Please join the Jewish Genealogical Society on Sunday, November 20, 2022, from 1:30 until 3 PM ET, for the third annual Marcia Indianer Meyers Memorial Lecture. JGSCT Board Member will present

Is malat/moletai part of this LitvakSIG's Vilnius District Research Group (DRG) work? If so how to know which records refer to people living in this shtetl? Thanks so much Jerome Yankowitz

Hello, I've posted a Polish document for which I would appreciate an interpretation. Is it possible that the term mikwa, in the 2nd paragraph, could mean something other than a ritual bath? Soon after

I've posted an obituary in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100496 Please respond via the

The Weekly News Nosh JewishGen Weekly E-Newsletter Phil Goldfarb, Editor Date: November 13, 2022 “A Family Without The Understanding Of Their Past History, Foundation And Ethnicity Is Like A

Sorry if this has been explained somewhere else. I did try to do a search but couldn't find any answers that fit my exact situation. My great-great-grandmother, Udel Fruchthandler, had 9 siblings, but

Need translation of the attached headstone which may be my maternal great-grandmother. I found it on FindaGrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192165663/esther-grossberg). Have not found the

My father had a similar story. His father was taken prisoner of war in the early days of WWI to Kassel, Germany. His mother died of typhus in 1918 in Lodz. He and his orphan siblings were sent away to

There were salt mines in Drohobycz: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drohobych_salt_plant Asaf Feig

ב״ה On the matter of “Trisket,” there is a town in Ukraine on the southern border of Belarus called Turiisk (Pol. Turzysk), known in Yiddish as Trisk. It was a 70% Jewish town until the

Do you have any male line descendants of those Perlmutters? Someone who can do a Y-DNA test and see whom he matches? Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon allmyforeparents.blogspot.com endogamy-one-family.com My

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:47 AM, <mvayser@...> wrote: Odeda, I do not have the name written in Yiddish or Hebrew, which is why I was asking for the correct spelling.Perhaps you should contact YIVO

My late grandmother born Hannah Abrahams later Anne Servian (b 1876 Manchester, UK, died Manchester 1973) was nicknamed Dodo. Her grandmother was Deborah or Dwora Grymblat, born Suwalki, NE Poland.

The Shapell Roster of Jewish Service in the American Civil War is an ongoing reappraisal of the military service of Jews who served in the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies from 1861 – 1865.

My grandmother's maiden name was SCHERL - PERLMUTTER. Family legend is that the reason for the double name is that one of her PERLMUTTER ancestors was a salt merchant, exporting salt to Russia. In

Yosef, My question in the original post was to inquire of the spelling of the name in Yiddish, as I do not have documents with the name spelled in Yiddish. Mike Vayser

Odeda, I do not have the name written in Yiddish or Hebrew, which is why I was asking for the correct spelling. The name of the person in question was definitely Doda. You can see plenty of example

Dear Friends, Last Sunday November 6th we had a very successful zoom meeting. We had a good turnout and all of our board members as well as the Editor of the Galitzianer spoke. At the end there was a

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Speaker: Ed Mitukiewicz Location, Location, Location: Historical Maps in Genealogy Research Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 7:30 PM ET VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from

Jerry, I'm hoping that this is your tree on Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/101953260/person/200012519835/facts and that Dora Swartz Weiss is the grandmother you asked