Lublin & Zamosc Area BOF Meeting at the IAJGS Virtual 2020 Conference The Lublin & Zamosc Area BOF will meet virtually on Thursday, August 13, from 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm, U.S. Eastern time. (11:45 am -

The last place you want to put your data is on a site that contacts you and asks you to do so. This is what a phishing attack in a genealogical context would look like. If Moishe Miller knows the

My aunt, Leah Stern was executed in Rovno in 1941. I have learned that her husband's family name was Korshak and that he was also executed. Does anybody have any knowledge or connection to this

These stamps are for military retraining for military in reserve: one says 1911 Khotin uezd, Military gathering second same for 1912 Yefim

Could some kind person please take a photograph of a grave at the Zentralfriedhof for me? Heinrich Neumann born in Lvov in October 1913 died in Vienna in 1941. According to JewishGen JOWBR he is

Yoram, this is in ancestors website, but if you go to JewishGen.org and do a search for same person, you will get also a link to an image at FHL collection. It might not be easy to find exact

My first cousin's father was David Echtman, born in Vinnytsya, Russia (now Ukraine) in 1908. He lived in the Bronx, New York and died in 1969. His father was Yisroyl Echtman. His grandfather was Chaim

Emigration passes cost money. If you'd paid for a pass for one family member, they might well send the pass back to be used again. Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK -- Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK.

I also have the military record book of my grandfather. In his case it was for his service as a private in the French army in the 1890s and was issued by the French government of the time. . I

Hi all. I was wondering if I could get some help on this. In my genealogical research, I found that my 3rd great grandparents were Meyer Blumberg (b. abt 1850) and Liba Devorah Michelson (b. abt

You may wish to contact Jewish Tour (jewish-tour.com) an established firm based in Minsk which offers an in-depth genealogical service as well as heritage tours. It might also be worth getting in

I take it that if I ask for his C file from the Certificate number, then that would include his Petition, correct?

I found 3 Liffmann buried in Holland (Rotterdam, Zwolle & Enschede) on the Stenenarchief. By none of them it mentions that they were levi'im.

Thank you Mark, At one of the JGASGP meetings, the speaker, Joel Spector provided a link to a spreadsheet showing the number of times various surnames appear in the Alex Krovsky scanned documents

Check the late Christine Usden who started some translations of Jewish personnel in Latvian Russia on google.

It could have been that the brother or sister bought a ticket, then decided not to go then. But why waste the money for the ticket? I had a cousin, who came to the US bought by the fiance in NYC for

Alan, Thank you so much helping me getting me to view the record. I am still having trouble adjusting the brightness to enable reading but I am sure that will solve the issue. It is the first time I

That's extremely useful, thank you so much Julia! Best wishes Emma

The Friends of Jewish Cemetery Restoration in Eastern Europe will have a free online meeting on Wednesday, August 12, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Eastern Time U.S. (New York), as part of the IAJGS Conference

You mean: -Galitzianer; -Spanish province of Galicia - in fact an authonomous region in Spain. They speak a language (not a dialect): Gallego, mutually understandable with Castellano (Spanish),