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

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

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

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.

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

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

Are any UK researchers planning a trip to Urmston Cemetery, south of Manchester, please? I have discovered my thrice great uncle's grave there and am hoping someone might be able to take some close-up

I’m wondering if you can help me understand something. In researching my Rappaport/Rapoport family on Ancestry, I’ve lately seen a number of family tree records that include portrait photographs purpo

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

I'd appreciate help understanding the meaning of the abbreviation ’’ח (chet) before a father's name on a gravestone. (Please note that the '' are not yuds but my best representation of the faint diacr

I've posted two one page letters, one in Hebrew and one in Yiddish, for which I would like word for word translations. The second was written on the back of the first. The first is from my G Grandfath

I'm looking for a correct transcription of a few words on my great grandfather's death record from Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1917. The full document is posted at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate

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

LitvakSIG's Trakai District Research Group held a virtual Birds of a Feather (BOF) program on August 14, 2022. The presentation provided background on Lithuania, Trakai District, and LitvakSIG, and of

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,

I am making a family video and want to use a map that shows where the town that our family lived in is, and maybe one or two close cities, in addition an the outline of the country (Belarus). I'm look

I am looking for the family of Maurice Hirschowitz - was born in 1876 in Russia. He died on 18 Jan 1955 in South Africa. He married Sarah Yules on 19 Dec 1899 in New Briggate Synagogue, Leeds. Sarah w

I have a family letter dated January 1878 that includes some interesting genealogy information. But there is part of it that mentions "the Hebrew Israelites" that I don't understand and was hoping som

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