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JOIN US FOR OUR FALL MEETINGS:
Oct. 10, 2012 - Al Herman “Yiddish Films and the
Shtetl” (12:30)
Nov. 14, 2012 - Ron Arons “Finding Living People”
Dec. 12, 2012 - Bennett Greenspan “DNA”
South County Civic Center16700 Jog Road
Delray Beach, FL
SIG Meeting 11:00 AM (Nov/Dec)Brick Wall 12:30 PMMeeting 1:00 PM
WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU
FIND YOUR ROOTS
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SAVE THE DATE: March 3, 2013 - Annual Luncheon
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SCATTERED SEEDSPUBLISHED BY THE JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, INC
! FALL PROGRAMS
Dennis Rice, Program Chair, and the programming committee, has arranged for great monthly membership meeting programs and three Special Events for the upcoming season. Internationally known genealogists, including Ron Arons, Pamela Cooper, Bennett Greenspan, and our own Phyllis Kramer will present topics of major interest. Mark all these dates on the calendar.
Wed., October 10, 2012MEMBERSHIP MEETING - 12:30 PMAl Herman - "Yiddish Films and the Shtetl." (No SIG Meeting)
Wed., November 14, 2012SIG/Poland - Paul Baranik - 11:00 MEMBERSHIP MEETING - 12:30Ron Arons - "Finding Living People."
Wed., December 12, 2012SIG/Lithunia - Sylvia Nusinov - 11:00MEMBERSHIP MEETING - 12:30 Phyllis Kramer - “JEWISHGEN”
We are excited by this year's schedule for the SIGS (Special Interest Groups). This is a chance to meet your fellow "landsman" and compare notes while learning about recent updates in the areas you are researching.
All sessions (unless noted) start at 11:00 AM in the main auditorium of
the Civic Center, prior to the membership meeting. We will be repeating the Worlds of Our Ancestors II - The All SIG Presentation, again by popular request February 13th, 2013. It will start at 10:00 AM and continue until 3:00 PM. Bring your lunch.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS page
Fall Programs & SIGS 2-3
Genealogy Symposium 4
President’s Message 5
Editor’s Message 6 Breaking Brick Wall 7-8
Fla. Genealogy Society 9
What’s New in Genealogy 10-16
Books of Jewish Interest 17
IAJGS Conference 18
Board of Directors 19
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
We plan to have expanded stations representing most of the countries you are researching. Enlarged maps and a computer station will help you to locate your ancestral towns.
Help us help you. We need persons from Latin America including Cuba and Sephardic representatives from ALL areas, especially Syria and Morocco to help us expand into those areas. A Hungarian SIG leader is being sought. No experience is necessary. Help and guidance will be provided. More information will follow in the next Scattered Seeds.
We will be starting the 2012-2013 season on November 14th. Paul Baranik will lead the Greater Poland SIG. Ina Getzoff (Belarus) and President Mark Jacobson (Galicia) will be there to answer your questions along with Paul.
Greater Lithuanian SIG is on December 12th, with leader, SylviaNusinov, and will include representatives from Belarus (Ina Getzoff,) and the Ukraine (Mona Morris.)
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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (Continued)
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MEMBERSHIPYou received your membership renewal form in the mail before the first meeting. Remember to mail your dues or bring your check to the next meeting. Annual Dues (September - August)
Individual - $25; Family - $36Donor - $50; Benefactor - $100
Individual Life Membership - $200
! SAVE THIS DATE
The date for our Annual JGSPBCI Luncheon will be
March 3, 2013 Delray Beach Golf Club
More information to follow
GENEALOGY SYMPOSIUMJoel Sisitsky, Chairperson, JGSPBCI
On Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, we will be having a Genealogy Symposium at the South County Civic Center,16700 Jog Road, Delray Beach. We plan to have several informative presentations given simultaneously throughout the day.
Pamela Cooper, currently president of the Florida State Genealogical Society, has agreed to provide two presentations.
As of this date, the topics will be Ancestry.com vs. Ancestry Library Edition and Stop the Ship! I Want to Get On!: Emigration, Naturalization and Passports.
Price is yet to be determined, but will include a box lunch, bottled water, coffee and snacks.
