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The Jewish community in Trenton, NJ in the early decades of the 20th Century, was a small tight-knit community with several thriving synagogues and seemingly lots of intra-Trenton Jewish marriages.In my wife's case (Barbara Melmed nee Goldstein), I see many Trenton-based surnames appearing over and over (Kohn, Goldstein, Azarchi, Cohen, Sutnick, Urken, Lefkowitz, Troll, Koslow, Habas, Siegel. a...
This project collects information Of Jewish Families in Gateshead, United Kingdom== Gateshead =Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne. Gateshead and Newcastle are joined by seven bridges across the Tyne, including the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. The town is known for its architecture, including the Sage Gateshead, the ...
==The project " Trup Diaspora " is a genealogical project aimed to connect families known to be related, and, of family Trup.=====Nowadays the family exists under different names derived from Trup , such as Troop , Troup , Troupp , or Trupp , as well as under surnames people may have received via marriage or what-have-you. =====What is known (with some certainty) is:==i) The origins of the fami...
The Maccabiah Games (a.k.a. the World Maccabiah Games; Hebrew: משחקי המכביה, or משחקי המכביה העולמית; sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Olympics"), first held in 1932, are an international Jewish and Israeli multi-sport event held quadrennially in Israel. The Maccabiah Games are open to Jewish athletes from around the world, and to all Israeli citizens regardless of their religion. It is the...
This is an umbrella project for all of the Jewish communities in Romania. Here you'll find a brief historical summary, then some sections of links: Geni projects organized by geography, projects for Romania in general, and links to related outside resources. The information included and its organization are primarily oriented toward what will be most helpful to genealogy researchers while stayi...
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery resides in San Rafael, Marin County, California. Also known as Kol Shalom Cemetery , Sha'arei Shalom Cemetery, this large burying ground is active. The earliest burial is that of the infant daughter of Judge A Jerome “Al” Barney. Judge Barney was born in Cayuga County, New York. He and his family settled in Marin County, California. The judge is also buried in Mount Tam...
Har Nebo Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Oxford Circle neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in 1890, it is the oldest privately owned Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. It is named for Mount Nebo, a Moabite mountain mentioned as the place where Moses died in the Hebrew Bible on the other side the Jordan River. Wikipedia Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is dedicated to commemorating the once vibrant and influential Jewish community of Kozienice "Koznitz" in Poland. The goal of this project is to identify and catalogue all of the Jewish families that lived in Kozienice prior to the destruction of the Jewish community during World War II. From Wikipedia:Kozienice [k%C9%94%CA%91%C9%9B%CB%88%C9%B2it%CD%A1s%C9%9B] (Yiddish: קאזשניץ Koz...
Bohemian and Czech Jews in American History Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr. Jews have lived on the territory of the historic Czech Lands for some 1,000 years. They have played an important role in the social, economic and cultural development of the country since the times of the Duchy and the subsequent Kingdom of Bohemia, through the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia, and the Successor State...
This project is here to give us a greater insight into the lives of our ancestors from across the empire and to help us work together to find our common roots. List of Austro-Hungarian Jews Wikipedia>===Famous People Sigmund Freud : Father of Psychoanalysis. Theodor Herzl : Father of Zionism. Stefan Zweig : Novelist, playwright, journalist, biographer. Franz Kafka : Novelist.
The Jewish family name Nekrich originates from the village Nekrashi next to Slutsk, Belarus. I invite the progeny to research the roots and establish connections. The Israeli branch changed their last name into “Shalev“, taking the phonological meaning of “Nekrich” as “not shouting”.I have started a family tree of Abram son of Itzka Nekrich, born in 1776 in Slutzk. It is based on revision lists...
Swarzedz is located at 52°25' N 17°05' E 166 mi W of Warszawa. It is a small town about 13 km from Poznan. Jewish settlers were living there for many years. A web site at offers some insight into the present day town. The Jewish population in the 1800's was limited, with many people moving to the larger cities by the early 1900's.Yad Vashem records 154 people who were born in Swarzedz who peris...
This project site provides a place for information and discussion about all Jewish families with the surname Lifshitz, Lipschitz, Lipshitz, Lifschitz, Lipschutz and their variations.The challenges of genealogy for these families are great. Lifshitz-Lipschitz-Lipshitz-Lifschitz-Lipschutz and their variants are relatively common Jewish surnames. The surnames' origin or origins are not clear, and...
