Dear members - Together with my coordinator and her able colleague, we three have been engaged for about two years in incrementally translating the Dubno Memorial Book. We have not worked sequentially

Hanukkah is approaching so I thought I’d help you welcome it with three vignettes of the holiday drawn from the Yizkor books of Strzyzow and Kaluszyn in Poland, and Gorodets in Belarus. Some extracts:

David, could you please tell us where you acquired this census document? I have been looking for this document from my grandfather's village, KORCZYNA, only a few kilometers away from Sanok. Any help

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I am just the messenger! A person on twitter works in estate sales. She came across a bucket of headstone portraits. These images have been removed from headstones. Their origin unknown, but somehow t

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My PGGM, Esther Hein, was born in Cochem in 1834. I have discovered many = Hein names in the above-mentioned cemeteries. I am looking for details regarding possible family members, other = pertinent g

Dear Genners, Can anyone possibly point me to information sources regarding Jewish residents of Mühlhausen and vicinity during 1770's-1800s. All the information I've presently come across either relat

Makes sense, given Romney's Mormon background and his LDS/FamilySearch constituents.

The LAMPERT family acc to the 1940 census were living at 1507 38th St, Brooklyn . The family were Samuel LAMPERT age 47 His wife Esther 44 Henry 24 William 21 Herman 13 In 1947 Esther died while livin

Could be Aron , Avnar or Avnas. Hope this helps. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

If anyone is in London for a visit, I highly recommend the walking tours of the Old Jewish Quarter with a gentleman named Stephen Burstin. My husband and I took a tour arranged by JW3 (see link below)

I have posted a page from a 1900 census of Sanok written in almost illegible Polish script. I would much appreciate help in understanding the exact profession mentioned as well as the address. The lin

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hi margaret , did you contact directly anne thomas/stolpersteine ? http://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/contacts/ 4. Anne Thomas is responsible for the project outside of Germany. Please contact her (in Eng

Put Stolpersteine Breslau into a Google search window and you will have lots of answers David Lewin London

Agreed! Having all family names (and nothing else) in all caps makes it so much easier to quickly scan messages for names of interest. What would also be helpful would be if those who post images for

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) sent a letter on December 10 to the Department of Homeland Security asking them to explain the proposed changes that would result in a significant increase in the cost of se

I've posted a letter from my grandmother to my mother in Yiddish, and I'm hoping someone can translate it. It is two pages long. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/

I've posted a document in Yiddish that was found in my grandmother's papers, and I'm hoping someone can translate it. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/view

I've posted a letter from my mother to her parents in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is two pages long, and it is on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/

Hello, dear cousins, I have posted an illegible signature on viewmate at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76206 It comes from my aunt's marriage cert, 1928, New York. The firs

Hi Gershon, Thanks so much for your email....I was hoping that your would write. I don't have access to my computer but I think that I have this right. My great-great-grandfather born in 1790 was Kalm