Gail H. Marcus: One of the librarians at the New York Public Library Dorot Jewish Division (who I got to know in the 10 years (before March of this year) that I regularly spent time reading material t

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PS: I forgot to note that Hyman Pat/Patt/Pate was the only one of his siblings in 1910 who was male (and who would therefore die with the family name of "Pate" -- which seems to have been adopted by h

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Dear Debbie Bloch: Google pointed me toward this "centre médical" (= "medical center", at least approximately) in today's Woluwe-Saint Pierre in Belgium: http://www.cmco.info ("Centre Médical du Chant

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Tanya, As I have said in another thread some time ago, I found evidence of my father's father's name change when looking at his birth certificate at the New York City Municipal Archives (he was born a

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Hi to all who will read this post. I am not sure that my own US Census/genealogy story counts exactly as "invented relatives" (although it seems to involve persons who were not relatives of mine who w

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Reply to Alan Cohen: I think that "2699" would only be "2nd June 1899" if there was punctuation between the month, day, and year parts of the date... -- and if dates were written as in today's UK (as

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Dear Trudy Barch (or Trudy): I hope that someone yet-more-experienced with genealogy than I am will respond to your query, but I will say/ask: I) If Abram and Mejta were born in and lived in what we c

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I'm not going to say much in the reply, but Thanks for your detailed and courteous reply posts, Brooke Schreier Ganz -- explaining in more detail what your organization is asking for -- and why. : ) (

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Dear Brooke Schreier Ganz (and Reclaim the Records): I sympathize with your frustration and your goal but (as someone who is doing transcription work and related things as a volunteer at the NARA's Na

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Hi to Vivs Laliberte (and everyone else who will read this). I don't think I've seen anyone try to read the wife's birthplace -- which looks to me like "Pashika, Poland, Russia". The JewishGen Gazette

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Dear Alexandra Sokol: I have tried to search for a "D. Folis" and for a "D. Tolis" in the interface for the Ellis Island database at heritage.statueofliberty.org (one needs to register to see ship man

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This (apparently Hungarian) Wikipedia article (for "trout") has the same basic spelling ("pisztrang" -- with an accent mark over the "a") : https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisztráng . Good Luck. Ethan K

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Dear Allan Jordan/"A. E. Jordan", I have not contacted the court involved with my grandfather's name change -- and have not found the name change file. (I'm not as diligent as many other with respect

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Thanks for that quotation and information, Mr. Hershman -- concerning antisemitism in the 1940s (although the fact remains that my grandfather had 2 brothers (1 of whom I met decades later -- after I

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Hi. A little bit of follow-up: 1) Thanks to Sherri Bobish for mentioning my find of a published notice of my grandfather's court-approved name change in a newspaper from 1940 (I clicked on that link a

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I can't speak to all cases of amended birth certificates in New York City (and I've never been a lawyer), but I know the case of my paternal grandfather (even though I forget some of the details of wh

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Dear Patrice Markiewicz (I'm sorry, but I don't know your gender or whether you have a doctorate): You mean 18th arrondissement, don't you? ( Arrondissements being divisions of/areas within Paris; "ar

#russia #poland #france

Thanks for the excerpt (which I read most of) : while it looks a bit romanticized (through the lens of memory of a place which no longer existed), I like the "rose-colored glasses", and there is quite

#yizkorbooks #poland

Hi. I see "Galicia" (a region -- now in southern Poland and western Ukraine; once part of the "Kingdom of Austria" within the Habsburg/Austro-Hungarian Empire) -- with (fainter) "Aus" (presumably for

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