Dear David Does this help? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Beck-Gernsheim Best wishes, Peter Lobbenberg, London peterlob@... David Lewin david@... wrote: I

I am researching a KAHN family, originally >from Heilbronn, Germany Hedwig Luise KAHN born 18 Jan 1907 married on 2 June 1943 a Johannes Emmanuel Theophil GERNSHEIM in Munich. While the rest of

Hi All I've posted a vital record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. It = is on ViewMate at the following address

Hi All I've posted a vital record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address

This project, as announced earlier, aims to identify the town of origin of 577 books of Jewish records held in the Przemysl State Archive. Nearly all are index books of vital records, with most

Are you a current member of Gesher Galicia? It is the Gesher Galicia 2020 membership season. You can become a member or renew your membership by going

Since introducing our improved online inventories for individual archives earlier this year, we have worked to upgrade their functioning. These inventories can be found in the pull-down menu in the

Since the last update a few months ago, indexes of the following vital records have been added to the All Galicia Database, at: https://search.geshergalicia.org/ Vital records - Podhajce (Pidhaitsi)

My relative Feiga Frimet HAAR marriage to Friedrich KOWAND in Vienna in 1921 ended in divorce. Friedrich was baptized at birth and I'm trying to understand why their marriage appears in the register

Much has been written on the adoption of surnames by Jews in the Austrian lands, but less on rules governing given names. I have found two Czech-language sources on a decree of 27 August 1787 (under

I have 9 family members at Mt. Sinai, only 3 of the headstones include Hebrew inscriptions. My mother's parents are two, I suspect Mom insisted on it when the headstones were made. The third is my

Dear JewishGen Community, Welcome to 2020!! With the new year, we are kicking off an exciting new time for the Yizkor Book Projects. Please read below to see all of our updates from 2019 and our plans

Dear Genners, I am looking for descendants of Schlama/Sholomo/Salomon TEICHER born 1870 and died 1932. He was the son of CHUNNA/CHUNNE TEICHER and GITTLE KRAMER. Lived and died in Rudnik nad Sanem

In October of 2018, Logan Kleinwaks posted about the addition of thousands of scans of Lodz Jewish community records to the Polish State Archive online collection. Among those he mentioned as examples

Joshua Marrache will be coming >from Gibraltar to give a talk to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain on Sunday 19th January. "The Jewish Community of Gibraltar": Its foundation,

I'm still trying to connect with descendants of a Rabbi David ben Moshe of Kletzk (family name unknown to me) who was the Rav of Novarodok during the 19th cent. He is alos known by the book he

I am researching a KAHN family, originally from Heilbronn, Germany Hedwig Luise KAHN born 18 Jan 1907 married on 2 June 1943 a Johannes Emmanuel Theophil GERNSHEIM in Munich. While the rest of her

Trying to make contact with the family of Holocaust survivors and scion of the Rubin of Sosnowiec, Halbertsm and other Dynasties - of Mayer David Glickman and his brother Baruch Yosef Glickman.

If you haven't gotten the pics by next weekend, I could go. (My mom and several relatives are there, I could visit --.) Just so you know, the gravestones tend to be flat and level with

"Civil Status Registry For Married people No. 41 Faivel Grunberg with Miss. Pessa Reiza Gotlib