JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO and Classi Lectures PRESENT The Wandering Jews - from Spain to England CENTRAL EUROPEAN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Speaker: Trudy Gold Wednesday, 17 May 2023,

The Yiddish in “Rough Diamonds” is typically central Polish Yiddish, not Galicianer, Litvak etc. They pronounce Mishpooche, Voos (what), Git (OK), Nishtoo (there isn’t), Intz (us), Aza instead of Azoy

I recently came across the attached death record on JRI-Poland, and would welcome help from someone to decipher and translate the handwritten text. Gail Marcus Bethesda, MD ghmarcus at aol.com Moderat

Hello, How we find things. I was looking for a link to share for Alexander Beiders online name searches and found this article I am sure most everyone has read it, but channeling my Moms Spirit of Art

Leon Schneck (born Rawa Ruska 1902) was married to my grandfather's sister and they lived in Roanne, France with their six children. According to the Drancy Memorial, he survived the Holocaust. If any

We've just posted a complete 1847 cadastral map of Bobowa near Gorlice and Nowy Sącz in Poland: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/bobowa-1847/ It's a lithographed final-stage property map, anno

It is well known known how much valuable genealogical information this newspaper contains. By the efforts of the group of researchers, the 1865’, 1871’, 1877-1879’, 1881-1884’, 1888-1889’, 1896’, 1900

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you to a free Zoom program: Genealogical Gems in the Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward), with Michael Morgenstern. Sunday, May 21, 2023, 10:30 a.m., via

A researcher on Ancestry.com is falsely indicating on a public tree that my 2nd great grandfather is the son and brother of a Romanian family that has no relationship to my family. To add insult to in

Name Yaakov (Yakov) Hara 1862-1918 place : Aleppo or Damas in Syria married Nizha (nozha) Setton (Sutton) in Aleppo. moved to Egypt circa 1900 gave birth to my father Elie (Elyahu) 3/11/1907 Jacques E

Hi genners, Daniel and Pauline ABRAMSKY were born in Russia, came to St Louis and had 2 sons and 1 daughter. I found the whole family in the 1900 and 1910 census in St. Louis. Pauline died in 1918. I

Hello, Looking for a relative of my Grandfather, Meyer Bordman. He went to Cincinnati, died and buried there in 1932. His relatives last name was Newberger. I have a picture with my grandmother and Cl

The IGRA website is experiencing some problems. Due to Shabbat the site will not be up and running again for a few days. We will send out a notice when we have the problem fixed. Thank you for your pa

At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen’s archive. You can find the archive of past Yizkor book excerpts here: https://bit.ly/3aCH1ak. If you are not fa

Hi, we all know the frustration when looking for family roots that might have distant and we don't find any results that seems to match , the amount of time we all spend on those sights is a story for

I am currently researching members of my Brandeis family that were living in Fürth during the 18th and 19th centuries and was wondering if anyone knows of resources for researching the Jewish communit

In 1929, my future father-in-law and his sister went on a trip with their parents to a town called YESERNICHI located in the area near Slonim. I'm basing the spelling of the name based on entries in a

Does anyone have a PDF copy of this book or know where it is accessible online? Alternatively, is anyone able to send me pages 67-68 and also to do a look up in the index (if it has one). Thank you Sh

It is over a year since we last came together to help people break through genealogical brick walls. That session was very popular, so this week we are returning to the scene of the crime. Let us know

. Please help me read these records, or at least the names their! Their source is available at Family Search at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSDY-GS5P-B?cat=231548 no.8 and at Arch