Gail Dever in her Genealogy à la carte blog announced a new genealogy website from the Belgium State Archives. The new website holds about 38.6 million official documents which includes 28,527 parish

Hello everybody, I collected many comments, suggestions and feedback about the Bessarabia Winter Symposium (click here to read). Thank you very much to all who provided feedback. If you would like to

My mother's mother is listed with the birth name of Lapinski on some of her children's birth certificates and Berger on others. My mother told me her mother's father had been adopted by a family with

Another mystery from the Manitoba State Archives. A few years ago I found my mother’s birth record as follows, with her first name listed as Carl not Pearl. Her name was Pearl Frances Finkelstein. I m

Hello everybody, I would like to give you an update on several sets we worked on from 1808! These records are very important for several reason: - these are the oldest records we have so far; - they a

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Events: Become an Expert: Create a Resource Guide If you need help with your brick walls, research practices and tip then this presentation is a MUST. Sunday, Febru

Dear fellow researchers, Tax censuses (family lists) from the Mglin uezd (district) in 1888 have now been translated and transcribed as part of the Chernigov Gubernia Document Translation Project. The

Hi all, I could not find answers to the following questions on Arolsen Archives site itself, so I wondered if those with experience in submitting inquiries (https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-expl

Dear members I would be really grateful if you could help me to take a look on the previous translation and check the accuracy, the previous helper provided a translation done by an OCR reader and not

I seem to be at a dead end. The cousin I knew as JULIUS LASSEN emigrated under the name of LEIB LESZCINSKI and also used the original family name of LISHINSKY. He emigrated on the Ohio leaving Hamburg

I request a translation of the Yiddish text on a postcard. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM101073 Please respond using the online

You should also go to the archives in Vilna and Kovna. Tell the archives beforehand what towns you want to research. And two reasons to go. You get the feeling of the places where your ancestors lived

Seeking more information on Jewish families escaping from Ukraine (Henischesk, port in Taurida province in my case) to Harbin then Shanghai in early 1920s. Travelled by train overland (I think). How m

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Good morning (from the west coast), First, I would like to say thank you for allowing and publishing my post "Hannover-Ahlem and Salzwedel". I have received a couple of emails which I am very thankful

My grandfather, Albert Silber, was born in 1886 in Buzafalva, Abauj-Torna, Kassa, Hungary. He emigrated to NY in 1901. I have his birth record, immigration and citizenship records so am pretty confida

Dear JewishGen — There is an excellent New York Times article on a “largely forgotten” Holocaust killing field — Jungfernhof, outside Riga, Latvia. The article was written by Ralph Blumenthal and was

The Museum of Family History cordially invites all those who are interested in preserving the heritage of their ancestral homes to become one of the Museum's World Jewish Communities. Through a combin

(Edited) Hello - I wonder how common it was in the 1950s to adopt an adult as a child. My great-grandfather returned from hiding in Brussels to his home-town, family house, company etc in Germany - th

You can reply directly to my e-mail: yehoshua.sivan@... With thanks in advance, Yehoshua Sivan