I am trying to find information on The Gershon Berkovich family And his family from Mogilev Russia. Gershon was Born in 1898 and had a son in Alexander in 1920. Thank You, Robert Taub

Hi all - I have been trying, in vain, to locate the date of death and subsequent death certificate or headstone for my great-great grandmother, Fannie Shlanger Newman. Fannie was born in Radt, Hungary

See the book by Geoff Sifrin " To Gershn - Tales of People of Zjembin" , Johannesburg 1995 He brings there "Raizel's Story'' - the final 15 years of Zjembin in the words of Raizel (Shifrin ) Ander. On

Dear friends, researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia SIG projects for the month of June 2022. Our name is back Bessarabia SIG (Special Interest Group) as it was for many years. See also at

A reminder that the Birds of a Feather (BOF) session for the Ukmerge District Research Group will be held over Zoom on Sunday, July 10, 2022, at 12:00 noon EST. The Ukmerge district includes the follo

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Dr. Alexander Beider, PhD Researching Eastern European Jewish Surnames Sunday July 17, 1pm Pacific Time/ 4pm Eastern Guest RSVP: Register he

Jan, I can't thank you enough for posting this! The discovery of my great-uncle's application added a very interesting facet to the family story. I always wondered why my great-grandfather, Sigmund LI

JewishGen is proud to announce its 2022 Summer update for the Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database include

JewishGen is proud to announce its 2022 Summer update to the JOWBR (JewishGen’s Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. Please visit www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ to access the JOWBR datab

My grandmother’s nephew, Jacob Altman, was found murdered in his office in Oct. 1981. He was bound and gagged. The office was located at 315 W 55th St. I don’t know the borough in NY. I believe his wi

Sometimes the only clue I have as to where a DNA match and I might share a common ancestor is by the country they associate with their known relatives. However I am not aware of any DNA site that lets

What would the Hebrew or Yiddish equivalent of Mildred/Milly/Millie be? I am searching for an older sister of my maternal grandmother. Gittel/Gus LEVINE/MICHALOWICZ. According to Ancestry, Mildred was

I’m revisiting a long-standing brick wall. My wife’s grandfather Harry/Hirsch Rosenthal was most likely from “Czernovitz.” Unfortunately, there are two such places, both with Jewish communities, and t

I have a reference to a website: http://vor-den-holocaust.de/ that has many pre-Shoah family photos, etc. It used to be an open site, freely available. I haven’t used it for some time and now there’s

I am Looking for my uncle Boris Baruch Koltunovicz Born 1926 Vilnius Lithuania His Last contact from Tashkent WW2 Red Army Jewish Lithuanian squad Please contact me directly Thank you Abraham Kolet ak

I've posted a series of pages in German for which I need a translation. The document is an eight-page draft of a letter from my Great-grandfather, Sigmund LICHTENTHAL. I believe it is a mix of informa

Searching for the location of Gribnetz, Belarus. According to my uncle's 'Petition' Citizenship paper (1921), he was born in Gribnetz, Russia, which today, according to where the family lived, should

Can someone translate the Hebrew on this grave of Goodman and Rebecca Rose? Thank you very much in advance. Isabel Cymerman Southbury, CT isabelcym@... Searching: CUKIERMAN, GRYNBERG, GRYNFARB, LUBELC

MyHeritage added Jewish Historical Records from Vienna in partnership with the National Library of Israel. MyHeritage is making this collection available free to search. However, if you want to view o

I've been a member of this site for a while now and I want to say thank you. Sources of information mentioned by people in posts opened up new lines of enquiry for me. This has resulted in us contacti