The JGS of Greater Boston presents Amy Wachs-History and Geography-Tools for Eastern European Research Jan. 31, 2021 1:30PM EST-Zoom Meeting. Free for JGSGB Members, $5.00 for Non-members. For informa

Dear Latvia Group, I'm trying to determine if my family in Latvia could have originally come >from Spain or Portugal after the Jewish populations there were expelled in the 1500s. My grandfather, Jose

Happy New Year Cousins! I'm trying to figure out a possible puzzle. I say possible, because I'm not even sure I have the right people (same common name). According to one index I found, it has my cous

The next IGRA Show & Tell session will be on Monday, January 11, 2021 at 9 pm Israel time (2 pm EST) in English. (The same session will be held in Hebrew on January 25.) The Central Database of Shoah

Shmuel Leib CITRON (1860-1930), Hebrew and Yiddish journalist, writer, and critic. https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Zitron_Shemuel_Leib He was born in Minsk and from 1903 lived in Vilnius. He

Does anyone have up-to-date information on how to purchase a copy of Dr. Thomas Weggemann's The Speaking Stones of Siret? I find it described at a kehilalinks site, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/b

Hello, my name is Judy Bowman. My great-grandfather Israel Bowman's last name was Baumgarten, born in "Wladyslawow, Poland" (which is surely Lithuania) May 18, 1880(sometimes other dates given). The l

An interesting story in today's New Yorker: Inside the U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art | The New Yorker Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, OK Researching Leet, Brom, Gitow, Goldfarb, Merin

The French Police Surveillance Dossiers of the Interwar Period- les Fonds de Moscou have an online index. This covers about 650,000 people on whom the French police were spying. The index was created

Tomorrow (1/5) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. Did your family arrive in American before the mass migrations of t

We are searching for information about children born to our father Israel Rzezak and his first wife Hinda Pessa Fuks Rzezak. they lived in Lodz, Poland. Hinda had children born to this couple before 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 fellow gersigers, I will appreciate transcripts of these two documents https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89358 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89

Hello, I've posted vital records in Polish for which I'd appreciate a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88893 http

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89347 Please respond via t

Does anyone know how to get a photo of a grave on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem? The person in question, Yeruchim Tsvi Rotkowitz, died in 1910. A family member is known to have seen the grave in 19

Begin forwarded message: From: Carin Miller <carmil36@...> Date: January 2, 2021 at 2:51:08 PM EST To: main@... Subject: Piotrkow Poland I am trying to find information about my great grandfather, Abr

I'm looking for GREENBAUM relatives of my ancestor Maly GRUNBAUM/GREENBAUM who was from the village of Natafalva, Hungary, which is now Nacina Ves, Slovakia. If you are a descendant of people by that

I am requesting a Full translation of one entry in the Hungarian Civil Registration of Marriages -- 1922 It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.a

Hello all! The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our bonus monthly meeting featuring our guest speaker, Gary Pokrassa the Data Acquisition Director of the JewishGen