On 13 July 2020, I sent a request to support@... asking what steps I should take to go about correcting the spelling of the names of my grandparents in the Vienna Marriages database. I haven’t

Greetings! I am hoping to help a friend who is trying to decipher a number of seemingly important letters written between her parents in the early 20th century. The letters were written in an archaic

Dear all In his long discussion Mr. Cherson writes that Camille Pissaro was of Danish-French descent. Wrong! Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was born Jewish, to a father of Portuguese marrano

Berlin Jewish Museum reopens with totally revamped new Core Exhibit Berlin Jewish Museum has reopened with a totally revamped core exhibition that prioritizes Jewish life in Germany — including

I am some how related to R' Shlomo Boruch Tennenbaum, born in 1891 and married Chaya ?. He was a Dayin in Stropkov. I have names of his children (but I cannot verify that): Wolf, Eliezer, Binyomin and

These records from about 1835 to 1895 have been available on line from the Family History Library for years. However since recently they are now only available at the Family History Centres.This is a

All records from Volozhin...especially Revision Lists...have been translated under the auspices of the LitvakSIG Oshmiany District Research Group (DRG). You can search them by surname/Town in the

By way of a map, see the attachment which shows the Pale of Settlement within the Russian Empire. Map courtesy of YIVO Joel Ratner Newton, MA. Sent from Outlook

Are there any comprehensive lists of Jews transported to and murdered at or on the way to Belzec? Zev Cohen

My wife's aunts , Chaya HOROWITZ and Malka GREENSPAN (ne: EIZEN) were thought to have perished in the holocaust. There now arose a possibility that one of them may have survived and was seen

Some women who were naturalized before 1922 by marrying husbands who were American citizens filed their own naturalization papers in th 1930s or 1940s. It is worth checking because the naturalization

I am pleased to announce that the first half of Volume A of The Jews in Bessarabia; Between the World Wars 1914-1940 has been generously translated by Sheli Fain and uploaded to the Yizkor Book

Hello, I found a record on the LitvakSIG WWII evacuees list that may correspond to someone from my family. Is there a way to gain more information from that record. The record I'm referring to

This town known as Oberwart or Felső Eőr in hungarian, i would like to know if there is any birth/marriage records for the years of 1800-1825 or if any census records for this town. M Lenzky

Some 3 years ago, while browsing old family pictures, I found a picture of a young boy with his name written on the back - Herszel SZTARKMAN. I asked my grandmother who he was, but she didn't know.

I have the following information from a YiskorBook in Lithuania. Rabbi Yosef Katz had 2 sons in laws , Abramchik Yossel and Itzik Yossel. Now Abram(chik) was my great grandfather. He definitely did

Basic 1: Explore the Revamped JewishGen Website - Available Anytime, Any Device Take a Self-Paced Class at home on your computer/Device using a downloaded workbook. Want to learn to navigate your

I am searching for family and looking for everyone that belong to the familys: Wolkowicz, Kalski, Jastrzembski from the above towns. Drori Yoel, From Israel

It is difficult to make out the second word, but I think the first word is not the name of a ship. It is also difficult to determine the year of passage although his second child was born in NY in

Hi, Sounds like name of one of the Lithuanian towns "Naumestis" (NewTowns): Kudirkos Naumestis, Zemaiciu Numestis and Naujmiestis. Alexander Sharon JGFF