We have a number of family members with the name Ruda or Rudah. In fact my father had an auntie who married a man whose last name was Ruda. Is this a Yiddish form of Ruth? Thank you Chaim Meiersdorf

Hello All: Please translate the Hebrew on the gravestones of my ggm and ggf. Thank you for your help. Sandy Schepis sanks1129@...

JewishGen Press is in need of a volunteer to help with publicity. JewishGen Press published 142 books so far and the number is growing every month. Most are Yizkor Books, written by survivors of the H

On August 25, 1946, the ship Athos II left Marseilles (France) and arrived in NY on September 8, 1946. On board was a group of about 50 Jewish children, all Holocaust orphans.Their trip had been organ

JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 143rd title: Memorial Book of Kamenets Litovsk, Zastavye, and Colonies (Kamyanyets, Belarus). This is the translation of: Sefer Yizkor le-Ke

My sister attended Camp Nah-Jee-Wah (NJ Jewish Y Camp) located in Milford, PA., and later on Camp Wahnee in Brandon, VT. This was in the l960's. -- Myrna (Slatnick) Waters NJ/NY/FL USA Researching: SL

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO DNA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Q&A WORKSHOP Featuring our new JGS Toronto members, Gil Bardige and Arthur Sissman Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 7:30 p.m. ET Virtual me

I found this letter among my late father's effects. He fled with his mother and brother from Czechoslovakia to the UK at the age of 15 years in 1939 - his uncle committed suicide and they lost everyth

Dear all, If you have any BOMBLATs on your tree that come the Siedlce area (Siedlce, Mordy, Losice), please contact me. Kind regards, -- Rony Golan Ramat HaSharon, Israel SEARCHING: KRMARUTSKY, KRIVOR

The New England Consortium, a collaboration of researchers and genealogists (including founding member JGSGB) is holding its second annual conference on June 12. The topic will be Lakes, Lanyards, and

Hi 'Genners, I'm hoping that someone who can read Russian would kindly look up something in old city directories at this website: https://genealogyindexer.org/directories I assume that city directorie

The widow of my uncle, estranged >from the family, was last seen by the family at his funeral in NY about 1952. She was born about 1890. I have checked the SSDI-she's not there; her plot at the cemeta

Starting this month, the Center for Jewish History is changing the format of our Genealogy Coffee Break series. While we will continue to produce and share a new episode each month, we will no longer

- Menachem Kaiser's "Plunder" has won the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, an annual award that comes with a $100,000 prize. Plunder is a fascinating read for genealogists with an in

Looking for someone to translate my great aunt. Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching Kolomyya: SECHESTOWER, SPIERMAN, THAU, BEISER, GRAFF. Chortkiv/Budaniv: GROSS, FELLNER, HOCHMAN Do

I am interested in the Name Adoption Lists. What is the status of Phase II? When will any of them be accessible on line? How do I search & access the ones listed for Phase I? I have found some on line

I currently keep my updated tree and most of my records on Ancentry. What are recommended ways of keeping this information on my computer? Looking for software that would allow me to upload a gedcom f

“Immediately after they took my father, which happened in the first weeks of the German occupation, hunger knocked at our door. My mother who worked and sewed her whole life was broken after losing fa

Hello, My great grandfather's parents changed their surname. My maternal great-grandfather Joseph was born under the name of Rozemblat (rozenblat) in may 1886 in Iasi. His mother Leia (Sin Iancu) died

My maternal gg-grandmother was Estera REICHMAN/RAJCHMAN, married to Morris/Mosek/Mosiek REICHMAN. Her daughter, my maternal g-grandmother, was Ryfka/Rebecca REICHMAN/REJCHMAN (married to Zalman/Solomo