I would appreciate any help transcribing the father's name for Samuel. This is uniformly the only photo of the headstone I have and the Hebrew is the most faded part. Any help at all would be greatly

With deep sadness we report the passing of our former society president, Mort Rumberg. He served in this capacity on and off for many years. Mort was a man of many talents. His presence at every meeti

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Hello, My name is Felipe Benjamim Garcez Schuster da Cruz. Letter need to be translated from hebrew I know it is a very big letter, but it was written by my deceased greatfather and I would really lik

Israel Genealogy Research Association Website: http://genealogy.org.il/ The lecture will be in Hebrew Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 Israeli DaylightTime 19:00 Mingling and light refreshments 19:30 – 21:00 L

Hi everyone, I recently found a death notice of my great-great-grandfather Abraham Wachsberg that was published in the Yiddish newspaper Der Morgen Zhurnal (Jewish Morning Journal) on October 15, 1948

Hello all. I came across this item about many years ago on eBay. I was very uncomfortable finding it there, assuming it was for sale by a "collector." In my mind, it did not belong in such an imperson

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM103762 Please respond via

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Hello everyone, I've posted a vital birth record in Russian located on JRI-Poland for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlo

Another source and a call for action The book Zikney Machane Yehuda (The Elders of the Tribe of Yehuda, in Hebrew) https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=5813 lists many rabbinical families. On the

Hello, I have a photograph from Dresden in the 1920s featuring the Meth and Levy family, probably at an engagement event for Erna Levy (in white) and Carl Meth (not shown, as far as I can tell). I wou

Hi Adam, Fifteen years late, but here is your answer: Khaim-Simsen Bits (my alter zeyde) arrived in Kenosha and married Sura Szulmanowicz of Kuzmin soon after, in Chicago. He began to use the name Sam

I have been indexing the Kiev city birth records, and have a question about a notation that appears on a few records each year. For example, I am indexing the 1872 births right now, and this notation

Subject: Power Up Your LitvakSIG Research: Navigating the FamilySearch Library and Polish State Archives #lithuania #education will be held over Zoom on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at 12:00 noon Eastern Ti

Hi All, Some years ago I received an Oppenheimer tree several pages long from a Genner. It went in a direct line back to Rashi. I lost the tree with other genealogy material in a basement flood. Samue

Shalom, Having completed research on my rabbinic ancestors, and traced back to Rashi, I would like to ask a rather generic question: where are the primary sources for all this? The documentation for m

I believe this is the headstone of my great-great grandparents, Benjamin Weinrebe and Esther Leah Morgan. The headstone is located in Boston, MA. My great-great grandparents lived in Jacobstadt/Jekabp

A few days ago we published a clear and useful early map of "the two Galicias" from 1800 on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/galicia/galicia-gussefeld-1800/ The territory of

According to family oral history, in the sixteenth century, the Italian version of the Spanish Inquisition inspired an ancestor who had obtained a medical degree from the University of Padua to cross