Apologies, I've only just been notified of these two items - both at auction in Paris tomorrow, Monday (25 April) ... 1. Diary of Leo WOLLE, a resident of the Lodz ghetto, from January 1, 1942 to Marc

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https://tinyurl.com/y822n3sc One of the items being auctioned in NYC on 7 April: https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/199/242021/125449991_1_x.jpg?quality=80&version=1648143591 Mordecai SHEFTALL (1735-1797)

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Careful: If word gets around that the song White Christmas was written by a Jew (son of a cantor, no less) and that at least one of the performers who sang the song in the finale of the film was also

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Since "alte" means "old" (in German), it strikes me as likely that "Alte" was simply an intra-familial nickname ("the old woman") Alternately. one naming website reports that "alte" was a name traditi

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A beloved uncle of mine was always called “Nick”. My ex-wife even named her son (with her second husband) “Nicholas” in his memory. Only recently did we discover that my uncle was actually named “Nico

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This is a link to an item up for auction August 2 in Jerusalem: A copy of the 1945 British Parliamentary report on conditions at Buchenwald when it was (just recently) liberated. I mention it because

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Just to point out that, in French, "mixte" may also mean "joint". Is there a chance that the documents in question refer to, or cover, more than one person? Peter Lebensold Toronto Researching: GELBFI

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Subject: Re: The surname RAPPEL For more info on the "f"-"p" switch - which is apparently not uncommon - look up Grimm's Law. The switch might also have happened in other Eastern-European names. Peter

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The non-fiction work Our Crowd, by Stephen Birmingham (published in the 1960s) remains a fascinating study of such German-Jewish New York families as the Lehmans, the Schiffs, the Loebs, the Warburgs,

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Does the 1939 UK Register include Scotland? If not, was there an equivalent survey for Scotland? Thanks. Peter Lebensold Toronto

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Apologies if this has already been addressed elsewhere, but ... ... if I load one or more of my family trees into FTFP, can anyone then “fiddle” with them - changing names, dates, connections, etc. Or

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Have you considered a Canadian entry? I notice that Ancestry has an Abraham SLOOTSKY (born c. 1894, "Russia") arriving in Quebec City, 2 July 1913, aboard The Sicilian. Might he have been following a

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With Yom Kippur behind us, I'm hopeful that some kind person will now find the time to translate the marriage record in Russian (I believe) that I posted on ViewMate at the following address ... https

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Cousins: I've posted a vital record in Russian (I believe) for which I would love a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=

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In JRI-Poland, after I find and click on a record at The Polish State Archives that is immediately available online ... ... what is the trick to printing out that record (or saving it to a file) so th

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If the above is one of "your" families, you may be interested in a document presently listed for sale in an upcoming NYC auction. It consists of a series of handwritten letters addressed (c. 1883-84)

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I have a somewhat similar situation where people who my mother had always told me were relatives had been using a newly-adopted surname (WERNER) since their arrival in the U.K. in 1907. On their appli

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I wonder if someone who reads Polish would be kind enough to translate - word for word please - the attached obituary notice I have just found on the expanded Nasz Przeglad database on JRI-Poland. Thi

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With regards to posting standards, I'd like to see more emphasis being placed on all family names (and nothing else) being written in all-capitals and making sure that every post is signed with at lea

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Despite all the caveats, DNA testing has made a huge difference in my research: Thanks to (and through) 23andMe, I was contacted by someone who turned out to be a cousin -- different last name, living