Category Archives: Genealogy

One of the greatest projects for genealogists on the Internet and which are managed by different organizations, are websites with complete digitized books. One of these projects which can be interesting for Jewish family researchers, is http://hebrewbooks.org. Their mission as … Continue reading →

I came today across a very short but interesting documentary film about two dentists in Jaipur, India.I’d rather go to another dentist, but unfortunately some people cannot afford another bicycle repairer dentist…

(Please click here to go to the explanation for this page) This is part 2 of 2 with a selection of the complete Yizkor Book on Ustrzyki-Dolne. Click here for part 1.  

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One of the families which I do descend from, is Kalech. Other cities of which I do know already that they lived there is: Ustrzyki, Ulucz and apparently also Tarnobrzeg (Dinow). There are some sources where you can get to … Continue reading →

I’ve recently been asked a couple times to explain how I did manage to receive successfully some files from the Polish archives and how long it took to get these files. Most of the people asking me this question, had … Continue reading →

I received the following document on May 27th, 2011 via e-mail from the state archive in Kielce (Archiwum PaÅ„stwowe w Kielcach). The document, as written in the mail from the Kielce statearchive, is: […]skan dot. Izaka Kalecha z ksiÄ™gi meldunkowej … Continue reading →