Hi all, I'm looking for good sources online where I'd be able to research a correlation between an old Jewish Portuguese family who left in the 1600s and emigrated to Germany where they converted to C

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Hello folks, I just finished watching Dr. Sacks Zoom lecture and am looking for the place to submit questions on JewishGen per her suggestion. I am looking for help in understanding our surname Hans/H

I just learned that my great-grandparents Max and Eugenie Gans-Schiller may have lived next door to Freud in Vienna, sometime before 1910. Is there any way to verify this? Rick Glaser

Back in early December, I ordered two records from the US CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services). One was for a search for a Visa file for my great grandfather Hyman Lock, who arrived in the US in

hi thank you for any help offered. I need help translating the in between bits of this birth record. I have successfully worked out most of the record however it is severl words in the part that has m

Hi I'm trying to track down any society records, and ideally photographs of the Jewish community in late 19th Century Cardiff. Has anyone come across or can direct me to where I can possibly find? In

Looking for Gologary/Gologory Marriage certificate from 26.9.1906 L46, Document from the 1st Volume, page 193, number 10 This information was found through JRI-Poland and then AGAD (Fond 300 AGAD Arch

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-- I would appreciate insight by JG’ers…..why would a wife file for her naturalization in 1934 receiving approval in 1935 when her husband was naturalized in 1922 before the law changed? There are sev

“The Forest Girl, “ a chapter from the Yizkor book of Mizoch, Ukraine is an account of Kayla Goldberg-Tzizin’s journey of survival as the town’s ghetto was about to be destroyed. It is a story of emot

Hi, I've been told that relatives are buried in the Odd Fellows section of a cemetery in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Unfortunately, I've yet to be able to find a cemetery with such a secti

I recently got a copy of my great-grandparents' marriage certificate. It was issued in Manhattan in 1899, and as a bit of a treasure has their parents' names--something I hadn't been quite sure of bef

These three people applied for refugee assistance in 1948. As part of that process, they completed these cards that detail their whereabouts from 1925 to 1948. I would appreciate a verbatim translatio

In the Jewish cemetery, Bedzin, Poland The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw granted 26 Jewish heritage and cultural grants of which over half a dozen were to document, maintain

I have a few questions about the 1912 Voters List for Grodno gub. 1. Were all the men on the list current residents of their districts in 1912? Could they be on the list even if they no longer lived t

I am looking for photos of Zakroczym from the time it had a Jewish community. Anything in the 1800s up to and including WW2. Especially if there are photos with Jewish interest: synagogue, cemetery, m

I've posted a letter in (I think) Romanian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM92974 Please respond

Hello All, Please can you help me to reach author or publisher of this book about Rabbi Yaakov SCHORR, as I believe there is an error in the place of birth given for him. Page 37 of the book has the p

For the first time since late 2018, when 30 Jewish vital record books were delivered, the Civil Registration Office in Warsaw has transferred a batch of vital record registers to AGAD. Among the new t