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

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

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

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

I've posted two Revision List entries in Russian for which I would greatly appreciate a translation. They are both posted on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vie

I am looking for the descendants of Abraham Silverman (or Zilberman) who arrived in Providence prior to 1904 from Letichev, Podolia Gubernia, in what is now Ukraine. He probably married after he arriv

I would be very grateful if one or more of you wonderful people would be willing to translate the genealogically relevant information from 4 nineteenth century French marriage records from Paris. Rece

I have posted a photo of the lady who was born around the 1860s. My family thinks she was a wife of Meer Rogovin from Minsk guberniya, but it may not be 100% true. We do not have her name. She should

I've posted the following vital record in German for which I need a transcription of the handwritten script. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview

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

Hello Any help translating this, Slonim Yizkor book 1 page XIV from Hebrew would be greatly appreciated. It is about my grandmothers cousin. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM9