This week’s offering is a collection of Yizkor book excerpts about practical jokes. Every society has its pranksters, so why not the shtetls of Europe? Some of these border on the side of cruel humor

Hi, I’m trying to track down the fate of my great grandfather, Josef Bermann false Lehrhaupt. He was deported from Vienna on February 15, 1941 and the last letter was from almost a year later - Februa

A group of high-definition photos of the youth of Dieveniskes (Divenishok) has been posted to the Photo Gallery (https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/album?id=254998). Persons with Divenishok ancestry

Reading about Barney Barnato (born as Barnet Isaacs) I find that at the time of the gold rush in Namibia he got there on foot, I read that his cousin Sir David Harris ( birth name not known by me) got

Hello all. I would appreciate any help in finding an date and location of death for my great uncle Otto Seelig. He was born 25 May 1879 in Posen/Poznan. He is the eldest son of Emil Seelig and Recha/R

I've posted before about helping a Ukrainian and Russian Kagan/Cohen family who lost track of their American cousins in the 1930s, after falling into conversation on a train with the grandson of the b

Hello, I am researching my father's family from Latvia. My grandparents were Displaced People (officially non-Jewish) and came to Australia after World War 2. Here are my family: My grandmother, Erika

I am looking for information about my grandmother’s family. Her maiden name was Vetensky. We believe before she emigrated to London it was probably Witunski or Witenski, probably from Lutomiersk in Po

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada invites you to a Zoom meeting at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) on Sunday, November 8: “Woman in Gold” with Randy Shoenberg. To request a Zoom link,

The recent post by Adam Cherson of class photos from Havana's Centro Israelita reminded me that I had this photo, which was taken in June 1942 of the going-away party for my mother, Chana Anita Levik,

My Grandfather's side of the family has the name of Moss or going back to the 1600's Mosse. I was told that my grandfathers family came to England "on the boats" whatever that means. I checked the nam

Hello, This may be outside the scope of the group, but I wondered if there are thoughts as to what name Sabolor might be (if "vitz" is "son of")? It's possible it was misheard and written down as Sabo

Hi, I have attached two birth records that I found using JewishGen Unified Search. The person's name was Hersch Yosel (Metzger) born in Sniatyn on 25 March 1883. I don't think either record is correct

Twenty some years ago, in a talk at the Los Angeles conference, I stressed the importance of reviewing previously acquired material as it may contain important, earlier overlooked, information. "... O

Hello genners. I am researching my ancestor R. Tzvi Hirsh Braude, the son of Aron, who was a rabbi in Salant and Alsedziai in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I am pretty sure that he is listed

Please translate the Hebrew on this headstone of my grandparents in Munich. Thank You. Best Regards, John Lowin Researching Lowin in Radziechow, Vienna and Munich.

Comments: Photo from family collection of Samuel BENYAKONSKI. This photos shoe the 5th and 6th grade classes of 1942-43 at the Centro Israelita of Havana (located on Muralla/between Zulueta and Egido)

When all the dusty family trees books and scribbly civil records have been exhaustively mined (and I believe that time is rapidly approaching), yDNA-based rabbinical research is the way forward. The 2

Bernard Baschkin who married Millicent, nee Auerbach and a descendant of the Wiesel and Stern families was the father of Laurance and Karen-Anne Paul. I am trying to trace the rabbinical roots of this

I saw a map with surnames of a Kamenetz - Podolsky Jewish Cemetery (27 plots wide) and was wondering if anyone knows if pictures of the gravestones exist. Are there any ongoing projects to take pictur