Shalom, Looking for anyone (not limited to names below) with ancestors from STAWISKI, Poland. Please contact me direclty. Thanks, Ellen Moshensberg Searching: Stawiski: CHMIELEWSKI, GRUDZINSKI, REJMER

Shalom all, I would appreciate help in translating those 3 mid 19th century Russian texts taken from birth and marriage dcouments and revision lists. Regarding the first document, only entry number 47

Hello I've posted two records in Records for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91145 https://www.jewis

If both parents are Ashkenazi, children are named after deceased relatives, or not named for anyone, but never named for the living. If both parents are Sephardic, children are named for living relati

Hi All! Could anyone translate this headstone? Picture is attached. Thanks in advance! -- Amy Mitchell Researching: Kram, Kaltwasser, Mitchell/Mitzel, Spindel, Starobenitz/Starovenitz/Starr

In my great great uncles diary he mentions that a Rabbi Mordechai (Ruzhiner) of Pinsk was a relative of his mother. He doesn't mention the name ZACKHEIM but I understand that the Rav of Pinsk during t

Searching for Peltyn and Konopki families from Stawiski -Bruce Zatz

In the last few days, somebody methodically went through most (but NOT all) of the pages posted by Alex Krakovsky on Wikipedia and changed their URLs - everything is the same, the files are still ther

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has added a new collection to the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database (HSV): [Children of the Lodz Ghetto: A Memorial Research Project]. This collectio

A need Polish translation for 5 certificates from Przasnysz. I don't need word-for-word but details such as names, dates, ages, locations, occupations, and so on are very helpful. A birth certificate

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing Janek Jagielski, a giant in the preservation of Jewish memory in Poland. In the obituary posted on the Gazeta Wyborcza website, it refers

Dear Genners As many of you will be aware most Jewish towns today have a dedicated facebook group for researchers. Sadly nothing has been available for Kutno in Gubernia Warszawa, Province Lodz and su

CORRECTION: 2021 not 2020 MNJGS is hosting a Zoom event: A Detective Story Across Continents: Finding a 95-Year-Old Adoptee’s Birth Father on Feb 21, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST. Join us for a detective sto

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I am searching for the origins of the Ritevsky/Rits genealogical line in Lithuania. I have information indicating that it may have started in the village/town of Vilkaviskis, in south-east Suwalki Gub

I would like a translation of the Hebrew in this headstone (L_14) in the town of Kopaigorod. Thank you Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA dsfaec@... Searching for: FRIEDMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SHULMA

I request a translation of the 4-page letter sent by Rena Kreinik to Stanislaw Zamorski, who rescued her. The story of her hiding and rescue is at: https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/i-c

I would like a translation of the Hebrew in this headstone (L_13) in the town of Kopaigorod. Thank you Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA dsfaec@... Searching for: FRIEDMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SHULMA

https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/0054_BreslauDeportations.htm The database "Breslau Deportations", which was compiled by Peter W. Landé and USHMM volunteers (many thanks!), is based on in

I sometimes post articles I learn about from the Jewish Heritage. This is a link for their annual report which was sent to me by Saul Issroff. If you are interested in Jewish heritage and synagogues i