Nolan Altman was contacted by a woman in Austria who has taken a batch of pictures of matzevot in Jewish cemeteries in formerly Hungarian areas in Transylvania, now Romania, including Alsojara (Iara),

Nolan Altman was contacted by a woman in Austria who has taken a batch of pictures of matzevot in Jewish cemeteries including Gyekenes in Somogy and Pecs. We’re looking for a volunteer to review

Are you certain that they embarked from Hamburg? Family Search 's Wiki includes links to databases for Bremen, for example. (

As a regular contributor to tombstone translations on JewishGen's Viewmate (there are more than 7,000 examples) I have seen most of them. I don't remember ever having seen one. David Rosen Boston,

I found a very old prayer book, from the 1800's, with a handwritten inscription in German. I am unable to read it and would appreciate it if someone could translate it for me. It was submitted to

I have never seen markings identifying the stonecutter, and I have looked at a lot of headstones. Rabbi Neil Kominsky Brookline, MA

Peter, I could not agree with you more, and you've described this problem so well and succinctly. My experience as archivist for a special historical collection for more than three decades

Eisig and Ayzik Marcel Apsel

I agree with Dani and will provide a true example. My paternal grandmother's headstone says that she was born on May 30, 1895. When we unveiled the headstone in 1983, my grandfather asked if my

Dear Genners, Here is an enigma which hounds us since 2011. My late father in law Dawid APOTHEKER(1908-1995) was on the Sugihara list, got his transit visa to Japan in Kaunas and reached Kobe in Japan

Eric, it depends on which database. If you click through to the info link on a given database, the page that tells you about the origin and contents of the database often has contact info for the

To elaborate further on this issue, I have occasionally found transcription errors in the JewishGen databases. When reviewing an image of the actual record on Family Search, it's clear that the

I am responding to the original post, but as many have said, the original document cannot be corrected by Jewishgen, but by the document originator, in this case the owner of the Vienna data. There

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has changed its name and its logo. Its new name is Holocaust Museum of LA and its new logo is: The reason given behind changing the museum is that

Hi all: Perhaps a member has knowledge of the following: Were there markings on Jewish headstones that identify who the stonecutters were? Many thanks in advance. Jacquie Jacqueline GRUSZECKI Toronto,

Records from Russia or anywhere else are what they are. You can't change them. I have seen impossible dates, registered births a year before the birth, anything. You have to work with the records that

I am seeking the birth record for my paternal grandmother and/or her siblings. According to the SS Ryndam ship’s manifest, Ernestina STECKMAN immigrated to the United States from Rotterdam on on

Carole: As a proud son of Paterson, I would suggest you join the Facebook group Jewish Roots in Paterson New Jersey https://www.facebook.com/groups/46962810277 and post your inquiry. Mark Halpern now

The name Vadetsky-Vides occurs only once in a revision list in the shtetl Malat(Moletai) in 1834. My GGGgrandfathe Movsha is married to Aron Vadetsky-Vides' daughter. In subsequent records I find no

Also, Itzik or Itsik. Robert Hanna