Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Dr. Alexander Beider, PhD Researching Eastern European Jewish Surnames Sunday July 17, 1pm Pacific Time/ 4pm Eastern Guest RSVP: Free to Mem

For those following this research, there are the latest mtDNA and yDNA haplogroups from the Erfurt report, as well as some observations: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AuwT-4qnkJLBnWVS1tEdaPznZA6d?e=TTbPsd The o

Daniel Patt, a software engineer working for Google, created and developed From Numbers to Names (N2N), an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from

I think I have located my Great Grandmother's birth record in Poland. She was known as Rachel in the UK, but the birth record I found is for Rykla. Does anyone know a case where a Rykla has become Rac

I am trying to find some info to verify if Shlomo Shilesh Menachem Raab had a brother named Zalman. Someone put Zalman Raab in their tree in Geni.com - no one was able to verify or did not respond to

My Grandfather WOLF GIPS from Podhajce, Galicia was recorded as 1/8 owner of Podhajce Property No. 311 and 1/8 owner of Podhajce Property No. 308 in a "Buy/Sell" Document signed, notarized and dated D

Haverim, I found this reference on the JewishGen website. It is either for my great grandmother or great aunt (they both had the same name.) I am not sure how to request the documents. Jewish Names in

Hi genners, I have an unreadable copy of an obit dated October 1975 Desert Sentinel newspaper – California I would appreciate if you can get a good copy for me. The deceased name is Eugene Reuter. Sor

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon invites you to a free Zoom presentation: A Torn Family Reunited through Discovery of an Ancestor's Diary, with Frederick Hertz. Life in Tukums, Latvia, prior

If you haven't already heard, a halakhic loophole has allowed researchers to take DNA samples from 14th Century Jewish remains in Erfurt (https://twitter.com/ShaiCarmi/status/1526850050772590592). Thi

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The June 22, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice announcing that the Regional Court for Central Kraków [Sąd Rejonowy dla Krakowa-Śródmie

ב"ה Dear JewishGenners: The June 21, 2022 edition of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza carried a legal notice from the Regional Court of Kraków-Podgórze, Twelfth Civil Division, announcing that the

Would like to get in touch with researchers of Laszczow and/or Tomaszow regarding the Haker and Wagner families. Jewishgen shows very distinctively many members of the Wagners in Laszczow and very few

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

In tracing relatives of my husband, I found that, per Yad Vashem, two daughters in one family from Panyola, Hungary survived the Holocaust: Iren Weisz, b. 1928 (https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.

JewishGen Press is proud to announce our 146th title: "The Will to Tell". The book was written by Yitzhak Weizman. Details: Translator: Dikla Yeffet-Weizman Editor: Leon Zamosc Cover Design: Jan R. Fi

The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles has publicized its Study of Jewish Los Angeles. “It’s a portrait of our unique LA Jewish community and will help us chart paths forward as we strive to cre

Long-time Zambrów and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (jri-poland.org) as undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract all surviving Zambrów

I wanted to thank everyone associated with Jewish Genealogy, and figured this would be a good place to do it. Over the weekend I went to Minnesota, and visited my "new" 2nd cousin for the 1st time. I

Frank asked in a previous post about making wire transfers to the Polish State Archives to buy copies of records. It's now so much easier than it used to be to get copies of records "ordered off the m