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The Newsletter' of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society

VOLUME X I I , NUMBER 1 F e b r u a r y 1992

Feb 17 Regu la r Meeting. U s e of Computers i n Genealogy 7:30 PM Harry Saa l w i l l desdcr ibe h i s use of Roots I11 and Paul

Weinberg w i l l d i s c u s s us ing non-genealogy programs f o r genealogy. Handouts w i l l be a v a i l a b l e . Congregation Kol Emeth, 4175 Manuela Avenue, Pa lo A l t o .

Mar 15 Regular Meeting. Jewish Community Library, 14 th Ave- 1:00 PM nue a t Balboa, San Francisco. Research s t a r t s a t 10 AM.

Mar 19 7:00 PM

Mar 27 Noon-8 PM Mar 28 9 AM-4 PM

Apr 20 7:30 PM

May 17 1:00 P M

Jun 15 7:30 P M

J u l 12 11 AM-3 PM

J u l 26-31

Santa Clara County H i s t o r i c a l and Genealogical Socie ty r e g u l a r meeting, Documentation f o r the Genealogist, Carol Harless. Santa C l a r a Publ ic Library, 2635 Homestead Road, Santa C l a r a

C a l i f o r n i a Genealogical Soc ie ty 7 th Annual Fami ly H i s t o r y Fair "goes i n t e r n a t i o n a l " Seminars,Exhibits,Booksellers,Supplies,Computer Software. S t . Mary's Cathedral Conference Center , Gough S t . & Geary Blvd, San Francisco. V i s i t our t a b l e .

Regular Meeting. Congregation Kol Emeth, 4175 Manuela Avenue, Palo Al to .

Regular Meeting. Jewish Community Library, 14 th Ave- nue a t Balboa, San Francisco.

Regular Meeting. Congregation Kol Emeth, 4175 Manuela Avenue, Palo Al to .

TENTATIVE ANNUAL WORKSHOP, We a r e a t t empt ing t o have Ron Bremer, au thor of t h e Compendium, from S a l t Lake City, lead t h i s yea r ' s workshop

A J G S 1 1 t h Summer Seminar, N e w York Jewish Experience Vi s t a Hotel a t t h e World Trade Center, NYC

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THE SOCIETY PAGES

The fol lowing i s a t r a n s l a t i o n from t h e French (by R . Weiss, D . and R . Leeson, and R . Kohn) o f a l e t t e r rece ived by our pas t -pres iden t from t h e P re s iden t of t h e Romanian Jewish Genealogical Socie ty . A s i m i l a r l e t t e r was publ ished i n t h e F a l l 1991 Avotaynu (Vol V I I , No. 3 ) . We a r e publ i sh ing t h i s l e t t e r t o s o l i c i t sugges t ions from our membership a s t o how our Soc ie ty might respond t o t h e o f f e r s made by Dan Regens t r e i f .

;-I "7 Bucharest 26 September 1 9 9 1

Dear M r . Armand Cohn, I beg your forg iveness f o r w r i t i n g t o you i n French. It i s much

e a s i e r f o r me. My name i s Dan Regens t re i f , Member and Pres iden t of t h e Romanian Jewish Genealogical Soc ie ty .

F i r s t , on t h e occas ion of t h e new year 5752, I wish t o send you my b e s t wishes, i n h e a l t h and f o r t u n e and p r o s p e r i t y , f o r you and your family .

W e are 10,000 J e w s i n Romania, bu t t h e Jewish populat ion is aged (70% over 60 y e a r s o f age) and one thousand J e w s dying p e r year, and one thousand l e a v i n g f o r Israel, t h e r e f o r e , i n 5 years. . .

There are 800-1000 i n t e l l e c t u a l s and 800 s t u d e n t s left . W i t h a f e w f r i e n d s w e ho ld nieetings for t h e i n t e l l e c t u a l s and s tudents , w e do h i s - torical research , genealogy, etc. But because of i n f l a t i o n , which i s enormous (1000-4000%), o u r r e sou rces are ve ry l imi t ed .

Furthermore, anti-Semitism i s more v i r u l e n t t han ever . J e w s are accused o f every misfor tune. "They were accepted h e r e out of p i t y i n 130OW, state t h e an t i -Semi t ic newspapers. 'Gross falsehoods, s i n c e we c a m e here w e l l b e f o r e t h e foundat ion o f t h e Romanian na t ion , a s s o l - d i e r s , Jewish Legionnaires , p a r t of t h e Roman Legions. W e came h e r e t o t h e borders o f t h e Roman Empire t o f i g h t t h e Barbarians. Moreover, tombstones wi th Hebrew and La t in i n s c r i p t i o n s w e r e found here , as wel l a s co ins from t h e Hashmonean and Bar Kochba per iods . .

We a r e accused o f having brought Communism with t h e goa l of des t roy ing t h e Romanian b l i t e . "Now t h e Jews, l e d by t h e Prime Minis te r ( t h e son of a devout S t a l i n i s t ) , have i n s i n u a t e d themselves i n t o t h e Government t o s e l l t h e count ry t o r i c h (Jewish) Americans."

"In add i t i on , t h e J e w s a r e anti-Romanian because t h e Chief Rabbi ( i . e . t h e Jewish Community) b u i l t i n t h e Synagogue cour tyard a monument ded ica ted t o t h e remembrance of t h e 400,000 Romanian Jews k i l l e d through a t r o c i o u s s u f f e r i n g by Romanian and Hungarian F a s c i s t s . "

To respond t o t h e s e accusa t ions , I have w r i t t e n f o r your review Avotaynu (Bethesda, MD) an a r t i c l e (22 pages) e n t i t l e d "The o r i g i n s and t h e h i s t o r y of t h e Romanian Jews through 1832". The a r t i c l e i s one of a s e r i e s of seven a r t i c l e s among which a r e "The Destruct ion of Romanian Jews", "The S i t u a t i o n o f t h e Jews dur ing t h e Communist Period", and "The S i t u a t i o n of t h e Jews a f t e r t h e Revolution of December 1991n.This new ma te r i a l has never been publ ished.

Dear M r . Armand Cohn, we would l i k e t o propose t o : -send you, if you would pub l i sh them, a r t i c l e s on t h e s i t u a t i o n

( h i s t o r i c and c u r r e n t ) of t h e Jews of Romania, -send you t h e r e s u l t s of our genea log ica l research, -come t o t h e United S t a t e s ( a t your i n v i t a t i o n ) and conduct a

conference on t h e o r i g i n s and h i s t o r y and t h e s i t u a t i o n of t h e Jews of Romania,

February 1992 Volume X I I , Number 1

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-do r e sea rch f o r American Jews o r i g i n a t i n g i n Romania concern- i ng documents i n o rde r t o e s t a b l i s h t h e i r genealogy.

Therefore we pray t h a t you respond t o t h e s e r e q u e s t s . Because of our economic s i t u a t i o n we need he lp t o r e s i s t and cont inue our research . I n view of our s i t u a t i o n , your he lp ( i n exchange f o r our con- t r i b u t i o n s ) w i l l be g r e a t l y apprecia ted. The most modest a s s i s t a n c e i s very important t o us .

To you, i n thanks, i n wai t ing f o r your response, and i n t h e hope f o r your f r a t e r n a l a s s i s t a n c e and i n t h e hope of s ee ing you one day here, i n my home i n Bucharest, t o see our l i f e , our i n s t i t u t i o n s , and t o know t h e c i t y and t h e country, I assure you dear M r . Cohn, of my f e e l i n g s of f r i e n d s h i p . Cordia l g r ee t ings and Shalom.

