Hello! This is my first post. I am trying to research my maternal grandmother's family. Her mother came to Boston in 1899 and her name on documents is Sadie Solberg (married name Sahl). Her parents ar

Hi My great grandparents, originally from Rava Ruska/Uhnow in Galicia lived in Vienna between 1914 and 1938 (my great grandfather died at the end of 1935). I do not have any pictures of them. Does any

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Good afternoon. My name is Bianca Nyseth and I am seeking help with the following; My grandfather, who has since passed, served in the 84th infantry RailSplitters division in WW2 which liberated 2+ co

Hi I would like to find the location of the graves of some great uncles and aunts who did not have children. One of them died in the 1960s and the other two in c. 1990. They lived in the tel aviv area

I need help please. My family has found letters from the 30's-40's, written by my great-great grandfather, to his son (or children) in America. We are not sure what language the letters are written in

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Hi Siggers, We want to get a copy of the 1897 census pages for the Fainstein family in Pavoloch from the State Archive of Kiev Oblast - Fond/Opis/Delo = 384/10/229-241 (13 BOOKS). (Note, this referenc

In 1910, my great uncle Charles Wolinsky (Chaskel Volnsky) immigrated to Berlin from Skvira, Ukraine. He started a cigarette factory and became very wealthy. Around 1922, he lost his business. Based o

Hi all, Many of you have been very helpful in assisting me in finding the passengers list of my great-great uncle. Thank you! I found the list, but I could not find William and Rosa Braunstean, I now

Hello! I'm curious if anyone has come across something like this before. I found a US Department of Labor Immigration Service "Border Inspection Memorandum" from 1923 for a relative of mine, and inter

Attached is the Death certificate for my great Grandmother Sarah Katz nee Haber, that lists her mother in 1913 the year she died as Rebecca Goldstein. The marriage record shows her mother as Rebeka Le

Gail Dever in her Genealogy à la carte blog announced a new genealogy website from the Belgium State Archives. The new website holds about 38.6 million official documents which includes 28,527 parish

*According to his naturalization records, my great uncle, Adolph/Adolf TAUFIELD arrived in New York June 26, 1890. He did not list either the ship's name or the port of departure. Nor did he list a wi

Hello everybody, I collected many comments, suggestions and feedback about the Bessarabia Winter Symposium (click here to read). Thank you very much to all who provided feedback. If you would like to

My mother's mother is listed with the birth name of Lapinski on some of her children's birth certificates and Berger on others. My mother told me her mother's father had been adopted by a family with

Another mystery from the Manitoba State Archives. A few years ago I found my mother’s birth record as follows, with her first name listed as Carl not Pearl. Her name was Pearl Frances Finkelstein. I m

Hello everybody, I would like to give you an update on several sets we worked on from 1808! These records are very important for several reason: - these are the oldest records we have so far; - they a

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Dear fellow researchers, Tax censuses (family lists) from the Mglin uezd (district) in 1888 have now been translated and transcribed as part of the Chernigov Gubernia Document Translation Project. The