Is there anyone on this page that have family members that knew Arthur Penn and Irving Penn's mother Sonia Freda's family? Her maiden name was Greenberg. Born in 1894 in Novo Alexandrovsk, Russia - Li

Some years ago the Soviet Union compiled a database, in Russian, listing all Soviet soldiers who died in WWII. This database, https://obd-memorial.ru/html, contains 20 million documents and provides a

Nashi Predky, the Ukrainian History and Educational Center, has announced a webinar on reading Cyrillic handwriting for people who can read printed Cyrillic and neat handwriting. The date is March 24,

The JDC Archives: New Materials for Jewish Genealogists By Linda G. Levi March 14th 1-3 pm Zoom Meeting and Presentation This presentation will include sample documents and photos of interest to Jewis

My great-aunt Sarah COLLE Goldner traveled from Montreal to the United States in 1937 to visit her married daughter. She reported on the border-crossing document that she was born in 1886 in BOHUSS NE

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State invites you to a free Zoom presentation Monday evening, 3/8/2021, at 7 p.m. Pacific Time: "The Alex Krakovsky Project: Navigating the Wiki to Locate

It’s so interesting to read the many reactions we Muggles get. I started my Family Tree to see if I could find descendants of my maternal grandmother. With the exception of 2 brothers who made it to S

Yizkor books are full of accounts of Jews who sought to escape ghettos when it became increasingly clear that the people in them would be exterminated in an aktion or sent on trains to the death camps

Hello all! I have been going over documents of an ancestor of mine and he has listed his foreign residence as many different places. They are as follows: Padol-Russia, Podol-Russia, Russia, Romania, a

Book of Czyzewo, The Scroll of Life and Destruction Translation of Sefer Zikaron Czyzewo (Czyżew-Osada, Poland) Published by the Yizkor Books in Print Project part of Yizkor Books Project of JewishGen

Oceanic Journey to America-Traveling in Steerage Class Speaker: Nancy Levin, CG Sunday • March 14 • 2021 10 AM to 12 PM Mountain Remember Daylight Savings Time Change 9:30 AM A Schmear, A Schmooze, an

Hello, My great-grandparents left Poland (Lodz) and immigrated to France in 1913. I always heard that they left for political reasons. Could someone tell me what could be understood by political reaso

Seeking the last name of woman who ran the first soup kitchen in Tsfat, across from the Arizal Shul. Her first name was either Chaya Sara or Miriam Sara. Her maiden name was Schachter. Seeking informa

Looking for SHAMES family from Kremenets or Vyshgorodok, Ukraine, Mickel Shames born 1875 married Rejzla Bela Press born 1879 from Vyshgorodok, moving to Argentina and possibly known as Shoshana. Two

FamilySearch.org has the index of marriage licenses for Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I can no loger find the microfilms of the licenses. Does anyone know what happened to them? Arthur Rosenthol Bala Cyn

I’m curious to know other people’s experiences with reaching out to distant relatives about a family connection. I have a tree that goes back to a married couple in the late 18th Century. They had rou

As an experienced researcher but a newbie to DNA, I'm struggling with interpreting the results. I did the basic autosomal test with Ancestry and uploaded my data to GEDmatch and MyHeritage for maximum

I would appreciate if someone could translate the Hebrew on the attached headstones Deborah Ross

Hello there. I'm new to the Jewishgen groups and I found this thread. My great grandfather was Charles (or Kallman) Arndt born in Nakel in 1831. He moved with his family to Liverpool sometime between

I have a name of a relative from pre-war Poland: Sevek, last name may be Zekiel. Any suggestions on what his Jewish/Yiddish name might have been. He was married to my aunt Hinda (Nina) Feld who was bo