I would appreciate an English translation of the tombstone I posted on Viewmate. The image can be found at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89642 Thank y

The Utah JGS is having its first virtual meeting of the year on January 18th, 6:30pm Mountain time. Our speaker will be Janette Silverman, of Ancestry ProGenealogists and former IAJGS board member, pr

I've posted a vital record in a language that might be Yiddish, German or Russian. (I do not know.) I need a few small translations. It is on ViewMate at the following 4 addresses: 1. https://www.jewi

If anybody is able to photograph the headstone of Benjamin FLETCHER (see details below) who is buried in the Bloemfontein Memorial Cemetery Jewish section, I would be most grateful if they could email

The British magazine Who Do You Think You Are has an article on the best websites for finding Holocaust records: Arolsen Archives, Yad Vashem, Every Name Counts, Wiener Holocaust Library, United State

I have been researching my family since 1990 but have hit a brick wall with my paternal great-grandfather, Ben Press. While my other three grandparents came from Lithuania or Russia around 1910, Ben P

Trying to make contact with the family of Florence (nee Lehman) and Stanley Sultan who lived in the Roxbury, CT area. Their daughter, Miriam Mindel, married Dr. Jonas Reuben Kagan, a general practitio

I am looking for information about Sam Rosenthal from Voronovitsy. When he first came to the United States he lived in Pittsburgh as a border. I can't find any more information about him after that. A

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has made digital access to the full sound recordings to the public of the War Crimes Proceedings of the International Military tribunal known as the

Hello all, I am researching my family history. I am searching for information about my great-great-aunt who moved to South Africa sometime around the beginning of the 20th century (she was born somewh

Hello, I found the for the birth of Salomen Zalman Fisch in 1882 to my great-grandparents Avigdor Fisch and Reizl Rudner. However, in 1895 there is another record for the birth of Salomen Zalman Fisch

Does the Hebrew on this stone identify Sonya'a father? (For some reason I could not paste this inline) /June https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149307328/sonya-okun#view-photo=175221106 -- June Genis

I would appreciate if someone can translate the inscriptions on these two gravestones. Thank you. -- Richard Oppenheimer Venice, Florida, USA

The Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society is inviting the public to the following virtual workshop: WHAT, WHERE, & HOW – Introduction to primary databases in the U.S. for genealogical research,

Hi everybody, I've added a new section to the Odessa Kehilalinks (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa/) that compiles available information about Odessa Jewish Cemeteries. You'll find this sectio

I am seeking help with deciphering a short-hand script in a document produced in London in the mid-19th Century. It appears to be a style akin to Gregg short-hand. The document deals with a legal matt

I am trying to find records regarding the deaths of my grandparents, Avram Elia Bayarsky and Nechama Shapiro Bayarsky and their children and grandchildren who lived in a small village called something

I would like a translation of the attached inscription in a prayerbook inherited from my father's family. I think it is Yiddish but it may be Hebrew. The last names in my family are: LIPSON, ZASLER, F

Hi there. I am trying to see if I have sephardic descent, and am not exactly sure where to start. Looking at my DNA, it showed I am 99.5% Ashkanazi and .5% from what is now Turkey. I can go back a few

I'm researching my great grandfather Uri perlman died 1962 made aliyah 1933 we have no info regarding his family. The little that we do have is that his father was elyakum getzil and his mother was tz