Hi all: I am posting information from a translated Warsaw death registration. I am hoping that one of our fellow members would kindly share where I may locate those addresses. In particular, House #67

I am trying to find the names of my great great grandmother's parents or siblings. Betty Levi was born in 1837 in Hessen Kassel, but I don't know what township. She emigrated, possibly alone, to Ameri

Does anyone have this individual on their family tree? Name: SCHWARTZ, Kalman Born: ~1880 in Vaslui, Romania Parents: Father: Kalman (not 100% sure of name) Mother: Mina FRAERSTEIN Died in 1932 Let me

My great-great grandfather, Benjamin Machlin (MAKHLIN, Binyamin) appears in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry - Minsk from the Pinkas of the Chevra Kadisha from Slutsk, Belarus. Here's th

Hyman Wolk (b. 1873 in Petkunai, Lithuania) emigrated approx. 1900 to the U.S. with his wife Sarah and child, Charles. He was the first of his siblings to emigrate; a younger brother, Rabbi Louis, lef

I'd appreciate some help deciphering a couple words on my great-grandfather's gravestone. What I've made out so far is: Here Lies Our Beloved Father xxx Rav Ari Leib son of Shalom HaCohen xxx Kashkin

A quick note to all family finders. The new Thru Lines feature at Ancestry is definitely worth setting up (including tagging of known relatives who appear as dna matches). If one can add one or more f

I need this decipher a translate as best as you can. I Thank you, Howard Coblentz

ve been falling in love with Sephardic music - durme durme, guidados de berenjena, adios keridos .... I would like to learn how to play an instrument my ancestors played and wanted suggestions. I have

Previous research on various sites led me to accounts of the Centos Summer Camps for Jewish children that were held in Domachevo in the 1930s. In particular, I am interested in a reference to a specia

Dear Friends, A reminder that our next JewishGen Talk will take place tomorrow (Wednesday, 12/30/2020) at 2:00 PM EST. Our speaker will be Dr. David G Marwell, whose topic will be: Mengele - Unmasking

Thank you to Phyllis Nierel Simon for sharing an interesting article in the Winter 2020 issue of B'nai B'rith Magazine (https://www.bnaibrith.org/2020-winter-bnai-brith-magazine.html). The article, "U

The American Religious Ecologies (ARE) is a project of the Roy Rozenzweig Center for History and New Media located at George Mason University and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities

A distant cousin of mine who was a child during WWII and who was taken away from his home in 1939 (age 6), reported having seen a film showing Jews being deported from Makow Mazowiecki, and seeing his

Hi Everyone has anyone had success ordering a certified copy of a naturalization certificate from USCIS (or INS)? Looking through their website, NARA will not certify a certificate from USCIS and NARA

This list has been so helpful with interpreting some of the details from my great-great-grandfather's gravestone, that I'd ask for help with an entry from his manifest record. On the manifest record f

I'm requesting a translation of a 3 page letter written in Yiddish. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89223 https://www.jewishgen.

There is a very good book, YOUNG PEOPLE SPEAK - SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST IN HUNGARY, edit by Andrew Handler & Susan V. Meschel, 1993 Franklin Watts publ, which contains adults' recollections about thei

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I've posted two records in German from the 20th century for which I will need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM8921