I am ashamed to say how much we spend on Amazon purchases a month. The charity I designated has, over perhaps 3 years of our spending thousands upon thousands of dollars (442 orders), reaped a little

I have as have others posted about the outlandish proposed fee increases by USCIS for the immigration records we would as genealogists want for our ancestors and other family members. Judy Russell, Th

Dear Rabbi Kominsky, Thank you very much for your continued support, and I apologize for any confusion this might have caused. There are two options: Donate with PayPal Donate with Debit or Credit Car

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Dear Avraham, I tried to use the donate link using my credit card, and after I fill in the whole thing, it won't work unless I sign in to or create a PayPal account. I am not interested in doing this.

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Dear Linda, Thank you very much for your continued support. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. You do not need to register for PayPal to make the donation (unless you would like to si

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Dear df, Have you contacted Jewish History Association of South Wales, https://jhasw2018.wixsite.com/news? Even if they do not have the materials you need they can probably point you in the right dire

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He sounds like quite a character! The Jewish Genealogy Society Of Great Britain has its own library in London and members with expertise in lots of different areas. If you contact them, they should be

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I am posting for translation three letters in Polish written by my wife's aunt in 1945 - 1946. She and her family fled from the Nazis to Russia. The Russians exiled them to Siberia. Please respond via

Hi Nancy, I think this is a great idea! Lord knows, I spend enough on Amazon. When I went to the link, I got my account, but putting in JewishGen yielded a couple of state societies but not JewishGen

I am already a Value Added member. If I do this today, will it be tacked onto my membership when it runs out? Robert Hanna

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The Phoenix Jewish Genealogy Group, a committee of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society, will hold its December 2019 meeting on Sunday, December 8th from 1:30 – 3:30 P.M. at Temple Chai, 4645 E. Mari

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Could it possibly be the Spanish “ferrocarril”? That means railway. Altho why they would use a Spanish word, I don’t know. Nancy S Maryland, USA FINKELSTEIN, BOOKSTEIN/BUCHSTEEN, ALPER, LISS/LYSS, LEA

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Looking for family taub or family Bihari

Canada has copies of their Admissions and Rejections Reports, they are accessible on the Canadian (Ancestry.ca) or worldwide version of Ancestry. Yes, Ancestry is a paid service, but for those in Cana

I hope a Genner in Connecticut will be able to get information about the following individuals. I'm interested in anything about their respective journeys to the U.S. and their specific origins in Rus

As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group bu

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76042 Please decipher the S

The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County's program is Sunday, December 8, 2019 1:30-3:30 PM at Temple Adat Elohim 2420 E Hillcrest Drive in Thousand Oaks. Light refreshm

There is a word that was used in a Yiddish poem from the Balti/Beltz, Bessarabia/Moldova Yizkor book that appears to come from a different language: From the busy –[“femintener” - not sure about this

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