The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you to a presentation on Sunday, May 2 at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time! Finding your Eastern European Jewish Family on JRI-Poland.org Robinn Magid, JRI-Pol

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you to a virtual presentation: April 18 at 10:30 a.m.: Finding Jewish Records in the New MyHeritage Search Engine, presented by Daniel Horowitz of MyH

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you to a free presentation: "RECLAIM THE RECORDS" will be presented by Brooke Schreier Ganz via Zoom, on Sunday, March 21 at 10:30 a.m. Register for t

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Thank you, David! The relatives who had the blueprint made might have seen their grandfather’s headstone. That might be where they got the name. Noaz is a great suggestion! Thank you again, Linda Wolf

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In the 1930s, my Bereskin relatives in Chicago had a blueprint family tree drawn up. The oldest person on the tree is Na'az Zvie. There are records for him as Girsh, son of Noson, born about 1800, liv

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Zalman, you know her parents names, first and last? You know her given name, year and place of birth? No one in her immediate family knows her whereabouts? Using her full maiden name should be a start

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Portland, Oregon, USA has its own KehilaLinks page! KehilaLinks pages are for any communities that have a Jewish population. Please visit! To view it, use your browser to go to JewishGen.org. [There i

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Portland, OR, USA KehilaLinks page is under construction! If your relatives lived in Portland, Oregon, USA from 1850 to 1950, we need your family story for Portland's KehilaLinks page. [So far we have

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Hello, Magda, I would like to help you with your Jewish DNA and GEDmatch, and will reply to you privately. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Graz, Landeshauptstadt, Oterreich, 1901: Graz, State Capital, Austria, 1901: Can someone please translate the listing for Marie Markovik? Marie Markovits/Markovik owned farmland near the castle at Gra

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Google Translate suggests that esboubem means nearby. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Hi, Marilyn. DNA testing might help decide if the Schaffers were the same family as the Schlifers. I agree that vowels can be disregarded in many cases. But for the ancestors to be closely related, th

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Hello, Connie, DNA testing might help sort out relatives. It would be great if you, and some of the Levines and Abrams all got tested, then upload to GEDmatch. If you want help, let me know. Linda Wol

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Ron, Ben means “son of” and Bat means “daughter of” followed by the given names of their fathers. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Comcast here in Portland, OR says The Genetic Detective will air on ABC, starting May 26 at 10 p.m. Pacific time. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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The shorthand was probably Gregg Shorthand, not Pittman, which I learned. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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Seeking information about my great uncle's wife, Sarah Eisen Resnick, who moved to Haifa, Israel in 1951, and was in the Pioneer Women organization, Mo'ezet ha-Po'alot or מועצת הפועלות. Sarah's father

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There is a web address My shtetl\Bobr Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

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I just wanted to say that children were sometimes enumerated in their parents' homes, and were also enumerated in other households or locations. The parents may have misunderstood the directions, or t

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When I see a newborn named after a living parent, I check to see if the baby died or was a stillbirth before he or she was given a name. Sometimes a stillbirth baby was given a combination of the pare

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