I found a newspaper article from 1961 that records the death by suicide, in the Bronx, of a cousin of mine. That branch of my family is not well documented, and I don't have any contacts. The article

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Great to know that. I also like to look at the name of the enumerator on the census. Sometimes their name gives away the chance this sort of thing may have happened, i.e. someone named Smith doing a c

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My mother's paternal side came from Kolbuszowa in Galicia. My great-grandfather's surname was Hoffert. However, looking at records for his newly discovered siblings show various spellings of the surna

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Given the custom of naming a child after a deceased relative using only the first letter of the name: 1. Would it be acceptable for males to be named after females, and females after males? 2. Was it

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The Hoffert branch of my family came from Kolbuszowa, Galicia (now Poland). It's not a common name, and given the size of Kolbuszowa, I received some scholarly agreement with my assertion that there i

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I also had good luck with the Together Plan.

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There was a webinar recently about the meat strike, given by Scott D. Seligman, who wrote a book on the subject (the book came out in October). You might want to contact him. http://greatkoshermeatwar

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I have attended several webinars, and they tend to advise to ignore the "relationship estimate", and rather go with the numbers, and what you know about the family. The numbers I use, from the webinar

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Hi. I used a non-profit group out of the UK, called the Together Plan. They work on rebuilding the Jewish communities in Belarus. They also have a research group in Minsk that supports their work. I p

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Who filled out a marriage license in New York City in the 1920s? I am asking because I just obtained marriage licenses for two of my grandfather's brothers. For groom's mother, there are the following

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If Viewmate doesn't work out, I have used someone by the name of Joshua Grayson. His rates are reasonable. He gave a seminar at the IAJGS Conference, and has a website: Lost Roots Family History. One

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I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88419 Please respond via

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I found my great-uncle listed in the Yad Vashem database as serving in the Soviet Army, killed in action, shown below. Where can I look for more information about him, based on his service in the Sovi

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For the archivist, I went through the non-profit Together Plan out of the UK, that helps rebuild Jewish communities in Belarus. I hesitate to state their cost, because they tailored it for what I was

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Thank you for pointing that out. My family lived in the Iguman district of Minsk, and can be traced to the 1740s. My great-grandfather was Asher/Osher Kaplan. He was born in 1868, and died in 1928. Th

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My grandfather left Minsk in 1913 for the United States, and had six siblings whose names are unknown. I had someone do research in the archives in Minsk. While they were very successful in tracing my

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I used the Together Plan. Not sure what they can find for your family (they traced my Minsk family branch back to the 1700s), but they should be able to give you an idea of what is possible.

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I just got my research results from the Together Plan. I was very impressed, and amazed they were able to take my family back to the 1700s. I also got a great story involving my great-grandfather ille

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I watched this talk as part of the IAJGS Conference On-Demand Sessions. It was great.

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I found a database: Source Information Ancestry.com. Galicia, Ukraine, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1789-1905 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data:

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