The answer to your questions is YES!!!!! I am renewing my yearly subscription. My husband's maternal great grandmother is French.....and what a treasure trove..... Well worth

Tomorrow (12/8) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. We'll discuss three genealogy-rich U.S. record types that you may

Hello, Try contacting Mr. Baruch Huber, he is a researcher from Ungvar ( Uzhgorod) , Transcarpathia. I believe he can help you . His email: huberbelay@... Good luck, Mark Friedman

Hello, I've posted vital records in Polish for which I'd appreciate a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following

Inasmuch as the grave stone photo I attached didn't come through, I'm reattaching it as well as adding the link below to that photo online (Martha Lefkowitz memorial at Find a Grave). Thanks

Hello - I know this is a really old message, but I am researching my Katz family tree and my great-grandfather married a Rosenberg! They settled in New Rochelle, NY. His name was Sam Katz.

I'm looking for help locating my grandfather's birth record from Romania. He was born in 1923,in Maramures so my guess is that it will be in Romania and not Hungary. Has anyone used

Sophie, You can find many resources for SPB in my library at the Internet Archive. The URL is https://archive.org/details/russianempiregenealogyresources . There you will find issues of Ves

My best reading is either Seoto or Leoto. I hope that is helpful. -- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC

Both my research and my experience are that while occasionally non-cohanim adopted a cohan surname for reasons as offered above...this was rare. In Jewish tradition---and I'm secular so not pushing a

Translated by Michael Ryabinky Columbus, OH Thank you so much Michael for your kind assistance. The indexed record showed the following errors, in particular the LIBERMAN names: 1)WOGOWSKI(Should be

Hello, I am looking for information about Urche GERSZONOWICZ, born around 1893 in Lodz. He emigrated to the USA, I don't know in which year. His parents were Jankiel GERSZONOWICZ and Yenta

There was a wave of Jewish migration from the Gouvernement Suwalki to and through Sweden. It began in 1850 and ended in 1900, and your ancestors that you have listed may well be among them. Among

Do people with expertise in Jewish vital records in 19th century Poland know if Levite status was typically referenced in those records? Would the Levite status of a groom or his father typically

Have you come across "family trees" in Ancestry with tens of thousands of members that are not a tree but what looks a collection of disjointed small family trees? They seem to be related to DNA

Well, first of all it was in the middle of XIX century, sometime in 1860s or so. The main reason for changing surnames is that Jews did not want to go to Tzar army, and by changing names, that may

Dear Friends, You are invited to join The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and Temple Beth Am Sunday Salon by Zoom on Sunday, December 13th at 10:30 a.m. ET. The topic is Seders and

I used it and found it very helpful in learning about a member of my family who moved to France in the 19th century. None of the information I found on Geneanet was available on Ancestry or any other

Kind of hit a dead end. My great-great grandfathers last name, translated more accurately than what they used in the United States, was MANDELSHTEYN. In the United States the spelling was Mandelstein,

This may not apply in your case, but a lot depends on how you know they arrived at Ellis Island. I "knew" that my paternal grandfather, who died long before I was born, immigrated from France to Ellis