Hello I found I have ancestors in Germany, in Rott, Roetgen, North Rhine Westphalia. My ancestor's name was: Johannes Jacob SCHARTMANN also found as Jois or Joes SCHARTMANN. He died in Rott,Roetgen,No

Family History Today: Researching your Family History in Israel from Home Presented by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History, in cooperation with the Israel Gen

https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/full.asp?ID=89394&loc=A&name=89394scan82%7E1%2Ejpg This helped us to find something we've been searching for over a long period of time, a half sibling that we alway

My mother in law Mary-Susan Tobias b 1945 CA, never met or knew her father, we knew his name (John Louis Tobias) she was told he was killed in WW2 before she was born, thru DNA we have found a couple

The Wadowice Translations Fund has been set up and it is now listed at: https://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23 Wadowice is in Poland near Krakow and once in Aust

Hello, I have a letter my uncle gave me back in 1996. It was from our cousin living in Riga, Latvia. The letter is postmarked 1973. The cousin's name was Israel Fiselsons (Fiselsohn). He said he was a

In Ukraine, during the 1918–1920 Russian Civil War between the Whites and the Reds, some of the White soldiers were from Central Asian territories like Kyrgystan. They rode camels. They also had "Orie

I have several documents handwritten in Yiddish. I’d like an opinion as to whether they are all written by the same person. If I sent you the first page of each document, would one of you be able to o

New on GenTeam, approx. 200,000 additional entries online: 1 Military: loss list 1914-1919 Austria-Hungary 2 Vienna: Catholic baptisms 3 Vienna: Catholic burials 4 indices from Catholic registers from

Hello all, Now that the e-group for Volochisk was closed, I have found us a new home on Facebook. Please search and join us at “Volochisk Descendants”. This group is meant as a place where we can make

Dear researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia Division projects for the month of December 2020. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases. December of 2020: Below is

This week's Sephardic World Zoom meeting focuses on members of a Dutch Sephardic family during the Holocaust. We are hoping to trace people saved by Henriette Pimentel, and their family members. The P

Dear all, Looking for records, mainly metric records, from the town of Kamenka, Podolia, today Camenca, Moldova. Camenca is part of today’s Republic of Transnistria, a breakaway region that claims ind

Hello, I am writing on behalf of the Jewish History Association of South Wales. We are currently researching the stories of 102 people named on the Cardiff Reform Synagogue Memorial Tablet (erected in

Dear friends: The value of building the largest collection of country-based Jewish vital records was underscored when Jewish Records Indexing - Poland played the key role in the search for documentati

I'm currently using Ancestry, My Heritage and also GEDmatch as a comparison site, can anyone suggest any others, please? I love the tools on GEDmatch and comparing the Ancient DNA, but match-wise I do

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain News Blog posted: Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750 - Conference 11 Jan 2021 https://jgsgbnews.blogspot.com/2021/01/jewish-religious-life-in-p

Today I found a Red Cross document that lists our parents as having spent 1 1/2 years each in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald. It says one was in Auschwitz and one was in Buchenwald, but neither ever ment

I have some old family photos - coloured - one oil painting with a Chinese outfit on and a photo that appears caricature type. I just wondered if anyone knew of these? What year? One of mine will have

I request a translation of two documents in German. One is a death record (Berlin 1917) and the other a marriage record (Berlin 1904). They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewi