Hi Lina, I've been battling with this for months but it's not a lost cause. Yes, there is a 100 year rule as you describe it and you will have a hard time getting around it. It seems very unjust regar

#poland

Hi, I would appreciate your kind advice and assistance. I found a burial record for Valente Cemetary on JewishGen for Alexander Zisha. I would love to find out more info as last name and father's name

#romania #records

If it's not urgent, you could just wait until normalcy resumes. I think this is a temporary situation due to COVID and that they will be available at Family History Centers again -- someday.

#records #usa

My Mother's sister, her husband and my young cousin could not enter the United States in February 1939 when they were trying to get out of Germany because my Uncle had Parkinson's Disease. They ended

#germany

Zoom fail! I registered in advance but when I tried to log in @ meeting time, zoom maxed out at 100 attendees... This is happening more and more often with Zoom meetings, the only way to get around th

#announcements #jgs-iajgs

Trying to make contact with the descendants of the famous rabbinical Rokeach family, a branch which settled in Albany, Middletown and Colonie, NY. Richard Edwin Rokeach died in Albany in 1995, son of

#usa

My late mother in law left us a box of family history notes regarding her Kadishevitz grandparents and g grandparents who were from the shtetl of Anyksciai, Lithuania. Several of the names in her note

#names

In my wife's Fin/Finn family from Ushpol, Lithuania it was spelled "Shaya" typically and "Shaia" occasionally. The Hebrew name from which it was derived was Yeshayahu. Richard Brown Glastonbury, CT

#names

Genetic Affairs tried to run things at "off hours" but found that there were no real "off hours." Between world wide users, and Ancestry's own programs that use up cycles when not being used by users,

#dna #education #poland #ukraine #galicia

Hi, ThankYou for the information. My father was interned in Russia at the time of the war. His name was Joseph Schlussel and he was from Poland. I appreciate if someone can help me with the search? Re

#russia

Asking assistance to help me figure out a surname. Our family is DATZ/DATS from the Ukraine (Kopaigorod/Mogilev Podol'sk). I have found a relative and family listed in Yad Vashem and certain they are

#ukraine #romania

Have you taken a DNA test to learn more about your family history, but are not sure what your results mean? Tomorrow (3/9) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for th

#events #dna

Hi Steve, Can you share a link to the manifests? My guess is that we may want to look at the second town in both cases, because Lemberg was a city and also a region. Please pardon me if I’m repeating

#galicia #general

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91501 https://www.jewishge

#translation

Hi, Regarding the 1939 census - please see : http://jgaliciabukovina.net/he/161510/article/stanislawow-census-1939 As for the 1900 and 1857 censuses, they are not online yet. You can only see them at

#galicia #ukraine

Dear Jay, Sorry to hear about the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the family. I hope you will consider meeting with a genetic counselor to discuss the family history. There are tests that can be done t

#dna

Very sad. When visiting a friend in Body around 4.5 years ago, we passed the synagogue. It is very large and the roof was open to the elements. My friend informed me that a wealthy philanthropist dona

#ukraine #galicia

I am trying to connect with Sarah Feuerman, who is the coordinator of the Hungarian SIG indexing project. I have sent numerous messages to her email address, but got no response. Has anyone be in touc

#hungary

Try right clicking on the image. You might get "Save image as". Click on that and you can save it to your computer. Robert Hanna NYC

#galicia #records

My paternal grandfather's family traces back to 19th century Volkovysk, Russia, which is now called Vawkavysk and is in Belarus. The family relocated to Grodek (Horodok), Poland in the 1880s or 1890s.

#belarus