My family all lived in a small village of Raslavice, northeast of Presov. I am researching the area and would appreciate any information about life in the city itself. My family's migration started

I had heard that during the era of conscripting children into the army at young ages, that because the Army wouldn’t take an only son, sometimes the family would change the last names of one of one

In a remarkable coincidence, I happened to look at the French National Archives website today in the hope of finding something that would help me further my family research, only to see this wonderful

Dick Eastman included an article in his Eastman Genealogy Newsletter on How to Store Print Photographs So The Last for Generations. See:

Dear fellow researchers, What would you recommend as the easiest program to use for a Hebrew ,10 generation tree , preferably in fan chart design, editable and printable in large format ( on

The Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society is having a conversation with Gary Mokotoff and SallyAnn Amdur Sack-Pikus in February. Sunday February 28th at 10:00 am Pacific time. The event

Hi, I am trying to trace information on my ancestors from Lvov. I have screenshots of birth certificates from JRI-Poland but I don't understand much of the detail. I request a translation of these

There are manifests missing - at least from the on-line we sites. We had complete information for the arrival of my husband's grandfather in December 1899 - name of boat, date, etc. We even have

Hi Shelley, My second great-grandmother was named Zipe in the passenger records when she came to the USA in 1897. She became Celia; that is how she appears in the one census record in which she was

Lizzie, Oh dear, straightaway, the divide in Anglo Jewry about who is a Jew is coming to the fore. Just so irrelevant to Lizzie at this point. Veronika, at least give accurate information. The

Here is card # 3: Mister / L. Schwartz / in Brocklyn / 47 Hoyt St. / New York Americka------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear

I am pleased to announce that Alexandre Crazover has taken over as the new translation coordinator for Balti Bessarabia: A Memorial of the Jewish Community. Current translations can be seen at

In connection with the World Memory Project, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has added 328 new name records to the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database (HSV) taken from the collection

Another painful reminder about our historical saviors and protectors... Rabbi Baron

Here is card #4 (card #3 is the most challenging; I will try to read it later). As a friendly reminder in the New Year of 1917. Taken up in the

Here is card #2: May 1937 The entire family Chaim Rieberfeld Berlin Holingerstrasse(?) 6------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: /

Here is the first postcard: Dear Grandmother, I am sending you my photo; I hope that you will like it. How are you doing? What are you doing? Write to me once, too. I send you all many

True, most laptops or desktops of today no longer have a DVD built-in slot, but many stores sell USB DVD portable attachments as well as USB external hard drives. I have both and they work very

VM85179 Kamyanets-Podolsk region Old street Horowitz M.S. Written in Ukrainian: left: URSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) Executive committee Shpolyansky District of Working People's

Zippe is a nickname for Zipporah. Have you tried that? There are also many possibilities for Zysman, including Sussman -- Avivah R. Z. Pinski , near Philadelphia, USA