Not familiar with any studies, but here are some numbers from my family in what is now Belarus: Karelichy to Lubcha 26.4 km Karelichy to Kapyl 93.5 km Turec to Kapyl 80.5 km

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I've posted a Polish record on Viewmate at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95615 for which I would appreciate a translation of the six horizontal lines of text at the upper l

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The image is from the birth record of Mindel, the daughter of my great grandfather's sister, Malie Namenwirth, and Jakob-Eliukim Lerner in Dabrowa Tarnowska in 1892. Knowing no Polish, and having a ha

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Trying to decipher out the given Hebrew name of my great-aunt, Eleanor Walker. My best guess is that it should be נעכע

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I'm curious as to the naming conventions that might be relevant as I try to determine if I might be related to a Warsaw-born Russian military officer and spy. His name is variously given as (using Rom

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One of my father's uncles married his niece - in Rhode Island in 1918. And one of my grandfather's sisters married her uncle - in NJ. Looking into the latter, it appears my grandfather's sister used h

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My response to the race question is "Human"

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Would it be acceptable for males to be named after females, and females after males? My sister was named after my great-grandfather's brother

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Same problem; most recent attempt to upload a replacement tree was last week.

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The male form of my surname seems to be more or less consistently rendered in Russian as Узданский, but for the Polish equivalent, I've seen both Uzdanski and Uzdański. Is the difference between the t

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One thing I've noticed when looking at Revision List translations as given on jewishgen is that the basic order seems to be male head of household, sons, wife of head of household, daughters.

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One of my techniques to deal with spelling problems is to write the name in my sloppiest handwriting, and then consider various misinterpretations of the letters. My paternal grandmother came to the U

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My maternal grandfather's parents were Galitizianers, my maternal grandmother's parents and my father's parents were from places within the Minsk Gubernia. So it's always both.

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I vote for Rauchlese. Blowing up the image, it's clearly an "e" after the "l". There's no serif sticking up from the blob that is the last letter, so I don't think it's an "s"

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My middle name is Ira. My given name gets misspelled somewhat frequently, my surname gets misspelled very frequently, but I've never seen my middle name misspelled.

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 05:01 PM, <bobmalakoff@...> wrote: I had always been told my Hebrew name was יצחק Then, a few years ago, going through the various documents my mother saved, I found ou

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Have you looked for your ggf's family in the Belarus databases? My grandmother's family came the area around Novogrodek/Novogrudok/Navahrudak. When the first family members arrived, it was in Russia,

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Father's looks like "Budifist," mother's looks like "Bidifrist," and my best guess is that both are transliterations of an accented pronunciation of "Budapest."

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My 24-year old grandmother came to the US at age from what was then Russia in 1914 using the passport of her 19-year old sister. Her ship sailed from Rotterdam on the day Russia entered WWI. It was an

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