We are pleased to report that the following JewishGen KehilaLinks Webpages have recently been updated. We thank the owners and webmasters of these webpages for creating fitting memorials to these Kehilot (Jewish Communities) and for providing a valuable resource for future generations of their descendants Gargzdai (Gorzd), Lithuania Golynka (Holinka), Belarus Kisvarda (Kleinwardein), Hungary Mazeikiai […]
In his moving account published in JewishGen’s Success! Stories in September 2017, Meyer Denn stated, in part: “An era draws to an end. Time is running out for parents and children and brothers and sisters who were torn apart by the Holocaust to actually be reunited … those occasional stories of amazing connections we used […]
ABC News recently reported the inspiring story of the reunion of two cousins, Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz, each of whom thought the other had perished in the Holocaust. According to the article, a posting on JewishGen ultimately led to this reunion. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/cousins-survived-holocaust-reunite-75-years-emotional-meeting/story?id=66009001 We will try to get more information on this story, including JewishGen’s […]
More than 28,000, 19th-century civil records for the Jewish inhabitants of Bavarian-Swabia.
The following excellent advice is adapted from Yefim Kogan’s recent post to the JewishGen Discussion Groups. Yefim is the Director of Bessarabia Research for JewishGen: I think that it is great that we have regions to research – Ukraine, Belarus, Bessarabia, etc., and we should continue regional research. But let’s not forget how we are […]
The following update is from Vivian Kahn, Director of Hungarian Research: We are pleased to announce that JewishGen has identified 19 books of civil records from Dej in Cluj county Romania, (formerly Des, Szolnok Doboka, Hungary). The birth, marriage, and death records cover the time period from October 1895, when Hungary began civil registration, to […]
Updates for September 2019 We have updated the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova. Kishinev Cemtery Project: We completed photographing and indexing Sector 5, and prepared 2,681 burial records (with 2,441 photos) for processing. There are 339 “Unknown graves.” Photos can be accessed here. For more information about our Bessarabia Research Division, please click here. […]
We are pleased to announce that the data from the 1845 Altona-Hamburg Census is now available via the JewishGen German Collection. This data set contains all of the Jews of Altona listed in the 1845 census, which totals 2,200 individuals separated by household. The census is remarkable for its time in how much information was […]
We are pleased to welcome the following webpages to JewishGen KehilaLinks. We thank the owners and webmasters of these webpages for creating fitting memorials to these Kehilot (Jewish Communities) and for providing a valuableresource for future generations of their descendants: Aleppo, SyriaCreated by Sarina RoffeDesign by KehilaLinks volunteer Richard L. Baum Dubrowna (Dubrovno, Dubrovka), BelarusCreated […]
If your ancestral roots are in East Prussia, Northern Poland, Western Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia this class may help you break stumbling blocks in your research. AREAS OF FOCUS We will work in the records still in existence for these areas. Where records are sparse we will concentrate on finding alternate sources. We encourage you […]
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