A few months ago I announced on this list that I was coordinating an in-person week-long course, “Introduction to Jewish Genealogy,” for the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP)

If it is an invasion of privacy, don’t put up a yahrzeit plaque. The whole idea of a memorial wall is visibility, sharing and remembrance. Matt Friedman

Love to hear from you if any of these names are of interest: SIDRER, SANTOCKI/SANTOTSKY, DISNER, ZIVOV, CHADASH, RYDER, SEGAL TOWNS: KOVNO/KAUNAS, KALVARIJA, YANOVA, ADUTISKIS, SVENCIAN, Ettie Zilber

One good source is the Ukraine Research Division of JewishGen at https://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine. There you will find Town Pages with information for these towns. Look also for records at Alex

I, too, would be interested in such a sub group. One or two in particular of my ancestors transited to the US via the Netherlands (among at least several others) and possibly stopping in Ireland on

Hi Peter, Although I don't think there is a legal privacy issue with either, I can see the argument reversed. The cemeteries are usually private cemeteries so the administrators may ask you to leave

My husbands family is Muchnik (MOOTCHNIK) from Moldova and Russia. Bobbe Mootchnik

25 years ago when I began scanning photos, I named them picnnn. When I got to 800, I realized I needed something better. I now scan photos I borrow from people and give each person a code, I am

Hi: My grandfather was Lazaro Mendelejis. His Uncle, Jimy, changed his last name to Mendelson when he arrived to the USA. They all came from Uman Ukraine and I have a lot of information. Maybe we can

Salute! to Shalom Bronstein The “IAJGS Salutes! Committee” is pleased to announce that Shalom Bronstein has been awarded an IAJGS Salute! Award. IAJGS Salutes are designed to provide recognition

I have the identical request regarding the desire to obtain gravestone photos at Nebo. Please respond privately for information. With thanks, -- Nina Tobias Scottsdale, Arizona Researching: TOBIAS,

I research members of the family of my grandmother on the side of my father, she was Nechama Nudelman born in 1880 at Korosten Russia. She was the daughter of Pinkhas Nudelman and Mariam

When I raised this proposal at my synagogue, there was some resistance that it was a privacy violation. I have encountered similar objections when photographing gravestones. In the the case of

Name reversal, or simply going by a middle name was common, not only among immigrants, but also shows up in records from 19th century Eastern Europe. You also see the same thing today among some

I've seen it with just about any double named individual, especially if it was Hebrew/Yiddish in the 19th century.

Hello, I would greatly appreciate if someone would please translate the inscription of this grave for me. Thank you, Tammy Weingarten

Not a physician, but a former French-English translator... My take would be "brain disorders," which yields a million or so hits on Google.

Are you speaking of a place or name. I'm sorry I didn't quite understand. My relatives were Freiberger or Frieberger and I have found no one who has been abale to help me.

Information needed for Pinkus ancestry. Harry (Pinchos) Pinkus born possibly in Sochachev Poland (near Warsaw) about 1888 and emigrated to US in 1912.. His brother Maier Pinkus was given as contact

Shepsie: Possibly the diminutive of the name: Shepsel. My first cousin, born near Bialystok, emigrated to Montreal in 1939 and never changed his Yiddish name up to when he took his own life. I heard