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(Australia and New Zealand) Anzac Day/Week Remembrance Centennial April 25, 2015
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Jan Meisels Allen
ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day commemorates the landing
of the Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey in WWl on April 25, 2015. Both countries hold ceremonies, parades, reunions and other activities to remember those who participated or died in military action. ANZAC Day is celebrated on Saturday April 25, 2015. Because it falls on a Saturday it is being observed on Monday April 27 in New Zealand and in most states in Australia - see the two links below about activities to learn if your Australian State is celebrating on Monday or Saturday. As part of the WWl centennial, the WWI00 Program has over 850 projects and activities already listed on the website, http://ww100.govt.nz/. If you had an ancestor who served as and ANZAC you may find the information on the website of genealogical value. To see what activities are being planned in New Zealand see: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/new-zealand/anzac-day To see what activities are being planned in Australia - they of course vary by states - see: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/australia/anzac-day To learn more about Australians in WW1 see: http://awm.gov.au/atwar/ww1/ Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (Australia and New Zealand) Anzac Day/Week Remembrance Centennial April 25, 2015
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Jan Meisels Allen
ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day commemorates the landing
of the Australian and New Zealand troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey in WWl on April 25, 2015. Both countries hold ceremonies, parades, reunions and other activities to remember those who participated or died in military action. ANZAC Day is celebrated on Saturday April 25, 2015. Because it falls on a Saturday it is being observed on Monday April 27 in New Zealand and in most states in Australia - see the two links below about activities to learn if your Australian State is celebrating on Monday or Saturday. As part of the WWl centennial, the WWI00 Program has over 850 projects and activities already listed on the website, http://ww100.govt.nz/. If you had an ancestor who served as and ANZAC you may find the information on the website of genealogical value. To see what activities are being planned in New Zealand see: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/new-zealand/anzac-day To see what activities are being planned in Australia - they of course vary by states - see: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/australia/anzac-day To learn more about Australians in WW1 see: http://awm.gov.au/atwar/ww1/ Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Passenger Lists, WWI, Holocaust, Medical Lists, Odessa Merchants, Russian Immigration, Vilna Voters Lists, Belarus, etc.
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Marilyn Robinson
Hi Genners,
Here are some new additions posted to my blog at: http://YourJewishGem.blogspot.com over the last month or so: Many Passenger Lists Soldiers of WWI What is a Jew? Abraham's DNA Who Do You Think They Are??? Redux A 'Soldier In Art': A Musical Tribute Paris and Hava Nagila - Video Holocaust Burials 1930 Jewish Veterinarians in the Polish Republic: Modified 1923 Jewish Veterinarians in the Polish Republic 1939 Jewish Veterinarians in the Polish Republic 1800s-1900s Gomel, Belarus: Education & Culture 1942-1943 Evacuated >from Leningrad & Buried in the Vologda Region 1897 Russian Medical List: Dentists 1834-1897 Russian Immigration Database 1859 Odessa Merchants (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5) 1895 First All Russian Census: Geller, Pivnik, Nehamkin Levy/Levi/Levin: Original Search-Modified Odessa: Svet Family + Isakovich, Adler, Kushnir, Leykan 1906 Vilna Province: Jews Who Were Allowed to Vote in the Duma State Election (#1, #2) Marilyn Robinson Florida Searching: UNTERBERGER (Galicia, Austria), KAPELNER (Galicia, Austria, Tarnow), SHUTZ/SCHULTZ (Galicia, Austria, Ulanow), YUDIN (Sharkovshchina), LURIA/LURIE (Lodz, Warsaw), REICHMAN (Warsaw, Tomaszow Mazowiecki), TAUFIELD (anywhere)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Passenger Lists, WWI, Holocaust, Medical Lists, Odessa Merchants, Russian Immigration, Vilna Voters Lists, Belarus, etc.
