After recovering the basic details of my ancestors’ lives, such as dates and places of birth, marriage and death, I like to learn as much as possible about their personal lives. Searches of the daily newspapers several days after death […]
Posen Province Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Edward David Luff describes his 2003 visit to the Archives and describes it holdings of genealogical interest.
Collaborative Trees
Until recently, we genealogists began by building our own individual family trees. We started with our parents, siblings, children, spouses and continued to fill in as much as we could. When we reached a branch where we did not know […]
United States Citizenship Records: Derivative, Replacement, and Repatriation Certificate Files
Family history researchers long have known the value of naturalization records. Most researchers interested in documenting naturalizations in the United States begin by searching for court copies of the records that today are located in courthouses, local archives, and regional […]
Jewish Surnames Adopted in Various Regions of the Russian Empire
Generally speaking, it is relatively easy to distinguish Sephardic surnames from Ashkenazic surnames. For example, if one sees two lists, the first with the names Abitbol, Cordovero, Haddad, Modigliani, Oliveira and Toledano, and another list with the names Bergelson, Goldman, […]
The Feuchtwanger Stammbaum, by Susan Edels
The Feuchtwanger Stammbaum, by Susan Edels, is the family tree of the Feuchtwanger family from Fuerth, Bavaria, Germany, of Seligmann and Fanny Feuchtwanger and their 18 children. It includes information on the family from 1769 to 2009, plus some articles […]
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