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

The attached reads "Here lies X, daughter of (Reb) Yisrael Avraham". What is X? Looks like Marsha but that is not very Jewish sounding. Thanks. -- Bob Silverstein bobsilverstein@... Elk Grove Village,

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

Hi All, We use this site in an effort to both learn & to help each other solve genealogy problems, both simple & complex. As a general comment, it would be nice if all readers on this site, when askin

Hi, I'm seeking for the ascendants of my ggggfather, Guillaume (Wilhelm/Vilmos ?) BOEHM born in 1824 in Nagy Karoly (Hungary, today Carie in Romania ?), who emigrated to France. He married Julie BRUNS

On Saturday, August 13, I met my fourth cousin on my father’s side of the family. Sam Lerner and I presume that we are related through our great-great-great grandparents Eisig/Isak Reitzfeld and Chaje

Hello, I did a hashtag search on the Polish State Archives website and found a document that may be of genealogical interest to me. Unfortunately it is not yet scanned. How do I contact the archives t

I mistakenly wrote "San Diego" when I should have written "Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogical Society." My apologies. -- Carol Sicherman Oakland,CA

Karen Franklin, in her talk for the San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society on 14 Aug. 2022, urged audience members to publish our research. I have published a short essay detailing what I learned about

“Weddings in our areas” from the Yizkor book of Mezhirichi (Ukraine) describes the elaborate choreography over the course of a week that leads up to the wedding ceremony. On Sunday began the foreshpie

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

Good evening, Lat name – Bogan (or Bogen) Maiden name – Wagner First name- Sarah Sali Female Date of Birth – 1884 Approximate age at death – 58 Place of birth – Suceava District – Bukovina Country – A

Dear Genners, I found two pages of a Lubartow Book of Residents for which I would greatly appreciate translations. The records are in Cyrillic and have no date, although the Polish State Archives esti

Hello, Our dear father Ya’akov Me’ir son of reb Moshe Passed 7th day of Av 5691 May his soul be gathered in eternal life (last line abbreviation) Shalom, Malka Chosnek

Hello Group- I have been asked to provide any additional information I might have on these individuals. I have only the following dates/locations that seem to be a consensus: Pinchas Halevi Horowitz b

In April I published the book ''From the Children's Home to the Gas Chamber, and how some avoided their fate.'' It is a book about Belgium with a focus on the stories of child survivors. I conducted i

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: שלמה נויפעלד <sneu2022@...> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 00:24 Subject: ViewMate translation request - german To: <main@...> rabbi mordechai wetzlar, of guden

rabbi mordechai wetzlar, of gudensberg: enclosed are vital documents from my great ancestor the kreisrabbiner mordechai wetzlar zu gudensberg. I'd be very grateful to anyone who can transcribe and tra

Good afternoon translators: I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It’s the marriage document of Mowszo Jablonowska and Brajna Opisska in Krasnopol in 1884. I believe Mow

Please join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh on August 31st at 7:00pm (US Eastern) for our upcoming program with Caitlin Hollander - “For the Love of Cousins: Endogamy as a Tool for Jewish G