Dan Regens t re i f , P re s iden t Romanian Jewish Genealogy Socie ty Bd. Mihail Kogalniceanu #5 70601 Bucharest, ROMANIA

Copies o f a number of handouts from t h e October 19, 1991 a l l -day seminar can b e made a v a i l a b l e t o Society m e m b e r s . P l ea se send a self-addressed Stamped Envelope with your reques t . They inc lude t h e following:

-Enhancing.Your Family His tory ( inc lud ing H i s t o r i c a l Quest ions f o r your Family, Research-Pr inc ip les , H i s t o r i c a l Traces t o Enhance your S to ry ,*Se lec t ed .Sources for FamilyBiographers) , J aya re Roberts, 6 pp.

*Newspaper Resea rch i n t h e United S t a t e s , 1. pg. -New D i rec t ions of t h e LDS Family H i s to ry Department . ( inc lud ing

Worldwide' ~ o l l e c t i o n s . f o r Research i n t h e FHL, What's N e w i n P-nerican Family is tor^ Research?,and Software), .Jayare Roberts , 4 pp.

* p a s s e n g e r A r r i v a l L i s t s ( including E l l i s ' I s l a n d Research,.l892- 1954 ,Records of US Passenger Arr iva l s , Na tu ra l i za t ion and Ci t izenship , U.S. Passpor t Records, BorderCrossings: Emigration from Canada t o t h e U.S. , In£ormat ion on Sa i l ingsh ips and Steamships) J aya re Roberts, 10 PP -

-Cont r ibu t ing Information t o Ancest ra l F i l e , 4 pp. -Cor rec t ing Information i n Ancest ra l F i l e , 4 pp. .FamilySearchm A-Means t o Simplify Genealogical Research, 3 pp. -Using Dial - in Library Card Catalogs (Sunnyvale Libra ry and U C B ) ,

Sandra Shafer , 2 pp. -Family His tory Library and Family His tory Centers , 4 pp. -*Overview of Santa Clara Family His tory Library, Carol Haws, 3 pp. -Uni ted S t a t e s Records Overview ( inc lud ing Ge t t i ng Organized, What

s h a l l I Search?, Helpful Resource Books, Poss ib l e Research P r i o r i t i e s , Genealogical L i b r a r i e s i n t h e Bay Area, S t a t e R e g i s t r a t i o n of V i t a l S t a t i s t i c s , United S t a t e s Census, LDS FamilySearchTM Automated Compact Disc Program) Carol Har less , 9 pp.

-Scandinavian Research, Duane Dalley, 4 pp. -Sources and S t r a t e g i e s f o r Italian-American Research, Jayare Rob-

e r t s , 8 pp. . I r i s h Research- ( inc lud ing Place-Names and J u r i s d i c t i o n s , Manu-

s c r i p t Genealogical Col lec t ions , Tombstone I n s c r i p t i o n s , Major Sources and Per iods Covered, Charts , Dates, Forms) Roberta Gaynor, 1 7 pp.

-Using PAF i n a Family Organization, B i l l Minnick, 4 pp. *Ge t t i ng t h e Most from PAF, A l l i n Kingsbury, 4 pp.


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Minutes-of the Director's Meetinq, January 19, 1992

The meeting was called to order at 11:30 by Bob Weiss. Membership report: 150 members, of which 22 have not yet paid this year's dues. Ten members are from out of the area. These members pay reduced dues, receive publications and are eligible to participate in the Shtetl Roots Project. A budget of $2,320 was approved for the coming year. Steps will be taken to incorporate and to change the Bylaws to operate on a Calendar Year. In attendance: Judy Baston, Armand Cohn, Jerry Delson, Patrick Gordis, Libby Greengard, Sherrill Laszlo, Sita Likuski, Bob Weiss and Martha Wise. Jerry Delson, Recording Secretary

SHTETL ROOTS COMMllTEE REPORT

Participation by Society Members: As previously reported, the 100 requests from 35 members that were filled out on the Request Form distributed in April, 1991, were delivered to St. Petersburg, Gssia, and to. Vilnius, Lithuania, last August. We have an additional 15 requests submitted.on the revised Request Form that was published in November.

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~eiearch' ~ctivitv in St. Petersburq ' ' '

LBon Oransky is continuing his investigations and we have a new coordinator with the Leningrad Jewish Association, Alik Frenkel, as our previous coordinator, Gennady Farber, is emigrating to San Francisco. In the last ZichronNote, we reported that Leon had found Pobizhe, the hometown of Miriam Johnson's mother. He now reports the population there has been evacuated due to the Chenobil disaster. He is continuing to search for documents. Sita Likuski is researchina Clara Kushner. whose great grandfather .was a personal physician to Ernpe>or Nicholas I.' Could the physician have been a dentist? Two Jewish dentists served the Emperor's family in St. Petersburg: Samuel Wagengeim and David Wallenstein. L6on has started tracing their families but there are so many descendants he could use more information from Sita. Eileen Soffer is searching the Novik family near Grodno; a spouse is Miriam (Mera) Dines. L6on found records on Lazarus Dines, from Slonim-Lunna area (Grodno Province) 1870-1930, with son Ylya and daughter Pauline. "Since the surname Dines is very rare, they are probably akin to Mera. Leon has found the date of the court action on Mattityahu Strashun (Jerry Delson's request). It was February 13, 1886. He is contacting our correspondent in Vilnius to follow that up. For the same family, he has a list for their in-laws, the Eliashberg family from St. Petersburg, Riga, and Yiwenets, which is near Minsk, and from Dvinsk. Part of the family from Dvinsk, Victor and Yasha Eliashberg, now live in Palo Alto. Finally, L6on reports on the Trachtenberg family in Zhitomir (Volhynia). This is connected with Nicki Russler's request.

E-Mail Address: To establish more direct communication with Leon, we now have our own E-Mail address, which can be used for Shtetl Roots or SFBA JGS messages. E-MAIL: MCI ID 5005932 From Internet: 5005932@MCI MAIL

Research Results from Vilnius, Lithuania: Our correspondent from Vilnius, Galina Baranova, has sent. us birth marriaqe and death records from the registry of the Jewish rabbinate of Vilno for certain years in the period 1837 to 1915 for three families. We received 32 Rubin records, 104 Strashun records and 26 Trachtenberg records. We have devised a data format to report this in ZicronNote.

February 1992 Volume XII, Number 1


U.S. RESEARCH . .

JGS (NY) ACOUISITIQE The Jewish Genealogical Socie ty (New York) has a program o f support ing l o c a l a r c h i v e s making research ma te r i a l a v a i l a b l e t o r e sea rche r s i n t he New York C i t y a r e a . These acqu i s i t i ons w i l l a i d t r a v e l l e r s t o t h e Big Ap- p l e fo r t h e 1992 Summer Seminar. Some of t h e i r latest g i f t s t o t h e New York P u b l i c L ib ra ry a r e some New York and New J e r s e y S t a t e Census records, t h e 1890 P o l i c e census, Federal Mor t a l i t y schedules f o r NY and N J 1850-1880. The set of AJGS microfiches have been depos i t ed i n 11 loca l l i b r a r i e s . Funding has been provided t o t h e Nat iona l Archives Northeast Branch t o purchase t h e Holocaust m a t e r i a l from t h e Nat iona l Archives i n Washington.

