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

There are 4 people, immigrants from Minsk Gubernia, who lived in New York City and/or Canada who I can identify as siblings via Census records or immigration manifests or other documents. I've tracked

When a family historian is a very Senior Citizen with a house full of everything they need, give them the family tree of the family into which you married. This will enable them to spread their family

This is the back of a photo. Can you translate it please? I'm sorry about the shadow. Thank you. Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA dsfaec@... Searching for: FRIEDMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SHULMAN/SCHU

I've just received an offer for 20% off a World Explorer subscription on Ancestry. The price is $119 for 6 months. My family is from Babruysk & Minsk in Belarus and Warsaw in Poland. I already have a

We invite you to attend the next presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars: Post 1492 Sephardic Dispersion and a Guide to Sephardic Genealogy Speaker: Sarina Roffé Tuesday, April 20, 2021