Hello, My son's partner is from Cape Verde. She believes that her family has Jewish ancestors, and the presence of Jews in Cape Verde is well documented. My questions is whether DNA tests could help h

As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group bu

I'd be very grateful if someone could locate and photograph the headstone of Samuel FLETCHER, possibly buried as Samuel Lazarus Fletcher, who died we think in around 1950, and who is buried in the Por

A cousin's grandfather listed Russia as his country of origin, but German as his language on the 1910 census. His wife listed Yiddish as her language. Both are Jewish and I am certain that he spoke Yi

The male form of my surname seems to be more or less consistently rendered in Russian as Узданский, but for the Polish equivalent, I've seen both Uzdanski and Uzdański. Is the difference between the t

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project of JewishGen is proud to announce the publication of its105th title, Devenishki Book: Memorial for a Village Translation of Sefer Divenishok; yad vashem le-ayara yehu

ZOOM MEETING January 12, 2021, 7:00 PM Finding your Eastern European Jewish Family on JRI-Poland.org Speaker: Robinn Magid Join us for a presentation of some truly memorable stories from the JRI-Polan

I am pretty sure that I found the 1874 Nesvizh census record for my Pasamanick family on FamilySearch. (The reason that I am not sure is that it is not in English.) It can be found at Revision lists;

Please, ask translation of the attached document, including if you can explain what the document means and who the organization that issues it. Thanks in advance. Shmuel Laufer Rehovot -Israel Researc

Hi genners, happy and healthy New Year to everyone. May 2021 bring your successful research. I have a wife, Adelaide Ruth Rittenberg (maiden name) with 2 husbands (Bry and Samson) with children from b

Some of the most poignant and heart-breaking stories to be found in Yizkor books are those of people who had to flee their native towns and spent years in exile or hiding, dreaming of the day they wou

Looking to find a complete family tree for Chaim Herzog to see how I am related to the family. I want to go back to the early 1800's. Thank you, Aaron Roetenberg

I found a 1920 ship manifest for a relative that handwritten notations for almost every family group on the page. I've looked at several articles about such notations and can't find anything that expl

Ancestor Hunt recently updated their website with their bi-monthly newsletter dated December 31, 2020. https://www.theancestorhunt.com/uploads/1/2/9/1/12914878/bi-monthly_newsletter_2020-12-31.pdf Whi

Dear Friends -- As we quickly approach the end of 2020, I thank you for being involved with JewishGen, and helping to keep it freely accessible. Some say that we should charge money to access JewishGe

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We have hit a longstanding brick wall in our search for relatives of my grandfather Leo/Aryeh Leib Kaidan and/or his wife Chana/Chane/Annie Zekcer (sp.?). Leo was born in 1877. Is anyone familiar with

Dear fellow-researchers, One of my brick walls has been to find the birth records of my father's mother and seven of her siblings who were born in Hungary or Slovakia between 1889 and 1900. The two gr

I have many handwritten letters in German from the late 1930's to early 1940's. These were written by relatives who were trying to escape from Germany and Europe around the time of Kristallnacht and a

Dear friends: It is with great pride the members of the board of JRI-Poland report that our colleague and co-founder Michael Tobias has been awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire). Michael's ac