I suspect that those of our ancestors who left the major cities on the east coast of the United States did so for much the same reason that they left the cities and towns of eastern Europe. There were

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I suspect that those of our ancestors who left the major cities on the east coast of the United States did so for much the same reason that they left the cities and towns of eastern Europe. There were

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My Great Great Aunt Fannie Cooper died on Feb. 6, 1944 at the Hebrew Convalescent Home, 3573 Eastern Blvd, The Bronx, NY. In a paid ad in the NY Times of Feb. 7, 1944, she is listed as an Honorary Vic

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My Great Great Aunt Fannie Cooper died on Feb. 6, 1944 at the Hebrew Convalescent Home, 3573 Eastern Blvd, The Bronx, NY. In a paid ad in the NY Times of Feb. 7, 1944, she is listed as an Honorary Vic

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My great grandfather's sister, Sabine ENGELSZER ROSEN lived in Warsaw. One evening four of her six children died of scarlet fever. Her husband moved the family to Prague, because he considered it to b

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My great grandfather's sister, Sabine ENGELSZER ROSEN lived in Warsaw. One evening four of her six children died of scarlet fever. Her husband moved the family to Prague, because he considered it to b

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My wife found a photograph of the British soprano Leonie ZIFF (later ZIFADO). On the back of the photo her mother had written that Leonie was a second cousin of her mother (my wife's grandmother) Her

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My wife found a photograph of the British soprano Leonie ZIFF (later ZIFADO). On the back of the photo her mother had written that Leonie was a second cousin of her mother (my wife's grandmother) Her

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New Brunswick and environs has a very diverse Jewish community. In addition to the Hungarian Jews, Greek Jews >from Salonika settled in New Brunswick, built a synagogue (sephardic) and found work in t

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New Brunswick and environs has a very diverse Jewish community. In addition to the Hungarian Jews, Greek Jews >from Salonika settled in New Brunswick, built a synagogue (sephardic) and found work in t

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My late father-in-law, Emmanuel Alexander Parker, kept a diary on a sometime basis >from his days at King's College, London in 1911 to I'm not quite sure when. One of his entries is a list of the memb

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My late father-in-law, Emmanuel Alexander Parker, kept a diary on a sometime basis >from his days at King's College, London in 1911 to I'm not quite sure when. One of his entries is a list of the memb

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It is virtually impossible to ask a question on JewishGen and not get a great many solid, well formulated and useful responses. Not only have I learned that askenazic - sephardic marriages in the earl

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It is virtually impossible to ask a question on JewishGen and not get a great many solid, well formulated and useful responses. Not only have I learned that askenazic - sephardic marriages in the earl

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I have just gotten off the phone after speaking to the cousin with whom I have been working. He inadvertently used the masculine ending for for a female relative. I apologize to the group for not bein

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I have just gotten off the phone after speaking to the cousin with whom I have been working. He inadvertently used the masculine ending for for a female relative. I apologize to the group for not bein

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Lifsha RUBIN of Bialystok married twice. First to my ggf Leyb SZTEJNSAPIR of Rajgrod and then, after his death, to Wolf SZTEJN of Bialystok. She had four children by Leyb, Abram and Sora who were twin

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Lifsha RUBIN of Bialystok married twice. First to my ggf Leyb SZTEJNSAPIR of Rajgrod and then, after his death, to Wolf SZTEJN of Bialystok. She had four children by Leyb, Abram and Sora who were twin

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I have had a number of responses to my question about a family patrynomic which has puzzled me. Each one pointed out the difference in the male and female endings in Polish patrynomics. That opens a n

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I have had a number of responses to my question about a family patrynomic which has puzzled me. Each one pointed out the difference in the male and female endings in Polish patrynomics. That opens a n

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