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

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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:

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 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

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

Hi everyone, I've just retrieved this passenger list from 1909 (in German) and I can't manage to identify the town. The family is supposed to come from Podolia, current Ukraine but they boarded in Bre

My grandfather, Berner, Jenő from Huszt (Khust), Subcarpathia Rus (Zakarpatska Oblast, Ukraine), is listed in Hegedűs Márton (szerk.): A magyar hadviselt zsidók aranyalbuma az 1914-1918-as világháború

Hi, My gr gr grandfather's name was R. Shmuel Levi. When he came to the US he called himself Simon Levi. I recently found out that his last name was actually LEV rather than LEVI/ LEVY. I am trying to

“It is the first genetic study, in any worldwide population, that incorporates genealogical records to provide a strikingly accurate map of genetic relatedness at the population scale,” A new McGill U

Post pandemic there appears to be some confusion regarding research visits to the (US) National Archives. The following was prepared by NARA. This was shared by the National Coalition for History, of

When my Great Uncle, Louis Paul, turned 100 the Jewish Exponent wrote an article about him. Among other things, he stated that he attended the “Vinsk Yeshiva” when he was a boy and described it as the

My Father, Kurt Ehrmann was a KT child, age 16 that was sent to the above Farm from these dates (he is the one on his stomach:) I have a picture which I am enclosing..The person he worked with is a Ms

Theo was from Karlsruhe, Germany, went to UK on Kindertransport in 1939. still searching for him or any descendants. any help will be greatly appreciated. Hannah Sperber Greenwood Village, CO USA

MyHeritage is offering free access to all 83.1 million military records on MyHeritage from May 25-30, 2023. They have 65 military record collection which include draft, enlistment, and service records

France’s Senate Voted unanimously in favor of the restitution of Jewish-owned paintings, book and religious items taken under Nazi rule that are now in French custody. “France’s Ministry of Culture ha