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

Dear Group, This is a Yiddish sentence from a pre-WW2 postcard. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98482 The writer refers to three names of relatives in this sentence. I'd like

The following is a link to the birth record of my great grandmother, Cecilie (or Cecile) Meyer. I would appreciate a translation of it (particularly the names and other identifying information of her

My grandmother who died in 1991 had in her address book "Sarah Sneider, Shangrila, 114 Francis St., Bellevue, Johannesburg, S. Africa" and notes she is my grandfather's niece. My grandfather was born

Looking for any possible Jewish ancestors from Germany, a small amount of Jewish European DNA originally showed up in my Father's test, 1% or less, my dad is 94. This would go back many generations an

Sunday, May 15, 2022 Time: 1:30 PM check in, chat, and schmooze (Optional) Official program starts promptly at 2:00 * (NOTE THE LATER START TIME) Speaker: Rich Venezia, an expert in the research of 20

Hi all, Please translate the gravestone of my great-great grandmother, Chaia Sarah Jablow. Many thanks, Dale Zeidman, Researching BUKANTS/BUKANTZ (Ukmerge, Lithuania); JABLOW (Minsk, Belarus); MAGADEN

Hello, The Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner, in the U.S., has an unidentified male found in the Atlantic Ocean in 2000. We attempted forensic genealogy and found he was Ashkenazi Jewish. The tra

Bessaraber, You might be interested to read and see photos from Edgar Hauster trip in Republic of Moldova. Here is a link to his blog: http://hauster.blogspot.com/ Be aware that there are a number of

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Comparing the Genealogy Giants Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com, and MyHeritage.com Speaker: Sunny Morton Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 7:00 PM. ET. (ple

I have a list of 15 children of an ancestor of mine that contains their Hebrew names (family is BAUMHAFT). I found a birth record matching the family with the first name Piroska. Using the Jewish Give

Dear Fellow Researchers, Please join us for a Zoom meeting initiated by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and Temple Beth Am's Sunday Salon. We will be discussing The Second Exodus: The

I would like to submit the following message for publication in the Discussion Group, as an update to my 23 March inquiry (copy below). Thank you for the wonderful service that you provide us every da

Dear Galitzianers: It is impossible for me to write about Galician records without feeling the pain of the citizens of Ukraine, some of whom are our relatives. I know that in one way or another we are

The title “Our Child Saved Us” from the Yizkor book of Voronovo (Belarus) sums up what this week’s excerpt is about. It is Kay Lisorki’s story of how she and her husband survived the ghettos and later

Hi there, I wanted to share with you I decided to write a letter to Mount of Olives looking for Leah (Stampfer) Manischewitz. They responded with the following links. BINGO - we found her AND her sist

I am looking for a genealogy researcher, Danny Rubinoff, who lived in Jerusalem 25 years ago. At that time he sent my father a letter regarding KRASSNER family history, which I recently found. I am lo

Dear Group, Can someone offer guidance? My cousin in England recorded his Holocaust memories back in 1997 with the USC Shoah Foundation. I have been listening to the digital copies of the "tapes" and

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,