Hi All, In December 2020 I posted, in part, the following: "Several years ago, I found a September, 1963 letter addressed to my maternal grandmother, Gussie Levine SCHULTZ, signed by a nephew, "Peter"

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Hi All, For those of you with an interest in Ukraine, on my blog, JewishGem's Genealogy, I have added a posting related to Poltava Province 1913 Recruitment & Residency. This is archival information w

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With respect to the topic, "Soviet Union Military Records", yesterday I posted "WWI: Jewish Refugees-Returning to Lodz & Warsaw" (#4). I translated the Russian language information from 1918 personal

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I have a couple of postings on my blog for burials during the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War. Perhaps your relative is on one of the lists: Japan: Russian Necropolis https://yourjewishgem.blogspot.com/201

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The patronym used as a last name for my LURYA/LEVINE family on their immigrant ship was actually their father's patronym: Zalman Michalowitz LURYA (his father was Michal Lurya, from Lodz). Yet, his fa

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Today I found my maternal grandmother & her family on a Hamburg to New York passenger manifest (1891). Surprisingly, the family was listed as MICHALOWITZ instead of LURYA (or another spelling variatio

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A family mystery that I posted about in December, 2020, in which I had the letter writer's first name (Peter), the name of his wife (Elise), & one of his 3 children (Roland), but no last name, has bee

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My maternal gr. uncle was Joseph LEVINE (Lurja-or another version of spelling), possibly born in Warsaw May 11, 1885. Joe was an entertainer--vaudeville (Western Vaudeville), song & dance, black-face,

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For a long time I haven't been able to find marriage information for my maternal grandmother's older sister, Rose LURJA/LEVINE REICHMAN & Harry REICHMAN. The other day, while searching on FamilySearch

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My maternal gr. aunt Esther had a daughter, Gussie S. TUEFELDT 17 July 1891, in Manhattan, NY. Esther's name was listed as Esther Michalowitz TUEFELDT (FamilySearch) on Gussie's birth certificate. On

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According to my family history, my maternal gr. grandmother, Rebecca's ½ brothers (REICHMANs) lost their parents during a pogrom when they were very young. Harry was born in 1868, Louis was born 1874,

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Posted on my blog, a list of Jews, at: https://yourjewishgem.blogspot.com/2021/01/wwi-1916-northern-front-jews-serving-on.html "WWI (1916) Northern Front: Jews on Ambulance Trains..." Marilyn Robinson

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Newly available on my blog:https://yourjewishgem.blogspot.com/.../world-war-i-jewish... World War I: Jewish Refugees (a partial list)---(Simbirsk to Minsk Province). Marilyn Robinson (aka "JewishGem")

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Hi All, I have another of those family mysteries that needs your advice in order to solve. Here are the only known, limited facts: I have 3 photos from a deceased family member, labeled: Fanny & Harry

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Several years ago, I found a September, 1963 letter addressed to my maternal grandmother, Gussie Levine Schultz, signed by a nephew, "Peter". He referred to my grandmother as his "aunt". The letter wa

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I have also seen/skimmed the 1765 Census of the Jews, handwritten in Polish ( with some Russian). Of course, this census does include first & patronymic names, with labels of wife, daughter, son, wido

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While researching the surname, YUDIN, I came across the "Mogilev Birth Index for Boys, 1864-1894 Database" on JewishGen. The index had the following information: YUDIN (surname)---1879 (birth)---- 248

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Someone recently asked about burials in Shanghai. There is information at the following site: "Shanghai Jewish Memorial", http://www.shanghaijewishmemorial.com/index_1.htm You can search by family nam

As of last November, this book was not yet published.

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Laurie, You can ask via telephone some questions regarding the information found in their burial files. I found out the name of the burial society for my gr. grandparents & an alternate name---Leurie/