Searching for death information for a cousin who was close to my grandmother. Birth name was Piri KOHN, born in Hungary 1897. Husband was Paolo CALDERARO, an architect. She was Jewish, he was not. He

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I am looking for Jewish genealogy reference books either in Austin, or elsewhere in Texas. Am not aware of much here in Austin. I would like to find the Bieder books, similar. Appreciate any suggestio

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Looking for information on where a (former) Hungarian Jew, who moved to the US after the Shoah, might have filed claims for compensation for taking of family property. We have a claim form filed with

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My great-grandmother was orphaned young, and her son (my grandfather) told us his mother (and her sister) were raised by KONIGSBERG neni (Aunt Konigsberg). I haven't had any luck finding a Konigsberg

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Has anybody had success recently searching the Yad Vashem names database? I have tried on 2 different computers and can't get results from my searches. Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

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I am looking for information on how my g'grandfather chose to change his last name from GOLDMANN to GONDOS in Hungary in the mid-1890s. As an employee of the Hungarian government (a teacher at a Jewis

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Ancestor named HANTMAN was born in a town listed on his Petition for Naturalization as Chartorey or Charlovey, Russia. Any ideas where this might be? Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

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Looking for records from Lyubo or Lyubar, Ukraine. Relatives named VIGODNER from there, 1880s. Would appreciate any information you can offer. Thank you! Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

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My mother tells me there was a census taken of Jewish residents in yellow star (Jewish) apartments in Budapest in 1944. Does anyone know whether these census documents were preserved, and if so, where

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Very useful, thank you. Does anybody know of a master index, where all of these testimonies are listed together? Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

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Are there records anywhere of Nowy Zmigrod, Poland? Does anyone know where, or how to access? Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas

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I ran across the index of Shoah Foundation testimonies at USC, which is tremendously useful. Have other databases of testimonies been indexed? I am aware of testimonies taken at a number of locations,

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Looking for records of family members in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovs'ka), Ukraine. Does anyone know if there are any records from the 19th century, and where I might find them? Thank you! Diane J

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looking for cousins HARFENS also known as HARFENES. They came from the Arad area of Romania. My cousin, Magdalena HOCHWALD, married David HARFENES (later known as HARFENS). They had 2 daughters that I

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Trying to find graves for my g'g'grandparents, Fulop (Pinchas) Hochwald (may have changed last name to Havas) and Terez/Rezi/Rosa Friedman. He died in 1885 in Butin, Romania (then Buteni, Hungary), an

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Does anybody know what became of the private Suwalki-Lomza group run by Marilyn? Used to receive a quarterly newsletter. Would appreciate an update. Diane Jacobs

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Something to check, if you are not getting responses to emails about DNA matches: I just discovered that my email/message box on Ancestry was nonfunctional: Nothing coming in, nothing going out. Figur

I am looking for information/looking to find my cousin, Gary Goldman. He is around 59 years old, born in the Chicago area (Highland Park, perhaps), son of Bob Goldman and Shirley Goldschmidt. The last

I need help reading the name of a town on a ship manifest out of Hamburg, 1887. My g'grandparents are listed on this manifest as David Goldman and family. Their previous home is listed as what appears

This message is >from Richard Sobel <sobel2@...>, who tried to post this message to the list and failed. He asked me to try. A 2nd cousin recently visited Sarospatak where our grandparents

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