The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain News Blog posted: Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750 - Conference 11 Jan 2021 https://jgsgbnews.blogspot.com/2021/01/jewish-religious-life-in-p

Today I found a Red Cross document that lists our parents as having spent 1 1/2 years each in Auschwitz and in Buchenwald. It says one was in Auschwitz and one was in Buchenwald, but neither ever ment

I have some old family photos - coloured - one oil painting with a Chinese outfit on and a photo that appears caricature type. I just wondered if anyone knew of these? What year? One of mine will have

I request a translation of two documents in German. One is a death record (Berlin 1917) and the other a marriage record (Berlin 1904). They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewi

I am searching for family photographs on behalf of a cousin who was a child survivor of Theresienstadt. I would be so very grateful if anyone can help me understand how to trace descendants of a relat

I recently learned that familysearch has digitally posted not only the jewish religious vital records from before 1895, but also had the post 1895 civil records (for all citizens) for many towns in th

I personally know a Teichman family in Toronto Mrs. Teichman is from the Pam family which lives in Toronto as well. Regarding the Bergman family there are a couple of them in Toronto Sending you this

Does anyone know how to obtain this actual record, hopefully showing parents' names? We believe this could be a sibling. Lodz Transports to the Chelmno (Kulmhof) Extermination Camp Searching for Surna

I am searching relatives in Toronto. Their names are Jack and Carole Abrahams. They possibly have a daughter Nikki. Does anyone know this family? Many thanks, Peter Bush, London.

Hi Jgenners! Happy New Year 2021! The January Meeting of the Jewish Genealogy SIG will take place on Zoom on Tues 1/12/2021 10-11:30 am ET. Please RSVP to Arthur Sissman, genresearch13@... to receive

Trying to contact the #Teichman and #Bergman families who descend from Esther, died in Cracow in 1939, married Issachar Shual Teichman of Turka. Her grandson, Selig Bergman died and buried in #Toronto

The JGS of Greater Boston presents Amy Wachs-History and Geography-Tools for Eastern European Research Jan. 31, 2021 1:30PM EST-Zoom Meeting. Free for JGSGB Members, $5.00 for Non-members. For informa

Dear Latvia Group, I'm trying to determine if my family in Latvia could have originally come >from Spain or Portugal after the Jewish populations there were expelled in the 1500s. My grandfather, Jose

Happy New Year Cousins! I'm trying to figure out a possible puzzle. I say possible, because I'm not even sure I have the right people (same common name). According to one index I found, it has my cous

The next IGRA Show & Tell session will be on Monday, January 11, 2021 at 9 pm Israel time (2 pm EST) in English. (The same session will be held in Hebrew on January 25.) The Central Database of Shoah

Shmuel Leib CITRON (1860-1930), Hebrew and Yiddish journalist, writer, and critic. https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Zitron_Shemuel_Leib He was born in Minsk and from 1903 lived in Vilnius. He

Does anyone have up-to-date information on how to purchase a copy of Dr. Thomas Weggemann's The Speaking Stones of Siret? I find it described at a kehilalinks site, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/b

Hello, my name is Judy Bowman. My great-grandfather Israel Bowman's last name was Baumgarten, born in "Wladyslawow, Poland" (which is surely Lithuania) May 18, 1880(sometimes other dates given). The l

An interesting story in today's New Yorker: Inside the U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art | The New Yorker Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, OK Researching Leet, Brom, Gitow, Goldfarb, Merin

The French Police Surveillance Dossiers of the Interwar Period- les Fonds de Moscou have an online index. This covers about 650,000 people on whom the French police were spying. The index was created