The New England Consortium, a collaboration of researchers and genealogists (including founding member JGSGB) is holding its second annual conference on June 12. The topic will be Lakes, Lanyards, and

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Is there anyone who could go to the City Registry of Deeds at 66 John Street and look up the deed trail for a single address in Manhattan? I've inquired how to do it, and it can be done on the spot by

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Thanks Pat (where is MA are you?). I went to the links you supplied, and followed from link to link. The first one never contains a phone number at any point (oversight?) hah!). But the second seemed

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During the height of the Pandemic, I wanted to find a record of sales for a property in Brooklyn. I couldn't even find anyone to call and I gave up (but did not forget!) Now I have a strong need to tr

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I had such success with my last post about Ella Kolodinker/Kolodenko that I am trying to see if this wonderful group can do as well with her husband Adolph. They came to the US in 1902, lived at 410 E

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Hi, Does anybody have any information about people who died during the 1918-19 flu epidemic? I have been looking (endlessly) for a woman who lived in Manhattan and died during that epidemic. I can't f

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The Jewish Genealogy Society is pleased to announce the availability of a hitherto-unknown record set containing 540 “rabbinic certifications” by the City of Boston between 1893 and 1939. Some non-Bos

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I was able to identify and call the chevra who handled this burial, and they are in the process of retrieving the information and reporting back next week. Apparently it matters which of the many chev

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I have been trying for weeks to contact an Israeli woman named Shirley Saban who posted a tree on geni.com of great interest to me. Of course, I wrote to her on geni, but she has never replied. I then

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I recently posted a request for information about how to find death certificates from ppre-1948 Palestine. I got a lot of replies and several suggestions. Of these, one actually WORKED and so I want t

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I might have written Susan's email! I too need photos of two graves at Mt Hebron--I know they are the right people, but I am eager to see the Hebrew names. Thanks in advance! Carol Isenberg Clingan De

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Hello to my Canadian friends, Does anyone know how I could get a copy of a real estate transaction? I have a 1913 clipping from the Montreal Gazette that details the sale of a property by someone I am

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Hello, I have been trying (fruitlessly so far) to get two death certificates from Palestine from 1916 and 1928. The first one is likely to be in Arabic characters, but that's OK. There are online form

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My Berkovskis )Novogrudok) were always Berkovsky (until they became Browns in VT!). I have seen the names used interchangeably and also back and forth. They both mean the same thing--son of Berko--and

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A researcher in Israel, with Pavlograd roots, has made a list of 13,000 birth, marriage and death records that are in Russian on Family Search. He has an alphabetical list of surnames, shown on this l

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I've known them for years, and they have done wonderful research for me in Novogrudok, Rechitsa and Lyuban.I always recommend them to people searching in Belarus. Carol Isenberg Clingan Dedham MA

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Hello, Is there anyone who works in downtown Brooklyn or has occasion to be there who could go and retrieve a record for me. It is a property record (grantor-grantee) from the 1920s. It is only availa

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I did research on my father's family. One of his first cousins married a man whose parents were from Stolpce. The name was Russack. No one is living would have any recollections, though I will check w

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This talk was recorded and you can still listen to it. https://hubs.americanancestors.org/jewish-life-in-rural-new-england?utm_campaign=JHC%20Newsletters&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=91452143&_hsenc=p2ANqtz

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I agree with Ellen on both counts. Last I checked, there is still a synagogue in Athol--maybe it has some records. The one in Gardner closed a few years ago. These were and are both small towns. You c

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