While searching in the Polish archives for 18th c information from Glogow/Glogau (JRI-Poland does not list any), I found a notebook entitled "Repertorium der Grund-Acten von der vormaligen Glogauer

I believe Samuel Unger was my great great grandfather. He left Poland in 1912 under the Russian pograms. My father is Stephen Robert Unger. His father, one son of Samuel, was Irving. His brother is

Some years ago, Martha Lev-Zion generously translated and donated to JewishGen an abstract of the family register of the heads of Jewish families in Goldingen in 1842. Often these manuscripts contain

The Isle of Man “rich sound archive” will be digitized and put online as part of a British Library project. The archive will include recordings of the last native Manx speakers and wartime

I have a gravestone picture of Rosa Hadad (?) the daughter of Shneier Katz. She died in 1826 The gravestone has been hard to read clearly. If this is a relative, please let me know privately, and I

Join us for: Jewish Genealogy SIG December Meeting Tues, Dec 8 on Zoom 10:00 – 11:30 am, EST. For a Zoom invite, please send email to Arthur Sissman genresearch13@.... For questions or

Thought I would throw another thought into the mix. My paternal grandmother arrived in the USA in 1921 with 4 children, ages 20, 16, 12 and 9. My grandfather, her husband, did not arrive until 1924.

Researchers with an interest in the records and families of Opatow will be in the best possible hands when they are in touch with JRI-Poland Kielce Research Area Coordinator and Opatow Town Leader,

I was just alerted to this story by a friend. I haven’t read it yet but thought someone might be interested. https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2020/11/02/genealogy-became-great-jewish-pastime/

If the family name was Shershevich, were they from Seduva? I had a PGGM whose last name was Sher from Seduva. Her name was Chaia Sarah Kolovarsky nee Sher. Any connection to your

Dear All, Happy after-Thanksgiving, I hope you are all doing well. My late grandfather was born on or about 31 Jan 1906 in the town or municipality of Zavidovići (formerly part of the

My grandmother and her sister, who were the two oldest of five children, came first. Then their father came a year later with the next oldest daughter. One year after that their mother arrived with

From my experience, MyHeritage is least accurate. They claim I have a small percentage from Central America. Not even close. It's possible that ancestors way, way back emigrated to Central America

I am searching for records from Waschkoutz. In FamilySearch I have found "Births 1918-1928". Does anyone know where can I find earlier records? Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545,

Hi Genners I am researching my paternal great grandfather Betazlel /Tzalel/Tzaleh Blachman for Apt/Opatow, Poland. He was born to Gabriel Blajchman and Chia Chana Mer in Opatow in 1855 and died in

We are looking for Gussie/Augusta Deutsch. We don’t know her maiden name. We assume she was Jewish. She was born about 1886 in Austria-Germany. She was married to Daniel Deutsch (1875-@1935). He

Can someone please advise how (if possible) to find a birth record for a child / death record for the mother on the same day (Vilnius 1947). The child was given up for adoption so the birth name is

I probably share too many Yizkor book excerpts about market day in the shtetls. But the reason I am drawn to them is the vibrant picture of life that each presents. The reconstructed conversations

Hi All, Curious if anyone thinks that Fosfalou might be a town that was known in Yiddish as Sasfalou? Not sure where that town is located either, but wondering is that is the same

Is Sonnenglanz a Jewish name. It is very rare. I had relatives who lived in Niederschlesien. Any ideas? Roderick Carberry