I’m curious to know other people’s experiences with reaching out to distant relatives about a family connection. I have a tree that goes back to a married couple in the late 18th Century. They had rou

“The Testimony of Rudolph Rader” from the Yizkor book of Skalat (Ukraine) is a first person account of Belzec, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. While the horrors he relates make difficult readin

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My mistake, my family and my inquiry are about Carei (Nagykaroly), Romania and not Nagy Kalo -- Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY moishe.miller@... JGFF #3391

The attached snippet was taken from an 1869 Hungarian Census page and concerns the employment relationship of one of the household residents. I cannot decipher all the words but see "munka" (work) and

Interesting retrospective concerning Washington Heights... The ’upper’ Manhattan neighborhood where so many German Jewish refugees relocated to that it’s been nicknamed: "Frankfurt on Hudson, respecti

Would anyone be able to translate the document attached to the Lin below Thanks Deborah Ross https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/60749/images/45209_srep100^047194-00026?treeid=69486696&

I am looking for descendants os my mother’s birth family who fled from Drohobych, Galicia in 1914 (my mother was born in Vienna, fostered and later adopted). Her eldest brother Josef Jakob Horoschowsk

-- 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

Found this via the 1851 census records. Hope someone knows how this works. regards, Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

Can people point me towards accounts relating to the German-Jewish life in Jackson Heights, New York in the 1930s-60s? I'm looking for anything – such as published or unpublished personal memoirs, fic

Interesting Times of Israel blogpost; relatively long read but worthwhile: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/one-mans-lead-on-a-fight-to-save-jewish-history/ -- Ken Ryesky, Petach Tikva, Israel kenneth.

Does anyone know if it is possible to view images of the original (cyrillic) czarist Revision Lists posted in translation/transliteration at JewishGen.org? My particular interest now involves the Mins

Hello, My great-grandparents left Poland (Lodz) and immigrated to France in 1913. I always heard that they left for political reasons. Could someone tell me what could be understood by political reaso

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I've posted the following vital records in German for which I need a transcription of the handwritten script. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vie

After years of looking at inscriptions and imagery on matzevot (tombstones) in photos around the world, I recently realized that I have overlooked an important and significant marking that has appeare

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