For those who attended JewishGen's Bialystok Area Jewish Genealogy Group session on Thursday afternoon (and those who could not attend), I am attaching copy of my slides (I hope this works). Our group

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There is a Museum in the Synagogue building in Woodbine. I would assume they can answer your question. http://www.thesam.org/ Mark Halpern Conshohocken , PA

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Hi Trudie: The surname list that Alex Krakovsky has was developed by JRI-Poland, not Krakovsky. And you do not really need that list. You should just search the JRI-Poland database https://www.jri-pol

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The JewishGen Bialystok Area Research Group (BialyGen) will meet virtually on Thursday, August 13 from 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm Eastern time in US. (11:45 am Pacific US, 7:45pm UK, 8:45 pm Central Europe, 9:

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Hi Sharon: The only Jewish vital records that have survived for Maryampol near Stanislawow are 1922-1932, 1936 births, marriages, and deaths that are now held by the civil records office (USC) in Wars

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Many Jewish immigrants during that period took jobs as a cutter. My father's first job was as a cutter in 1921. A cutter is a person who cuts fabric. I would refer to this business as the "Shmatah" or

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Dear ??: Unfortunately all the Jewish vital records of Kuty other than 1833-1855 deaths have not survived. You can find our what other records have survived and where they can be found by searching fo

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My mother, born in Bialystok, called them Bialys. My Galitzianer father owned a grocery/deli in NJ and had fresh bagels and bialys delivered from NY every morning. I never heard my mother refer to the

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In the Bialystok area, there are many people with surname of Bialostocki (and similar spellings). I would assume that the surname Bialy is a shortening of the Bialostocki surname. As for Bialy's. They

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I am looking for anyone who was a member of Adath Jeshurun Congregation of Minnetonka, Minnesota from around 2013 to today. I am trying to make contact with a certain person who attended this Synagogu

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Dear Abe: Zabie, now Verkhovyna, Ukraine was part of Galicia near the border of Bukovina. The AGAD Archive in Warsaw holds the following records: 1877-1907 B; 1891-1936 M; 1884-1918 D. The 1877-1907 B

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English translations of Galician vital record forms can be found on JRI-Poland at https://www.jri-poland.org/galicia/GalicianVitalRecords_Titles_Nov2002.pdf. Mark Halpern

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Read the "Background" of this part of the JewishGen USA database https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/PhilaBlitzstein.htm donated to JewishGen by the Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Gre

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Dear Rose: The 1919 Bobrka births are included in a register that still resides at the USC (civil records office) in Warsaw. Your sister-in-law can obtain an offical extract of the record by providing

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Hi Sharon: In Galicia, religious vs civil marriages is a very important issue that relates to the legitimacy of offspring from those marriages. If you search the JewishGen group archives at https://gr

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Hi Jackie: There is a Nowy Dwor in northeastern Poland near the Belarus border, NE of Bialystok and SW of Grodno. See https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-519062. Mark Halpern JR

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Hi: The only Jewish vital records that have survived for Dunajow are 1924-1934 births, marriages and deaths. JRI-Poland has indexed the marriage and death records and those indices are contained in th

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Thank you David. This shorthand was written in America. Best regards, Mark

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I have a draft of a letter from an attorney to the US Department of State in July 1941 explaining that his client is attempting to bring his daughter and family to the US from Japan. The family had tr

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Dear Moses: Unfortunately the Jewish vital records of the town of Bircza have not survived. Bircza was a registration town where Jews from Bircza and many other smaller towns and villages registered t

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