Registration verification and several handouts will be from 9:30 - 9:55 AM. Sessions will begin at 10:00 AM, with closing remarks at 4:00 PM.
Speakers, presenters are:Mona Morris, Sylvia Nusinov, Mark Jacobson, Pam Cooper, Dan Epstein, Dennis Rice, Phyllis Kramer, Gary Stone, Marilyn Lane, Jerry Naditch.
WELCOME NEW MEMBERSMorton BrownJeanette Byala
Nechama GlasrotGerald KestlingerMark S. Mayzner
Daryl MillerLinda Sobel
Do you know of an organization that is looking for a speaker on
genealogy?Please contact Speakers Bureau Chairperson: Sylvia Furshman
Nusinov at [email protected]
EXPERTS ON CALL GENEALOGY ASSISTANCE
Our "Experts-On-Call" Help Line is available to assist and mentor
beginners and "not yet experts" on a one-on-one basis. Those member-
experts who volunteered for the EOC Help Line are:
Mitch Heide 561-926-4311Marilyn Newman 561-775-4920
Dennis Rice 561-738-7477
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Welcome to what I am sure will be another excellent season of genealogy programs.
You can see the details elsewhere in this issue as well as our website: http://jgspalmbeachcounty.org/. Special thanks to our Webmaster Jerry Naditch for keeping our website constantly updated and informative. This season we are again happy to have a mix of old friends as well as new speakers, all with fresh new programs that will be a learning experience for all levels of researchers. Thank you all for making my first two years as President such a joyful experience. I look forward to serving you the next two years.
By now, I hope you are aware that the 1940 US Census is fully indexed and freely available on both www.familysearch.org and www.ancestry.com. While the images derive from the same source (the original paper pages no longer exist so everyone has to use the same microfilmed pages,) the indexing was done in completely
different ways - Family Search was indexed entirely by volunteers. Ancestry used paid indexers in Asia.
This means that you should check both websites if you can't find someone. Also try searching with wild cards, using an "*" instead of letters in the given or surname field, and try searching without a surname using given names, ages and birth places of family members to narrow your search.
I have had success finding most people, except my great-grandmother who apparently was hiding out somewhere in Brooklyn. Unlike when the 1930 Census was put online in 2002, there aren't a lot of surprises or new information for me in the 1940 Census.
I guess that is how it goes when you have been researching for a long time. I did track down a 'lost' cousin in the 1940 Census, he was in dire straits in 1940, having abandoned his wife and son and living on 'skid row', and unfortunately we don't think his situation ever improved. I hope you all found something new in the 1940 Census.
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President’s Message
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Scattered Seeds Staff Editor Tina Gudin Korn Research & Support Jacqueline Fineblit Proofreading Anne Faivus Electronic Mailing Gerald Naditch USP Mail Cindy Taylor
Message from the EditorTina Gudin Korn ! ! !
“If you don’t know your family’s history, you are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” (Michael Crichton)
This quote is one of my favorites. I refer to it whenever I am prying information out of a relative who demonstrates a lack of interest in helping to “grow” our family tree. It actually has been successful! That is my message this issue.
Be resourceful. The 1940 Census has revealed hidden information that can be the “honey” to attract family members to sweeten your family history records. Good luck.
Welcome back to all of our “snowbird” members. We look forward to greeting you at our meetings. Again this year, our program committee has an exciting agenda of enlightening speakers.
Your comments and contributions to Scattered Seeds are always welcome. Email to:[email protected]
INTERNATIONAL JEWISH GENEALOGY MONTH
Mazel Tov to Lynn Teichman and Tuvia Natkin for winning the 2012 International Jewish Genealogy Month Poster Contest (Cheshvan 5773) which was announced during the 2012 IAJGS Paris, France, Conference Gala!
Lynn Teichman and Tuvia Natkin are active members of The Jewish Genealogical Society of Southwest Florida, who is the proud sponsoring IAJGS member organization.
October 17 - November 14, 2012
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BREAKING A BRICK WALL THROUGH FAMILY SEARCH Mark Jacobson, President, JGSPBCI
Three of my grandparents were born in Eastern Europe and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. My Grandma “Dolly,” aka Molly Dogulov Jacobson, is the exception. Her parents were Russian immigrants who married in Philadelphia and had all their children there. This has allowed me to find many American records for this family but there are still missing pieces.
