Before the well known and meticulously translated 1939 census, conducted in Stanislawow/Ivano-Frankivsk by the Polish government, there were 2 other censuses - one in 1857 and another one in 1900 - bo

My both grandfathers were in prison in ussr for several years from trump up charges one in 1937 and one in 1941. They both released and equited but nobody spoke about the reasons or where they were. D

The 2021 Census Questionnaire of Northern Ireland reportedly is ignoring minority religions such as Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Pagan or Baha’i. The questionnaire does include Roman Catholic, Presb

IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association) has posted a new article on its website, “A Request for Help” by Rosemary Eshel. IGRA receives a variety of enquiries and requests for help from those look

Hello, My great-grandparents left Poland (Lodz) and immigrated to France in 1913. I always heard that they left for political reasons. Could someone tell me what could be understood by political reaso

Two new articles are available at the Kishinev Kehilalinks (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/chisinau) under the section Life in Kishinev today. Ariel Parkansky Bessarabia RD Information Systems Dire

Would it be possible for someone to translate the Hebrew on the attached headstone Thanks Deborah Ross

Hi I am looking for documentation of: Population Lists / Address Book / Business Directory, In Tarnow, Poland, between the years 1920-1939 I would love to receive information / reference with gratitud

Is there anyone on this page that have family members that knew Arthur Penn and Irving Penn's mother Sonia Freda's family? Her maiden name was Greenberg. Born in 1894 in Novo Alexandrovsk, Russia - Li

Some years ago the Soviet Union compiled a database, in Russian, listing all Soviet soldiers who died in WWII. This database, https://obd-memorial.ru/html, contains 20 million documents and provides a

https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/roof-collapses-on-dilapidated-18th-century-former-synagogue-in-ukraine -- NTalbot Brooklyn, NY ninaitalbot@... NEGER, SPINRAD (Dynow, Poland) TOLPEN (Suchostaw, Poland/

Where can I locate name/data listing of Latvian Jews who moved to Harbin, China between WWI & WWII? William Moesch

Nashi Predky, the Ukrainian History and Educational Center, has announced a webinar on reading Cyrillic handwriting for people who can read printed Cyrillic and neat handwriting. The date is March 24,

As an experienced researcher but a newbie to DNA, I'm struggling with interpreting the results. I did the basic autosomal test with Ancestry and uploaded my data to GEDmatch and MyHeritage for maximum

The JDC Archives: New Materials for Jewish Genealogists By Linda G. Levi March 14th 1-3 pm Zoom Meeting and Presentation This presentation will include sample documents and photos of interest to Jewis

My great-aunt Sarah COLLE Goldner traveled from Montreal to the United States in 1937 to visit her married daughter. She reported on the border-crossing document that she was born in 1886 in BOHUSS NE

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State invites you to a free Zoom presentation Monday evening, 3/8/2021, at 7 p.m. Pacific Time: "The Alex Krakovsky Project: Navigating the Wiki to Locate

It’s so interesting to read the many reactions we Muggles get. I started my Family Tree to see if I could find descendants of my maternal grandmother. With the exception of 2 brothers who made it to S

Yizkor books are full of accounts of Jews who sought to escape ghettos when it became increasingly clear that the people in them would be exterminated in an aktion or sent on trains to the death camps

Book of Czyzewo, The Scroll of Life and Destruction Translation of Sefer Zikaron Czyzewo (Czyżew-Osada, Poland) Published by the Yizkor Books in Print Project part of Yizkor Books Project of JewishGen