#general
Marilyn Robinson
Hi Genners,
Here are some new additions posted to my blog at: http://YourJewishGem.blogspot.com over the last month or so: Many Passenger Lists Soldiers of WWI What is a Jew? Abraham's DNA Who Do You Think They Are??? Redux A 'Soldier In Art': A Musical Tribute Paris and Hava Nagila - Video Holocaust Burials 1930 Jewish Veterinarians in the Polish Republic: Modified 1923 Jewish Veterinarians in the Polish Republic 1939 Jewish Veterinarians in the Polish Republic 1800s-1900s Gomel, Belarus: Education & Culture 1942-1943 Evacuated >from Leningrad & Buried in the Vologda Region 1897 Russian Medical List: Dentists 1834-1897 Russian Immigration Database 1859 Odessa Merchants (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5) 1895 First All Russian Census: Geller, Pivnik, Nehamkin Levy/Levi/Levin: Original Search-Modified Odessa: Svet Family + Isakovich, Adler, Kushnir, Leykan 1906 Vilna Province: Jews Who Were Allowed to Vote in the Duma State Election (#1, #2) Marilyn Robinson Florida Searching: UNTERBERGER (Galicia, Austria), KAPELNER (Galicia, Austria, Tarnow), SHUTZ/SCHULTZ (Galicia, Austria, Ulanow), YUDIN (Sharkovshchina), LURIA/LURIE (Lodz, Warsaw), REICHMAN (Warsaw, Tomaszow Mazowiecki), TAUFIELD (anywhere)
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A found manuscript: How to publish?
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Felicia Alexander
Dear Fellow Genners:
I recently discovered a 400+ page typed manuscript buried in a box full of other family "stuff". To my delight, it was written by my grandmother, sometime before her death in 1944. The book is semi-autobiographical and lays out her family's migration to Boston and Philadelphia >from Stavishche (then Russia, now Ukraine) circa late 1880's and then tells their story as they became Americans. In many ways, it reminds me of Mary Anton's famous book, Promised Land. As I read this book, I sat with my laptop open to fact check and record notes. I was thrilled to fall in love with this book, its vibrant Jewish families and the way my grandmother wove the permanent impact of being an immigrant and Jewish into each of her characters' storylines. I literally could not put her manuscript down until I finished it and had taken considerable notes, including many references to synagogues, community events and leaders, city maps, etc. to corroborate the scenarios in the book and their relationships with actual historical events. This book is very accurate historically and may be worthy of publication, if I proceed correctly. At this point, I need feedback >from those of you who have been successful in publishing manuscripts written by ancestors. I know that my first step must be to transcribe the aging typed manuscript, using "spoken-word to text" software so it can then be available digitally. I will also be adding annotations where needed. Can any of you point me in the right direction after this? Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Felicia Mode Alexander Langhorne, PA Researching: GROSSMAN, Stavishche and Kiev, Ukraine and Boston, MA; TALIAFSKY/TALALAEVSKY/TARLE, Stavishche and Kiev, Ukraine and Boston, MA; MODE, Wongrowitz, Posen, Prussia; Berlin, Germany; New York, NY and Boston, MA; SHUMAN, Schneidemuhl, Prussia,; New York, NY and Boston, MA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen A found manuscript: How to publish?
