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

Hi Lesley, Another consideration - perhaps it was a mis-hearing of Kutner (from Kutno) Poland? I've seen quite a number of town name variations in UK and US census records for some ancestors that seem

I just checked their website. Montefiore Cemetery has no way to search by society name. Robert Hanna NYC

This is a photograph of my grandmother's brother and his family. She was Shayna Bers (Berz Beres) born 1881 I think in Rokiskis Russian Empire. She immigrated to South Africa where she married Israel

I think it is very dangerous when different folks are able to add/change/remove information from someone else's tree. A couple of years ago I found some really awful errors on my family's tree that

Hi there. I am trying to see if I have sephardic descent, and am not exactly sure where to start. Looking at my DNA, it showed I am 99.5% Ashkanazi and .5% from what is now Turkey. I can go back

The Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Greater Philadelphia Zoom Meeting Sunday, January 17, 2021 1:00 pm Check-in, Chat, and Schmooze. 1:30 Official meeting start time Guest

Gary : "My guess is that Ida's husband may have wound up in the Russian Army, I shall have to research that." Try this - it turned up trumps (sorry!) for me. https://obd-memorial.ru/html/ Mike

The moral is - stay clear of rivet-counters! My tree is on my PC, backed up, with nothing online. To my mind, the advantages of this far outweigh the disadvantages. Mike Coleman, London U.K.

Hello Jacob, Access Logan Kleinwachs Genealogyindexer at https://genealogyindexer.org/ for a host of directories. Michael, Michael Hoffman Borehamwood, HERTS, UK.