The city is Cochin, which is located in Kerala province, in southern India. The long history of the Jews of Cochin/Kerala is fascinating, as is the history of Jews who settled much later in the northe

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The address on the marriage certificate is for a building built in 1920, so the marriage hall or marriage officient's office was brand new at the time of the wedding. https://streeteasy.com/building/5

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According to one etymological source, the word "charwoman" seems to have been rare in most of the U.S., except perhaps in New England. Your grandmother's census, though, was taken in NYC. https://www.

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The name of my paternal grandfather's grandmother in the Chernigov / Kiev region came down to U.S. family phonetically as "Sura Gissa." One of my female cousins is named for her (No, her English name

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Thanks for sharing that news about this project and the opportunity to help. Apropos of the history of this camp is a stellar important book, compiled and beautifullly formatted, a book for teens thro

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My father's first cousin told me that her mother told her that she (the mother, Chaike) and her younger brother (Ilya Anshul), with ship tickets/or perhaps vouchers paid for in the U.S. by their older

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This added, hand-picked team, hired because of their very specialized expertise, is scary, though not, sad to say, totally unexpected, given the every increasing and pervasive data gathering already i

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Nephew and aunt marriage is a clear Torah prohibition. Leviticus 18: 11-13 עֶרְוַת אֲחוֹת־אָבִיךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה שְׁאֵר אָבִיךָ הִוא׃ (ס) Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is you

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The female name that is phonetically "Manya" is the first name of my husband's paternal grandmother, who lived in Galicia. We, too, do not know what the origin of the name is and have wondered about i

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Myself having known a man from Galicia with the nickname "Muni," I just looked him up to see whether I could determine whether "Muni" was a colloquial form of some Yiddish middle name added to his mai

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There is a phone number at this site: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/courts/1jd/supctmanh/county_clerk_records.shtml Ellen Zyroff

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The father of a woman who married into our family claimed that he was of German Jewish descent like his wife. My grandmom and mom perceived right off the bat from his pronunciation of Yiddish that his

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https://mailchi.mp/c6a017ed3621/tsal-kaplun-fundraising-campaign-october-2020?e=576fda1bc5 "in June of 2020, TKF received a prestigious grant from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHR

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My recollection is that it means a "louse" (plural "lice").

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My husband, whose parents were in the Lampertheim (Germany) DP Camp, was born in the local hospital (a Catholic hospital). His birth certificate was issued by the hospital.

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The following article in the Washington Post is likely the story to which you're referring. Two of the sisters of the five children of the Jewish father and Irish mother were in contact with various o

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Thanks for the link to the discussion on this topic on "Tracing the Tribe" Facebook page. There I saw a posting of a variation, "THE Meema," a variation I heard my paternal grandparents use in referri

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It could not hurt and might actually help to send every one of these real examples to Ancestry's management and database managers and post to their discussion board(s). Genealogical societies from aro

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Hi Yefin, On behalf of all of us, I spologize for just reading with interest, but not responding to your sharing the new information that's been found and added. These new sources of organized informa

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For specific hotels, or other information, You might try Phil Brown, who turned his own passion, research, and Catskill Hotel memories conferences into a full-fleged institute documenting and archivin

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