You can search on the internet, there are sites that specialize in this kind of contract hiring in which different people offer different services (some do translations) and buyers can solicit price

Would minors who left via Kindertransport or Youth Aliyah have filled out these forms as well? (i.e. by their parents/ guardians?) Thanks, Debbie Lifschitz Jerusalem

Hi from Paris, Dear Shelley, A French investigation journalist reported on "Jewish white slave trade" in Argentina (1927). To be compared to Joseph Pulitzer, Albert Londres (1884 – 1932) was a

The correct date is 8 of Heshvan which corresponds with the Secular date 14 October (Of that year) 12 is a misreading of the word "yom" which means day. All the best, Debbie Lifschitz Jerusalem

Je recherche une famille liée à Samson Brockman, a quitté sa famille en 1920 dans le village d'Opoczno, en Pologne, et immigré en Palestine. Après plusieurs années, Samson Brockman est retourné

We are still looking for the origins of AKIBA (KIve) STEIN OR STERN, born in Nowy Sacz Galicia around 1805. He lived in Màd Hungary as from 1824 we think. We found the family in Màd thanks to the a

Hello Jacquie, The comment refer to a civil marriage, but the marriage was also registered in the books of the Jewish Community of Vienna. You can find this marriage on FamilySearch: Source:

in yiddish this -er means, I think, of smbdy, descendant of smbdy, son of smbdy... this is also the meaning of Russian -ov (and Polish -ow) In your searching list MESCHER/MEZAK had decided to throw

Hi, I am looking for any information related to my background. I don't know much about my family. My father, Sulim Levites, had four brothers: Israel, Aron, Henrique, and Blandina. All siblings moved

I believe this is the conscription record for my Great Uncle Benjamin, who is 21 at this time. My cousin, his granddaughter, wants to know about the conscription process. We know Benjamin got married

Susan: My paternal great grandfather who came to the US in 1913 and lived in Brooklyn died of the Spanish Flu in 1918. I have a copy of his death certificate which indicates influenza and because of

For those of you researching Jewish agricultural colonies in the US, especially in Kansas, my article on the history of the Touro and Leeser colonies was just published in Kansas History: A Journal of

I endorse Alberto Chester´´statement on the 'Polacas" (as the jewish prostitutes were called ). The women mainly came from Poland,Lithuania, Ukraine, living in Shtetls in very poor conditions,

Dear Isabelle, Part of my family is also from Stolovichi, the Kolpenitzky family. I suggest you read the Yizkor book for Molchad which is in

I found evidence in the town in which relatives lived by searching in that community's newspaper. One of my husband's family lost all 3 of their children within 1 week in Dec. 1918.

There is a fine line between genealogy and history, but I thought this recent scholarship might provide some helpful contextualization to the discussion on JewishGen. In her 2019 book "Sarah

I recently found two of my relatives, Jciek Lew and Jtta Lew, in the JRI-Poland database. They were twins born in Przasnysz in 1862. According to JRI-Poland, their mother's maiden name was Ester

Thank you Megan, thank you Howard for your quick answer. But I must be more precise : I know these ID cards of ghetto workers have been indexed by a team of JRI-Poland and we can get a person's card

Join the JGS of Georgia on Sunday, May 31 at 2:00 EDT as Gary Palgon discusses questions that he has received from other researchers, answers questions from the audience, and talks about techniques to

to make the search even more complicated I add two Nowy Dvors in Belarus, about 110 km apart, SW and NW to Grodno. Many New Yards they have built, those poles! Josef ASH, Israel