Dear JewishGen Family, Each year, our friends at the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies organize a world-class conference, bringing together scholars, researchers,

Yefim, I know Russian and Hebrew (and even learn Yiddish). I can do the work (as far as I understand it now) for a couple of hours a week. Shabbath shalom

Cheril, do you know the way this surname passed from the Cyrillic spelling to the Latin one? I ask, because Ukrainian has no word Zibulya (so what would the surname mean?). But it has the word for

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Dear colleagues I am Marcelo Kisnerman from Argentina. I would like to obtain information on the following surnames of my ancestors. Perhaps there are censuses from the 1850s to the 1900s, birth

Minor children are not readily available to all on geni. Only close family can see the information.

Hello everybody, If you are interested in Bessarabia/Moldova region, you may want to participate in JewishGen Bessarabia Research Division Meeting, part of the JewishGen Virtual conference of

Hello Bessaraber, I am going to administer the Beltsy Birth Records for now from the new Bessarabia project we started. We got these records for 8 years from 1911 to 1918. I have one person who is

If you want to find out if there’s a JewishGen Research Division or other outside group that covers your ancestral town, here’s an easy way to do it…. Go to JewishGen’s Town Finder at

Hi Susan, According to the Town page for Vileika, that area is covered by JewishGen's Belarus Research Group and Litvak SIG. Scroll down to the bottom right of the Town page and see the names of the

Both individual tree sites like Ancestry and MyHeritage and collaborative sites like Geni, WikiTree, and FamilySearch have their advantages and disadvantages, but it is my strong belief that the only

Geni is currently a bit of a mess. Though I like the concept, the execution has been less than optimal. Privacy is an issue, with, for example, the information of minor children (whose parents don't

The annual JRI-Poland volunteer meeting will take place virtually this year at the upcoming IAJGS conference on: Tuesday, August 11, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm U.S. Eastern time (9:30 am - 10:30 pm

Ancestry's Thru-Lines is just matching family trees, yours and somebody else's. I have found cousins by DNA (that I knew were cousins), but they hadn't entered enough family tree to be found by

My great-grandfather's surname was Zibulsky. He perished with his second wife during the holocaust. They died as martyrs, heroically, and I need information to proceed with a search. I know is that

Can anyone tell me if there are vital records available for Burgenland after 1920 when it became part of Austria. In particular, I am looking for records for Bernstein im Burgenland, Rechnitz,

The Canada BOF/SIG will meet virtually on Wednesday, August 12, from 10:00 am - 11:00 am, U.S. Eastern time. (7:00 am - 8:00 am Pacific, 3:00 - 4:00 pm UK, 5:00 - 6:00 pm Central Europe, 6:00 - 7:00

I just got my 1st Theory of Relativity, among 4 kits I administer, on my 2nd cousin's non-Jewish German line. And it seems plausible; awaiting replies from owners of other 2 trees involved. My 2nd

Sosche is a derivation of the yiddish Sore. It is, in g¡fact, an hypocorism of the name Sara wehich appears for the first time in Genesis 17:15. For other multiple derivations on this name, I suggest

I am surprised to see the statement that in NYC records births are only available to 1909. It's been over 25 years since I visited the Municipal Archives and found my uncle's birth certificate in