I have spent more than a dozen years looking for my grandmother's 1904 Philadelphia birth record. When I began researching, I assumed this would be an easy task, since I knew when and where she was born. After all, it was in the United States, so it shouldn't be hard to find. I was wrong. I discovered that even though the state of Pennsylvania did not require birth and death certificates until 1906, the city of Philadelphia has recorded births since 1860 and these records, through 1915, are held in the Philadelphia City Archives: http://www.phila.gov/phils/
docs/inventor/genealgy.htm.
I searched the Family Search catalogue of microfilmed records: https://www.familysearch.org/#form=catalog where I learned that the Philadelphia indexes and records were all filmed by the LDS. I found the film number for the index that covered my grandmother's birth and ordered the film. Now I knew it would be easy.
The index cards on the film revealed birth listings for my grandmother's younger sisters and her brother, including a then previously unknown sister who had died as a child, but nothing for my grandmother!
Fast-forward many years and now Family Search has placed millions of genealogy records and indexes online, for free, at their Family Search website: https://www.familysearch.org/. See their Pennsylvania collection here: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=23
This online collection includes include Pittsburgh City Deaths, 1870-1905 and Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915. In June, they added a new online collection, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906. Now, having another chance, this time I knew I would succeed.
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Narrowing my search to the collection: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1951739 I searched for Dogulov. I found two of my grandmother's sisters, including one I had not previously found, but still nothing for my grandmother.
I tried using wild card searches such as Dogu*, so it would show me all results where the surname starts with Dogu. Nothing new. I tried Dog*. Nothing.
Finally I tried just the given name and narrowed the search to 1904. Nothing for Molly, but when I tried Mollie there it was! Mollie DUGLOR, born July 18th 1904, parents Abraham and Minnie Kahn from Russia. This was she (although she always reported and celebrated her birthday as July 17th). Now, I wanted to see the actual birth certificate!
I clicked to view the record and saw a message “image unavailable.” NO!! I called Family Search, spoke to three different departments (who were as confused as I was) until finally receiving the news that due to their agreement with the archive, these images are only available to
LDS Church members. I was told to go to my local LDS Family History
Center in Boca Raton and after speaking to the volunteers, they were able to login and retrieve the image for me. Now, I finally have my grandmother's birth certificate!
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MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND
THE FLORIDA STATE
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
36TH ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
The Best of Times: Genealogy
+ Technology November 8-‐10, 2012
Hilton Hotel, Deerfield Beach, FL
Featuring many naEonally noted Speakers!
Full Conference Early RegistraEon, Member -‐ $125, Non-‐Member -‐ $150Full Conference RegistraEon Price will increase aRer October 22, 2012Full Conference Late RegistraEon, Member -‐ $140, Non-‐Member $165
Thursday RegistraEon Lectures Only (no meals) Member -‐ $40, Non-‐Member -‐$50Friday or Saturday RegistraEon Lectures Only (no meals) Member -‐ $50, Non-‐Member -‐ $60 Note: Full Conference Registra4on includes all lectures, Friday Lunch, Friday Banquet and Saturday Lunch.
Register on line at h.p://www.flsgs.org/aem.php?lv=r&eid=1,if you have quesAons about registering, please contact [email protected]
Choose from over 30 topics. To view the complete schedule of lectures go to h.p://www.flsgs.org/aem.php?lv=p&epg=3
CONFERENCE ACCOMMODATIONS: The Hilton Deerfield Beach/Boca Raton in Deerfield Beach,
Florida will serve as the conference hotel where all
exhibits and lectures will take place. The hotel is
located at 100 Fairway Drive, Deerfield Beach, Florida
33441. A block of rooms is being held for FSGS unAl
OCTOBER 22, 2012, at special room rates during your
enAre stay. ReservaAons can be made on line
at h.p://Anyurl.com/7m2r9o3. If you prefer, you can
call the hotel at 866-‐629-‐9282 and ask for the FSGS
Conference rate.
