Hello, Does anyone have a PowerPoint presentation describing the functionality of JewishGen? Something that could be used in a local JGS meeting? Thank you. Ben Kempner VP, JGSSN

My father (b. 1927, Wein), had an older brother born in 1923. This has been confirmed with a birth record. He apparently died as a child but I've not been able to find any death record. His death was

Hi all Am looking for members of the Susskind family, partly living in Germany and Holland Earliest known ancestors Alexander Susskind and Albertina Bytinski / Bylinsky...??) Known chiled so far son E

My father-in-law's uncles, JERUSALEMSKY, of Sczuchin, came to the U.S.A. around the turn of the 19-20th century. In the U.S.A. they changed the name to ROSEN. Rubin Myer ROSEN (d.1941) married Sophie

I am trying to apply for the Award of the Siberian Exiles Cross for my late mother-in-law and father-in-law, both of whom survived the horrible conditions in a Siberian logging camp. It says it must b

I have documents that show my mother-in-law and father-in-law (Israel and Anna (Chana) Rzezak coming through Vienna in November of 1945, with their infant daughter Rosalia Rzezak. Only Israel and Anna

Friday 11/18/22 From: Mike Yesnes Israel/Death Certificate Request Discussion Group, Looking to obtain a death certificate copy for a person who died in Israel in 1963. Have a cousin who lives in Isra

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 18, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita carried a notice from the Mayor of the City of Warsaw, Office of Bierut Decree Affairs, indicating that a c

See attached photo: we carry last name hall, but maybe this headstone will show our real family name? Lee hall

I just checked the Maryland state archives and your theory was correct! Freida died on Feb. 28th, 1022! Unfortunately, it appears as if her parents' names were "unknown." I'll go back to the graveston

Searching for Maria Kovacs z'l, my birth mother who lived in Montreal Qc and believed to have also lived in Windsor Ont. She was born on August 7 1922, in Csömödér, Hungary. She emigrated to Halifax,

I am looking for any information about a Selig or Felix Schlesser. He was born c.1890 and lived in Vienna. He lived in NYC at 320 Roebling Street in Brooklyn in 1928. Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmout

According to my ggreatuncle's diary, a certain Rabbi Mordechai Leib of Ruzhin, was the Av Bet-Din in Pinsk/Karlin during the 19th century and that he was a "She'er basar" (blood relative) of our Famil

I'm posting for a member of my society. My family's clothing store was on the northeast corner of Fourth and South Sts. in Philadelphia. I want a translation of the attached 1916 Caplan's Department S

My partner and I recently returned from 4 weeks touring Jewish heritage sites in Poland. Our blog is at https://polandjewishtour2022.blogspot.com/ Topics: Why Are We Here in Poland Memory and Resistan

Dear Genners, Who Was Dr. H Peretz, President of the Royal Medical Society of Egypt in the 1930s-1940s? Except for his surname and initial I do not know anything else except for the fact that he was t

My father married his second wife in VA but lived with her in NYC. They divorced fairly soon after being married. Any assistance in where to find documentation of their divorce? VA or NYC? I am on Anc

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: I offer the following on the off-chance that someone is related to these people. Despite popular assumptions, not all Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust and those who surviv

Do you per chance recognize this story? Do you think it may be possible to identify this group of Italian survivors of World Was 2? We have no names - and only an approximate date when they will have

Hello, Here lies or here is buried (2-letter abbreviation within the star of David on top) Our dear father David son of Ye’hoshua Ha’levi Weiss Passed 3 Tevet 5677 Shabbat shalom, Malka Chosnek