Looking for Louis Rutledge and Anna nee Goldstein - both from Russia. They had a son Arthur Rutledge. He married to Rebecca nee Friedman of West Virginia on January 4, 1921 in Hamilton, Ohio. They mov

I was informed by his son, Philip, that genealogist Al Lederer, a retired professor at the University of Kentucky, passed away on October 4. Al and I shared an interest in the former Jewish community

I was just alerted to this story by a friend. I haven’t read it yet but thought someone might be interested. https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2020/11/02/genealogy-became-great-jewish-pastime/ Barbara

Some years ago, Martha Lev-Zion generously translated and donated to JewishGen an abstract of the family register of the heads of Jewish families in Goldingen in 1842. Often these manuscripts contain

The Isle of Man “rich sound archive” will be digitized and put online as part of a British Library project. The archive will include recordings of the last native Manx speakers and wartime internees.

I have a gravestone picture of Rosa Hadad (?) the daughter of Shneier Katz. She died in 1826 The gravestone has been hard to read clearly. If this is a relative, please let me know privately, and I wi

Join us for: Jewish Genealogy SIG December Meeting Tues, Dec 8 on Zoom 10:00 – 11:30 am, EST. For a Zoom invite, please send email to Arthur Sissman genresearch13@.... For questions or submission of t

Hello and greetings to everyone, Was it uncommon for the husband to come to the US _after_ his wife and children? I know anything is possible, and yet it seems like an oddity. I gathered that, in gene

Hi Genners I am researching my paternal great grandfather Betazlel /Tzalel/Tzaleh Blachman for Apt/Opatow, Poland. He was born to Gabriel Blajchman and Chia Chana Mer in Opatow in 1855 and died in Opa

I have found the following information on JewishGen and believe I am related to this family. Are any aware of descendants (I believe there are some presently living in Russia or possibly Israel)? Shli

Dear All, Happy after-Thanksgiving, I hope you are all doing well. My late grandfather was born on or about 31 Jan 1906 in the town or municipality of Zavidovići (formerly part of the Austria-Hungaria

I am searching for records from Waschkoutz. In FamilySearch I have found "Births 1918-1928". Does anyone know where can I find earlier records? Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545, Israe

Can someone please advise how (if possible) to find a birth record for a child / death record for the mother on the same day (Vilnius 1947). The child was given up for adoption so the birth name is un

I probably share too many Yizkor book excerpts about market day in the shtetls. But the reason I am drawn to them is the vibrant picture of life that each presents. The reconstructed conversations tha

I am researching a family HIRSCH / MANDEL that lived in Philadelphia. The husband died in 1921 and is buried in Har Nebo and the wife died in 1941 and also buried there. No real information is on eith

Is Sonnenglanz a Jewish name. It is very rare. I had relatives who lived in Niederschlesien. Any ideas? Roderick Carberry

I've posted a marriage record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. The marriage took place in 1896 in Szombathely. It is on ViewMate at the following address: front page: https://www.jewishgen

Hi, Is it possible the town is KaschaU (and the script N is really a script U)? This would be present day Kosice, Slovakia. See alternate names at: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?

May I please ask for a translation of the plaque? thank you Valentína dora Krevisky

Her name was Molly Cohen. She was born in Vilna in the mid 1890's and passed away in NY in 1837. I know she had a brother Ben Cohen who lived in the Bronx in the mid 1950's to early 1960's when he pas