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

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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

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Can someone tell me what this disease is in English. It caused the death of a 3 month old family member in 1894 Nyirbator. Thank you Alex Magocsi Researching Grosz in Nyirbator & Magocsi in Gyula-Jova

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I request a translation of my grandfather’s 1903 bar mitzvah reception speech delivered in German at Temple Shaare Zedek in New York City. It is one handwritten page on ViewMate at the following addre

I´ve posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It´s only one section of a birth certificate, particularly a word which appears there. It is on ViewMate at the following address .

Hello, I need translation help with old German and Hungarian birth certificates of my Grandfather and his brother. I attached the documents below and would be very thankful for it! Kind regards Mira H

Hi all, I wonder if anyone can help direct me to obtaining New Jersey Supreme Court records from 1925. Several years ago, I was told that the parents of a pair of my great-grandparents apparently didn

Is there a Jewish address directory for Kodanova, Belarus for early 1900s? Also is it correct that the only buildings that survived after the Nazi invasion was only on Vilna Street? Marcia Heller marc

Good evening, my great grandfather kept a journal which was written in phonetic English and described his life in Georgia in the late 19th early 20th century - my family has tried over the years to tr

My father was born in 1905 in Borszczow, and his brother and sister in Mielnica. On checking their birth certificate I can read their father´s name as Jakiw Nachman Hepilbaum F. Weintraub (in my fathe

I am searching for relatives of Aaron and Beile Engelmann from Vienna. Beile was born in Bojan, however. They had many children, some of whom perished in the Shoah. A daughter, Gitel, survived and liv

Please advise re: best ways, if any, to research vital records for the town. Our family left there circa 1896. David Lerner

Greetings, I am working to find more details on my great-grandparents, Moishe and Ides ZELTZER. They, along with my grandmother Bunnie (Beckie in the US), arrived in Ellis Island NY in 1908 from Kishi