Can anyone please inform me how common the name Lustig was in Hungary, Budapest and environs? My GGrandfather Sam Lustig came from Budapest c. 1910 but there are memorials in the Great Synagogue in Bu

Art Newspaper reported that a landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, View of the Sea from Haut Cagnes (ca 1910) was restituted to heirs of its original Jewish owner, Jakob Goldschmidt, and then repurchas

Ancestry.ca (Canada) has released its index for the 1931 Census of Canada it free access! This makes it searchable by name, birthyear, residence place, family member names, marital status, and gender!

At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen’s archive. You can find the archive of past Yizkor book excerpts here: https://bit.ly/3aCH1ak. If you are not fa

I am a patrilineal descendant of the Bernshteyn (Bernstein) family of western and central Lithuania. The family primarily resided in Yurburg (Jurbarkas), Seredzius, and Vilkomir (Ukmerge). Based on th

Sunday June 11th 2023 12:30 pm PDT Zoom Meeting “MyHeritage Advanced Features and Technologies” by Daniel Horowitz Discover the latest MyHeritage innovations. Daniel Horowitz will introduce some new f

My family has connection with Stewarts in Scotland. It is interesting, "When Scotland was jewish" by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates by Heikki Mesterton #whenscotlandwasjewish, #Scotl

A number of Jewish visits have been arranged for delegates who may wish to take some trips out at the IAJGS conference in London this summer. Booking details, site information, when tours are availabl

I am researching my Silberg family and would like to get in touch with any descendants of Holocaust survivor Mordechai Zilberg, originally from Busk, Galicia, and living in Haifa, Israel in the 1980s

Dear fellow members, 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=VM10

Ancestry uses the designation “Jewish People of Europe” when on the page for the ethnicity of a match. I suspect that this refers to Ashkenazi Jews although it conceivably also includes Sephardic Jews

Hi everyone, as some of you may already know, in World War One the British raised five battalions of Jewish soldiers called the Jewish Legion who fought in the Sinai and Ottoman Palestine. My great-gr

It's long time ago I bought the book "Sourcebook for jewish genealogies and family histories" by David S. Zubatsky and Irwin M. Berent. There I first time found the claim that family Mesterton once wa

I would like to know if the attached birth certificate is for my grandfather, Harry Jacques Haber, bMay 7, 1895. Father: Beer/Beryl/Benjamin. Mother: Hinde/Hilda I used Google Translate to understand

This is a photo of my great, great grandfather who came to New York from Bohemia in 1880. He was a cigar maker. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what these medals and cord signify? Thank you. Alice

Hello Folks, Please can you help me to connect with the descendants of the late Ruth and Kurt LEVY possibly of Connecticut ... I have located these names for their now adult children Larry, Loretta, T

Hello, I'm hoping to get information from the linked ViewMate record. Thank you so much for all your help. Relevant names are FAIN, FISCHKIN, and ROJTENBERG. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmat

Hello everyone, I posted 1 vital record in Russian . I already get a translation : in the settlement Karczew on Jan 29 1907 at 2 pm appeared Abram ROTSHTEJN, worker, 28 yo, residing in the village Vil

In indexing the Kiev city Jewish birth records, I've come across the male given name "Годъ" (God) on a few occasions. I don't have my name books handy at the moment, and wonder if anyone had the deriv

Hello everyone, I have searched ChatGPT keyword into the message archives and found only 2 occurrences. I must have missed something and apologize if question has been asked already. Or if subject alr