1/11/21 Main Group, Looking for archive newspapers from Odessa, Ukraine from around 1900 -1913. Odessa archives don't have. Anyone have experience in locating older newspapers for Odessa? Appreciate f

One of our cousins, Julius LASSEN/LISHINSKY/LESCHINSKY son of Isaac/Isaiah from the Ukraine was known within the family as "Cuttie". Does anyone have any idea what this nickname might refer to? Thank

Hi everyone, my ggg-grandfather Nathan MINKOWITZ (c. 1848-1917) worked as a butcher in the Lower East Side from the mid-1890s to about 1910 and had a shop on 126 Monroe St. I know his store was involv

Recently I received the results of my DNA from Ancestry, and the first name on my list of matches is William Siegler, who is listed as a first cousin. It is a very close match but I doubt that he is a

Hello Help - are there ever any notes to read after the Zoom talks/meetings? For instance the latest one on the 24th is full and I can't get on, particularly interested in this one. In general are the

It was told to me that when my grandfather immigrated to the port of Boston on the SS Corean, arriving July 5, 1907 under the name of NOCHIM DRUBITZKY, he travelled with HAIMA/HAIME HOCHMAN who went t

Hello everyone, I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww

Dear Group, In my continuing search of my roots in Moravia I found a document relating to my fifth Grandfather Israel WOLF relating to what I think is a property transaction in Hranice (Weisskirchen).

1/11/21 Main Groups, Former Jewish cemetery{2nd } in Odessa,Ukraine that is now Artillery Park in Odessa,Ukraine.Apparently the communists had destroyed/vandalized the headstones. Looking for burial r

NEINKEN parents (Lipmann & Sara) and children (who identified their birthplace as Riga) emigrated to U.S. about 1893. Although there are possible records of this family in Lithuania, I find no other e

I have posted an image of a handwritten town name which I am looking for assistance interpreting. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM

Join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut on Sunday, January 17, 2021, at 1:30 pm (Eastern) via webinar as we welcome Marian Burk Wood, JGSCT member and experienced genealogy speaker, blogge

JRI-Poland has come into possession of a 1929 Census of the Jews of Knyszyn, a town near Bialystok and Tykocin. The Census is written in Polish. A sample page is attached. The project is to transcribe

Back by popular demand, later this month I will be leading virtual workshops on Beginner to Intermediate genealogy research. Upcoming workshops are shown below, both of which are being offered at two

Tomorrow (1/12) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. We will chat live with our guest, writer and Center for Jewish Hi

Hello all: I am wondering of anyone recognizes these lines written in of verse? They were part of a letter to my grandmother, in Romania, in December 1915. I am told they are Russian and some kind of

I'm working on the 1874 birth registrations for the town Warka, now Poland but previously Russian Empire. Hence these registrations are Russian. There are five birth registrations for 1874 which do no

Scattered all over the world, descendants of Jewish families whose roots can be traced back to places in Baden-Württemberg still live today. The Gäu-Neckar-Alb memorial association would like to help

Dear Group, As per the attached Lodz Registration Card from 1916-1921, Chaja Hena KON (nee Gurman), was living in Lodz as a widow, originally from Pultusk, born about 1855. There is a well known Gurma

I'm researching my family Genealogy and hit a dead end In relation to my ancestor by the name of Marrianne Dinkel Neé Neuberger married to Jacob Dinkel. I have no clues as to where she was born as wel