Yes, there were discounted fares for children. Gur Alroey has written several articles and books about the emigrant experience from 1900-1914. He notes that fares for children (ages 1-12) were half pr

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The Spring 2022 Conference for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania may be of interest to Jewish genealogists studying relatives from eastern Europe. There will be two half days of exceptional vir

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The 1950 U.S. census has been very good to me! I have finally located my relative Gittel Ett's married name: Rothleder. As a result I have also located an indexed record on the CEMLA.com website for h

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Dear JewishGenners: A few months ago, I posted here about a week-long Jewish genealogy course that Janette Silverman, Lara Diamond, Marian Smith and I would be teaching between January 9th and 14th, 2

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In checking Ancestry's inventory of Alien Case files available via the U.S. National Archives (NARA) branch at Kansas City https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6927/ I noticed a new listing tha

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I've posted entries from two Russian Revision lists for the community of Polonnoye, Novograd Volinsky Uyezd, Volhynia Gubernia, for which I need translations. I am interested in the names and relation

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I've posted a Russian revision list entry for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95285 This is an entr

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The 27th Annual Salt Lake Genealogical Institute, a week-long opportunity for high-intermediate to advanced genealogical education will be held in-person in Salt Lake City, Utah, from January 9 throug

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It is difficult to help you with your search for Harry's naturalization because you have not shared information critical for narrowing the search. At what point on census records was he recorded as na

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David: A link to the entire record (including the first page of this passenger manifest and all the other pages of this ship's manifest) would be useful to compare how letters were formed by this cler

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This coming Sunday, May 23, 2021, the Phoenix Jewish Genealogy Group will present Suzanne Kelting Myers and her talk: "From Bourbon to Blue Jeans: Bavarian Jews and Their Influence on American Culture

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The Phoenix (Arizona) Jewish Genealogy Group is pleased to feature Suzanne Kelting Myers, D.O., who will present "From Bourbon to Blue Jeans: Bavarian Jews and Their Influence on America Culture" at o

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There are two good sources to Jewish genealogy blogs. The first is a list I created a few years ago. It is at my blog The Extra Yad at https://extrayad.blogspot.com/ The direct link to the list of Jew

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The Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona has announced the completion of a web project featuring the James P. Kuykendall World War II Photography Collec

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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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