I am researching Moses Weichsel. I see two Moses Weichsels who immigrated to the US in 1899 and in 1905. I am guessing they are the same person - same town, right ages - but the 1905 record says he wa

Dear all, I just recently found out that I have jews ancestry in Germany (in the city of Dessau) about 1800. About what I really excited. Some sources I found are in Hebrew, however. If there is anyon

Yesterday, someone in this discussion group requested a copy of an 1865 birth record from Warsaw and was hoping that a "parking lot angel" would go to an LDS family center to acquire the copy. There a

I'd love to have a translation for a brief note on the back of a family photo, c1909. I believe the handwriting is Russian. I've had the photo for some time, but just learned that a cousin has the ori

I don’t know the reason why, but my father-in-law spelled his surname Sorkenn while one brother spelled it Sorken and another Sorkin. They came from near Riga, Latvia. Susan Kurtin Sorkenn

Hello everyone, My "cousin" and I have both had our DNA tested and have it on MyHeritage. Though we have not yet found our exact connection, we do believe we are cousins, albeit it may be a distant co

My grandfather had 3 siblings, 2 with their father's surname and 2 with their mother's. Oddly, it was every other child, not the first two and the last two, and there were two girls and two boys, and

Hi All I have some information on my Greenberg ancestors but have been unable to make any connection with descendants. I am seeking any information on a Brana Greenberg daughter of Chaim and Pearl. Sh

Hello everyone, JRI-PL has a listing for the birth of my great-aunt Krajndla KLEPFISZ, daughter of Dawid Mordka Klepfisz and his wife Etta Laja Ruda. This information is from a record microfilmed by L

Hi, I have no previous experience researching rabbinic line; hoping for help. My surname is DRUCKER, shared by my paternal grandfather, who always said he was from a rabbinic line. (More about him bel

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN) invites you to a Zoom meeting at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on Sunday, April 18: "Town Counsel: Finding Your Ancestor's European Town of

My maternal great grandfather was Benjamin Korshinsky who was married to Rebecca Talsky. My grandmother Bessie was one of their 7 children. I would love to figure out our connection. Vicki Renert Free

Dear Jewish Genealogists who have ancestors from Barysaw Belarus: I am bowing out as head of the group to get records from Yuri Dorn for our ancestors from Barysaw Belarus. Yuri says my name of Mebel

Hi everyone, I have just spent months researching my direct ancestry which included immigration, manifests, naturalization documents, etc for people whose stories I mostly knew. My question is, what a

Just "2 cents": I changed, like many Israelis, my surname and my brother stayed with his name. Also it is known that in rabbinical circles often the groom adopted his wife's family name when she came

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I've posted an 1897 Russian Census sheet with one individual for which I would greatly appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewm

I need help extracting information from an death entry on Polish registry, for my uncle Naftuli Feld. The document is on vewmate: https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/hold/NaftuliFelddeathrecord-Copy.pn

Thanks to Harry for this interesting & helpful response. I’d guess that the name BENIN was based on a past Benjamin in the family, but I doubt we will ever know – especially since there are very few r