IF YOU PLAN TO GO CONTACT: Marilyn Newman, JGSPBCI Conference Liaison
(561) 775-‐4920
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DOCUMENTING MAINE JEWRY(www.MaineJews.org)
A New JGS Has Joined IAJGS
Jews have been living in Maine since the 1800s. There were fully functioning Jewish communities in Bangor in the 1840s, and in Portland in the 1880s. Somewhat improbably, at least to outsiders, those and other Jewish enclaves around the state have endured and thrived. Over the last 100 years, the Jewish population of Maine has ranged from 5,000 to over 10,000.
Fortunately many of these diverse family experiences have been captured in series of personal histories. Eighty-two of these personal histories are oral histories are available on the Portland Public Library website.
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PRESERVING JEWISH VITAL RECORDS JTA Op-Ed, Jeff Rubin, July 17, 2012 (Excerpts)WASHINGTON Some of the greatest sources of information about our families and our community lie abandoned and vulnerable in the basements and store rooms of our communal institutions. As Jewish groups work to satisfy today’s needs and strengthen the future, preserving records of the past often falls by the wayside.
We have seen historical records treated shabbily by our communal institutions. That is why the recent decision by B’nai B’rith International to turn over its remarkable historical records to the American Jewish Archives is such a unique example.
Institutions should keep their documents in an environment that ensures their survival, at a minimum. Even better, it should be an environment that gives access to responsible researchers. They should consider lending or donating these materials to local and national historical societies that have the ability to store and display them.
We should support institutions like the American Jewish Archives, ones devoted to preserving and disseminating our historical records. We often criticize foreign governments for failing to preserve Jewish historical sites and artifacts. How can we condemn others when we often fail to preserve the records in our own care?
(Jeff Rubin is communications director for a research institution in Washington, D.C.)
WHAT’S NEW IN GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We need you! We are an active organization with many projects. The more volunteers who assist,
the more we can accomplish.contact President
Mark Jacobson 561- 487-9165 president@jgspalmbeachcounty.
org
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Grave sites of North American Tzadikim OnlineThe grave sites of nearly 1,000 North American rabbis considered tzadikim (righteous ones) are displayed at http://www.kevarim.com. There is an alphabetical listing by given name. Information provided for each individual includes cemetery where buried, date of death and a picture of the tombstone. Plans call for listing the rebetzins (wives of rabbis). There is even provision for writing a kvitel to a specific rabbi. Thank you, Philip Applebaum for referring me to this site.
JOWBR Now Has 1.86 Million Records
The power of volunteering for JewishGen projects can be seen in the latest announcement from JewishGenʼs Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR.) The database of Jewish grave sites grew by 105,000 new records, 21,000 new photos and 244 new cemeteries. There are now 1.86 million records from nearly 3,600
cemeteries in 46 countries. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/. If youʼre a new JOWBR user, JewishGen provides explanatory screencasts at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/.
New data has been added from Algeria, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Martinique, Morocco, Myanmar, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
MyHeritage Announces SuperSearchMyHeritage has taken the billions of indexed records in its possession—including data from family trees posted to its site—and made them searchable in an engine they call SuperSearch. It is located at http://www.myheritage.com/research.
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Nu? What’s New?Gary Mokotoff, Editor
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SuperSearch is open to all and requires no registration. Search result lists are displayed at no charge, but access to the records usually requires an annual subscription or a pay-as-you-go credits system. A few databases are at no charge: 1930 and 1940 U.S. Census, Social Security Death Index and Find-a-Grave.
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DIGITIZED JEWISH RECORDS Digitized Collection of Jewish Records, http://dcjr.org, has a “searchable database of 5,000 digital copies of Jewish vital, communal, organizational, legal, immigration, school, and other categories of records of genealogical, historical and memorial value, most of them handwritten.
They are from the former Austrian province of Eastern Galicia (subsequently Poland), including Lvov, Stanislawow, and Tarnopol provinces. The years covered are from the mid-19th century to the late 1930s. They include Jewish vital records, non-vital records such as census lists and hospital records, Polish aliyah passports, Holocaust- related records, Jewish organizations, school records, and Jewish lawyers of Czernowitz.
A search engine is provided. According to the website, it was developed by a group of Russian historians dedicated to Holocaust research, education and commemoration. The site is from Moscow.
