The OCJGS meetings for the rest of the year. Please register at www.ocjgs.org. $5 for non-members and members are free. March 21st 10:00 am Pacific time Todd Knowles What's New in FamilySearch. April

I am curious if it is known if many Jews from Lodz moved to Germany, specifically Falkenstein, in the years after World War 1, and if so why. I know of one relative of mine, named Ezra Russek, who mov

How do you establish when & where it is recorded that Jewish families took on their “new” surnames? With thanks Karen Saunders Researching Surnames: Frank, Wallerstein, Stern, Horowitz, Davidow -- Hel

hello, I have family members (sieradzi) who traveled from piotrków kujawski, poland to london in the 1880s. Where might I find the ship/passenger list for them online? I am not sure what port they exi

Dear Researchers, Members, My Grandfather Ephriam GORDON stated in his naturalisation papers (Londonderry, Ireland 1899) that he was born September 1872 at Libau in Kurland, son of Abraham GORDON (son

Does anyone know a reason why someone, living in Berlin circa 1905 would have left Berlin **just** to marry in London? Both husband and wife were living in Berlin and continued to live in Berlin after

My grandparents came to England 1898-1903 from Warsaw Poland and Vilna Lithuania, all part of the Russian Pale of Settlement.I have written a book on our family history for my grandkids ( during lockd

Hello everybody, It looks that JewishGen is not only looked by Jews, but not Jews too. I received an email from the mayor of a town in Republic of Moldova. He looked up a Cemetery report for town of V

I’m investigating GELCHON COHEN, whose name appears in a 1906 Baltimore directory. Should I consider Gelchon to be a variant of Gershon? Steve Grufferman Sgruffer@... Sent from Xfinity Connect App

With all of the posts about the GORDON last name, I again would like to see if anyone can help me find my great grandmother’s sister. Her name was Rose POVOLTZKY (or any other reasonable permutation)

I've posted a tombstone for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91201 Please respond via the form provi

-- Re: Benno Zeiger left Vienna during WWII for Israel. I am looking for family members for updated Zeiger/Morgenstern family tree. He was the son of Leopold ( Leibish ) and Perl Presler Zeiger and br

Hi Team, I am researching my 4-great grandfather, John HART, licensed victualler, publican etc. There are several records relating to his family on JCR-UK’s 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database, with an error re

who can use ,porcelan as a family name,and what does it say? y.z.kinstlich

Small shtetls have no Yizkor books. I tried to put something together for Uscie Biscupie, Galicia; not a Yizkor book but hopefully better than nothing: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x1ag3i9scwyqocn/Uscie%

I've posted a vital record in Polish or Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91246 Please re

I can't find any translated records on birth, death, marriage, etc. for Volochisk. Do they exist? -- Karen Adelman karengadelman@...

Recently I determined that five of my Rebensaft/Ribenzaft ancestors were among the 241 Jews murdered and buried in mass graves when the Grodzisko Dolne ghetto was cleared during July 1942-March 1943.

20 years late on this one... my surname is Bernstein and I'm a kohen. Most of the family originated in Verkhnia Hrabyvnytzia, Czechoslovakia but over time spread out around Europe. All the best, Ozzy

On behalf of the JewishGen Discussion Group Moderators, thank you very much for all your posts. We are ahead of last year’s messages for the first two months by 570 posts and the month of February isn