Hi Geoffrey, It is my understanding that the first CENSUS in the Russian Empire was in 1897. Before that, there were Revision Lists. Revision Lists have different rules, standards, and dates than an A

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I searched just The Jewish Encyclopedia for "Frumkin, Eben Shemuel" and found this additional information by looking at other articles that include him in the bibliography: Frumkin, Eben Shemuel, Wiln

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I think that you will have better luck with blogs than with a book because the field is changing so rapidly. I know that Lara Diamond started a project to come up with statistics about shared cMs and

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There is a digitized copy of the Jonava Lithuania Memorial Book at the New York Public Library website. Here is the link: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4c6cbb20-79ac-0133-819d-00505686a51c

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I found these responses very interesting, I have seen hints of this but not as much confirmation as you all have supplied. I am curious if it is more common in second marriages or if your examples are

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I was given a memoir by a cousin whose father was hired as a "raft worker." He helped take timber from the forests in Lithuania to a port by working on a raft about 1892. It is the only time that I've

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The person requesting funds is the son of a Lithuanian Holocaust survivor who lived his life as an artist in Lithuania. I think that he is naive, but not intentionally scamming anyone. I believe that

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Hi Jeremy, My husband is part of the large GLAZIER family from Birz, Lithuania, so perhaps we will find that we are related! Your question is a little unclear. I am going to answer in two parts. Part

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I found a similar story in a newspaper clipping (available during the IAJGSG Conference on one of the paid sites). I have attached the article from the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 1910. Apparently, my

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Once again, Wikipedia to the rescue! Found this in the Wikipedia articleon the topic "GEDCOM" I think you should check on the Ancestry website to see if they say which version of GEDCOM they accept. P

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Before computers helped us organize our genealogical information, there were a variety of numbering systems. I have a couple of old articles in my files from those days. But, since we live in the age

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I've found that the "rules" about naming children are really common customs that are used sometimes, but not always. In addition to sons having the same name as a living relative, I've found that half

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Hi JBaltmanas, Welcome to the JewishGen! Sherri Bobish's newspaper find is terrific and you should pursue it. But I just wanted to be sure that you had also checked the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Databas

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The Vilnius State Historical Archives participated in the Archives Portal Europe project. I thought that they had put some documents online, but when I checked before responding, I only found catalogu

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Thank you for the review and the tip, Peter! Another cool way to do a project like this was posted by Dale Markowitz, a Google engineer, on her blog at: https://daleonai.com/building-an-ai-powered-sea

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This question is more complicated than it looks. The 1897 All Russia Census was not saved the way that American Census records have been saved with the total of census questionnaires still in the arch

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I used a Daitch-Mokotoff search on the JewishGen Gazatter (more places, less specifically Jewish) and searched on only the consonants in the name (VDGR). The search returned a long list, but these are

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I've been told that sometimes the mother's name is used to ask for mercy or healing for a person in prayers. But I've also never heard of it on a tombstone. Have you looked at other stones in the same

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I think the IAJGS 2020 team is doing a great job! Thank you for your hard work, persistence, and flexibility. I am wondering about setting up small social sessions in an effort to create some of the s

Thank you to Phil Shapiro for letting me know about an online discussion of the fate and writings of Matilda Olkinaite, a young Litvak poet whose life was cut short by the Holocaust. The event is orga

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