The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State invites you to a free Zoom presentation Monday evening, 3/8/2021, at 7 p.m. Pacific Time: "The Alex Krakovsky Project: Navigating the Wiki to Locate

Trying to make contact with the descendants of the famous rabbinical Rokeach family, a branch which settled in Albany, Middletown and Colonie, NY. Richard Edwin Rokeach died in Albany in 1995, son of

My late mother in law left us a box of family history notes regarding her Kadishevitz grandparents and g grandparents who were from the shtetl of Anyksciai, Lithuania. Several of the names in her note

In my family genealogy search I have come across a man with a first name of Shaia. Could this be related to the name Solomon or...?? Thanks for any help, George Mason USA Researching: MOZESON in Lithu

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

Hitting brick walls with my NY family ancestors. Does anyone know if there is any way to get NYC vital records of ancestors without paying for them? I hate to pay for records if I'm not even sure I ha

My both grandfathers were in prison in ussr for several years from trump up charges one in 1937 and one in 1941. They both released and equited but nobody spoke about the reasons or where they were. D

Asking assistance to help me figure out a surname. Our family is DATZ/DATS from the Ukraine (Kopaigorod/Mogilev Podol'sk). I have found a relative and family listed in Yad Vashem and certain they are

Have you taken a DNA test to learn more about your family history, but are not sure what your results mean? Tomorrow (3/9) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for th

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

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91501 https://www.jewishge

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

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)

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/roof-collapses-on-dilapidated-18th-century-former-synagogue-in-ukraine -- NTalbot Brooklyn, NY ninaitalbot@... NEGER, SPINRAD (Dynow, Poland) TOLPEN (Suchostaw, Poland/

I am trying to connect with Sarah Feuerman, who is the coordinator of the Hungarian SIG indexing project. I have sent numerous messages to her email address, but got no response. Has anyone be in touc

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 grandfather's family traces back to 19th century Volkovysk, Russia, which is now called Vawkavysk and is in Belarus. The family relocated to Grodek (Horodok), Poland in the 1880s or 1890s.

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

We invite you to attend a special presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars: The fate of Holocaust victims in Yad Vashem's documentation and Projects* Speaker: Serafima Velkovich Tuesday