Purim is next Friday, the joyous holiday that celebrates the saving of the Jews from a threatened massacre in ancient Persia. (So joyous that the Yizkor book of Klobuck, Poland notes that during the h

Last Wednesday I retrieved a listing from the data base, see the pdf enclosed. Today I can no longer call it up, neither can I retrieve other records which I have called up in the past. Can anyone tel

I'm requesting translation of the Russian writing for a Death Record. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91185 Please respond using t

I've had much luck in finding records pertaining to a lot of family members from the village, Vysni Hrabonice (Felsogereben) which is about 50km from Mukacheve and even closer to Vysni Verecky. None o

I am looking for relatives of Nathan Nuson Prashker/Praszkier, who was born in 1865 in Zdunska Wola, Poland to Chaskiel and Hendel Praszkier (nee Tausk) and died on November 20th 1925 in New York. He

The “IAJGS Salutes! Committee” is pleased to announce that Dorit Perry, Uri Sagi and “Giving a Face to the Fallen” have been awarded an IAJGS Salute! Award. IAJGS Salutes! are designed to provide reco

On behalf of the IAJGS Board and our current membership, it is with great pleasure that we welcome 3 new members to our growing family of IAJGS organizations: Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Geshe

Shalom, Looking for anyone (not limited to names below) with ancestors from STAWISKI, Poland. Please contact me direclty. Thanks, Ellen Moshensberg Searching: Stawiski: CHMIELEWSKI, GRUDZINSKI, REJMER

Shalom all, I would appreciate help in translating those 3 mid 19th century Russian texts taken from birth and marriage dcouments and revision lists. Regarding the first document, only entry number 47

Hello I've posted two records in Records for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91145 https://www.jewis

If both parents are Ashkenazi, children are named after deceased relatives, or not named for anyone, but never named for the living. If both parents are Sephardic, children are named for living relati

Hi All! Could anyone translate this headstone? Picture is attached. Thanks in advance! -- Amy Mitchell Researching: Kram, Kaltwasser, Mitchell/Mitzel, Spindel, Starobenitz/Starovenitz/Starr

In my great great uncles diary he mentions that a Rabbi Mordechai (Ruzhiner) of Pinsk was a relative of his mother. He doesn't mention the name ZACKHEIM but I understand that the Rav of Pinsk during t

Searching for Peltyn and Konopki families from Stawiski -Bruce Zatz

In the last few days, somebody methodically went through most (but NOT all) of the pages posted by Alex Krakovsky on Wikipedia and changed their URLs - everything is the same, the files are still ther

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has added a new collection to the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database (HSV): [Children of the Lodz Ghetto: A Memorial Research Project]. This collectio

A need Polish translation for 5 certificates from Przasnysz. I don't need word-for-word but details such as names, dates, ages, locations, occupations, and so on are very helpful. A birth certificate

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing Janek Jagielski, a giant in the preservation of Jewish memory in Poland. In the obituary posted on the Gazeta Wyborcza website, it refers

Dear Genners As many of you will be aware most Jewish towns today have a dedicated facebook group for researchers. Sadly nothing has been available for Kutno in Gubernia Warszawa, Province Lodz and su

CORRECTION: 2021 not 2020 MNJGS is hosting a Zoom event: A Detective Story Across Continents: Finding a 95-Year-Old Adoptee’s Birth Father on Feb 21, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST. Join us for a detective sto