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:

Hello, Could you tell me if there will be any information related to Markiewicz, Gopen or Hop(p)en and Dziergacz (Dergatch) families in the Memorial Book of the Sventsian Region, please. Please feel

You may discover there were a number of survivors who did this. The mother of a McGill University friend in Montreal managed to pry up the cattle car floor boards with others and escaped that way.

Dear folks, I recently learned of a very important book of records for my research. The book holds records for the town Podkamien in Galicia, this book is apparently held in the fond 154 of the

I am trying to date a document which shows Fritz and Anna Heim of Vienna living in Gartenstrasse 93. All the details of Fritz and Anna are correct, her maiden name, and their dates of birth. I have

The Hebrew name on the tombstone is Sinai Yoel. Some would not print Yoel with its last letter Lamed since the end of the name of Yoel contains the letters of a name of G-d.

For memory to my dear sister Rachel Leah this is my son Yitzchok who is turning 17 years old till 120 years old (here the handwriting turns sloppy and I can't decipher the rest of the text) signed

It is Yiddish but very difficult to read because of some characters associated with numbers. Seems to be sent to a sister Ruchl Leah. The son Itzhak is 17 years old. Angel Kosfiszer Richardson, Texas

Hi Erika, To answer your questions: 1) If the records were on two different microfilms, then there were two sets of records. In addition to the record set that is kept in the local archive,

Julia's answer is excellent and very complete. As a transcriber, the only things I can add are: 1) though most transcriptions are based on familysearch microfilms, not all are, so you may come across

The only revision lists on the web site linked to the Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania are the 1765 lists previously identified. If there are any later ones, I have not found them. That

My great grandfather was Jacob Resnikov. He came from somewhere in Belarus or Ukraine. As a young man he came to Odessa where he met and married my GGM, Slawa Tsatskin. I know nothing of his family

Thankyou for this useful tip. People can of course check the 1939 Register for further information which is already on Find My Past. Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

Elias. I agree. I’ll stick with Ancestry. But.... i have a distant cousin who adds unverified people to her tree even on Ancestry and I’ve mistakenly added some if it. Only to find that dates are

I have uploaded the 31,900 records of Florence MARMOR's burial records of the New York Mokkom Sholom, Bayside and Acacia cemeteries to

Hello, Greatly would appreciate if you can get back to me as I lost your posting I have some suggestions for your inquiry As well would like to purchase your book Thanks Peninah

Dear Genners, I am extremely reluctant to add my two cents to the plethora of emails on the topic of immigrants’ names (be it first, last, or both) being “changed” at a US port of entry, but I

Shalom Joel, This is fascinating. I have had no success finding my MAIPER family prior to 1840. They were living in Rumshishok (Rumsiskes) and it seems like they just fell out of the sky. There are