My cousin has an early 19th century parchment family tree in Hebrew showing the family's descent from the esteemed 17th century rabbi The Shack who was born in Ambistowo in Lithuania and died in Holes

The JewishGen Romania Research Division has started a Facebook group. I will be sharing updates on our progress (and requests for volunteers) there. We're looking forward to good commentary, mutual as

Mordke JALAS was born in Lutomiersk, Poland in 1885. He married Ester ZAJDE in 1914 (marriage record attached). Shortly after his marriage he traveled to USA en-route to his brother-in-law Salomon ZAI

I found the index to the license for a marriage in Brooklyn in 1926 but how can I find the license itself? Thanks. -- Bob Silverstein bobsilverstein@... Elk Grove Village, IL Researching Kaplan (Krynk

How can you get subcarpathia birth certificate that is on the Mukachevo area births, 1871-1880 registry? Rita Anne Haberman.

I am trying to trace descendants of my aunt Hannah Weiss (who was married to my Uncle Wolf (William) who perished in the Holocaust) or descendants of other members of the Weiss family who I believe li

I would like announce an upcoming (mid-May) publication of the book "The Towns of Death: The Pogroms of Jews by Their Neighbors" by a young Polish philosopher/historian/ethicist, Dr. Mirosław Tryczyk,

I found the entire name!!! I found Pawel Makszyn in my notes from my mom's own words back in 1988. Now I need to find his descendants in Lublin, Poland. What's a good database for searching names in P

Greetings, I've just recently had some documents partially translated, and this document, which I believe was either an immigration paper, or possibly a marriage license, and was written in Lithuanian

I found out about a decade ago that my grandmother Rose Confeld was born December 1885 in Painted Woods, North Dakota – not far south of Washburn. Her mother’s family (Dorfman) was from Kishinev, Bess

Gesher Galicia President Steven Turner was honored to be invited to give a talk by JewishGen. The partnership between Gesher Galicia and JewishGen is such an important one for the Jewish genealogy com

The Book of Names (www.pamiectreblinki.pl/ksiega-imion/ankieta-ksiega-imion/) is a non-profit web database specific to those who were murdered at Treblinka. Before the existence of this database there

I am trying to locate the descendants of the 2nd family who hid my mom and grandma during the Holocaust in Chrzanow, Lublin, Poland. My mom is deceased now, but she gave me the name of the family in 1

The Memory of the People portal announced almost 8.5 million more records to the database, the largest database for documenting former USSR soldiers. https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ The new collection adds:

Dear gersigs, I hope one of you can help me. I have read in a book about the jewish communities in 1932 that a Chevra kaddischa was foundet around 1875 the chairmann was a Kupferschlag (I think his na

Hi Barbara, if you are not familiar with Archive.org they have digitized many resources out of copyright as well as a lending library. If you search the category Texts using the search term “Jews in C

I have learned a lot from doing these weekly explorations of Yizkor books over several years, but I occasionally come across stories that stump me, due no doubt because I don’t pretend any expertise i

My maternal grandmother, Miriam (Golda) NARODETSKY (nee HANDELBERG) (b.abt.1888 possibly in Annopol, d.1962) was the daughter of Dov Baer (a Kohane) and Bayla Handelberg. My maternal grandfather, Zus

Hello all ! I recently had a document partially translated, and the name Zeta came up. I checked the Jewish database of names, but nothing came up. Does anyone know what the woman's name of ZETA may b

Hello, I am wondering if anyone has access to records which may provide info./details on the parents of my ggggrandfather Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin With many thanks. Karen Saunders - researching Tik