Hello all! The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our bonus monthly meeting featuring our guest speaker, J. D. Arden, Genealogy Reference Librarian at the Center for

I'm so pleased I noticed this conversation. - I found 3 of my ancestors on that " Official Journal of the Royal Court of Breslau", which you say is granting citizenship to some of its Jewish

The last part of Season 6 of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates begins on October 13 8PM/7 Central on your local PBS station in the United States Please look at the schedule for your local PBS

The following photos have been uploaded to the Frenkels in Lodz album of the main@... group. Mattes Leib Frenkiel and Family Lodz Ghetto.JPG By: Gittel

Shalom, During September, in the periods between the High Holidays, we saw a great deal of intensive activity within the Yizkor Book Project. Still, please understand that I am far from complaining,

My father's first cousin Jeno Weisz (born 1908, Budapest) married Malvina Paneth (born 1913) and I have just discovered that they had a son. The son I believe emigrated to Israel around 1956 but came

Now that I am taking another look at the photos, I notice in the second one that the sleeves are the style known as 'leg of mutton', which became popular in the 1890s. The fabric also looks to be

The interrelated words zuständig and Heimatschein come up frequently in vital records. Here is a paraphrase of the explanation from https://www.sn.at/wiki/Historische_Personaldokumente . The

This is extremely useful, Michelle, and much appreciated. I will post the photographs on the Facebook group, as you suggest. The backstory to my great-grandmother is complicated, so dating the photos

Hi, Either I made a typo or someone answering did. LADYZHYN does exist. "Ladyzhyn (Ukrainian: Ладижин, Polish: Ładyżyn) is a town of oblast significance in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. The

Hallo Larry Please see the link below re: the history of school examinations: http://www.pluralist.co.uk/learning/howteach/exams.html I refer you to para. 1 of the above which indicates '' The first

Hi Larry, Sadly, it doesn't follow that passing the Senior Candidate exam would have defined Rebecca as a student at the University of Oxford. Apparently the Senior exam was for under-18s, and the

Have you searched for baptismal records of your mother in her town of birth? It seems unlikely that before the Second World War Jewish parents would have given up their child for adoption to non-Jews.

thank you very much Ellen! I am still searching I will be glad to let you know if I find what I am looking for: Records from Zdolnubnow near Rivne. Hag Sukot Sameach! thank you again Meir

Dear Genners, I am doing research on the Eppel family from Riga (Latvia). They were originally from Lithuania and had a permit to live in Riga between 1870 and WWII. I am trying to locate living

​I don't know if you're interested in reading (or skimming) a 65 pager from Oxford on the senior candidate exam, but here's a

I’ve just done a quick search and it would seem that this exam took place at an earlier age and level than a university degree: ” The title of Associate in Arts, introduced by the University of

Hi there, It could also be Laukuva (Telschen district, Kovno province, Lithuania). Sometimes it appears as Lavkovo on the documents. My great-grand-father's family was from Laukuva. Their surname is

Hi Deborah, My grandmother's family were Zaslavskys, from Genischesk eventually, before leaving for China in the 1920s sometime. Could they have been in any way connected with the town Zaslav? Or

My great aunt was born in New York in 1897. She married a non-naturalized immigrant in 1919. The family story is that she found out she lost her citizenship when she went to vote in 1920 (her husband