Attached on Viewmate https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91488 you will find a photo of my grandfather Louis (born Leib) Weintraub with his wife. I am uncertain if this is his fi

Does anyone know if there are copies of original passport applications accessible through a central archive office in Poland? I have checked with Piotrkow Trybunalski archives for the years 1860-1868

Is there anyone on this page that have family members that knew Arthur Penn and Irving Penn's mother Sonia Freda's family? Her maiden name was Greenberg. Born in 1894 in Novo Alexandrovsk, Russia - Li

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

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91519 Please respond via t

Hello all! I have been going over documents of an ancestor of mine and he has listed his foreign residence as many different places. They are as follows: Padol-Russia, Podol-Russia, Russia, Romania, a

I'm looking for the Great Synagogue, London, marriage record for my GG grandparents. Solomon Levy married Ann Levy on 27th June 1860 in the Great Synagogue. Yes, her maiden name was Levy and her husba

I just discovered, thru the help of the Together Plan, a 3rd ggrandather and other family members named Esel. Can anyone help me with what Hebrew name this might correspond? TIA, Sharon Rottman

In researching my Gordon ancestors, I've found what I think is evidence of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as far back as my great-grandfather. I'm writing here in hopes of connecting with others

Karen Saunders (Frank family from Berlin)

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN) invites you to a Zoom meeting at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on Sunday, March 21: “Why Did Our Jewish Ancestors Leave a Great Place Like t

Once I have found an original Vital Record eg Birth of an individual what is the best way to capture it so I can then upload it to my FTM tree and also post for translation? So far I have been taking

My paternal grandmother always told us that her mother, Rivka GRUBER, née FEINGOLD, was killed during World War One as a member of the medical corps. I assume with the Austrian army as they lived in G

Does anyone know what the difference is between the 4th edition and the 5th edition of the book In Search of Your German Roots by Angus Baxter. I have the 4th edition in the OCJGS Library so I am wond

Hello, My gggrandfather was Morris Levinsky, born in porozovo, Belarus as itsko mowsha Levitsky son of Mendel. I only have him listing his home town in NYC Naturalization. The family moved to Dvinsk b

OK Guys - have another COHEN to uncover: David (no known middle name) COHEN, b: October 15, 1888, Lithuania, or “Russia”. Around 1917 he lived at 1525 S. Hamlin Ave, in Chicago, and appears as a witne

For a Rachel Hess who died 1865 in Salem Fields Cemetery, NY. Thank you for your help! photo attached Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA dsfaec@... Searching for: FRIEDMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SHULMAN

Hi I have attached a photo of a headstone of a Rachel Hess who died in 1918. Thank you for your help, Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA dsfaec@... Searching for: FRIEDMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SHULMAN

I am trying to learn more about my grandparents who came from Libaw, Russia in 1911. My grandfather Alex Sitnitsky, was born in Iwankoff Russia on 2/1/1883. He was married to Ethel and they lived in R

Before the well known and meticulously translated 1939 census, conducted in Stanislawow/Ivano-Frankivsk by the Polish government, there were 2 other censuses - one in 1857 and another one in 1900 - bo