I have posted my great, great grandparents marriage record from 1834 on ViewMate (Hochberger) in Polish. I believe it was in Łęczna, Poland. I don't need a full translation but would love to confirm t

This is page 1 of a 2-page letter written in 1930 from a Jew in Palestine to someone (possibly his cousin) in New Jersey. You can view it at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.aspkey=VM10

Dear members I would be really grateful for your help with the following documents. I've posted 3 documents in Polish for which I need a translation. There is 1 letter handwritten from an administrati

Dear researchers, I know it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but my cousin and his mother and father were living in Kishinev when Operation Barbarossa started. The mother and son visited th

LitvakSIG is sponsoring a series of Zoom sessions on how to power up your Litvak research. Our next session on Finding Your Shtetl will be held on Zoom on Sunday, March 26, at 12:00 noon Eastern Dayli

Hi, We are searching original certificates of my grandfather, Baruch Lehrer, that was born in 1906 in Przemysl, Poland. Could someone help us ? Yael Shapira

I would like to find someone living in or near Bacău Romania who can search the archives there for family records. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. James Lazar Auburn, CA (530) 906-8700 l

The stories of the forty families who escaped Europe and built the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Barbados in the 1930s and 40s are set out in "Peddlers All, Stories of the First Ashkenazi Jewish Settl

Hi all, I am looking for information on Jewish orphanages that operated in Bialystok between 1910 and 1940. I wonder if there are any lists of the children in those orphanages and how can one reach th

Our family is looking for testimonies from Hungarian Jewish men who served as “conscripted slaves” in the labor service of the Hungarian army, “Munkaszolgalat”, in unit 108/16 from 1942. Seth Jacobson

Can anyone out there help transliterate this handwritten postcard, received by my grandfather in 1938? My understanding is that Moses Kreppel (sp.?) was a friend or relative, and my zaidy was urging h

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The March 21, 2023 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court in Siedlce, First Civil Division, regarding a claim by one Prz

Can someone please identify and translate the writing on my grandfathers becher. Mike Paneth Melbourne Australia

IN THE NEWS In My Pocket jwire.com.au https://www.jwire.com.au/in-my-pocket/ The IN MY POCKET Project was launched at the WA Museum Boola Bardip last weekend when we ran our first session for children

The JOWBR of JewishGen is seeking new record transcribers who can please assist us in taking care of some outstanding projects. Yes, we have more records than we have volunteers. Some knowledge or the

LitvakSIG s very excited to announce the following: With recent updates to the All Lithuania Database (ALD), LitvakSIG has reached a major milestone: 2.5 million records in 2.5 decades. That works out

In Przemysl Marriages 1790-1827 I found this entry for Josef Orner under August 1824. Can anyone help with understanding this record, there are no details of the spouse etc. What do the entries mean ?

During the Italian occupation of the Alpes-Maritimes in France in 1943, the area was a relative haven for Jews. Around a thousand live in Saint Martin Vésubie, in the Alps north of Nice, until they fl

“Navigating the Center for Jewish History Catalog” will be presented online by Moriah Amit, senior reference services librarian and genealogy coordinator at the Center for Jewish History in New York C

I am researching the RAJCHMAN or REICHMAN family of Klimontow, Poland. The parents were Yechiel (Jechiel) Alter RAJCHMAN / REICHMAN and his wife Maria Sura / Sara Miriam SALZMANN / ZALCMAN. One of the