Maybe tell us his GEDmatch number? Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmyforeparents.blogspot.com endogamy-one-family.com My genealogy research is electric. It follows the path of least resistance.

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National Archives will have a record of their Mandatory Citizenship file. If it exists. Israel Pickholtz

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Sometimes you will get more specific information on birthplace from the Old Men's Draft. Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon

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The younger Samuel could be Shemuel, Shimon, Shalom, Zusia, Schneur, Shelomo, Shemarya, Simha, Shraga (or for that matter Mordecai, Gershon, Moshe, David, Yosef...) Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon

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Try this, Carol. https://mountofolives.co.il/en/ Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmyforeparents.blogspot.com endogamy-one-family.com My genealogy research is electric. It follows the path of least resista

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Someone spoke about the Rivlins at a meeting of the Israel Genealogical Society's Jerusalem branch about three-four years ago. Someone there may be able to connect you. Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmy

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It is "a reasonable explanation" but it is not the only one. My database would say "maybe" or "probably." My rule is that in the absence of direct evidence, even after I am sure that a relationship is

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I have several photographs of unidentified children that look for all the world to be pre-WWI Russia. But the backs say "post card," "place stamp here" etc in English. How do I reconcile this? Israel

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My mother had that same set. I think they were bought in the US in the mid-1940. Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmyforeparents.blogspot.com endogamy-one-family.com My genealogy research is electric. It f

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There is nothing else. The next page begins with record 67. Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmyforeparents.blogspot.com endogamy-one-family.com My genealogy research is electric. It follows the path of le

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The two Jewish names are not related. Anything can become Sam. (Anything can become anything, but Sam was particularly popular.) Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon

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Not the same thing (it never is!) but I have a few examples.: 1. Two of my sisters have the same (Jewish) middle name. 2. We know two brothers named Louis.One of them adopted that name in adulthood. 3

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yes. Israel Pickholtz

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Samuel could have been any of a dozen Jewish given names or maybe something not connected at all. Black could be a translation, in which case it would depend on the place he came from. Or it could be

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Zelig is a Yiddish nickname that is formally associated with a number of different Hebrew given names, most commonly Asher and Yehoshua, but also a number of others as listed in Bet Shemuel, which is

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You haven't mentioned anything that might help someone recognize the family. Your grandfather's parents' names, for instance, of his age. Do you know if he was born in Minsk or that's just "where he l

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In proper Hebrew, that is Yekusiel /Yekutiel. In other languages they could have used anything. It is my Uncle Ken's name.

I see graves with those names, but not buried near one anotherץ The woman next to Yehudah Leib is Leah. Both died Yehudah Leib and Leah 1965. Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmyforeparents.blogspot.com en

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Does the grave say "my dear father" or "our dear father?"

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Samuel and Solomon are not the same names. But that does not mean that one person could not have used both at different times. Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmyforeparents.blogspot.com endogamy-one-fami

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