The IAJGS Achievement Awards Committee for 2022 has been established, with the members listed below. Karen Franklin (chair) Past President, IAJGS Karen.Franklin@... Susan Weinberg President, Minnesota

Today we've posted a new map on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: a full-color 1851 cadastral map of the Galician town of Strzyżów: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/strzyzow-1851/ At the time of th

https://wah.foundation Every year, thousands come together to say with one voice, “never forget.” WE ARE HERE! Foundation is proud to be a partner for this year’s Annual Gathering of Remembrance, pres

Do you have ancestors from what was Chernigov Guberniya, Russian Empire? Well, records from the area are being indexed. Here's what you could find, what I've found on my own family, and some hints on

I am searching for family members of Harris Rothenberg (maybe Rotenberg). Harris was born around 1855 in Plock, Poland. He married Yetta Vichinsky (b. abt 1859 Russian Federation). They emigrated to M

I have a copy of the hardcover book Photo Album-Catalogue by photographer Chaimas Kaplanskis. It is a collection of photographs of western Lithuanian people from the 19th and 20th centuries. Thee may

I discovered this weekend in the 1921 census of England and Wales that my great great grandmother, Gittel Storch (married Abraham Jacob Tropp from Kolbuszowa) was born in Borowa, Galicia. Abraham Jaco

Hi! My name’s Lailah, I’m Brazilian, and I have been looking for anyone who’s part of a family that has any of the following surnames as part of it somehow, or knows anything about them, their origin,

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I hope everyone had a nice Pesach. I am pulling out the few hairs I have left trying to figure out how I am related to two other families. All three families are from Narovyla, Minsk, Belarus. I have

I would like to make contact with descendants of professor Hans MORGANTHAU, d. New York City 1980. Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Hello, Doing a search in Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names I came across the name of my grandfather, Jeno LEICHT. I knew he survived the war because he lived with us in Argentina.

Thanking you in advance for any help you can give. I can't find my mother's Declaration of Intention or Petition for Naturalization at Ancestry.com or family search (though I'm not very good at using

Dear Members, I would like to know if there are researchers who have looked for information about Yurovichi (Юровичи). More specifically I am trying to know more about the Cartman (Картман) family, I

Hi Siggers, Here are two documents in Russian for which I would greatly appreciate translations. One is handwritten and the other is typed. Thank you, Larry Bassist USA

JGS GREAT BRITAIN - Apr 24th, 2022, 2pm – with Leigh Dworkin – “The Dvorkins of Brest-Litovsk” • Date: Sunday Apr 24th 2022 • Time: 14:00 London (note; 09:00 New York, 16:00 Jerusalem, 07:00 Salt Lake

The "Jerusalem", arrived in Palestine in April 1934 and the Central Zionist Archives have confirmed my Langer family members were on board. Does anyone know from where in Europe this ship sailed? My m

For many years I have been trying to locate my Great Grandfather's death and believe I have found him buried at Walkley Jewish Cemetery in Sheffield. His name is Morris Cooper and he died 29 April 191

The earliest document I could find from Ukraine is the 1795 revision/census, but weren't there several censuses conducted in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1765 and 1784? Does anyone know where

I have just posted an inscription found on the back of a family photograph in (what I believe is) Yiddish. I would be grateful if someone could assist by providing a translation; the inscriptionsis tw