Today I found my maternal grandmother & her family on a Hamburg to New York passenger manifest (1891). Surprisingly, the family was listed as MICHALOWITZ instead of LURYA (or another spelling variatio

Trying to make contact with the family of Sara (nee Rokeach) Arnold who lived in Downsview. She posted Pages of Testimony to Yad VaShem in 1978. Her brother Kalonymus, born in 1935, also perished. Nei

In February, 1903 Leiser and Nachman Feinstein left Timkowitz (Slutsk), Belarus and sailed via Hamburg for New York where their mother Minka Cohen Feinstein collected them and brought them to join her

I am very pleased to announce a new presentation titled “How to Utilize The JewishGen Discussion Group Effectively”. This one-hour presentation is for anyone who is using or thinking about using the J

MNJGS is hosting a Zoom event: A Detective Story Across Continents: Finding a 95-Year-Old Adoptee’s Birth Father on Feb 21, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CST. Join us for a detective story using DNA and genealogy

Hello, I'm looking for the following metrical records for Borsa, Máramaros: Birth: 1910 - 1920 Marriage: 1900 - 1940 Death: 1900 - 1940 Are these available anywhere online? Thanks in advance, Yossi Ja

I called the Mount Nebo cemetery in Miami about the grave of Max Land that died at the age of 70 on Sep 1944, husband of Fannie and father of Hadassa. His metzavah was uncovered in 1945 and I have the

A friend is researching an ancestor named Rochla Kamienowicz. Presumably Rochla's father would have been named Kamien. Does anyone know of such a name - It's new to me. Alan Cohen

Hi everyone. I’m new to this process so please bear with me. I am looking to track my family history of paternal great grandfather’s family. US name is MARCUS LANSKEY, born in Prussia in 1834. He immi

I have a brick wall trying to find my cousin Lawrence Menkin, born in Windsor, Canada in 1945. He may have moved to the United States. Can anyone help? Peggy Dombeck

Would anyone have access to the name on the registry in 1909 of the family Rubinstein, who lived at 41, Orchard Street, New York. I have visited the address, the original house has been replaced, but

trying to trace my family back to Yom Tov Lipa Heller I have records back to mid 1850's but need to trace a little further back It would involve someone who could research polish birth/death records p

I recently posted about a case in Poland where two Polish historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, were facing a libel trial for a scho

I recently learned that I am of Russian-Jewish ancestry (my father was adopted into the SHANKLIN family when he was a toddler, and we've just recently learned who our biological family was). I've been

Hello, I have posted a record in Russian from the 1875 Volodarka Residents List. I would like to know the complete translation for all of the families on the page. I believe the families include: Novo

One of my relatives in some documents is named "Alter" Kukuk in Poland in about 1850. In another document he seems to be named "Efraim" Kukuk. I'm wondering whether the name Alter was maybe given to h

Initial Reports about a fire at the Krakow City Archive last Saturday. http://krakowexpats.pl/news-from-krakow/fire-at-krakow-city-archive/?fbclid=IwAR3kG6ovrNV-foKSiZQhTR569dlsJGTrfKyQWtBoIjRcIF4lRKv

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I've posted a vital record in Russian of a wedding record in Poland for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?k

Hi, Can anyone help me date this photo by the Cologne (Koeln/Coeln), Germany photographer, Fritz Eilender? Note that Koeln is spelled starting with a “C” at the bottom of the photo. Thank you for help