I found information about my family in a database in Jewishgen called WWII evacuees( to the USSR), Lithuania. I tried to open the database in order to understand where the information is taken from, b

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anybody is familiar with the 1795 census of Trencsen county and can tell me why the place names for the returns from the inferiori (lower) district have not been rec

Hello, I am researching two men who I believe are brothers, but their father's names are spelled differently on their matzevot. I am appealing to the Hebrew and Yiddish expert genners to confirm this

Hello All... I would appreciate any help if you are in Ukraine or know someone who is...to track down the descendents of my great Aunt Esther REYDMAN. I found out about her through my great Uncle (her

Hello everybody, I have added a task in What's New for the months of January, but forgot to let you know about. So, we started to work on a new set of translations for the Bessarabia Revision List rec

New on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: An 1845 cadastral field sketch map of the town of Świrz (now Svirzh in western Ukraine): https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/swirz-svirzh-1845/ This is a full-

Hello group, I would very much appreciate help with the translation of the following 3 vital records in Russian. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: Russian - Marriage of Jankel Fryd and

These pages are in German, written by my grandfather's stepmother (tante). I am also interested in the content to determine the date the letter was written. Letter One: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewm

Trying to make contact with the family of Gladys, daughter of Yerachmiel Unger (son of Meir Mordecai David of the Unger Chassidic Dynasty) and her husband Abraham Obstein, 1905-1990, son of Nechemiah

Hello all: I am hoping that someone can help me understand this passage from my grandmother's school workbook. It seems to be a rough draft of a letter she wrote to her brother in Canada in the early

I've posted a 2 vital records in Russian for which I just need a translation of the dates. They are on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM8

Photo expert Ava ‘Sherlock’ Cohn to share her expertise in Feb. 21 JGS of Illinois event: Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois member Ava “Sherlock” Cohn will present a free webinar called “Clued-I

Hello group, I would very much appreciate help with the translation of the following marriage record in Polish. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: Polish - Marriage of Icek Bleier and Baila

The next Utah JGS meeting will be February 15 at 6:30pm Mountain. Speaker: Brian Schellenberg Presentation: Introduction to German Paleography. Sign up at GoToWebinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com

I've posted 4 vital records in both Russian and Yiddish for which I need translations. The first is a marriage record. The others are birth records of their children. They are on ViewMate at the follo

I'm thankful for the startup of this SIG. My greatgrandparents, Isaac (son of Shraga Feivel) Gumbinsky and Rebecca (daughter of Baruch) Krohn, came to Buffalo in 1867. Isaac was preceded by about 22 y

I am looking for information about Bernard Kotzin, brother of Sonya / Sophie Kotzin. He was born about 1890 in Cincinnati and wn=ent to Kovna (Kaunas), Lithuania, whenhis parents returned in about 190

Call for Applications (Please share) The Call for Applications from candidates interested in serving on the IAJGS Board of Directors is now open. This year, as it is an odd-numbered year and in accord

Hello! I found something in the archives of this website about my both surnames ''Moreira'' (from mother) and ''Dudus'' (from father). I know the following: my father's father was born in Cetatea Alba

Hello everybody, I want to give a little statistics from this last set of microfilms. Here is the name of it from FamilySearch Ревизские сказки : Хотин (уезд), 1835-1880 Revision Lists: Khotin (uezd),