Find Lost and Russian & Ukrainian Family posted about the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation database of 6 million Russian documents and photos about life in the USSR. Access is free. There

I am looking for : Pentue, Russia. My husband's great-grandfather and grandfather came from there. Thank you Ellen Honig

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Aaron KENIG was born in Roman, Romania. He emigrated to Hartford, Connecticut at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1898 he traveled back to Europe to marry a woman born in and living in Busk, now

I need help with ancestors Williams that lived in Oneida county and also NY city, in NY. Some members are in the Acacia cemetery, Suwalki section in NY city. In particular, the Oneida county Williams'

Searching for anyone who might have any information on life in Lodz from 1930's through 1940's. I'm looking for possible survivors who were born or lived there, especially. -- Sharon E. Siegel Port Je

My grandparents married in Sarreguemines Synagogue in France in 1927. Under French civil law at that time, were they also required to have a civil marriage? If yes, then I believe that happened in Str

How do I find Jewish birth records in the 1800s for Calau, which is a small town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, Germany. Thank you -- Miriam Fine

On their arrival manifest my great-grandparents list Monastyryska as their last place of residence. I am having difficulty locating any kind of vital records for this town. Has anyone successfully fou

I have been trying to research my ancestors specifically family Bartfeld in Delatyn (then Galicia), and I havn’t been finding much, does anybody know how to carry on the research, where can I find and

Hello, I tried a couple "free" sites to download gedcom online, but they came with other requirements. Does anyone have a suggestion for downloading a free gedcom program that would best mimic my fami

My dad's Uncle was an Orthodox Rabbi. When he was in Los Angeles, he ran a school for Jewish girls that taught them how to be Orthodox good wives for Rabbis. Was this common in the 1950-60s? Has any o

The web-site developer, EasyNetSites, for more than 160 genealogy and historical societies in Canada and the United States is shutting down as of June 30, 2021. The message they sent was: "The Managem

My father's address in Krakow before moving to Belgium was Bursa Zydowskich Wojennych. Does anyone knows what was it? -- Amnon PALDI

The Amsterdam District Court upheld a 2018 ruling by the Netherlands restitution committee and rejected a restitution case brought by the Jewish heirs that originally owned a painting by Wassily Kandi

Several years ago, I found a September, 1963 letter addressed to my maternal grandmother, Gussie Levine Schultz, signed by a nephew, "Peter". He referred to my grandmother as his "aunt". The letter wa

My great uncle and aunt were two of those 3000 Jews in 1900, and at least one of their two sons was born there. They did emigrate to the US, and that son's brogue returned when he'd been celebrating t

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Russian I've posted 4 vital records in Russian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/

Hershele Kurlap, the title character in this excerpt from the Yizkor book of Wyszków, Poland, was a fisherman and considered the Rebbe of the fish market. A tradition he clung to with fervor was never

Hi, Is anyone able to decipher the name of the parents to Jachet Rachel on this birth record? I can't determine if her father is an Abr. (Abraham) or an Ahr. (Aharon). She is located on line #76. Addi