Who is the legitimate claimant of the Spanish Lousada dukedom? Three families of alleged Jewish ancestry say it is them! Did the Baruch Lousada commit fraud in making the original claim?! Do the Barro

Shalom. I have provided a photograph and link for Shlomo Farkas' tombstone; he is my great-great grandfather on my mother's side of the family. I have been able to translate most of this, except for s

Jewish Records Indexing – Poland is now making available extractions of the 1810-1825 Jewish records from the Krasnobrod Parish records in the Polish State Archives. These extractions are not in the J

Israel Genealogy Research Association Website: http://genealogy.org.il/ The lecture will be in Hebrew Tuesday, February 1, 2022 Israeli Time 19:00 - 21:00 EST 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM On Auctions of Books o

Don’t miss the January 2022 issue of JewishGen News! If you aren’t subscribed to receive a copy of the newsletter by email, you can access it by following this link: https://mailchi.mp/jewi.../jewishg

I am looking for help to find a death certificate for a baby brother of mine, who died at birth in the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal between 1949-1951. I have already contacted Jewish General Hosp

I am seeking contact information for Perla Rozen (or her family), living in Montreal in 1996, who submitted a Page of Testimony for her uncle, Aron Kalkstein. Aron Kalkstein was likely a relative of m

Hello Genners, With the commemoration of International Holocaust Day on Thursday, I am pleased to share the news of the memorial to the KL Plaszow concentration camp. As I mentioned before, my 95 year

I would like some help please translating these family records from Plock in Poland. Please see the attached 5 Viewmate files. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96988 https://w

Join the IRemember Wall When you join the IRemember Wall, your name will be randomly matched to a Holocaust victim from Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. This unique project allow

LitvakSIG is providing a series of online Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions for the various districts in Lithuania. These informational sessions are open to the public. Some District Research Groups w

I am trying to find the town where Morris Kamhi died on 20 Dec. 1968. The NY State Death Index on Ancestry provides this information... Name: Morris Kamhi Gender: Male Age: 81 Birth Date: abt 1887 Res

- I would like to touch on another aspect of the Oskar Schindler story of which the majority of the public are unaware. Only one journalist knew Oskar well and wrote his story long before Thomas Kenea

Hello Mary and list readers, sorry, I entered the wrong link for the index of birth records in Breslau here is the correct one: http://des.genealogy.net/breslau_geburt/search/index Corinna (Woehrl, né

Hello Mary and list-readers, There are a few useful German sources for Breslau/Wroclaw, but you may need to use a browser with a translation function. On the following website, the author has collecte

Just posted on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: a complete full-color 1846 cadastral map of the small Galician city of Grybów near Nowy Sącz: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/grybow-1846/ Assemble

In 1942 on his WWII draft registration card Herman Lichtenstein (or Lichenstein) gave his birth date as Aug 23, 1896 in New York City. In 1921 he married Lilyan Haber, and this is the earliest record

I have searched for MANY years to find the records from MLAWA. I have finally found them and would like to have the information. SADLY, I do not know Russian. There are 5 births and 1 death Does anyon

Hello Fran, I'm not sure how to contact you without sending to the group, but I wanted to connect, as I had family in Czestochowa at that time. I am also interested in finding out where to look for bi

I have a photo portrait postcard of my great uncle that he sent to my grandfather from Poland in the 1910's. The back of the postcard is stamped with the name of the photo studio "E. Hawin, Zambrow".