Marian, Thanks for explaining more of the 1929 law regarding the Registry. Would an arrival in the 1940's, with a Certificate of arrival, still possibly have a Registry File? If it would, what might i

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David, Thanks for your response about the Registry Files. Would it be fair to say that if there is a Cert of Arrival with the naturalization papers, that no Registry was needed or created Moishe Mille

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Dear Group, The USCIS form G-1041-A allows for requests of five items. I understand the first three; the A-File, the C-File and the AR-File. And, I have those numbers from the U.S. Naturalization Reco

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Dear Group, I am thankful for all the educational opportunities offered by this forum. It has helped me quite a bit. I took the JewishGen DNA course in August. I attended two DNA lectures via Zoom yes

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Hi, Perhaps you are aware that at times, a ship manifest my have a Jewish (Hebrew or Yiddish) name, rather than the legal or civil name they became known as later in life. You might find the tombstone

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Dear Everyone, I hope my note finds you well, safe from the pandemic. Would anyone have experience in obtaining a picture of a tombstone from the Lodz Cemetery? I looked up the person of interest at:

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Sylvia, Thank you for responding. Would you have contact detail, including an email address for the Kozma Street cemetery? Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY JGFF #3391 moishe.miller@...

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Dear Group, Would anyone have experience obtaining tombstone and cemetery information from Budapest, Hungary? My aunt, Teraizah/Alice Jurowicz died at 3 months, in Feb 1933, as per her attached Death

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Hello Group, I find the varied responses so interesting. For me, I have found: Ancestry: with my 164,747 matches, ThruLines only gave me results 6 generations back, almost all of them tied to a tree t

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Hi, Are you familiar with the ordering process for a c-file? It seems you need to first request an "index search" and then a "record request". However, if I have the c-File and a-File numbers from the

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Hi, The JGS of NY maintains a webpage that has a lot of information on local societies. See: https://jgsny.org/searchable-databases/burial-society-databases Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY JGFF# 3391 moish

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Hello, For those that might want to create and share a Family Tree online, I just got an invite from someone using "FamilyEcho". I do not know much about it, but it seems free and "share-able", withou

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Dear Group, Does anyone know of a resource to locate and possibly photograph the tombstones of my g-g-gp's, in Oradea? I know there are three Jewish cemeteries there. The Valenta has many tomstones ph

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Hello, My g-gm had a brother named Lazar Schwimmer, born 1876, who married Ruchel Berkovits in 1899, in Munkacs. He had a shoe store. Does anyone have knowledge of this family? -Moishe Miller Brooklyn

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Hi Julia, Typically, I do agree with your view. Even if "name is the same" applies to the spouse. IMO, what is the same: Jonasz's name, on the marriage, census, death and birth record of his son, my g

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Susan, I hope you are doing well. I can answer #2. You can see many of the naturalization images online. You might want to review this page: http://www.jgsob.org/KingsNY-naturalizations.html Moishe Mi

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Carol, I have a twofold suggestion: share the manifest for the 1907 arrival. It most likely gives name, relationship and address of a relative in the "old country" and the same for their destination i

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Julia, Upon further review, I think the record is for the same person because the spouse mentioned in the 1861 marriage you reference, and the 1869 birth you reference, do match the same spouse listed

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Aaron and the rest of our community, Wow! Thank you so much! I have been looking for this death detail for decades. I appreciate you doing the obvious and then sharing it with me. Over the years, I ha

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Hello Fellow Researchers, My 1c4r, Isak Weinstock was born in Satoraljaujhely on 14 Jun 1859. See LDS Film 642954 (DGS 4210898), page 033 (of 552), line 032 (#858). OR, see: https://www.familysearch.o

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