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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

Hello all ! I recently had a document partially translated, and the name Zeta came up. I checked the Jewish database of names, but nothing came up. Does anyone know what the woman's name of ZETA may b

Hi I would like to find out more about the marriage of my grandparents at "Militärseelsorge, Vienna, Austria" I can not find their marriage certificate, nor any military records for my Grandfather. An

Good morning from Brooklyn, I am sharing my DNA success story from this weekend, notwithstanding both endogamy and pedigree collapse in my family ancestry. I tested family members a few years ago on F

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

Hi, I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. I would like to know the bride and groom’s ages and the names of their parents. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...

The Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society is excited to welcome genealogist, Stephen P. Morse, for two free virtual programs on Sunday, May 2nd, beginning at 1:00 p.m. At 1:00 p.m. he will presen