#general
Felicia Alexander
Dear Fellow Genners:
I recently discovered a 400+ page typed manuscript buried in a box full of other family "stuff". To my delight, it was written by my grandmother, sometime before her death in 1944. The book is semi-autobiographical and lays out her family's migration to Boston and Philadelphia >from Stavishche (then Russia, now Ukraine) circa late 1880's and then tells their story as they became Americans. In many ways, it reminds me of Mary Anton's famous book, Promised Land. As I read this book, I sat with my laptop open to fact check and record notes. I was thrilled to fall in love with this book, its vibrant Jewish families and the way my grandmother wove the permanent impact of being an immigrant and Jewish into each of her characters' storylines. I literally could not put her manuscript down until I finished it and had taken considerable notes, including many references to synagogues, community events and leaders, city maps, etc. to corroborate the scenarios in the book and their relationships with actual historical events. This book is very accurate historically and may be worthy of publication, if I proceed correctly. At this point, I need feedback >from those of you who have been successful in publishing manuscripts written by ancestors. I know that my first step must be to transcribe the aging typed manuscript, using "spoken-word to text" software so it can then be available digitally. I will also be adding annotations where needed. Can any of you point me in the right direction after this? Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Felicia Mode Alexander Langhorne, PA Researching: GROSSMAN, Stavishche and Kiev, Ukraine and Boston, MA; TALIAFSKY/TALALAEVSKY/TARLE, Stavishche and Kiev, Ukraine and Boston, MA; MODE, Wongrowitz, Posen, Prussia; Berlin, Germany; New York, NY and Boston, MA; SHUMAN, Schneidemuhl, Prussia,; New York, NY and Boston, MA
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Re: Seeking help with COHEN/VOLK/WOLK surname
#general
Eric Svirskis
With respect to this correspondence it is worth noting other
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possibilities: my GGM (>from Lithuania/Belarus) was a VOLK, but also noticed in some documents as VALK, WOLIK, also WOLLOCK (& arguably WALLACH). My feeling is that many names need to be approached not too literally but as a phoenetic approximation. Hope this helps - maybe you need to cast your net a little wider. Eric Svirskis, Melbourne, Australia. svire@melbpc.org.au Interested in: FLEXER, GANTOVNIK or GONTOVNIK, GESKIN, GROSSBEIN, MUSZKATBLAT, OKUN, SRAGOWITZ, SVIRSKI, SVIRSKIS, or SWIRSKY, & ZILBERMAN, from: Belarus & Lithuania: Adutiskis, Daniloviciai (now possibly Draustine?), Dolhinov, Kovno/Kaunas, Melegan, Panevesz, Shtayachisok, and Widze/Vidzy.
Martin Davis martindavis@hotmail.com wrote [Saturday, 4 April 2015] Scott Ehrlich wrote: "Last night I spoke with a COHEN cousin. The given name Valk (Yiddish) and its variants such as Volk,
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Seeking help with COHEN/VOLK/WOLK surname
#general
Eric Svirskis
With respect to this correspondence it is worth noting other
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
possibilities: my GGM (>from Lithuania/Belarus) was a VOLK, but also noticed in some documents as VALK, WOLIK, also WOLLOCK (& arguably WALLACH). My feeling is that many names need to be approached not too literally but as a phoenetic approximation. Hope this helps - maybe you need to cast your net a little wider. Eric Svirskis, Melbourne, Australia. svire@melbpc.org.au Interested in: FLEXER, GANTOVNIK or GONTOVNIK, GESKIN, GROSSBEIN, MUSZKATBLAT, OKUN, SRAGOWITZ, SVIRSKI, SVIRSKIS, or SWIRSKY, & ZILBERMAN, from: Belarus & Lithuania: Adutiskis, Daniloviciai (now possibly Draustine?), Dolhinov, Kovno/Kaunas, Melegan, Panevesz, Shtayachisok, and Widze/Vidzy.
