A certificate of marriage in New York (extract below) lists the groom and bride's place of birth as "Ocst. Gal." Gal, is likely an abbreviation for Galicia, which is consistent with other documents th

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There are two Netties in my family tree. One was originally name Nechame. The other was Naomi. Naomi also used the name Norma in the U.S. Richard Gross Guilford, Connecticut, USA

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In addition to trains and haywagons, some walked from Romania to ports of embarkation. According to the Spring 1997 ROM-SIG Newsletter (v.5, #3, p.4), "A unique group of very poor, but highly motivate

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An interesting research article on this topic is: Greenberg, Jason H., "From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants to the Unit

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A Family Search extract of a 1923 New York City death certificate for Harry Tarter lists his father as Shira Tarter. The family was from Mikulince, Galicia. I have seen Shira as a feminine given name

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My great-grandfather, his wife and children emigrated from Iasi, Romania to New York in 1901. The family first lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, but sometime after December 1902 moved to the

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