I don't know if this discussion is allowed here, but I'll try anyway. I have been checking for updates and new searches on Ancestry & MyHeritage. I have found some trees that have members of my family

Hi everybody. It's a pleasure to find such an active group in this field. I am a British/Latvian/Jewish researcher based in Latvia writing a thesis about emigration from Libau (now Liepaja) to Halifax

I have noticed the term "Color" used in Late 19th century and Early 20th Century birth records of New York City. Since I have only seen two such records up close for my relatives, I can't make general

Dear friends. I'm looking for any information, birth, marriage, death or other certificate, record or cemetery information on the following ancestors. Searched by name and cemetery records on Jewishge

Hi all, would anyone have access to Magyar-Zsidó Oklevéltár XVI, 1974? An ancestor is mentioned on page 318, and I’d appreciate a copy. thank you. David Dubin Teaneck, NJ

Has anyone with antebellum Southern Jewish ancestry encountered DNA matches with descendants of enslaved African Americans? I have, and I suspect I am not alone. The fact that these matches occur in b

Hello, I am researching my wife's family background. Her father, together with his brother were part of the 4000 or so young men sent to a Kitchener Camp in Sandwich, Kent, UK in 1939 as part of an ag

Need help deciphering name of a place my mother z"l mentioned as an area that my FELD family were from. It sounds like Brest Kuyav and might be in the Wloclawek/Dobrzyn nad Wisla area. Any ideas as to

I have a stack of letters between my grandparents in the 30s that I'm trying to get translated. I've attached a few here - any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Edith Goldman

One topic common to many Yizkor books is a description of the town’s market day. Market days were a vital part of the economy on which people depended for the earnings that would carry them through th

Hi JewishGeners, Ready for some new tips, strategies or resources to help break through to the next level with your family research? No matter what level researcher you are, there are times we can all

What’s new at JewishGen? Don’t miss the April issue of JewishGen News. Stay informed via the program announcements, reports, and project updates. Read about the Orphans of Meisjeshuis, the Vogel famil

I just received my great-granduncle's naturalization records. They indicate he immigrated through the port of Hoboken on 12 Sep 1898 on the ship Frederick der Grosse. I've never heard of immigrating t

i have a morris/maurice/maures/max jacobs/jackson who was born in poland abt 1851, he was living as a boarder in london in 1871, married in 1877, went to canada around 1907 and came to the US in 1924,

Hello I am the programs chair of Orange County California Genealogical Society. This month we have a speaker that may well be of interest to JewishGen members. https://www.facebook.com/events/59930425

I found a newspaper article from 1961 that records the death by suicide, in the Bronx, of a cousin of mine. That branch of my family is not well documented, and I don't have any contacts. The article

Sunday at 10:00 am PDT the Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society is having their next meeting on Zoom. The speaker is Ellen Kowitt talking about doing Jewish Genealogical Research in the U

Those with ancestors from the Kraichgau region of Baden may be interested in a Mohel book that I recently came across on the website of the National Library of Israel at https://merhav.nli.org.il/perm

Hi, there, I'm the genealogy librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library, and I've been asked time and again to facilitate a presentation on beginning Jewish genealogy (the challenges, the resources,

Friends, I have posted a 3-page document, likely a letter, in cursive Hungarian on Viewmate. This document comes from a soon-to-be 99-year-old cousin’s family and I have no idea what it might hold. An