Family History Today: Clandestine Jewish Immigration to Pre-State Israel Monday, July 18, at 11 am Eastern Time (U.S.) / 18:00 Israel Between 1920 and 1948, over 100,000 European Jews attempted to imm

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

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

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

Hi, hope everyone is thinking positive and testing negative. In the all-Galicia database, I am looking at Zurawno marriages 1901-1936. The folks at Jewish Gen were kind enough to confirm my interpreta

A Trip To Your Belarus Roots - A Free Presentation by The Together Plan’s Belarus Archives Team Sunday July 20, 2022 12 pm ET Zoom Meeting The Together Plan’s Vasily Zaitsau, Belarus Archive Services

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 found a birth record listed in JwishGen that may be my grandfather, Jacob Brodetsky. The record is for Yakov Brudetsky. Born 1886, Odessa, Ukraine. The only information is an image number: 2696 and

I'm doing a research of the above Death march. If somebody has information about that Death March, or knows of descendants of it I would like to contact these persons in order to see what they know. P

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

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

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 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