Martin Davis martindavis@hotmail.com wrote [Saturday, 4 April 2015] Scott Ehrlich wrote: "Last night I spoke with a COHEN cousin. The given name Valk (Yiddish) and its variants such as Volk,
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Jean-Pierre Stroweis
Hello,
A moving article in the Jerusalem Post about Gabersdorf Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia, with a list of 43 Jewish women, mostly Polish: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Yad-Vashem-requests-help-in-finding-women-from -concentration-camp-diary-396316 Happy Passover to all. Jean-Pierre Stroweis Jerusalem, Israel stroweis at zahav.net.il Searching: ALFANDARI (Istanbul, Turkey), BERNHEIM (Pfastatt, France), BICACO (Istanbul, Turkey), KAPNIK (Zhitomyr, Ukraine), MAISEL (Vilnius, Lithuania), MAREN (Vilnius, Lithuania), (MEDAISKI (Vilnius, Lithuania), MOSSERI (Thessaloniki, Greece), MYDLARZ (Dzialoszyce, Poland), NOWAK (Chmielnik, Poland), PTASZNIK (Dzialoszyce, Poland), RESNIK (Mezhyrichi/Skvira, Ukraine), SZTROWAJS (Staszow/Chmielnik/Lodz, Poland)
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Jean-Pierre Stroweis
Hello,
A moving article in the Jerusalem Post about Gabersdorf Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia, with a list of 43 Jewish women, mostly Polish: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Yad-Vashem-requests-help-in-finding-women-from -concentration-camp-diary-396316 Happy Passover to all. Jean-Pierre Stroweis Jerusalem, Israel stroweis at zahav.net.il Searching: ALFANDARI (Istanbul, Turkey), BERNHEIM (Pfastatt, France), BICACO (Istanbul, Turkey), KAPNIK (Zhitomyr, Ukraine), MAISEL (Vilnius, Lithuania), MAREN (Vilnius, Lithuania), (MEDAISKI (Vilnius, Lithuania), MOSSERI (Thessaloniki, Greece), MYDLARZ (Dzialoszyce, Poland), NOWAK (Chmielnik, Poland), PTASZNIK (Dzialoszyce, Poland), RESNIK (Mezhyrichi/Skvira, Ukraine), SZTROWAJS (Staszow/Chmielnik/Lodz, Poland)
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Re: article on Gabersdorf Concentration Camp, Czechoslovakia
#poland
Jeffrey Cymbler <jcymbler@...>
Yes. My aunt is one of the names. I have been working with people for the
past 5 years searching for the women in this camp. I will be part of a documentary film that will be shot in Gabersdorf on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Journalist and daughter of one of the survivors, Marisa Fox Bevilacqua, is organizing this historic event. Jeff Cymbler On Apr 7, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Jean-Pierre Stroweis <stroweis@zahav.net.il>wrote: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Yad-Vashem-requests-help-in-finding-women- from-concentration-camp-diary-396316
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JRI Poland #Poland Re: article on Gabersdorf Concentration Camp, Czechoslovakia
#poland
Jeffrey Cymbler <jcymbler@...>
Yes. My aunt is one of the names. I have been working with people for the
past 5 years searching for the women in this camp. I will be part of a documentary film that will be shot in Gabersdorf on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Journalist and daughter of one of the survivors, Marisa Fox Bevilacqua, is organizing this historic event. Jeff Cymbler On Apr 7, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Jean-Pierre Stroweis <stroweis@zahav.net.il>wrote: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Yad-Vashem-requests-help-in-finding-women- from-concentration-camp-diary-396316
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article on Gabersdorf Concentration Camp, Czechoslovakia
#poland
Jean-Pierre Stroweis
Hello,
A moving article in the Jerusalem Post about Gabersdorf Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia, with a list of 43 Jewish women, mostly Polish: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Yad-Vashem-requests-help-in-finding-women-from -concentration-camp-diary-396316 Happy Passover to all. Jean-Pierre Stroweis Jerusalem, Israel stroweis at zahav.net.il Searching: ALFANDARI (Istanbul, Turkey), BERNHEIM (Pfastatt, France), BICACO (Istanbul, Turkey), KAPNIK (Zhitomyr, Ukraine), MAISEL (Vilnius, Lithuania), MAREN (Vilnius, Lithuania), (MEDAISKI (Vilnius, Lithuania), MOSSERI (Thessaloniki, Greece), MYDLARZ (Dzialoszyce, Poland), NOWAK (Chmielnik, Poland), PTASZNIK (Dzialoszyce, Poland), RESNIK (Mezhyrichi/Skvira, Ukraine), SZTROWAJS (Staszow/Chmielnik/Lodz, Poland)
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JRI Poland #Poland article on Gabersdorf Concentration Camp, Czechoslovakia
#poland
Jean-Pierre Stroweis
Hello,