~ h e l i r c h i v e / l i b r a r ~ D i z s i o n of t h e Ohio H i s t o r i c a l Soc i e ty w i l l provide 10 N E I E S E E B S ON MICROFILM

a copy of a c a t a l o g o f Ohio newspapers on m i c r o f i l m . W r i t e Ohio His tor i - .

cal Soc ie ty , 1982 Velma Avenue, COLUMBUS OH 43211-2497, 614;297-2510. (AJGS letter dat&d October 15, 1991) . . . .

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: A monument t o record t h e h m h e m i l i t a ~ $ ' w i l l be erected - a t t h e main gate of t h e Arlington Nat ional Cemetery. ., T h i s 'new memorial w i l l jnot. be,a s t a t u e , founta in o r e t e r n a l flame,; b u t ' r a t h e r a high-tech regis ter . . ,where v i s i t o r s can call up t h e name o f a ve t e ran .;and;,-on a computer: sc reen , , see her photograph, read h e r biography, and sha re t h e r e m i - n i scences o f . her. military ,career.. Contact Women i n - M i l i t a r y Service Memo- r i a l , Dept. 560," WASHINGTON, DC 20042-0560, o r te lephone :800-222-2294 (from G.A.S. L i t e s newsle t te r of t h e Genealogical Assoc ia t ion of Sacra- mento, Vol 15, ,-No. -1, F a l l 1991, citing..Orange..County Genealogy Newslet-

.,:- ter, : J u l y 1991) (submitted by .member Mary L. Thompson)' . .

. ... . . -OF

~ h e ' l i G r i r ~ o f ~ o n g r e s s recen t ly ce l eb ra t ed t h e 75 th anniversary of t h e f i r s t Congressional.appropriation of funds f o r t h e d e l i b e r a t e acquis i t ion of Hebraica and Juda ica . The Congressional mandate r e s u l t e d i n t h e col- l e c t i o n of Rabbinics and Responsa, l i t u r g i c a l volumes, Hebrew per iodi- cals, Yizkor books, and documents r e l a t i n g t o Jewish h i s t o r y - i n the.U.S. and abroad. The e x h i b i t i o n From t h e Ends o f t h e Ear th: J u d a i c Treasures o f t h e L i b r a r y -of Congress, arranged by Michael Grundberger, head of t he Hebraica Div is ion and Library of Congress Curator, w i l l be t r a v e l l i n g t o s e v e r a l North American 'cities. The m a t e r i a l included i n t h e exhib i t ion draws upon ho ld ings of t h e Rare Book and Spec i a l Co l l ec t ions , P r i n t s and Photographs, Music, and Geography and Map Divis ions , t h e General Collec- t i o n s and S p e c i a l Col lect ions , a s wel l a s t h e Hebraic Divis ion of t he L i - b r a ry of Congress. (AMIT Woman, November-December 1991)

M i l i t a r y Se rv i ce Records i n t he National Archives, 14pp, 50C, #462Y. Where t o W r i t e f o r V i t a l Records, 22pp, $1.75; #148Y.Using Records i n t he Ns- t i o n a l Archives f o r Genealogical Research, 25pp, 50C, #463Y. Your Right t o Federal Records, 25pp, 50C, #464Y.Family Folk lore , 7pp, $1.00, #133Y Send o rde r t o R. Woods, Consumer Information Center-2A, P . O . Box 100; Pueblo, CO 81002

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FROMAROUNDTHECOUNTRY Submitted by Sharon Fingold

m R E ON THE TEXAS SEAPORT MUSEUM (GALVESTON, TX) DATABASE Last ZichronNote desc r ibed t h e new Texas Seaport Museum da tabase of 150,000 names t h a t w i l l b e a v a i l a b l e a t t h e museum. According t o Forum ( F a l l , 1991 i s s u e ) , you can w r i t e t o t h e museum t o r eques t a sea rch of t h e database . The fee i s $10.00 p e r name and a check o r money o r d e r must accompany your r eques t . The museum mai l ing address and phone number are : 2016 Strand, Galveston I s l a n d , TX 77550, (409) 763-1877

FREE RESEARCH CATALOG You can now o b t a i n a f r e e , 28-page r e sea rch c a t a l o g from NARA- t h e Na- t i o n a l Archives! The c a t a l o g Aids f o r Genealogical Research can be ob- t a i n e d by w r i t i n g t o : A i d s f o r Genealogical Research, Nat iona l Archives T rus t Board, P u b l i c a t i o n s Se rv i ces (NEPS), Room I W I , Washington, DC 20408. (Morasha, Winter 1991-92)

GENETIC FAMILY TREES .. . , . . . .

The Ancestry Newsle t te r o f May-June, 1991 inc ludes informat ion on doing r e sea rch i n England and o n - c r e a t i n g a g e n e t i c family t r e e . The g e n e t i c f a m i l y t r e e . : i s a g r e a t way t o t r a c k ances to r s f h a i r and e y e co lo r , blood type,: heighf .and.weight , age at death , cause o f death , and g e n e t i c : d i s - orders,'. diseases. ,.and t endenc ie s . The i s s u e i n c l u d e s - a : gene t i c fami ly -1- ,:

t r e e - form t h a t 'you can copy and use . I 've s t a r t e d u s i n g th i s ' . f o rm%and -. have,.gathered i n f o 'about my a n c e s t o r s t h a t I 'didn' t have before... F o r e x - ample, . I 've l ea rned , t h a t one s i d e of . t h e .family. had a f endencyr to be - :

. , . . .. . . , . . . .. -,.,.:,., s h o r t , a s t h m a t i c , and have benign c y s t s . , ~. . . , ' . .. . .- ~' - , . . ... . ~

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: - Y TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS .- END ' YOUR GENEALOG ,.

According t o t o r a s h a (Winter, 1991-92), t h e L ib ra ry of congress is happy t o rece ive your genealogy. You o n l y pay postage t o g e t it t o them and y o u d o n ' t h a v e t o copyr igh t it; They send an acknowledgment d e s c r i b i n g your g i f t f o r t a x purposes . Send your genealogy t o : L ibra ry o f c o n g r e s s , Exchange and G i f t s Div i s ion , 10 F i r s t S t r e e t SE, Washington, DC 20540.

CANADIAN SHIP PASSENGER LISTS W r i t e t o : Department o f t h e Sec re t a ry of S t a t e of Canada, C i t i z e n s h i p R e g i s t r a t i o n and Promotion, PO Box 7000, Sydney, N.S., B1P 6V6. Request an o f f i c i a l form c a l l e d "Application f o r a Search of C i t i z e n s h i p Regis- t r a t i o n Records." There ' s no charge f o r t h e search . (Shem Tov, M a r . 1991)

B I G NEWS FROM CHICAGO A "rank amateur" doing r e sea rch i n Chicago C i t y H a l l d i scovered t h e v o t e r r e g i s t r a t i o n records f o r t h e C i t y of Chicago f o r t h e yea r s 1888, 1890, and 1892. Names of s e v e r a l hundred thousand v o t e r s a r e l i s t e d i n a l p h a b e t i c a l o rde r a long with: county of b i r t h , d a t e and p l a c e of natu- r a l i z a t i o n , t ime of r e s idence i n p r e c i n c t , county and s t a t e , and ad- d r e s s . The l is ts a r e a v a i l a b l e on microfi lm a t t h e I l l i n o i s Regipnal Ar- chives Depository a t Nor theas te rn I l l i n o i s Un ive r s i t y . Write t o IRAD, c /o N E I U , Ronald Williams Library, Lower Level, 5500 North S t . Louis, Chicago, I L 60625. These records may he lp you f i l l i n t h e gaps l e f t by t h e l o s s of t h e 1890 census! (Family Finding, September, 19911



