The JGS of Greater Boston presents Deborah Munk Long-Out of the Whirlwind: Finding Your Family Lost in the Holocaust Sunday Dec. 6 1:30PM-3:30PM EST Free for JGSGB members. $5.00 for Non-Members. Info

I have 19th-century cousins in Eishyshok/Eisiskes using Moshchennik as a surname. Online sources assure me it is Russian, but translate it as “cobbler,” or “paver.” Then there are recent Russian newsp

I've posted a marriage record in Polish for Aron Dank and Reizel Goldberg. I would appreciate a full translation of the record. The record of interest is the second entry on the page. It is on ViewMat

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The Jewish Galicia Museum has a new app which focuses on Poland’s rich Jewish history outside of the Holocaust. Due to the pandemic the museum was not open therefore, online access to the Museum becam

Kia ora all, I am looking for family of Adolf ENGEL who married Eugenie BISS b 1882 Vienna, d 1938 Vienna. Adolf's parents were Markus ENGEL b abt 1830 Szenica (now Slovakia), d aft 1912 possibly Vien

If you don't normally read Lithuania messages on this list, this message is especially for you. It is about the Vilnius household registers, a project of LitvakSIG, and yes, of course Vilnius is in Li

This photograph was found in my great-grandmother's collection without any identifying information or date. I would appreciate any help you can provide about the type of uniform and medals and date of

I have posted two vital records in Russian for which I need a translation. 1. I would like to know the complete details for the ZHITOMIRSKIY family listed as Family #5 on page 109 of the 1882 Skvira c

Hello, I am requesting translation assistance with the Russian entries on a Latvian Revision List page. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?

Hello, I've posted 2 Latvian Revision List pages for translation of the German entries. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88521

Hello everyone, I've posted 5 vital records in Russian for which I need a translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ... 1. Marriage record of GUTERMAN - WAJSBROT: https://nam12.saf

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As far as I can tell, my father’s maternal family lived in Lithuania from at least about the 1820s-30s, but they had a Germanic surname, Steinberg. I am wondering if there was a mass migration of Jews

Good evening I am looking for the date of death of BRUHA BRUNKA MEDNIC MEDNICK wife JOINOVICI or JOANOVICI born in Kichineff (Chisniau) on 03/27/1901 as well as the cemetery where she is buried. She g

Well my maternal grandmother lived with us and Zaslav was her original home town. After she married she moved to Proskurov. I have fond memories of her kreplach which she would make once in a while. S

I have been doing some research to come up with the area/place one of my ancestors is from but I seem to be getting conflicting places in my research. The census data for the birthplace of one of my a

I'm aware of some WALDER ancestors who migrated from Lvov in Galicia to either Vienna or to German cities (Berlin, Leipzig, and others) in the latter half of the 19th century. Are there any databases

Hello All; I am trying to find out the given name and other details for my aunt's brother. My aunt, Edith Marcu, was born in Czernowitz in 1913. Her maiden name was Willig. I know that her father's na

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