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

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