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=VM103762 Please respond via

The Weekly News Nosh JewishGen Weekly E-Newsletter Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, Oklahoma USA, Editor Date: May 28, 2023 “A Family Without The Understanding Of Their Past History, Foundation And Ethnicity Is L

Hello everyone, I've posted a vital birth record in Russian located on JRI-Poland for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlo

Another source and a call for action The book Zikney Machane Yehuda (The Elders of the Tribe of Yehuda, in Hebrew) https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=5813 lists many rabbinical families. On the

Hello, I have a photograph from Dresden in the 1920s featuring the Meth and Levy family, probably at an engagement event for Erna Levy (in white) and Carl Meth (not shown, as far as I can tell). I wou

Hi Adam, Fifteen years late, but here is your answer: Khaim-Simsen Bits (my alter zeyde) arrived in Kenosha and married Sura Szulmanowicz of Kuzmin soon after, in Chicago. He began to use the name Sam

Subject: Power Up Your LitvakSIG Research: Navigating the FamilySearch Library and Polish State Archives #lithuania #education will be held over Zoom on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at 12:00 noon Eastern Ti

Shalom, Having completed research on my rabbinic ancestors, and traced back to Rashi, I would like to ask a rather generic question: where are the primary sources for all this? The documentation for m

I believe this is the headstone of my great-great grandparents, Benjamin Weinrebe and Esther Leah Morgan. The headstone is located in Boston, MA. My great-great grandparents lived in Jacobstadt/Jekabp

A few days ago we published a clear and useful early map of "the two Galicias" from 1800 on the Gesher Galicia Map Room: https://maps.geshergalicia.org/galicia/galicia-gussefeld-1800/ The territory of

According to family oral history, in the sixteenth century, the Italian version of the Spanish Inquisition inspired an ancestor who had obtained a medical degree from the University of Padua to cross

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JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO and Classi Lectures PRESENT GLOBAL HERITAGE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) EXPULSION AND FLIGHT - THE RESETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS IN ENGLAND FROM 1652-1918. Speaker:

Hi Lucy, That pendant looks handmade and must have been treasured by the owner! So kind of you to take it into your care. I hope someone knows something about it! I am on a search too- trying for many

Searching for anyone who knows anything about the Chayes family - the great grandmother's father name is; Vittorio Chayes from Livorno, his wife was Matilde Levi, his father was Giovacchino Chayes (Jo

I am happy to announce an important addition to Familysearch data with the records of immigrants to the port of Buenos Aires, Argentina. For each boat that arrived to the port of Buenos Aires there wa

Has anyone ever seen a tombstone where the purported Hebrew portion seems to be gibberish? On the attached gravestone, for Jacob Samuels, where it would normally say "so-and-so, son of ["ben"] so-and-

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. I am trying to help my friend with the following: A Jew who was born in Minsk (today Belarus), in 1906. Where can I find records such as his birth certificates? and details about the parents. Is t