Hello, I read with interest the latest excerpt from the Yiskor book from the city of Radomsko. I am not a genealogy maven by a long shot. Over many years I have pieced together bits and pieces of the

My mother's maiden name is Hoffert, and I have learned that is a very unique name (as opposed to my father's surname of Kaplan). I have expanded the Hoffert branch of my tree from 12 to 800, in many c

Looking to connect with any possible children or siblings's children of Docteur Clara Siwek. Does anyone have knowledge of how to obtain a copy birth record from 24 Sept 1936 at 14 arrondissement, Par

I am searching for the descendants of Ruth Levitin, born Schwarzbart on Nov.13, 1917 in Brno (Brünn) Czechoslovakia. Her parents were Josef Schwarzbart and Hermine, born Blum. She lived in Vienna, cam

Dear Genners, By sheer luck I bumped into a series of books about Eastern Galician towns at the end of the 18th century. They are in Polish language and are published by the Jagellonian University of

I have attached Hennie Knisbacher's ship manifest from 1913 with the annotations that you will find there (she's on line 1). From the information (from Jewishgen below-Manifest Markings Home (jewishge

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’m very pleased to report that Peter Absolon and his volunteers have finished transcribing all of the names of Jews and non-Jewish spouses and family members who were enumerated in the 1930 Czechoslo

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Polish I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a careful and full translation into English of the whole text please, AKTA 16. A quick translation was

LitvakSIG has added three new files to the donor sites, two for Suwalki and one for Siauliai. Many thanks to Russ Maurer for his continuing work on obtaining and having the data translated and indexed

Now updated! The DoJR "Custodial Entities Checklist" can guide your research and broaden your view of additional sources for records of your ancestors. Thank you for submitting comments and feedback t

Dear Genners, I am writing an article about the "yekke" doctors in Egypt. Slowly I discover that all the Jewish doctors in Egypt who studied in Germany are considered "yekkes", irrespective of their p

I would appreciate translation of this note from back of photo taken in Eichstatt in 1947. Thanks Relly Coleman

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Sunday, March 19 at 2:00 PM Eastern, In Person at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th Street, NYC, or via Zoom The Kindertransports: The KTA, the 80th Year

Fordham University which is a Catholic Jesuit University on New York City, has a Jewish Student Organization. One of the their undergraduates received a grant to collect Bronx Jewish Oral Histories. “

Dear colleagues from JewishGen, I am the Grandson of Franz Rothschild from Bielefeld. I would like to get in touch with James Rothschild. Could you please send me his email adress? Thank you and best

Are the names Stysia and Tsiporah versions of the same name? I'm trying to align an entry for Stysia/Stisia in Ukrainian records with the name of my great-great-grandmother Tsiporah recorted in family

“Since we founded AVOTAYNU in 1984, the two of us have inaugurated many major Jewish genealogy projects. DoJR is the unprecedented, biggest, and most valuable project of all. In one way or another, al

Dear friends, Thanks to donations from many of you we have engaged with a translator for the Yiddish section of the Bielsk Podlaski Yizkor Book. Ted Steinberg, who has worked on other books for Jewish

Hello, I am looking for descendants of Louis ZAROW (born Leib TSAROVSKY) of Winnipeg. Louis/Leib was born ca1888 in Borshchagovka, in the Kiev region, and died in Winnipeg in 1959. Louis and his wife,