“Ukrainian-Jewish Records: New Online Resources” is the title of a presentation by genealogist Ted Gostin for the Sunday, Jan. 22. 2023, hybrid meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois.

Brought this picture back after my Mom passed, but I don’t remember who it is or, even, what it is: a photo, a painting, both. Obviously it was brought here from “the old country.” It seems to have be

I am writing to get help finding out where in Poland my great grandparents came from. Most census reports say they came from Russia. A 1930 census says my great grandmother came from Poland. I have my

I am glad to inform you that the Jewish surnames indexes of Alexandria and Cairo were recently updated (December 2022). The Alexandria index has now 1,693 names and Cairo has 2,187 names. Please go th

I am writing to get help finding out where in Poland my great grandparents came from. Most census reports say they came from Russia. A 1930 census says my great grandmother came from Poland. I have my

I have a picture of a gravestone, completely on hebrew, of a Kalman ABRAMOWITZ, ben Yitzchak and Zlata, who died on Rosh Chodesh Tamuz, 5704 (1940). I don't know where this stone is but probably in th

What information would have been on Russian emigration papers (e.g., authorization to emigrate) for Jews in Tsarist Russia? Would the family members' names, genders and ages have been listed? Were tho

I am writing to check if I am correct that a Philip Eisig Effrusi is the same person born to Rabbi Moses Eichenstein and Sara Rifka Effrusi in Schodnica in 1897 as Eisig Eisenstein. I would first like

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 T

I would be grateful if somebody would help with the translation of the death record for Simon Charles Grosmann of Fontainebleau from 1919. Here is the ViewMate entry: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmat

Some of us (myself included) conduct research about our forefathers' service in the Austrian Army. (Galicia researchers: If my memory serves, there was also at least one paper about this topic in "The

Please help me. I can read German, but cursive German in older documents is often difficult to understand. Enclosed is the Marriage certificate of my Grandfather Alexander Abrahamsohn (who was a Schäc

This family photo was in my grandmother's collection. The word "Minsk" is engraved on the bottom left side of the cardboard frame. Can anyone tell from the style of the clothes and hair approximately

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Hi, I've been using the JewishGen site for awhile and just realized that I can link to actual documents that Family Search houses. Since I don't read or speak Yiddish or Lithuanian I am hoping to use

My name is Roy and I am researching the Bobrow (Bobrov; Bobroff) family for a friend of mine. Her grandfather was Abraham Bobrow who was born in Lutzin (various spellings), Latvia on the 10th of Octob

It is a fitting tribute to the many Jews who perished in the Holocaust that they are remembered through the many memorials that have been erected over the past decades throughout the world, that their

I've found lots of arrival records for people coming to the U.S. from Europe. I'm curious about whether the reverse also exists: records of people traveling from US back to the old country. Are there

I have my gg-Uncles naturalization petition. The information (see below) seems to say he arrived on a ship called Viedergassse from Hamburg in 1883. I cannot find any record of a ship by this name (on

I have found a document showing that my maternal grandmother was from Shatt. Her maiden name was Sarah Leah Landsman (or Lansman), born 1877 and married circa 1898/99. No information on her life pre-m