Ira, See this page for info on your town: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1035449 Bereznehuvate, UkraineAlternate names: Bereznegovatoye [Rus], Bereznehuvate [Ukr],

You didn't mention the age of your family members. It is not impossible for a man and wife to die on the same day from the same cause, but one wonders if the cause was correct. The older the couple,

I've posted a document in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98350 Please respond via the

Hi Group I have a transcribed Jewishgen death record for Peisachas Sames (Shames). He died Dec 14 1935 in Vieksniai Lithuania. Death recorded in Mazekiai. I know this is the Peisach Shames involved in

My late father, Moshe was born in the village of Wolkowce, known to Jews as Wolkowitz, in Galicia. He moved with his family to the nearby town of Borszchow, where he attended high school. I would like

Hi Sherry: Tlumacz and Tlumaczyk were separate towns. Tlumacz was a district town north of Kolomyja. Tlumaczyk was a smaller town in the Kolomyja district. These two towns are 19 miles apart. Tlumacz

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Sunday, May 15 at 1:30 PM Eastern, via Zoom Solving a Genealogical Problem: Three Case Studies Speakers: Joy Kestenbaum, Lauren Shulsky Orenstein, and Lynn

Thank you Odeda Zlotnick. Girach’s son’s Hebrew name is Yisroel ben Tzvi Hirsh. Therefore, I am expanding my questions to “What is the probability that a man named Gregory in md-1800s in

May 5, 2022 - 4 Iyar 5782 Dear JewishGen Community, Among the many virtues of placing family history information online, is coming across items of historical value. In honor of Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israel

My paternal grandfather was born in Kolomea but lived in Tlumaczyk before emigrating. In trying to learn about this village, I'm also finding references to Tlumacz. Were they the same place? I found

Family History Today: Ask a Genealogy Librarian - Online & Archival Resources for U.S. Research Wednesday, May 18, 7 pm Eastern Time / 4 pm Pacific Time (U.S.) In our second genealogy Q & A session on

Hi, the link in this post is blank (actually about:blank). It should be: https://lublin.ap.gov.pl/nowe-skany-z-zasobu-apl-na-swa-od-14-03-2022-do-02-05-2022/ -- Jeff Goldner Researching Goldner,

The Kindertransport was not such an heroic rescue as it sounds. The UK government refused to allow any parents to come, so most of the children soon became orphans. At least 1000 of the older children

Hello, The Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner, in the U.S., has an unidentified male found in the Atlantic Ocean in 2000. We attempted forensic genealogy and found he was Ashkenazi Jewish. The

Indeed, David. Re the Kindertransport, I attended a recent exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Vienna where I read that 90% of the children escaping from Austria in 1939 came to the UK. The remaining

One of my families committed suicide together in Prague in 1942, rather than join a transport. The father was a doctor, and injected his wife, daughter and son-in-law before injecting himself with a

Thanks for this and your previous correspondence, Hans! I will indeed follow up with the Hannover Archives. As for Schiffgraben 55 (the family's main home in the 1930s), it does indeed look lovely

This is a Ketuba (Jewish mandatory marriage contract) between Chaim son of Mordechai and Sarah daughter of Chaim Dov. -- Yitschok Margareten

The first document is a contract between the Tiferes Yisroel synagogue and Chaim Preissman for a seat sale. The second document is a Tena'aim (prenuptial agreement) between Eliezer Dov representing

I have been researching my supposed connection to a Rabbi David ben Moshe and Leah of Kletzk, of Novarodok, (no family name known), and author of a rabbinical treatise "Galya Mesechta" for many