Michele - Thank you for your interesting post. As it happens, my great grandfather Louis Bernard Ulitsky arrived in London c 1875 from Kalisch, subsequently assuming the name of Bernard Lewis. His bir

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Deborah - I note your interest in Heiser. My great great grandfather was Abraham Heiser who was born c 1826 in Kempen, Prussia and emigrated to London in the late 1840s. What are the origins of your H

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Harold - I have a similar problem in that one of my great grandfathers assumed the name Davis Smith when he arrived in UK and his naturalisation papers, while disclosing the forenames of his parents a

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I have the opposite problem with one of my great grandfathers who listed the names of his parents and his place of origin (Oshmiany) but stated in his naturalisation application that his surname was S

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If anybody has a HEISER or two lurking in their family tree, please let me know. The family originated from KEMPEN (now Kepno in Poland) and my great great grandfather, Abraham Heiser, became a dealer

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Jason - I have a copy of 1929 South African Jewish Yearbook which shows an entry for Abraham Liberman, born in UK in 1874, married Dora Buirski in 1899 in SA and had four children. He was listed as a

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Please advise your private email address so I can forward entries, as requested. I replied to your email sent via this site but it bounced back as undeliverable.

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Richard - I have a copy of 1929 South African Jewish Yearbook and the business digest offers brief profiles of Isaac Broude (born in Sokolka, Poland in 1865) and Isidore Broude, presumably his son, (b

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You should check out LitvakSIG on Jewish Gen. There is a district called Oshmiany which is part of the wider Vilnius (Wilna) region. That may offer you some clues about the origin of Moshe Oshman. The

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