i found this site and am happy about it. my mother is gloria horowiz and she asked me to do some resarch since she doesnt have a computer.my mothers great...
Dear Andy and all Kedainers, I am researching my Goldsmith family and wonder if any of you know more about members of my family. Did any Goldsmiths intermarry...
I have just joined this group and have only read todays "digest" which was about the Scottish connection (not interested, not pertinent to me)\ However, I did...
Hi, I'm currently trying to put together a proposal for a docu on the Scottish heritage of the town. I've visited and seen the hotel Grejaus Namas that was the...
My grandmother said that her father took the family to a Rothschild agricultural settlement near Limmosol, Cyprus in the 1880's. They then moved on to...
Since Charles Kadin brought up the Yeshivas that escaped the Nazis via Japan, I thought this might be of interest: it is a pair of short articles from the...
My mother recently gave me documents from her cousin in Israel. I've now posted it on Ancestry.com as Lager(Lagor)-Liebe IT IS NOT COMPLETE, but I'm...
    I'm investigating Swedish placenames beginning with KVID or KVED, which has the     meaning 'enclosure of sheep or cattle'. In Swedish KVEDARNA...
I happen to have a few Kvedarna lists and I found a large BAY family living there in 1890. Head of household is Marek BAY, son of Aron. His wife is Roza. I...
It's interesting to note that Konstantinova (later known as Kvedarna in Lithuania) was called in Yiddish Kveidan. Perhaps this accounts for the confusion...
Dear members! I am a 2nd generation Bay, born in South Africa. My Grandfather came from Lithuania in 1902 with a cousin to South Africa. Recently we found...
During the years 1922-1939, Lithuanian-Jewish vital records were recorded by Rabbinate rather than by shtetl. In addition to the major town of Kedainiai...
I am searching for family of my father who immigrated to usa My grandfather was Zusman Pasmanas he was born in keidan and left for South Africa in 1927 My...
FYI, copies of the Keidan Memorial Book (in photo-reprint form) may be ordered from the National Jewish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. I believe I paid around...
Hi Andy, It's good to hear from you. Would love to get together. Hopefully we'll find an occasion soon. My last message was intended for Olga. It was in...
Dear Keidaners, A friend forwarded to me the three documents I am attaching. They include a list of former residents of Keidan who owned assets (probably bank...
Hi All, I have been researching my fathers family for some time now. The family name was Kaytser or somthing familiar from Keidan. My grandfathers name was...
I found an autograph book of my mother from 1927 - 1931, which contains notes written by her friends and teachers, mostly in Kedainiai where she grew up. My...
This is a follow-up to my message of three months ago, where I wrote on ... On Wed., June 6 I went back to Mt. Hebron and looked at the plot map for Chevra...
Hello fellow Litvak-Keidan researchers: I am a descendant of Bessie Dizun Weinstein and her husband Max. I am from Chicago, but live in Baltimore where Bessie...
I'm looking for any data regarding my grandfather & grandmother Haim and sara Belinson or Belinzon lost in 1941 holocaust. ond details on my mother untill...
Dr.Brian B.Cohen Sometime Senior Lecturer Medical Science University of St.Andrews information from a newcomer: my father's family starts- david ziv married to...
Hi Am wondering whether anybody on this group has knowledge of the Mogel Family. According to the Jewishgen Website Max Mogel was buried in the Keidan Burial...
