Does anyone whether any records survive in Belgium of the Comité d’Assistance aux Réfugiés juifs à Bruxelles? I believe that the committee was established in 1938 and it was probably dissolved in 1941

Ancestry shows two Potash - Burack families from Trochenbrod (Zofiowka) Ukraine. I am a Potash descendent and am trying to establish which of the two, if either, families might be mine. One family is

My great-great grandparents Solomon Fine (b. 1885 Poland) and Bele/Balia Cohen (b. 1884 Poland) emigrated from Poland to the East End of London prior to the birth of my great grandmother in 1908. Acco

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Join JGSGW on Sunday, May 21 at 1:30 PM for The Jewish Community of Northern Virginia Zoom meeting, free for members of JGSGW. Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $5. The authors of the rec

I am requesting translation of Polish records attained via JRI-Poland. These are four birth records; I believe they are the children of Izrael Weinrib and Szprinca Garfunkiel. I appreciate your respon

Hi everyone, In 1879, a Krakow Jew named Simon BERMAN wrote a memoir of his life in Yiddish Masot Shimon, or The Travels of Simon. The book is mainly about his time in what was then Ottoman Palestine,

I've posted a vital record (death certificate) in Polish obtained by JRI-Poland which I managed to translate almost completely, with exception of four words that I need help reading. The words that I

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The May 11, 2023 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Kraków’s Krowodrza District [Sąd Rejonowy dla Krakowa-Krowodr

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM103712 Please respond via

Join The Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh on May 21st at 1pm for an exciting virtual event hosted by JGS Pittsburgh and the Heinz History Center: "Using FamilySearch for Jewish Research" W. Todd

Good news! If you have not yet registered for the IAJGS 43rd Annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, we have agreed to extend the Early Bird pricing through next Sunday, May 21. The Confe

The Weekly News Nosh JewishGen Weekly E-Newsletter Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, Oklahoma USA, Editor Date: May 14, 2023 “A Family Without The Understanding Of Their Past History, Foundation And Ethnicity Is L

I am researching the families of five women who graduated from the Vienna Mädchenrealgymnasium in 1919: Hedwig Wiki Abranowicz (Vicky Abrams), Helene Goldstern (verh. Papanek), Grete Moldauer (verh. G

My wife’s great-great-aunt was born in Zhitosneryealin Geebercey Bay Russia in about 1880 according to her Detroit Border Crossing. Where is it? Marvin M. Turkanis Cincinnati, Ohio USA mturkanis@...

Dear Group, In a metrical book from Vienna (1895), I see the two letters "f.a." after a married woman's name. Any suggestions on what this acronym stands for? Is it equivalent for "geboren" or "maiden

When researching my great-great grandmother, Rebeka Leder who married Josef Haber, the following came up. The birthplace is listed as Galizien- Austria. I guessed on the birth year around 1852 based o

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The April 11, 2023 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court for the Widzew District of Łódź [Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Widzew

Hello. I found a birth record for my great-uncle in the Vienna BMD records. So, thank you for that! In the database I found him in, it shows his date of birth, but also where he changed his name some

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) notes with sorrow the passing of Ingrid Rockberger, z"l this week. Ingrid served as President of JFRA (Jewish Family Research Association) and was one