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

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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

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

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

Hi all, I could not find answers to the following questions on Arolsen Archives site itself, so I wondered if those with experience in submitting inquiries (https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-expl

Dear members I would be really grateful if you could help me to take a look on the previous translation and check the accuracy, the previous helper provided a translation done by an OCR reader and not

I seem to be at a dead end. The cousin I knew as JULIUS LASSEN emigrated under the name of LEIB LESZCINSKI and also used the original family name of LISHINSKY. He emigrated on the Ohio leaving Hamburg

I request a translation of the Yiddish text on a postcard. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM101073 Please respond using the online

You should also go to the archives in Vilna and Kovna. Tell the archives beforehand what towns you want to research. And two reasons to go. You get the feeling of the places where your ancestors lived