I think I will take advantage of this discussion to pursue an area of research that I have been contemplating for some time. I would like to collect family stories about old country surname changes al

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Ettie: I definitely think you are on the right track - although I don't think it would be good for me to take an (un)educated guess. It is not an easy question - or answer. We need to learn enough abo

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Ettie, etal.: The changed-surname-to-avoid-the-Tzar’s-Army story was common among eastern European Jewish immigrants. As with any story heard from our relatives and/or ancestors it’s always important

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Sally Bruckheimer wrote: "Since LDS Microfilms no longer exist, except maybe in SLC, the film numbers need to be deleted or changed to something else by Jewishgen. They were indeed the source of the i

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Harlan Weller posted: "I located the attached index to a record on jewishgen and I wanted to look at the original document if possible. The number 2205099 is hotlinked to an LDS microfilm, but I could

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A few months ago I announced on this list that I was coordinating an in-person week-long course, “Introduction to Jewish Genealogy,” for the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) during

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This is the page for the existing Memorial Plaques project on JewishGen. https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ Emily Garber Phoenix, AZ

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Alizah: These records, of course, will be a huge help to anyone doing research in the records of the Ukrainian portion of the former Russian and Austrian Empires. We are all looking forward to seeing

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Jana: I have been doing a long-term community study of the town of Labun (called Lubin in Yiddish and now known as Yurovshchina, Ukraine), which is 18 miles from Shepetivka. In 1921, a family of five

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There have been several comments on the topic of "stealing" family trees. This topic, similar to many we've covered in this forum over the years, is not a new one. I would like to dispel the notion th

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Bruce: Fifty years is certainly a long time, but it does not really tell us how intensive and extensive your research has been. If you have not done so already, you must follow genealogy orthodoxy and

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I've posted a photo caption in Hebrew for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM80896 Please respond via t

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For some strange reason my URLs all point to the first ViewMate post: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM80808 I also posted the second page of the record with the same headings

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The number you have is the number attached to his certificate of naturalization. That is not something that one can ordinarily use to look up a record. However, FamilySearch has records from the Easte

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JewishGenners: The National Genealogical Society (NGS), the premiere general genealogical society in the United States, has announced that its end-of-May 2020 in-person conference is going virtual. Fo

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I've posted the title page and headers from some 1763 records from Uscieczko, Zaleszczyki, Galicia. I would like them translated to English from Polish. There are three images on ViewMate at the follo

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The passenger manifest does say the street is in New York, which usually means Manhattan. There is, however, a Gerry Street in Brooklyn. Emily Garber Phoenix, AZ

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I have posted a couple of pages from an 1863 Supplemental Revision List from the town of Labun, Zaslav Uyezd, Volhynia Gubernia. The first image is the left side (male) and the second is the right sid

I have posted two images of the 1864 Revision List Supplement for the community of Labun, Zaslav Uyezd, Volhynia Gubernia (F. 118, Op. 14, Sp. 79). The left side (1st image) lists four males and the r

Commit to furthering your genealogy education! Wednesday, 5 February 2020 marks the opening of registration for all courses offered during this coming summer at the Genealogical Research Institute of