I believe this is the headstone of my great-great grandparents, Benjamin Weinrebe and Esther Leah Morgan. The headstone is located in Boston, MA. My great-great grandparents lived in Jacobstadt/Jekabp

A few days ago we published a clear and useful early map of "the two Galicias" from 1800 on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/galicia/galicia-gussefeld-1800/ The territory of

According to family oral history, in the sixteenth century, the Italian version of the Spanish Inquisition inspired an ancestor who had obtained a medical degree from the University of Padua to cross

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO DNA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Q&A WORKSHOPS Featuring our JGS Toronto members, Gil Bardige and Arthur Sissman Sunday, 11 Jun 2023, 10:30 am. ET VIRTUAL MEETIN

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO FTM User Group SIG (Family Tree Maker) Thursday 22 Jun 2023, 7:30 p.m. EDT VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Virtual doors open at 7:20 p.m. EDT JGS of Toronto mem

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO and Classi Lectures PRESENT GLOBAL HERITAGE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) EXPULSION AND FLIGHT - THE RESETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND FROM 1652-1918. Speaker:

Hello hello,I need someone to help me (alive)to make the DNA test.... I have just one DNA test and I don't wonna make a mistake.... Thanks a lot. Yerucham zvi kinstlich. Bnei barak Israel Email:kinstl

Hi Lucy, That pendant looks handmade and must have been treasured by the owner! So kind of you to take it into your care. I hope someone knows something about it! I am on a search too- trying for many

With deep sadness we report the passing of our former society president, Mort Rumberg. He served in this capacity on and off for many years. Mort was a man of many talents. His presence at every meeti

Searching for anyone who knows anything about the Chayes family - the great grandmother's father name is; Vittorio Chayes from Livorno, his wife was Matilde Levi, his father was Giovacchino Chayes (Jo

Shalom, Having completed research on my rabbinic ancestors, and traced back to Rashi, I would like to ask a rather generic question: where are the primary sources for all this? The documentation for m

Hello all. I came across this item about many years ago on eBay. I was very uncomfortable finding it there, assuming it was for sale by a "collector." In my mind, it did not belong in such an imperson

Hi All, Some years ago I received an Oppenheimer tree several pages long from a Genner. It went in a direct line back to Rashi. I lost the tree with other genealogy material in a basement flood. Samue

I am looking for someone who can research files in Oradea (Nagyvarad), Valei lui Mihai (Mihalfalva) and Seini ( Szinervaralja). Any recommendations would be appreciated. A. Tom Grunfeld 0710to@... Mod

I am happy to announce an important addition to Familysearch data with the records of immigrants to the port of Buenos Aires, Argentina. For each boat that arrived to the port of Buenos Aires there wa

Hello, I have a photograph from Dresden in the 1920s featuring the Meth and Levy family, probably at an engagement event for Erna Levy (in white) and Carl Meth (not shown, as far as I can tell). I wou

Has anyone ever seen a tombstone where the purported Hebrew portion seems to be gibberish? On the attached gravestone, for Jacob Samuels, where it would normally say "so-and-so, son of ["ben"] so-and-

At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen’s archive. You can find the archive of past Yizkor book excerpts here: https://bit.ly/3aCH1ak. If you are not fa

Hi. I am trying to help my friend with the following: A Jew who was born in Minsk (today Belarus), in 1906. Where can I find records such as his birth certificates? and details about the parents. Is t

In 2015 both Portugal and Spain passed laws granting citizenship to people of Sephardic ancestry. The goals of these nationality concessions were not totally clear and the standards of evidence were p