Dear researchers This use of the word Poland after the third partition is confusing to me. To give but one example, I read an article today that said Jews in Poland were required to take surnames in

It is my understanding that those databases that originated on Jewishgen and are stored on Ancestry servers, would be free on Ancestry. Other databases such as JGFF were never available on Ancestry

Your question has come up on this forum before. See the explanation of manifest markings here: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Manifests/ David Rosen Boston, MA On

Hi All My paternal great grandmother Rivka Basch (maiden name) was born in Sapanta, Romania. After marrying my great grandmother, she lived in Sighet, Romania. According to my father, who was born

I found a 1920 ship manifest for a relative that handwritten notations for almost every family group on the page. I've looked at several articles about such notations and can't find anything that

These are pictures of the Herrnstadt family. The family of Rudy Rolf Grab's mother who fell while servicing the Jewish Brigade (ww 2) and is buried in the British Military Cemetery in Ramla. I'm

Wellwood is "next door" to NEW Montefiore in Suffolk County. See the map on the JGS website at https://www.jgsny.org/ny-area-research/jgs-cemetery-guides. Steve Stein

I suggest you contact The Together Plan, a charity based in London and Belarus, which helps Jews in Belarus become self sufficient. One of their projects is genealogical research. They are skilled

Subject: Bergman family in Toronto Trying to make contact with the family of Selig Bergman (died in Toronto in 1988) and his wife Miriam (died in 2018). His father was Lazar Bergamn who married Leb,

Hello all I have been trying to find records for my great grandparents who came to England from Brest 1905-1907 roughly. I've looked at Ancestry's ship records etc, nothing to be seen here .... Has

Hello I believe Family Search hold all the records that Ancestry have or had and have made them into documents that make more sense at times too I believe. Have you tried Family Search ? It's

My grandfather--who died before I was born--was a boy in Kamienczyk, Poland, during WWI. A story passed down involves how he nearly died when a foxhole that he was in during WWI fighting caved

Steve: I wonder if "Niveravitzk, Russia, is possibly Neshvitz, which was in Belarus in the 1890's and early 1900's. Belarus, now, of course, is an independent country but was part of Russia at one

Jacqueline, You can find addresses by looking up names in old digitized city directories here (many cover Poland): https://genealogyindexer.org/directories Regards, Sherri Bobish

Diane, You indicate Sam is your brick wall and you want to find his death record and burial. I presume this is to go back in time. I too could not find Sam after the 1930 census. It would seem that

Hi, Bob Silverstein asked: How can I use the naturalization record card to find the naturalization petition and related documents? Depending on the county, he may be able to leverage the

Hi, I remember that there was some agreement between JewishGen.org and Ancestry.com to coordinate databases, I believe with some delay to give priority to JewishGen donors, but I wonder whether this

I am trying to find the names of my great great grandmother's parents or siblings. Betty Levi was born in 1837 in Hessen Kassel, but I don't know what township. She emigrated, possibly alone, to

Does anyone have this individual on their family tree? Name: SCHWARTZ, Kalman Born: ~1880 in Vaslui, Romania Parents: Father: Kalman (not 100% sure of name) Mother: Mina FRAERSTEIN Died in

I suggest you contact The Together Plan, a Jewish charity based in London and Belarus, which aims to help remaining Jews become self sufficient. One project is genealogical research. They have the