Over the past few months, JewishGen has uploaded a number of valuable datasets. Highlights include: Bessarabia: 10K+ records Belarus: 45K+ records Hungary: 1.7K+ records Latvia: 11K+ records Lithuania: 25K+ records Germany: 30k records comprising family trees (in partnership with the Leo Baeck Institute), records of inhabitants of Bavarian-Swabia, and the 1845 Altona-Hamburg Census For more information, and to search our archival collections, please […]
In 2013, we published Marla Raucher Osborn’s story The Blecher Boys of Bessarabia Become Barbers: From Soroki to Chicago 1909 – 1914. “One boy, per boat, per year, beginning in 1909. From ports like Bremen, Glasgow, Hamburg, and Liverpool, one Blecher boy each year would board a steamship bound for a major American port – […]
Nancy Holden, JewishGen’s Director of Education, recently announced a new range of online courses for 2020. Three-week Mentored Classes with personal instruction based on helping each student progress with research projects. Course begins in January 2020! Home Study Classes that are self-paced and delivered electronically. Workbook Text-Based Courses. For more information on course descriptions, schedules, […]
by Ann Rabinowitz This past September 2019, a new Facebook page was created by Michelle and Stephan Lurie that focuses on Jewish genealogy in South Africa. It is called “South African Jews – Tracing Our Ancestors” and has much of interest for South African researchers. One of the first things covered was how to […]
by Shelly Sanders I had reams of information—dates, cities, and names—but knew nothing about the people on my Jewish family tree. What their lives were like in Russia. Family stories passed down for generations. The difficulties in coming to a new country. Why they kept it all inside, their experiences, the fates of relatives […]
The following memory of Chanukah, written by Yehoshua Rotman and translated by Jerrold Landau, is included in the Yizkor book: Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Lezajsk who Perished in the Holocaust (Leżajsk, Poland). https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Lezajsk/Lezajsk.html Chanukah Many Chanukah Menorahs of various types were displayed in the windows. Children accompanied their parents to purchase candles, and […]
by Randy Schoenberg JewishGen Director of Austria-Czech Research Note: This article first appeared online at The Jewish Journal, and is reprinted here with permission of the author and publisher. I had a crazy idea this past summer for a new presentation at the next Jewish genealogy conference scheduled for August 2020 in San Diego. What […]
A number of major censuses were conducted by the Kingdom of Hungary and the Austrian Empire, including the Vagyonösszeirás – 1828 (1828 Landowner census), the “Conscriptio Judaerum 1848” (1848 Census of the Jews), and the 1869 Hungarian census, which was a total population census, not just a landowner census. These census records have been included in the JewishGen Hungary […]
by Joel Davidi Weisberger In the above image, Rabbi Akiva Eiger (center) is flanked by Rabbi Yaakov Kalvari (a member of his Rabbinic court) on his left. Kalvari (originally Calahora) was the scion of a Sephardic family that became prominent in Poland in the century after the Jews were expelled from Spain. The image is […]
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