I recently came across a short video at https://youtu.be/DynjSP7gYUs showing the existence of a Jewish cemetery in this village,just outside Medzilaborce. There was no narration, just captions, which

My great-aunt Ernestine JACOBS died in 1884 and is buried in the Baron Hirsch Cemetery in Memphis, TN. I cannot make out the inscription, and even if I could, I’d probably need help with the translati

The JewishGen Latvia and Estonia Research Division is excited to announce an update to our Internal Passport Issuance Books Database 1919-1940. This update represents 6715 new record entries (each rep

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

Scans of civil birth, marriage, and death registers from Bautzen in Saxony, including handwritten name indexes, are viewable online at https://www.archivverbund-bautzen.findbuch.net/php/main.php#36313

Scans of civil birth, marriage, and deaths records from Herne, Sodingen, Baukau, Wanne, Eickel, and Röhlinghausen in Nordrhein-Westfalen are viewable online, with partial handwritten indexes, at https

Her late father had two children from a previous marriage, who were believed to have died. Recently, however, she discovered survivor records indicating they survived, that one immigrated to the US an

Hi, on LiveAuctioneers, I noticed when you search “Judaica”, you get a link to Valkyrie’s Holocaust Auction. There is a lot of disturbing items and anti-semitic propaganda, all from World War II. I wo

Hi all, I am looking for older records from the Koblenz Cemetary, from before it was destroyed in 1944. I believe they may exist in some form because Hildberg-Helene Thill referred to a gravestone tha

Good morning, On the right- Here lies or here is buried (two-letter abbreviation on top) Avraham son of reb Yehoshua Heshil Passed 20 Av 5698 May his soul be gathered in eternal life (last line abbrev

The Polish Prime Minister’s Office and Central Data Bureau have announced that they are preparing a database of all Polish military burials, both in Poland and abroad. The database should be completed

I would like translations of these two gravestones, for Abraham and Ruth Frank of Philadelphia, buried in Har Nebo cemetery. For Abraham's gravestone, I'd like to know his father's name, which appears

on a Vienna birth record for someone with the surname Galitzenstein born in 1881 there is a notation "Namensänderung zu Galston 07.09.1932 Does that mean his surname was changed to Galston? Albert Bra

There is a Polish cemetery in Northwood and 53 Polish pilots from Northolt are buried there plus one Czech. https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/8226/Northwood-Cemetery-and-the-Polish-Air-Force Alan

My greatfather’s name is Isaac Schuster. His son, Lion Schuster, is my grandfather. Isaac was born 2 June 1907. He died before telling my grandfather his full life history and because of that we don’t

Can anyone add more to this family history? R. Aaron Meir Jacob GUNZBURG, born in Grodno in 1820 and died in Vilna in 1860, married Leah Mina, daughter of Zvi Hirsch Lapidot of Vilna. AHis biography w

Dear Galitzianers: It has been a long time since we were able to announce that new vital record registers have been transferred from the Warszawa Urzad Stanu Cywilnego or USC (Warsaw civil record offi

Dear fellow researchers, I've posted a vital record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=

I've posted an image of a tombstone in Hebrew from the Jewish cemetery in Wiesloch in the present-day Landkreis Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar County) in Baden-Württemberg. The address on ViewMate is http

I would be grateful for photos of the following Gravestones. (I am particularly looking for Hebrew names.) I'm happy to pay a reasonable fee. First Name Last Name Age Date of Death Gate Block Row Grav