Many of the siddurim of GermanJews were printed in Roedelheim,

Several years ago, I searched 19th Century Jagielnica vital records for my Denker and Geller families. There were usually less than 100 deaths per year. Then I noticed a disturbing change. By 1865

Peter, I'm not clear on what needs to be done. Please explain. My grandmother, for whom I am named, was killed in Auschwitz as were many other members of our family. I would like to help but I need

Good day to my fellow Jewishgenners (in isolation). I am a longtime JewishGen member, but a first time poster. I have hit this brickwall many times and my expectations are set fairly low on

Quinine has been used as an anti-malarial drug since ancient times. It was so used throughout Western medicine after the 1850s. However, it was also sometimes used to treat diarrheal conditions, and

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) continues its free “Show & Tell with IGRA” ZOOM series. The next session will take place on April 13th. The topic will be “How to Use the Billion

I am researching my maternal grandmother, Zelda Ginn, and her parents, Zalmon Ginn and Sara Serefsky. Her alien Registration file provides no information. other than her entry port (NYC). I can not

I am researching for my grandfather, LEIZER (ELIEZER DOV BAR) FAINER, and his parents, BARNET DOV BER FAINER AND FEIGA ROTTMEN (ROTTMAN). His declaration papers indicate that he came from either

I don't know what the original question was, but Rodelheim was (is) a town near Frankfurt a/Main with a prominent Hebrew printer. Dyhrenfurth (now Brzeg Dolny) was a town near Breslau (now Wroclaw)

An article on the Russian-Ukrainian (non-Jewish) genealogy blog yesterday described the update and provided hints on its use by English speakers. The URL is

Professor Omer Bartov, also a Buczacz descendant, has written two books about the town and some of its Jewish residents. Judi Zimmer ROTHSTEIN - Smela, Russia, AUERBACH - Mikulince/Wasilkowce,

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#general The URL Sam posted for a 1914 map of Europe is actually a caricature of anthropomorphic maps. Before the advent of portable written media (parchment, papyrus), these maps were generated by

Try https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/pages/default.aspx Israel ntional library https://www.archives.gov.il/en/ Israel State archive David

Dear Nancy and other Jewishgeners, Outside of the question of the geographical origin of your family, a good starting point for the origin of most Jewish names can be obtained searching the records

Alexander Beider's last 2 name dictionaries covered regions with large Sephardic communities. Searchable indexes of these two books are now available at

Good Day, It is possible that the person who used LISS as a last name used their first to make it last, Liss is some kind of a short form for …. Elyse, Elisa, Elise etc. like in Jewish its

In researching the surname LISCHINSKY, I've found some of the families changing their surname to LISS. Eric Bloch Milwaukee, WI LISHCHINSKY (Belaya Tserkov, Vasilkov uyezd, Kiev giburnia)

Nancy, On the Ellis Island Database there is an Abram Lisser arriving 14 Nov 1900 from "Motow." Perhaps this is actually Motol? I've seen plenty of misspellings on passenger manifests. Take a look at

My grandmother, Sarah Leah Eisenberg, came from Chmielnik, near Kielce, in Poland. Her family had married twice into the Liss family of the same town in the 19th century. My father Max Goldfarb was in