Yad Vashem has collected thousands of personal letters that reveal the hardships of Jews surviving day by day during the Holocaust. A selection of this correspondence is featured in the third in a

where is attachment of the writing?

I think for many of us, it's too expensive to have full subscriptions for both MH and Ancestry. I use MH, but agree with Vivian about the irritation caused by constant regurgitation of my own

Mande, Maybe this one? It is 30 miles from Brest. Rossosz, Poland Alternate names: Rossosz [Pol], Rosash [Yid], Rossosh

You are likely referring to the town of Holon, which is just south of Tel Aviv, where my family once lived. The business they operated would have been a specialized metal working shop, spelled "tool

For those who will be attending the IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy, I am presenting a talk on "How to Choose a Family Tree Software". I discuss the criteria to consider and review several of

Bob, New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1923888 Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ

Can anyone recognise the surnames Szczepanski or Mrozowska from Lviv, Poland before 1940's. These were my grandparents who were arrested in 1940 and disappeared. Maybe they were Roman Catholic or

Thank you. What text are you referensing? I posted two images with TWO different languages, and one I am almost sure is Old Slavonic language (not Romanian)... Where you see text in Cyrillic? There

Eileen, Have you tried tracing these three couples through U.S. census records? www.familysearch.org is a free site. You can search census, and many other databases that can be helpful in finding

I feel much more comfortable on Ancestry for tree management and that's where I keep my primary tree. MH did however find one of my best DNA matches that was only on that site. It lead me to a whole

I need help with one problem – an uncle who changed only his surname name in the Warsaw Uprising. He didn’t change his first name nor his date of birth. How common is this name-change in wartime

Dear Researchers, I have spent many an hour delving into these records through 1948 and found many gems, and now I have a question about 1949. What is the status of the 1949 records, which I believe

I have exactly the problem you mention- I can confirm my uncle (my mother's brother-in-law) but if I do, MH wants to add all of his relatives & his inlaws. That is absurd & not at all useful. I want

Hello, Magda, I would like to help you with your Jewish DNA and GEDmatch, and will reply to you privately. Linda Wolfe Kelley Portland, OR, USA

Hi Davide, I've never heard of this program, but I'm not surprised, because there are so many out there. That sounds great. That's why I need the software! I'm drowning in relatives and some even

Hi genners, Today I am looking for information on Leah Bluma (Lillian) Leavitt PRIOR to her marriage to Abraham Krasnowsky. She was born around 1835 in Russia, married Abraham 1870 in Russia,

I have just found some relatives that were born in Paris probably in 1929 and 1930. May I find these records, or are they within the 100 year rule for births? They left and went to Budapest sometime

Magda, here is how I would approach it. Use the one-to-many BETA tool. Search and then click twice on the sort arrows for the Autosomal Longest column. This will sort the data so the longest

I find MyHeritage great for searching for family in the U.K. I have also made contact with distant cousins via the site who were not on Ancestry. There are times information shows up differently than