A moving article in the Jerusalem Post about Gabersdorf Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia, with a list of 43 Jewish women, mostly Polish: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Yad-Vashem-requests-help-in-finding-women-from -concentration-camp-diary-396316 Happy Passover to all. Jean-Pierre Stroweis Jerusalem, Israel stroweis at zahav.net.il Searching: ALFANDARI (Istanbul, Turkey), BERNHEIM (Pfastatt, France), BICACO (Istanbul, Turkey), KAPNIK (Zhitomyr, Ukraine), MAISEL (Vilnius, Lithuania), MAREN (Vilnius, Lithuania), (MEDAISKI (Vilnius, Lithuania), MOSSERI (Thessaloniki, Greece), MYDLARZ (Dzialoszyce, Poland), NOWAK (Chmielnik, Poland), PTASZNIK (Dzialoszyce, Poland), RESNIK (Mezhyrichi/Skvira, Ukraine), SZTROWAJS (Staszow/Chmielnik/Lodz, Poland)
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2015 Conference News: Program Posted
#latvia
IAJGS2015 Publicity
*Happy Passover >from the 2015 IAJGS 35th International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy* For the ease of those who are vacationing over the holiday, *we have decided to extend the Early Registration Discount fee through Wednesday May 6, 2015.* Visit www.iajgs2015.org to register! And since we promised a drawing for prizes, those registered by April 15th your chances of winning are now double! Be patient if we are slower in answering e-mails. Israel is on Passover vacation until April 12. Ortra our Conference Organizer, like most non-essential businesses in Israel, is closed for all but emergencies. I and most of our volunteers will be answering questions as rapidly as we can. Our Preliminary Program is now listed in the website Program & Schedule in the "Program" tab of www.iajgs2015.org . You'll see why we are boasting that this will be "A Conference Like No Other". The schedule will become interactive after Passover. The conference will be a truly international "Promised Event". Speakers and registrants hail >from around the globe representing 20 nations to date including New Zealand, American Samoa, the Americas, Africa and all of Europe. As announced, the *keynote speaker will be Rabbi Israel Meir Lau,* one of the most prominent figures in Israeli society today. (See the website for his full biography.) Rabbi Lau, a child survivor of the Holocaust, is an outstanding activist and orator. He will bring a message to genealogists reinforcing the value of their work researching individuals and families. We are delighted to announce that *master genealogist Dick Eastman* will be speaking at the closing Banquet. In the mid-1980s, at the dawn of the World Wide Web, Eastman pioneered one of the first online Genealogy Forums. By 1996, he created a weekly online newsletter called "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" which has grown >from a circulation of 100 to more than 60,000 genealogists. Registration is now available on the Registration Form for the Shabbaton, Exploration Sunday, Breakfast with the Experts, SIG Luncheons and Banquet. When you join us for the conference, don't miss the **pre-conference festivities:** ***Pre-Conference Shabbaton*** on the Friday-Saturday, July 3 - 4 weekend preceding the Conference, followed by an unforgettable ***Exploration Sunday*** on July 5. Full and fascinating details are on the conference website www.iajgs2015.org . **This Year In Jerusalem!** See you in Jerusalem in July for the momentous and exciting 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy! Michael Goldstein, Chairman chairman@iajgs2015.org 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy www.iajgs2015.org
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2015 Conference News: Program Posted
#rabbinic
IAJGS2015 Publicity
*Happy Passover >from the 2015 IAJGS 35th International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy* For the ease of those who are vacationing over the holiday, *we have decided to extend the Early Registration Discount fee through Wednesday May 6, 2015.