Do you have Jewish ancestors from Germany or other German-speaking regions? If so, you're in luck! Next Tuesday (3/2) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the nex

Hello Someone claimed that Jews can't trace their lineage further back than their grandfather. I know that's ridiculous, but i was wondering if there are any reliable genealogies going back much furth

Has anyone heard of: Genealogical Revelations of Hungarian Jewish Families - First Volume Editor - Munkatchi The Magyar spelling of the Editor's name would actually be: Munkacsi. Does anyone have a co

A website http://7dorim.com/Home.asp has a 3-D tour in Farsi and English- not easy to navigate --as a home for Iranian Jewish heritage. Yousef Setareh-Shenas, nearly 15 years ago created the Persian-l

I've tried various searches but cannot locate the pre-immigration personal name likely before Nettie. Many thanks for your help.

Dear fellow researchers, I am happy to announce that tax censuses (family lists) from the Novgorod Seversk uezd (district) in 1888 have now been translated and transcribed as part of the Chernigov Gub

Just received an email from someone, which at first glance looked like a legitimate family researcher. I was still a bit suspicious and found reference to this style message, so is very likely a spam.

Does anyone know if there are records from the ghetto in Pabianice? -- Best Regards, Amit Gnatek Singapore

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“The Testimony of Rudolph Rader” from the Yizkor book of Skalat (Ukraine) is a first person account of Belzec, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. While the horrors he relates make difficult readin

Three members of my grandmother's family were massacred in the forest at Kremnička on 20th November 1944. They were among a total of 747 to be murdered at the same place over three months. The mass gr

I think that the most likely reason for people to travel to London from Berlin simply in order to marry, was that they wanted a civil, rather than a religious ceremony, and that this was not available

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors for Genealogical Research Speaker: Scott Genzer Virtual Meeting: Join from Home Sunday, 28 February

Hello Researching surname to find links to GG birth town/hometown, found an Australian newspaper 1915 reporting areas Mlava and Molava across River Danube, Serbia? Wondering if this may have been a mi

According to an interview given to my ultra-orthodox journalist in Jerusalem by his Jerusalem born grandmother, her grandmother ,Gittle ABRAMOWITZ, a widow married a British widower with 10 children.b

I am looking for information on the BJALIN family who came from Sweden to Winnipeg. Esther Bjalin was born in Sweden in 1881 (or 1868) and married Jacob Greengard in Winnipeg in 1906. She died in 1946

Recently there have been a spate of acquisitions announced in the genealogy and DNA world ...today is no different. Techcrunch.com reported that MyHeritage.com is being acquired by Francisco Partners

According to an interview given to a Jerusalem Charedi (ultra-orthox) by his grandmother, her grandmother, Gittle ABRAMOWITZ ( a widow,) married an Isaac LAZAROFF, a Britsh widower with 10 children. A

If someone died in New Haven in the 1890s or early 1900s, what Jewish cemeteries were available for their burial? -- Peter Cohen California

I’m trying to locate information on Simon Kra (1853-1940) and his family. Simon was born in Frankfurt but moved to Paris and was a successful publisher there. I don’t know his wife’s name, but they we