BOLD AND CAPS ARE ACCOMODATIONS. MY MOM WOULD LIKE TO SEE A PICTURE OF THE COUPLE WHO LED THEM FROM THE CAMPS TO THE MOUNTAINS TO SAFETY BUT WE REALIZE PERISHED IN THE MOUNTAINS WHEN THEY SEPARATED. T

I am starting to plan a photo trip to New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon, New York likely for this Sunday, June 25 Please note this is not the one known as "Old" Montefiroe in Springfield Garden

I am starting to plan a photo trip to Wellwood Cemetery in West Babylon, NY on Long Island likely for this coming Sunday June 25 Process I follow is fairly simple in offering to take photos for people

Hi Jewishgen folks, A few questions about ordering an SS-5 (Deceased Person's Original copy) for my great-grandmother (d1973). What kind of information comes with an SS-5? I can not find a death certi

The European Jewish Congress reports that that the Swedish government has decided to appoint a special investigator that will map out obstacles and opportunities for Jewish life in Sweden and make pro

I'm not sure how many Ancestry.com users know about this: it's possible to obtain an accurate yDNA haplogroup using your raw data file from Ancestry.com. There is no cost to this process and it takes

From Arolsen Archives I found only that Anatol was incarcerated in Auschwitz and transferred to Buchenwald on 13-12-1943. I posted a document photo on Viewmate number 98842. I included a short descrip

We are looking for relatives of Helena Bodek-Gonda in Israel. We need their authorization to publish an English translation of her book Jak Tropione Zwierzęta (Like Hunted Animals), published in Krako

I've posted a marriage record in Russian for which I need a translation to English. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98924 I've als

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Gil Bardige, Genetic Genealogist Intermediate-Advanced: I Got My Autosomal DNA Results, What Are My Next Steps? Sunday June 26, 1pm Pacific

I've found two ways of finding street addresses: the telephone directories and (in a couple of cases) the 1939 Minority Census. Can anyone suggest another means? -- Carol Sicherman Oakland,CA

The man in the photo is Solomon Mendel DICKER (DIKER) who was born in Galicia and lived in Palestine before coming to the United States in 1923 at the age of 24. Ellen GOTTFRIED, Plainview New York

Would someone kindly translate the death record of MOJZES FELLNER, Aka# 58. Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching Kolomyya: SECHESTOWER, SPIERMAN, THAU, BEISER, GRAFF. Chortkiv/Budaniv

Dear Genners, A well known Rabbi and Scholar from Germany Jacob Obermeyer (1845-1938) arrived as a young man in 1869 to Baghdad to teach French at the Alliance Israelite Universelle school there. A fe

As part of the JRI-Poland commitment to make available the genealogical-relevant data from all Kielce towns – town by town – resource by resource, I am pleased to announce that a team of expert volunt

Hello! I would be so very appreciative if anyone who can read Hebrew would please provide a translation for the wording at the top of the gravestone shown at this link (I have tried a couple of transl

I've posted a vital record in Russian with which I need a small bit of help. In this birth record, I am able to recognize the names of the people involved and also, I think, the town and district, but

I've posted a vital record in Russian with which I need some translation help. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98902 I am prima

I posted the following 3 documents for translation from Hungarian to English on ViewMate. Please respond using the online ViewMate form. Thank you very much. Trudi Reisner https://www.jewishgen.org/vi

Looking for information about German-born Jews who were locked up in some kind of interrment camps in Great Britain early in WW2. I've found cursory information online from Bnei Brith and wikipedia, b