A non-Jewish friend has great-grandparents who came from Sweden (maternal side) and Germany (paternal side). The latest iteration of her DNA ethnicity profile from Ancestry indicates a Swedish compone

Dan is son of Shoshana Raizi of Montreal and he made aliya some years ago. Married to Osnat. He descends from the Stern-Horowitz rabbinical family and lives in Jerusalem. Neil Rosenstein

I'm trying to decipther the handwritten entry for "Citizenship" on a 1925 NY census. In the column "If Naturalized, when and where" there are entries for my ggf Morris, ggm Clara and gu Sam. The first

How about marriage and birth records for Volochysk and Podvolochisk. Also census data for these cities from 1850-1900 Karen Goldsmith Adelman

This letter on the back of a family picture was sent from two survivors to a living uncle in New Orleans Louisiana. Hymie Reichstein reichstein@ magma.ca

Trying to make contact with the family of Shoshana Raizi Stern who lived in Montreal and posted a Page of Testimony to Yad Vashem for her uncle Moshe Menchel Stern in 2004. They descend from the Stern

My great-great grandfather Mordechai Dov HURWITZ of Rokiskis, Lithuania had a brother Shmuel Yehuda HURWITZ who moved to St Petersburg c1900. While some of Shmuel Yehuda's children managed to leave th

Dear Friends, As 5780 and 2020 come to a close, we at Gesher Galicia thank all of our members for their support during what has been a uniquely challenging year. Despite the hurdles, we were able to a

Babi Yar (Babyn Yar) is a ravine outside the Ukrainian city of Kyiv (Kiev) where Einsatzgruppen mobile squads killed at least 34,000 Jews over a one week period in September 1941. Jews were marched in

Her married name is Channe > Annie / Sarah Ann Lyss >Alper. Sometimes misspelled Hana. I've searched on ancestry, familysearch and myheritage (altho my search skills are imperfect) and in the NARA onl

I need to update my family tree on the Family Tree of the Jewish People. My tree is on MyHeritage but I don't se there how to put the current tree on GEDCOM so I can update it on the FTJP. Thanks for

Hi All, A cousin of mine is trying to locate four German birth certificates but appears to have hit a brick wall. They are for his parents and his paternal grandparents. Please can you help me to loca

I am writing a novel set in the 20th century in which the wife of a major character is murdered at Auschwitz. She was living and hiding in Paris during the Nazi occupation, but she was caught in 1943

I am trying to find out the names of the parents of Nathan HAASE who married my great great aunt Pauline ANKER. Nathan was born 5 May 1838 and died January 3, 1912. I found Nathan’s death notice but i

Dear Jewish Genners, L’Shana Tova. The volunteer archivist from Markt Berolzheim found the home where my 2x great grandfather, Benjamin Emanuel HERZ and his brother Joseph Emanuel HERZ lived. The hous

Has anyone done any research into the Jewish community in Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s? I am trying to find some information on someone who I was told published a newspaper in Egypt in that time frame

Does anyone else think it would be helpful to have tags for "immigration" and "citizenship"? I have been using #records which doesnt seem too helpful. Nancy -- Nancy Summers Maryland, USA FINKELSTEIN,

I am researching my paternal great grandmother, Dora Alperovich, who according to an Argentine document was born in the town of Jazan, Jazanka, Russia on March 20, 1889. Her father's name was Jaime Al

My great-grandfather Henry (given Hebrew name Zvi Hirsch) Zucker, from Chodorow, Galicia, Austria, and now known as Khodorov, Ukraine, immigrated to New York probably via Ellis Island from Hamburg, Ge

My great grandfather was Mauritzio Krivitzky (he was born in approximately 1886 in Russia/Ukraine). He was married to Dora Alperovich (born in 1889) she came a year after him to Argentina, 1913-14 app