I have posted four vital records to Viemate and requesting translation from Polish. The documents are 86803, 86802, 86801, 86786, 86785. Thank you for your help. Researching Lowin in Galicia. Best Reg

I am contacting you whether anyone has any information regarding the family name Tsoglin. My paternal grandfather Isadore Zeitlin born in 1889 was Israel Tsoglin in Russia (now Ukraine). He lived in S

Hi, My 2nd ggrandfather Benjamin ITMAN s/o Chaim can be found on ALD for 1858 as head of household and he was 55. He is registered with his wife Ita 52 and the following children: Freyda (daughter - 1

I am looking for any descendants of families LINDNER and SPIWAK . All originally from Poland, and some found in Buones Aires, Belgium and England. - Any descendants of Ingram Joseph LINDNER - Poland -

Friends - The New York Genealogical and Biological Society has posted the follow important message on their website. The NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) is proposing changes

Hi, May be someone can recognize the picture or some of the siblings there? https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=86756 The woman and the man at the right remained in Ukraine/URSS. T

Over the past months I have submitted to ViewMate many photos with inscriptions for translation. Several of the photos were of Zionist youth groups and include names of members emigrating to Israel (i

Please would someone be able to translate to English this back of postcard inscription. Think it is Russian Many thanks. Debby Myers Myers.debby@...

Say, Dad, Grandpa is Not dead? Reuniting the Family After 68 Years by Noah Isman “… Many people gathered at the border-crossing but the Russians did not let them pass. While they were waiting, and bef

Recently Mr Kaplan requested information about family from Cardiff. I have managed to get a lot of information from the shul in Cardiff. Please see the email below. Dear Mr Kaplan, I received an enqui

Naomi, Thanks a lot. Yes, I did try the S.A. archives and did find quite a bit about the LEVINS but not what Iam looking for which is related to my ggm who was found in documenst about Bowesdorp in Na

The next "Show & Tell" session of IGRA will be on Monday, October 26 at 9 pm Israel time. (Israel will have changed clocks the night before so there will be a 6 hour time difference to the East Coast

I will be teaching a class (fee-based) on the following topic, on Wednesday, October 7, at 5:00 PM New York time. Jewish Research Basics 2 - What's in a Name? October 7, 2020 Introduction to Jewish na

Irish birth and marriage certificates from as far back as 1864 are now available for free online and death certificates between 1878 and 1968 are also available. The records were made available by a j

I’m looking for living descendants of Chaim Weg who born in Nowy Sacz c. 1879, lived in Jaroslaw, Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1924. The issue is regarding a letter written to him date

I've had trouble finding records because names are mispelled or othewise mangled. What kinds of searches have you used to overcome this problem? I'm guessing every site has different tools... thanks s

I am seeking to find whether my great, great grandfather, Aaron Moses Wander, born Brest Litovsk 1850ish, had any siblings and to learn of their descendants. Aaron's son, Benjamin Hyam Wonder, born 18

Dear Mr Domeshek, I am familiar with the cemetery in Vselyub. Its restoration was organised in Belarus on behalf of Siena College by the East European Jewish Heritage Project of which I am Director. M

I'm turning again to the wisdom of the group for help interpreting a father's name on headstones belonging (by some accounts) to two brothers. One, belonging to my great-grandfather Joseph Schwartz (1

The Benjamin I refer to was a son of Jacob LEVIN of London(Islington) who lived in Cape Town in the eighteensixties/seventies. He was a cape merchant. When he returned to England his sons Julius LEVIN