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GENEALOGY IN TIME MAGAZINE ADDS MILLIONS OF RECORDS AND PHOTOS
About 55 million U.S. records andsix million more from Canada have been added to the database of GenealogyInTime Magazine. Many of these have been archived in North American public libraries. Also added are 14 million vital records from Central and Eastern Europe and 2 million passenger ship records. http://tinyurl.com/3dzxxu2
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ANCESTRY OFFERS FREE GUIDE TO U.S. CENSUSES
Ancestry.com is offering at no charge a guide to using the U.S. censuses. Titled Follow Your Family Using Census Records it is a seven-page PDF file that can be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/AncestryCensusGuide. It includes a chart that shows which questions are asked in the various censuses.
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NEWS AND USEFUL INFORMATION FROM IAJGS Jan Meisels Allen, IAJGS Vice President, Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
“How To” Video Workshops on line:
The US National Archives and Records Administration launched their online videos of its most popular "how to" workshops. These are short videos which range from 8 minutes to just over one hour and can be used as training aides or part of an overall beginning genealogy sessions you may offer. All you need is a computer to view them. These workshops led by National Archives experts are available on the National Archives YouTube channel at:http://tinyurl.com/NARAGenie.Original url: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE84A2966F40F0802&feature=plcp Here you may find "how to" videos on: military research, immigration research, census records, passport applications, public land claims, access to archival databases and more.
French Civil Registration Records:
France has a long history of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths--starting in 1792. It covers people of all denominations. French records also include "margin records"-- these are hand-written notes that may lead to additional records.
Records of civil registration are typically held in registries in the local town hall, with copies deposited each year with the local magistrate's court. Records over 100 years old are placed in the Archives Départementales (series E) and are available for public consultation.
Many Departmental Archives have placed portions of their holdings online, often beginning with the civil records. To read more about French civil records see:http://tinyurl.com/9j4v2v9http://genealogy.about.com/od/france/a/French-Civil-Registration.htm?nl=1
Most civil registration records, however, are accessible only by knowing the town, identifying the department that now holds those records and locating the online holdings of the Archives Départementales for your town.
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One place to search for these are: http://tinyurl.com/9qkzw6qoriginal url:http://genealogy.about.com/od/france/tp/France-Genealogy-Records-Online.htm
However, online access to the indexes and digital images has been restricted to 120 years by the Commission Nationale de l'informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)--due to concern over privacy.
This restriction has been in effect since late 2011. Forbidden access on the Internet includes the publication of certain information about people, whether living or dead.
That information includes: racial or ethnic origins, political opinions,philosophies or religions, memberships to groups or associations, health, sexuality, crimes, convictions, imprisonments AND marginal notes on civil registrations. The prohibition of including religion or ethnic origins impedes searching for Jewish records. http://tinyurl.com/8lmd7x2
Virtual Shtetl Discovers Belarus12 Aug 2012
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews has a new video on their website: "The Virtual Shtetl Is Discovering Belarus." The movie shows Virtual Shtetl workers and volunteers' efforts to unearth and record the Jewish heritage in Belarus. It is a 17.5 minute video by Julia Poplawska. It shows the virtual shtetl workers search and record the Jewish history of Belarus by visiting several small towns, cemeteries and interviewing residents. The short film is available in Polish, English and Belarusian--the later twowith subtitles. It can be viewed at: http://tinyurl.com/c4rt5k8original url:http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/news/2616,virtual-shtetl-discovers-belarus/
The movie was made possible due to financial support of the US Embassy (Federal Assistance Award for the 'Supporting transition in Belarus by promotion of good practices of preservation of Jewish heritage' project) in Poland and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Poland.
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(USA) Two New Bills Introduced In Congress Regarding Identity Theft and the Social Security Death Index 12 Aug 2012
The issue of identity theft and the Death Master File, also known under the commercial version, Social Security Death Index (SSDI) has been discussed on this forum previously- with four bills having been introduced late last year.
On July 26, 2012 two more bills were introduced, interestingly by some of the same authors of the bills already introduced.
