Dear Friends, A recording of Dr. Alan Levin's JewishGen Talk - Translating Russian Documents for the Non-Russian Speaker​ - is now available by clicking here. Please click here for a copy of the slide

Hello. I would like to inform all those interested that I have published two books about Jewish families in Serbia: 1. “Jews of central Bačka during the first half of the 19th century” - the book cont

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston offers two Zoom programs in November: Complete program descriptions are available at www.jgsgb.org Nov 8 1:30PM EST Jonathan Brent-YIVO's Rediscovered

Subj: ViewMate photograph request - I've posted a photograph to identify some of the people pictured. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp

I think I have found a cousin that died as a baby (Lillie Shapiro) in Manhattan, NY 1905. On FamilySearch, I found 2 death items with burial dates 2 weeks apart AND different cemeteries. Parents names

Hello everyone, I've posted 5 vital records in PRussian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ... 1. Birth record of Cypa Ita LAKS: https://eur04.safelinks.pr

David S Rose was the younger brother of my maternal grandfather and Lillian was his wife. David was born in Dec 1876 in either Germany or Russia and married Lillian Bordach (born in 1894) on Jan 18, 1

Hey genners: My gr-grandfather left Lithuania in 1929 for the United States. I have been trying to find Lithuanian phone (or other directories) prior to 1929 to see if I could find his address. The ea

I would very much appreciate a complete translation of this postcard with a photograph of three men. Hoping that a translation will help us identify the men in the photo and provide more family inform

Hi all, my great-grandfather had been a staunch Republican, in and outside of local office, through the mid-1930s in Paterson, NJ. The family then moved to Miami Beach. I found a couple of local polit

I am looking for the family of Hershel ZACK, son of Jacob ZACK and Chana Elke Garshowitz. He was known as Gregorio in Mexico, where he lived in the 1920's through 1950's. He had a brother Lloyd (Israe

I am researching Okun from Rogachev as well. Who are the people you are looking for? My Okuns look to come from the shtetl of Tichinichi new Rogachev. June Genis junegenis@gmailicom

The Ossolineum Library has launched a virtual exhibition “The Golden Age of the Jagiellonian Dynasty” with many unique objects showing the Renaissance-period culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwea

Does anyone know if any more of the Memorial Book of Borsa has been translated. If not, is there a way I can help to make that happen. Melanie Harris

https://mailchi.mp/c6a017ed3621/tsal-kaplun-fundraising-campaign-october-2020?e=576fda1bc5 "in June of 2020, TKF received a prestigious grant from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHR

To Anyone Who May Know: I am wondering whether the search engine used to search JewishGen Group posts and archives is of the type that finds closely spelled names (I believe this is called something l

Hi Genners, Has anyone else received an email (possible spam) through the Jewishgen Family Finder requesting donations for a project in Lithuania? Maria Krane Florida Researching KREIN/KRONE, SHULDINE

I have recently done a DNA test on Ancestry and whilst it added a lot of confusion to my research by highlighting more than 160,000 connections, it identified one person who is close to me but a rathe

Hi All, Someone has my Great grandfather Louis Kaplan and wife Esther Wallach and other family in a Kaplan Tree on Ancestry.com with lots of wrong information. He's listed as Louis Svisloch Kaplan whe

In 1947 my cousins name GARBATY flew to Montevideo from New York to see Hedwig PELZEL, 1483 Calle Largo, Montevideo They had spent the war in Shanghai, and perhaps this person was a relative who could