Hello fellow researchers and genealogists, I've posted a vital record in Russian and Hebrew (I think) for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishg

The Yizkor Book for Wyszkow (Sefer Wyszków, edited by: D. Shtokfish and published in Tel Aviv, 1964 pp137-138) tells the story of Yekhiel–Meir Dzbanek, the son of Srulke the gaiter–maker, who had join

The Return of the Stones monument, is under construction at the Old Jewish cemetery in the Žižkov district. (Not the famous Old Jewish Cemetery in the former ghetto area.) The monument is expected to

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: The Lives of our Educated Ancestors: Jews at American Colleges Date: Tomorrow! Wednesday, June 8, 2022 Time

For decades, Gerhard Buck of Idstein was a source of knowledge and insight into the Jewish communities of Hesse-Nassau -- as well as Germany in general -- and worked with countless genealogists within

Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, who passed away on June 1 in Ixelles, Belgium, at the age of 100, was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. Ms Geulen-Herscovici was honored in 1989

The Orange County California JGS is having their monthly meeting on Sunday June 12th at 10:00 am Pacific Time. Retired Historian of the USCIS Marian Smith will be giving her new talk on Immigration. M

Meeting updates This meeting is free to attend. Please join us. Wearing a mask and social distancing will be followed. The sanctuary is large and spacious. Date: Sunday, June 12, 2022. Time: 3:00-3:30

Would anyone know how to begin tracing my mother's great-grandfather's, Johann Nord, Jewish heritage? We have his son's death certificate which states Johann Nord was born in Germany and his wife Rosa

+In need of translations from Russian birth and death documents of g-g-grandparents and their children from Poland. Family name KRUK. They are posted on ViewMate with the numbers VM 98755, 98757-60. I

The entire community is invited to join us for our next free JewishGen Talks webinar: Topic: The Lives of our Educated Ancestors: Jews at American Colleges Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 Time: 3:00 PM

As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group bu

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Guest Speaker: Serafima Velkovich The Central Database of Shoah Victimsʼ Names and Other Sources at Yad Vashem Sunday June 12, 11am Pacific

As part of the Jewish Records Indexing – Poland Phase 3 initiative to fully extract all surviving vital records, our attention has now turned to the 1808 to 1936 records of Czyżew in the Lomza Researc

I would like translations of two adjacent pages from the 1900 list of Jews in Riga Latvia, asking for residence permits from the Riga Police. The brief translation that I received from the Latvian Arc

Dear JGSLI Members, . When: Sunday, June 26, 2022 2:00 PM Location: Zoom – see registration info below Topic: Jewish Genealogical Resources In the Archives of Southern and Souhteastern Ukraine Alex De

Hello All: I am trying to find biographical information on my maternal grandmother's Aunt Feighe Cohn and her cousins, Ruhole and Roza (uncle's name unknown). My great grandmother Gitl was Feighe's si

If you came across this issue, this might help: The birth registration scan I have, gives two dates for (a) day of registration and two dates for (b) day of birth. This puzzled me. Turned out that in

Dear Fellow Researchers, I've posted two records in Russian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. This is the first record I've found in Poland. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/vi