If you have a Jewish 2nd great grandmother and if you have (or have had) your autosomal DNA tested, you would likely find many DNA matches with other people of full or partial Jewish ancestry. This

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Hi Steve, I believe that the place you looking for is Koson in present-day Ukraine. In Yiddish is Kasan. Kaschan is the German spelling.

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On a US World War I document for a not-so-close relative, it says that he was born in "Kaschan, Hungary." The rest of the family came from various towns in what is today northwestern Romania. I would

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Hello, I'm trying to find the grave of Lea Lustgarten who was born in Mecina Poland in 1902 and was buried in Israel, probably Haifa in 1987. I wanted to find out the names of her parents. If I

Hello, my relative Itzhak Lustgarten lived in Berlin after living in Israel and married a German woman. He was born in Poland or Czechoslovakia in the 1930's and probably died in Berlin in the 1980s.

Hello All: I am looking for information on my Uncle Wilhelm ( aka Villy/Willy) Sternberg and his wife Rasela ( aka Shelly/Rachel) Blauer Sternberg. I know tand that they immigrated to Montreal Canada

Susan, The death certificate may name the person that supplied the information (possibly a son or daughter.) If one or both of the couple left a will (probate record) that should contain the names of

I am looking for a comprehensive list of Jewish Genealogy Blogs to write my OCJGS Library column for the newsletter Keeping up with the Genes. I have found 8 so far. Your Jewish Gem, Russian

Hello, Does anyone know of a website to contact to find birth and marriage certificates from Lower Franconia, Wurzburg, Germany? Thank you very much. Rose J. email - rsjosh@...

On a prominent wall inside the Town Hall of Taormina, Sicily, is a large map depicting towns where Jews lived on the island before 1492. My husband and I saw it when we visited his ancestral towns in

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My gggrandfather Rabbi Naftali Reiter, rabbinical leader on the Bet Din in New York City early 1900’s and Rabbi of First Galician Congregation Duklar Mugan Abraham on the Lower East Side was

Tomorrow (11/24) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. Our genealogy librarian, J.D. Arden, will speak with Leo

In Russian: 221 Пинхас Мокры Состоялось в городе Лублин 10-го (23-го) апреля 1912 года в 11 часов утра. Явился еврей