I have recently inherited a quantity of family photos, and much to my surprise there was a photo postcard printed in Bucharest that was identified as my great grandmother's eldest brother, Morris Hers

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Would appreciate help in finding the legal name for what I assume is a nickname, "Shil". My grandfather seems to appear in the 1897 Russian Census, Rozhiv, Radomysl, Kiev Guberniya as "Shil". He was k

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Hello, I would greatly appreciate your help with translating a short Yiddish note posted here. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83543 The note was written in 1939. On the rever

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The Gesher Galicia SIG will meet virtually at the upcoming IAJGS conference on Wednesday, August 12 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm U.S. Eastern time (11:45 am - 12:45 pm Pacific, 7:45 - 8:45 pm UK, 8:45 - 9:45 pm

Hi All I am trying to trace any descendants of Maysa Ginda Rakovschik. She was born in Minsk Belarus about 1889 to Movsha-Aron and Brucha. According to jewishgen.org, she married Aron Elterman/Alterma

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While preparing a 1,500 name database of Mauthausen German and Austrian born victims, Jews and non-Jews, (Will be on the web soon) I was startled to find someone born in Philadelphia, the only person

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Trying to make contact with the children of R. Dr. Jacob Avigdor, ABD Drohobycz and Boryslaw (from 1920), Chief Rabbi of Mexico, born in Tyrawa Wołoska in 1896 and died in Mexico City in April 1967, s