Hello, I am looking for information about the painter J. Majzels, probably from Zamość, at the turn of 1924. Thank you very much in advance. Kamil Szczepkowicz

The JewishGen website might be hard to use but JewishGen Education makes it easy for you. Do you want to learn how to use the JewishGen website and databases to research your family? Have you tried to

Recently I discovered a second cousin named Urszula Einhorn who lives in Sweden. Her grandfather Abram Badower married my grandmother's sister Pessa Wajcman. We have been collecting information about

Person #1 Samuel ROSANSKY born September 3, 1893 father Abram died September 22, 1943 buried in Mt. Hebron cemetery Person # 2 Samuel ROSANSKY born May 15, 1892 father Abram died September 22, 1943 bu

If you are in or plan to visit Ireland, you might want to visit The Objects of Love Exhibition by Oliver Sears which tells the fate of individual lives torn apart in Nazi-occupied Poland is showing in

Dear Group, I have been putting together family groups for Schwimmer & Ringler that lived in Munkacs, formerly part of Austria-Hungary and now Mukacheve, Ukraine. My goal is to try and connect each of

I knew my great-great grandmother's name from my own grandmother, but until now I had no documentation that she existed. Now, thanks to a tip on JewishGen's Discussion Group, I know she voted and have

Poland has a vast archive of items that shed light on the history of Freemasonry in Europe JANEK SKARZYNSKI AFP An old university library in western Poland—UAM in Poznan, is sheding light on works inc

The idea of Jewish pirates was popularised by Ed Kritzler's book Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean. Ed was a much-loved personality with a deep interest in Jamaican history, but how accurate was his res

Hi All My best wishes to you. The 1921 English census has just been released and using this I have found the record for my ancestors Hyman & Rachel (nee Simon) Cohen when they were living in the UK. T

Hi, My grandfather immigrated from Germany (Lauterbach, Hesse) to Palestine in 1934. He made the tough decision to come alone as the rest of his family (mother and sisters) were not able to leave yet.

Dear Friends, We at Gesher Galicia want to stay engaged with our membership. In this regard, we are planning to have our second Zoom membership meeting on Sunday, February 6th at 12-1 PM EST (9-10 AM

I am looking for any information about ancestors and siblings of Helene ALEXANDER, born in Liegnitz, Silesia, Germany , on February 9, 1873. She married my grandfather Ludwig GRAUPNER, of Beuthen, Sil

I am Boris Shapira Szapiro was born in Stanislawow (stanislavov) 1952. Shapira on my fathers side (Jacob) turkeltaub or TURTlETAUB or Turtelbaum. And Cwiren (Zwiren) on my mothers side (klara) kenigzw

Ver Miller’s Find Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family blog has posted about scanned records online from the Russian and Ukrainian Archives. If you are not conversant in either language it is advisable t

Hi I must appologise in advance as I've been out of the loop for over 10 years. I came back to doing research following the release of the English 1921 Census and have now got hooked again on my famil

Hello Genners, With the announcement that YIVO just completed digitizing their pre-war archives, I began searching and found scans of Minsk birth records 1879-1900. Have these been indexed by Jewishge

This is a letter, I think in Yiddish, from an old couple in our family who were removed from their home in Zagare, Lithuania during WW I and forced to go to Siberia. They came back to their home but h

Could somebody please help in transcription of these two Polish documents – birth and death certificates of Ruchla Altholz (misspelled Adholc)? I can translate them from Polish by myself, but I, unfor

Hi, I have had a question that has been 'gnawing' at me for some time. It seems to me that most of the Jews who got affidavits (or the South African equivalent) to emigrate to South Africa came from L