My grandfather, Samuel Edelstein (Hebrew name Zechariah) lived part of his life in Boston and filed his Declaration of Intention there on February 16,1920. On it, he claimed to have landed in NYC on F

Dear All, I am looking for information on the fate of Dr. Aron Armand CIPERFIN. He was born in 1907/08 in the Russian Empire, but grew up in Budapest. Due to the Numerus Clausus, he studied medicine a

I just received the following copied message on Geni.com, connected to the profile of Karl Kutschera. I became interested in his genealogy while including his Café Wien in my book of historical fictio

A probable relative of mine is listed on a Yad Vashem Page of Testimony submitted in 2007 by a "researcher" named Xavier Messalati. On further checking, it appears that Mr. Messalati has submitted alm

Hello All; I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out the name of a town in Romania. It is mentioned in the marriage certificate of my great uncle and his first wife, my grandmother's sister in 1

Does anyone know where can I find pre WW1 BMD records for Rus Banilla? Thank you, Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545, Israel alyagon.genealogy@... Researching: ALYAGON (Israel), SHOCHET

Banilla Slobodzia, Bukowina Jewish Records? I would like to research the family of my great-grandfather: Shepsel (Sam) BURMIL (recto. Baar) b: Banilla Slobodzia, Bukowina 1877. Does anyone know if Jew

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project of JewishGen is proud to announce the publication of its103rd title, 'The Jews of Kaiserstrasse", The Jews who lived on Mainz's Park Avenue, by Michael Stowell Philli

Heirs of several Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have tried to regain possession of art treasure, specifically the Guelph Treasure, a collection of Christian relics. During the Nazi-era under pressure by

Hi, I am 71 years old and am trying to trace my family, all of whom came to the US from Belarus in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Is there anyone any of you know who does such work? I could even use

Hello All: I am trying to track down where my maternal great grandmother, Gitl Grinberg Vigderovici was born. I have the marriage certificate of one of my grandmother's sisters. It mentions their moth

There is a gravestone indicating that Raisa, the daughter of Shneur Katz, died in 1780 and is now buried in Potok Zloty cemetery. Please let me know if this is your family. I will share the gravestone

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando is hosting a Zoom meeting entitled “Missing Manifests – Tips for finding those elusive passenger lists” on December 8, 2020, at 7:00 pm ET, with Risa

I´ve been told that I can request documents such as birth certificates, passports, and others at The State Archives of Ternopil Oblast. On entering the site, the forms for requests are in Ukrainian. C

From the website geneanet.org, I found a link to record collection apparently at a French Archives (https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr)? I trying to figure out what it is and where I

Does anyone know how I can view the original Hungarian Jewish survivor list that was published in Hirek az Elhurcoltakrol in 1945? There is an entry for a Malvin Weisz who I am looking for, with sligh

"Over A Glass Of Tea With Nikita Khrushchev." How is that for an attention-grabber among titles of Yizkor book chapters? This one is from the book of Rokitno-Wolyn and Surroundings in Ukraine. Khrushc

Like many, I've found an immigrant ancestor deemed liable to become a public charge on a ship's manifest (July, 1909) whose appeal was dismissed and whose line on the manifest is stamped "DEPORTED." T

Hello! I've posted an 1863 marriage record in Polish of one of my Hartblaj relatives. I would be thrilled to get an English translation of this record. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http

I've posted a vital record in Russian? for which I really need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88851 Please respond