Hello Genners, I’ve been desperately trying to make contact with the Lezajsk Civil Records Office (know as: Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, or USC) via email. As you might already know, they are the local offi

Hello, fellow searchers! Some of the members of a Sephardic family I know have identical birthmarks. At the very base of the spine, they each have a darker patch of skin shaped like a downward triangl

I want to find a birth record for an ancestor who was born in Memel (Klaipėda) on 1 September 1874. September 1874 is too early for the Landesarchiv Berlin. Are there any other archives or database? T

Making posthumous baptisms public is the root of the problem. Mormons should understand why non-Mormons consider this practice offensive and refrain from it, but if they feel religiously obligated to

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address:88490 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88490 Please respond via

Hello all, I've posted 5 vital records in Russian for which I need translation help. They can be found on ViewMate: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88467 https://www.jewishge

Sunday, November 15th 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Mountain time Speaker Debbie Schwartz Successful Jewish Genealogy hinges on two essential facts: what are the Ancestral surnames and towns (Shtetls) for each

Hello everyone, This is a second request for some help with extractions of data from Russian vital records. Any and all help is appreciated. 1. Birth record of Cyrla GUTERMAN: https://nam10.safelinks.

Can someone please post a link to a Rothenberg family tree. My second great grandmother was Lina Rothenberg b. 1847 and d. 1932. I would like to trace her ancestry.

David Lisbona will discuss the history of his Sephardic ancestors who originated in Portugal and later settled in Damascus, a major city on the Silk Road. The 'Franco' Sephardic community maintained a

This might be a long shot...but does anyone have a Kreplach recipe that originated in the Starokonstantinov/Zaslav/Volhynia region? My great grandmother made amazing kreplach but all her recipes were

This is not a new publication, my apologies if this was posted about several years ago. A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter debuted in Canada at the Jewish Ukrainian festival in 2018. Whi

After the war survivors applied to confirm the death of a relative (child, wife, parents, siblings). I am looking for these records from Wloclawek, I could not find in the Wloclawek online archive. Co

I've posted five vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. Need names, places and dates. A marriage certificate of Gedalia Domb and Razsha Silverman at the following address: https://www

I am researching the SACKS family that lived in Svenska, La. My great grandfather's name was Shmuel and my grandfather was Leon (1882-1941). Leon emigrated to South Africa in 1888/89 from Sveksna. I a

If someone is willing to volunteer, I would like to request a photograph of the gravestone for Philip Rothback at Mount Jacob Cemetery in Glenolden, PA. I called the cemetery office, and was told that

For those with ancestry in Rovno (Rivne, Ukraine), good news! I completed translating the 1851 (9th) revision list for the town of Rovno. This record set consists of 4,581 individual records covering

Reclaim The Records is once again taking on the New York City Municipal Archives, but this time we're asking for ALLLLL THEIR RECORDS. All of them. We want every historical New York City birth, marria

RE: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topic/77831414 Regarding the concerns expressed by Bill Katz (see the above link) about of the LDS Church and their pernicious interest in Jews (especially dead

Hi Cousins, I would appreciate it if someone who has a subscription to newspapers.com could do a look-up for me and send me a .jpg or screenshot. If you can help me out, please email me privately at t