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Hello all: I am wondering if someone can help me decipher the signature on a postcard written to my grandmother in 1914? The lines before it are from a poem and are in German. Apparently there are thr

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i am looking for detailed maps of bukovina and Galicia between 1890 and 1925. are there any available online? thanks ellen trencher

I am looking for the family of a father and son who were both rabbis, and Cohanim, in Potok Zloty. There is a tombstone of one of them dating to 1834. Please let me know if this might be in your famil

I got Sonia nee Greenberg Penn Helfand's marriage certificate: her father is Mosche Greenberg and mother is Tauva Miriam Mesimik. I just learned that Sonia has a brother - no one knows anything. The G

When looking on Ancestry.com, I find a public tree that has my grandparents listed. How do I contact the person(s) that listed the names? SKE & CHE families. Thank you, Trudy Barch, FL previously Chic

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A pre-announcement! The speaker at Sephardic World next Sunday (27 December, 2pm NYC, 7pm London) is Abigail Green, author of the excellent biography of Sir Moses Montefiore, perhaps the most signific

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Hi Folks, I am trying to make contact with Laurie KACE (Mercy College / Pratt Institute; formerly Gymnasia Herzeliya, Tel Aviv) and her close relative Ruth KACE (Los Angeles?). My info from two source

Hi guys – I have placed on ViewMate an image of a small brooch given to my late Mother by her Mother in 1938 on the day that the German army invaded Austria. There is a small hand-written message, in

Hi. Would someone be so kind and interpret the name of the town my husband's grandfather came from. I thought Pentue was written, I have been told there is no such town in Russia. I have attached a pi