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

To all, Thanks for all the replies. I will look over a 'Minsgyberna' map, and hope that the names of places are in Roman letters, and not Cyrillic. I have looked over Google Maps, for towns that begin

Thank you so much Beth and Phil for pointing out these valuable ways to support JewishGen's important work. Amazon Smile is a wonderful program whereby JewishGen benefits from your regular shopping.

Also try NYC.gov/records. Click on Digital Collections. You can put in the address in the search bar and any photographs of that location will come up. Good Luck. Kathy Lorber Montville,

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

How can I get records about my mother and grandparents who were from Chmelnik? Bernstein, Rabinowitz

Please translate this Marriage Registration for Chaja Perla Spiwak in Koden, 1856. You will find it on ViewMate # 86754 Warm Regards, Margalit Margalit Ashira Ir I am: An Israeli! An Immigrant! An

I have hit a brick wall in researching my ACKERMAN ancestors and am looking for advice. In a breakthrough early this year, I found the birth record of my great-grandfather Bernath/Bernhard Ackerman in

The Act of Emancipation was initiated under the rulership of Joseph II in the second half of the 18th century. By the way, my brother-in-law is the late Shlomo Bien (born as Andor Bien)

Bruce, Try contacting AJHS https://www.ajhs.org/ Ask about the JB Lightman collection of photos of The Lower East Side. Regards, Sherri Bobish

As another researcher mentioned, records are sparse for Kovel. A reesearcher named Alex Dunai (aidunai@...) did find records for my ancesters from there here: List of the documents studied in the

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