You may be searching the right way however it was probably too early to obtain the information you want from those records. According to this Ellis Island link about researching U.S. immigration

I'm trying to locate any living Klass descendants near Johannesburg, South Africa. Nathan Klass (of Lithuania, 1874-1933) married Fanny Marks and immigrated to South Africa in 1912. They settled in

The (UK) National Archives announced a new trial restricting readers to 12 documents a day despite the concern of historians and researchers. A six-month trial begins the end of March. If requested

Ilya, the Kremenets (Ukraine) District Research Group has been accumulating, translating and posting documents relating to Jews of the Kremenets district for the past 18 years. Our Concordance, a

One word of caution that I forgot to mention in my detailed reply: for pre-1907 naturalizations, don't get your hopes up about finding where your relative came from or how they arrived. These

For the most part, Ancestry has only index records. FamilySearch has images of naturalization documents, but many are not indexed yet. First try FamilySearch's indexes to see if you can easily

I can't speak to strong or weak matches at Ancestry, but at FTDNA, 100 cM match can be a person who matches multiple ancestors hundreds of years ago, but none in a recent timeframe. The length of the

This has been our format for years, whether it is officially in the guidelines or not. It helps the poster as well as those who get digests or individual posts determine whether to participate in a

Excellent point, JB. Perhaps it should be. Along with including your name, where you're from, and names of who you're researching. However, this is more for those posting, asking for help or looking

I’m relatively new to the email list and finally figured out how to reply to the group. My maternal grandmother was from Tarnobrzeg and immigrated here when she was 5 in 1900. When I went to the

I’ve read recently about people who were originally Markowitz or other variations changed their name to Marks. Consider that records may exist under such an original name. Best regards, Jeff Miller

I would like to post the information that my husband Donald Hirschhorn has passed away. Many JewishGen members may remember him as a long time worker for JewishGen. He and I did the JewishGen Mall

Thank you to all the people who helped me with the translation. Jewishgen has an amazing group of people always willing to help one another. Karen Zale Plano, TX GREENBERG - Pultusk,

I've been trying to identify where my family came from in Russia for some time without much luck (I am British and the only information I can find is an 1861 census record for my ancestor - Raphael

I really doubt that saralasin would have been known or available back then, it is a medication that affects complex biochemistry that was also unknown. And even though google brings up Achalasia when

There was a large turnout last night for Gesher Galicia Vice President Dr. Andrew Zalewski's fascinating presentation entitled, "Jewish Students, Medical Globetrotters, and Persevering Women". The

As previously posted, those of us fighting to prevent the fee hikes to the USCIS Genealogy Program wanted to make sure that people new to the issue know that the comment period reopened. This

If you are on Facebook, join this group to ask for assistance researching Argentinian Jewish history. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Gen.Judia.AR/ The discussions tend to be in Spanish, but the

The Bad Arolson records often show where the person went after the war. The majority of these records are found at the US Holocaust Museum but they are not online, I've seen records that told the

The largest database collection on Israel is that of the Israel Genealogy Research Association. Registration is free an allows you to search to see if the name you are looking for appears, before