How do I search for place names on Ancestry when they are listed by my ancestors variously as Russe Poland, Russia or Poland? I know I can cross check on Jewish Gen Gazetteer if I have information but

aaran1286@... Jan 9 #665216 Hi fellow researchers, My grandfather, Siegfried (later Elieser) GOTTLIEB, surrendered his German passport when applying for naturalisation in Mandate Palestine in Nov 1934

Hi all, I’ve been working on and off with a Greater Kharkov-based Ukrainian genealogist named Alex Belous since January, and I just wanted to put in another plug for him here. He is smart, diligent, t

Utah Jewish Genealogical Society (UJGS) invites you to our May meeting, on May 23rd at 7pm MST Title: Deep Genetic Genealogy: A Survey For Researchers of All Levels Speaker: Adam Cherson, Author of Hi

Do you have questions about Jewish Given Names and the traditions behind them - then this is the presentation you MUST SEE! Warren Blatt is the former Managing Director of JewishGen (www.jewishgen.org

Hello I have a question if anyone knows people who are experts on genealogy of the Ruzhiner dynasty. A letter from the cousin of my 2x great grandfather mentions that his grandmother was a cousin of R

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Jewish Surnames and Patronymics: Tracing Your Ancestors Before They Had Surnames Date: Wednesday, May 18th,

Below are two unusual dates, from letters written in Kiev c. 1960-70. July 27, 692 October 30, 712 Any idea what the years might be? Here is a third date from the same writer, which is written in the

“Getting the Most from Revision Lists” will be the topic of a genealogy presentation by David R. Brill for the 2 p.m. CDT, Sunday, May 22, 2022, meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois.

MAY 24, 2022, 7:00 EDT ZOOM MEETING HOW TO USE THE JEWISHGEN DISCUSSION GROUP EFFECTIVELY BY: Phil Goldfarb The JewishGen Discussion Group is a lively online forum for JewishGen researchers of all lev

People who have been reading these messages for more than two years may recall that just before the Covid pandemic began, I had made a request to NARA to locate a document, RG 85, 52.271/6. NARA is no

If anyone knows Yiddish please help. -- Linda Gold Buford davidlinda@... Researching: Poland or other GOLD, BREWDA - BREVDA - BRAUDA , BLUMENTHAL, PALTER - SPITZ, GILCHENSKI Kobryn, Belarus Belarus -

My mother, Miriam Weinberger August, started the first Jewish Day Camp (and Jewish kindergarten) in the Miami area in the early 1950's which was through North Dade Jewish Center which later became Con

Hello all. Yesterday I read that an ancestor, Moshe Steiner, (אברהם משה בן ראובן?) fell ill traveling from Hungary to the Holy Land and was buried in Jaffa. I know he was alive in Vienna in 1861 and w

I've posted a birth record in Russian for my uncle Josef Borysy for which I would greatly appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vi

Subject: Seeking correct name and location of “Rosopovitch” in Belarus My wife’s grandfather Morris (Moshe Mordechai) GARELICK was born in Parichi, Belarus in 1888. I have confirmed that the family mo

Hi, I've posted a birth record that is in Russian, for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98469 Please

The following are links to three images from the Vienna register of births for my great grandfather, Emanuel Pilpel. The first two images are the left and right hand pages of the relevant lines from t

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98496 akta 80 is my great grandparents marriage record. i can understand most of it, but was looking for help translating the notes in the Uwa

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98498 Please respond via t