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Ruth Rafael . Chief Ar-ern Je . . wish His torv C e n t s Judah L . Maanes Museum -

The Western Jewish His tory Center a r c h i v a l research l i b r a r y concen- t r a t e s on c o n t r i b u t i o n s of Jews t o t h e American West from t h e Gold R U S ~

t o t h e p r e s e n t . Col lec t ions of value t o t h e Jewish genea log is t include t h e C a l i f o r n i a Jewish Community s e r i e s o f t h e Regional O r a l His tory P ro j ec t , 300 a r c h i v a l c o l l e c t i o n s i n t h e Voorsanger Archive Room r e l a t - i n g t o Jewish r e l i g i o u s and community l i f e i n t h e West, 1400 t i t l e s on Western Jewish Americana i n t h e J e s s e C. Colman Library, and a collec- t i o n of Jewish newspapers and p e r i o d i c a l s extending from t h e mid-nine- t e e n t h cen tury t o t h e p re sen t . Ruth Rafae l ' s e x c e l l e n t gu ide The West- ern Jewish Hi s to ry Center: Guide t o Archival and Oral H i s to ry Collec- t i o n s (1987), i s found i n many Bay Area l i b r a r i e s .

The E the l Heskin Genealogical F u n d h a s g r e a t l y enhanced a c q u i s i t i o n - a n d generat ion of Jewish genea log ica l ma te r i a l s . ' ~ Inc luded i n t h e Cente r ' s .

~. c o l l e c t i o n s are' t h e following: '~ . . . .: , ~ , , , . . ~ . ,~ ., . . . . . , , : . : _ ., : l ($

. V i t a l D a t a : 1910 US Census f o r ' B a y A r e a .Counties; San : Francirsco : Ship Passenger L i s t s ; .Bay Area ob i tua ry c l i p p i n g books (from 1967). .

-Family His tory:Ernest .L i I ie r i tha l a n d Ado1ph:~Sutro;' and -o the r . ~ a m i l ~ ~ i s t o r i e s ; b i o g r a p h i c a l c ~ i p p i n g s and a r t i c l e s ; - f a m i l y bibles..:.

. -Basid a n d 'Jew3sh , ;Genea log ica l ' Sources:' The; Source,: :.a . guide-;^^ book. o f American Genealogy1 ( ~ a k l e ':& Cerny) , -From- Generation t o :Genera- t i o n (Kurzweil) , Findin+ o u r Fathers:: (Rot tenberg) , My-Jewish R o o t s :: i.. -:-: (Kranzler) , ~ ' ~ u i d e t o , Genealogical:-Research i n I s r a e l sack)^, : Encyclo-

pedia o f Jewish Genea logy~ ' (~u rzwe i1 & Weiner) , Jewish :Genealogy: .a ( . : Sourcebook o f Family . H i s t o r i e s and Genealogies; (Zubatsky '&.Berent) ; i

*wes te rn- Jewish -His tory : . S e v e r a l vo1umes:;on American :Jewish - , ,

h i s t o r y inc lud ing t h e West (Marcus) ,' Family .His toryGuide: . (Rischin) , ~ : Pioneer J e w s (Rochlin) ,, -annotated b ib l iog raph ie s of J e w s o f z t h e . .Calif- o r n i a Gold Rush, o f . LA and SF (Cogan) , :'. F r e e t o Chooseh i s to ry o f Oak- land Jewry (Rosenbaum) , , Guide t o t h e Jewish Rockies (Shapiro) , .Guide:to manuscripts a t ' t h e 'Univers i ty of Washington, T h e Making. o f an -Ethnic:... Middle Class-Portland Jewry a f t e r Four - Generations (Tol l ) , J e w s o f -Con- t r a Costa County (b iographica l f o l d e r s compiled by William Tornheim).

- P e r i o d i c a l s : Co l l ec t ions of n e w s l e t t e r s o f Jewish- genealogical- . ; s o c i e t i e s , YIV0,Leo Baeck, American Jewish Archives, American-Jewish,, and o t h e r h i s t o r i c a l s o c i e t i e s ; e a r l y and cu r r en t Jewish newspapers; index t o Emanu-el, now t h e ~ o r t h e r n - Cal i fornia Jewish Bul le t in . .

.Miscellaneous: V i t a l Records f romsacramento and E l Paso,. Texas, Beth I s r a e 1 , S a n Franc isco marriage records 1882-1935, congregation cemetery records , Mater ia l i n t h e YIVO Vi lna c o l l e c t i o n

. O r a l H i s t o r i e s of Western J e w s : i nc lud ing J e w i s h Community Leaders, San Francisco Jews of Eas te rn European Origin (Indexes and genealogical s h e e t s ) , Petaluma Jews, and o t h e r s submitted t o t h e Archive.

The Western Jewish His tory Center , 2911 Russel l S t r e e t , BERKELEY CA 94705, 510-549-6932/6956 i s open Noon t o 4:00 PM Monday through Thurs- day. On-premise r e sea rch i s f r e e . Appointments should be made. Off- premise r eques t s f o r non-commercial research i s $15.00 (commercial $25.00) p e r hour a f t e r one f r e e half-hour.

(from notes t aken by Bob Weiss a t t h e November 1991 SFBA JGS meeting)


ZichronNote Newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area JGS I YSF. OF THE P U B L I C RWOUCES

Los Altos Pu- 1 The Los Altos Public Library is one of ten member l ib ra r i e s of the

Santa Clara County system. Your local public l ibrary i s an excellent place t o s t a r t Jewish genealogical research. Many local l ib ra r i e s have the standard "how-to" books such a s Kurzweil, Rottenberg, Mokotoff, We- iner, Kranzler, etc, and what they do not have on the i r shelves they can usually borrow through t he Interl ibrary Loan ( I L L ) system from other public and university l ibrar ies . ..

Reference materials found in many local l ibrar ies include the Ency- clopedia Judaica, the Jewish Encyclopedia, standard encyclopedias, a t - lases and gazetteers. Addresses of s t a t e archives and l ibrar ies , as well as newspaper and telephone book collections are available a t local libraries. We are fortunate i n t h i s area t o have a public l ibrary which specializes i n genealogy and loca l history-the Santa Clara City Library. Volunteer docents there can a s s i s t y o u i n doing research. . .

