My great-grandmother, in Romania, was a bookbinder. This was a family craft. She continued this when she arrived in the U.S. in 1928. My grandmother in Stanislawow (now Ivano-Frankivsk) worked in an o

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These are some of the many places holding Shoah testimonies: British Library Oral History https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Jewish-Holocaust-survivors Fortunoff Video Archive https://editions.fortunof

#holocaust

The Friederich der grosse landed in the Port of New York on 23 August. It took about 10 days for the sailing. It is unlikely that it returned to Europe and made it back to the U.S. by 12 Sep 1898. If

#usa

A phenomenal resource for learning about and studying the history and background of African-Americans, including DNA and the pre- and post-slavery era is MAAGI - the Midwestern African American Geneal

#usa #general

Hi Jeri: The other information that doesn't fit your narrative is that person's nationality as U.S. when applying for Canadian citizenship. That person would have had to been in the U.S. for 5 years t

#canada

The only time I have seen manifest pages without the names of children are on the detention pages of U.S. arrival manifests where it might just have something like the name of the adult + 5 children.

#records #hungary #russia #slovakia

The Association of Professional Genealogists https://www.apgen.org maintains a directory of its membership which includes specializations - you might try that. It's obviously not a comprehensive listi

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Many of you are familiar with the Limmud model of learning, spanning the diversity that is 21st century Judaism, across the globe. To make sure that we maintain social distances and yet also maintain

Thanks Barbara, Actually I can be found at the "Hire an Expert" tab on Ancestry.com - I head up a team specializing in Eastern European and Jewish research at AncestryProGenealogists. I can also be co

It would probably cut down the number of meaningless (to most subscribers) messages if people would start responding directly to a person rather than the digest when the message is personal. A lot of

Cindy Gallard wrote: I understand how to translate that which is in print, but computer generated translation is of no use when it comes to the information written is script. Other than hiring a trans

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Cindy Gallard wrote: I understand how to translate that which is in print, but computer generated translation is of no use when it comes to the information written is script. Other than hiring a trans

#ukraine

Dear Friends: Over the last several years (since 2013) I have been privileged to have worked with many talented volunteers at Ukraine SIG. We've had some great successes - our discussion group list ha

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Dear Friends: Over the last several years (since 2013) I have been privileged to have worked with many talented volunteers at Ukraine SIG. We've had some great successes - our discussion group list ha

#ukraine

Dear Friends: We have just finished a massive task of downloading the records Alex Krakovsky posted on the wiki. We are very grateful to him for the job he is doing. A volunteer is monitoring new addi

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Dear Friends: We have just finished a massive task of downloading the records Alex Krakovsky posted on the wiki. We are very grateful to him for the job he is doing. A volunteer is monitoring new addi

#ukraine

Thank you to everyone who responded to my request. I have been inundated with offers, and the first few people who responded were chosen. I have gotten so many replies, that it is impossible to write

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Thank you to everyone who responded to my request. I have been inundated with offers, and the first few people who responded were chosen. I have gotten so many replies, that it is impossible to write

#ukraine

Dear friends, Thanks to the efforts of Jeff Briskman and Michael Gerver, we have been able to download almost 1500 files >from the website on which Alex Krakovsky has been putting his pdf scans. The r

#ukraine

Dear friends, Thanks to the efforts of Jeff Briskman and Michael Gerver, we have been able to download almost 1500 files >from the website on which Alex Krakovsky has been putting his pdf scans. The r

#ukraine