I’ve uploaded a short letter written from a man in Israel to his nephew in Boston which includes strict instructions not to show it to the man’s brother. I’m eager to find out what the big secret is!

Dear JewishGendom, I am searching for a Friedman family which was last known to live at 163 Berriman Street in Brooklyn, NY, circa 1925-1928, at which point the genealogical trail grows very cold. In

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) History Unfolded platform with Ancestry’s Newspapers.com will be offering free access to the newspapers.com premium subscription databases during th

My Heritage is offering free access to all birth records on their website the week of April 18-24, 2021. No time zone was provided for beginning or cutoff so assume US Central Time zone. MyHeritage’s

According to family lore my great great grandmother, gittle ABRAMOWITZ a widow with 4 children married an English widower with some 10 children and they lived in the Meah Shearim section in Jerusalem

Looking for HOROWITZ family from Minsk whose daughter married Moshe ben (son of) Rabbi David , the rabbi of Novarodok during the 18th cent. I haven't found David's family name and his son Moshe, adopt

I'd like some help interpreting the surname in Box 10: Father of Decedent (attached). The online form says Behner. To me it looks like Belmas or Behnas. Thanks, Jeff Fine Montclair, NJ, USA finejeffy@

My ancestral shul, Congregation Beth Hamedrash Hagodol, formerly of Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side, was tragically burned to the ground in 2017 after serving the Jewish community for 120 years.

Hi, I know someone posted that there is a way to obtain the actual records from familysearch while sitting in a parking lot and logging in. I was wondering if there was anyone who could get this recor

I’ve been able to determine that my great grandfather was buried in a Washington Cemetery subplot for the members of Congregation Bnei Menashe (or Menasche) which in 1902 was located at 89 Ridge Stree

I am wondering if there is a chance that there could be photographic records of specific addresses or street scapes of pre-war Berlin and Leipzig. I would like an impression of my grandparent’s reside

The Iasi Archives have entered into the Romanian Archives' online catalogue an index of birth records from 1865-1913 (solely the name, date of registration, and index number). We have extracted the fi

I am looking for information ( email address and/or phone number of Mr. Shraga Tzevi Levi who was living in Jerusalem in the Torat Chesed Street. He wrote a book about a Din Torah ( Galanta) and I wou

I've posted two records on ViewMate for the births of a brother and sister in Poland in 1903. A complete translation would be appreciated, especially birthdates and names. They are on ViewMate at the

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93216 Please respond via

Please, translate from yiddisch, take these addresses, the ones published yesterday were wrong https://www.jewishgen.org/view mate / viewmateview.asp? Key = VM93 169 https://www.jewishgen.org/view mat

"Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was publi

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Could someone please translate these three linked ViewMate documents? A full translation would be appreciated but primarily names, dates, place names and relationships. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewm

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Hebrew I've posted the writing on the back of a photo of two girls and two boys, I believe it is Hebrew and a translation would be helpful. It is on ViewMate at th