I found the following letter that my uncle send through the Red Cross. Maybe this might help locate the cemetery. He passed away not much after that.

Hi Genners, Thank you for your previous help. I have another request. I am looking for family in Israel, Originally from Czernowitz. Etel & Yisroel KREISEL. In the last letter I found she was

What a great resource for these times! I have an older NYPL card. Is there an expiration on these cards? Mine doesn't show one. -- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC

In those times Syria was a general not precise area of the Levant, more than a political concept, and it could include Palestine - within the Otoman Empire

Check your local library for temporary remote access to Ancestry.com, etc. The link to Ancestry on my neighborhood library’s website still says “this resource is only available through library

I've posted a vital record in German script for which I need a partial translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM78934 The

Anyone who lives, works, attends school or pays property tax in New York State is entitled to a NYPL card. For a list of the NYPL databases that can normally be searched from home, see

Too bad that if you have a library card outside of NY this won’t work ! If you live outside of NYC it says you can get a temporary card, but it has to be picked up in person.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois meeting scheduled for Sunday, March 22, 2020, at Temple Beth-El in Northbrook, Illinois, has been canceled. The planned program, “When DNA or Documents

Jasionowka is a very small town not far from Bialystok. I am currently trying to piece together a "thick" story of the town from the beginning of the Jewish settlement (sometime in the 27th century)

I hope someone can shed some light on an event in my family related to the cholera epidemic of 1836 in Gonbach, a small village in the Pfalz, Germany. My fourth-great-grandfather, Elias KOHLBERG,

Thank you Bob! I am passing this along to my members. I have been compiling a list of free genealogy things to do while we are all socially isolating ourselves, and posting them to our Facebook

Walt Whitman, in his all-encompassing Salut au Monde (c.1870): "You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk, to stand once on Syrian ground!"

From 1516 to 1865 most of what today is Israel was then the southern portion of the Eyalet of Damascus inside the Ottoman Empire, Ric Cooper Midhurst, UK

I am asking this on behalf of someone who has contacted me and is interested in contacting the descendants of this relative (the husband of my great-aunt) regarding his time in Corsicana, TX. Ben

Thank you to everyone who showed me how to find the link to upload my FTJP submission. Unfortunately it seems they are not accepting updates. Does anyone one know if they plan to accept them in the

The place may be Wilczyn, Poland, c.50 miles from Kalisz (https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-535503) The JewishGen Family Finder (https://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/) lists a

I am looking for information on the descendants of Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel. A family story says that a child of a grandson of Menasseh ben Israel was orphaned in a plague outbreak in The Hague and

My Atlas of Times Past (John Haywood) records it as part of the Ottoman Empire after 1512,but the name of the area is down as Syria. That's an English view. I suppose what you called it depended on

At this point it still was firmly part of the Ottoman Empire.