Recently, I had an 1843 Jewish marriage record translated by the Facebook group, Genealogical Translations. 1.The groom was listed as Eyzeyk TAFLOWICZ & 2.the bride was listed as Esther Malka HERSZKOW

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I recently requested copies of images from FHLRemoteAccess, the information for which I found on JRI-Poland [Tomaszow Mazowiecki]. Access was denied for the following reason: " Restrictions placed by

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"...So, which Estera is my gg-grandmother: Estera TAFLOWICZ or Estera MINC/MINTZ, or are they one & the same person?" (posted 5/20/22 #7a, #2966) A responder, upon looking at the marriage document of

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My maternal gg-grandmother was Estera REICHMAN/RAJCHMAN, married to Morris/Mosek/Mosiek REICHMAN. Her daughter, my maternal g-grandmother, was Ryfka/Rebecca REICHMAN/REJCHMAN (married to Zalman/Solomo

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On 7/07/18, Ralph Salinger posted questions "for a friend" regarding the above topic and concerning members of the IUDIN family: Mendel Pinkus & Shimon/Sam YUDIN. The note was #272715. These individua

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I have the index information for Mendel YUDIN, my paternal gr.gr. grandfather, (b. 1824) from Sharkovshchina, Disna, Vilnius. How do I obtain a copy of the original birth document? The record that I h

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My maternal gr. grandparents, Solomon/Zalman & Rebecca LEVINE were buried in Washington Cem. in the early 20ieth C. I had phoned the cemetery asking for information that would have required looking at

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I have a birth record for Haim Majer RAJCHMAN with the following information: Mother: Fajga ABRAMOWICZ (born possibly GAYMAN? or RAJCH/RAYEH or something else---unclear in document); widowed in 1873 F

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Looking at JRI-Poland's Tomaszow Maz. 1844 marriage record for Ester FOLKOWICZ (looking at the actual record, two translators said the name actually looked like TAFLOWICZ) & Mosick RAYCHMAN (LDS Film

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Hi All, 1. My maternal grandmother's sister, Esther TAUFIELD, listed her maiden name as MICHALOWITZ on her daughter's birth certificate (New York, 7/1891; Gussie S.) Esther was 22 yr., making her birt

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"CHARNEY"/"CHERNY" is a last name that translates from Russian as "Black":Чарни. Samuel (in Russian given name; it's also a surname): Samuil, Samuel, Samoil (in Polish) Therefore, Russian would be: Sa

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Gittel/Gus/Gertrude LEURIE/LEVINE (aka MICHALOWITZ) was born 7 January, 1891. She was my maternal grandmother. She told me that she was born in Warsaw. (Her brother, Joseph, also said that he was born

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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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