Hello I wonder if someone could help me with the translation of the following birth certificate? It is in Polish. I hope you can help me. George Frankel San Francisco.

If anybody is able to photograph the headstone of Max FLETCHER, buried on 9 February 1967 in East Ham Cemetery, London in Section F, Row 1, Plot 3, I would be most grateful if they could email me the

Are the Cemetery Records for the Jewish Cemetery digitalized. If so, how does one access them. Thanks, Ed Gorn/ Canada

Are the synagogue records of the 7 shuls of Briceni digitalized? If so, how does one access them? Cheers, Ed Gorn/ Canada

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89569 Please respond via

The Consulate General of Greece in Los Angeles, the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, and Los Angeles Greek Film Festival announce a ten-day virtual event, Her

HI to all, and Happy New Year. I recently made it to the French National archives, and having been helped by some of you, am gald to offer any help, especially regarding the French files (Police, Iden

Ancestry announced today, January 14, 2021 they are discontinuing AncestryHealth which they started in 2019. It will no longer be available for sale as of January 15, 2021. Ancestry will continue to s

Hello all, I'm trying to understand an aspect of Polish history. In 1883 the town of Kalwaria, in Poland, was "degraded" (as one web site puts it), until 1919. What would this mean for the Jewish popu

Good afternoon all. My name is Rebekah Weisfeld Boerboom. My grandfather was Abraham Weisfeld. I am seeking any info that anyone may have. This is what I know: He was from Brest. He was a lawyer and w

Peter Absolon updated the 2,468 records from the Bardejov, Slovakia data set in JewishGen’s Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) The set has now been retitled “Slovak Je

Hello For anyone interested in the story of Ferramonti di Tarsia, the largest internment camp for Jews and others in Italy during WW2, there will be a one hour Zoom talk tonight hosted by DAVAR Bristo

My Great-Grandfather and his brother started Weitz Bakery when they came to Los Angeles in the 1920s. 3 generations worked there until it was sold and became Brooklyn Bagel Bakery in 1953. With all so

The 7th season of Finding Your roots with Henry Louis Gates begins on January 19 8Pm/7PM Central on your local PBS station—this is in the United States and possibly Canada. There will be ten episodes

German authorities have now handed over all 14 works from the art trove accumulated by late collector Cornelius Gurlitt that so far were proven to have been looted under Nazi rule. In 2012, the public

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has added a major collection, “Camp Westerbork Memorial –A Name and a Face”. This collection, https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?sourc

I am working on my genealogic history from a genetic standpoint as well as my family tree. I have had my DNA analyzed via 23andMe and was surprised to learn that I have a small percentage of Ashkenazi

Pilica alert!!! Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, the home of Jewish vital and other types of records of Poland, has indexed ***all*** surviving Pilica vital records back to 1808. And just like most o

“My Experiences” is a chapter of a long section in the Yizkor book of Kurów, Poland titled “In the Bunkers, Caves, Stalls, Fields and Forests (September 1939–May 1945): Memories from the Survivors.” I

I would appreciate help with translation the first name. Please respond on the ViewMate page. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?showmaster=1&viewmateid=89514 Thanks, Bob