In the last ten years I am searching for information about my great grand grandfather Naftali (Eli) Hertz Raskin, who lived in the village of El'nya, close to Hotimsk, Mogilev, Belarus, and was a cant

Hello, I am wondering if anyone has access to records which may provide info./details on the parents of my ggggrandfather Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin With many thanks. Karen Saunders - researching Tik

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

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

Would anyone have access to records of Landsleitschaften societies in New York? I remember attending a dinner with my parents in the 1960s in New York from the Chimerovitzer Society. Several years ago

I am looking for a person in Liepaja, Latvia who can go to Liepaja Jewish cemetery and make a photo of Maimind gravestone. Information from Liepaja Jewish Cemetery Book 1909-1941 from website http://w

Search in Russian for Исаак Шнеиров Schneirow and Шнееров Schneеrow. Janet Furba, Germany

My cousin Benjamin Zimbrow came to America in 1906, and the passenger manifest says he was coming to a cousin named Itze Schneirow in Chicago. I have no idea how he's related, but I thought it would b

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

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/

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"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 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

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

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

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