Both of these new bills contain provisions for "certification" and a waiting period of two years. This is similar to the bills both authors also introduced in 2011 [S 1534 and H 3215] . The reason for introducing similar bills in 2012 as in 2011 may be as simple as the first bills did not receive a hearing and they wanted the bills to be on the "radar" of the committees they have been assigned.
As IAJGS learns more about these bills, information about any potential hearing or other information will be posted to this forum.
IAJGS submitted statements on our position to earlier hearings on the issue of identity theft and the Death MasterFile/SSDI --the hearings were not on specific bills, and our statements may be viewed at the Legislative Alert that is posted to our website: http://www.iajgs.org/pramc/Latest_Alert.pdf .
While this alert was updated in late May it is still valid regarding the issue of SSDI/Death Master File.
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STATE LAW LIMITS ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS24 Sept 2012
As genealogists, we are stymied by impediments to access certain vital records by state laws that prevent certain information from being shared. Most recently Virginia's law that includes provisions of its state public disclosure law allows only its own residents access rights to public records. According to the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) there are eight states that currently have or had in the past similar restrictive provisions: Arkansas, Georgia, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. see: http://tinyurl.com/99emf8o
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UK OLD BAILEY CRIMINAL RECORDS ON-LINE
12 Aug 2012
The Old Bailey was and still is the central criminal court for England and Wales. It is located in central London and stands on part of the site of the Bailey to the ancient Fleet Prison that was demolished in the nineteenth century. This court still hears the most serious criminal cases for London and much of the rest of the country.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey website contains a great collection of detailed records from some 200,000 criminal cases spanning roughly 240 years. This collection has been slowly increasing over time. Only the most hardened criminals ended up at the Old Bailey. If you want to know if you had any really interesting characters in your family tree access this free website go to: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
Check it out. Type in some typically Jewish sounding names Cohen, Levy, Goldberg, Goldstein. You will find records including all of these names-either as witnesses or as the criminals.
The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Hertfordshire and Sheffield and the Open University, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Big Lottery Fund.************************************************************************Paris Police Records Exhibit Brochure on 1942 Round Up Of Jews In Paris 24 Aug 2012
The archives of the biggest World War II deportation of French Jews are being opened up to public view for the first time. It coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv roundup by Paris police of over 13,000 Jews over two days--July 16-17, 1942 before being bussed to the French camp at Drancy and then taken by train to the Auschwitz death camp.
The exhibit produced a 60-page brochure, in French, with photographs of some of the documents in the exhibit.
IAJGS received permission to post the brochure to our website. It is a VERY large file 30 MB. The brochure is posted to the IAJGS Resources, genealogy links under holocaust and may be accessed directly by clicking on this link: http://www.iajgs.org/jgscv/pdf/HM3_brochure.pdf
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BOOKS OF JEWISH INTEREST Jewniverse, August 2, 2012
The Jewish Mail Order Bride
These days, mail-order brides mostly reside in your spam folder, but in the 1800s, it was a booming industry in the American frontier, and an easy way for women to make it to the New World. And some Jews joined the bandwagon.
In her gorgeous debut novel The Little Bride, Anna Solomon shares the story of Minna Losk, a 16-year-old orphan in Odessa who trades her post as a maidservant for enrollment in Rosenfeld's Bridal Service, a mail-order bride service that sends nice Jewish girls to America.
After a nightmarish trans-Atlantic boat ride, Minna finally makes it to America. With only a grainy picture of her future husband standing on the rooftop of what must be a luxurious city home, Minna barely has time to conjure up her fantasy life before being whisked away by train, out of New York City and into territory that is wholly unfamiliar.
What she soon learns—that her husband is a rigid Orthodox Jew whereas she has not gone to a synagogue in years; that he lives on a failing farm with two teenage sons, one of them even older than her and that "Sodokota" does not offer the modern amenities of her dreams—forces Minna to forego all
expectations and fantasies and face the reality of her new American life with her newly acquired American family.
August 19, 2012
Home on the Range
Imagine Little Women meets All-of-a-Kind Family, with a hint--just a hint--of Anna Karenina.
Rachel Bella Kahn was a memoirist way before tell-all books and reality TV were fashionable. She grew up in the Ukraine, but was sent to New York at the age of 18 after getting into an "inappropriate romance." The year was 1894.
