New on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: An 1845 cadastral map of the center of Pomorzany (now Pomoriany in western Ukraine): https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/pomorzany-pomoriany-1845/ It's an unus

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88824 Please respond via t

Researching my KATZOFF (or variant) family who left Brisk/Brest-litovsk at various times during the last 120-130 years. The three areas they went to are (like most emmigrants) to USA-my grandfather Ph

I would appreciate your help with the Hebrew on these headstones. The third is a little hard to read so I'm adding another photo of it. Thanks -- Sherry Robinson, Albuquerque, NM

We are looking for Gussie/Augusta Deutsch. We don’t know her maiden name. We assume she was Jewish. She was born about 1886 in Austria-Germany. She was married to Daniel Deutsch (1875-@1935). He lived

I am hoping that someone would be able to take a photo of a headstone for me in the Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, NY. It is for David Stern, location 1-E-30-H-4. I believe this is my great uncle, R

ViewMate - Image 88745 - Translation - Other - Belarus - Krinsky, Isserman, and Esserman - November 25, 2020 (jewishgen.org) Information Question Category: Translation - Other Family Surname: Krinsky,

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are now over 1,800,000 records available in our databases. With each release we provi

I would appreciate your translation of some old handwritten postcards in German script. There are a few words that are difficult to read because of age. The View Mate numbers are: VM88414, VM88415, VM

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I've posted a 3-4 sentence news item in German from a Viennese Jewish newspaper/magazine, and I am hoping someone can translate it for me. It's in what I believe is a fraktur font, and I can barely de

Trying to make contact with the descendants of Esther, died in Cracow in 1939 (married 1: Teichman and 2: Neiman) whose grandchildren settled in Toronto. Neil Rosenstein.

While searching in the Polish archives for 18th c information from Glogow/Glogau (JRI-Poland does not list any), I found a notebook entitled "Repertorium der Grund-Acten von der vormaligen Glogauer Ju

I prefer my husband's quote when describing me as a genealogist. She is more interested in the dead than the living. Just in case this resonates with others from Lithuania, after 20 years of searching

The Arolsen Archives added about one million documents to their online archive. The new additions include picture of prisoners and transport lists from Auschwitz concentration camp as well as letters

Shalom, I am looking for descendants of Shlama/Shlomo/Salomon TEICHER , who was born probably in Zaluce and died in Rudnik or Rudniki (near Zablotiv/Zablotow) His parents were Chunna TEICHER and Gittl

I am attempting to find what happened to the siblings of my husband’s great grandmother during/after the War. My husband’s great grandmother was Johanne SCHWARZSCHILD SEEMANN (15 Sep 1872 Kassel GER-3

I am pretty new to posting here and hoping I have hastags and format correct. A promise made to my late mother-in-law has taken me on an eye-opening and so inspiring, but heartbreaking, heart-wrenchin

Recently, I interpreted a postcard in Yiddish, posted from Petrograd (today's St. Petersburg, before that Leningrad) in Russia to my great-grandfather, who for a few years resided in Sweden. The postc

I am looking for any information on my great grandfather’s family. His name was Abraham Friedman, he was born in 1892 in dec 18 in Elizabeth NJ. to Anne Israel and Abraham Friedman. I’m guessing his d