Hello, requesting help with translation of a civil marriage record of the 49 year old Wolf Rubin (false) Margulies and the 47 year old Margule Feldhorn (number 7 on the attached record page, in I beli

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Sunday, November 20 at 1:00 PM Eastern, IN-PERSON Jewish Ukrainian Genealogy Research Speaker: Lara Diamond In recent years, Ukrainian genealogical resources hav

“Resources for Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland—What’s New” will be the topic of a presentation by genealogist Mike Karsen for the Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, hybrid meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Socie

The Ritchie Boys, for those who may not know who they are, were a special collection of soldiers, primarily German-Austrian units, of Military Intelligence Service officers and enlisted men of World W

I am looking for suggestions or help regarding the 1875 census. According to the Lipes Database, my great great grandfather Srul-Itzko Abramovich Gershberg was 14 y.o. in the 1875 census, In Berdichev

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Dying to Find Out: Beyond Death Certificates Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Standa

Which one of the following is more likely to be accurate? MyHeritage result 89.8% Ashkenazi Jewish, 5.2% Balkan, & 5% Middle Eastern. Ancestry result 98% Jewish peoples of Europe, 1% Levant, & 1% Sout

I have identified but am not sure if these are the actual names of my paternal great grand parents. The ones from Austria (around the 1850s) were Leopold Simon and Paulino (a) Klug. My grandmother’s m

Looking for help in finding out the name of the Russian poet Alexaander Gitovich's father and better yet, grandfather. I believe that he is a maternal relative. The only thing that I found was this: G

In 2015 a stash of 1944 Budapest census records were found behind a wall in a Budapest apartment. This census was conducted to identify Jewish residents in anticipation of ghettoizing Budapest. These

Hi Wendy & the group. There are *many* more records on Wikipedia than what is shown on the TKF site! And in fact, for this town there are a lot of census records, you have a lot to work with. Long sto

Hello fellow researchers. Hopefully someone with better Yiddish than mine can explain this. In the linked marriage record below for William Aisenberg and Shirley Botson in Manhattan, the Official Stat

- Long-time Ciechanów and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has completed data entry of Ciechanów “Phase 3” vital records full extractions from 1826 to 19

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Dying to Find Out: Beyond Death Certificates Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Standa

My grandfather, Moishe Weisfeld, was a jeweler from Berdichev who emigrated to New York around 1907. Was there a particular district in Berdichev during the 1890s-1910s where jewelers resided? I can't

I have posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100452 Please respond via

Looking for additional information or relatives that may have stayed at Bad Kudowa. Seems like it was a healing resort. I have a ton of photos with my grandfather David Roth there in 1926 with others.

Hello everyone, I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... Death record of Certla SZNAJDER: https://nam12.safelinks.protection

Can anyone tell me how to gain access to the Gallery of Missing Husbands to research an ancestor from the early 1900's? Thank you. Steven Marks

Dear all, Tomorrow November 8, 2022 is the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of Staszow Jewish Community, some 5,000 souls before WWII. On November 9, 1942, Jews in Staszow ghetto were marched south