Theodore Hull of the US National Archives explained the difficult process how punched cards became the data base at https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/spring/aad-ww2.html. There could

I think a lot of them came from JRI Poland or Litvak SIG, but not all of them. The former editor Marlene Silverman will have access to privately commissioned data from local archives in the area

Hi all - I know that Iser and Osher are entirely different names. I also know there were errors in recording names and in later transliterating and transcribing them. Has anyone encountered a case

Hello Inna Vayner, As an French historian researching records upon Jews from Tiraspol who emigrated to Paris France since the 19th century, I would like to know if there will be a list of the Jewish

I found records for my GGF POLLAK with different given names for various life events. This was Farkas POLLAK (born 1814) and his son (born 1846) in Zala county (SW part of Hungary), a

Richard, My wife, Dorit Hertz, is related to Millie Binnes and Bernhard Karseboom. Please write to me at teven.laxer@... so we can share information. Teven Laxer, Sacramento, CA, USA

I wish it had been -- so far I haven't found any links there. Would love if iet could be done. Had trip planned to St Lake City because they have the magazine in their library but coronavirus

I only have one item - the visiting card of the Rabbi The Hebrew letters give the identical information as the Englishcontent That first word is the transliterated"congregation" David Lewin

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Understanding the exact source is important here, also. If this cousin wrote down "Minsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia" on some document decades ago in the pre-Internet age, that could be a good indication

Dear all, I am sure some of you will be able to give me informations one of these ancestors of mine, here are all informations I can give you about them: STERNBERG Joseph: russian from Odessa,

I have a ship record for my maternal grandfather, Josef WEINER, from Europe to New York. I'm looking for the return passage back to Europe. Are these records available? There's much discussion in our

Dear all - a year or so ago, I stumbled over this site of Silesian genealogists: https://siliusradicum.pl/ They offer a lot of metrical sources from the Silesia region scanned in very good

"Israel" may have been the boy's name, or maybe not, possibly depending on whether your great-grandmother had had a son named Israel. You might want to check whether you had a great-uncle Israel who

There's another Minsk about 90 miles north of Krasnoyarsk - go to Google Maps, type in Krasnoyarsk > Driving - > Directions > Minsk Peter Lobbenberg, London, UK

Hello I am writing on behalf of Peter Lyons, who has some eyesight challenges. Peter is seeking contact with the family who dedicated a new headstone in the Slavuta Cemetery. The headstone,

I must confess, I find it difficult to believe that people who do genealogy research cannot understand the format for submitting postings to Jewish Gen. I suggest that there be included at the bottom

The first child of my great great grandparents died at a year of age. Yet, 10 years later, a child with that name is travelling with them to NY. And no record of her after that. I suspect they were

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is hosting a free virtual event May 13, 2020, 9:30 AM EDT (US) on their project to preserve the outtakes, digitize them, and put them online.

Hello All: I have in my possession a calling card from Rabbi Rabinovici of Congreation Sh'arit Israel. This was a Minneapolis synagogue, but is sadly no longer in existence. I am wondering if