Hello everyone, I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM99234 I w

Long-time Andrzejewo and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (jri-poland.org) has undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract all surviving And

Hello All: I have a quandary regarding my maternal great great grandmother( Gitla Vigderovici)'s maiden name. I have a death certificate stating that she was the daughter of "Burat & Hana Grimberg". I

We have a treat today for anyone who traces their roots to the city of Stanisławów / Ivano-Frankivsk in eastern Galicia, now western Ukraine: three "new" historical maps of the city and its environs f

Attached is the Marriage Authorisation for my great-grandmother: 1. I would appreciate the translation of Hebrew names above JACOB CLARKE, spelt as best to enable further research. 2. Likewise for MIL

The Polish Institute of National Remembrance announced the burnt remains of approximately 8,000 victims of the Nazis were unearthed in a mass grave outside the town of Działdowo, a town in Northern Po

Hello, Using the ItalianGen search, I located the birth certificate number for Mary Isaacson, born June 7 1906 in Brooklyn: 33259 S (Father: Herman, Mother: Esther) I went to the NYC Historical Vital

I'm looking for my wife's grandmother. She is Rabinovich Lubov Yakovlevna (after first married her surname become Nosonova). She was born in 1906 in Zolotonosha city in Poltavskaya area in Ukraine. I

- As noted on the Polish State Archives website, the 1894-1899 Lomza Marriage records did not survive. See: Wyniki wyszukiwania - Szukaj w Archiwach JRI-Poland.org will be announcing a major project t

Hi all, I found this list of people from Saloniki. Although it is written in Hebrew letters, I know is Solitreo. Can anyone read the script? Do you know who can help? I will appreciate getting a trans

Dear Friends, We just returned from Poland after a highly successful JewishGen Future Scholars Fellowship program (www.JewishGen.org/fellowship) conducted in partnership with Friends of Jewish Heritag

Long-time Zambrów and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (jri-poland.org) as undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract all surviving Zambrów

We are privileged to have Rita Bogdanova- expert Latvian Archivist- speak at our IAJGS Conference meeting on 23rd August 12.30pm (ET) We hope to welcome as many of you as possible. She will speak on t

“A Double Miracle” from the Yizkor book of Szumsk (Ukraine) recounts the dangers that the town’s Jews faced in the chaotic period following the Russian revolution when the provisional government colla

The Gesher Galicia Emergency Appeal made another disbursement of aid to the Jewish Community of Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanislawow). Here are pictures of the inside of a parcel with food along with

Are the names Etel and Jutte interchangeable? Ervin Spinner

I sat down on Wednesday with Professor Omer Bartov on Wednesday for a discussion on Omer's new book "Tales from the Borderlands; Making and Unmaking the Galicia Past." It was a fascinating talk that w

After 20 years of subscription, I see that Avotaynu has suspended publication. I have not been able to find out any information. Can anyone explain the circumstance? Many Thanks, Dan Friedman Seattle,

General view of the excavations on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. Photo: Warsaw Ghetto Museum Jewish Heritage Europe reported on excavations at the site of the Warsaw Ghetto where a child’s shoe, Kitc

Five Nazi-looted pieces of art were returned to the family of Carl Heumann, according to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also known as Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK). These include