The page lists all of the Curators on Geni who have expertise with Jewish genealogy. Feel free to contact any of these curators if you have questions or need assistance with Jewish genealogy on Geni. For information about Jewish genealogy projects on Geni, see the Jewish Genealogy Portal . Geni is now accepting self-nominations for potential curators. See . To learn about curators and what t...
GeneralGuxhagen is a community in Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany. See And in German Guxhagen In German Wikipedia There was a small community of Jews Death people of WW1 :# Baruch Katz , # Moritz Katz , # Hermann Lichtenstein,# Daniel Speyer 1842: inhabitants 1081, 10 % JewishBy the time when Paul Arnsberg wrote his book about the Jewish communities in Hesse, the leader of the ...
=Websites:= Town and County *Satu Mare - County Archives (Romanian): Mare - City Hall: Mare - Library (Romanian): Mare - County Museum (Romanian): ár-Bereg County Archives (Hungary): *The Towns of Szatmár County (Hungarian): Genealogy *Jewish Community of Satu Mare: ári Mementó - Memorial Website of Satu Mare: *Orthodox Jewish Cemetery: Jewish Cemetery:
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Jurbarkas, Kaunas County, Lithuania. Alternate names: Ariogala [Lith], Yurburg [Yid], יורבורג [Heb], Юрбаркас or Юрбург [Rus], Jurbork [Pol], Georgenburg, Jurgenburg, and Eurburg. If you have persons in your family tree who were residents of the Jurbarkas Jewish Community, Lithuania, please add them to this project. I...
Holocaust Victims who United States citizens or born in the United States.For those who were American Prisoners of War in the Buchenwald subcamp, Berga an der Elster, see Berga an der Elster .
The Jewish vital records for Silesia are fragmentary and for many towns no longer exist. For this reason researching families for this region requires some creative searching. Prague Conscriptions (1850 - 1914) - Applications for Residence Permit of Prague Police Ernest Lanzer (1887 Teschen), lediger Reisender Vienna Heinrich Lanzer (1837 Karvina - 1899 Vienna) Heinrich Lanzer (185...
Please Join Us as we Trace Our Jewish Ancestors' Odyssey to Establish Contemporary Israeli & Diaspora Communities >>>>>> Spanish Jewish Odyssey YouTube =- A -* African Jewry, A Microcosm of the Jewish Diaspora * Al Andalus - The Golden Age of Jews in Sepharad * Mokum Wondrous Jewish Amsterdam * Aleppo's Venerable Jewish Community
Zolkiewka is located in the Krasnystaw District in in the Province of Lublin, Poland.This project seeks to connect the Jewish families that lived in the shetl of Zolkiewka. Please feel free to add to this project.* Kehila Link- Zolkiewka on Jewishgen.org * Zolkiewka Synagogue on YIVO.org * Zolkiewka on Virtual Shtetl * Remember Jewish Krasnystaw Surname Tree Tops in the Project (note that an "*...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Cluj-Napoca is also known as Kolozsvár in Hungarian, Klausenburg in German and קלויזנבורג in Yiddish. Update Nov 2021: 1000 recovered pre-Holocaust photos of Jews from Cluj / Kolosvar (identified by name) to be digitized, researched and posted. About 4000 photos taken in Cluj by Elemér Sárdi, a l...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Sobědruhy (Soborten) in Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic. (now known as Teplice-Sobědruhy and a district of the city of Teplice). it is worth noting that many Jewish families and individuals from Soborten moved to Teplice and/or had businesses or family in Teplice so the two projects here on Geni are really inter-connecte...
BACKGROUND DEUTSCHKREUTZ (also Hung. Keresztur or Nemetkeresztur, Sopronkeresztur; Heb. צלם, צעלם), is a town in Eastern Austria. Deutschkreutz was one of the "Seven Communities" (Sheva Kehillot in the Burgenland region. The Jewish community of Deutschkreutz was known in the Jewish world by the name Zelem (or Tzelem) which was chosen to avoid the word "kreutz" (cross in German) which is part ...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Barnato family.=Core profiles=* Barney Barnato *=Overview of Family History / Progenitor DetailTo be filled in= Queries & Discussion =* QUERY 1: What evidence is there that Phoebe Carlow was Barney's wife? According to Stanley Jackson, a Barney Barnato biographer, Solly married Nellie Ridley around 1889. W...