Hi Ada - I am working on a report for a course I took on JewishGen on Immigration and have come across several good websites. Do you have the manifests? - they might have costs, ticket agency etc

Shia and Sherri, Thank you very much for your posts. If any Hungarian speakers could provide an overview of the vital records (where to find them, what areas and years are covered), I would be very

Hi, I also have family at this cemetery. It is in an area of Newark where I understand it is not safe to go to. I believe this cemetery is neglected. If you were able to contact someone recently

This topic has no doubt been covered elsewhere but I cannot locate where. I'm looking at some Russian-language records from about 1800 CE for Tarashcha uyezd, Kiev gubernia. I do not actually read

Yael, My friend, Ruth Steinfeld, is a survivor and was one of the hidden children in France. She have me permission to send you this message: During WWII I was hidden in France in the region of Dept.

I've found on the US State Dept's website a number of documents from 1906 having to do with the Jews in Russia, some of which concern pogroms, and some of which describe meetings with Russian

Michele has once again generously shared with us two additional resources that give excellent accounts of the hardships our ancestors endured living inside the Pale and during their voyage to

I've posted a vital record in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93842 Please respond via

Dear friends. I am trying to find out information about my maternal grandfather Abram Josef Piterman. He was born on 14 August 1901 in Lukow. He and my grandmother Elizabeth Strauss Piterman and

As discussed below - if they did Y tests they would only have matched by coincidence. However if they had done a Family Finder test (autosomal) they should have matched. The good news is that there

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Russian I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address

Thank you, Michele Lock, for posting the link to this report on steerage conditions on immigrant journeys!! It seems like it can add greater depth and understanding to the family history of that era

I would also be interested in hiring a researcher (private investigator?) to work on a mystery of a German relative, preferably someone who is local to Magdeburg, or who works with people who

Dear JewishGen Community, We don't charge for JewishGen, and believe that our resources should always be freely available to anyone who needs them. We don't want to restrict access to someone because

Hi, 31st May 2021 Re; Opalyi--Hungary--same name--near Mateszalka Albertirsa--Hungary --same name--near Kecskemet Balmazujvaros--Hungary --same

There really isn’t anything murky about it. If your brother and your maternal first cousin both took the Y-Dna test at FTdna, they most likely should NOT match. The Y-Dna is only passed down on the

Perhaps the following book would be of interest: Historical Atlas of Central Europe by Paul Robert Magocsi Regards Alex Magocsi, Hamburg Germany (Not related to PR Magocsi, as far as I know)

Both President Roosevelt and Congress, acting separately, had denounced the Kishinev pogrom a few years earlier but did not do anything about it. Their response to the Cowan Report was even more

New book on « Enfants Cachés » hidden children. Andre Convers Lorient, France

Meeting of the Krimchak Jews from Simferopol A meeting of the Krimchak Jews from Simferopol will take place on July 7,2021, at 10:00 in the Mishkanot Daniel Ruth Hotel, 10 Ben-Zvi Road, Tel