According to this link (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/pren/pren1.html) there was a pogrom in Prienai, Lithuania in August 1882, and there was a trial in which some of the participants in the pogro

Hello all: Here is part 2 of the Yiddish letter written to my grandmother Pearl from my great aunt Malca. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview

I have posted a Yiddish letter from my great aunt Malca in Romania to my grandmother Pearl in Canada. Part was written in Romanian and part in Yiddish. I have had the Romanian translated. It is on Vie

Hello all I posted some time ago about my wish to find my Jewish Grandfather. but things overtook me and I had to retreat from posting My Grandmother -a gentile - had my father out of wedlock in 1925

Hii Does anyone have details on the Laniado family in Livorno? Regards Avi laniado

"Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was publi

The Sherman (Shmerman) family was from Veledniki Ukraine. Here's an article about the city the Sherman's (Shmerman's) originated from along with a photo we contributed. http://jewua.org/veledniki/ In

The attached image is a note that appears on the "after the fact" birth recording for Regina GREIF, daughter of Abraham & Kati (Grünspan) GREIF. I do not need an exact translation but do wish to know

Jewish Genealogy Society of Colorado presents: Latest Developments in DNA Testing for Genealogy Speaker: Greg Liverman Sunday • April 18 2021 • 10 AM to 12 PM Mountain Time On Zoom 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM

I am interested in getting your help to translate the Hebrew on these family gravestones . Ancestors are thought to be from Lemberg, Austria emigrating to US in 1880s, buried in Cincinnati, Ohio. Than

Read about our newly extracted datasets for Aleksandrow Lodzki in this month's Town Leader newsletter, including details of an amazing collection of hitherto unseen patronymic records for the period 1

The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) is pleased to announce that the call for submissions for the 2021 Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant and the John Stedman Memorial Fund Aw

I'm hoping someone can help with a translation for the Hebrew on this gravestone. Thank you, Laurie Sosna San Francisco, CA

Can someone please transcribe the Hebrew letters and translate them from the attached short record? Thank you so much, Larry Bassist

Il am wondering if anyone has recently used the DOROT (The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center at Beth Hatefutsoth) recently to research family names. I came across the name from an old brochur

Hello. A colleague with a Jewish ancestor told me she heard that her Jewish grandmother from Lvov married a Christian (Russian Orthodox) to preserve wealthy family assets. Could that have been a legit

Sorry in advance that this is long but I need your help Here’s a synopsis - Simo Klimscheffskij was a famous guy in Turku/ leader in international Cycling Federation and Finnish Olympic Committee alon

If you have missed this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration hosted by the University of Connecticut and co-sponsored by Gesher Galicia, the recording of the program is now available. To view, please go t

Some lost family has been found and now a postcard that may contain information about my grand uncle Itzhak Migdal Poissen who had quite an interesting and disturbing life. I've posted a vital record

Just published it on Avotaynuonline.com It is a first attempt to index the Jewish surnames in this city. Please take your time at go through the of 1,618 surnames which I managed to assemble. It is ce