Hello According to your website for B’nai Amoona Cemetery, Joseph and Kate FRIEDMAN are buried at this cemetery. And their daughter Pauline and son-in-law Daniel ABRAMSKY. But the death certificate fo

Pre WWII, my father's family (both maternal - SCHLEIN - and paternal - KLAPPHOLZ) was prominent in Magdeburg, Germany. During the Holocaust, the synagogue in Magdeburg was destroyed and many of my fam

I've posted a comment in Romanian on a birth record for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98588 Pleas

Hello, I've posted a vital record in what I believe is Russian Cyrillic for which I need a translation. It's an immigration-related document for my grandfather, who emigrated from Kakhovka in the Russ

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've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation, including for the obeservations. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp

Hello Russian speakers, I would be very grateful for a transcript (in Cyrillic letters) and a translation into English of the last two sentences of this birth record starting after Хая. Khaya was born

Looking for clarification on the name camp Vosdowka in reference to the attached Yiddish. We are unable to locate this place in history. #Holocaust Thank you. Allan Bass

On August 25, 1946, the ship Athos II left Marseilles (France) and arrived in NY on September 8, 1946. On board was a group of about 50 Jewish children, all Holocaust orphans.Their trip had been organ

Looking for records for the family name, Cohen in Stavishche (Ставище) city, former Tarashcha povit (district), former Kiev Gubernia (now belonging to the Bilacerkiv district of Kyiv oblast). Kept in

I would much appreciate a translation of the Yiddish text on the back of a family photograph. The photo was found in an old family album belonging to a branch of my family from Leningrad/St.Petersburg

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 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

My maternal gg-grandmother was Estera REICHMAN/RAJCHMAN, married to Morris/Mosek/Mosiek REICHMAN. Her daughter, my maternal g-grandmother, was Ryfka/Rebecca REICHMAN/REJCHMAN (married to Zalman/Solomo

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

I found this letter among my late father's effects. He fled with his mother and brother from Czechoslovakia to the UK at the age of 15 years in 1939 - his uncle committed suicide and they lost everyth

I posted 3 documents on ViewMate: a letter written about my grandfather Abraham Reisner, my grandmother Toni Klein's birth certificate, and a medical record for Toni Klein's parents, Izsakne Klein and

Edward Drexler I am trying to find the history and origins of my grandfather on my fathers side. My mothers side is very well documented and my wife and I were able even to find my great grandfathers

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

We will be meeting in person and live streaming this lecture. More info to follow. Please check our website for updates and link a few days prior to the meeting! Jerry is very interesting and you will