by Yefim Kogan New set of records found from 1860s Hello researchers, I want to introduce you to a new set of records I found among the Revision lists. Before doing this, I want to go back to the history of our region. You probably remember that in 1812, by the Treaty of Bucharest, […]
In 2012, we published Todd Halpern and Harry Green’s story, The Brantz Family: Together in Romania, Separated by Emigration, Reconnected through JewishGen. “…By the latter years of the 1900s, with the passing away of all of the immigrant Brantz family members and even some of the early native-born members, the Philadelphia and Bradford branches of the […]
We continue to receive and send translations to JewishGen for uploading to the website. Many thanks to the Town Leaders and Project Managers who are shepherding this work, and especially to the volunteer translators who are donating this crucial skill to our projects. Translated records for the following towns have been submitted to JewishGen and are […]
JewishGen is pleased to report that new records from our colleagues and partners at LitvakSIG are now searchable via the JewishGen Lithuania Collection. The new records include: -In the marriage category, a total of 532 records from Jonava (1922-1927), Seredzius (1844-1884), Vandziogala (1928-1939), Shchuchin (1897-1914), Vasilishki (1897-1900), and Zashkevichi (1871-1872). -In the passports category, 1,948 applications for […]
Dear JewishGen Community, The Yizkor Book Team is concerned about the global impact being caused by the Corona pandemic. We mourn the loss of great people who have left us, and acknowledge the suffering of many more. It is difficult to find comfort in today’s times. Only through our families, which have now expanded to […]
by Karen S. Franklin To mark the centennial anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic, New Jersey historians studied the Washington Monumental Cemetery in South River. Their work addressed the mystery of a long-established legend in the area – that an open field in the southeast corner of the cemetery was home to hundreds of unmarked […]
In 2013, we published Aaron Hurwitz’s story A Blissful Reunion: Finding a New Branch of My Blistein Family. Aaron connects with an unknown branch of his Blistein family as a result of his posts on JewishGen’s Family Finder and Family Tree of the Jewish People. “… When we exchanged pictures, any doubt that I had […]
Most of us will be spending more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage you to use some of that time to advance your family history research by logging in to the resources of JewishGen, such as: FAMILY FINDER: Make sure you have entered all the surnames and ancestral towns you are researching […]
“I’m pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes in The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, a memoir of his journey to find […]
Yizkor Book Project Update – March 2020 Dear JewishGen Community, The JewishGen Yizkor Book Team is always active starting, continuing, and completing Translation Projects. Here are some successes from this past month. See All Active Projects To view all ongoing Yizkor Book translation projects click here. If there is any information that needs updating, […]
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