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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I am trying to confirm data appearing in someone's autobiography: Was there a dance hall in NYC in the 1930s called Whitier Inn ? To add to the data I wrote in my previous post regarding a Sara ABRAMO

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Very flimsy data but will try: Researching a European born (1880s?) New Yorker Sara (maiden name ABRAMOWITZ who had a grandson Tom who lived and/or studied in a university in the Boston area. Some oth

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My father-in-Law's uncles left the Szchuchin/Graive area around the turn of the 19-20 th cent. Their name in Europe was JERUSHALMY but I was informed that in the USA they changed it to ROSEN, At some

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I was told by my assistant many years ago that when Cohanim adopt children they (if they are religious) adopt daughters so that there won't be embarrassment when it comes to the holidays and the Cohan

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Researching a possible connection between our family and the daughter and son-in-law of R' Itzaleh of Volozhin, Rabbi Shmuel and Mrs. (?) LANDAU. I am specifically interested in the names of ALL their

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Can anyone confirm that the above term-KATCHOP- in Ukranian refers to someone who deals with lumber. It appears in one of Chaim Nachman Bialik (Israel's national author) as such. I believe also in oth

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My great great grandmother, Gittle ABRAMOWITZ, came to New Haven, Ct. somewhere between 1870 and 1890 as a widow with four youngish orphans. The childrens' names were David (?), Sarah, Meir and Kalman

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Recieved many replies regarding KATZOFF = Butcher in hebrew. In our case it seems that the name is a variant on a slavic word for some one working with lumber which actually was my paternal ancestors'

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