The Brothers Tissenbaum: Discovering Drama Dostoevsky Didn’t Write
Shortly after our father passed away in June, 1995, my brother Mitch alerted me to informationhe had just received that our maternal grandfather was not the first member of our…
Shortly after our father passed away in June, 1995, my brother Mitch alerted me to informationhe had just received that our maternal grandfather was not the first member of our…
The majority readers of this article are relatively well experienced genealogists so there will be no need for me to define or explain the basics of proven and trusted research…
Being an active member of IGRA, I have become acquainted with "Billion Graves". For over a year I have been transcribing the epitaphs on tombstones to information forms, via the…
Last year’s trip to the Chernigov archives uncovered plenty of information about my grandfather and his family. As is always the case in family research, all this information raised new…
Background Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was one of the most prominent Jewish philanthropists in the 19th century. After making his fortune before the age of 40 as a broker on…