Over a year ago you were researching the Dumont family, who were from Tauroggen, Kovno, Russia (now Taurage, Kaunas, Lithuania). Is this a different family or the same family?
It's the same family. I have my grandfather's Hebrew name Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hersch which will help locate them from the town they left. Would this help to find any information about the family before they came to the States?
I am not certain how much the Hebrew name will help, except in religious records. Civil records would have either the German/Russian/Lithuanian name or the Yiddish name. Lithuanian State Historical Archives: www.archyvai.lt/.../skaitmeninimas_1286.html
from their index to holdings in the archives: "Common Jewish Community Register & Jewish Civil Status Books" Tauragė (Atstatymai) Births 1880-1939 record #1817/1/282 There are also birth, marriage, & death records for various years in the 1920s from Taurage. I found a price list on the website, but since it was several pages long & I do not read Lithuanian, I do not know what they charge to do research.
I am not certain how much the Hebrew name will help, except in religious records. Civil records would have either the German/Russian/Lithuanian name or the Yiddish name. Lithuanian State Historical Archives: www.archyvai.lt/.../skaitmeninimas_1286.html
from their index to holdings in the archives: "Common Jewish Community Register & Jewish Civil Status Books" Tauragė (Atstatymai) Births 1880-1939 record #1817/1/282 There are also birth, marriage, & death records for various years in the 1920s from Taurage. I found a price list on the website, but since it was several pages long & I do not read Lithuanian, I do not know what they charge to do research.
