Lebensborn The Arolsen Archives has made additions to their archive. In mid-December they acquired the collection of materials by journalist and author Dorothee Schmitz-Köster. The SS founded the

The mission of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is to provide record indices and extracts of all available records in Polish and other repositories Poland. Przytyk and Kozienice are two of the

You could also try www.findagrave.com . Sometimes there are already pictures posted. Otherwise you can request one. Arielle Sax

And sometimes they just changed their names. I have three aunts who were given the names Lena, Bertha and Tillie, and changed them to Leona, Beatrice and Lillian, respectively. Judy

How old was your grandfather when this incident took place? You might want to take a look at the question I asked this group with the subject title "Young Galician boys forced labor for Russian army

Join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland for our Installation of Officers followed by a Program on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 starting at 7:00 pm (ET) The Program: Mindie Kaplan

Shalom, It seems that in a time that we are searching for optimism, I am very pleased to note that the Yizkor Book continued to grow and thrive during 2020 and the December achievements are a

I wish to thank everyone who responded to my question. Based on the answers I received in response I feel that it was very possible that the person in question was able to speak fluent German as a Jew

Hi, If you have registered for the Zoom event, Tue 1/12/2020 and have a question, do this. If you have specific question(s) that don't require too much detail, please send them to Arthur (see email

I have found it helpful to map the migration patterns discovered in the course of a 250 member family project at FTDNA.As shown here, there are ample opportunities for mixing of Sephardic and

Shmuel Leib CITRON (1860-1930), Hebrew and Yiddish journalist, writer, and critic. https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Zitron_Shemuel_Leib He was born in Minsk and from 1903 lived in Vilnius. He

The Riga archives have a treasure of information and create family trees and photos from passports and other documents for very little money. Max Heffler Houston, TX From: main@...

Hello, I have a letter my uncle gave me back in 1996. It was from our cousin living in Riga, Latvia. The letter is postmarked 1973. The cousin's name was Israel Fiselsons (Fiselsohn). He said he was a

Generally Eastern European Jews had two given names: a Hebrew one used mostly for religious occasions and a second one that might be Hebrew, Yiddish, or the language of the surrounding populace. Each

My GGF, Samuel Schwartz (1858-1924), originally from Slovakia, lived most of his adult life in the Boston area. In 1914, he and his wife and two of his four daughters moved to Chicago, where he lived

Although all my ancestors came from the borders of NE Poland and SW Lithuania, my DNA shows I am seven eighths Ashkenazi and one eighth Sephardic. One of my family's male lines has a rare sub clade

This hypothetical Chinese woman would have lived approximately 25 to 33 generations ago (assuming a generation is on average 25 yrs). No genetic genealogy text or paper I have read would support a

You should always test the oldest family member. If you are looking for a paternal relative, then test your father, followed by one of his siblings. -- Stephen Schmideg Melbourne,

Legacy Family Tree, a member of the MyHeritage group of companies, announced that registration is open for their 2021 Legacy Family Tree Webinars. There are 120 classes to chose from on topics

The Dutch National Archives https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/ have made some records that became public as of January 1, 2021. Exceptions may occur for those people who are still living: Civil