Our next meeting is Monday, September 21st at 6:30pm Mountain time. Speaker: Todd Knowles Topic: What's New at FamilySearch. Register here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/115877571151613876

Rosh Hashanah begins this evening, and here I bring you two excerpts from Yizkor books about the holiday, one from Gorodets in Belarus and the other from Podhajce in Ukraine. The sounds of the shofar

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany commissioned a study among 50-states of Holocaust knowledge among millennials (born between 1981-1996) and Generation Z (born between 1996 and

Some time ago I investigated my Kaminsky grandmothers family. I found out they came from Yanova and searched for them in JewishGen. Because of some very clever men who worked on JewishGen (I would lov

My grandfather,Michael GOLDSMITH, was from Volochisk. He once told me his father was from Podvolochisk. Looking for information on either/both towns and trying to locate any family.

I don’t understand something. My grandparents came from zalbetov and kolmeya. My other grandparents came from kerson Russia in the early 1900s. Is it true that is inside Geisher Galacia?? I’m a beginn

Looking for any records of my Pevsner family, grandfather Gershon and his son Mordecai . Mordecai and his brothers owned a department store there which was burned down in a program in the early 1900 s

On the Ohio marriage license application, dated 1914, of my great-uncle HARRY VAPRIN (originally VAPRINSKY; on the application Harry's place of birth is written as "Russia" but he may have emigrated f

I have a ship log (Umbria, arr. NY Feb. 19, 1906) for my great grandfather Shmuel Raskin, his wife, and 7 children, the youngest of whom is Wolf, age 4. In the last columns on the ship log for Wolf it

In September 2019, one of my researchers, made a visit to Bar Ukraine and purchased a newly released book on the history of Bar written by Bar historian Mikhail Kupershteyn. The original book is writt

Help unravelling the mystery of Sarah and Victor LEVIN Sarah Levin was my great Aunt, born about 1861 in Izabelin, Belarus and married Vigder Levin also from 'Russia'. They had 2 children Abraham born

I would like to give a big shout-out to Center for Jewish History's weekly Genealogy Coffee Break series and in particular last week's session which lead to a big break-through in my family tree resea

Hello Fellow Genners, Prior to the previous increase in USCIS genealogy program fees nearly 4 years ago, I submitted a number of requests at that time. With the dramatic increase in USCIS genealogy pr

The Jewish agricultural colony of Zhankoye was in the Crimea, not Birobidzhan. The song's lyrics mention Simferopel and Sevastopol. Judy Baston San Francisco.

In the 1930s, my grandfather, Israel SIGAL, had a small textile shop with his name on the front, at Weyprechtgasse 3 in the 16th District / Ottakring. The landlord was named Kretschmer. Although the s

Does anyone have any family that came from Zagradowka (Zahradivka) in Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Jewish Gen doesn't list Zagradowka as a town where Jews lived, but I recently translated On a

Dear Researchers, Shana Tovah! Happy New Year to all of you. Let's new 5781 bring hope for everybody. Be safe and healthy. Yefim Kogan Bessarabia group Leader and Coordinator

Hi All, We recently discovered a small diary with poetry written by a grandmother in Hungarian during the aftermath of WWII. We can make out the names of great grandparents and more, thus making this

This is a call to anyone with Jewish roots in Jaroslaw, Poland (formerly Galicia). A yizkor book for Jaroslaw—"Sefer Yaroslav: gal-'ed le-zekher 'irenu"— was published in 1978 in Tel Aviv. JewishGen h

Andrzej Puchacz Warsaw, Poland