Dear friends, Please join us for our quarterly meeting where we will be launching a new database and updating you on our recent activities. We will open the meeting to discussion and look forward to h

Sephardic World talk this Sunday! All free! During the 19th Century many Sephardic families from the city of Mogador/Essaouira in Morocco migrated to England where they became part of the rich fabric

IGRA's next Show & Tell will host Lance Ackerfeld talking about "Yizkor Books and Their Hidden Treasures" Yizkor books provide an important insight into the communities that were decimated during the

I am going to continue to do cemetery visits as long as the weather holds out in New York. I am offering photos from Mt Zion, in Maspeth, Queens. Please send me the specific names, dates and location

I am going to continue to do cemetery visits as long as the weather holds out in New York. I am offering photos from Mt Hebron in Flushing, Queens. Please send me the specific names, dates and locatio

-----Original Message----- From: wallachlevinson@... <wallachlevinson@...> To: jewishgen@... <jewishgen@...> Sent: Tue, Nov 17, 2020 10:11 am Subject: Travel from Galicia or Imperial Russia to Bessara

Twenty or thirty or more years ago, I would write to a distant relative who didn’t know me, and that person would answer my questions just based upon my statement that I was compiling a family tree. N

I've posted 2 old family postcards in German handwriting and would appreciate having them translated completely. One was sent in 1873. They will remain online for a limited number of days. They are on

Would someone kindly direct me to where I can print out German and Polish translations of the headings of AGAD birth, marriage and death records. Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching

On the Ellis Island passenger list for a relative arriving in New York in 1920, he listed his former residence as "Zanzire, Poland." Does anyone have any idea to which town this may refer? I had belie

Trying to make contact with the children of Sam Pearl 1910-93 who owned a grocery store in the Bronx, married Anne Finkelstein and have a son Jerry (Gerald, died in 2002) and daughter Shirley (born in

Trying to make contact with the children of Sam Pearl 1910-93 who owned a grocery store in the Bronx, married Anne Finkelstein and have a son Jerry (Gerald, died in 2002) and daughter Shirley (born in

Below is a list of localities submitted and approved as additions to JGFF towns database: Alberovice, Czech Republic Andreyevo-Ivanovka (ex Chernove), Ukraine Atkar, Hungary Balaceana, Romania Baikalo

Jewishgen Latvia Research Division. Please join us for our quarterly meeting where we will be launching a new database and updating you on our recent activities. We will open the meeting to discussion

Hi folks, I need someone who’s willing to visit the National Archives in College Park, MD on my behalf, presumably when it reopens (see https://www.archives.gov/college-park. The candidate should pref

Hello. Does anyone know what the abbreviation P.i. means following a surname in Poland, Jewish birth, death, marriage records? Thanks in advance for your help. -- Steve Daggers Shorewood, Illinois

i am looking for details about:1.moshe chaim pasmanic born in poland.he moved to hungary and got ginsberger as a new surname.we know hi born 1838 and death 1893 and that he was shochet in hungary in a

My 2nd great grandmother's brother, Herman Fabian's naturalization record indicates he was from "Gross Gevitz" Hungary. I have not been able to locate any other document, link, or information mentioni

Hello there. I'm new to the Jewishgen groups and I found this thread. My great grandfather was Charles (or Kallman) Arndt born in Nakel in 1831. He moved with his family to Liverpool sometime between

-- Hi, I'm looking for the family of Gerszon Nachimowicz, a tailor in Warsaw who survived the Holocaust and joined his brother Mortka in Argentina. He may have been married to Sarenka (Sofia) Rozenpik