Twenty some years ago, in a talk at the Los Angeles conference, I stressed the importance of reviewing previously acquired material as it may contain important, earlier overlooked, information. "...

Buried Here The Dear Woman and a Good Soul The Crown of her Husband, the Glory of her Children Mrs. Cirka daughter of ???? Rabi Yoel Betzalel the Levite her death is painful for her husband and all

Here is buried The beloved woman and good soul The crown of her husband and glory of her children Mrs Tzilka daughter of our teacher the rabbi Yoel Betzalel the Levi Died to the despair of her

Hello, Regarding research in Carpathia , you can contact Mr. Bela ( Baruch) Huber from Ungvar ( Uzhgorod) . His email : huberbelay@... All the best , Mark Friedman

Hello all, I have been helping my dad with the maternal side of my genealogy, but we both seem to have hit a wall at my great grandfather's side of the family and I am hoping some distant relatives

Ingrid I think you should definitely do a DNA test which will give you your Ethnicity. There are many Companies to choose from such as MyHeritage.com, FTDNA. com (Family Tree DNA). Ancestry.com and

Shalom, Is there any JewishGeners whose family name is/was GEDALI or a variant in the spelling of this name and lived in the mid 19th century and onwards in the Hungarian town called Batiz (which

Check into the Kovel group on Facebook. Joel Ackerman Jerusalem, Israel

Very interesting. The transit camp at Mechelen was a place where many of our Galitzianer ancestors who had resettled in Western Europe were then shipped back east to be murdered. The link to the

Some of these records are freely available online here: https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/Архіви/ДАЖО/118/14 Hope this helps! Juliana Berland -- Juliana Berland (France) /// Russia/Ukraine:

Please translate the Hebrew on this headstone of my grandparents in Munich. Thank You. Best Regards, John Lowin Researching Lowin in Radziechow, Vienna and Munich.

Hello, I am researching my father's family from Latvia. My grandparents were Displaced People (officially non-Jewish) and came to Australia after World War 2. Here are my family: My grandmother,

The Orange County California JGS has these upcoming meetings scheduled. Registration is necessary to attend a meeting. You can register on our website at www.ocjgs.org. New lectures will be on

Hi Cousins, As others have mentioned, the vast majority of landsmanshaften, and burial societies that existed decades ago are defunct. When this happens in New York State, all their remaining assets

Jewish Records Indexing (JRI)–Poland Speaker: Stanley Diamond M.S.M. Executive Director, JRI–Poland, Inc. VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Wednesday, 28 October 2020, at 7:30 p.m. ET. There

I will be teaching (virtually) part 3 of 3 on Jewish Genealogy Basics tomorrow (Oct 21) at 5pm EST, "The Old Country": Introduction to locating where your ancestors came from in Europe. Background

Due to the pandemic opportunities to travel and visit the museum have been reduced, and Kazerne Dossin has opened up more of their collection online. The most visited temporary exhibit at Kazerne

I perhaps should have mentioned that I have many U.S. records for the family. None of them says where Bernard was born (except for one reference to the nonexistent "Darthmouth, Austria"), which is why

Have you checked with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum? Another possible source is a book about the Lower East Side, but I don't know the name of it. Perhaps a librarian can help you find it. I

I was able to ascertain the names of great grandparents born in the "old country" in the mid-1850s by looking at USA marriage certificates for my grandparents. I found one grandmother's "maiden" name