Zora, you are going to make a lot of people very curious and receive requests to unravel this mystery. If you wish, please tell us more about your father and how much you want to learn about him.

I was told by a DNA relative that I have a Jewish female ancestor on my father's side. He was Irish and from a rural part of Ireland. How on earth did a Jewish woman come to marry somebody from the

By law the temple in Israel is not allowed to provide any service. Daniella נשלח ממכשיר Huawei שלי -------- הודעה מקורית -------- נושא: Re: [JewishGen.org] Who has access

The JewishGen family expresses its deepest sorrow over the passing of Dr. Walter (Wally) Wolf Bloch, z'l, beloved husband of Susana Leistner Bloch, our longtime VP of Special Projects - KehilaLinks. A

In Jerusalem is an LED Temple. They might be able to help you. Andrew Sverdlove

​This is actually a 5-month report, as I have only been in this position since August. Much of my time has been spent in learning how various aspects of the group operate. But all in all, I think

I can translate the text for you but your viewmate post is closed to new responses. Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

I recently received my Ancestry DNA test back...51% Jewish. My birth mom (African-American) died when I was 8 years old. I was told my whole life that my bio- father was Mexican or Latin descent.

>> “there is no G in Russian and H is used instead”. Actually it’s the other way round. There is definitely both G (Г) and H (Х) sound in Russian. Sound H, representing Russian letter Х, is

Hi Robert, USCIS would unlikely be of any help to you unless you have been unable to find a naturalization record for one of your great-grandparents. USCIS does not have passenger manifests. They

Barbara/David, the suffix is transliterated from Russian/Belarus/Ukrainian as "vich". Polish doesn't have a letter "v" and uses "w" for the same purpose. While different letters are used to write

All 4 of my grandparents and 2 of my great grandparents came to the US, arriving at Ellis Island from eastern Europe between 1906 and 1914. Now that our objections to the change of fees for USCIS have

This last name doesn't appear in Beider and Menk reference books:

Since the following material requested could be of interest to other researchers... have you looked to LIBRARIA (Ukrainian Online Periodicals Archive)? URL: https://libraria.ua/en/ About the

Dear friends, Further to Omri Sharet's inquiry, here is a link to the website of the Galati Jewish Community, including the contact details: https://sites.google.com/site/cegalati/-introducere- I

LitvakSIG is pleased to announce an update to the free, searchable, All-Lithuania Database. The new records include the following: -In the passports category, 1,948 applications for a foreign

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76498 Please respond via

Hi Ellen, I would agree with David that the surname is probably based on Kishinev now in Moldova. If you are unsure of your cousin's account of the surname have you checked what is recorded in the

Howard, The genealogy site www.GenTeam.eu Gazetteer of Austrian, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian Republic that includes places in Hungary that are now part of Slovakia or Ukraine. The site is free but

The JewishGen website is currently missing links to the individual Sigs, and Donations to Sigs is not available under the DONATE button. To get to the Bessarabia Sig website, I used Google and