trying to trace my family back to Yom Tov Lipa Heller I have records back to mid 1850's but need to trace a little further back It would involve someone who could research polish birth/death records p

I recently posted about a case in Poland where two Polish historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, were facing a libel trial for a scho

I recently learned that I am of Russian-Jewish ancestry (my father was adopted into the SHANKLIN family when he was a toddler, and we've just recently learned who our biological family was). I've been

Hello, I have posted a record in Russian from the 1875 Volodarka Residents List. I would like to know the complete translation for all of the families on the page. I believe the families include: Novo

One of my relatives in some documents is named "Alter" Kukuk in Poland in about 1850. In another document he seems to be named "Efraim" Kukuk. I'm wondering whether the name Alter was maybe given to h

Initial Reports about a fire at the Krakow City Archive last Saturday. http://krakowexpats.pl/news-from-krakow/fire-at-krakow-city-archive/?fbclid=IwAR3kG6ovrNV-foKSiZQhTR569dlsJGTrfKyQWtBoIjRcIF4lRKv

Monday, February 15 at 7:30 pm Live-streamed to: youtu.be/RbLKVmY-Qw0 Posted by Victoria Barkoff for JGS Montreal

I've posted a vital record in Russian of a wedding record in Poland for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?k

Hi, Can anyone help me date this photo by the Cologne (Koeln/Coeln), Germany photographer, Fritz Eilender? Note that Koeln is spelled starting with a “C” at the bottom of the photo. Thank you for help

Hi all, I was hoping somebody knew contact information for someone living in the Secovce area in Kosice. I'd like to get pictures of graves surrounding my great grandmother's in the old Jewish cemeter

Virgin (the company that owns the airline) has purchased 23andMe: https://virgin.com/about-virgin/virgin-group/news/23andme-to-merge-with-virgin-groups-vg-acquisition-corp From this brief announcement

Can anyone help with logging on to Double~Helix DNA Forum at http://community.haplozone.net/index.php I am trying to register and create an account. However, there is a Verification question that for

Hi, I'm looking for someone who lives in the Secovce area who would be able to take a few pictures of the graves surrounding a specific gravestone I have a picture of through the Jewish Gen burial dat

JGS Toronto VIRTUAL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) MEETING Lithuania-Latvia-Belarus – Thursday 11 February 2021 at 7:30 p.m. EST JGS Toronto member Patrick Munits will be presenting on the following: Im

Searching for Chrzan family descendants from Gombin, Gostynin or in that vicinity in western Poland who settled in Winnipeg. They owned and operated a motel, with a daughter in Toronto. They are famil

I posted a birth certificate and I need help to read it. It's from someone Betti krausz Born 1863 To father David in village of nyirgyulaj. I would very appreciate anyone who can help me to translate

-- Hi to all, I just joined this site after finding through dna that I am 49.9% Ashkenski jewish! I am so happy to find this information. I was given away at birth and know nothing of my genetics. I a

Hi My ancestors came from Kyiv as well as from a number of towns south and southeast: Obukhiv, Trypillya, and Kaniv This family listed their place of birth as Kaniv however the clerk wrote on the Elli

Good afternoon, I am looking for information about Rogovins from Minsk area. I am posting a link to the photos and their description. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eYi6Bmywm0G3p4dbelX8mtgf6n9uvM

I have just recently read the 1906 Jewish Voters List for Ushitsa Raion, Podolia Gubernia, Russian Ukraine. I found several potential relatives on the list, but the list only lists names and occupatio