We wish all those observing Tisha B’Av, or the Ninth of Av, (this year on the 10th of Av because the 9th falls on Shabbat) an easy and meaningful fast. Photo: Jewish women praying on Tisha B'Av in Pol

Hello, I'm a beginner, this is a great facility and I am happy to be here! My Uncle and I have been tracing our Family tree to Glasgow. We have a blocker which I suspect cannot be overcome. But I will

JewishGen is pleased to announce that over 45,000 records have been added to our Sub-Carpathia Vital Records collection, which can be searched via JewishGen's Hungary and Ukraine databases, as well as

Any ideas for decent databases for birth records, etc for someone born in Bucharest in 1891, also for subsequent school matriculation. Haven't been able to find much on JewishGen or Ancestry. Thanks -

I am trying to confirm the birth town of my grandmother, Rose (nee Krugloff) Mofshowitz. The name shown in her Petition for Naturalization is not clear. It looks like Diristizin or Biristizin. Could i

My friend Dmytro Aladko, translator for the Ukrainian language version of Yizkor Book of Mizoch, sends news of his colleague Maksym Gon. Professor Gon has produced materials commemorating the Shoah in

Hello Exactly 78 years ago, on 5 August 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, insurgents from Armia Krajowa batallion „Zoska” captured the Warsaw Concentration Camp (KL Warschau) called „Gęsiówka” in Wars

Does anyone know of a documented record of the children of Pinchas Halevi Horowitz and wife Miriam? I can only find a couple of individuals' family trees with conflicting information. In particular I

Hello JewishGen Community! Does anyone know if there is any resource out there that can provide listings of pre-Soviet Union street names for Minsk? Anything from the 19th century or early 20th centur

Can anybody tell me the contents of the document. It may be a document from the Jews of Spain or Portugal, or their descendants. -- Angel Kosfiszer Richardson, Texas

Dear friends, researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia SIG projects for the month of July 2022. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases. Updates: Revision Lists, p

Hi Friends - there are many cases on record of Jewish people going through a pro-forma conversion to Roman Catholic to save their lives during and before the Holocaust. There is at least one in my fam

I am not a doctor or a geneticist so I have not dived deeply into the subject but I have notices that in several branches in my family tree an unusually high incidence of stillbirths. What could possi

I was excited to find new records/forms filled out by my great aunt in Vienna in 1938 before she was deported and killed. trying to break through brick walls. Looking for translation and transcript. A

“Jews and Christians — The Relationship between Neighbors” from the Yizkor book of Edineţ (Moldova) describes a kind of peaceful co-existence that lasted for a time between the two communities, althou

Hi, I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM99454 Please respond v

Hi, I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM99452 Please respond v

I am trying to trace Gottlieb/Gotlieb's from the Przemysl area in the 19th Century with no joy. The family migrated to England by 1909. Barnett Gottlieb (married to Jane) born Pryzemsyl 15 Feb 1868. H

Good morning, I have a note scribbled from my grandmother that says "Neir Tomid a Lubashow". I am new to the group so learning how to use the forum. I see from a previous message, the question of wher

The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are now close to 2.5 million records available in our databases. With each release we