* Visit www.iajgs2015.org to register! And since we promised a drawing for prizes, those registered by April 15th your chances of winning are now double! Be patient if we are slower in answering e-mails. Israel is on Passover vacation until April 12. Ortra our Conference Organizer, like most non-essential businesses in Israel, is closed for all but emergencies. I and most of our volunteers will be answering questions as rapidly as we can. Our Preliminary Program is now listed in the website Program & Schedule in the "Program" tab of www.iajgs2015.org . You'll see why we are boasting that this will be "A Conference Like No Other". The schedule will become interactive after Passover. The conference will be a truly international "Promised Event". Speakers and registrants hail >from around the globe representing 20 nations to date including New Zealand, American Samoa, the Americas, Africa and all of Europe. As announced, the *keynote speaker will be Rabbi Israel Meir Lau,* one of the most prominent figures in Israeli society today. (See the website for his full biography.) Rabbi Lau, a child survivor of the Holocaust, is an outstanding activist and orator. He will bring a message to genealogists reinforcing the value of their work researching individuals and families. We are delighted to announce that *master genealogist Dick Eastman* will be speaking at the closing Banquet. In the mid-1980s, at the dawn of the World Wide Web, Eastman pioneered one of the first online Genealogy Forums. By 1996, he created a weekly online newsletter called "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" which has grown >from a circulation of 100 to more than 60,000 genealogists. Registration is now available on the Registration Form for the Shabbaton, Exploration Sunday, Breakfast with the Experts, SIG Luncheons and Banquet. When you join us for the conference, don't miss the **pre-conference festivities:** ***Pre-Conference Shabbaton*** on the Friday-Saturday, July 3 - 4 weekend preceding the Conference, followed by an unforgettable ***Exploration Sunday*** on July 5. Full and fascinating details are on the conference website www.iajgs2015.org . **This Year In Jerusalem!** See you in Jerusalem in July for the momentous and exciting 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy! Michael Goldstein, Chairman chairman@iajgs2015.org 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy www.iajgs2015.org
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Latvia SIG #Latvia 2015 Conference News: Program Posted
#latvia
IAJGS2015 Publicity
*Happy Passover >from the 2015 IAJGS 35th International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy* For the ease of those who are vacationing over the holiday, *we have decided to extend the Early Registration Discount fee through Wednesday May 6, 2015.* Visit www.iajgs2015.org to register! And since we promised a drawing for prizes, those registered by April 15th your chances of winning are now double! Be patient if we are slower in answering e-mails. Israel is on Passover vacation until April 12. Ortra our Conference Organizer, like most non-essential businesses in Israel, is closed for all but emergencies. I and most of our volunteers will be answering questions as rapidly as we can. Our Preliminary Program is now listed in the website Program & Schedule in the "Program" tab of www.iajgs2015.org . You'll see why we are boasting that this will be "A Conference Like No Other". The schedule will become interactive after Passover. The conference will be a truly international "Promised Event". Speakers and registrants hail >from around the globe representing 20 nations to date including New Zealand, American Samoa, the Americas, Africa and all of Europe. As announced, the *keynote speaker will be Rabbi Israel Meir Lau,* one of the most prominent figures in Israeli society today. (See the website for his full biography.) Rabbi Lau, a child survivor of the Holocaust, is an outstanding activist and orator. He will bring a message to genealogists reinforcing the value of their work researching individuals and families. We are delighted to announce that *master genealogist Dick Eastman* will be speaking at the closing Banquet. In the mid-1980s, at the dawn of the World Wide Web, Eastman pioneered one of the first online Genealogy Forums. By 1996, he created a weekly online newsletter called "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" which has grown >from a circulation of 100 to more than 60,000 genealogists. Registration is now available on the Registration Form for the Shabbaton, Exploration Sunday, Breakfast with the Experts, SIG Luncheons and Banquet. When you join us for the conference, don't miss the **pre-conference festivities:** ***Pre-Conference Shabbaton*** on the Friday-Saturday, July 3 - 4 weekend preceding the Conference, followed by an unforgettable ***Exploration Sunday*** on July 5. Full and fascinating details are on the conference website www.iajgs2015.org . **This Year In Jerusalem!** See you in Jerusalem in July for the momentous and exciting 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy! Michael Goldstein, Chairman chairman@iajgs2015.org 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy www.iajgs2015.org
