JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Poland SIG Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and the Pandemic – an Update Directly from Poland with Witold Wrzosinski, Director of the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Polan

Another Jewish publication has announced it is closing shop in print. The Arizona Jewish Post will cease publication on March 1 after 75 years covering the Jewish population of Tucson and southern Ari

Hello. I just came across this information on https://www.geshergalicia.org/towns/mosciska/ I am extremely interested in finding out if any of my ancestors (Dizian, Dycian, or similar) are included in

The Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society is having a special members only meeting. Date: Sunday, February 21, 2021 Time: 1:00 pm Check-in, Chat, and Schmooze. Official program starts promptly at 1

Is there any additional information that can be provided from these two tombstone records in Szydlowiec? Wyloga, Sheindel https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/jowbr.php?rec=J_RADOM_0000344 Wyl

I have a family member, Simeon Olshwang, who arrived similarly. His last known address was Berlin, although he was born in Jelgava, Latvia (1899). He arrived in NY from Southampton, England on 15 July

Hello All, I am seeking a translation of all genealogically relevant information for this 1888 death record of Chune Kacperowski. It is on ViewMate at the following address and may be a little difficu

I found information about my family in a database in Jewishgen called WWII evacuees( to the USSR), Lithuania. I tried to open the database in order to understand where the information is taken from, b

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the 1795 census of Trencsen county and can tell me why the place names for the returns from the inferiori (lower) district have not been rec

Hello, I am researching two men who I believe are brothers, but their father's names are spelled differently on their matzevot. I am appealing to the Hebrew and Yiddish expert genners to confirm this

Hello All... I would appreciate any help if you are in Ukraine or know someone who is...to track down the descendents of my great Aunt Esther REYDMAN. I found out about her through my great Uncle (her

Hello everybody, I have added a task in What's New for the months of January, but forgot to let you know about. So, we started to work on a new set of translations for the Bessarabia Revision List rec

New on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: An 1845 cadastral field sketch map of the town of Świrz (now Svirzh in western Ukraine): https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/swirz-svirzh-1845/ This is a full-

Hello group, I would very much appreciate help with the translation of the following 3 vital records in Russian. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: Russian - Marriage of Jankel Fryd and

These pages are in German, written by my grandfather's stepmother (tante). I am also interested in the content to determine the date the letter was written. Letter One: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewm

Trying to make contact with the family of Gladys, daughter of Yerachmiel Unger (son of Meir Mordecai David of the Unger Chassidic Dynasty) and her husband Abraham Obstein, 1905-1990, son of Nechemiah

Hello all: I am hoping that someone can help me understand this passage from my grandmother's school workbook. It seems to be a rough draft of a letter she wrote to her brother in Canada in the early

I've posted a 2 vital records in Russian for which I just need a translation of the dates. They are on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM8

Photo expert Ava ‘Sherlock’ Cohn to share her expertise in Feb. 21 JGS of Illinois event: Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois member Ava “Sherlock” Cohn will present a free webinar called “Clued-I

Hello group, I would very much appreciate help with the translation of the following marriage record in Polish. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: Polish - Marriage of Icek Bleier and Baila