What happens when you request a n i t e m , not on . the shelf of ..your 'Jocal branch l ibrary? .Your re ferencel ibrar ian 'wi l l determine .yourneeds and then make use of available. . interl ibrary loan ( I L L ) privileges. Materials are searched. on . the, on-line l ibrary -catalog . (OCLC) . p r . t h e . ~ e s e a r c h L i - braries Information Network; (RLIN). ,.,..,which.. l i s t ,.the.' inventoried.. holdings of: major l ib ra r i e s and archives:. T,he:,.expensel;of ,maintaining these. net- works ..is: high,. -and;their-~usage.-.:is::limited.;to. l ibrar ies :.and,.universities, necessitating ?charging :small :;fees :. for,..%these ,Services ;.,The cost ,,per in.- quiry. i n . the ... Santa. Clara ; County-. System-libraries, f o r exampie, ::is,.50C. On-line costs: are -usually (assessed on. the.basis-.of ,. time: connected, : and specialized :search:.training:;is required., 1t..-isitherefore important t o make: your:request- a s specif i.c..as possible .., ~earches..,can, .. . be, made. by ti-

'~ . .. .::. . . tle;,: key :.wo.rdjii.subject~or:~;call;:number.. .:..-. ;::i . : . . . ( . ... . . - . .. . . . . One :drawback,with on-line -databases , is that not , a l l o f , t h e holdings

of a givenclibrary may have- been ,entered i n to , the database. Usually' only thenewer acquisitions are entered,-,with older holdings s t i l l . o n cards and not avai lable ' for on-line search: ~ n s t i t u t i o n s reserve the right t o res t r ic t or refuse loan'of theirholdings, may charge high fees fo r the loan materials (sometimes a f t e r the loan is-completed), o r may r e s t r i c t materials t o be r ead a t therece iv ing l ibrary and not taken home or rz- produced.:.-A :Professor a t .a university can borrow; material for a long timeand therebyremove it from.circulation. . .

Some : Public Libraries have .. specialized holdings tha t may simplify. or make.less expensive:your:research. The Redwood City Public Library, for example has national telephone directories-for--1987 on CD ROM. One can do a national search free of the $10-25 usuallycharged for t h i s service. There i s also a Union Catalog of Bay Area Libraries available on CD ROM.(but the San Jose l ibrary holdings are not l i s t e d ) . Dial-in on-line search of some l i b r a r i e s i s provided (Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, and Mountain View, for example). See related information page 9 of t h i s ZichronNote .

Meeting handouts.that a reava i l ab le on request by SFBAJGS members: - Who's Who i n . the Santa.Clara County Historical, & GS, 1991-2, 2pp;

Selected Guide t o Sources forGenealogy i n the California Section, California:.State . Library, Sacramento, 10pp; ~ e n e a l o ~ ~ Beginners ' Man- ual, 18pp; Search and Research, Materials available on ILL, etc, 9pp.

(from notes taken by Bob Weiss a t t h e December 1 9 9 1 SFBA JGS meeting)



LOCALRESEARCHSOURCES

UPD- The Santa C la ra LDS FHC has j u s t received t h e October 1991 ve r s ion of t h e Family H i s to ry L ib ra ry Catalog (FHLC) on CD-ROM, accord ing t o Gai l C a l l . Other r e c e n t donat ions t o t h e permanent holdings i nc lude : . a Death Index 1905 - 1939 , Alpha by surname, i n c l u d e s i n i t i - a l s o f sDouse, aae and lace of death. Films 1686044-1686050. - - . e s 1907 - 1952: %x t o Death C e r - . . 1 f l c a t . e ~ 1907-1959. 1960-1979. Films 230399-230405, 230407, 230408, 1308463-1308466.

Q. Most inc lude one o r more of t h e fol lowing: Name o f deceased, spouse, county o f death, c e r t i f i c a t e number. d a t e o f dea th . aae. Films 1373873-1373880. - ~ - ~ ~- - .~~ ~~ - . ~ > - ~ . and - . - . Films 1380775-1380783, 1503830-1503834, 1503850.

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his i n . f r o m G a i l C a l l , o u r l o c a l resources Cont r ibu t ing ~ d i t o r . ' Ga iS ' .~ has o rdered 1900 New,York C i t y Federal Census f i l m s from t h e s u t r o S t a t e L ib ra ry c o l l e c t i o n which came t o h e r i n t h e Santa Clara P u b l i c Library. The c o s t o f t h i s i n t e r l i b r a r y loan is 50C, and i t . c a n t a k e from t w o weeks t o t w o months for a r eques t t o be f i l l e d , . Films w i l l be h e l d - f o r . u s e for . . two-to t h r e e w e e k s . When reques t ing . a' f i l m be s u r e ' y o u x a v e a l l thenecessary,information, a v a i l a b l e through. census Catalogues ' a v a i l a b l e a t l t . h e ~ a n t a - C l a r a L ib ra ry and a l s o a t t h e Santa C l a r a LDS FHC.. The.Cen- s u s Catalogue- is kept i n a f i l e . cab ine t ' i n t h e Equipment Room o f t h e - .- .Santa C l a r a L i b r a r y . The c a b i n e t con ta ins local census microf i lms, Fed- eral ~ o p u l a t i o n CensusCata logue 1790-1890,.188O.Soundex, 1900 Federa l Populat ion Census Catalogue. The l a s t is. a r ranged a l p h a b e t i c a l l y b y - ' state and g i v e s t h e NARA f i l m number f o r ' each state and t e r r i t o r y . - G a i l no t e s t h a t if S u t r o g e t s t h e 1920 Census, i n t e r l i b r a r y l o a n s w i l l -make it a c c e s s i b l e t o each of us a t our l o c a l P u b l i c ~ i b r a r ~ ; ( ~ e & ' r e l a t e d ar- t i c l e on page 8 ) . (Submitted by Gai l C a l l )

SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPERS INDEXES The C a l i f o r n i a Genealogical Socie ty has an index of t h e San Franc isco newspapers from 1904-1949. Newspapers included i n t h e index a r e t h e San Franc isco Cal l , t h e Examiner, and t h e Chronicle. The index is a v a i l a b l e a t t h e CGS l i b r a r y a t 300 Brannan S t . Access i s f r e e t h e f i r s t Saturday of each month. (Diablo Descendants, Nov, 1991) (Submitted by Sharon Fingold)

MORE ON CALIFORNIA DEATH RECORDS A s mentioned i n t h e l a s t ZichronNote, t h e r e is a s ta tewide dea th index from 1905-1984 i n ten-year increments. Here's more informat ion: The index t o yea r s 1905-1939 a r e i n book form and l o c a t e d a t t h e S t a t e L i - b r a ry i n Sacramento. The l i b r a r y w i l l check books f r e e o f charge v i a mai l . The yea r s 1940-1986 a r e on microf iche and a r e a v a i l a b l e a t t h e County Recorders O f f i c e r i n each county. (Diablo Descendants, Dec ' 9 1 ) (Submitted by Sharon Fingold)


N e w s l e t t e r of t h e San Francisco Bay Area J G I

COMPUTER BITS

SILICON VALLEY PAF USERS GROUP Submitted by S i t a Likuski

I f you use Personal 'Ancestry F i l e (PAF) t o computerize your family records , cons ider j o in ing or a t t e n d i n g t h e S i l i c o n Valley PAF Users Group. This . ~ f r i e n d l y group meets t h e second Saturday of each month i n Santa Clara . There a r e c l a s s e s f o r bo th Macintosh and IBM PAF-users, f c beginners and in te rmedia tes . I have had many ques t ions answered dur ing t h e s e c l a s s e s , and have found o u t about f e a t u r e s i n PAF t h a t I hadn ' t d iscovered on my own. I even l e a r n e d s h o r t c u t s on t h e Macintosh t h a t a] p l y t o any programs.

The S i l i c o n Val ley U s e r s Group meets a t 9:00 AM a t t h e Santa Clara LDS church a t 8 7 5 Quince Avenue, n o r t h o f Homestead, about h a l f way between Keily Blvd and Lawrence Expressway. Classes cont inue u n t i l 11:30 AM. An e x c e l l e n t n e w s l e t t e r PAFinder is d i s t r i b u t e d a t each meeting. I f you.cannot a t t end :mee t ings b u t wish t o r e c e i v e - t h e newsle t te r , you may send a year's..dues:.of $15:00 t o S i l i c o n Val ley PAF Users Group, 4417

. ' . . .. P i t c h P ine Ct., S a n Jose , CA. 95136'. . ' . . . . . .

