

This project collects information Of Jewish Families in Manchester, Salford - Prestwich 'United Kingdom'== Greater Manchester =Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Roc...
The purpose of this project is to aggregate links to founders of families, the oldest known ancestors of particular family. If last names are not unique, you can add nicknames,places of origin, or other to differentiate it from others. It should save time on searches. A Abramov (Dahbedi) Abramov (Kabuli) Abramov (Hamomi) Abramov (Kokand) Akilov Alishaev / Alishayev
Krakow was one of the largest Jewish centers in Poland/Galicia. Founded before the end of the first millennium, the city of Krakow (Cracow), located today in southern Poland, served as the seat of the Piast Dynasty and eventually as the capital of the Polish Kingdom until the early 17th century. After the third partition of Poland in 1795, Krakow became the seat of Galicia province in the Aus...
Końskie, Poland 51°12' N 20°25' E 77 miles South South West of Warszawa (Warsaw), Poland. Some directories place the town in the Radom collection depending on the era.Końskie [Polish], Kinsk [Yiddish], Kon'ske [Russian], Kansk, Kintsk, Konsk, Konski, KuntskMuch information about the residents and family connections of Konskie is available here: Reading: town description and many Jewish names an...
This is an umbrella project for all of the projects related to the Jews of Belarus, plus some links to closely related discussions. "Belarus was once a major center of European Jews, with 10% of the population being Jewish. But since the mid-20th century, the number of Jews has been reduced by the Holocaust, deportation, and emigration, so that today it is a very small minority of less than one...
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...
Wikipedia JewishGen Oshpitzin History of Oswiecim Profile photo attributed to Ed Wight, MailOnline, Jan 27, 2015 Photo of Auschwitz assembly square - Jack Hazut, Jewish Virtual Library ===Background===The town's name is of Slavic extraction, likely deriving from the name of the owner of a Slavic gord which existed there in the Middle Ages. Across centuries, it was spelled in many different ways...
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 area around the city of Chernivtsi/Czernowitz in Bukovina, now in Ukraine, included many Jewish communities linked by history, commerce, and family. The major nearby communities were Storojinet in the southwest, and Sahdhora to the north, and several smaller Jewish communities were also nearby. This project seeks to help bring together the families with roots in the Czernowitz-Sadhora-Storo...
This is a project for Jewish families from the town of Radomyshl (Yiddish: ראַדאָמישל, Russian: Радомышль, Ukrainian: Радомишль) in what is now the Zhytomyr Oblast of Ukraine. Before the establishment of the modern state of Ukraine, the town was part of the Kiev Governate of the Russian Empire, and later the Zhytomyr Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. Radomyshl is situated on the left bank of Teteriv...
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...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Rotenburg/Fulda (Hessen), Germany also known as Rotenburg. JewishGen-Rotenburg/Fulda (Hessen) Wikipedia Rotenburg an der Fulda Armin Meiwes, the Rotenburg cannibal ==Overview== Rotenburg an der Fulda is a town in northeast Hesse, Germany, lying as the name describes, in the narrowest part of the river Fulda. The town’s lo...
This genealogy project is for the Jewish community and descendants of Linitz, now Illintsi, Ukraine. Before the establishment of modern Ukraine, the town was part of the Ukraine SSR province of the Soviet Union, and before that the Kiev province of the Russian Empire. Alternative spellings include Illintsi [Ukr], Ilintsy [Rus], Linitz [Yid], Ilince or Ilińce [Pol], Lince, Lintz, Illinci, Iljinc...
This project focuses on Jews from the town of Szczuczyn, located in what is now the Podlaskie Voivodeship of northeast Poland. Before WW2, Szczuczyn was in the Białystok province, and before WW1 in the Łomża gubernia (Lomza province) of the Russian Empire. Many immigration records of Jews who emigrated from Szczuczyn before WW1 will show their origin as either Russia or Poland.This project does...