I'm helping a friend research her great grandfather, who had the name 'Aron Kos Szaler' on his birth (1858) and marriage (1879) records found in JRI-Poland for the town of Krylow in Lublin gubernia. H

“Resources for Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland—What’s New” will be the topic of a talk by genealogist Mike Karsen for the Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois virtual meeting

Hello, I am trying to locate the image that matches the Bessarabia Revision list record attached here. I would greatly appreciate if someone would help me find it. Thank you, Tammy Weingarten NEYMAN:

October 19 at 7:30 PM Eastern time: https://youtu.be/k8l2X-cD8xM Victoria Barkoff

Has anybody asked for a birth certificate from around 1916 from Warsaw, Poland?. I do not have the exact date of birth of my mother in law or the correct spelling of her father's last name, so some re

The Rotterdam City Archives, Netherlands, Gemeentearchief te Rotterdam, digitized and indexed the Holland-America Line Passenger Lists 1900-1974 from the lines’ archives (Passenger lists from 3 May 19

My cousin Monica Shapiro has asked me to help her find a passenger list for the ship Caribia sailing to Trinidad from Hamburg. Her mother Gertrude sailed from Hamburg on Nov 11 1938 arriving in Port o

The next Utah JGS meeting is on Monday, October 19, at 6;30pm Mountain time. We have Brooke Schreier Ganz presenting Reclaim the Records: Using Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogy. Will she ment

JewishGen Offers Education November Class: Prussia and the Baltic States Nov 1 to Nov 22, 2020 This course will cover the land of the Baltic Prussians whose German heritage dominated the area of the B

A friend's paternal grandfather came from Bolechow, Galicia (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine). He was wondering whether Jews from that town had a tradition of sitting in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret (8th day o

Does anyone know if the 1933 German census is available, preferably online? I am looking for a Dr. Selig in Berlin. Ruth Bloomfield London

I have been asked to give a presentation on doing Jewish Genealogy in Belarus. Has anyone got any ideas besides Belarus Research Division, FamilySearch and my handout from Yuri Dorn and a handout from

Interested in making contact with descendants of the JERUSALEMSKY family from Sczuchin who came to the USA around the turn of the 19-20th century. In the USA most of them changed their family name to

Racheli Kreisberg has been developing an amazing house number mapping project for 15 years. Towns she has worked one include Skala Podoskaya: https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/skalapodol/Skala%20House

My mother-in-law, Hella Wexler nee Wenig, was born in Dynow Poland on Sep 28, 1931. Her parents were Joseph Weinig(Jun 28, 1891) and Miriam Kasser(Nov 23, 1900). Hella had 3 half brothers, as both Jos

My paternal grandmother was Tzipe LENZ (B1887 Buchach). She had at least two siblings - Chaya SCHWARZ (DOB unknown) and Sara Lea ROCK (born 1870). Their parents were Israel Majer MORGENTHAL and Freude

Can anyone recommend a reliable archivist to obtain family records from Polotsk, Belarus? Earl Zeitlin; Monsey, NY

Hello everyone, I am helping somebody to research their GUCKENHEIMER roots going backwards from the marriage of Rosa GUCKENHEIMER to Emil OPPENHEIMER in about 1866 in Nuernberg. It appears that Rosa w

Hello Everyone, I'm looking for information about my great grandfather who was Yehuda PLAMOVATH, son of Aharon, born about 1859. He emigrated with his wife and child to Liverpool, England from Soroca,

One of the newsletters and blogs I subscribe to is LostCousins.com which is a UK based newsletter. In the current issue there is an article on US World War l Burial certificates for American service p