If you haven't already heard, a halakhic loophole has allowed researchers to take DNA samples from 14th Century Jewish remains in Erfurt (https://twitter.com/ShaiCarmi/status/1526850050772590592).

The Forward publication has an article under culture about a new exhibit showing how Jewish marriage evolved- from 12th century -century Egypt to modern-day America. “To Build a New Home:

I recently discovered the 18th-Century Galician rabbi Yosef Margolioth, son of R. Alexander Sender Margolioth (1730?-1802), who was rabbi of Zbaraz and Satanov. I speculate that this Rabbi Yosef may

Looking for information on Polish tour guide Tomasz Cebulski. My brother contacted the Polin Museum and was put in touch with Tomasz for a day long tour of Auschwitz. Does anybody have experience

Can someone translate the Hebrew on this grave of Goodman and Rebecca Rose? Thank you very much in advance. Isabel Cymerman Southbury, CT isabelcym@... Searching: CUKIERMAN, GRYNBERG, GRYNFARB,

I'm glad you were able to figure out the one town was Kosava in Belarus. What I do when I've been able to locate one town for certain, but have close relatives giving other names for their town of

I forgot to translate the verse from the Prophets Samuel / Shmuel A, 25: 29, that is traditionally engraved on Jewish tombstones May his (her) soul be bound in the bundle of life Shimon Sporn of Beit

At 17:20 21/06/2022, m.rind via groups.jewishgen.org wrote: In the absence of a solution, try https://www.ikg-wien.at/en/contact David Lewin London Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who,

Thanks for sharing your success, especially after so many years. Have you tried researching Tillie's widower father, Benjamin, who is enumerated with Tillie in the 1920 census. He was the son of

I have been frustrated in my attempts to find a certain IKG-Wien metrical book. GenTeam and JewishGen both have an extract of a certain marriage record from 15 May 1873 (marriage of Berthold

I toured the same region that you are planning to and I highly recommend Alex Denisenko - tuagtuag@.... as a guide. He lives in Liviv. He should be able to answer all of your questions. He is an

In honor of International Archives Day Olesia Stefayk, our Archival Advisor at TsDIAL in Lviv made this brief video on the importance of archives and how they are protecting their contents in light of

The Arolsen Archives has DP camp records for the American, British and French zones, as well as for Austria and Italy. The World Jewish Congress had survivors in Romania fill out questionnaires in

I seem to have to opposite problem. MyHeritage constantly sends me "DNA Matches" alleging 2C 3C etc etc but with less than 100cMs. So far, although several are claimed to be connected with the same

Sergey, Have you tried The JewishGen Ukraine Database? https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Ukraine/ I suggest using phonetic and/or soundex searches on names, as names get spelled in various ways in

Pinchas, Betty KATZ married Herman V. RUCH in Oct. 1962 in Woodbury City, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Herman Valentin Ruch was born 21 Feb 1912 Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. Herman passed on 25 Mar

THANK YOU FOR REPLYING. WHEN MY MOM REVIEWED HER STORY WE SEARCHED AND FOUND THEY HAD NEVER MADE IT AND WE HAD TO PUT THEIR NAMES IN YAD VASHEM. WE KNIW THE COUPLE WAS TOGETHER IN THE CAMP.

I am starting to plan a photo trip to New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon, New York likely for this Sunday, June 25 Please note this is not the one known as "Old" Montefiroe in Springfield Garden

I am starting to plan a photo trip to Wellwood Cemetery in West Babylon, NY on Long Island likely for this coming Sunday June 25 Process I follow is fairly simple in offering to take photos for

I'm looking for my wife's grandmother. She is Rabinovich Lubov Yakovlevna (after first married her surname become Nosonova). She was born in 1906 in Zolotonosha city in Poltavskaya area in Ukraine.