Hi Adam, Fifteen years late, but here is your answer: Khaim-Simsen Bits (my alter zeyde) arrived in Kenosha and married Sura Szulmanowicz of Kuzmin soon after, in Chicago. He began to use the name Sam

I have been indexing the Kiev city birth records, and have a question about a notation that appears on a few records each year. For example, I am indexing the 1872 births right now, and this notation

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

I would appreciate any help transcribing the father's name for Samuel. This is uniformly the only photo of the headstone I have and the Hebrew is the most faded part. Any help at all would be greatly

Subject: Power Up Your LitvakSIG Research: Navigating the FamilySearch Library and Polish State Archives #lithuania #education will be held over Zoom on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at 12:00 noon Eastern Ti

Hello, My name is Felipe Benjamim Garcez Schuster da Cruz. Letter need to be translated from hebrew I know it is a very big letter, but it was written by my deceased greatfather and I would really lik

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

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

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

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