Thank you for the clarifications about the use of hashtags. Recently I had an interesting case, and I didn't know how to deal with it. There was a message ( #642630) seeking information about a

I use Family Tree Builder from My Heritage (free version) on Windows. I recommended it to a friend who uses Mac. The trouble she has is that clicking on the program icon launches the installation

I am searching for my grandmother, greatgrandmother, and greatgrandfather. Fannie, Ida, and Abram. Fannie and Ida immigrated to USA around 1900. I have not been able to find their ship manifest or

JewishGen Discussion Group A Few Tips About Hashtags Hashtags are a powerful tool for indexing, categorizing, sorting, searching, and muting the Discussion Group postings by topic. Are there

Dear Genners in Israel, I am seeking Arie GINZBURG who survived the Shoah and emigrated to Israel from Lithuania. He would be in his late 80s or 90s. He is the brother of Feige Ita GINZBURG z"l and

Join the Museum and an expert from the United States Military Academy at West Point to learn about Jewish immigrants who risked their lives to fight in World War II. When Jewish refugees fled the

I am looking for any information re my grandparents Yakob Muller and Salomea Muller born Fenichel such as where they were born, when etc. My mother and her older brother were born in Zakopane, Poland

Hi Genners, I would greatly appreciate a translation fo the following two documents, if possible. The first one is a letter in Yiddish written from my great-grandfather to my great-grandmother from

In addition to my message . If somebody had phone books from after the war for Riga that would be great !!

In the last column of the attached ship manifest from 1894, there are a few hyphenated codes. The column is titled Date and cause of death, although none of the codes appears to contain a date. This

I've just posted on Viewmate a picture of a note written by my grandmother on the top of a See's Candy box in which she stored important mementos and photos. She died in 1971, and the box contained

Ina: I certainly would think that if the death certificate of your great grandfather who died in 1918 states "influenza", that it was the Spanish Flu. I don't have the impression that "Spanish Flu"

My husband's father got the 1918 Flu but did not die of it then. However, what is less reported then is that there were many side effects of the flu, as there are with COVID19, and he did die of

Pneumonia was a typical cause of death for victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. My mother's stepmother's death certificate lists pneumonia as the "chief and determining cause of death" with a second

Mollie Lipshitz (my grandmother) always said she was from Minsk Russia. Look at her husband(Philip May) naturalization. Says his wife was from "Hovman?" maybe Hovnow? I need help determining where

As previously mentioned, there are many books on this topic, including “The Great Influenza; The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History ”by John M. Barry, that mentions my second cousin twice

Hello Moshe, I recently was doing research on my family tree in Riga as well, and discovered that there seem to be Riga city directories available. You can search the web for "Rigasches Addressbuch."

There is a very well researched (25 years) book on the subject of Jewish criminals, trafficking, pimps and prostitution, covering Southern Africa north and South America, Europe, Russia, India,

I am looking for descendants of the Bariot and Pikelny families in Minsk or other locations in Belarus Bariot first names: Parents Moshe Chaim, Sura Esther (Pikelny), children Izrail, Malka, Hinde:

First ethnicity percentages are estimates - not set in stone. As more data arrives they get revised. I do suggest that you upload your results (download the raw data from FTDNA, then upload the