Shalom,please translate all handwritten information in this column. This is from the wedding record of Israel Shapiro Epstein and Tauba Bukowska Wachtenheim from Skole, Ukraine (This area may have

Hello everyone,may I ask you to translate ( poland-english) Israel Shapiro and Tauba Bukowska's wedding record,here it's link from

Searching for Mones Simon Tokarczyk, born around 1865, brother of Abram Icko Tokarczyk, b.1858. Abram settled in Rochester, New York around 1885. No trace of Mones. Anyone familiar with family or

Securani is now part of Ukraine. If anyone is looking for more recent records they might be in Hotin and/or Ukraine. I recommend that you chek Jewishgen.org Town Finder to get all the name

Does anyone know how to change default relationship calculator in Family Tree Maker? I don't want the default shortest link and I can choose the longer one (in this case one family straight line all

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, I am pleased to be able to announce that the Tsal Kaplun Foundation (TSF) is the recipient of the

I would appreciate help in translating the Russian words on the gravestone picture I have attached to this message. Also the shape of the gravestone seems peculiar does any one have any thoughts on

My ggg-grandparents Sol HYMAN and Pauline LICHTENSTEIN came to US from Polish Russia / Russian Poland in 1840s. i'm trying to narrow down where they came from specifically. Their and their families'

I have always been told that Ashkenazi Jews do not name a child after a living relative. However, I am wondering if there is more nuance to this general practice. For example, I have seen one Latvian

I have a book in Cyrilic which was published after an extensive Oral History project and which lists the victims of BabiYar Is anyone interested in getting that to the Internet? David Lewin London

Open Archives has 220 million personal records in various Dutch and Belgian sources including certificates of the Civil Registry and population register. You can search in English, German, French and

I had such a good response to my inquiry about Mexican records that I am motivated to try again for a French question. A man named Joseph GRAND, born in Tomashev-Lubelski, Poland in 1879, came to the

Researching a possible connection between our family and the daughter and son-in-law of R' Itzaleh of Volozhin, Rabbi Shmuel and Mrs. (?) LANDAU. I am specifically interested in the names of ALL

Sorry, Forgot to add that he had been found on lists working at the Carpathian Oil Co Lemburg as Leon David. No traces of him afterwards.

Hi, Marilyn. DNA testing might help decide if the Schaffers were the same family as the Schlifers. I agree that vowels can be disregarded in many cases. But for the ancestors to be closely related,

Can anyone confirm that the above term-KATCHOP- in Ukranian refers to someone who deals with lumber. It appears in one of Chaim Nachman Bialik (Israel's national author) as such. I believe also in

My Father's brother Leon was born in 1912. All traces of him have been gone after the war. Leon was my father's oldest brother. He was last seen by my father in the Plaszow concentration camp sometime

Hello, Connie, DNA testing might help sort out relatives. It would be great if you, and some of the Levines and Abrams all got tested, then upload to GEDmatch. If you want help, let me know. Linda

Hi, I’m looking for information for a Morris Levine and his wife Rachel Mudrick born in Skidel, Poland/Russia and emigrated to the U.S. Any info would be appreciated. Sent from Mail for Windows

Searching for long lost cousins who's names and last known residences were: Diana Leff (Crow Wing, MN) Robert Leff Jr (Crow Wing, MN) Linda Leff Engholm (Alameda, CA) They would be about 60 years olds