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I've posted a death certificate in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100508 Please respond

Looking for descendants of John Jacob Bernstein, who emigrated from Dunfermline, Scotland in 1920 to Australia. Family may have been Braude from Libau, Latvia. One descendant may have been Nancy Worth

Searching for information on JOZSEF KOVACS z’l: West Virginia and Bronx N.Y. November 14, 1889, he was born in Csömödér, Hungary. March 19, 1913 he arrived on the ship SS Zeeland in New York from Antw

Hello friends, Could someone please tell me if the language being used on the attached document is Yiddish or Hebrew? It will help me decide which of my friends to help with the translation :) Thanks

Does anybody know where I can find the birth record of my great grandmother Ernestine Pollack who was born In Nagy Tapolcsany ( Slovakia ) in 1854 and her wedding record to Heinrich Adler in Pruske (

I have been asked to try to determine the “value”-historical or otherwise, of several foreign paper currencies, dating from 1880’s-1910’s. They appear to be Reichmarks, as well as some Polish currency

What information is available in U.S. Social Security of a dead relative and where can I find it. -- Amnon PALDI

I will be in Krakow for a few days in early December. My wife's family is from the Ulanow area of Poland which I don't think is so far from Krakow. I am looking for a guide who could me in the Ulanow

I am searching for information on the PERLIN family from Orsha, Belarus, who have a connection to my RIVLIN family from Orsha, with possible relatives who lived in St. Louis or New Bedford. I am inter

I linked this update to your original thread. Am writing here to bump your present message up. Messages get pushed down quickly and can be lost in the shuffle. I wonder if you can change the original

Hi all - I am turning to this amazing group for help on a brick wall regarding my great-great grandmother, who went by the names Freda/Freide/Jennie/Sandel/Miriam, married last name Friedlander. Let's

Hello, The first page is in Hebrew and the rest is in Yiddish. Shalom, Malka Chosnek

I am hoping to find someone to translate a Yiddish newspaper article from 1932. The article is supposedly about a pogrom in Slovechno, Ukraine in which almost all of my Greenspan family were killed. P

"I am seeking further information regarding my paternal grandfather Ernest -Elisha Breitbart's mother Judit Marks's family, the family of Saul Marks from Ruda.(as noted in the records) What I do know,

Hello Genners, If anyone is familiar with the Yiddish female given name Doda, I would like to know the proper pronunciation - is the accent on the first or the 2nd syllable? And what is the correct sp

I'm trying to delve further into the origins of my maternal ancestors in Hungary— no easy task, since so many of them were named Klein. Benzion Kaganoff, in A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their Hist

I am so appreciative and grateful to be part of this organization. Thanking you in advance in this case for any assistance you can provide. My grandfather Abraham Karpman was born in Narovlya, Minsk g

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Events: Advance Your Research in Bessarabia (Former Russian Empire, Moldova, Romania & Parts of Ukraine) Sunday, November 20 , 2022 , 1 pm Pacific Time Speakers: Ye

The German Embassy in Ottawa, in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel, has organized a series of Jewish walking tours of three cities in Germany in honour of Holocaust Education Month. I have watche