I found the registry with my maternal great grandmother's birth. The headings seem to be in Latin (second attachment-had to attach in two pieces )I am assuming that is because of the influence of the

Greetings to the JewishGen Community: As some of you know, I have spent the last couple years researching my grandfather’s life experience, learning about his childhood growing up in Europe just befor

i am a great great granddaughter of Nellie Hyman who was a niece of the Von Tilzer brothers- aka Gumbinsky. we are searching for information and knowledge. thank you rachel miller

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I would appreciate a brief translation of this document in Russian which I found amongst my father-in-law's papers. I have no idea what it is. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.j

Hello from Wertheim/Main, Germany, I am searching descendants or relatives of a Jewish family who came from Belarus to the United States between 1900 and 1905. There is strong evidence that this famil

I have posted a record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is in three parts that are consecutive entries on a tax ledger for members of the LUCHANSKY family in the town of Koshevata, Trashc

Next Tuesday (2/16) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. Our genealogy librarian, J.D. Arden, will interview guest Jea

Hello everybody, Here are more findings for Bessarabia Revision Lists (three sets were named in my first post): 4. Vad-Rashkov, 1835 5. Izmail, 1835 6. Novoselitsa, 1835 7. Orgeev, and colonies in Org

Hi, I've posted a photo of two sisters that was taken in Zhabinka in 1917. They were my grandmother’s friends. The back of the photo card is in Russian and translated it reads: “For good memory to my

My maternal grandmother Lejke Feldman arrived at Ellis Island aboard the SS George Washington on January 27, 1914. Most of her life was lived in Pittsburgh as LENA COHEN and Zhitomir was treated almos

Hi, I am interested to get in contact with anybody who lived in Kibbutz Nitzanim or in Alonei Yitzhak Youth Institution around 1949-1955. An entire Belgian orphanage made Aliyah in 1949 and the Belgia

Hi, I am a researcher of Jewish orphans from Belgium. If you are, or if you know, a survivor from Belgium who became orphaned due to the war, I would be grateful if you could contact me at heinsmanrei

Dear researchers, Does anyone know if there were massacres or expulsions of Jews from the Rhineland cities before the first Crusade. I know there was always anti-Semitism but were there more serious t

Jews in North Africa - the Maghreb - have multiple origins including Berber, Musta'arabi, and Iberian. It is often difficult to identify which family fits in where. Alexander Beider will discuss how h

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Hello, I have posted a record in Russian from the 1875 Census. I would like to know the complete translation for all of the families on the page. I believe the families include: Novofastovsky, Olin, T

One reality of life in the Jewish Pale was the grinding poverty. This excerpt, “Poverty and Hardship in Bobruisk (Belarus)” is from a longer section of its Yizkor book, titled “Bobruisk In the Ninetee

I've posted a birth and marriage record in Russian for which I need a translation. The birth record is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM9

Does anyone know if there were a street named Boyd St. in Brooklyn in 1898? My g-grandfather, Nathan Sokol or Sakal, states that their destination upon arriving in NYC is 17 Boyd St., Brooklyn. Not be