Can someone please translate to Hebrew from the headstones. Thank you in advance. -- Donna Kanlan

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I'd like to add one idea to the recent thread about the name "Shaya". which pertains names in general. It is important to remember that Galitzianer have a unique pronunciation of both Hebrew and Yiddi

Hello, I am seeking information on my great grandmother, Lina Löwenstein, who was born on 25 February 1856 in Herford, Germany. She died in Berlin in September 1933. Lina married Adolph Meyer (1842-19

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO A Fireside Chat with ChatGPT The Power of AI in Jewish Genealogy: A Fireside Chat with ChatGPT We are pleased to announce an engaging event that took place on Su

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The Yiddish in “Rough Diamonds” is typically central Polish Yiddish, not Galicianer, Litvak etc. They pronounce Mishpooche, Voos (what), Git (OK), Nishtoo (there isn’t), Intz (us), Aza instead of Azoy

I recently came across the attached death record on JRI-Poland, and would welcome help from someone to decipher and translate the handwritten text. Gail Marcus Bethesda, MD ghmarcus at aol.com Moderat

Hello, How we find things. I was looking for a link to share for Alexander Beiders online name searches and found this article I am sure most everyone has read it, but channeling my Moms Spirit of Art

Leon Schneck (born Rawa Ruska 1902) was married to my grandfather's sister and they lived in Roanne, France with their six children. According to the Drancy Memorial, he survived the Holocaust. If any

We've just posted a complete 1847 cadastral map of Bobowa near Gorlice and Nowy Sącz in Poland: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/bobowa-1847/ It's a lithographed final-stage property map, anno

It is well known known how much valuable genealogical information this newspaper contains. By the efforts of the group of researchers, the 1865’, 1871’, 1877-1879’, 1881-1884’, 1888-1889’, 1896’, 1900

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you to a free Zoom program: Genealogical Gems in the Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward), with Michael Morgenstern. Sunday, May 21, 2023, 10:30 a.m., via

A researcher on Ancestry.com is falsely indicating on a public tree that my 2nd great grandfather is the son and brother of a Romanian family that has no relationship to my family. To add insult to in

Name Yaakov (Yakov) Hara 1862-1918 place : Aleppo or Damas in Syria married Nizha (nozha) Setton (Sutton) in Aleppo. moved to Egypt circa 1900 gave birth to my father Elie (Elyahu) 3/11/1907 Jacques E

Hi genners, Daniel and Pauline ABRAMSKY were born in Russia, came to St Louis and had 2 sons and 1 daughter. I found the whole family in the 1900 and 1910 census in St. Louis. Pauline died in 1918. I

Hello, Looking for a relative of my Grandfather, Meyer Bordman. He went to Cincinnati, died and buried there in 1932. His relatives last name was Newberger. I have a picture with my grandmother and Cl

The IGRA website is experiencing some problems. Due to Shabbat the site will not be up and running again for a few days. We will send out a notice when we have the problem fixed. Thank you for your pa

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, we all know the frustration when looking for family roots that might have distant and we don't find any results that seems to match , the amount of time we all spend on those sights is a story for