My cousin came across about 15-20 old photographs of her ancestors and most have what looks like Yiddish writing on the backs. There’s not a lot of writing, mostly just a few words, hopefully identify

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Thanks to the recent guidance of Jewish Gen members, I was able to get a copy of my grandfather's restitution (reparations) file from Germany. In it, he states that he was held in the Neustadt Weinstr

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

According to the 1920 census the person I am looking for, Rose Margolis Hollander, appears to have been born in a place called "Katrineslav" which is the Mogilev gubernia. I say "appears" because the

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

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Hello, everyone. I have been trying unsuccessfully to find birth and other vital records for relatives on my father's side. My father was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1944. Based on some notes he mad

Shalom, My GGGF and his wife lived in Druya, Belarus in the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Their names were Yisroel Moshe and Chaika (ISRAELITAN) Lipschutz. Their son, Be

Hello I wonder if someone could help me with the translation of the following birth certificate? It is in Polish. I hope you can help me. George Frankel San Francisco.

If anybody is able to photograph the headstone of Max FLETCHER, buried on 9 February 1967 in East Ham Cemetery, London in Section F, Row 1, Plot 3, I would be most grateful if they could email me the

Are the Cemetery Records for the Jewish Cemetery digitalized. If so, how does one access them. Thanks, Ed Gorn/ Canada

Are the synagogue records of the 7 shuls of Briceni digitalized? If so, how does one access them? Cheers, Ed Gorn/ Canada

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89569 Please respond via

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HI to all, and Happy New Year. I recently made it to the French National archives, and having been helped by some of you, am gald to offer any help, especially regarding the French files (Police, Iden