I find the "histomap" website of the Berlin State Archive quite helpful. It allows you to check old street addresses from, let's say the 1930s, against a present-day map of Berlin. You can superimpose

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It is with great sadness that I learn about the death of Reinier. I knew him as a devoted and resourceful researcher who generously shared his extensive knowledge. Our families were remotley connected

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I posted a translation request on ViewMate. The document dates from 1875, it is in Russian and concerns the second part of a request by Boim Kirschbaum to have a plot of land in Parysow/Poland measure

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I posted a document on Viewmate. It's about a request for a plot measurement by Boim Kirschbaum in Parysow/Poland from 1874/1875. The document is in Russian. Could someone help with a full translation

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I've posted a two-page record in Russian from 1874/75 for which I need a translation. The documents are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=

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I've posted a two-page record in Polish from 1874/75 for which I need a translation. The documents are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=V

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I’d be most grateful for suggestions on how to access marriage (1898) and birth (1899-1904) records as well as recruitment lists (1892-1896) in Nizhniy Novgorod. Can you recommend a researcher in Nizh

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We came upon the same problem in civil records from Mogilev/Belarus. The birthday of a family member was given as 29 February 1881. What immediately strikes us as an impossibility today didn't seem to

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