The links to the image of Avner Mappa's grave in Israel: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/coridotombimages/Medium/65/6585039E-FEC8-419B-9F69-FE1A77683F87.jpg Translation: On the brown part: Avner

Many British Mandate records from Haifa, Jaffa & Jerusalem consulates are in the Israeli Archives. https://www.archives.gov.il/en/catalogue/group/1?kw=British%20Mandate -- Tamar

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

You may want to check with the Red Cross to see if they have any post-war records. Germany did give some scholarships to survivors to pursue certain technical or educational tracks such as textiles so

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Speaker: Ralph Cilevitz He thought his family was wiped out in the Holocaust Then he discovered 75,000 distant relatives Sunday, 18 December 2022, 10:30 AM

Hi Ed, Do you have other documents confirming they were Evangelisch (=Protestants), or is it just that their births, marriages and deaths were recorded in the Churchbooks? Until the late 1800s there

Dear Group, (1) Can anyone please advise about the location/availability of online or offline archival resources for Nachod, Czechoslovakia? (I am looking for both vital records and/or other

Gaby, my paternal grandmother was born in Kempen, Germany. It is still Kempen in Germany (the Rhineland). You are seeking records from Kempen in Posen, which is now Kepno (or rather

No need to register or to have a library card for these programs from the Queens Borough Public Library on Nov 1st and Nov 8th.

Ancestry started marking my DNA matches a long time ago after I had my dad's DNA done. It would say "Father's Side" if Dad was a DNA match and nothing if it was on Mom's side. (Mom died in 1993,

My father's mother's line = Grauman(n) . Her parents came to the US from a town called Strasburg, West Prussia, which is now Brodnica. Poland. They arrived in 1849, and settled in Louisville. I am

The new Ancestry feature is worse than useless to me. Of my listed matches, 44 are known relatives, 34 maternal and 10 paternal. Ancestry's Parent 1 and Parent 2 lists each show both maternal and

I found the tool to be essentially useless. For one of my parents, the first match was for a paternal second cousin once removed; we have a solid paper trail to document this. The second match for

Diane, Do you know that someone has a tree on Ancestry with Awner MAPPA? The birth date differs slightly, and so does the death date (by one day) and place. The town of birth is Chmielnik. Parents

Marc, The family historian mentioned in the article (Judith Brown Taback) can be found in The JewishGen Family Finder. https://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ If you search for surname TABACK you will find

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 04:10 AM, Eva Lawrence wrote: Maybe the Family Finder could do with a Spring-clean, eliminating anyone who doesn't reply to an official request for confirmation that they

Dear Geners, Thanks for your help with this question. I've learned that NYC can issue one of two birth certificate forms --short and long. The long form obviously contains more information, including

I understand that the sorting process is still evolving, but I would hardly call it beta! My mother has tested on Ancestry, and if I could see the actual chromosomes for the larger (150cM) matches,

Dear Benny, Marcus Leopold became French citizen by a decree in 1885. -- Regards, David CHOUKROUN david.choukroun@... FRANCE CHOUKROUN ATTALI ATLANI

I do use Family Finder (at least BRASCH and LEBRECHT are fairly unusual names) but I would like to point out that it is not immune from the vagaries of transliterating Jewish names and the migration