I will be in Krakow for a few days in early December. My wife's family is from the Ulanow area of Poland which I don't think is so far from Krakow. I am looking for a guide who could me in the Ulanow

I am searching for information on the PERLIN family from Orsha, Belarus, who have a connection to my RIVLIN family from Orsha, with possible relatives who lived in St. Louis or New Bedford. I am inter

I linked this update to your original thread. Am writing here to bump your present message up. Messages get pushed down quickly and can be lost in the shuffle. I wonder if you can change the original

Hi all - I am turning to this amazing group for help on a brick wall regarding my great-great grandmother, who went by the names Freda/Freide/Jennie/Sandel/Miriam, married last name Friedlander. Let's

Hello, The first page is in Hebrew and the rest is in Yiddish. Shalom, Malka Chosnek

I am hoping to find someone to translate a Yiddish newspaper article from 1932. The article is supposedly about a pogrom in Slovechno, Ukraine in which almost all of my Greenspan family were killed. P

"I am seeking further information regarding my paternal grandfather Ernest -Elisha Breitbart's mother Judit Marks's family, the family of Saul Marks from Ruda.(as noted in the records) What I do know,

Hello Genners, If anyone is familiar with the Yiddish female given name Doda, I would like to know the proper pronunciation - is the accent on the first or the 2nd syllable? And what is the correct sp

I'm trying to delve further into the origins of my maternal ancestors in Hungary— no easy task, since so many of them were named Klein. Benzion Kaganoff, in A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their Hist

I am so appreciative and grateful to be part of this organization. Thanking you in advance in this case for any assistance you can provide. My grandfather Abraham Karpman was born in Narovlya, Minsk g

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Events: Advance Your Research in Bessarabia (Former Russian Empire, Moldova, Romania & Parts of Ukraine) Sunday, November 20 , 2022 , 1 pm Pacific Time Speakers: Ye

The German Embassy in Ottawa, in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel, has organized a series of Jewish walking tours of three cities in Germany in honour of Holocaust Education Month. I have watche

My dad's second wife, Mary Goldstein Goldberg (or some facsimile of this) was purportedly an actress in the NYC Yiddish Theater in the 1930s-40s. She and my dad married in 1940 for a brief time. I am

This was my maternal great grandfather. I believe he was a rabbi, though I'm not positive. He was married to Dreizel Levine and had 5 children: Herschel (Harry in the U.S.), Nissan (Nathan in the U.S.

Hi, I'm trying to find the birth town of my grandfather from the only source I've managed to locate - the 1921 UK census. I have searched without success, for records of him and his family in a number

- The landing (home) page of the National Digital Archives of the Polish State Archives contains the following announcement: “The archive search service has been deactivated due to risks identified by

Nagi Georges Zeidan, A Lebanese Christian who documented for many years the Jewish communities and cemeteries in Beirut and Sidon passed away yesterday in Beirut. I enclose an image of his book. Jacob

Which ships could have taken Jewish survivors in May 1945 from Sicily to the USA? I am trying to identify one particular family and have no family name. I would welcome any suggestions how and where I

I need help translating the attached headstone please from Hebrew for Zalman and Minnie Miller. Thanks very much. Deborah Friedman Benioff (Ignatovka, Ukraine) Dinkelspiel (Baden, Germany) Eisenstein

Sorry if this has been explained somewhere else. I did try to do a search but couldn't find any answers that fit my exact situation. My great-great-grandmother, Udel Fruchthandler, had 9 siblings, but