Please join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island for a virtual program on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 2:00 pm Eastern time Life Lessons from the Dead Speaker: Alec Ferretti Alec Ferretti has

I wrote previously asking for suggestions on reaching Dr. Ervin Staub from Hungary, who was on the faculty of University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I am hoping he might be related to my husband's

Dear friends, Fay Bussgang (below) commented about the Brzeziny records which she is extracting for the JRI-Poland database. Thus, it is timely to point out a feature of searching via the

JewishGen Viewmate request for transcribers Having researched my ancestors for over 40 years (shortly after my father's death), and being a first generation American whose ancestors all were born and

I am trying to update a part of the Hubert family history that I have very little information on.. Alexander Rothschild born in Bavaria in 1816. His wife Rebecca Hubert born in the village of

I should have been more specific when giving the following link for users to find images while the links in the Hessen Gatermann database are broken: I wrote: In the meantime, note that the images

My 4th great grandfather, a rabbi in central Poland in the mid 19th century, was clearly divorced from his first wife. Though I never found divorce records or reference to the divorce, town records

My mother's family came from Torda and Kolosvar and one was married to a Weiss, Samuel Weiss (1882-1961) who settled in Philadelphia. He was married to Minnie Hermina Rothstein from Torda. They had 3

As someone who has been taking oral histories for 43 years, I think better ways to understand a statement like "nobody got divorced" are "nobody I knew of got divorced" or "I never heard of anybody

Hello. I have been fortunate in the past 3 years to find family on both sides that I did not know existed. Three years ago, I knew absolutely nothing. Now. I have met/connected with family in Israel,

My late mother born Phyllis Brown (ex Brin)(1917-1995) in Edinburgh had a school friend called Rose Schulman who married a Scottish Michael Gandz. They moved to - by coincidence - Gants Hill in Essex

Paul, I find it useful to use this search pattern -- search for a child's given name, together with both parents' given names, omitting the surname -- to find families where the surname may be

The Nagy Karoly (Carei, RO) Holocaust memorial was indexed by H-SIG: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Hungary/HolocaustMemorials.htm I remember it had pictures of the name plaques, but I can't find

Hi Barry, I have spent the weekend sorting out years and years of old papers and come across some more Ellenbogen information by chance. 1) Simon Hill - who is married to a relation of mine - wrote

Where can I email the photos?

Sorry I cannot help you with tracing the Mintz name but I am looking for a Karin and Seth Mintz. Karin's maiden name was Hirschkrohn and her son's name was Stephen. I last saw Karin and Stephen in

I highly recommend consulting Soren Goldenberg from the Botosani research team, who has access to unpublished records. He managed to track down the name and birthplace (Falticeni) of my

My father grew up in a town now known as Deutschkreutz in Austria. Though the name is a German name everybody in the town speaks Hungarian. He told me that he had siblings (I know all 4), half

Hello Group Members, I hope my note finds you well and safe from Corona. I saw the posting in the JewishGen Group, regarding Bircza. My interest in the town is regarding: Sender Holtz, born circa

Harvey, I am not sure what was the goal of that project. It is just a survey, and they did an Ariel photos of the cemeteries. I knew about this project from a person in Moldova who helped them. But