Trying to make contact with whoever is dealing with the (A)GOLNICK family tree descending from HOROWITZ of Minsk. TIA Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

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I believe there was a message on this list the last few weeks regarding KNAPF (or variant spelling). I accidentally erased it. Can it be reposted? Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

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Interested in making contact with descendants of the JERUSALEMSKY family from Sczuchin who came to the USA around the turn of the 19-20th century. In the USA most of them changed their family name to

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My wife's aunts , Chaya HOROWITZ and Malka GREENSPAN (ne: EIZEN) were thought to have perished in the holocaust. There now arose a possibility that one of them may have survived and was seen begging f

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Family rumour has it that my great great grandmother, Gittle ABRAMOWITZ married (second marriage for both) a British widower by the name of Isaac LAZAROFF (spelling ? no records). This LAZAROFF was su

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While researching my paternal forefathers I came across on FTJP a Isaac KATZOFF-KATSOF who I believe may be connected to our family. Interestingly he is listed with the same exact spelling as our fami

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Rauchlese also sounds like Rachel's. Many jewish family names originated in Matriarchal names: RIVLIN (rivel"s) etc. Shavua Tov Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

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In my late mother's picture album i found a picture of a Moshe NATANSON taken in Camp Achva in 1937. I presume camp achva is (was) in the USA . If anyone wants the picture please contact me. Besides t

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My cousin mentioned that we are related to a GELBENDORF family which had a branch in Montreal. The ones he met many years ago would be in their early 100 y.o. so presumably they would not be live toda

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I have a chart detailing a group of KATZOFF siblings from Brisk/Brest-Litovsk. I know that we are somehow connected but am trying to research the exact connection. My grandfather, who left Brisk/B.L.

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Looking for children of my late father's cousin Yosef KATZOFF who lived many years ago on Kibbutz Bet Keshet. He had 2-3 children who I understand left the Kibbutz years ago. They would probably today

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Are there New Haven directories on-line for the years 1890-1915 and Hartford 1928-1930 ? Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

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There is a theory that maternal great great grandmother Sarah Hinde (married to Shlomo KANTOR of Pinsk/Karlin) was a descendant of Reb. Chaim of Volozhin. I do not know her maiden name. In one scribbl

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In order to confirm family lore I am researching an individual by the name of Isaac LAZAROFF ( spelling may be variant) who was supposedly married to my great great great grandmother, a second marriag

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I am researching my great great grandmother's maiden name. Gittle ABRAMOWITZ, widowed from Yitzchak in Novarodok during the second half of the 19th cent.and came to the USA (New Haven 1870-1880, I hav

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When I was researching my maternal great grandparents' roots in Pinsk I came across the name AVIGDOR . As I don't have that material handy right now can anyone confirm or send me details on this famil

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My wife's grandfather's brother, Ruben Myer ROSEN (JERUSALEMSKY) was born in Schucin (Europe) about, 1860 and moved to the USA . He married Sophie BRANSON daughter of isadore (died 1945). Their childr

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I believe that Yudel is a nickname for Yehuda. Udel is pronounced like oodel which is usually a woman's name. Yoni Ben-Ari

I am not sure that my cousin's situation is the same but: My first cousin married a non-jewish woman (I think in Nevada). After a while they were married religiously by a reform Rabbi and eventually (

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This may have been brought up before, but in old Jewish sources "rishon b'rishon" (first to first) refers to siblings so when its written "Sheni ' B'sheni" (second to second) would refer to first cous

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