Dear Patrice, A lot of these phone books are searchable at: https://genealogyindexer.org/ A list of the directories included are at: https://genealogyindexer.org/directories Yours, Jenny

Dear Michael Moe, For quite a number of years starting in 1958 I worked as a teacher at Parsons JHS 168 in Queens (New York City-USA), and one of my colleagues was someone named Albert

I am searching for descendants of Yochevet Belinkoff Chernyakov, born 1973 in Gomel, Russia and died 1945 in Philadelphia, PA, USA. She had one daughter who survived WWII in Russia, and whose

i would love to know the sources for these numbers. hungary was a country of over 10 million people, so it's hard to imagine that there were only 108 traffickers altogether, and with a jewish

I give them a link to my online tree on my website. It does not allow download of gedcoms, shows only names and no data for living people. And some living people are privatized, upon request. There

My grandmother Fannie was born in Grodno around 1892 and lived in NY City around 1910-1913 My great grandmother Ida was born around 1860 and I assume born also in Grodno and assume lived in NY City

Marcella, If I recall correctly, there is a NYC Jewish Orphanage records on the Center for Jewish History website. There I was able to find the names of 2 of my mom's cousins who were there in

Dear all, I've posted four postcards from our family archive in Yiddish for which I need a translation (and if possible a transcription in Hebrew block letters). It is on ViewMate at the following

Feige aka Gussie [MATUS/MARCUS] was lost in transit and arrived in New York in abt 1902, alone. The story has her being 4 years old at the time but she may have been as old as 8…b 1894-1897

This is very helpful. I have noticed quite a few people using the #general hashtag, so many as to make it meaningless. Can we not restrict the use of this hashtag to procedural questions rather than

I've posted two short handwritten notes for which I need translations. They both appear to be in Yiddish. I do appreciate getting more than one translation as there can be small differences that can

Hi, all! Is anyone aware of a resource that I can use to find a birth record for Ida GROENER who was reportedly born Apr 13 1895 in Mulheim, Cologne (Koln), Germany to Heinrich GROENER and Helene

I am searching for descendants of Mrs. A. SCHUSSLER, who was living on Humboldt Street, Brooklyn NY in 1923. She is believed to be the sister of my wife's great-grandfather, whose last name was

In the 1920's and 1930's Jews were able to get passports. USHMM has records from the Stanislawow region. I cannot speak about earlier periods because that is out of scope for our collections. Megan

Looking forward for consulting phone books of Russia until 1918, Districts of Vilno, Postov, Kaunas ans Riga; of Poland from 1919 until 1939, gubernia of Vilno, District of Postawy; of Belarus from

The Moravian censuses from 1857-1910 are now online in beta form at https://www.mza.cz/scitacioperaty/. (The image viewer in particular is clunky to use.) The website is completely in Czech but

Dear fellow Lublin area researchers, I am working on a vital records project for a town called Wohyn in the Lublin region of Poland. If you are interested in an update for this project, please

Hello, I would like to ask your help to enlighten me on certain points. I am French of Polish origin and my grandfather who left recently left me without answers to certain questions. My whole family

My grandfather’s uncle Chaim Finkelstein had two sons, Samuel and Samson. Samuel Finkelstein married Minnie Liss and they had seven children, the last being Sadie, born in 1913 in Winnipeg. It

Moderator note: This question is off-topic to this group. (Not genealogy). Reply only by private Email to <selwyn@...> The NYPL source book on Tykocin gives the following sentence in Hebrew on page