The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Finding and Understanding Bubbe and Zayde’s Galician Vital Records Date: TOMORROW - Wednesday, December 7,

hello I am looking for details on: Rabbi Dr. Leo Pesach Yehuda Jakovlev. His father's name: Klonimos Yosef. Probably his origin is from Lithuania. Lived for several years in Munich, Germany (known for

Did you ever notice that our Jewish ancestors had a lot of names? They had Hebrew names, Yiddish names, nicknames and often several American names that can make tracing them rather challenging. Given

Dear Friends: We are very excited to present to the community this most interesting conversation between Tony Kahane and Andrew Zalewski, two recently retired members of our Board. You can listen to t

I'm a beginner at this, and this is probably a really basic question, but where would I find ship manifests for immigrants to Palestine in 1927 and subsequent years? I believe two siblings of my late

Announcement: Jewish Genealogy SIG (JGSIG) Dec meeting - Tues Dec 13 2022 1-2:30 pm EDT on Zoom RSVP Time Sensitive Hi All Save the DATE and reserve your spot for……… Jude C. Richter, PhD, Research and

My wife's grandmother, Regina née Schwartz, was born in Ebron, Hungary, according to her US declaration of intent to naturalize, and in Egron, Hungary, according to her "Petition for Naturalization".

Further to my last post back in October 2022 (see here), I am pleased to announce that JRI-Poland has made a huge step forward in extracting birth, marriage and death records from Glowno. We have now

Irish Genealogist Stuart Rosenblatt will donate Irish-Jewish family records to the National Library of Israel on December 19, 2022.. The records span over 70,000 individual names. Mr. Rosenblatt is cu

A Daniel Wajnrajch was married to Rywka Sztern (no DOB) in 1903 in Konskie. Rywka died in Konskie on Sep 8, 1907. In 1908 (no exact date) Daniel Wajnrajch married Rywka Wasersztajn (born Feb 18, 1887

The Center for Jewish History is launching the DNA Reunion Project, offering DNA testing kits for free, to Holocaust survivors or their children (who have never DNA tested before) through an applicati

After more than 40 years of research, I finally learned of the maiden name of one of my Lithuanian great-great grandmothers, Chane Base Berman (c.1859-1 Feb 1933. Utena, Lithuania). She married Lazar

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The December 2, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court for Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eight

Shalom. Bessarabia Winter Symposium starts next week on Tuesday, December 13. We have a Panel Discussion on December 14 at 1pm, where you could ask questions to Ala Gamulka - moderator, Alan Levine an

Do you have a family mystery that you want help solving? "Finding Your Roots" is now casting! If so tell them your story at: https://findingyourrootscasting.com/ Click on the click here and tell them

My other's name was Maril sometimes spelled with two Ls. The origin of the Maril family was Brody in Galica and we know this from family records. Alfred Marill's (my grandfather) memoir describes the

I have a photo of my grandfather in a military uniform. He is from Munkacs so this uniform could be connected to Hungary, Subcarpathia, or Czechoslovakia. This would be sometime between approximately

I’m looking for a researcher that I can retain to find records of my 2nd ggrandfather and his family from Hildesheim, Hannover, Germany. I’ve struck out in looking for records, as what is available is

I am trying to get a picture of a headstone of the sister of my great-aunt. She was buried at Machsike Hadas Jewish Cemetery of Antwerp (which is actually located in Putte, Netherlands) in 1988. I don

Stuart Rosenblatt P.C. FGSI (2005) The address Irish Jewish Genealogical Society (A division of the Irish Jewish Museum) 3 Walworth Road, South Circular Road, Dublin 8, Ireland Email: srosenblatt@...