We are excited and honored to announce a new volunteer on our team at LitvakSIG. Simon Zelman has become the District Coordinator for the Zarasai District. Welcome Simon! Simon was born in Lithuania,

I wish to hear from fellow members who don't live in New York, if YIVO (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) provide a paid lookup service for those who cannot visit the archive in person? If not, can

In others' experience, is it conceivable that a woman might have given birth at age 45 in 1897? In a distant branch I'm trying to trace, I've found Rachel Holdengraber, whom I know -- from a JewishGen

Simon Eisenstädter (1796, Budapest - 1875, Vienna) and Ernestine Eisenstädter (1802 -1880, Vienna) had 10 children. The family members were amongst the first Hungarian Jews to receive a title of nobil

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

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My g-g-g-grandfather Angelus Aron Gröger was born in Prag in 1766 and married to Sara. I have conflicting research showing her maiden name as Back or Grotte. Looking for help to determine the correct

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I recently read that a Jewish woman named Blümel Abraham converted to Christianity in 1715. She was then called Maria Augusta Blümelin and was living in Dürkheim in the Grafschaft Leiningen (now Bad D

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Good Morning, Back in March of 2017 this group was very helpful in locating the marriage of one Madeleine Kaminsky and Joseph Biegeleisen from March 17 1930. In addition this group located the birth i

The (UK) National Archives will commemorate on January 27 International Holocaust Memorial Day, an annual event to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions o

January 27, 2023 is International Holocaust Memorial Day. It commemorates “the six million Jews who were systematically and savagely murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust