I am looking for Reb Chaim Ozer's family tree. A cousin told me we are related and I would be interested to confirm this. If anyone has any information about this, I would love to hear from them

Where is the best place to find lists of Holocaust victims in Poland. ? I have exhausted Yad Vashem, IS Holocaust database , jewish Gen for a family of four. Leon Van Gelderen

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I am researching my mother's family surname-- ACQUADRO--- who came to the US from Pralungo, Piedmont (Northern Italy). (The 3-volume work of Dr. Renata Segre, The Jews in Piedmont (1297-1798), is a ri

I have come across a person who was born about 1842 in Lithuania. His father's name is listed as "Tsalko". I have never come across this name before. Is it Yiddish? What would the translation of that

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Hello, My GGM's brother was a soldier in the 214th Mokshanks Infantry Division during the Japanese Russian War. He died in 1904 fighting in Shaolinza, Manchuria.. Does anyone know where these Jewish b

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Thanks to all that responded, but the researcher who told me about this palce Konslawa, Galicia supplied me with the info to find the answer. Konslawa, Galicia = Kaclowa, Poland. The short version of

In my family genealogy search I have come across a man with a first name of Shaia. Could this be related to the name Solomon or...?? Thanks for any help, George Mason USA Researching: MOZESON in Lithu

Is there someone who can help me with the translation of these certificates from Polish? A need Polish translation for 5 certificates from Przasnysz. I don't need word-for-word but details such as nam

Today I found my maternal grandmother & her family on a Hamburg to New York passenger manifest (1891). Surprisingly, the family was listed as MICHALOWITZ instead of LURYA (or another spelling variatio

Trying to make contact with the family of Sara (nee Rokeach) Arnold who lived in Downsview. She posted Pages of Testimony to Yad VaShem in 1978. Her brother Kalonymus, born in 1935, also perished. Nei

In February, 1903 Leiser and Nachman Feinstein left Timkowitz (Slutsk), Belarus and sailed via Hamburg for New York where their mother Minka Cohen Feinstein collected them and brought them to join her

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Hello, I'm looking for the following metrical records for Borsa, Máramaros: Birth: 1910 - 1920 Marriage: 1900 - 1940 Death: 1900 - 1940 Are these available anywhere online? Thanks in advance, Yossi Ja