Please help identify these ladies. They lived in Chicago about 1910. The photos were taken by G.L. Simons. The families lived in Bobruisk and Gomel, Belarus. Associated families were Bereskin, Shcolni

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Portland is pleased to announce its January program Endogamous DNA presented by Emily Aulicino. The program will be held January 19, 2020 at 10:30AM at Neveh Shalom

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Fascinating story! And good work! I hope you and your half-siblings get your DNA tested by the same company, then load results to GEDmatch to broaden the database. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon will have a Helping Hands meeting Sunday, March 8 from 10:30-12:30 at the Hollywood branch library on NE 41st and NE Tillamook. Everyone is welcome! There is no f

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Perhaps Velvel was the original name for the nickname Babel. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

JGSO will host a Helping Hands meeting on Dec. 8, from 10:30 to 12:30, at the Hillsdale Library, 1525 SW Sunset Blvd, Portland, OR 97239. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please join us, an

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you, your family and friends to its upcoming Program. Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 10:30 AM Topic: Genealogy “Mini” Boot Camp You’ve done your DNA, got

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Looking or Yakov/Jacob RASHAL b. about 1896 in Zalatopol, Ukraine, and wife Hinde, b. about 1897, on the SS RUSLAN, from Odessa to Jaffa, Palestine. This was a famous passage that arrived in Jaffa on

#Israel #passengerists

Thank you for your replies that this is not Polish, but cursive Cyrillic. I have revised my post. Linda

#Poland

This is a list of 48 martyrs from Belitzah/Belitsa, now Belarus. It is in handwritten Cyrillic. If translated to English, I will post back to Yad Vashem and send it to JewishGen for the Holocaust data

#Belarus #Holocaust

This is a list of 48 persecuted persons from Belitsa, Poland, now Belarus, who were murdered in the Holocaust. It is from Yad Vashem. Mendel Novogrudski is on this list, possibly with his wife, Batshe

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Hi, Judy, The top paragraph might be in Yiddish. The bottom paragraph mentions the date 29 July, 1947. Possibly the top was written by an older person, and the bottom was written by a younger person w

Hello, Juan, Galicians speak a language similar to Portuguese and Spanish, and Alban might have been the surname your ancestors assumed when they lived in Galicia, or when they sailed from Galicia to

#Sephardic #Galicia

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon announces a program on Researching Jewish Families. Many families had no surnames for many years. Names were changed when they came to America, and endogamy,

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We have a new project in FamilyTreeDNA.com called Alschwangen/Olshwang Families Project. Alschwangen is a place in Kurland, now Latvia. Many Alschwangers migrated to Lithuania and all over the world.

#Latvia

If you have the surname Alschwanger/Allswang/Olshwang, etc., in your family tree, they may have acquired the surname >from Alschwangen, Courland, now Latvia. There is a yahoo email discussion group fo

#courland #Latvia

We have a new project in FamilyTreeDNA.com called Alschwangen/Olshwang Families Project. Alschwangen is a place in Kurland, now Latvia. Many Alschwangers migrated to Lithuania and all over the world.

#Lithuania

There's a lovely photo online showing the facade of A. & J. Alschwang Bros. "Maison de Blanc" department store, taken about 1917 in Moscow. The store sold men's and women's clothing, cosmetics, and wh

#Lithuania

Our family genealogists believe that our Na'az Zvie/Girsh Berezkin, b. about 1799, son of Noson, had a first wife who was related to Kalman Wolf Wissotzky, the tea dealer. Girsh's sons were in the tea

#Belarus

A Holocaust survivor, Meiske Segal, is >from Marijampole, Lithuania. He is looking for living relatives in Canada, but he doesn't have specific information... One of the relatives was also a Holocaust

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