I am trying to solve the mystery of my GGF's first wife. This is the information that I have to work with (although it is not 100% reliable, as I am jumping to some conclusions by interpreting passeng

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Some time ago, JewishGen announced they would be adding thousands of records from the records from archives in Moldova. It appears nothing has been added for quite a while. Is there any update on this

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I should be grateful for a full translation of the attached letter, from someone in Ufa to his aunt in Massachusetts. Many thanks, Mike Coleman London U.K.

Ilse Klappholz (nee: Jordan) was born on June 19, 1916 in Magdeburg. She was married to my paternal uncle Alfred Klappholz and they had a son, Wolfgang Klappholz, born on March 5, 1934. Ilse and Alfre

Gabriel Lecker was the step-uncle of my cousin Wolfgang Klappholz (born March 5, 1934 in Magdeburg, Germany). Gabriel's sister Else was the second wife of Wolfgang's father Alfred Klappholz, so Wolfga

Gustav Dehne was the foster father of my teenage cousin Wolfgang Klappholz (born: March 5, 1934 in Magdeburg) during WWII. They are known to have resided at Vogelgasang 1 in Magdeburg in the 1940's. H

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Dear Genners, Does anyone know what happened with the merging of FamilyTreeDNA and MyDNA? It has changed my autosomal DNA analysis. It has substituted my sephardic (and part of my Italian also) percen

I had several relatives that immigrated to the United States from Moscow in the late 1980s, I'm wondering if anyone else would they filled out immigration papers in Moscow or the United States more li

Very moving background material! https://chgs.elevator.umn.edu/asset/viewAsset/57fbed027d58aeba1c557592#57fbee5e7d58ae4e72557593 Because They Were Jews! Memorialization: First Series Produced: 1945-19

We have all poured over those ship manifests recording the arrival of our ancestors on these shores. However, I have always wondered about ships that may have been lost at sea and along with them, the

My great-uncle Zalman was born on 7 March 1893 in Prienai, Marijampole (Suwalki Gubernia) to Yankel-Mendel and Pesha-Freida Fleser (born Bialobrodka). He was the second youngest of 10 children, 8 of w

Thanks to the recent guidance of Jewish Gen members, I was able to get a copy of my grandfather's restitution (reparations) file from Germany. In it, he states that he was held in the Neustadt Weinstr

Dear all! My family member is Meer Gershwin Haim (ZVI) Kluger. Was born in Poritzk (Ukraine) 1839/1840. How do I go about finding members of same family, births, deaths,marriages? Please help Many tha

Where can I find information about Uzava in the Eastern Ukraine? Michelle Sandler Westminster California