This is further to Sheila Toffell's post earlier today. Researchers should be aware that the 25-year journey of JRI-Poland.org started with many volunteers quickly coming forward to help us create

Why Hamburg? It was just one of the many ports of embarkation to America. Don't forget the UK ports as well. Did any of your ancestors become US citizens? That paperwork will list where they came

I'm looking for information regarding which last names the children, my ancestors (or any ancestor in general) were given. Those of the father or those of the mother. I know that Hitler considered all

With sadness I learned about the passing of Gábor Hirsch. Gábor will be remembered by many for his kindness and his yearly announcement of Hungarian memorial dates.

This needs correcting The USA uses different words to the UK here - so I am UK terminology which you may have to "translate" There are two major streams in the observing of Judaism : "Orthodox" and

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project of JewishGen is proud to announce the publication of its 101 title, Memorial Book of Vishnevets - Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Vishnivits Who Perished in the

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project of JewishGen is proud to announce the publication of its102nd title, Wierzbnik-Starachowitz; a Memorial Book Original Yizkor Book in Yiddish and Hebew edited by: Mark

Have you tried the Center for Jewish History Website. I found my mother's cousins there in a NYC Jewish orphanage. I found the 2 names and they were kind enough to forward the copies of their

You don't mention about how your descent is Jewish. Someone is only Jewish if they have maternal Jewish descent i.e. your mother's mother's mother etc. was Jewish. Otherwise you may have Jewish blood,

Hello Dr. Josef, Yes, I only need information pertaining to the Denenbergs. As I have found these people on JRI-Poland in the past. And the archives in Bialystok forwarded me these files they had on

Join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland for a virtual program on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 7:00 pm Getting the Most out of Family Tree Maker® A Virtual Presentation by Duff

"The records that have been uploaded to jewishgen, certainly to JRI-PL, have usually been rudimetarily translated by poeple working for the archives. They are not in depth and names are sometimes not

And here is one from Hungary, my great-grandfather died in 1929, marked on the bottom "Schreiber Debreceen". I've also seen such inscriptions on a few tombstones I translated on JewishGen's

Reba, the Genealogies upload is hidden at the bottom of the Search - Genealogies page. https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees Click the button labeled "Submit Tree" to get started. Julia ./\

My mother was an orphan as an infant in the Israel Orphan Asylum in Manhattan per the 1930 census. I had requested her records from the JCCA, but nothing was found. Is there any other place I can

Here’s something different as a written long-term solution: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS https://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/gifts.html I haven’t read it through thoroughly, but it seems that if you print out

Dear Yale- I agree so strongly. Diversification is a MUST! I have also sent my trees to cousins, printed out and mailed, and I maintain a list of interested parties for each branch. Updated trees

My story the same. The family arrived in 1856 in NY departing from Hamburg. Both manifests found after months of searching on a family unit of parents and 4 children. Found using ages and many

FamilySearch Update: I have been following up on the suggestion to put my trees in Family Search‘s special Archival area. As far as I can determine, this area is called IGI-International

I believe that this is now referred to as Norwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood_(charity) and you would have to write direct to them to obtain , if I understand the law, any relevant