Also recommend Mr Baruch Huber. All the best Mark Friedman

My cousin has an early 19th century parchment family tree in Hebrew showing the family's descent from the esteemed 17th century rabbi The Shack who was born in Ambistowo in Lithuania and died in

I am trying to trace descendants of my aunt Hannah Weiss (who was married to my Uncle Wolf (William) who perished in the Holocaust) or descendants of other members of the Weiss family who I believe

I'd also recommend anyone following this subject "Our People - Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust", describing a journey of discovery in 1915 through Lithuania by a respected non-Jewish

I found the entire name!!! I found Pawel Makszyn in my notes from my mom's own words back in 1988. Now I need to find his descendants in Lublin, Poland. What's a good database for searching names

Internet Archive might be another source. Ron Peeters (NL)

Mordke JALAS was born in Lutomiersk, Poland in 1885. He married Ester ZAJDE in 1914 (marriage record attached). Shortly after his marriage he traveled to USA en-route to his brother-in-law Salomon

Are you referring to a civil marriage license or to a Jewish marriage contract known as a Ketuba? A Ketuba usually does not have a family name, but it does have the father's name and the title Kohen

I would like announce an upcoming (mid-May) publication of the book "The Towns of Death: The Pogroms of Jews by Their Neighbors" by a young Polish philosopher/historian/ethicist, Dr. Mirosław

I found out about a decade ago that my grandmother Rose Confeld was born December 1885 in Painted Woods, North Dakota – not far south of Washburn. Her mother’s family (Dorfman) was from Kishinev,

There is a book in our JGSLA (Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles) book collection with the title of The Jewish Landsmanschaften of New York, written in Yiddish written by the Yiddish Writers'

Gesher Galicia President Steven Turner was honored to be invited to give a talk by JewishGen. The partnership between Gesher Galicia and JewishGen is such an important one for the Jewish genealogy

I am working on a PowerPoint presentation on where to find Published Jewish Family Histories. The sources I have so far are: Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogy and Family Histories Avotaynu: the

I think that: " If you come across a page in which all or part of the text is in another language, just right click on your mouse and you should have the option to click "Translate to English" -" only

Hello Makszin is a Hungarian surname, in Poland very rare in this form. It could be Makuszyn or Makuszyń, they would be pronounced similarly to Makshin. Was this family from Chrzanów or from

The name Aronowitz might indicate they were descendants of the High Priest Aharon (brother of Mozes) as some people with my surname (Aronson) were, and if they were it could well be that they were

Richard, thanks for the response. That is why you have to see both and, preferably, the original to check spellings. The Archives does have an online order form. -- Bob

The Memory of the People portal announced almost 8.5 million more records to the database, the largest database for documenting former USSR soldiers. https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ The new

Dear gersigs, I hope one of you can help me. I have read in a book about the jewish communities in 1932 that a Chevra kaddischa was foundet around 1875 the chairmann was a Kupferschlag (I think his

Hi Barbara, if you are not familiar with Archive.org they have digitized many resources out of copyright as well as a lending library. If you search the category Texts using the search term “Jews in