I want to try and reach out to any descendant down the male line of:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Goldkette One can see in the article that it states that his father is unknown. It is is told i

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

Tomorrow (4/13) at 3:30 pm Eastern Time, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. We'll teach you how to search for your immigrant ancest

According to this link (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/pren/pren1.html) there was a pogrom in Prienai, Lithuania in August 1882, and there was a trial in which some of the participants in the pogro

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

Can anyone make sense of what this below document actually is and tells one? I have a Joseph Granek in my family tree - the brother of my Grandfather - no resolution as to what became of him -one of t

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

I am trying to trace descendants of Hannah Weiss Geller who was married to my Uncle Wolf (William) Geller from Tarnow, Galicia, Poland. Hannah was a US citizen and the passenger list of the Ship Bator

According to the Ciechanowiec YB, the GRA wrote this: “In my youth I arrived during my wanderings and strayings at the hamlet of Ciechanowiec which is full of scribes and sages. The rabbi there, R' Me

The Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society is thrilled to welcome Dr. Wendy Soltz on Sunday, April 18th at 2:00 p.m. for a program of “Northeast Indiana Historic Synagogues and Influential Familie

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO EXPLORING CITY DIRECTORIES A Family Tree Magazine Webinar Followed by Questions and Answers with Sunny Jane Morton VIRTUAL MEETING: View from home Wednesday, 28

I am interested in getting your help to translate the Hebrew on these family gravestones . Ancestors are thought to be from Lemberg, Austria emigrating to US in 1880s, buried in Cincinnati, Ohio. Than

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/

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

I would like to call your attention to a new, searchable database of interest to those with Hungarian-speaking relatives in Europe during World War II. In 1944, three non-governmental organizations in

"Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was publi

I've posted a record on ViewMate for the birth of my mother Frances Osman in Poland in about 1913. A complete translation would be appreciated. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.

A new book by Krzysztof Bielawski, The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries (Zagłada cmentarzy żydowskich), <> Bielawski <> The 280-page book is currently available only in Polish. More about it, includin

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

The attached image is a note that appears on the "after the fact" birth recording for Regina GREIF, daughter of Abraham & Kati (Grünspan) GREIF. I do not need an exact translation but do wish to know