New on GenTeam, approx. 200,000 additional entries online: 1 Military: loss list 1914-1919 Austria-Hungary 2 Vienna: Catholic baptisms 3 Vienna: Catholic burials 4 indices from Catholic registers from

Hello all, Now that the e-group for Volochisk was closed, I have found us a new home on Facebook. Please search and join us at “Volochisk Descendants”. This group is meant as a place where we can make

Dear researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia Division projects for the month of December 2020. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases. December of 2020: Below is

This week's Sephardic World Zoom meeting focuses on members of a Dutch Sephardic family during the Holocaust. We are hoping to trace people saved by Henriette Pimentel, and their family members. The P

Dear all, Looking for records, mainly metric records, from the town of Kamenka, Podolia, today Camenca, Moldova. Camenca is part of today’s Republic of Transnistria, a breakaway region that claims ind

Hello, I am writing on behalf of the Jewish History Association of South Wales. We are currently researching the stories of 102 people named on the Cardiff Reform Synagogue Memorial Tablet (erected in

Dear friends: The value of building the largest collection of country-based Jewish vital records was underscored when Jewish Records Indexing - Poland played the key role in the search for documentati

I'm currently using Ancestry, My Heritage and also GEDmatch as a comparison site, can anyone suggest any others, please? I love the tools on GEDmatch and comparing the Ancient DNA, but match-wise I do

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