I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86781 Please respond via

Hello everyone, I've posted 5 vital records in Russian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ... 1. Death record of Ruchla Laja WAJSBLECH:

Do contact the Together Plan (www.thetogetherplan.com) to make contact with experienced Belerussians who undertake genealogical research. They speak the language and are used to the bureaucratic

As Martin Tompa explained, the Heimatschein is a certificate giving the bearer the right ot reside in a community. An electoral register is something different. Its existence implies that the

Hello all! The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our October monthly meeting featuring our guest speaker, Rhoda Miller, Past President of JGSLI. JGSLI is

Please join us for the Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island's (JGSLI) 30th annual family history workshop, "Jewish Genealogy 101: Four Hours+ to Your Family Roots" The workshop is a half-day course

I've posted photos of a memorial monument in Yiddish or Hebrew for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address

Hello Malka, Contact the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ask them to search the Registry of Holocaust Survivors for you. The email is

On October 18, 2020, JGSLI will be participating in a project to photograph all the headstones at Mt. Golda and the Huntington Jewish Center Cemeteries in Huntington Station, Long Island. The plan is

The Jewish cemetery in Vselyub (Wsielub, near Nowogrudek, cemetery ID: BEL-03452), along with the synagogue, still stands. In 2006, US Catholic students paid their own way to Belarus and did a

Dear Risa, It’s great to hear from you after all this time. I’ll write to you privately to catch up with events of the last two decades. In the meantime, to respond to your question: I am not

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