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VM ID Category Image Date Approved Question Posts
852 Sharing Document

5/4/2003 Enhanced copy for translation from Russian. A local
(Gabin) town hall registration. Page 1 to follow. 		View the post, there are no responses
853 Translation - Hebrew

4/30/2003 Grave marker of my grandfather, Joseph Singer View the post with its 1 response
845 Translation - Russian

4/28/2003 I believe this is a visa for travel within the Russian Empire, but not outside. View the post, there are no responses
846 Do you recognize?

4/28/2003 Sam (Sholom)Litvak, son of Lazer Abba. Married Leah __ daughter of a New York Rabbi. Lived for a while in Herzel St, Brownsville. View the post, there are no responses
837 Translation - Other

4/23/2003 Shalom,

Can you decipher the word underline with red?
It is a first name and the family name is Ziffer.
Please note that the "b" letter from the word below merges with the first letter of the "wanted" word.

Thanks in advance,

Eyal.
 View the post with its 1 response
838 Translation - Tombstone

4/23/2003 Can someone please translate this Hebrew gravestone to English? View the post with its 1 response
839 Translation - Hebrew

4/23/2003 Need help translating the Hebrew text on the grave marker for Emanuel (b. 1819; d. 12/4/1876) & Katherine TEICHNER (b 1820; d. 3/30/1881). The family is originally from Hungary. The grave marker is in a cemetery in Detroit, Michigan, USA. View the post with its 1 response
840 Translation - Hebrew

4/23/2003 Need help translating the Hebrew text on this grave marker for the HIRSCHMANN family, Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Family members include Friedrich and Fanny Hirschmann, originally from Fuerth, Germany. View the post with its 1 response
841 Translation - Russian

4/23/2003 Birth Record Judka Don, Brok View the post, there are no responses
842 Translation - Russian

4/23/2003 Birth Record Mosek Don, Brok View the post, there are no responses
843 Translation - Russian

4/23/2003 Birth Record Masha Don, Brok View the post, there are no responses
822 Translation - Polish

4/20/2003 Can someone please help to translate the pencil written caption from reverse of photo? Kind thanks for any assistance given. View the post, there are no responses
823 Translation - Yiddish

4/20/2003 transcription in Yiddish on the back of a photo from Argentina View the post, there are no responses
824 Translation - Yiddish

4/20/2003 pages 1-2 of 1936 letter in Yiddish from Argentina View the post, there are no responses
825 Translation - Yiddish

4/20/2003 pages 1-2 of 1936 letter in Yiddish from Argentina View the post, there are no responses
826 Translation - Yiddish

4/20/2003 pages 3-4 of 1936 letter in Yiddish from Argentina View the post, there are no responses
827 Translation - Yiddish

4/20/2003 pages 3-4 of 1936 letter in Yiddish from Argentina View the post, there are no responses
828 Do you recognize?

4/20/2003 sam shiff & family u.s.a.brother of my grandfather shimon(simcha) View the post, there are no responses
829 Do you recognize?

4/20/2003 sam buckantz& family u.s.a. View the post, there are no responses
830 Photo Identification

4/20/2003 relation to shiff family? View the post, there are no responses
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