Many thousands of records in the Kaunas archive have been filmed by the Family History Library in recent years and are available online (though not always easy to find). LitvakSIG is in the process of

Dear friends, researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia Research Division projects for the month of August 2022. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases.

Dear members, I am looking for information about the parents of Gudes Bursztyn, grandmother of my late husband Leo Cukier. Gudes was born in Warsaw, house 31/10, Praga, March 13, year 1896. She died

I am searching Gisela Lejby Bursztyn and Rywka Szaindle Ciszynski from Warsaw, Parents of Gudes Bursztyn (13-03-1896) en Abrahan Wulf (02-06-1898) Location House 31/10, Praga. Birth registries

So would I. I had a great uncle (Baruch Epstein) who lived there before the Holocaust. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Goldberg Jerusalem,

@Jody Tzucker: That may be true for large amounts, but it is still relatively expensive for small amounts - which is the same problem with wiring money.. Let us say that I would have to pay the Kaunas

Your town is Dzisna in today’s Belarus. Yale Reisner

Vilkaviskis or Wilkawiski was in Suwalki gubernia that was in NE Poland and went into Lithuania in 1918. Beware of places with similar names. Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

Searching for Abraham Haldeys children, my grandfather efim Haldey was one of his 13 children. He had a sister named Klara too. They are from Ukraine originally, but my grandfather moved to Riga

The six bodies examined in more detail were: Three full sisters : H5c2 Three males related to each other and to the three sisters: T1a1a E1b1b1b2a1b1a J1a2a1a2d2b2 From first paragraph on page 4 of

This is in all the British newspapers this morning and you can download the paper for free from Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.036. It follows on from initial investigations in

Do you have a paper trail or family knowledge he was a son of Rabbi Moses Eichenstein of Schodnica, and his mother Sara Rifka Efrusi ? If you have, no need to question, life in the shtetle was

From what I know (hearsay, not documents), any son designated by the family would be exempt, not necessarily the eldest one. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Steve

It appears that the specific record you are referring to is in The Family Tree of the Jewish People. There is a FAQ that explains how records get into the FTJP database here:

Hi from Paris, We just translated in French the testimony of Yankel CELEMENSKI who was a Bundist, a Resistant and survived Warsaw ghetto uprising : he lived later in Israel till his death. Some

Jonathan, Olsztyn is the Polish name of the town previously known as Allenstein, now in North-eastern Poland, and previously in East Prussia. Allenstein was also the name of local the kreis (county).

Hello, I've been researching the ANGIELCZYK side of my family for the past couple of years. I have managed to get as far back as the mid-to-late 1700s. My branch of the family resided mostly in Lukow,

MyHeritage announced they are offering FREE Access to all U.S. census records from August 30-September 6, 2022. To search go to: https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-1100/us-census They have

FILE - In this July 30, 2009 file photo, visitors stand outside the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, R.I., the oldest existing Jewish house of worship in the United States. A Rhode Island judge on Monday,

Can anyone shed some light on this name? I encountered it in a file about Jews in Zychin, Poland. I know non-Jewish people with that surname and wonder if it crossed religious boundaries or was