All I know about my maternal great-grandfather was that his name was Abram Dashev (some documents say Adashev), born in Odessa in about 1852. Later he married my great-grandmother Hava Loeva, born ca.

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I'm looking for information about my gg grandfather John Burt Hazen. Specifically his parents, I have census information regarding his wife and children as well as birth, naturalization, marriage, and

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 28, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eight

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A bit out of my range for me since it is a long drive over a toll bridge, etc. I have details on two graves in different parts of the cemetery. There might be other family in the plots but I do not kn

The Karaite section of the ancient Bassatine Jewish cemetery was restored with the assistance of the US government. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/11/us-embassy-helps-restore-jewish-burial-

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For all those researching the town of Pogrebishche, Ukraine, please note that the recent batch of revision list records included a full index of the 1858 Revision List for the town. This should be a t

Israel Genealogy Research Association Website: http://genealogy.org.il/ The lecture will be in Hebrew Introduction to the Jacobi Papers Speaker: Emanuel Elyasaf Dr. Paul J. Jacobi (Königsberg/Jerusale

I would like to translate (even roughly) parts of a Yizkor book that is in Hebrew. I can access the book via the New York Public Library as a webpage or as a PDF document. I think the PDF was made fro

I have obtained a NJ death certificate for a death in 1902 in Paterson NJ. The form lists a cemetery I cannot identify. I have looked at city directories for Paterson for 1900 and this doesn't match t

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 28, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eight

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Hi, In the Yad V data base I found this entry for a theoretical relative I am researching........... Yefim Zissman 1934 Mogilev, Belorussia (USSR) was registered following the evacuation to the interi

Notation on a couple of documents:marriage certificates and census lists a village in ‘Russia’ as either Cholnie or Kolny. By verbal history, this family is either from Kyiv or Minsk; however, no spec

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I am looking for the birth record or any information for Heinz/Hermann Freudenthal. He was born in Berlin sometime between 1908 and 1915 to Ludwig Freudenthal and his wife, Regina Kussi Wertheimer Fre

My paternal great grandfather, Solomon Bernstein, emigrated to England c. 1874 from Dombravils, Poland. Would there be records in either Poland or England of that emigration, hopefully that I could ch

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