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Professional Genealogist and Geni volunteer Curator, specializing primarily in Jewish families of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Pale of Settlement.

Currently documenting Holocaust victims and building trees for the Jewish Community of Graz (including Jews living in other parts of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola), Burgenland, the former Sopron comitatus in Hungary (now divided between Austria and Hungary), and Galicia (now in Poland and Ukraine).

Personal research areas:

Surnames: Wurmfeld, Schönbrunn, Lefkovits, Platowsky, Golub, Wengrowsky, Kowalsky, Rutsky, Rutzky, Rosenberger, and Rosenberg.

Jewish Families of:

• AUSTRIA and SLOVENIA: Graz Jewish Community (whole region, including all towns in the overall Jewish community in Styria, Burgenland, Carinthia, and Slovenia), Vienna, and Sankt Pölten, Austria
• BELARUS: Vasiliski, and the Lida district
• CZECH REPUBLIC: Tucapy and Stare Hobzi
• HUNGARY: Szombathely; Beled and nearby villages, such as Mihalyi
• POLAND: Knyszyn and Korycin, Poland
• SLOVAKIA: Humenné, Malcice, and Michalovce
• UNITED STATES: Tyler, Texas

Additional specialities or search keywords
Jewish, Holocaust, Hungary, Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, "Lida District, Belarus"

Research Time Periods

• 21st Century
• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century

Languages
English, French, German, Ancient Greek (some), Latin (some), Hungarian (some); able to extract information from Czech, Romanian, and Polish records.

Degrees
MA, Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Michigan; BA Anthropology, European History minor, University of Pennsylvania