I've posted 1875 Uman, Ukraine census records for which I need translations. I believe the entries contain information for the surname LITVAK. The records are on ViewMate at the following addresses. h

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My great grandmother possibly named Esther Holtzman née Schuck died in about 1903 in Brody. Is there a way to find a record of her death, a grave or other details about her? Thank you -- Laurie Tarlow

My paternal grandfather was born in Kolomea but lived in Tlumaczyk before emigrating. In trying to learn about this village, I'm also finding references to Tlumacz. Were they the same place? I found T

How to use the "Forverts" (Jewish Daily Forward) for Genealogy Research with Michael Morgenstern. Sunday, May 15th 2022 10 AM to 12 PM Mountain Daylight Time on Zoom 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM Schmear, Schmo

A mid-level appeals court in New York halted the use of a DNA crimefighting tool that has helped crack cold cases and put murderers behind bars, but has also raised privacy and racial discrimination c

Researching my own connection to the HUREWITZ and SOLOVEITCHIK families I am wondering (and presume there is) if there is a connection between Rabbi Yitzchak Simcha ben Yosef dov Halevy HUREWITZ (d. 1

Need info on my great grandmother Etta "Itka" KAUFMAN(N) b. ~1849; d. 1/5/03 Chicago; m. Hillel "Eli", "Gilel", "Hirsh", "Abelovich", MARGOLIS b. ~1849; d. 1/5/03 Chicago. She had a brother Ephraim an

Thanks to the efforts of Peter Absolon and his team of volunteers, we're happy to announce another update to the 1930 Czechoslovak Census records. This addition of 13800 new records brings the total n

I have been researching for the past several years on my great grandfather Yeshaya Meyer Kram. While I have been able to uncover birth and cirucumcision documents for his children in Mitau, now Jelgav

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Researchers with connections to towns in the Lida and Oshmiany Districts (see list below) are invited to a free “Birds of a Feather” Zoom session for the LitvakSIG Lida District and Oshmiany District

-- The Lublin branch of the Polish State Archives announced on 2 May 2022 that the national headquarters has released additional scans of records from the Lublin and Zamosc Archives and posted them on

Hi All, Is anyone able to provide assistance in reading/translating two separate entries in Vienna, Austria birth records? The first entry is #839 for my grandmother, Lili Grünberg. The second entry i

ekade117@... 07/25/10 #627196 Looking for Janowski / Yanovski / Yanofski -> Chigirin - #Ukraine, Warsaw, Góra Kalwaria - #Poland, #US I am looking for information about my great-great-grandfather's fa

On Wednesday May 11 at 1PM ET, JGS of Palm Beach County will be hosting a virtual tour of ANU, the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Israel. This unique global institution tells the ongoing and

“The Tarnow El Capone” is a section of a long chapter titled “Memories, Personalities and Types” from the Yizkor book of Tarnow (Poland). I’m not sure how Al Capone became El Capone in this translatio

I would like to send a letter to the name and address of the person written below (I'll also attach the image in case you can see it better that way): According to the Yad Vashem website, her name is

The Portuguese Jews of Hamburg: The History of a Mercantile Community in the Seventeenth Century. The Sephardic community of Hamburg no longer exists but was one of the most significant in the Western

What is the probability that a man named Gregory in md-1800s in Ukraine be also named Girach? Marvin Turkanis Cincinnati, Ohio USA