Hello All: The marriage certificate of one of my grandmother's sisters (dated 1903) states that their mother, "Gitl, born of Avram Grinberg". I tried to look up Avram Grinberg on JewishGen and on

From loctown on JewishGen, it would seem to be: Suhuluceni (or Sukhulucheni, Sukuluchen', Sukhulucheny all given as alternative spellings) With map coordinates:

Stephen, If your grandmother was born in Sweden in 1869, it is not sure that she came from Russia, as the later immigration of Jews to Sweden from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th

In Russian: 43 Состоялось в городе Петроков 9-го августа 1874 года в 8 часов утра. Явился лично равин Петроковского

Can anyone suggest a reliable researcher for NY public records 1880 to 1920? Thanks Anthony Rabin London, England

One reason people changed names was to avoid the draft. I have a friend named Katz, which is usually a Kohen-name (as it is in my case), but he is not a Kohen. Their tradition is that an ancestor was

Hello, Please, can you help me to find informations about my grandoncle Aron GELFAND born in Minsk or Bobruisk around 1880. He was doctor in Saint Petersbourg before Shoah. His father was Efroïm

Starting Tuesday December 8, 2020 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) , in partnership with the Chautauqua Institution will present an online program on Iran’s connection to Jews who

Despite having conferred conventional Hebrew names upon three of his daughters - Chava (Chawa?), Hendel, and Yehidis - my great-grandfather's brother named one of his daughters what I'm told is a

My TURKANIS family emigrated from Zvhil, and in the Zvhil Novograd-Volynskiy Yizkor book a student named TURKANOVSKI in nearby Zshitomir headed up an armed troop. Could the student TURKANOVSKI be my

My high school class reunion committee is trying to find contact information on our high school classmate Peter Robinson. I don’t have much to go on other than his name and that he graduated from

Hello all: I have posted a marriage record which is in Russian for which I need a translation of pertinent details please. It is on ViewMate at the following address

Hi Phillipe, I am just curious about your last name… what is it’s origin? My paternal grandmother’s maiden name was Wolowitz, which came from Volovich. My family came from both the

I tried it for a bit, but for my purposes it didn't add any value. They may have French records that Ancestry or MyHeritage don't. I also just logged in with my free membership for a quick look. You

Hello, Has anyone had any luck with searching Jewish family history in Turkey in Constantinople. I have been trying for years and have visited twice briefly. I have written to the Grand Rabbi

Hi, Why should a young man in (today) Ukraine at the beggining of XX century change his surname to Kogan/Kohan? What were the reasons? It's no matter for me if my GF was really from a Cohen's line -

Yom Tov Lipmann Heller d. 1654, was a famous Bohemian scholar and rabbi. His name may indicate descent, Dr. Ida Selavan Schwarcz Jerusalem

The Nezhin Jewish Community had a series of meetings in the mid-1880s. Here is an English-language list of all of the attendees (thanks to Dr Bert Lazerow) plus the original document, with some

I am delighted to inform you that I just updated the “Index of Cairo Surnames” which I published at the end of last year. It contains 1,854 surnames compared to1,689 in the last one. However,

Where might Sokolitshen be? Translation in book: Peretz Gruman, Idis Gruman, Shmuel Gruman, Bracha Gruman. who were killed by the Nazi murderers in the town of Sokolitshen in 1942. Dale Pastor