Trying to make contact with the family of Rabbi Dovid Kwitz who died in 2009 and was Rosh Yeshiva Mir in Brooklyn. A son was married to the daughter of Baruch Avraham Friedman who owned a grocery stor

Hi, For a research project I am interested to get in contact with anyone who was born in Belgium in or before 1931. Please contact me at heinsmanreinier@... Thank you very much! Reinier Heinsman The N

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

My great-aunt Sarah COLLE Goldner traveled from Montreal to the United States in 1937 to visit her married daughter. She reported on the border-crossing document that she was born in 1886 in BOHUSS NE

-- 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

Hi all I would be most grateful if someone could please translate the record at the link below. I can’t save it or reduce it in size, so all I could do was bookmark it. It is for the marriage of Hersz

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

Has anyone heard of: Genealogical Revelations of Hungarian Jewish Families - First Volume Editor - Munkatchi The Magyar spelling of the Editor's name would actually be: Munkacsi. Does anyone have a co

My great grandfather Israel BERGMANN b. 03 Apr 1860 in 'Tultscha', Romania; d. 21 Apr 1917 / 3 p.m. in Berlin death certificate # 795/1917 was buried Thursday, 26 Apr 1917 / 1 p.m. at Grave # 50576; f

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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

The COLLE family may have immigrated to Montreal through Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, not Buenos Aires, Argentina. There is disagreement among family members about this MY ORIGINAL EMAIL IS BELOW: I have b

Hi, everyone. I'd like to introduce myself: I am an ATA-certified German-to-English translator specializing in German-Jewish records, genealogy, and Holocaust-era correspondence. Old German script (Sü

I have recently learned that a distant cousin, Rochel GERVIC (b 1893, daughter of Devorah CHESARSKI/TSESARSKI and Berelis GERVIC/GERVICIUS), her husband Mausa/Moisey TRAUB (b 1891), and their daughter

Don't forget: The Jewish Genealogy SIG meeting in Tues Feb 9 10AM ET on Zoom RSVP RSVP to genresearch13@... for a Zoom Link and more info about the group. -- Arthur Sissman Jewish Genealogy SIG of Nap

I have been unable to find the ship that transported my great-grandparents and their several children who arrived in Montreal in 1900 from Romania. There is a possibility that they first went to Bueno

YOAV ARAN Shalom friends, I hope you are all keeping well. I am trying to find the parents of my ancestor Clara Barends, born 1758 in Amsterdam. I know from records she married civilly in January 1796

I am looking for a service or person who, for a fee, can translate a 4-page letter written in Yiddish in 1919 by my great-grandfather Jacob Josef (Yaakov Yosef) COLLE. This probably has no bearing on

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