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

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’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

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

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

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

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

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

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Events: Preserving your Family Photos and Documents: Resource Guide Thursday, September 8, 2022 , 2 pm Pacific Time/ 5pm EST Speakers: Resource Librarians Center fo

Shalom, It seems to be broad consensus that Rabbi Zvi Hirsch HaLevi Horowitz’s father was Rabbi Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz Baal HaHafla'ah, and that Rabbi Pinchas’s father was Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Horowitz

In the 1888 Revision list for Lida (now in Belarus), my great great grandparents Shimel and Gusa Lev (Simon and Ada Lavine) are listed as living in Iazovitsa village. I have gotten an image of the ori