I'm traveling in Lithuania this summer, guided by a local Jewish genealogist. We need a car and driver to get us around from town to town, as well as touring countryside. Does anyone suggest a resourc

PBS started a new series that might be of interest. It is called “Ridley Road”. The first episode of aired on May 1. 9PM ET/Pacific and 8PM Central.. However, PBS does repeat their episodes. It is bes

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our next meeting. When: Wednesday, May 11, 7:00 PM, via Zoom Topic: Tall Tales and Transformations: Researching Two Families W

Dear Fellow Genealogists: As you know, Poland has been the main country accepting people displaced as a result of the unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine. Many cities and towns on the border of Ukr

Israel Genealogy Research Association Website: http://genealogy.org.il/ The lecture will be in Hebrew Tuesday, May 10, 2022 No charge Israeli Daylight Time 19:00 - 21:00 EDT 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lecture

Shalom, I have added some of my father’s letters written to me in the U.S. over the course of several years. They are full of descriptions, details and difficulties of his daily life and of his travel

Dear all, and Shalom from ישראל When looking for information on my grandmother's family, who were brutally shot to death during the holocaust, in the JewishGen site, I stumbled upon the Sugihara Datab

Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant & John Stedman Memorial Fund Award REMINDER The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) is pleased to announce that the call for submissions for th

I went to Riverside's website to find their phone number and had a nice surprise -- a grave search tool that "is in beta testing " (https://www.riversidecemetery.org/lookup). The cemetery added online

Dear friends, My grandfather, Morris (Mosche?) Kasdan was born in "Minsk" in 1881 and emigrated to NYC and lived in Cleveland and the Bronx until his death in 1955. He always referred to his home as M

An interesting piece of information for the day: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220426005952/en/Arolsen-Archives%E2%80%99-everynamecounts-Project-Uses-Artificial-Intelligence-to-Help-Uncover

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Events: Part 1: Updated: Help! I Just Got My DNA Results and I’m Confused-Prioritize your match list, get organized and reduce stress and confusion Guest RSVP: REGI

I would be grateful for help locating any images of individual gravestones from the cemetery in Winterswick, Rheinberg. I understand many stones were lost during WWII and another 20 stones were desecr

As part of the JRI-Poland commitment to make available the genealogical-relevant data from all Kielce towns – town by town – resource by resource (Parish records, metric records, Books of Residents, s

Hello, I'm hoping for contact with relatives whose surname is SHORE. My late paternal grandfather was Abraham (Avraham Hersh) SHORE, Of Bl= essed Memory. I was informed that his surname was SHOUR and

Could anyone help me in translating this postal card written in polish and in yiddish?. Many thanks in advance Alejandro T. Rubinstein

Shalom Friends I would appreciate a translation for the birth record (for Nachman Lisman) attached from the town of Ujed. Important of all is parents names and such. Thank you Lea Haber Gedalia, Israe

Looking for information on this family, especially Otillie Boaz, who was born in Schwerin in about 1850, came to North Carolina about 1881, and ultimately New York; husband was David Neumann of Frankf

Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay New York Public Library Resources Presentation by Amanda Seigel Wednesday, May 18, 2022 The Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay will meet virtually on Wed

For those of you who might be interested in this topic, Miriam Weiner will be lecturing at the National Genealogical Society Conference in Sacramento, California, USA this month. Her lecture will be o