The Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles, the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, and Los Angeles Greek Film Festival announce a ten-day virtual event, Her

HI to all, and Happy New Year. I recently made it to the French National archives, and having been helped by some of you, am gald to offer any help, especially regarding the French files (Police, Iden

Ancestry announced today, January 14, 2021 they are discontinuing AncestryHealth which they started in 2019. It will no longer be available for sale as of January 15, 2021. Ancestry will continue to s

Hello all, I'm trying to understand an aspect of Polish history. In 1883 the town of Kalwaria, in Poland, was "degraded" (as one web site puts it), until 1919. What would this mean for the Jewish popu

Good afternoon all. My name is Rebekah Weisfeld Boerboom. My grandfather was Abraham Weisfeld. I am seeking any info that anyone may have. This is what I know: He was from Brest. He was a lawyer and w

Peter Absolon updated the 2,468 records from the Bardejov, Slovakia data set in JewishGen’s Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) The set has now been retitled “Slovak Je

Hello For anyone interested in the story of Ferramonti di Tarsia, the largest internment camp for Jews and others in Italy during WW2, there will be a one hour Zoom talk tonight hosted by DAVAR Bristo

My Great-Grandfather and his brother started Weitz Bakery when they came to Los Angeles in the 1920s. 3 generations worked there until it was sold and became Brooklyn Bagel Bakery in 1953. With all so

The 7th season of Finding Your roots with Henry Louis Gates begins on January 19 8Pm/7PM Central on your local PBS station—this is in the United States and possibly Canada. There will be ten episodes

German authorities have now handed over all 14 works from the art trove accumulated by late collector Cornelius Gurlitt that so far were proven to have been looted under Nazi rule. In 2012, the public

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has added a major collection, “Camp Westerbork Memorial –A Name and a Face”. This collection, https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?sourc

I am working on my genealogic history from a genetic standpoint as well as my family tree. I have had my DNA analyzed via 23andMe and was surprised to learn that I have a small percentage of Ashkenazi

Pilica alert!!! Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, the home of Jewish vital and other types of records of Poland, has indexed ***all*** surviving Pilica vital records back to 1808. And just like most o

“My Experiences” is a chapter of a long section in the Yizkor book of Kurów, Poland titled “In the Bunkers, Caves, Stalls, Fields and Forests (September 1939–May 1945): Memories from the Survivors.” I

I would appreciate help with translation the first name. Please respond on the ViewMate page. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?showmaster=1&viewmateid=89514 Thanks, Bob

There are no vital records remaining from the Lithuanian archives. I have been to that archive, and saw what was available. There are vital records online from the city of Vilna - you might have some

I emailed a request to the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA) asking for birth and marriage records for my ancestors. The response I received today for all the requests was like this: (P1-869

If anybody is able to photograph the headstones of David FLETCHER, who died on 31 May 1938 and is buried in Rainham Cemetery in London in Plot A1, Row 11, Grave 06, and his wife Millie FLETCHER, who d

The interior of the Holocaust Museum of Porto, Portugal, in January 2021. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Porto) On January 20, Portugal is opening its first Holocaust Museum in the City of Porto

Hello all, I read on the Israel Genealogy Research association that the material for the below books (translated to English from Polish) by Benjamin Meirtchak Jewish Military Casualties in the Polish