Hello everybody, Here are more findings for Bessarabia Revision Lists (three sets were named in my first post): 4. Vad-Rashkov, 1835 5. Izmail, 1835 6. Novoselitsa, 1835 7. Orgeev, and colonies in Org

Hi, I've posted a photo of two sisters that was taken in Zhabinka in 1917. They were my grandmother’s friends. The back of the photo card is in Russian and translated it reads: “For good memory to my

My maternal grandmother Lejke Feldman arrived at Ellis Island aboard the SS George Washington on January 27, 1914. Most of her life was lived in Pittsburgh as LENA COHEN and Zhitomir was treated almos

Hi, I am interested to get in contact with anybody who lived in Kibbutz Nitzanim or in Alonei Yitzhak Youth Institution around 1949-1955. An entire Belgian orphanage made Aliyah in 1949 and the Belgia

Hi, I am a researcher of Jewish orphans from Belgium. If you are, or if you know, a survivor from Belgium who became orphaned due to the war, I would be grateful if you could contact me at heinsmanrei

Dear researchers, Does anyone know if there were massacres or expulsions of Jews from the Rhineland cities before the first Crusade. I know there was always anti-Semitism but were there more serious t

Jews in North Africa - the Maghreb - have multiple origins including Berber, Musta'arabi, and Iberian. It is often difficult to identify which family fits in where. Alexander Beider will discuss how h

Researching A Whole Jewish Community to Better Research Your Ancestors Speaker: Deborah Glassman Sunday • February 21 2021 10 AM to 12 PM Mountain Time on Zoom 9:30 AM A Schmear, A Schmooze, and Share

Hello, I have posted a record in Russian from the 1875 Census. I would like to know the complete translation for all of the families on the page. I believe the families include: Novofastovsky, Olin, T

One reality of life in the Jewish Pale was the grinding poverty. This excerpt, “Poverty and Hardship in Bobruisk (Belarus)” is from a longer section of its Yizkor book, titled “Bobruisk In the Ninetee

I've posted a birth and marriage record in Russian for which I need a translation. The birth record is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM9

Does anyone know if there were a street named Boyd St. in Brooklyn in 1898? My g-grandfather, Nathan Sokol or Sakal, states that their destination upon arriving in NYC is 17 Boyd St., Brooklyn. Not be

Hi JewishGenners, I am looking for Konslawa, Galicia. I cannot find the place. I have done the following: Used the Town finder in Jewish Gen - using every combo I could find - Countries - Poland, Ukra

Hello, everyone. I posted last week searching for members of the Bromberg family from Minsk Mazowieckie area. Now I have in my possession a photo of someone who is almost 100% from my family, but I ca

I have posted a photograph of two matzevot for which I need an accurate translation of the extensive text. It is on ViewMate at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89996 Your hel

Searching for Ginzburgs from Minsk area Borisov, Esmony. Ginzburgs who are interested to connect please reply. Val Ginzbug Val.ginzburg@... Toronto Canada

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Poland SIG Jewish Cemeteries in Poland and the Pandemic – an Update Directly from Poland with Witold Wrzosinski, Director of the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Polan

Does anyone recognize any of the people in this photo from the 35th Anniversary of the Chicago Krinker Verein in 1951? My grandmother is in the bottom row, second from the right. Here name was Lizzie

I would appreciate a translation of the back of a photo from Rokiskis, Lithuania, 1921. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=90032 I think its Hebrew but it might be Yiddish. Thanks

Hello, I have posted a Yiddish poem for which I need a translation. The record is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM90051 Please respond v