My great grandfather's death certificate lists 'Lipsca Galicia' as his birthplace. I can't find a town/city by this name. Does anyone know what this could be referring to? Hannah Goldner

Many family lists (censuses) for Nezhin's Jewish community (including all villages in Nezhin Uezd/District) are on FamilySearch. Here's the exact location for the various record sets--and information

if anyone in this forum knows about Keller family in Radomysl and Tarnow please contact especially about a Yechiel Mechel Keller from Radomysl thanks Joseph Kauftheil

Dear Friends. We thank all those who attended our membership meeting. We had a great turnout. Unfortunately I had a technical hiccup with my laptop and my headset although in the rehearsal a few minut

Hi all, I am returning back to researching one of my family branches. I had hit a wall a couple of years ago because there were significantly different maiden names for two of my 3XGG. I will start wi

Hello, My own KELLER research is for: Feivel Kaler / Keller (Jan 15, 1890 - Jun 17, 1961), who lived in Providence, RI. He was the son of Hersh Kaler of Ros, Belarus, the son of Shmuel Kaler. Moishe M

This is the French naturalisation of my great-grand-uncle Joseph MATELEVITCH. I can read everything except the name of the town where his father was born in 1804 (bottom right). It looks like NARODNE

Hello and greetings from England. I am collating stories from former internees of Ferramonti di Tarsia and/or their descendants. If you (or anyone you know) were an internee in Ferramonti di Tarsia ca

Trying to make contact with the Israel and USA descendants of Zalel Stern who survived the Holocaust. A daughter Elisheva Cimet lived in Ramat Gan,another Ileana Roth lived in Flushing, NY and a broth

Hi everyone, I know that the SSDI is not a primary source. Is it a reliable secondary source? Thank you, Trudy Barch, Florida

Hello all: I am trying to pin down the dates for the marriages of my maternal great grandparents and/or my great-great grandparents. My great grandparents were Hersch Wigderovici and Ghitl Osais ( or

The 1930 U.S. census lists three children in my (HERSHKOWITZ) family that never actually existed. They are listed at ages 4yrs, 2 yrs and 6 months with the youngest named Dave Jr, after the head of th

I have never been able to find the marriage of my grandparents. Max (Mordche) Slonimsky emigrated to America from Russia (Belarus) to NYC in 1897. He married Anna (Chana) Passin (?) some time before 1

The Nadworna project can be found at: https://simonwiesenthal-galicia-ai.com/bs/rd/sw-swiggi-shtetls-nadworna From: main@... [mailto:main@...] On Behalf Of Daniella Alyagon via groups.jewishgen.org Se

My great grandmother, n. Rachella Fraenkel, was from Letichev, now Ukraine. She married my ggf Schmuel Dovid Silberman(n) and gave birth to my gf in Podwoloskaya, now Pidvolochisk. I am searching for

While reviewing the new Beta-testing website of the Ukrainian State Archives (English language version at https://archives.gov.ua/en/), I discovered that the archives has been digitizing records for a

I have a list of addresses in Kolomjya \ Lviv \ Zolkiew used by my family. I am wondering what possible records I can search based on the address in addition to Tabula records and where are these reco

LitvakSIG online journal is proud to announce the wonderful article, The Lithuanian Community of Telsiai, by Phil S. Shapiro. This article is an in depth study, both human and academic, of Telsiai and

Dear group, during the last months I was able to update my website with a few more name adoption lists. Beside of others you now can find Worms with more than 500 entires under www.a-h-b.de/en/project

I have letters written in "Gothic" German that need translation. Can anyone help me with this? Do you know why someone would write in Gothic German rather than German? The author of the letters taught