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

This is the tale of one side of my family....from Spain to Portugal to expulsion and migration eastward to locations that would allow them in.

Hi, All these families seem very interrelated. I've hit a brick wall in the early 1800s in Libya. I'm pretty sure they mostly came from Tunisia 1810-1830 which is why I've hit a brick wall. Is anyone

We haven't been able to find records in Poland for my great-great grandfather, Heinrich Seidenfried (married to Malka Teichman or Teichner) from Krakow, more specifically, Piaski Wielki and/or

Their death certificates might state the cause of death was influenza - or it might state pneumonia, with or w/o noting that influenza was the precipitating cause. Then again, it might not - either

Join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland for a virtual program on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 7:00 pm FamilySearch.org: A Mid 2020 Review Betty Franklin FamilySearch.org has been busy making

I thought that all my family living in RIga had been murdered during the holocaust. Yesterday I discovered that my great aunt had had a child from a first marriage with a non jewish latvian man. While