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic 2015 Conference News: Program Posted
#rabbinic
IAJGS2015 Publicity
*Happy Passover >from the 2015 IAJGS 35th International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy* For the ease of those who are vacationing over the holiday, *we have decided to extend the Early Registration Discount fee through Wednesday May 6, 2015.* Visit www.iajgs2015.org to register! And since we promised a drawing for prizes, those registered by April 15th your chances of winning are now double! Be patient if we are slower in answering e-mails. Israel is on Passover vacation until April 12. Ortra our Conference Organizer, like most non-essential businesses in Israel, is closed for all but emergencies. I and most of our volunteers will be answering questions as rapidly as we can. Our Preliminary Program is now listed in the website Program & Schedule in the "Program" tab of www.iajgs2015.org . You'll see why we are boasting that this will be "A Conference Like No Other". The schedule will become interactive after Passover. The conference will be a truly international "Promised Event". Speakers and registrants hail >from around the globe representing 20 nations to date including New Zealand, American Samoa, the Americas, Africa and all of Europe. As announced, the *keynote speaker will be Rabbi Israel Meir Lau,* one of the most prominent figures in Israeli society today. (See the website for his full biography.) Rabbi Lau, a child survivor of the Holocaust, is an outstanding activist and orator. He will bring a message to genealogists reinforcing the value of their work researching individuals and families. We are delighted to announce that *master genealogist Dick Eastman* will be speaking at the closing Banquet. In the mid-1980s, at the dawn of the World Wide Web, Eastman pioneered one of the first online Genealogy Forums. By 1996, he created a weekly online newsletter called "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter" which has grown >from a circulation of 100 to more than 60,000 genealogists. Registration is now available on the Registration Form for the Shabbaton, Exploration Sunday, Breakfast with the Experts, SIG Luncheons and Banquet. When you join us for the conference, don't miss the **pre-conference festivities:** ***Pre-Conference Shabbaton*** on the Friday-Saturday, July 3 - 4 weekend preceding the Conference, followed by an unforgettable ***Exploration Sunday*** on July 5. Full and fascinating details are on the conference website www.iajgs2015.org . **This Year In Jerusalem!** See you in Jerusalem in July for the momentous and exciting 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy! Michael Goldstein, Chairman chairman@iajgs2015.org 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy www.iajgs2015.org
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DAVID family from Salank, Hung., (Shalanky, Ukraine)
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Roberta Solit
In 1896 my great grandfather Nachman RAPAPORT, a widower, married
Tobi Lovi DAVID, also a widow. Tobi was >from Salank, Nachman lived in Magya Komjat, a town 4 miles >from Salanka in the Sub-Carpathian area of Hungary. In 1898 Nachman's daughter Riza RAPAPORT marries Tobi's son Mozes DAVID. Riza and Mozes had 3 children, 2 sons and 1 daughter. I would love to learn about the two brothers, they might have died before the war. The daughter's name was Machlah DAVID. I believe she survived the Holocaust and at the end of the war she was in Bratislava. Would like to hear >from anyone having any information about this family. Thank you, Roberta Solit MODERATOR: Contact information privately to Roberta please.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen DAVID family from Salank, Hung., (Shalanky, Ukraine)
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Roberta Solit
In 1896 my great grandfather Nachman RAPAPORT, a widower, married
Tobi Lovi DAVID, also a widow. Tobi was >from Salank, Nachman lived in Magya Komjat, a town 4 miles >from Salanka in the Sub-Carpathian area of Hungary. In 1898 Nachman's daughter Riza RAPAPORT marries Tobi's son Mozes DAVID. Riza and Mozes had 3 children, 2 sons and 1 daughter. I would love to learn about the two brothers, they might have died before the war. The daughter's name was Machlah DAVID. I believe she survived the Holocaust and at the end of the war she was in Bratislava. Would like to hear >from anyone having any information about this family. Thank you, Roberta Solit MODERATOR: Contact information privately to Roberta please.
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