Trying to find out how to get a picture of original documents from jewishgen Shaun Murphy

I imagine that this question has been raised before but I haven’t found the answer so I’m posting it again. I know that Jews were required to take last names starting around 1800 and that civil regist

Shalom, Does anyone know where is the evidence that the below Rachel’s father is Rabbi Yoel Halpern? https://www.geni.com/people/Rachel-Horowitz/6000000001926362318?through=6000000002700831495 Thank y

Hello Everyone, I am stumped searching for my great Aunt's death records. I can not find her death date or location. I have a listing from the social security application and claims records with her s

We are privileged to have Rita Bogdanova- expert Latvian Archivist- speak at our IAJGS Conference meeting on 23rd August 12.30pm EST We hope to welcome as many of you as possible. She will speak on th

I was looking through the name index of "Journey To A Nineteenth-Century Shtetl" and found the name Arye-Leyb with "only child" in quotations. I tried to find a translation, but it looks like Arye-Ley

Hello Jewishgen I'd like to thank you for your great site and for all the information that one can find in it. In one of your charts, under "publication type/Archive" is written "Jews repressed during

The U.S. and the Holocaust will premiere on PBS September 18, 2022. Check with your local cable provider for the station. The U.S. and The Holocaust, a new three-part , six-hour documentary directed a

Please don't be too hard on me. I'm well aware that there's no standard Americanization of a Hebrew/Yiddish name. However... in my father's family, the Americanizations seem to follow "convention." Mo

Hi friends: Last night the good news was I discovered my 2nd great mothers last name on my 2nd great uncles new York city 1908 marriage certificate : “Hashpesh, given name Zissel. That’s the bad news,

Thank you all for the responses before. My Great Great grandparents is the subject. Therese cejka,chake arrived in 1889. She married steven kennick. He was stephan konig but changed names. Family lore

Shalom, I am trying to collect all the sources that prove my connection to Rashi. I can prove up until the RM"A's sister, Miriam Beila Horowitz. I am wondering if there is one site with all the source

I have a relative who was born in 1879 and is documented to have served in the Spanish-American War. On Ancestry, one of the records for him has his correct service information but is found in the "U.

Sent from Mail for Windows Moshe Fink <mosfink@...> 11:27 AM (2 hours ago) to main@... Hello My mother's aunt, Riwke Reichman (nee Willner) born 1876 in Potok Zlote Galicia Austria and her two childre

Vatican News reports, “At the request of Pope Francis, the virtual reproduction of a collection preserving the requests for help addressed to Pope Pius XII by Jews from all over Europe after the begin

Hello, I just joined the group. I was born in Germany but live for more than 40 years in Tel Aviv, Israel. I speak German, English and Hebrew, have some experience with genealogical research and am qu

Good evening fellow members, I would like to find when my great-great-grandfather, Simon/Siegmund/Sigmund MEYER/MEIER was deported and where he was deported from and to. I would also like to know when

I am looking for people who lived in the Polish shtetl Krynki and their descendants. It is about 25 miles northeast of Bialystok. I have heard about a group called the Organization of Krinik Survivors

On March 2, 1914 my GGF Hersh Herberman from Iasi, Romania got his passport stamped in Suceava, Romania. The next stamp in chronological order is on March 17, 1914. I can read the city Wien on the sta

Hello, I am curious if any genealogists who have neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia or Dyspraxia)in their family found that the discoveries they made about their ancestors suggested they may also