Thank you for your reply, Vivian. With too much time on my hands, now would seem a great opportunity for me to give something back to JewishGen and volunteer my services to add the missing place names

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the 1795 census of Trencsen county and can tell me why the place names for the returns from the inferiori (lower) district have not been rec

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Hello everyone, I am helping somebody to research their GUCKENHEIMER roots going backwards from the marriage of Rosa GUCKENHEIMER to Emil OPPENHEIMER in about 1866 in Nuernberg. It appears that Rosa w

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I think it's going take me a long time to learn the complexities of Hebrew. Is it possible that נוספיף is simply a spelling mistake or an archaic spelling and the text should have read נוסף על ? What

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Hello Yitschok, Thank you for your reply. I have received another response privately that matches your interpretation. However, I have adjusted the colour and brightness of the image to improve the le

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Hello everybody, The short text below forms the introduction to the "new" laws of the community of Schweinshaupten in the northeast of Lower Franconia. They were written in 1735 by the Jacob Breslau,

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Hello, I was wondering whether anybody happens to have the DVD entitled "Die Judenmatrikel 1824 - 1861 für Oberfranken" and would be kind enough to look up the details of the people who adopted the su

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Thank you, Bob. You have confirmed what I suppose I already suspected. People did reverse their secular given and family names. But it's great to hear some concrete examples. I once knew a guy in the

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Hello, I'm trying to work out what the Hebrew name of the following gentleman may have been. Esdaile Philip COHEN was born in about 1792 in Swansea, Wales, UK to Jacob COHEN (d. 1819 Swansea) and Cath

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Hello everyone from the sweltering heat of Dubai, Thank you all for your replies and interest. I just wanted to clarify that I am asking about the likelihood of a man swapping his given name and his f

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Hello, I'm trying to establish the full names of the parents of Benjamin Louis HYAM, born about 1817 in London, died 1870 in Swansea In the censuses of 1841 and 1851, Benjamin was recorded with his mo

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Hello Ron, The marriage of Lewis and Hannah was recorded in the marriage register of the New Synagogue. According to census records, Lewis was born in 1815/16 in Christchurch, Spitalfields. I have a s

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