Tried to log into the 1929 Directory with no success. Any idea what is the situation there? Thanks Jacob Rosen Jerusalem

I fear that I have been self-sabotaging my gedcom-ability by putting punctuation like quotes and parens in some of the vital fields, or by using terms in dates like abt or aft. I also have some floati

Although it wasn’t billed as a Jewish camp, I was a CIT and counselor at Crane Lake Camp in West Stockbridge, MA., owned and run by the Ulanoff family. We had Friday night services. Ironically, the Re

I am looking for a Nathan Phillips from London, born about 1830 according to census records. I have found one about the right age who died in 1912. His tombstone is pictured in FindAGrave. Could someo

Looking for connections between my Karklinsky family (from Lithuania) to the Blumrosen and Rosenthal families in Texas. We know there was a close family relationship but it has been lost over the year

Has anyone come across forenames being anglicised before departure from Czechoslovakia in 1939? I am looking at a mother's passport issued by the Nazis and the children's names are listed as Thomas, R

The New England Consortium, a collaboration of researchers and genealogists (including founding member JGSGB) is holding its second annual conference on June 12. The topic will be Lakes, Lanyards, and

I currently keep my updated tree and most of my records on Ancentry. What are recommended ways of keeping this information on my computer? Looking for software that would allow me to upload a gedcom f

Hello All; Can someone translate the Hebrew on this gravestone? It is the grave of the former rabbi of Botosani Romania, who immigrated to Tel Aviv and became a chief regional rabbi there in the 1950s

We have a number of family members with the name Ruda or Rudah. In fact my father had an auntie who married a man whose last name was Ruda. Is this a Yiddish form of Ruth? Thank you Chaim Meiersdorf

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Surname-Evolution More research into how we got our Surnames! Good Luck to all Ilan Leibowitz Kibbutz Afikim Israel

I've posted a birth record that is in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98512 Please resp

I believe he is a professor in a Polish university; he wrote several volumes of picture books with graves from Jewish cemeteries in Poland. If anyone has his contact information, please send it to me

Jamaica has an important place in Sephardic history. In 1882 most of the Jewish records were lost in a fire that destroyed a large part of Kingston, the capital. For years this has been a huge barrier

Hello, I have made a post on View Mate - https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98549 it is concerning some family members who most probably were from Prague. If you know anything p

Do you know the name of this cemetery and where exactly it is located? Please see my post on ViewMate https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98549 Thank you in advance! Tina Bachman

Greetings to Everyone! I have found four cards with names of my great grandparents, grandparents and my Mom in this data base. The card shows name and city they are coming from to Tashkent. There is n

Hello, I have made a post on ViewMate - https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98553 Can you please translate from Czech to English? And then about the postcard - any thoughts? Plea

I've posted a vital record in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98540 Please respond via

Can someone translate Notes I found in my grandfather's marriage record (my namesake - Jacob Aufschauer) from 1910 from #Zolkiev? https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98555 Thank