Any .member.: of t h e Group,. may . p a r t i c i p a t e i n t h e Name Matching Data- base. Submi t your GEDCOM dikk. , and.. r e c e i v e back your d i sk wi th any matches . . . . . tha t . appeared in t h e . (currently)..,~430,,000-name .database . ; -

2 : ' ; . . . . . . . - : . .. ~ c c a s i o n a l l y , , i n s t e a d . o f ,cla:sse.s: t h e r e i s a guest' speaker . A t a re- . . c e n t ... meeting .;L,; Reynolds. Cahoon,' ' t h 2 ' ~ i r e c t o r 'of t h e LDS Church .Family

~ i s t % y . ~ e ~ a i t m e n t : de sc r ibed t h e , 'Current , s t a t e of midrdf i lming o f genea- . l o g i c a i ' records , ; i n . Europe.,: He'st 'ated , t h a t . f i lm ing - i s c u r r e n t l y t a k i n g p l a c e i n ~ ~ z e c h o s l o v a k i a a n d Bu1gar ia ;wi th pe rmis s ion . to f i l m pending i n Romania; major: . f i lming. .has taken' p l a c e i n ' t h e ' B r i t i s h -Isles i n t h e l a s t f i v e y e a r s ; : ~ c a n d i n a v i a n f i l m i n g i s a lmos t~comple t e . Of t h e 70 b i l l i o n people :who :ever- l ived,: about, 7 b i l l i o n ' l i v e d p r i o r t o -1900, and microfilmed : r e c o r d s ' i d e n t i f y about'^ 2.5 - b i l l i o n of t hese . Current f i lming

. . i d e n t i f i e s abou't a h a l f b i l l i o n people each year . .'. - ..

M r . Cahoon feels t h a t t h e a v a i l a b i l i t y o f - c o m p a c t d i s k s (CD ROMs) has in t roduced a Renaissance o f family h i s t o r y as important a s t h e advance of t h e Gutenberg p r e s s was-.over: clerical scr ibes . . Among t h e p r o j e c t s cur- r e n t l y i n development ' for CD ROM are t h e 1881 B r i t i s h Census P r o j e c t of 27 mi l l i on names and t h e 1880 U.S. Census P ro j ec t of 50 mi l l i on names.

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DIALUP ACCESS TO LOCAL CATALOGS With t h e i nc reas ing use of pe r sona l computers and modems it is becoming p o s s i b l e t o search l a r g e l i b r a r y da t abases i n t h e comfort of your home. We w i l l t r y t o keep you informed a s t o t h e phone numbers and modem s e t - t i n g s f o r l o c a l l i b r a r i e s and u n i v e r s i t i e s . We would l i k e feedback from o u r readers a s t o t h e i r exper iences i n doing genealogical r e sea rch by t h i s method, and any a d d i t i o n a l acces ses of which they may be aware.

*Univers i ty of Ca l i fo rn i a , Berkeley GLADIS and MELVYL on-l ine c a t a l o g s : 510-642-9721, -7400, -6870, -6092 f o r 300,1200,1200 Racal-Vadik modem,2400 Baud Rates r e s p e c t i v e l y , 7 Data B i t s , F u l l Duplex, 1 Stop B i t , No Auto-line-feed, No S t r i p Characters , Even P a r i t y ,

Xon/Xoff yes f o r 2400 Baud on ly . *Sunnyvale Publ ic Library, 408-245-7827, 300, 1200, 2400 Baud Rate, 8 , 0 , 1 .Palo Al to Publ ic Library, 415-322-5441, 1200 Baud Rate, 8 , 0 , 1

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EUROPEANRESEARCHSOURCES

VICHY POLICE LISTS OF JEWS A long-missing master f i l e t h a t helped t h e Vichy p o l i c e round up t e n s of thousands o f French and fo re ign Jews f o r depor t a t i on t o d e a t h camps e a r l y i n World War I1 has been unearthed i n t h e Min i s t ry of Veterans ' Affa i r s , Nazi-hunter Serge Kla r s f e ld announced r e c e n t l y . The l i s t con- t a i n s t h e names and addresses o f near ly 150,000 Jews, f o r e i g n and na t ive , l i v i n g i n P a r i s i n October 1940. (The Northern C a l i f o r n i a Jew- i s h B u l l e t i n , November 15, 1991)

N RXCORDS RETNG FIU52D Jayare Roberts o f t h e LDS FHL s t a t e d a t t h e r ecen t genealogy workshop he ld i n Santa C la ra t h a t t h e LDS has s t a r t e d f i lming r eco rds i n Bul- g a r i a , S lovakia , and Estonia. ( submi t ted by S i t a L ikusk i ) - P r o j e c t Juda ica is a j o i n t p r o j e c t o f t h e Jewish Theologica l Seminary of New York (JTS) and theYIV0 I n s t i t u t e f o r Jewish Research and t h e Russian S t a t e ~ n i v e r s i t y f o r t h e Humanities i n Moscow.. The p r o j e c t i s a j o i n t academic program o f t r a i n i n g and r e sea rch invo lv ing a f ive-year ' academic program in- '~ewish- ; s tud ies l ead ing t o t h e Bacca laurea te and Candidate o f Science degrees:"-Gother g o a l of Pro jec t7Juda ica i s t seek o u t and d i scove r v a s t q u a n t i t i e s of Jewish doc imen t s , and :o the materials t h a t w e r e '&ored:in'.:,Soviet a r ch ives , and t o t r a i n p e o p 1 e : w i t h t h e s k i l l s t o c a t a 1 o g ' a n d ; s t u d y ~ t h e m . Computer s ea rches o f t h e records of t h e Cen t r a l Archival';Administration of t h e USSR have r e v e a l e d t h e ex i s t ence of approximately:200~., Judaica c o l l e c t i o n s . A q u e s t i o n n a i r e has been s e n t t o t h e d i r e c t o r s . o f - o v e r 100 Sov ie t s t a t e a r c h i v e s a sk ing them t o d e t a i l t h e con ten t s o f , . t h e i r Juda ica c o l l e c t i o n s . Information gathered w i l l b e sen t to . .YIVO f o r e n t r y i n a database , t o be publ i shed a s A Guide t o Jewish Archival ' ,and Documentary Co l l ec t ions i n t h e Sovie t Union. (Newsletter , p r o j e c t Judaica, ~. F a l l 1991) . ' ,

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BOOKS AND lGG?.S The "world's l a r g e s t c o l l e c t i o n of Li thuanian books and books on Lith- uania" is on s a l e i n t h e g i f t shop of t h e Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Cul ture , 6500 South Pu la sk i Road, CHICAGO I L 60629, Te1.312-582-6500. Included i n t h e i r r e c e n t news le t t e r a r e Lithuanian-English d i c t i o n a r - i e s , language l e s s o n books and c a s s e t t e s and a c a t a l o g of t h e Museum map holdings . (Li thuanian Museum Review, No. 136, May/Jun/Jul 1991)

