I am searching for the family of Brunya Goldberg from Krepice, a town in southwest Poland near the German border. She was an older friend of my mother-in-law, Fela Granek Szymkowicz, and helped her su

Can anyone identify this town in Minsk? I cannot find Sibishoff anywhere on a map. Thank you, Mary Ellen Pollack #222350 -- I have a relative who says her grandfather was born in Minsk. I see on the m

My name is Connie Derosier Carter and I am new to JewishGen. I just found out this weekend, after 63 yrs of life, that I have Jewish roots in France and Canada! From what I can gather, the Guyon dit D

I am having a problem accessing the latest information added to LitvakSig. I sign in and try to find the collective data at the bottom of the page but can’t find the Kaunas district 1765 Grand Duchy o

A new file has been added to our records and it's the conclusion of our work on the 1834 revision list for Vilna Uyezd, including additional revision lists. There are now 15,974 lines in this file. Al

My apologies for my typo. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 not 1952. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee The Institute for Jewish Policy Research says the

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The Institute for Jewish Policy Research says the number of Jewish people in Europe has gone done by 60 percent in the past 50 years. The report says this is mostly due to the exodus from the former S

I have been looking on the internet this afternoon and not finding Russian/Polish dates to compare with American dates What I have figured so far (just using hopeful common sense). Abram & Mejta were

My GGGM was Betti Nuszbaum Steiner. She married my GGGF Refael Steiner and lived in Szilagynagyfalu (today Nusfalau, Romania) where she raised several children, among them my GGM Roza. There are exten

Hello all, I have been helping my dad with the maternal side of my genealogy, but we both seem to have hit a wall at my great grandfather's side of the family and I am hoping some distant relatives ar

you did not say "genuine what" I accept they exist but they sure mis-function David Lewin London, UK

Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto presents Jewish Records Indexing (JRI)–Poland Speaker: Stanley Diamond M.S.M. Executive Director, JRI–Poland, Inc. VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Wednesday, 28

Hello Genners, I'm not very familiar with researching in England or Australia and am reaching out for assistance trying to find some particular information about the family of a Michael (Chaim Chaikel

There were name lists in Germany created when the jews were required to take surnames in about 1815. Now that I am researching my husband's Solotwina ancestors I was wondering if there was anything si

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Hello. I would like to inform all those interested that I have published two books about Jewish families in Serbia: 1. “Jews of central Bačka during the first half of the 19th century” - the book cont

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston offers two Zoom programs in November: Complete program descriptions are available at www.jgsgb.org Nov 8 1:30PM EST Jonathan Brent-YIVO's Rediscovered

Subj: ViewMate photograph request - I've posted a photograph to identify some of the people pictured. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp

I think I have found a cousin that died as a baby (Lillie Shapiro) in Manhattan, NY 1905. On FamilySearch, I found 2 death items with burial dates 2 weeks apart AND different cemeteries. Parents names