In America, Rachel was quickly wed to Abraham Calof. Together, they moved to a frontier town in Devils Lake, North Dakota.
Rachel Calof 's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains is a record of small-town Jewish life in the early 1900s. The new Mrs. Calof was quite revolted at her married life. But in Devils Lake, she welcomed the challenges of the frontier, working on the farm and giving birth to nine children.
Rachel writes about the difficulties of practicing Jewish rituals, such as circumcision and obtaining kosher food. She and her husband sold their farm and retired to St. Paul, where she wrote this book.
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32nd IAJGS INTERNATIONAL JEWISH GENEALOGICAL CONFERENCE Gary Stone, JGSPBCI
The 32nd Annual IAJGS International Conference was held July 15-18, 2012 at the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel. The four day event, attended by more than 800 registered researchers featured lectures, society meetings, SIG meetings, films, exhibits, computer labs and social events. Speakers for
30 countries, including representatives from the large French Sephardic Jewish community, gave lectures in English or French, with simultaneous translation. The result was an outstanding learning experience based on accessibility and the available source material. Meeting many new Jewish “genners” rounded out the unique and valuable experience of gathering abroad. Of course, Paris was an added attraction, as evidenced by the many attendees who extended their visit pre or post conference.
JGSPBCI members attending the conference were: Sharon Brown, Lenore Gunther, Bob Koltnow, Alain Farhi, Roberta Jainchill, and Gary Stone. Adding to the Sephardic genealogy researcher experience, Alain Farhi gave two excellent lectures on the subject with one devoted to “The Jews of Lebanon.”Numerous French volunteers and their European partners accounted for a flawless educational and social experience.
If you have not yet experienced an IAJGS international Conference, I urge you to consider one of the upcoming events. It offers an opportunity to learn from many Jewish genealogical experts, to ask them questions in person, and to share your experences with other enthusiastic Jewish “genners” with common interests.
Future Planned IAJGS Conferences
2013 - Boston Park Plaza Hotel2014 - Salt Lake City
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2018 - Warsaw, Poland
Volume 19, Number Four Fourth Quarter 2012
Volume 19, Number Four Fourth Quarter 2012
Bob Koltnow, Lenore Gunther, Gary Stone
Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County, Inc. P.O. BOX 7796, DELRAY BEACH, FL 33482-7796http://www.jgspalmbeachcounty.org/ Member IAJGS, Florida State Genealogical Society
Past Presidents: Mona Morris, Emeritus; Alfred M. Silberfeld, Emeritus;Alfred B. Leeds, z’l, Sylvia Nusinov, Emerita; Marvin Hamburg, Dennis Rice, Sandra Hirschhorn 2012-2013 Officers and BoardElected OfficersPresident: Mark Jacobson
Vice-Presidents: Arnold Davidson, Marilyn Newman
Treasurer: Michael Corbett
Secretary: Gary Stone
Board MembersArchivist/Sunshine: Phyllis Frank
Brick Wall/Education: Phyllis Kramer
Cemetery Project: Ina Getzoff, Cindy Potter Taylor
Directory/Membership Records: Arnold Davidson
Family History Center, PBC Library Liaison,
Speakers Bureau and Workbook: Sylvia Nusinov
Librarian Emeritus: Ben Karliner
Library Coordinator: Irving Skorka
Luncheon: Eric Sharenow
Members-at-Large: Natalie Hamburg, Marilyn Lane, Anne Faivus
Membership Chair and Retention: Marilyn Newman
Newsletter Editor: Tina Gudin Korn
Parliamentarians: Dennis Rice, Alfred M. Silberfeld
Programming: Dennis Rice
Publicity/E-mail Coordinator: Jacqueline Fineblit
Reception: Arnold Davidson, Ben Seaman, Cindy Potter Taylor
SIGs: Mona MorrisTelephone Squad: Dorothy BernsteinWebmaster/Media: Gerald Naditch
Volume 19, Number Four Fourth Quarter 2012
Volume 19, Number Four Fourth Quarter 2012
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Volume 19, Number Four Fourth Quarter 2012
Volume 19, Number Four Fourth Quarter 2012