I request a translation of the Yiddish text on a letter. The letter is in two parts, accompanied by a photograph. They are on ViewMate at the following

LitvakSIG is providing a series of online Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions for the various districts in Lithuania. These informational sessions are open to the public. Some District Research Groups

Sunday February 13, 2022 1-3 pm PT Zoom Meeting Scandals, Shandehs, and Lies:The Stories Families Don't Tell by Renee Steinig 1:00 PM - 3:00 PMRenee Steinig In the course of decades of

Dear Jenners, I'm reposting 2 vital records which need translating and hopefully someone will be able to translate each record for me. The Polish record is on ViewMate at the following address

I’m really confused by this announcement. Aren’t the Shearit Hapletah names already digitized and searchable in JewishGen’s own Holocaust database? -- Miriam Bulwar David-Hay, Raanana,

Here is a link to the list of books that makeup fond 300 and fond 424 - Jewish records from Galicia held at the historical archive in

Most likely it's Tysmienica -- now Tysmenytsya, Ukraine, about 30 miles north of Kolomyya: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1056984 Renee Renee Stern Steinig Dix Hills

Are there any plans to translate the list from Rovno/Rivne (assuming it even exists)? Thanks! Diane Neufeldt Tucson, AZ

is this list only for German Holocaust survivors? does it include survivors who entered austrian dp camps much later? thank you. feigie teichman

As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group

Someone named Geraldine (Tsiporah) Trom Antwerp, Belgium, apparently found a name I posted on Jewishgen re an ancestor, Levitan from Gerkalnis. She sent a message to Messenger on Jan 25 but I only

Hello, Was browsing posts about Husi and noticed your question about it being the same as Chust. My grandfather was from Romania and pronounced the name of his town as Whoosht. We have always assumed

I am primarily looking for 19th C (or earlier) records on my family. I’ve listed the shtetls and surnames below. I understand that some records may be held in the Polish archives and not available

I suspect that the document is some combination of Czech, Slovak and/or Hungarian. It also seems to have some words that look like Latin. I have posted both pages on

If it's convenient for anyone to take a photo of a headstone at Har Jehuda Cemetery just outside Philadelphia (8400 Lansdowne Avenue Upper Darby, PA 19082), please let me know. I'd greatly

Actually you can find other census years from the data on one census even without a surname. I simply first looked for Annie B with parents M.G. and Lula with birth years plugged in. That got me

The long and short is this Annie Burge died with her maiden name in 1939. I found the family in 1900 and 1920 with the surname illegible. I decided at that point to look for one of the brothers and

Hi – I have posted 5 of the 24 pages of a great-grandmother (and her 5 children)’s travel document (# 97236, # 97284, # 97285, # 97286 and # 97287). We believe the full document reflects

I am trying to identify the towns of origin of my great grandparents who emigrated to the UK from Austria c. 1890. The Salford district of Manchester maintains a Register of Aliens, which shows what

I’ve posted a birth record in German that I need some help deciphering. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM97272 It’s the