Does anyone know if there are records from the ghetto in Pabianice? -- Best Regards, Amit Gnatek Singapore

Hi JewGenners, The Jewish Genealogy SIG meeting in March, Tues 3/9/21 10AM EST on Zoom RSVP #announcements #education #events #general The JGSIG March meeting is on Tues 3/9/21 at 10-11:30 am ET on Zo

We have all seen the (unfortunate) outdoor wedding in the Fiddler shtetl. But what about Orthodox families in big, sophisticated cities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Since women could not

“The Testimony of Rudolph Rader” from the Yizkor book of Skalat (Ukraine) is a first person account of Belzec, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. While the horrors he relates make difficult readin

I am looking to purchase a new Genealogy program compatible with Windows 10. I would like it to be able to make Family Trees for 8 to 10 generations with both ancestors and descendants. Making Family

Three members of my grandmother's family were massacred in the forest at Kremnička on 20th November 1944. They were among a total of 747 to be murdered at the same place over three months. The mass gr

Hello Someone claimed that Jews can't trace their lineage further back than their grandfather. I know that's ridiculous, but i was wondering if there are any reliable genealogies going back much furth

I think that the most likely reason for people to travel to London from Berlin simply in order to marry, was that they wanted a civil, rather than a religious ceremony, and that this was not available

I'd appreciate assistance in finding Hebrew/Yiddish name equivalants to Hungarian /Romanian names of Sari, Betti and Ferencz. Thank you for your input Rachel Malik

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors for Genealogical Research Speaker: Scott Genzer Virtual Meeting: Join from Home Sunday, 28 February

Dear All I have three laminated photos of the 500th anniversary of Pikeliai, 1430-1930 with some, perhaps all, of the residents under a large banner. The bottom half of a Magen David is clear at the t

Hello Researching surname to find links to GG birth town/hometown, found an Australian newspaper 1915 reporting areas Mlava and Molava across River Danube, Serbia? Wondering if this may have been a mi

According to an interview given to my ultra-orthodox journalist in Jerusalem by his Jerusalem born grandmother, her grandmother ,Gittle ABRAMOWITZ, a widow married a British widower with 10 children.b

I am looking for information on the BJALIN family who came from Sweden to Winnipeg. Esther Bjalin was born in Sweden in 1881 (or 1868) and married Jacob Greengard in Winnipeg in 1906. She died in 1946

Recently there have been a spate of acquisitions announced in the genealogy and DNA world ...today is no different. Techcrunch.com reported that MyHeritage.com is being acquired by Francisco Partners

According to an interview given to a Jerusalem Charedi (ultra-orthox) by his grandmother, her grandmother, Gittle ABRAMOWITZ ( a widow,) married an Isaac LAZAROFF, a Britsh widower with 10 children. A

If someone died in New Haven in the 1890s or early 1900s, what Jewish cemeteries were available for their burial? -- Peter Cohen California

I’m trying to locate information on Simon Kra (1853-1940) and his family. Simon was born in Frankfurt but moved to Paris and was a successful publisher there. I don’t know his wife’s name, but they we

On JewishGen I found my grandmother's birth listing with the LDS # and volume number. Is there a way for me to see the original? -- Hannah Goldner Brooklyn, NY

An uncle of mine worked for the UNRRAH in Germany from 1945 to 1948. I would like to find out if he ever could have come in contact with Claire SCHUR. Ron Peeters Ulvenhout(NL)