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#IAJGS2024 August 16 - Travel Day / Visiting with cousins
Having been to Philadelphia many time over the past 45 years I decided to take the scenic route rather than the PA turnpike from...
Steven Jaron
Aug 16, 20241 min read
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"Lets Start Over, Shall We"
As the Ancient One says Avenges Endgame "Lets Start Over, Shall We." In the movie she is referring to the Hulk trying to get the Time...
Steven Jaron
Feb 17, 20241 min read
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Ancestor Photo Challenge
Every week Randy Seaver presents genealogists with a challenge. I participated a while ago in a DNA challenge he posed. This week his...
Steven Jaron
Oct 10, 20212 min read
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German Branches - Levy (maternal)
While technically I have two different branches of Levy's I am researching, only one of them appears to be true Levy's. My paternal...
Steven Jaron
Aug 29, 202122 min read
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Oddball Genealogy at the 2021 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
Hello all! Before I forget I wanted to let you all know that I will be presenting "Using the Internet and Social Media in Genealogical...
Steven Jaron
Jun 13, 20211 min read
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DNA Match Challenge
So according to one of my genealogy friends Janice Sellers another genealogist does these Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenges. This...
Steven Jaron
May 6, 20218 min read
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The 10th Anniversary of the Ceremony for Bertram
It was 10 years ago today that my grandmother's cousin, Bertram Polak, was memorialized with a Stolpersteine in from front of his...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
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Chasing Krochmals, Going After Goldbrums, and Searching for Sass
One of my more successful research projects outside of my researching my extensive Dutch ancestry has been my work on my Krochmal family....
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Apr 17, 20214 min read
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Missing Mosslers and Wanted Wachs
As I have mentioned in previous posts my 2nd great grandfather, Aron Moshe Tillinger, was married to Henzie/Hanna Ettel Wachs (or Wax)...
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Feb 6, 20212 min read
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021: Markus Rothstein
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an international memorial day, commemorates the tragedy of the Holocaust. The Holocaust...
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Jan 27, 20212 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Mystery Branch #6 Osias and Gerschon Tillinger
Sorry for the extended delay between posts I was working on some other things that had come up and double checking some facts. Anyway...
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Jan 9, 20212 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Mystery Branch #5 - Hersch Tillinger
My fifth mystery branch is that of Hersch Tillinger and his wife Leia. Together they had three children that I am aware of - Alte r Priwe...
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Nov 26, 20202 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Mystery Branch #4 - Dawid Samuel Tillinger
This and the next few "Mystery Branches" will more than likely not be in the same format as the previous ones. They are the results of my...
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Nov 14, 20202 min read
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Brief Website Update
Good Evening - while I work on the next installment or two or five of Tracing Tillingers I wanted to pass along a brief update to my...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Mystery Branch #3 - Isak Tillinger
My third mystery branch involves Isak Tillinger, who upon preparing to write this, I found was from the town of Kuty. Kuty is located...
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Nov 5, 20203 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Mystery Branch #2 - Zalman Tillinger
So my research into this branch began with this Facebook message on Tracing The Tribe. When I saw it it immediately caught my eye -...
Steven Jaron
Oct 29, 20205 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Mystery Branch #1 David, Israel and Sigmund
So back back in 2012 when I was looking at the Yad Vashem Victims Database for my great grandmother's sister Ernestyna and her husband...
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Oct 27, 20203 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Judah Leib Tillinger and his (possible) family
So it's at this point where some things start to get even more theoretical as I have no way to prove them with absolute certainty. When...
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Oct 25, 20207 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Dawid Tillinger and his family
(Pictured above - Death Record for Dawid Tillinger) So after working on my initial research into my 2nd great grandfather Aron Moshe...
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Oct 21, 20203 min read
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Tracing Tillingers: Aron Moshe Tillinger and his family pt. 3
(Continued from previous post) Bassie Tillinger - Bassie, or Bertha as she was known in the US, was born on August 28, 1893 in...
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Oct 20, 20202 min read
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