I have posted a picture of the gravestone of Mordechai Leser (Elieser) on Viewmate at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93181 which I would like translated into English. The gr

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As I mentioned in a previous email, my paternal grandfather was Munia Gershfeld, from Druzhkopol, Volhynia. I have seen it also spelled Monia. The family story was that Monia bribed an official to get

I have posted record in yiddisch for wich i need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the followings adress https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93169 https://www.jewishgen.org/vie

Good day I try to find information about my relative During the 2nd WW he has been taken by nazi army from Vyalikiya Chuchavichy, Brest Region, Belarus. I dont know how his name was spelled in German/

Eliezer and Raizel are my great great grandparents on my father's side. They were living in Mount Street, Whitechapel, London in 1911 with their 10-month old daughter Rebecca (Sarah). Eliezer may have

I've been trying to trace my family's history and have hit a brick wall. I'm searching for a Samuel and Rose Friedman who lived in Minsk in the 1880s and immigrated to the United States in 1909 (for S

Good afternoon, Please would it be possible for someone to translate this Head Stone belonging to my Paternal Grandmother who was buried by my late Father. [FANNY LEVENE [LEVY] After searching for ove

Hi group, My late great uncle, Josef Maier Stauber, b. 1909 (parents Lazar Stauber and Czipre/Tipora Stauber), from Viseu De Jos (Also Visso) was married to Marta/Mindel Fischman b. ~ 1910 (parents Ye

Hi, thanks for accepting my application to join. I am researching my RECHT family, from Poland, specifically, Jack (Jakob Gedalia), and his father, Yechiel Altar RECHT. Jack changed his surname to Ric

Hello. This is my grandfather's gravestone returned to its upright position in the Vienna Jewish Cemetery 18 months ago. The photo was sent to me by the cemetery after they did the work, but the inscr

Is there a JewishGen “town manager” for Ludza (name in present day Latvia)?? Thank you - Steve Granek

Assistance needed to translate Hebrew on family gravestone. EnidRose Paramus NJ to translate Hebrew on family gravestone

Gesher Galicia’s quarterly journal, the Galitzianer, invites members and nonmembers of Gesher Galicia to submit articles with a clear connection to Jewish life in Austrian Galicia (1772–1918). We welc

Someone wrote that "jews do not give their children names". I know several Orthodox families who gave their children names such as Peter or Paul. True that one of these families were of German jewish

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Many of us have sent our DNA off to a firm, curious about what we might find. We receive an ethnicity estimate followed often by a long list of matches ranging from 2nd cousins to more distant ones. S

My son in law Benjamin Sanderson has one DNA match on Ancestry with surname Schneirow. Do you know the town of origin? We know Sanderson was an adopted English form. The original surname is not known.

Hello, My husband was a classmate of Andre Laniado in the French Lycee, London from 1958 to 1961. At that time they both lived in London. Does anyone have any information about Andre? Beryl Otvos Rese

In the last ten years I am searching for information about my great grand grandfather Naftali (Eli) Hertz Raskin, who lived in the village of El'nya, close to Hotimsk, Mogilev, Belarus, and was a cant