Steve - As far as I am aware there are virtually no surviving Jewish vital records from Kovel and Ratno. You can use Miriam Weiner's website Routes to Roots to search for records about the towns you

If you use this URL And search for 10 Delancy Street You will get a 1940’s photo. https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397 I hope it is useful to you. I tried to attach the photo I found but

Hi, I’m trying to track down the fate of my great grandfather, Josef Bermann false Lehrhaupt. He was deported from Vienna on February 15, 1941 and the last letter was from almost a year later -

Thank you for this "how to". I would hope that JewishGen will see how often this issue of how to use the file notation arises as an indication that it would be very helpful for step by step

Hi Maria In your question you asked if there is anything special regarding this tombstone. The abbreviation ש"א that generated some debate, that means Shem Imo, appears to my understanding as

Carl, Minsk was both a city and a Province in the Russian Empire. When you say your relative left Minsk, which were you referring to? Igumen was both a city and a district. It might help if you told

One other thought - there was a WPA project to survey the number of religious institutions during the 1930s. As part of the survey, the society representative (or in my case, its successor) filled out

Hi Todd, looking on ancestry he appears to have had a brother, Joseph. On Joseph's WWII draft card, lupts russia is given as the birth place. Using a sounds like search on the Jewishgen.org jewish

A possibility is that you're looking for current day spelling Zemaiciu Naumiestis that was at one time called Neishtot-Tavrig. You can find more information and links by using the interactive map of

JewishGen Education Winter Schedule https://www.jewishgen.org/education/ November 1 - 22 East Prussia and the Baltic States This class allows you to Research your Roots in Latvia, Western

Hello All, A cousin of mine wishes to obtain Romanian citizenship / passport and needs to find our grandfather's birth certificate in order to do so. Grandfather was born in Iasi / Jassy / Yas about

@Malka Chosnek, the abbreviation before his name is כ"ה (= the honoured mr) not הכ"מ which would indicate הרני כפרת משכבו which is indeed added for a deceased within the last 12

Hi to all. My father, Martin SELIG, was sent to Britain to boarding school, in 1938. In 1939 he was registered as an enemy alien, and on 9.12. 1939 exempted from internment. That was rescinded

If the AGAD records are for a civil marriage, there could have been a religious marriage that preceded the civil marriage. Children could have been born between these two marriage events. I am not

There have also been a few questions on how to donate to JewishGen via PayPal. The link to donate by PayPal is: https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen-erosity/paypal.asp Phil Goldfarb President JGS of

Michele, your logic seems to be impeccable. In that case, I would pour over maps and gazetiers of "Minsgyberna" in search of a place the begins with "Li". People tend to catch the first syllable

MyHeritage’s Family Tree Builder is now available for macOS Catalina and macOS High Sierra. It can be downloaded for free. Go to:

The Blavatnik Archive (BAF) is announced that 2,700 of 12,921 total items in the Veteran Testimonies & Ephemera Collection are fully digitized, cataloged, and accessible online at

-----Original Message----- From: fatibri@... Does anyone know how to contact Chevra Chesed Shel Emeth of Brownsville (Brooklyn NY) ? I have found a worn gravestone in the Montefiore Cemetery.

Suggest you contact the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brownsville Jewish community Center or one of Synagogues in the area. Deanna Mandel Levinsky Long Island NY-- Deanna Mandel Levinsky --