I need help in locating information about families of Chaim Meir Gurvitz (1867-1952) and Pia Zorn/Zar (1867-1943) from Moletai Lithuania. Chaim and Pia immigrated to Philadelphia PA in 1890. The names

My father and sister came over to England from Danzig in either 1936 or 39. Are there any passenger lists available for this period. Tony Allan (Golendziner)

Haaretz has reported that despite digitization, most Israeli State Archives can’t be found online. Each document has to be manually checked by an archive employee to examine whether anything has to be

Has anybody become frustrated when searching in Ancestry.com the images with records of the port of Hamburg and found a partial record? Anybody investigated why it was done? The only solution to the p

I am researching relatives that went to Buenos Aires, Argentina on February of 1931 from the port of Danzig. The family name was Kestenbaum. The birth place of the father and 4 children is given as Wa

Reich Flight Tax, Austria Just learning about this. Has there been or is there still restitution for this? Thank you in advance. -- Tanya Roland ROTH, ROSENBERG, STEINMANN, SPERLING, STARK Vienna, Nag

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) part of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a new list of forms and fees. The genealogy forms, G-1041—Genealogy Ind

The Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society is having their May meeting on Sunday May 21st at 10:00am Pacific Time. Members are free and non-members are $5.00 payable at our website www.ocjg

Good afternoon, Yehuda Kalman Son of reb Yehoshua Shalom. Malka Chosnek

Dear fellow researchers, Two more tax censuses (family lists) from districts in the Chernigov gubernia have now been translated and transcribed as part of the Chernigov Gubernia Document Translation P

Letters are written in Yiddish around 1946 - 1948 and are found on ViewMate at the following links. Thank you so much for your skill and willingness to help. https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmat

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Events: Revision Lists and 1897 Census Records Tracing Jewish Families in the Former Russian Empire Sunday, May 21 , 2023 , 2 pm Pacific Time Speakers: Hailey Wentz

For very many years I have thought that, for the vast majority of Jewish families in Kazimierz, Krakow, the earliest document showing the names of individuals was the census of 1790. However, in his r

Good day, To the Genners who are experimented in Egyptian research, I'm looking for advice. I believe that a kind of registration did exist but is it accessible? I would assume that might be very chal

Can anyone help me find information about my family in Russia? Louis Simons B. 1894 Velikiye Luki Solomon Simons B. 1897 Velikiye Luki Esther Simons B. 1898 Velikiye Luki Israel Simons B. 1899 Velikiy

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