Dear Dennis, My grandfather, with whom I grew up, was from Wolfhagen as were his ancestors for the previous century. There was a history of the Jews in W. (chapter in a history book of W.) and I'm alm

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Most likely, i.e., very likely, the first birth, maybe even both births, were never registered shortly after these births, and just to make things legal (in terms of legal status), both births were ev

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Some of these responses do not make sense. The name Leeuwarden has no connection with "Levi" or "HaLevi" but instead represents a town in the Netherlands in which ostensibly people from this family li

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Dear David, A couple of thoughts. "Lion" was a German Jewish family name in MW Germany, possibly sometimes Lyon. And "Yechiel" was almost certainly not the name used in the outside world. The name is

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How about: "Mishelevich M.D. Ph.D." <david@...> Bob Weinberg

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I bet that they had different names at birth, either in Hebrew or Yiddish, and one of them changed his name years later to one that was more of his liking. Highly unlikely to have been given the same

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I thought I'd sent this message earlier. " Ilse Ikenberg moved 24 Apr 1922 as student to Paderborn, worked as saleslady there, and returned to Altenbeken 5 Sep 1924. She moved 31 Dec 1936 to Solingen,

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Dear Richard, The very unusual (for Jews) family name of Dammann was taken on in 1808 by a Jewish family in Bielefeld (Westphalia). Moreover, there was Mosheim family in a town or towns a bit further

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