Looking for HOROWITZ family from Minsk whose daughter married Moshe ben (son of) Rabbi David , the rabbi of Novarodok during the 18th cent. I haven't found David's family name and his son Moshe, adopt

Good afternoon, Please would it be possible for someone to translate this Head Stone belonging to my Paternal Grandmother who was buried by my late Father. [FANNY LEVENE [LEVY] After searching for ove

Hi group, My late great uncle, Josef Maier Stauber, b. 1909 (parents Lazar Stauber and Czipre/Tipora Stauber), from Viseu De Jos (Also Visso) was married to Marta/Mindel Fischman b. ~ 1910 (parents Ye

I’ve been able to determine that my great grandfather was buried in a Washington Cemetery subplot for the members of Congregation Bnei Menashe (or Menasche) which in 1902 was located at 89 Ridge Stree

Hi, thanks for accepting my application to join. I am researching my RECHT family, from Poland, specifically, Jack (Jakob Gedalia), and his father, Yechiel Altar RECHT. Jack changed his surname to Ric

I am wondering if there is a chance that there could be photographic records of specific addresses or street scapes of pre-war Berlin and Leipzig. I would like an impression of my grandparent’s reside

I am looking for information ( email address and/or phone number of Mr. Shraga Tzevi Levi who was living in Jerusalem in the Torat Chesed Street. He wrote a book about a Din Torah ( Galanta) and I wou

Hello. This is my grandfather's gravestone returned to its upright position in the Vienna Jewish Cemetery 18 months ago. The photo was sent to me by the cemetery after they did the work, but the inscr

Hello, I am wondering if anyone has access to records which may provide info./details on the parents of my ggggrandfather Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin With many thanks. Karen Saunders - researching Tik

Is there a JewishGen “town manager” for Ludza (name in present day Latvia)?? Thank you - Steve Granek

"Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was publi

Assistance needed to translate Hebrew on family gravestone. EnidRose Paramus NJ to translate Hebrew on family gravestone

Gesher Galicia’s quarterly journal, the Galitzianer, invites members and nonmembers of Gesher Galicia to submit articles with a clear connection to Jewish life in Austrian Galicia (1772–1918). We welc

Someone wrote that "jews do not give their children names". I know several Orthodox families who gave their children names such as Peter or Paul. True that one of these families were of German jewish

Dear Friends, The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library's Sunday Salon invites you to join us for our April 18th event at 10:30 AM ET. Warm regards,

Many of us have sent our DNA off to a firm, curious about what we might find. We receive an ethnicity estimate followed often by a long list of matches ranging from 2nd cousins to more distant ones. S

My son in law Benjamin Sanderson has one DNA match on Ancestry with surname Schneirow. Do you know the town of origin? We know Sanderson was an adopted English form. The original surname is not known.

Hello, My husband was a classmate of Andre Laniado in the French Lycee, London from 1958 to 1961. At that time they both lived in London. Does anyone have any information about Andre? Beryl Otvos Rese

In the last ten years I am searching for information about my great grand grandfather Naftali (Eli) Hertz Raskin, who lived in the village of El'nya, close to Hotimsk, Mogilev, Belarus, and was a cant

Can anyone make sense of what this below document actually is and tells one? I have a Joseph Granek in my family tree - the brother of my Grandfather - no resolution as to what became of him -one of t