The F a l l 1990 i s s u e of P o l i s h Genealogical Soc ie ty Newsle t te r has a l i s t of persons b u r i e d i n t h e Jewish Cemetery i n Andrychow, Poland. Write t o P o l i s h Genealogical Socie ty , 984 North Milwaukee Avenue, CHI- CAGO I L 60622. (AJGS l e t t e r da t ed October 15, 1 9 9 1 ) . - The Royal Norwegian Minis t ry of Foreign A f f a i r s has publ i shed t h e 7 t h e d i t i o n of sow t o Trace your Ancestors i n Norway. I t i s f r e e and may be obta ined by w r i t i n g t o Norwegian Information Service , 825 3 rd Avenue, 17th Floor, N e w York, NY 10022. (Santa Clara County H i s t o r i c a l & Genea- l o g i c a l S o c i e t y N e w s l e t t e r , Vol. 34, No. 1, Sept 1 9 9 1 )



HOLOCAUST RESEARCH AND YIZKOR BOOKS - In a recent letter from Gary Mokotoff, President of the ~ssociation of Jewish Genealogical Societies, was a list of yizkor books available from an Israeli source, Chaim E. Dzialowski, P.O. Box 6413, JERUSALEM 91063, ISRAEL. The,list of 121 entries was in Hebrew, but I have translated the names of the Shtetls into Roman alphabet to aid those readers who cannot read the Hebrew or Yiddish titles. City names and countries correspond with the spelling in W h e r e Once W e W a l k e d . (Submitted by Bob Weiss) City CTRY Number in List Auschwitz POL 6 Radom POL 115,116 Baranow Sandornierski POL 84 Ri f in 98 Barniv POL 84 Rovno UKR 117 Bessarabia MOL 101 Sarny UKR 85 ,

Biala-Podalska POL 10 Sasov UKR 81 Bialystok POL 5.21 Siauliai LIT 108

Siedlce POL 86 ,. .

Blizyn POL 13 . .

Bobruysk BYE 7,1101 ; . . . ' Sierniatycze POL 11 1 . ' ' . ,

, . , . Busk UKR 8 Sighet ROM 68 . ,

. , Skalat UKR 99.1 Dabrowa Gom . . Slonim BYE 106

- Sokal UKR 89 . Sosnowiec POL

Stanislav UKR ~ toyanov UKR

S t r y y UKR 90 ' ~ a r n o w POL 4 Tartakov UKR Ternopol UKR 45

, - Kock POL 96 Thessaloniki GRE 118 . .

Korets (Volnhia) UKR 11 2 Treblinka POL 1 Kozienice POL 95 Vilnius LIT 14,31,39,41,55,56 Krakow POL 97 Vilnius Ghetto LIT 32 Kremenets UKR 107 Vitebsk BYE 30 Kurow POL 53 . . Volkovysk BYE 33 Lancut POL 59 . . .- Warsaw POL 2,16,27,38,40,50,51,103,1.05 Leczyca POL 87 ~ ' . . Warsaw Ghetto POL 28.79 . ., . ,..

. . Lodz POL 57 Wloclawek POL 35 ... . . Lodz Ghetto POL58 Zamosc POL 37 Lomza POL 83 . . LAT 46,109

Lublin POL 61 ;62,71 LIT 42,47,64,65 Lvov UKR 52.60 ROM 15.48 Majdanek POL 67 RUS 9 Markuleshty MOL 69 UKR 119 Marmaros ROM 68 lEGEND: Minsk BYE 72 BYE=Belarus POL=Poland Motyli BYE 100 GRE=Greece ROM=Romania , .

. ~ Ostrog UKR104 LAT=Latvia RUS=Russia Pinsk BYE 44 , LIT=Lithuania UKR=Ukraine Plonsk POL 92 MOL=Moldavia

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D ISCO-ST DOC1JMF:NTS . .

Long-hidden S o v i e t World W a r I1 documents uncovered by I s r a e l i research- e r s about two y e a r s ago a r e being s tud ied a t Yad Vashem. These documents brought from Moscow inc lude d i a r i e s , l e t t e r s and memoirs c o l l e c t e d by t h e Jewish Ant i -Fasc i s t Committee e s t ab l i shed by t h e Sov ie t government a t he end o f t h e w a r . The documents, including su rv ivo r s ' t e s t imon ie s , Nazi records and S o v i e t war ch ron ic l e s , s h o w t h a t g h e t t o s e x i s t e d i n e a s t e r n Ukraine, i n Gomel, Byeloruss ia , i n Smolensk, Russia , and i n o t h e r p l aces . The f i les were first seen by Shmuel Krakowski, head a r c h i v i s t and Yitzhak Arad, d i r e c t o r o f Yad Vashem on a v i s i t t o Moscow i n 1989. (San Jose Mer- cury News, December 1 6 , 1991 from Associated P r e s s )

The government o f A u s t r a l i a has requested t h e World Jewish Congress t o a s s i s t them with.thei~r~ongoing~prosecutionof Nazi war c r i m i n a l s and ..

t h e i r c o l l a b o r a t o r s . -It i s seeking witnesses t o murders committed i n t h e . V i n n i t s a d i s t r i c t of t h e Ukraine . ~ h e s e i n v e s t i g a t i o n s involve t h e par-

t i c i p a t i o n o f . Ukrainian p o l i c e wi th t h e German.Sicherheitsdienst ( S D ) i n t h e murders o f J e w s and p a r t i s a n s between 1941 and 1943 i n Vinni t sa , . : Tyvrov, Gorbaniyka, Sytkivts~i, ' , I l l i n e t s k y , Gnivan Se lysch i , 'Gryzhin t sy ,

: C Shabelnya and Brailov.? ~' . ' . < : . .:. ' . . . _ . , ~ ., . . ' . : :.i . . . . . . . . , - < . . . , ~. .. . . .

The U.S. Department o f J u s t i c e would . l i k e t o i n t e rv i ew persons: .regarding t h e persecu t ion an& murders ' ,of"civi l i&s . .. . , i n ' t h e Jon i sk i s ; L i t h u a n i a i n t h e Summer.'of'l94l."1t :would also l i k e ' t o : in te rv iew- s u r v i v o r s o f Aus- t r i a ' s ' G u s e n 1'' (sub-camp o f %lauthaus,en)from February 1 9 4 0 t o M a y 1945. o r of Ebknsee .. , (sub-camp . .., o f . ~ a u t h a u s e n ) . from April' 1944 t o May 1945. .:.

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The U . 5. ~ O l o c a u s t M u s & m U . i : ' s ~ i n A 1993, t h e 50th anniversary o f t h e Warsaw Ghetto upr i s ing . The museum has received, on long-term loan from c h e ~ J e w i s h H i s t o r i c a l I n s t i t u t e i n Warsaw, one of t h r e e milk cans i n ~ w h i c h h i s t o r i a n Emanuel Ringelbaum p laced a r c h i v a l ma- t e r i a l s documentikg t h e l ' i f e l a n d des t ruc t ion of t h e Warsaw Ghetto. Among schola rs o f t h e Holocaust, ~ m a n u e l ~ i n g e l b a u m i s regarded as a holy person. I n t h e Warsaw Ghetto h e d i r e c t e d t h e group c a l l e d Oneg Shabbat, which c o l l e c t e d a r c h i v a l ' m a t e r i a l s r e l a t i n g t o t h e depor t a t i ons and murder.of J e w s a n d ' s t u f f e d them i n t o t h r e e milk cans t o be hidden and provide evidence o f t h e crimes perpe t ra ted a g a i n s t t h e Jewish community. In March 1944 Ringelbaum and h i s wife and c h i l d were sho t t o dea th . Two of t h e t h r e e cans have been found.(Lest W e Forget , Emunah Women of Amer- ica , Vol X I I , No. 3 December 1991)

v v T The Media Department of t h e Bureau of Jewish Education o f f e r s a 45-minute video t a p e c a l l e d The J e w S t r e e t , which takes us through t h e h i s t o r y of D i e Judengasse ( t h e Jew S t r e e t ) , c en t e r of a once t h r i v i n g main s t r e e t through t h e Jewish g h e t t o of Frankfur t , Germany.


