Hi JoAnne, When looking for possible-survivors' descendants or family, there are usually 2 things to do (Apart from what you already did): 1. Enter the Yad-Vashem database and search for POTs - Pages

Hello Toby, this book is an "Ortsfamilienbuch" OFB on the community of Emden near Magdeburg and not Emden in Lower Saxony. It will comprise mostly Christian families. Very often these sorts of books

Hi Valentin, Thanks for responding! You are probably right. My grandfather's name in Hebrew is indeed Yeshayahu. I am wondering why there's no husband listed under the "Ienta" record that I found. I

Fellow Jewishgeners, I am trying to help find family for a now adult child who was found abandoned in Russia in 1942. His nephew contacted me. "My name is Alex, I live in Danville, California, my

I want to thank everyone for their answers and opinions on this topic. I guess i should’ve been more specific in the initial post. Meyer MNUSHKIN was born in Bobroisk in 1903. The birth record

I was wondering if there are detailed B/D/M records available in the Lithuanian database, in the same way as can be found on JRI Poland? For example, when a record is found through JRI Poland, and

My grandfather Samuel was an immigrant from Russia (modern Ukraine) to Massachusetts. I was directed to a theoretical great grandfather, also Samuel, which I was dismissive of for the obvious reason.

I uploaded a GedCom update to FTJP in July 2019 and the online data hasn't yet been updated. I understood priority was migrating the website to NextGeneration, so I hope data presently in the queue

Hi: Our names are Sue and Andrew Laine. My husband has a line of Dutch Jews who immigrated to London in the late 19th century. When their cigar business declined, they moved to Brighton, Sussex. The

You will find lots of information about researching in Berlin from the Jewish Gen Kehila link web page at https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/berlin/Home.html Barbara Algaze Los Angeles, California

Looking through the Belarus Revision Lists for Siniensky, I was able to find a listing for my great-great grandfather, Feivel (Fayvush in the listing) and his family from dated July, 1874, in Lyubcha.

Does anyone know if the following book includes Jewish families? Bartels, K. (2008). Familienbuch Emden (Landkreis Börde) 1684 bis 1800. Leipzig, Germany: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für mitteldeutsche

Most people emigrating to South America in the late 19th century & early 20th century did so through the Baron de Hirsch JCA organization to settle in agricultural communities. The records for these

Look at the marriage certificate for your grandmother. It ought to have his name and possibly other information that could help.

Thanks Linda. I am a descendant of the Dutch Lam and Klok families who I have information on back to the mid 17th century. So I too am onyetested in your proposal. Bernard Wonder (Australia)

Families often reported their children who could pass as being younger than 10 so the fare paid was a child’s. My grandmother’s case was one of these. She continued using the age on entry for her

Steven Lowenstein, historian of German Judaism and the German Jewish immigrant community of Washington Heights in Manhattan, passed away on May 31.

I would appreciate any help in finding the Polish estate on which my relatives lived from approximately 1875 to 1905. We think it was called Stepanivka. It was near Bela Tserkva, Ukraine. My male

H(ere) L(ies) our dear mother Sima Perlsweig d. on 7 of tevet 1939 Let her soul ... Josef ASH, Israel

If you live in France, visit the Holocaust memorial in Paris. They have a research library there. My family also lived in Nice for part of the war.