by Maura Lerner Fisher At first blush, you wouldn’t think of Fort Wayne, Indiana, as a hotbed of Jewish genealogy. But next August, this...

by Maura Lerner Fisher As a child, Ava Cohn was obsessed with old photos. When other kids were playing outside in the summertime, she...

– by Maura Lerner Fisher – Jennifer Mendelsohn remembers dancing with joy when she saw the DNA test results. As a professional...

– by Susan Weinberg – In Jewish genealogy, the fluidity of given names is often a brick wall. You can't find the record if you don't know...

– by Susan Weinberg – As a genealogist, I am a keeper of stuff. I would hazard a guess that most genealogists are pack rats, as they know...

In February, MNJGS was pleased to host Michael Morgenstern, an educator at the LA Holocaust Museum who has taken on the project of...

by Daniel Kazez, President, CRARG (Częstochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group) When I was growing up, I knew very few of our relatives. One...

I often think of my life as a bit of a Rube Goldberg creation. I set something in motion, as if I were sending a marble spinning on its...

When my father died, I was the first one to tackle his office. My father loved information. If something interested him, it ended up in a...

Over recent weeks, I’ve watched the unfolding events in Ukraine with horror. I traveled there in 2011 to the town that my maternal...

As genealogists we uncover our family stories. An important part of this process is to retell and commemorate that history. A recent...

One of the areas of genealogy that attracts many people is DNA. While I am deep down the rabbit hole of genealogy research, I hesitated...

Galveston Port 1912 This article was previously published in edited form in JHSUM Fall 2021 newsletter Between 1899 and 1914, 1.7 million...

On the changing nature of given names in an immigrant population I love solving puzzles. I often have a “spidey sense” about the answer...

In our prior article we introduced you to the Industrial Removal Office that aided Jewish immigrants in traveling to the interior of the...

I write you per your request to let you know how I am doing. . . I like the city very much. It reminds me very much of my old home in...

I was first drawn into genealogy when the immigration records went on-line. There was something about imagining that journey that...

From the JewishGen newsletter: Most of us will be spending more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage you to use some...

Dan Kastrul’s recent presentation focused on concrete steps people could take to help make more sense of their DNA matches. He...

by Susan Weinberg I’ve been doing talks around the country on immigration history, weaving in video clips from my interviews with Jewish...