The next Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society meeting is Sunday January 24th at 10:00 am Pacific Time. Alexander Beider is speaking on What's in a name? Unravelling the Mystery of Jewish

I am resending this because I typed my incorrect email address I am searching for information on my paternal great grandfather, Berko Portiansky or Portjanskii from Yelisabetgrad, Russia (now Ukraine)

According to the 1920 census the person I am looking for, Rose Margolis Hollander, appears to have been born in a place called "Katrineslav" which is the Mogilev gubernia. I say "appears" because the

Does anyone know anything about the people involved in the early history of Anshe Motele in Chicago? I am researching a KAPLAN family with at least two sons who were connected to this shul: Shachne ak

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to upload historical records found in one source into another? For instance, if I find marriage record via FamilySearch.org or a manifest at Ellis Island, is th

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

Hello, everyone. I have been trying unsuccessfully to find birth and other vital records for relatives on my father's side. My father was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1944. Based on some notes he mad

I live within a short distance of the National Archives at Kew. The UK naturalisation records are held there in a series of large volumes. Names of people recorded in these volumes are indexed through

I would like to know the address of the parents on the two birth records (of siblings) which I posted on ViewMate at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM896

We are looking to hire a genealogist to trace ancestors in Germany. Their names are relatively common so confirming details is difficult. However, we do have some information to help the process along

I would appreciate an English translation of the tombstone I posted on Viewmate. The image can be found at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89642 Thank y

The Utah JGS is having its first virtual meeting of the year on January 18th, 6:30pm Mountain time. Our speaker will be Janette Silverman, of Ancestry ProGenealogists and former IAJGS board member, pr

If anybody is able to photograph the headstone of Benjamin FLETCHER (see details below) who is buried in the Bloemfontein Memorial Cemetery Jewish section, I would be most grateful if they could email

The British magazine Who Do You Think You Are has an article on the best websites for finding Holocaust records: Arolsen Archives, Yad Vashem, Every Name Counts, Wiener Holocaust Library, United State

I have been researching my family since 1990 but have hit a brick wall with my paternal great-grandfather, Ben Press. While my other three grandparents came from Lithuania or Russia around 1910, Ben P

Trying to make contact with the family of Florence (nee Lehman) and Stanley Sultan who lived in the Roxbury, CT area. Their daughter, Miriam Mindel, married Dr. Jonas Reuben Kagan, a general practitio

I am looking for information about Sam Rosenthal from Voronovitsy. When he first came to the United States he lived in Pittsburgh as a border. I can't find any more information about him after that. A

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has made digital access to the full sound recordings to the public of the War Crimes Proceedings of the International Military tribunal known as the

Hello all, I am researching my family history. I am searching for information about my great-great-aunt who moved to South Africa sometime around the beginning of the 20th century (she was born somewh

Hello, I found the for the birth of Salomen Zalman Fisch in 1882 to my great-grandparents Avigdor Fisch and Reizl Rudner. However, in 1895 there is another record for the birth of Salomen Zalman Fisch