I am looking for information on the children of Josef and Felicia HAASE. Son Peter Joachim was born on 3 August 1922 in Frankfurt. Peter had to do forced labour at the Jüdisches Forsteinsatzlager

Someone recommended "label the back of every picture now." That is not a good practice, as it can harm the place where the label is, either indenting the letters or causing ink to perhaps bleed

What a detailed and incredibly helpful explanation! Thank you so much. I do append a further question- what do you do with the originals. I shudder at the idea of destroying them- but storage space

There are youtube videos with the author Deborah Feldman, who now lives in Germany. This book does not at all seem to have been a hoax. That rumor may have been started by members of the Chassidic

Found out many of my ancestor's first names were Abraham, Jacob, Daniel, Johann,. Balthazar, etc. Any way for me to find out what Tribe I came from?

Dahn, Why scan to jpg or png, both lossy formats, rather than tif, which is lossless? Every edit, including cropping, degrades the quality of jpg and png images, defeating the purpose of scanning at

What to do during your "down time" at home? How about organizing a Virtual Family Reunion? I have suggested it to our JGS and so far it has been a big hit from children to adults. Sharing stories,

Bruce, Thanks for the reminder! I had the honor and privilege of creating web pages for that book. Max Heffler

At the end of WWII while Jewish survivors were gathered at various locations in Germany and Austria they often attempted to contact relatives/friends in other countries to facilitate emigration. This

Everyone has good advice but one vital piece of advice is to label the back of every picture now. Assuming you will save the pictures, as everyone here has advised you to do so, someday someone will

I am Laurie Bricker, and with the incredible help of Jewish Gen, I located my family in Alsace Lorraine several years ago. I am looking for my husband's family who lived in the Minsk region. My

I believe she is my G'Grandmother on the Fischer side of my family. I would like details/of her birth, parents, siblings, marriage, death. I have emailed the Witten offices but have not received a

“The epidemic was halted thanks to the supervisory efforts of the authorities over hygiene and meticulous cleanliness, as well as to the fact that no person was permitted to travel from city to city

You can find the photo in this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/jews-and-booze-becoming-american-in-the-age-of-prohibition-by-marni-davis-book-review.html

It's in the digitized New York Public Library collection. I wish I could remember the search terms I used to find it, but it was long ago.

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Hi Victoria, Thank you for this tip about photographing old photos. I have one or two that are quite fragile, and your suggestions will be particularly helpful for these. Now if I can just pry the

There are many resources for researching Hungary. But you need to provide more information in order for us to direct you to the appropriate resources. What resources have you already consulted? Have

Tracy, thank you so very much for this mini-tutorial on how to deal with old photographs. They are precious to me, and have provided valuable info from scrawled notes and dates. Just seeing the

I am looking for descendants of Sabina DANNHIRSCH-ZIEGLER or ZIEGLER-DANNHIRSCH, born in Lviv in 1882. Sabina’s name at birth was Szajndel Lea Prager. Helen Lowey of Henley Road, New York 11432,