ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 28, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eight

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A bit out of my range for me since it is a long drive over a toll bridge, etc. I have details on two graves in different parts of the cemetery. There might be other family in the plots but I do not kn

The Karaite section of the ancient Bassatine Jewish cemetery was restored with the assistance of the US government. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/11/us-embassy-helps-restore-jewish-burial-

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For all those researching the town of Pogrebishche, Ukraine, please note that the recent batch of revision list records included a full index of the 1858 Revision List for the town. This should be a t

Israel Genealogy Research Association Website: http://genealogy.org.il/ The lecture will be in Hebrew Introduction to the Jacobi Papers Speaker: Emanuel Elyasaf Dr. Paul J. Jacobi (Königsberg/Jerusale

I would like to translate (even roughly) parts of a Yizkor book that is in Hebrew. I can access the book via the New York Public Library as a webpage or as a PDF document. I think the PDF was made fro

I have obtained a NJ death certificate for a death in 1902 in Paterson NJ. The form lists a cemetery I cannot identify. I have looked at city directories for Paterson for 1900 and this doesn't match t

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 28, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia], Eight

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 28, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice indicating that the Regional Court for Central Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmie

Hi, In the Yad V data base I found this entry for a theoretical relative I am researching........... Yefim Zissman 1934 Mogilev, Belorussia (USSR) was registered following the evacuation to the interi

Notation on a couple of documents:marriage certificates and census lists a village in ‘Russia’ as either Cholnie or Kolny. By verbal history, this family is either from Kyiv or Minsk; however, no spec

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I am looking for the birth record or any information for Heinz/Hermann Freudenthal. He was born in Berlin sometime between 1908 and 1915 to Ludwig Freudenthal and his wife, Regina Kussi Wertheimer Fre

My paternal great grandfather, Solomon Bernstein, emigrated to England c. 1874 from Dombravils, Poland. Would there be records in either Poland or England of that emigration, hopefully that I could ch

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Central New York invites you to join us for another free presentation by Robin Meltzer: "Using Social Media for Genealogical Research: The Good, the Bad, and the Exceed

Any suggestions as to the Yiddish name that bears the nickname Nushka? I know that In Russian, it's a diminutive for Anna, but am wondering whether it corresponds to a Yiddish first name. -- Jeff Marx

I've just encountered a puzzling pair of DNA matches which I hope those with more expertise in this area might be able to unpuzzle. I found what looks like a significant match between my mother Nancy

The attached are entries from an 1875 Revision List in Vinnitsa for Avram Yankel WECHTER. I was wondering if anyone could translate these from Russian. I can see Aleksandreny in the first one, which i