Dear Fellow Genners, The family I am asking help with concerns 3 siblings with the surname of KING: 1- David Woolf KING (~1820-1880) 2- Barnett KING (~1834-~1924) 3- Aaron KING (1837-1900) It so happe

I just uncovered the following name I have been chasing. Up to now I have been focused on the Russakoff name. I have now uncovered the name(s) of Nasikowski / Nasikowsky / Nasikofska from Moldova. Thi

Seeking help in listing family member's names. Most of my family is from Stakaliskes, Vilius Lithuania. I have different surnames and given names for birth certificates, marriage certificates, revisio

An article came through my news feed yesterday, I thought it might be of interest to the group. The Soviet ‘Red Passovers’ Where Jews Gave Thanks for Communism It is not an easy article to read, I was

According to Yad Vashem, the number of Shoah Victims names records to reach 5 million in the next few years. To date, it has collected some 4,800,000 identities of Jewish men, women, and children murd

I have a U.K. Certificate of Registration, issued under the Aliens Order,1920, in respect of a young lady who was born in Berlin in 1926. She was issued with a Kinderausweiss at Berlin in 1939 and arr

Hi. I'm trying to determine if my GGF Jozsef Seidner had a brother named Ignac or Ignacz. I've searched in various genealogy sites including JewishGen without conclusion. Ignac Seidner's name is liste

I'm aware that my Paternal Line goes back at least a few generations to Kaminits-Podolsk and Minkovitz. Their surnames were Kornszwiet, Skozinyetsky (some members changed to Levy) and Yagolnitzer. Str

Can anyone tell me how to find the correct microfilm image from a search since I don't read Russian. Where to locate the page, image, etc. on the microfilm. I can see the microfilm. I just don't know

Per my mother, my maternal great grandmothe’s name was Liba Yaruchamovitch. She lived in Vitebsk and that is where my grandmother, Anna Rachel Yaruchamovitch was born. The death certificate of my gran

I have a number of hand written notes and documents in Polish that I woud like translating. Can anyone recommend an app that can translate handwritten text? Thanks, Relly Coleman

Hi, I've just come across an ancestry hint that my ggm's brother, Chaim Isser Bornstein born 1869 (though there are various spellings of the surname including BERENSZTEJN in a Russian language record)

I've posted a Munkacs marriage record on Viewmate that need a little help with. I have translated most of it but am still missing some words. The column headings are in Slovak and Rusyn/ Ukrainian. Th

I just came across records which I believe belong to my Joroff family in the 1882 Ukraine Revision List 2 (see below) where the wife's name is given as Sheya. I tried a variety of sources to try to ma

In the 1910 NYC census, my grandmother was listed under # of children/ # of children living as 1 and zero, meaning she had a child but either it was a stillbirth or died in infancy. They were married

Dear friends, researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia projects for the month of March 2023. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Jewish Cemeteries. Updates: Completed photographing

I've submitted the remaining 4 pages from my 2x great-grandfather's probate record from Viennese archives. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can provide in finding additional family members o

I am very pleased and excited to be able to announce that we have finally launched a project to digitize and transcribe records from the 1869 Census for Ung megye. Thanks to the efforts of Hungarian R

I have uploaded two more postcards, I'm hoping to get translations. They are both related to the Tzgelnitski family of Lida. Here are the links. Thanks in advance. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/m

I've posted a short inscription in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM102959 Please respon