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

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

My maternal grandmother arrived at Ellis Island on December 6, 1907 on the ship Graf Waldersee. The manifest states that she was going to a cousin in Philadelphia, Jossel A? I have researched Arg...ws

Two new articles are available at the Kishinev Kehilalinks (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/chisinau) under the section Life in Kishinev today. Ariel Parkansky Bessarabia RD Information Systems Dire

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

Would it be possible for someone to translate the Hebrew on the attached headstone Thanks Deborah Ross

Hi I am looking for documentation of: Population Lists / Address Book / Business Directory, In Tarnow, Poland, between the years 1920-1939 I would love to receive information / reference with gratitud

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

Can anyone translate this note? We don't know who wrote it. Most likely one of my husband's grandparents. Thank you in advance for any assistance. Janice Brockman Easton, MA

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

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

Before the well known and meticulously translated 1939 census, conducted in Stanislawow/Ivano-Frankivsk by the Polish government, there were 2 other censuses - one in 1857 and another one in 1900 - bo

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Where can I locate name/data listing of Latvian Jews who moved to Harbin, China between WWI & WWII? William Moesch

Hello, My gggrandfather was Morris Levinsky, born in porozovo, Belarus as itsko mowsha Levitsky son of Mendel. I only have him listing his home town in NYC Naturalization. The family moved to Dvinsk b

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,

Hello, - Are there any registers of soldiers incorporated into the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War? - In particular, are there any registers of soldiers incorporated into the Kharkov artill

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

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