Top: my dear husband inside star: here lies (abbreviation) our teacher, Rabbi (abbreviation which often but not always means he was a rabbi) Natan (in Ashkenazic Hebrew Nosson) Nota son of Avraham die

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A few things: 1- the image is upside-down 2- the black areas look like tape that covers many parts of names. A better image is needed. Upper left section with image right-side up Itzik Auschklar ? Pol

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Shil is probably a diminutive of Shia, short for Yehoshua/Joshua. to be distinguished from Chil, short for Yechiel.

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Perhaps you mean Ansel? That would be a Germanic/Yiddish form of the Hebrew name Asher. It’s a man’s name, also spelled Anschel, Amsel, Amschel etc. Zammel (also Zemmel, Semmel and the like) Is a Yidd

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Here lies Mr Feivel son of Mr Leib died 2 Shvat 5630 here lies Ms Chava daughter of Mr David died 16 Second Adar (it was a leap year with a second month of Adar) 5630 bottom abbreviation stands for ma

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Although it’s possible the father’s name was not known (maybe he had died many years before or there was a messy divorce and people didn’t want to remember the name), Jews in Bratislava and a few surr

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My father in law was in an Auschwitz sub-camp (Gleiwice) and Sachsenhausen. I don’t know in which he was tattooed. I think the former.

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Hi all, As to the abbreviation (bet-)shin-tav (ש״ט) I have an ancestor who died at age thirty who had this abbreviation on his stone. Therefore it does not mean “b’seiva tova (in old age). It means “b

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Hi all, Over the years I have noticed that many Polish towns only have records dating >from 1875 and later (rather than the Napoleonic 1808 and 1826). Pultusk & Kurozwecy, two towns in different Guber

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Hi all, Over the years I have noticed that many Polish towns only have records dating >from 1875 and later (rather than the Napoleonic 1808 and 1826). Pultusk & Kurozwecy, two towns in different Guber

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Hi, Pheya's answer that the Yiddish ending of "el" has to do with God's name needs to be nipped in the bud. It's wrong.In Yiddish, adding the "el" is a diminutive & a diminutive only. David Dubin

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Hi, Pheya's answer that the Yiddish ending of "el" has to do with God's name needs to be nipped in the bud. It's wrong.In Yiddish, adding the "el" is a diminutive & a diminutive only. David Dubin

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Hi all, An ancestor (Michael HAUSER) is listed on his marriage record >from 1868 as having been born in Kochel, Bavaria (Bavorsko in Slovak) 26 years before, in 1842-ish. I see no reference to any Jew

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Hi all, An ancestor (Michael HAUSER) is listed on his marriage record >from 1868 as having been born in Kochel, Bavaria (Bavorsko in Slovak) 26 years before, in 1842-ish. I see no reference to any Jew

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Hi all, I would like to know if LDS microfilms have already been abstracted before I order, wait for and try to decipher microfilm reels. Is a listing of reels that are already "done" appear anywhere

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Hi all, I would like to know if LDS microfilms have already been abstracted before I order, wait for and try to decipher microfilm reels. Is a listing of reels that are already "done" appear anywhere

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Hi all, Just to add to the confusion of G & H in Russian, sometimes the letter was left off the surname altogether. My wife has relatives named HALPERN (the "real" name), GALPERN (since Hebraicized to

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Hi all, Just to add to the confusion of G & H in Russian, sometimes the letter was left off the surname altogether. My wife has relatives named HALPERN (the "real" name), GALPERN (since Hebraicized to

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Hi, The Jewish name Szprynca, however it is spelled, seems very Yiddish, but the likely origin is Esperanza, a Spanish name. The explanation seems to be that Jewish customs of naming babies were able

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Hi, The Jewish name Szprynca, however it is spelled, seems very Yiddish, but the likely origin is Esperanza, a Spanish name. The explanation seems to be that Jewish customs of naming babies were able

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