Dear all, Maybe useful.. Enclosed a list names of poor inhabitants of Alt Schotland (Danzig/Gdansk) that I found listed as potential beneficiaries of the Perlach family foundation when they were in th

Following my last query about the updated working searchable website of the Buenos Aires cemeteries I got privately 2 answers from fellow Genners. The website covers only the Ashkenazi cemeteries in t

Tried to enter their website and got "404 " Does any one have a working website? Thanks Jacob Rosen Jerusalem

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Guest Speaker: Serafima Velkovich The Central Database of Shoah Victimsʼ Names and Other Sources at Yad Vashem Sunday June 12, 11am Pacific

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Guest Speaker: Gil Bardige Part 1: Updated: Help! I Just Got My DNA Results and I’m Confused Prioritize your match list, get organized and r

Dear researchers Many of my relatives perished during the Holocaust in Transnistria. They lived and worked in Kishinev but then were forced to travel by the most primitive means to Transnistria. Becau

Hello. I am hoping someone can read a portion of the attached ship manifest. The person I am interested in is Cohn Baruck, who is line 12. I can't make out the handwriting for the names under Surname

How do I search for place names on Ancestry when they are listed by my ancestors variously as Russe Poland, Russia or Poland? I know I can cross check on Jewish Gen Gazetteer if I have information but

aaran1286@... Jan 9 #665216 Hi fellow researchers, My grandfather, Siegfried (later Elieser) GOTTLIEB, surrendered his German passport when applying for naturalisation in Mandate Palestine in Nov 1934

Hi all, I’ve been working on and off with a Greater Kharkov-based Ukrainian genealogist named Alex Belous since January, and I just wanted to put in another plug for him here. He is smart, diligent, t

Utah Jewish Genealogical Society (UJGS) invites you to our May meeting, on May 23rd at 7pm MST Title: Deep Genetic Genealogy: A Survey For Researchers of All Levels Speaker: Adam Cherson, Author of Hi

Do you have questions about Jewish Given Names and the traditions behind them - then this is the presentation you MUST SEE! Warren Blatt is the former Managing Director of JewishGen (www.jewishgen.org

Hello I have a question if anyone knows people who are experts on genealogy of the Ruzhiner dynasty. A letter from the cousin of my 2x great grandfather mentions that his grandmother was a cousin of R

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: Jewish Surnames and Patronymics: Tracing Your Ancestors Before They Had Surnames Date: Wednesday, May 18th,

Below are two unusual dates, from letters written in Kiev c. 1960-70. July 27, 692 October 30, 712 Any idea what the years might be? Here is a third date from the same writer, which is written in the

“Getting the Most from Revision Lists” will be the topic of a genealogy presentation by David R. Brill for the 2 p.m. CDT, Sunday, May 22, 2022, meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois.

MAY 24, 2022, 7:00 EDT ZOOM MEETING HOW TO USE THE JEWISHGEN DISCUSSION GROUP EFFECTIVELY BY: Phil Goldfarb The JewishGen Discussion Group is a lively online forum for JewishGen researchers of all lev

People who have been reading these messages for more than two years may recall that just before the Covid pandemic began, I had made a request to NARA to locate a document, RG 85, 52.271/6. NARA is no

If anyone knows Yiddish please help. -- Linda Gold Buford davidlinda@... Researching: Poland or other GOLD, BREWDA - BREVDA - BRAUDA , BLUMENTHAL, PALTER - SPITZ, GILCHENSKI Kobryn, Belarus Belarus -

My mother, Miriam Weinberger August, started the first Jewish Day Camp (and Jewish kindergarten) in the Miami area in the early 1950's which was through North Dade Jewish Center which later became Con