

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Thank you for your reply. Number 2 is definitely a possibility for the instance from the early 19th century. For the one from the late 19th century, the Hebrew name on the headstone of the son is Meye

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Thank you, Sally. As far as I know, both instances of the son being named after the father, are from Ashkenazi families. One from my father in laws maternal line and one from my mother in laws paterna

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Hi all, I have come across two instances now of a son having the same given name as the father. In both cases I do not know when the father passed. One is from present day Belarus from the late 19th c

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I know that there’s been a problem over the years of vandals stealing the photos off of tombstones at Waldheim Cemetery. The cemetery is not in the best neighborhood and the vandals steal the photos f