I found the Grundbuck (land registery) for my great grand parents from Zemschen Bohemia, now Tremesne in Cz Republic. Looking for person to translate these German records. Thank you. Florence

English translations of the headings for the original records/forms ARE available… I don’t recall if they are on JG or on JRI, but I made crib sheets 20 years ago. Take a few minutes and look for

Orthodox marriages are often still arranged. My former rabbi and his wife at Chabad in CT met that way and married. They have at least five children now, all girls, and are very much in love with

On one side of my family, the name Jashonovskey was changed to Jay (most likely spelling or brevity). Roz Bornheim-Allina

My Father's Kessler family came from Baligrod in Poland, His sister and a cousin married a Kessler from LItovisk and my first cousin married a Kessler from Cisna. I did a DNA test on all no genetic

With so many digitized records now available and online for researchers to inspect, it would be so helpful if English translations of the headings for the original records/forms were available. I

With the volume of messages about name changes, I was finally prompted to return after a hiatus to research my wife’s grandfather Nathan RICH né REICH, born 1885 in Rzeszów, died 1944 in Brooklyn,

I would very much like to congratulate Robinn on her new position and I am sure she will do a great job for JRI Poland as she has done with everything else she has taken on. Ina Getzoff President,

Yefim, Thank you so much for your response. Your suggestions give me a starting point as I didn't know where to begin. I do not have any postcards, letters, or anything like that. Thanks to

I need help finding Jewish records from Szászrégen, now Reghin. The person I am looking for is Mendel Schwarz, a famous saw-mill owner in the mid-19th century.

Hi all, Translation needed for these pictures. I am pretty sure that the people in these documents are my Friedman ancestors (before they had surnames)

Ok, now this is probably the same man Avraham writing to his sister Ruchel Leah. Perhaps this is my grandmother Lena Rosenblum Ticotsky.

Grandfather Velvel (William) Wolf (Zev) Zlotshewer Grandmother Freida Blechner Grandfather Osher Aron (Oscar) Weinstein Grandmother Chaia (Ida) Skora or SHmuckler

My friend in Efrat, Esther Salomon’s maiden name is Bruckheimer. SHe is originally from Londaon and the family were from Germany Alizah Frayda Zlotschewer Blake Hochstead

My grandmother’s name upon immigration was ```ida but her proper name was Chaia. Married name Weinstein I am told her maiden name was SHmuckler or Skora. Difference of opinion if she was from Poland

Thanks. Just trying to see what’s out there. My great great great grandmother was Zeprah Heitler. New at this.

My great-aunt Ida was always called Chaya by her sisters.

Dear friends It is with great pleasure that I announce that the board of JRI-Poland has unanimously elected Robinn Magid to assume the new position of Assistant Director and member of the

The best sources of what records exist, what has been databased and what is up and coming are the LitvakSIG District coordinators and Russ Maurer, who leads all records acquisition activities for the

To Nicole.... There's an interesting UK/North American lexical difference: