JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO DNA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Q&A WORKSHOP Featuring our new JGS Toronto members, Gil Bardige and Arthur Sissman Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 7:30 p.m. ET Virtual me

Dear all, If you have any BOMBLATs on your tree that come the Siedlce area (Siedlce, Mordy, Losice), please contact me. Kind regards, -- Rony Golan Ramat HaSharon, Israel SEARCHING: KRMARUTSKY, KRIVOR

Hi 'Genners, I'm hoping that someone who can read Russian would kindly look up something in old city directories at this website: https://genealogyindexer.org/directories I assume that city directorie

The widow of my uncle, estranged >from the family, was last seen by the family at his funeral in NY about 1952. She was born about 1890. I have checked the SSDI-she's not there; her plot at the cemeta

Starting this month, the Center for Jewish History is changing the format of our Genealogy Coffee Break series. While we will continue to produce and share a new episode each month, we will no longer

- Menachem Kaiser's "Plunder" has won the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, an annual award that comes with a $100,000 prize. Plunder is a fascinating read for genealogists with an in

Looking for someone to translate my great aunt. Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching Kolomyya: SECHESTOWER, SPIERMAN, THAU, BEISER, GRAFF. Chortkiv/Budaniv: GROSS, FELLNER, HOCHMAN Do

I am interested in the Name Adoption Lists. What is the status of Phase II? When will any of them be accessible on line? How do I search & access the ones listed for Phase I? I have found some on line

“Immediately after they took my father, which happened in the first weeks of the German occupation, hunger knocked at our door. My mother who worked and sewed her whole life was broken after losing fa

Good morning, Here lies or here is buried (abbreviation on top) Shindel Leah Daughter of reb Moshe Alexander Z”L Passed 11 Tishrei 5720 May her soul be gathered in eternal life (abbreviation below) Sh

City Hall of Drachenbronn, [a] District of Wissembourg The 1 Seventeenth Day of the month of August Year thousand eight forty-six [1846], at the fifth hour of the day DEED OF BIRTH of 2 Meijer Bernard

I met Barbara Tevis "Barbie" Meyers at the 2006 IAJGS Conference in New York, and we discovered a possible connection between our families - her grandfather Benjamin MEYERS ne LUBINSKY was most likely

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Jewish Genealogy in the Germanies Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Regis

Hi all My wife and I ran a two week summer camp in the UK for the Reform Synagogues over there back in the 60’s and 70’s. There were none like the American camps. Many of our kids came to the US to wo

A new look for the Gesher Galicia Map Room, and new information to help you use it! https://maps.geshergalicia.org/ We are proud that the Map Room has added many historical maps of Galicia over the pa

Tried to log into the 1929 Directory with no success. Any idea what is the situation there? Thanks Jacob Rosen Jerusalem

I fear that I have been self-sabotaging my gedcom-ability by putting punctuation like quotes and parens in some of the vital fields, or by using terms in dates like abt or aft. I also have some floati

Looking for connections between my Karklinsky family (from Lithuania) to the Blumrosen and Rosenthal families in Texas. We know there was a close family relationship but it has been lost over the year

Hello All; Can someone translate the Hebrew on this gravestone? It is the grave of the former rabbi of Botosani Romania, who immigrated to Tel Aviv and became a chief regional rabbi there in the 1950s

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Surname-Evolution More research into how we got our Surnames! Good Luck to all Ilan Leibowitz Kibbutz Afikim Israel