Can anyone recommend a reliable archivist to obtain family records from Moletai, Lithuania and Svencionys, Lithuania. Earl Zeitlin: Monsey, NY

I’ve been searching for any immigration papers for my great aunt Mollie Schiff from Slutsk. I have found all of her half and full siblings ship manifests but I can’t find hers. According to the 1900 c

I believe there was a message on this list the last few weeks regarding KNAPF (or variant spelling). I accidentally erased it. Can it be reposted? Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

I've posted a photograph on Viewmate with a name or phrase written in what I assume is Russian at the bottom. I'd like a translation. You can see the photo here: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vie

Hi everyone, Now that I got the birth places sorted, I am hoping to find census information on great-grandparents and their siblings. They were all born between 1885-1905ish. All were born either in D

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are over 1,600,000 records available in our databases. With each release we provide a

Winter Credit: Gari Melchers The painting “Winter” by American impressionist Gari Melchers was one of more than 200 pieces of artwork seized by Nazis when the Mosse family fled their home in Germany i

The Claims Conference has negotiated significant increases with the German government in compensation and social services due to the Coronoavirus. The payments will be metered out over two years. Appr

I have just started searching for information on my grandparents and have not found anything on the JewishGen site. My grandmother Ida (Chaya) BACKRACK was probably born in Lokhvytsya, Poltava, Ukrain

My Great Grandfather, Alexander Borisovich Shneyer was said to be in Charge of the Hospital in Kronstadt (Dentist) and whose wife, Anna Alterman Shneyer was in charge of the communication system in th

<Jews were not allowed to live in these cities (St Petersburg) in the 19th century. If the did it wss because they worked for a wealthy or politically or military family. > Generally, Jews were not pe

I request help in translating a Yiddish handwritten message on the back of a postcard. The photo on the postcard front shows my great-aunt Friedel Lewin nee Jelin standing by a fencepost, presumably t

Howard Martin Iglow of Chicago & Rancho Mirage, CA was the father of Greory Baines Iglow of Los Angeles and Agoura Hills, CA. The family descends from the Menachis-Bergson-Sonnenberg-Horowitz rabbinic

I've recently seen several references (on JewishGen) to Jews employed by the Czar. Considering the general distain Russians exhibited (and still exhibit) towards Jewish people, was this a reality? --

We invite you to attend another free presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars, with our speaker, Dr. Alan Levine. Translating Russian Documents for the Non-Russian Speaker Wednesday, Oct

My GF Sam Stein ran a tavern at 1900 Grand Ave & my aunt and uncle a restaurant attached to the taven at Grand & Damen in Chicago. Does anyone have memories of this, or photos? The Tavern remained in

Sorry - I cannot help with your search but do you recognize any of the following please? David Lewin London Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who, despite the passage of so many years since

I would like to connect with survivors (and their children) of a group of 500 Hungarian/Slovak jewish women (and 300 jewish women from Lodz). My mother Manci Rachel Aranka Berger (nee Hutter) was part

Hello, I've posted 2 vital records in Russian for which I need translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM86953 https://ww

On 03 Aug 2020 Mark Halpern wrote to the Discussion Group - below His email is now bouncing. Is anyone in contact with him please? David Lewin