Can anyone make sense of a town name “Luzow” or “Luzon” in (I assume) Poland? I’ve just come across a scribbled note from my father where he notes - Leah (my grandmother.. who came to the US in the ea

One branch of my family is the Recu family originally from Bacau in Romania. The article cited in the heading refers to a Simion Recu who fought in the Romanian Independence War in 1877. Does anyone k

My question could be a very general one relating to the whole Pale of Settlement at any time pre-WWI, or, if the answer depends upon specific times and places, I would specify Lithuania and Ukraine ar

I am searching for relatives of Harold Goel Lerner and Rosalie (Fine) Lerner who I believe are related to me. They are both buried alongside other Fine relatives of mine in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery

Il am wondering if anyone has recently used the DOROT (The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center at Beth Hatefutsoth) recently to research family names. I came across the name from an old brochur

"Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was publi

On Jewishgen, I found the probable 1854 marriage record for the brother of my great great grandfather Aron Lak, from the town of Telsiai, Lithuania. The brother's name is Jankel Lak, son of Efroim, ac

I am trying to locate relatives of a Rut (Ruth?) Sokol who lived (by her Yad Vashem testimonies) in Brooklyn NY in 1993. Rut is/was my newly discovered 2nd cousin from a part of my family whose existe

I am trying to request the death certificates for some likely distant cousins, Julius Fine and Samuel H. Fine, who are buried near other of my Fine relatives in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens. T

I am searching for my relatives with the last name BOROK. My grandfather (Kissel Borok) and his siblings were from Akkerman in Bessarabia, but I know records don't exist for this. His brother, Lova Bo

A very interesting article about the history of and the search for the creators of Hebrew typeface. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hebrew-type-printing Laurie Sosna San Francisco, CA

I have a six-page document that I would like to post for translation on ViewMate. (I thought it was Hungarian, but when I posted the first page, a few people informed me that only the first few lines

Dear friends: Recent posts about obtaining a Polish passport, lead me to share a few thoughts: 1. Why pay for search archival sources when JRI-Poland may have the needed record information in our offl

I am interested in getting your help to translate the Hebrew on these family gravestones . Ancestors are thought to be from Lemberg, Austria emigrating to US in 1880s, buried in Cincinnati, Ohio. Than

Hello. A colleague with a Jewish ancestor told me she heard that her Jewish grandmother from Lvov married a Christian (Russian Orthodox) to preserve wealthy family assets. Could that have been a legit

My name is Dag Steinfeld. My great grandfather, Moses Steinfeld, was born in Libau, Latvia in 1853. (Some documents may indicate 1852 and in Grobin which is more or less a part of Libau or Liepaja ).

I came across this posting from American Ancestors regarding military records for Galicia (1865-1918): https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2021/03/galician-military-records/?utm_campaign=The%20We

Can someone please transcribe the Hebrew letters and translate them from the attached short record? Thank you so much, Larry Bassist

All my family used the word to describe Eastern European Jewry. Perhaps they did not like saying “Pullaks”. I think it is only my generation that has ceased using it, I guess because nobody would now

Looking for relatives of Bernard Sheinker, born in Trimanchi, Russian Poland in 1863. He emigrated to Boston, MA in 1893 and died there in 1923. He had relatives in the Boston area, the descendants of