I have been researching my maternal grandparents and great grandparents. I have been successful in learning where they lived (Givozits,in Galicia) and what their names were ( Meyer Brecher, Rachel( Sc

Shalom, Each month, I am both surprised and gratified to look back over the accomplishments and progress we have managed to achieve and this month is no exception. Firstly, those regular visitors to t

Hi Judy I believe that ‘Wladyslawow’ may refer to the town of Wloclawek, [ the ‘l’ s should be slashed through, converting the sound to ‘w’. It is pronounced roughly ‘Vwotzwavek’ ) The town is today i

I was hoping someone could translate my great uncle Elya Shvets's Russian passport, including both the printed and handwritten words if possible. Any help would be much appreciated. Howard Brown Stowe

Hi All! Does anyone know of towns possibly named Paolona (Russia) and Lita (Russia)? One of my relatives listed Paolono as his birth town on his Declaration of Intent, and Lita as that of his wife. I'

Exciting news from Bratislava/Pressburg, Slovakia! Several hundred gravestones from the 17th-19th century that were thought to have been destroyed between 1942-44 have just been discovered. Pressburg

We all know about nicknames for given names. Dick/Richard, Bill/William, Valodya/Vladimir, and so on. I have a genealogical mystery that can be resolved if the family name KONYAKOV, pronounced KONyako

Hi all, I'm looking for good sources online where I'd be able to research a correlation between an old Jewish Portuguese family who left in the 1600s and emigrated to Germany where they converted to C

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Hello folks, I just finished watching Dr. Sacks Zoom lecture and am looking for the place to submit questions on JewishGen per her suggestion. I am looking for help in understanding our surname Hans/H

I just learned that my great-grandparents Max and Eugenie Gans-Schiller may have lived next door to Freud in Vienna, sometime before 1910. Is there any way to verify this? Rick Glaser

Back in early December, I ordered two records from the US CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services). One was for a search for a Visa file for my great grandfather Hyman Lock, who arrived in the US in

hi thank you for any help offered. I need help translating the in between bits of this birth record. I have successfully worked out most of the record however it is severl words in the part that has m

Hi I'm trying to track down any society records, and ideally photographs of the Jewish community in late 19th Century Cardiff. Has anyone come across or can direct me to where I can possibly find? In

Looking for Gologary/Gologory Marriage certificate from 26.9.1906 L46, Document from the 1st Volume, page 193, number 10 This information was found through JRI-Poland and then AGAD (Fond 300 AGAD Arch

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you to a virtual presentation: April 18 at 10:30 a.m.: Finding Jewish Records in the New MyHeritage Search Engine, presented by Daniel Horowitz of MyH

-- I would appreciate insight by JG’ers…..why would a wife file for her naturalization in 1934 receiving approval in 1935 when her husband was naturalized in 1922 before the law changed? There are sev

“The Forest Girl, “ a chapter from the Yizkor book of Mizoch, Ukraine is an account of Kayla Goldberg-Tzizin’s journey of survival as the town’s ghetto was about to be destroyed. It is a story of emot

Hi, I've been told that relatives are buried in the Odd Fellows section of a cemetery in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Unfortunately, I've yet to be able to find a cemetery with such a secti

I recently got a copy of my great-grandparents' marriage certificate. It was issued in Manhattan in 1899, and as a bit of a treasure has their parents' names--something I hadn't been quite sure of bef