Oceanic Journey to America-Traveling in Steerage Class Speaker: Nancy Levin, CG Sunday • March 14 • 2021 10 AM to 12 PM Mountain Remember Daylight Savings Time Change 9:30 AM A Schmear, A Schmooze, an

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

Seeking the last name of woman who ran the first soup kitchen in Tsfat, across from the Arizal Shul. Her first name was either Chaya Sara or Miriam Sara. Her maiden name was Schachter. Seeking informa

Looking for SHAMES family from Kremenets or Vyshgorodok, Ukraine, Mickel Shames born 1875 married Rejzla Bela Press born 1879 from Vyshgorodok, moving to Argentina and possibly known as Shoshana. Two

FamilySearch.org has the index of marriage licenses for Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I can no loger find the microfilms of the licenses. Does anyone know what happened to them? Arthur Rosenthol Bala Cyn

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

As an experienced researcher but a newbie to DNA, I'm struggling with interpreting the results. I did the basic autosomal test with Ancestry and uploaded my data to GEDmatch and MyHeritage for maximum

I would appreciate if someone could translate the Hebrew on the attached headstones Deborah Ross

Hello there. I'm new to the Jewishgen groups and I found this thread. My great grandfather was Charles (or Kallman) Arndt born in Nakel in 1831. He moved with his family to Liverpool sometime between

I have a name of a relative from pre-war Poland: Sevek, last name may be Zekiel. Any suggestions on what his Jewish/Yiddish name might have been. He was married to my aunt Hinda (Nina) Feld who was bo

Hi I am looking for documentation of: Population Lists / Address Book / Business Directory, In Tarnow, Poland, between the years 1920-1939 I would love to receive information / reference with gratitud

RootsTech 2021 was held 25-27 February 2021. If you missed RootsTech, or had to more sessions to attend and the time ran out, don’t fret! While RootsTech 2021 is over, their programs are available onl

Shalom, Although February is the shortest month, I think you’ll see that we were not short of activity over the last month. Many projects made great progress, coming that much closer to being fully co

Looking for family members of Meir Goldstein married to Edel Plaut 1800s Felsberg Germany. Chana Goldman Chana@...

I've posted two pages (male and female) from the 1851 Revision List from the Letichev District (Ukraine) in Russian for which I would greatly appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the followi

The 2021 Census Questionnaire of Northern Ireland reportedly is ignoring minority religions such as Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Pagan or Baha’i. The questionnaire does include Roman Catholic, Presb

I'm curious if anyone knows the particularities of how lists of conscripts, and "men avoiding the draft", were created around WWI in the Russian Empire. I'm pretty confident that I've found family mem

I’ve posted three nineteenth century Russian documents on ViewMate that I recently received from the Lithuanian Archives. They are from the 1834 Revision List and various tax/voter lists. I’m hoping s

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

Call for Applications Reminder: Deadline is March 12th The Call for Applications from candidates interested in serving on the IAJGS Board of Directors is now open. This year, as it is an odd-numbered