Hello all, I'm trying to understand an aspect of Polish history. In 1883 the town of Kalwaria, in Poland, was "degraded" (as one web site puts it), until 1919. What would this mean for the Jewish

Firstly, you really need to discriminate between historical sources and indexed information. Secondly, what appear to be historical records have sometimes been rewritten in the archive where they

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27th. January 27, 2021 is the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration, the ending of World War ll

May I please request translation from Russian of the attached Page of Testimony of Icek KAMINSKY - just of paragraphs 7. 10. 11. 12. and the relation of the submitter. Thanks, Yohanan

Hello! I've posted the marriage record of my great-grandparents and would appreciate any help translating the document. It is on ViewMate at the following

What a generous offer! I've been looking for relatives who fled Lida and Vilna for France. I only have two first names, the mother Simcha and the daughter Janine. We were told that their last name

Hello, I request a translation of the Yiddish text on a postcard. It is on ViewMate at the following address

I am working on my genealogic history from a genetic standpoint as well as my family tree. I have had my DNA analyzed via 23andMe and was surprised to learn that I have a small percentage of Ashkenazi

I've posted two vital records in Polish for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following

I am in need of any information I can find regarding the Spanish part of the life of Akiva the Elder of Salonika, who according to GENI was born in Spain ca1360 and died in Salonika ca1400 (note: this

Many of us are familiar that the BRCA-2 gene mutation may cause breast cancer in women, but many do not also realize that it could also cause breast cancer and/or prostate cancer in men and also

I am trying to find records regarding the deaths of my grandparents, Avram Elia Bayarsky and Nechama Shapiro Bayarsky and their children and grandchildren who lived in a small village called something

You also might try contacting the library to see if they have research services. The library from what I recall has large collections on various subjects. An additional note for those with relatives

I am searching for records of my paternal grandmother and her family, who I believe may have emigrated from Pilica, Poland to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1908. From Buenos Aires, they settled in

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Sunday January 24, 2020 at 2 p.m. Zoom Webinar Out of the Whirlwind: Finding the Family You Lost in the Holocaust Speaker: Deborah H. Long The daughter of

I am trying to learn about my paternal great grandparents and other family who lived in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine. According to papers they were from Elizabetgrad and the name was Portiansky or

Debby, you could also try the photography collection at the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa.lapl.org/photocol and bizarrely enough, Youtube. My older son is a street artist who occasionally

Since each of the services (Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage) are separate entities, some for profit, some not, the issue is that they do not work and play well with each other. Also, they have

1/2 % is noise in the data. It is meaningless. A good rule of thumb is to ignore any ethnicities below 5%. -- Richard Werbin New York, New York JGSNY Membership Vice President

Yael, When logged in and on the home page, click on RESEARCH near the upper right of the screen and then select YIZKOR BOOKS. The first item is TRANSLATIONS and choose READ TRANSLATIONS. You can