See KehilaLink Update https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/plateliai/President.html

Hi Gary, Boris is a professional researcher in Kiev. He created these surname lists for the Jewish Roots Forum, a Jewish Russian language genealogy message board. They are very useful, especially when

Please help. I don't see any Reply To under this message. It used to be, in the old system, that the sender's email address was right there and you could just copy it. Hannah had also sent

Many archive wiki pages posted by Alex Krakovsky also have an entry that looks something like this: An alphabetical index of Jewish names. Written by Boris Finkelstein. It may appear above the

Trying to make contact with the family of Reizel Schwartz, born in Mad on June 30, 1893 and died in Bnei Brak on21 Tamuz 1981, married BenZion Rosenszweig of Debrecen, perished in BergenBelsen on 21

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern who wrote that article on Miliary Service in Russia in the YIVO Encyclopedia also wrote a book on the topic, "Jews in the Russian army, 1827 - 1917 : drafted into modernity".

Hi Andrew According to a tree on Ancestry (Jeremy HERZ Family Tree), Karolina [sic] GUNDELFINGER born MAIER was born on 20 June 1837 in Ichenhausen, Guenzburg [ u umlaut], Bavaria, and died in Ulm

My mother z"l always remembered her father's friend, "Schuster," whose pointer finger had been cut off "long ago, so he wouldn't be taken into the army" in Galicia. She knew Schuster when she was a

Please provide a translation of an 1877 Polish birth record. It is on= ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM77806 This is a birth record

Please provide a translation >from Polish into English of a postcard written to my great-great grandfather, Jacob Goldman in 1912. It is on ViewMate at the following address

I've got two Hungarian documents of my ancestors I found and am hoping to get them translated. The first one is on Viewmate at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM77834. This

Translation of Yiddish/ Hebrew: Border (or Territory) of Settlement All the best, Debbie Lifschitz Jerusalem

I need to clarify something about the dates. My paternal ggf, the one who "bought" the false papers in Russia (I think the Odessa area) arrived in 1884, which was well before the opening of Ellis

Would be very interested in reading through your book, but the cost (as listed on Amazon) is way out there, especially the kindle version ($139!). Is it available in public libraries? Thanks. Mark

It's been driving me nuts too - it came back on again a week or so ago then went down again. Patricia Wilson (Israel)

JewishGen offers the popular class, "Brick Wall or Dead End", starting February 2 - February 23 Frustrated and at a Loss ? Are you at a Dead End or just experiencing a Brick Wall? Are you stumped

JewishGen offers the popular class, "Brick Wall or Dead End", starting February 2 - February 23 Frustrated and at a Loss ? Are you at a Dead End or just experiencing a Brick Wall? Are you stumped

Hello Gersig Can someone help me with the following? I am trying to locate the birth, marriage and death records of my Great Grandparents; possibly in Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg or

I posted once before about my father who tried to buy false papers from a Jewish forger is Sosnovitz after escaping from Russian army where he was impressed after escaping from German labor train from

Thanks to all who responded, especially David Rosen who found my guy by tracing his manifest neighbor across England and into New York. Ancestry had mangled his surname. Steve Stein