As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group bu

To all who have ancestry in Serbia, My English-speaking cousin who lives in Israel needed help to locate some birth records in Serbia. He had positive results and would like to pass on this contact. T

According to family lore (no records) my great great grandmother, Gittle ABRAMOWITZ, married in a second (or third) marriage an Isaac LAZAROFF, a british gentleman, who was a widower with 10 children.

Did you ever notice that our Jewish ancestors had a lot of names? They had Hebrew names, Yiddish names, nicknames and often several American names that can make tracing them rather challenging. Given

In the USC Shoah Foundation survivor interviews in the section for the country-state-city-place they list the following: Russia Glowaczow (Kielce, Poland). What does this mean? Are they from Kielce Po

I am involved with other posters in researching the all-too-short life of Rolf Rudi Grab, born Breslau (Wroclaw) 1919, a religious Jew. He moved first with his family to Hannover, then in 1939 to Engl

I would greatly appreciate an English translation for the attached tombstone. Thanks very much! -- Robin August, Ph.D.

I am trying to find synagogue or other records from the Kastoria (Greek) community that settled in Brooklyn in the early part 1900's and later. Specifically, I am hoping to find the given Hebrew name

Dear friends, Can anyone translate the attached note in Yiddish that was on the back of a circa 1915 photograph of family members around the matzevah of my great grandfather in the Lublin or Łęczna ce

Hoping that somebody here can help me with this issue. I recently through probate records obtained information on Leon Prager, who was my first cousin, the son of my father's sister. He was born in Vi

I have to apologize that I can't figure out how to respond to a message on this list (I'm sure several people will be happy to tell me now!) so I'm sending a new message. Thanks to all who responded t

Sunday, December 11th 2022 1:00-3:00 p.m. JCC 2nd floor in the Library 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla This will be a “Live and In-Person” Event only.. Please join us for an afternoon of food, friendsh

Shalom Everyone, JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 155th title: Memorial Book of Hrubieshov. This is the translation of: Pinkas Hrubieszow (Hrubieszów, Poland). Details: 8.5”

The Phoenix Jewish Genealogy Group (a committee of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society) will be holding a free virtual meeting via Zoom on Sunday, November 27th. We will welcome Dr. Janette Silverma

Please translate the records for Abraham Wolf Philipson (Faivush)- I think this was my grandfather from Kedainiai. This is from LitvakSig and the film number is 2289447, image #221. The URL is https:/

On Wednesday, December 14, 2022, JGS of Palm Beach County will host “New Strategies in German Jewish Research” presented by Karen S. Franklin, Director of Family History at the Leo Baeck Institute. AB

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Enemy, Alien, Declarant...Grief: Learning from Missteps in the Naturalization Process Date: Wednesday, Nove

The item is on ViewMate at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100519 It shows sculptor Bernard Reder's mother is Hinde Gingold from Alt Zucka. What does th

My grandfather, Gustave Sechestower, came to the US in 1900. Up until the mid 1920s his name was the same as documents indicate. Then the name was shortened to STOWER. My suspicion has always been tha

Ovsey Faivush born in Kedainiai on April10, 1885 is my grandfather's brother, I think. His father was Leib and grandfather Wolf also from Kedainiai. This information is from LitvakSig and the film num