It has recently come to my attention that my father and his family as refugees from the fighting in Galicia during WWI, was in a refugee camp in Pohrlitz, Moravia. I have been trying to get some infor

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 22, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice indicating that the Regional Court of West Katowice [Sąd Rejonowy Katowice-Zachód],

I am puzzled by the name change of Karl Scheier as well as his father, Elias Scheier to "Scheier Lowy". As you can see by these birth documents for Karl Scheier, he was born "Karl Scheier" and his fat

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The November 22, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice indicating that the Regional Court of Kraków-Krowodrzy,, on behalf of the Polish St

With great sadness, I share news of the death yesterday, November 22, 2022, of Donald Eckerle, 86, a driving force behind the indexing of millions of vital and naturalization records for New York City

Join the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) for our upcoming free webinar “How a Nice Jewish Boy who Started Life in Cheder Ended Up Being a Doctor to the Last Tsar” by Dr. Harold Rhode on D

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