Hi Cousins, As others have mentioned, the vast majority of landsmanshaften, and burial societies that existed decades ago are defunct. When this happens in New York State, all their remaining assets a

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I will be teaching (virtually) part 3 of 3 on Jewish Genealogy Basics tomorrow (Oct 21) at 5pm EST, "The Old Country": Introduction to locating where your ancestors came from in Europe. Background dis

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Please translate this Marriage Registration for Chaja Perla Spiwak in Koden, 1856. You will find it on ViewMate # 86754 Warm Regards, Margalit Margalit Ashira Ir I am: An Israeli! An Immigrant! An Ame

The Act of Emancipation was initiated under the rulership of Joseph II in the second half of the 18th century. By the way, my brother-in-law is the late Shlomo Bien (born as Andor Bien) from Nagykaniz

Thank you for this "how to". I would hope that JewishGen will see how often this issue of how to use the file notation arises as an indication that it would be very helpful for step by step instructio

Does anyone know how to contact Chevra Chesed Shel Emeth of Brownsville (Brooklyn NY) ? I have found a worn gravestone in the Montefiore Cemetery. Springfield Gardens, Queens NY. The cemetery maintain

I have not been able to determine the home shtetl of my "Levitsky/Lewicki" co-hort despite years of trying. The sole documentary clue I have is Hyman Levitsky's 1909 passenger manifest citing "Neustat

JewishGen Education Winter Schedule https://www.jewishgen.org/education/ November 1 - 22 East Prussia and the Baltic States This class allows you to Research your Roots in Latvia, Western Lithuania (K

Thanks for your suggestions about the address books. I am looking for Dr Willy Selig. He and his family left Berlin around 1933 and he was a GP in Kingsbury. We are trying to establish exactly when th

Will someone explain the apparent discrepancies between AGAD marriage records which have different dates of marriage that conflict with births of the couple's children. Thank you Richard Stower Yarmou

MyHeritage’s Family Tree Builder is now available for macOS Catalina and macOS High Sierra. It can be downloaded for free. Go to: https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/10/family-tree-builder-now-available-

The Blavatnik Archive (BAF) is announced that 2,700 of 12,921 total items in the Veteran Testimonies & Ephemera Collection are fully digitized, cataloged, and accessible online at www.blavatnikarchive

Tammy Weingarten asked how to locate a microfilm image for a Bessarabia revision list. Here are general instructions for finding this and similar images, from Bessarabia and other areas of the Russian

The Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society is having Risa Daitzman speak on How to Find Unindexed Records online. The meeting is by registration only. You can register on our website at www

On a search result for Leiba Sharshevich from Pakruojis, Lithuania, I received a link on FamilySearch to a Metrical Book containing several hundred images. How do I determine which image contains the

My g.grandparents were Jacob JOEL and Dora FRIEDLANDER. Jacob arrived in NYC in 1856. The manifest listed his last known residence as INOWROCLAW, then in Prussia, now in Poland. Dora arrived iin 1857

Hello again from Reclaim The Records! We're writing today, to let you know that we just filed the single largest Freedom of Information Act request in our organization's history, for billions of histo

Can someone recommend a reliable archivist who can obtain family records from Semenovka (Chernigov guberniya) and Chernigov. Earl Zeitlin; Monsey, NY