MNJGS is hosting a Zoom event: A Detective Story Across Continents: Finding a 95-Year-Old Adoptee’s Birth Father on Feb 21, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST. Join us for a detective story using DNA and genealogy

I am fairly certain that I have found the correct arrival manifest for an ancestral cousin based on other documents but I'm having trouble deciphering what is on this one (2 pages) due to poor handwri

My grandparents – Siegfried and Klara Rosenberg – left Frankfurt in late May 1941 for the US. According to JDC/Transmigration Bureau records, Otto Oppenheimer (of 2235 Laguna Street, San Francisco) de

My friend Jerzy Michal Rucinski is a collector of vintage photographs and postcards from Jaslo. He is interested in connecting with descendants of Jewish families from Jaslo. I will put interested par

Additional information about the Hungarian Jewish resources at Yale can be found in a paper at http://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/3761.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1msIjNqsz4RxQI7AwmB62XN3Q2N45VB1BzCWD7Stg-2rXPSi9BAh

Hi, I got this record from the IGRA site and would like a translation of the Hebrew please I am looking for information about my gr grandfather Isak Jacob Lipson (Zasler) thank you Deborah Friedman Wa

The information from the Lithuania, LitvakSIG Census and family Lists from various districts, 1795-1900 for my family Izrel Zalmanzon provides the following reference: Publication type 1904-1915-FL Ar

I recently found the following through Ancestry but don't know what to make of it. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Name Samuel Okun Gender Male Spouse 760952439 Child Lo

SRULIKOFF from RESHITSA I am researching my great grandmother Hinda SRULIKOFF from RESHITSA about 1870-1895 Hinda married Gerson (Girsh) Unegovsky and had at least one child, Eliezer (later Louis) (b1

My husband's grandfather Chaim Mendel Lakryc/Hyman "Max" Lakritz, had many half-siblings but only shared both parents with one brother, Binyamin/Benjamin Lakryc/Lakritz. According to his Polish birth

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Poland SIG Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and the Pandemic – an Update Directly from Poland with Witold Wrzosinski, Director of the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Polan

Another Jewish publication has announced it is closing shop in print. The Arizona Jewish Post will cease publication on March 1 after 75 years covering the Jewish population of Tucson and southern Ari

Hello. I just came across this information on https://www.geshergalicia.org/towns/mosciska/ I am extremely interested in finding out if any of my ancestors (Dizian, Dycian, or similar) are included in

The Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society is having a special members only meeting. Date: Sunday, February 21, 2021 Time: 1:00 pm Check-in, Chat, and Schmooze. Official program starts promptly at 1

Is there any additional information that can be provided from these two tombstone records in Szydlowiec? Wyloga, Sheindel https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/jowbr.php?rec=J_RADOM_0000344 Wyl

I have a family member, Simeon Olshwang, who arrived similarly. His last known address was Berlin, although he was born in Jelgava, Latvia (1899). He arrived in NY from Southampton, England on 15 July

Hello All, I am seeking a translation of all genealogically relevant information for this 1888 death record of Chune Kacperowski. It is on ViewMate at the following address and may be a little difficu

I found information about my family in a database in Jewishgen called WWII evacuees( to the USSR), Lithuania. I tried to open the database in order to understand where the information is taken from, b

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the 1795 census of Trencsen county and can tell me why the place names for the returns from the inferiori (lower) district have not been rec

Hello, I am researching two men who I believe are brothers, but their father's names are spelled differently on their matzevot. I am appealing to the Hebrew and Yiddish expert genners to confirm this