Jossi, Have you seen Dr. Dan Hirshberg's website? https://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/ Dan has recreated most of the Jewish citizenry of Krakow. I do not know if this data is also in JewishGen, but

#records #galicia

There is a very informative article that explains the autosomal DNA pitfalls of endogamy, which include Ashkenazim. The author is Jennifer Mendelsohn. The title is: No, You Really Don't Have 7,900 4th

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According to Bieder's Dictionary of Jewish Surnames in the Russian Empire: Turkovich and phonetic variants derive from the village of Turkovichi. Turchanovskiy is listed as a variant of Turchinskiy an

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To everyone who has replied here and to me privately...THANK YOU! The research community is amazing. In such a short time, valuable help has come from a half dozen people in Israel, Belarus, and the U

#belarus

The Jewish cemetery in Vselyub (Wsielub, near Nowogrudek, cemetery ID: BEL-03452), along with the synagogue, still stands. In 2006, US Catholic students paid their own way to Belarus and did a wonderf

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My grandmother was coughing upon arrival at Ellis Island. Authorities feared TB. She was not allowed entry. Her name was crossed out from the manifest. The arrival vessel, SS Mt. Clay, showed two pass

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