Join the JGS Cleveland for our next Zoom program on Wed, July 6, 2022, 7-8:30 pm ET: “Patronymic Naming and Cemetery Research - Their Importance in Jewish Genealogy” with Nolan Altman. Program: Headst

The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism published a bilingual English and German, “Visitors’ guide to the Jewish cemeteries in Austria” jointly with the Jewish r

Meir ben Borukh Rothenburg is in the Rabbinical Index under group R-A13358. Sample I13865 in the recently pre-printed Erfurt study (https://twitter.com/ShaiCarmi/status/1526850050772590592) is R-Y1984

“The Fortune Teller,” from the Yizkor book of Sadagora (Ukraine) reminded me of a famous article in the New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell in 1942 about the gypsy population on the Lower East Side in which

When: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 7:00PM Location: Zoom – see registration info below Topic: What’s New in Family Tree Maker Q and A Discussion Speaker: Mark Olsen Join us for a live Q and A discussion t

I posted the offer below ... I most probably should have said Beth Moses and Wellwood since they are sort of together. I have to see how many requests I have and how much I can cover but they are toge

Hello Lew and Listreaders, You probably won't find the surname Jena in Ritschenwalde before 1840, since in Posen the obligatory adoption of surnames for Jews was only introduced in 1833. It is very un

My wife inherited photos of her great-uncle during his U.S. military service in WWII, and many of them are labeled, by hand, "Liberal 1943." If anyone has any suggestions of what that means or how to

Many Sephardic Jewish families migrated to Cape Verde from Morocco and Gibraltar in the mid-19th century. Carol Castiel learned about this history while working at the Africa-America Institute. Many o

Please could someone translate the following which I've posted: an inscription that is from a Russian book given to my great grandfather as a prize. It's on Viewmate at the following address: https://

Dear Group, I am interested in information, photos, testimonies, anything about a synagogue by the name "Linath Hazedeck" that operated in Frankfurt (Langestrasse 38) in the interwar years and burnt a

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help decipher the first names of Rosa Teitelbaum's parents in this manifest. The names appear on three pages, and I have included the entirety of each page to assist in d

The Israel Genealogy Research Association has a database collection of over 2 million records starting in the mid 19th century. Registration is free and allows you to see if the names your are searchi

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=VM98865 Family Surname: MER

I recently discovered the 18th-Century Galician rabbi Yosef Margolioth, son of R. Alexander Sender Margolioth (1730?-1802), who was rabbi of Zbaraz and Satanov. I speculate that this Rabbi Yosef may b

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Polish I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I would appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/vi

Good morning from Brooklyn, I am researching my older Miller roots from Saros county. Would anyone know if there is a town historian or some scholar that has detail about the history of the town of Ma

Shalom, For the past year or so, I have delved deeply into my Rabbinic line. I can only go back to the 1600s, which is not very far for Rabbinic families. I have documents that say some lines descend

Can someone translate the Hebrew on this grave of Goodman and Rebecca Rose? Thank you very much in advance. Isabel Cymerman Southbury, CT isabelcym@... Searching: CUKIERMAN, GRYNBERG, GRYNFARB, LUBELC

Hello, Can someone translate this headstone for me? I’m not positive, but I think this may be my 3rd great-grandmother. I appreciate the help! Laura Stone