I am trying to request the death certificates for some likely distant cousins, Julius Fine and Samuel H. Fine, who are buried near other of my Fine relatives in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Queens. T

I am searching for my relatives with the last name BOROK. My grandfather (Kissel Borok) and his siblings were from Akkerman in Bessarabia, but I know records don't exist for this. His brother, Lova Bo

A very interesting article about the history of and the search for the creators of Hebrew typeface. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hebrew-type-printing Laurie Sosna San Francisco, CA

Dear friends: Recent posts about obtaining a Polish passport, lead me to share a few thoughts: 1. Why pay for search archival sources when JRI-Poland may have the needed record information in our offl

My name is Dag Steinfeld. My great grandfather, Moses Steinfeld, was born in Libau, Latvia in 1853. (Some documents may indicate 1852 and in Grobin which is more or less a part of Libau or Liepaja ).

I came across this posting from American Ancestors regarding military records for Galicia (1865-1918): https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2021/03/galician-military-records/?utm_campaign=The%20We

All my family used the word to describe Eastern European Jewry. Perhaps they did not like saying “Pullaks”. I think it is only my generation that has ceased using it, I guess because nobody would now

Looking for relatives of Bernard Sheinker, born in Trimanchi, Russian Poland in 1863. He emigrated to Boston, MA in 1893 and died there in 1923. He had relatives in the Boston area, the descendants of

Long-time Brok and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has undertaken a huge new "Phase 3" project to fully extract all Brok birth, marriage and death recor

Searching for Herbert SILBERMANN born June 28, 1897 in Breslau and Helene GERSTL born August 16, 1917 in Segesvar. They lived as common law husband and wife in Paris in the late 1930s and had a child

“The Story of Kopel Percowicz” is one of the accounts included in a long chapter titled “Tales of Tykocin Holocaust Survivors” from that Polish town’s Yizkor book. Percowicz details the hardships and

Remembrance Memories of Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazicharon This is a remembrance plaque for Kupiskis, Lithuania, which was laid July 13, 2004. Then, as a memory of Ponary, Lithuania, there is the oak I fo

Hi Folks, I have two medium-sized documents detailing my family ancestry. Both documents are in PDF format, and both are in Hebrew. I want to be able to copy the text into a good Hebrew-English transl

Our next JGASGP meeting: Date: Sunday, April 11, 2021 Time: 1:00 - 1:30 pm EDT check in, chat, and schmooze. Official program starts promptly at 1:30 pm EDT Our meetings are open to paid members only.

Hi, Two of my relatives - sister of mother's grandmother - were likely killed in the Stanislawow area in the initial Holocaust by bullets or later in 1942, transported to an extermination camp They ap

The Arolsen Archives and Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum collaborated for two years which resulted in finding previously unknown identities of an estimated 4,000 camp inmates as well as information about 26

My wife's parents (holocaust survivors) were born in Poland ~1912 and ~1920. She wants to obtain Polish citizenship. Does anyone have experience using Lexmotion for this purpose? Thank you. Ken Franke

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM92947 Please respond via the form prov

received a Letter back from State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region. But for some reason this time. Google translate isn't able to let me know what it says in English. Any help!? David Syner Los Angel

I am looking for a group, organization, Facebook group or whatever whose primary interest is what was pre WW I Koschmin, Posen, Prussia, Germany. Now known as Kos(z)min, Krotosyn, Greater Poland. My i