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TH E I S H COTHEJNITIES OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA. EXCLUDING PRAGUE. NOW AVAILABLF. ON MICROFICHFt

A complete inventory of t h e remaining records of t h e pre-Second World War Jewish Communities o f . Bohemia and Moravia i s l a i d o u t i n d e t a i l i n an i s s u e of t h e . p e r i o d i c a 1 Judaica Bohemiae (Vol. 7, No. 21,. 1971), a s r e p o r t e d i n an in format ive a r t i c l e by Edward David Luft i n a r ecen t i s s u e of Avotaynu (Volume V I I , No. 3 ) . The f i r s t f o r t y pages c o n s i s t of (1) a b r i e f h i s t o r y of and in t roduc t ion t o t h e records cur- r e n t l y i n possess ion o f t h e S t a t e Jewish Museum and C e n t r a l S t a t e A r - chive i n Prague; (2) a key t o t h e forty-two d i f f e r e n t c a t e g o r i e s of records found i n twelve overs ized, supplemental c h a r t s ; ( 3 ) a " l is t of Jewish i n s t i t u t i o n s and s o c i e t i e s whose w r i t t e n a r c h i v e m a t e r i a l has been p a r t i a l l y preserved," p rov id ing towns of o r i g i n a n d p e r i o d s of t ime covered; ( 4 ) a n index o f persona l - and f d l y names comprising *'mainly complete c o l l e c t i o n s o f p a p e r s , endowments and individual correspon- ' dence" (approximate ly 800 s e p a r a t e e n t r i e s ) ;-, (5) ,:an- exhaus t ive and help- f u l index o f p l a c e names, which,,,in\ t h e case"',of :sxkller towns;, 'refers' one t o t h e J e w i s h r e l i g i o u s - community where the records were k e p t . a t t h e outbreak of t h e Second World War. The t e x t , which i s ' e n t i r e l y i n . ~n - ; : g l i s h and reasonably se l f -explana tory , i s contained o n t h e f i r ~ ~ p i e c e '

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i n g t h e forty-two . d i f f e r e n t - types,..of: ' records. ..alluded t o . i n : (2)= above:::' Where appl icab le ; t h e y e a r s covered are l i s t e d :sepa.rately, for:Gach:and~ every record group. ;, There: a r e main ' en t r i e s ; ; fo r 170. l o c a l i t i e s with', nu-

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Publ ica t ion has j u s t beenannounced of thetwo-volume h i s t o r i c a l document Trouwen i n Mokum 1598-1 811 Jewish :Marriage$ . in e s t e r d a m . This . 1124-page adapta t ion of primary s o u r c e m a t - e r i a l - l i s t s about . . l5 ,000 b e t r o t h a l s of Jews r e g i s t e r e d i n . t h e municipal a r ch ives o f ~Amsterdam.1n a d d i t i o n to . l i s t i n g s by b r i d e ' s and qroom's~pa t ronymicsand fa&lY names,' an index of wi tnesses i s found. This hardcover work is a v a i l a b l e - f r o m t h e publ i sher , Warray Publ i shers , Postbus 16268, 2500 BG Den Haag, NETHERLANDS f o r 320 Dfl p l u s 60 Dfl postage, i n s u r a n c e a n d handl ing t o . t h e U.S. (wh ich amounts t o approximately $209.00) . .

AMERICAN JEWISH FAMIJJES The t h i r d , all-new e d i t i o n o f D r . Malcolm S t e r n ' s book, First American Jewish Families,. 1654-1988 i s a v a i l a b l e . This over-sized s t anda rd work on t h e pioneer f a m i l i e s p r e s e n t s t h e family t r e e s of f a m i l i e s of Jewish o r i - g i n known t o have been e s t a b l i s h e d i n America p r i o r t o 1840, t r a c i n g many of them t o t h e p r e s e n t . The ex t ens ive ly annotated genea log ica l c h a r t s a r e arranged by fami ly name and a r e followed by an index con ta in ing over 50,000 names. The 464-page so f t cove r book l i s t s f o r $75.00.

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MEMBERS' PAGE . - The bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties has announced availability of media materials about Sep-

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hardic Jews. These materials may be of interest to searchers of Sephardic roots, and can be obtained if sufficient interest is expressed. .VIDEO TAPES Heritage: Civilization and the Jews-Part 4, 60 min, '84

My Family Came From Rhodes, 30 min, 1991 Sephardic Melody, 40 Min, 1987 Trees Cry for Rain-A Sephardic Journey, 30 min, 1991 We are Sephardim, 30 min, 1991 Rebirth After 500 Years: Jewish Communities in Spain,

87 frames, 1977 Jews of Spain, 22 min, 1977 Jews of Spain: Glimpses of Their Life and History, 59

frames, 1991 Spanish Inquisition, 28 min, 1980 . . . . . .

*AUDIO CASSETTES The Hidden Jews of New Mexico, 14 min, 1988 ' .

Stairway to Gold, 36 min, 1990 , , . . . ,

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For those me&-nationaWSalt*,Lake City last July but still want to research the Family is tory Library,,there is a tour being organized by Alamo World Travel, 3160 ~anville.~lvd., ALAMO CA 94507. The tour willbe from February 23 to March 1, 1992 and will cost $480.00.per person (double occupancy) including charter round trip on Morris Air Service, 7 nights at Howard Johnson's, transfers, orienta- tion breakfast, and Saturday night dinner. Contact Frances Becker at Alamo World Travel for details.

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Stanford University has become a center of Jewish learning in the past decade. Twenty two courses in Jewish studies are offered by eight full- time members of the Jewish studies program. The recently-acquired Taube- Baron Judaic Library is viewed as "the single best private collection of Judaica on offer in the U.S., maybe in the world" according to Steven Zipperstein, new Chair of Stanford's Jewish Studies Program. Zipperstein is a specialist in pre-1917 Russian Jewish history who has published a cultural history of 19th-Century Odessa Jewry. The Curator of the Taube- Baron collection, Roger Kohn, is former head of manuscripts at New York's Jewish Theological Seminary and an expert in Medieval Jewish history.

UJDRX TQ THE 1784 CENSUS OF THE JEWS OF ALSACE Local Jewish genealogist Dan Leeson is reported to be working on indexing of the 20,000 names and towns in the 1784 census of the Jews of Alsace, France. He has agreed to give us a progress report at our August meeting.

FAMILY FINDER

Deborah S . Friedman, 5729 Dogwood Place, Madison, WI 53705, (608) 238- 0192. Seeking information about any of the following names: DINICELS- PIEL, SILVERMAN, BENIOFF, FRIEDMAN (of Kopaigorod, UKR) , SCHLOSS, SANGER, HESS, SCHEIDT, MEYER, SHULMAN, ZASSLER, SELLING, SICHEL.

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Familv Finder queries are free to Society members. Nonmembers may place queries forf $5.00 each, limited to 25 words not including searchers name, address and phone number

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