JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO, Beth Tikvah Synagogue and Classi Lectures PRESENT The Mystery of the Bodies in the Well Speaker: Dr. Selina Brace Tuesday, 24 Jan 2023, 12:30-1:45 p.m. EST VIRT

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO and Classi Lectures PRESENT LITHUANIAN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Speaker: Trudy Gold Wednesday, 11 Jan 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST Wednesday, 18 Jan 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO, Beth Tikvah Synagogue and Classi Lectures PRESENT Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto – A Young Girl’s Story Speaker: Lydia Bauman Monday 13 Feb 2023

We have a very small silver kiddush cup from Latvia. My gf brought it to Canada in 1905. It seems to be handmade with a building etched into it. I have seen the exact cup in houses of friends and rela

All too true Terry. Was in Vilnius briefly some years ago before my interest in genealogy and visited the museum. The statistics on size of community before WW2 and after is shocking Jerry Yankowitz

I have posted a photo on ViewMate of the top of a walking stick for which I ma trying to figure out what part of my family it came from. Already one person has ointed out what I thought might be an "A

My great grandfather was born in Reichshoffen, Alsace in 1855. My cousin's mother told him that there was a lot of intermarriage between the Jews and the Christians in Alsace. I am curious to know if

For more than a decade I hit a brick wall in my Family tree search, looking for information about my ancestor Nafyali El´ín Hertz Raskin. See his Picture below. Naftaly had a single wife, Feiga Zlotin

My paternal grandparents lived at 684 N. Paulina St in Chicago, Ill in 1900. He was apparently a leader in his synagogue. His name was Charles H. Simon, born in Austria. I am having trouble finding th

Chelsea was the destination for many Jewish immigrants around the turn of the 20th century. I've heard there were 23 synagogues in this small city. Is there a membership record for them? -- Carol Agat

My great grandfather was Samuel Braunfeld who came to New York in 1888 from Neu Sandez, Austria/Hungary which is now Nowy Sacz, Poland. Anyone with any info will be greatly appreciated. Stephen Silber

This documentary is available free on YouTube ONLY until Thursday, 26 January - it is a must-see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyJMM2uPn2M Panel discussion and documentary presented by the the SA J

Hello, I'm looking for help with translating these revision list records for the Rosen family in Volovo and Mereshevka, Bessarabia. I believe the Yos ROYZIN listed may be my gg-grandfather, Joseph ROS

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Sunday February 12, 2023 1-3 pm PT Zoom Meeting Gone Girl: DNA and Document Strategies for Finding a Very Long-Lost Female Cousin Presentation by Rhoda Miller Our speaker will explain how she used DNA

Had things been different and Jews not persecuted in the Pale of Settlement, (forcing many to consider emigrating in the late 19th century) and they had stayed, with the advent of WW2, it is unlikely

My cousin gave me this picture that was found in his late mother's belongings. She (Reisa/Riva) was a partisan and the only surviving member of her immediate family. Her father was my great uncle, Yan

LitvakSIG will be presenting a new Zoom series of webinars: LitvakSIG: Power Up Your Research. The purpose of this new series is to help researchers better understand the tools that LitvakSIG has to o

My novel, The Foxtail Legacy, is an immigrant tale spanning from the shtetl Shavlan under the Czars, to the diamond mining camps of South Africa under the Boer, to the peddler/merchant life of a Jew s

“Heirs and descendants of a German Jewish banker who sold his extensive art collection in the mid-1930s in the face of the growing Nazi threat filed a 98-page complaint/suit in federal court in Chicag