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(US) National Archives Program on America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
The National Archives is celebrating the centennial of the 19th amendment
which gave women the right to vote. As part of the National Archives "Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote" series, they are holding a book talk and signing on May 23, 2019 at 7:00PM entitled, "America's Jewish Women: A History >from Colonial Times to Today" with Pamela Nadell, American University. This will include women form Emma Lazarus poet to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. For those of us not in Washington DC we can watch this live streamed on National Archives YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg27nyWaKAc To read more about the exhibit and other programs as part of this series see: https://tinyurl.com/y3blx66q Original url: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/americas-jewish-women-a-history-from-colonial-times-to-today And for the entire series: https://www.archives.gov/women Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (US) National Archives Program on America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
The National Archives is celebrating the centennial of the 19th amendment
which gave women the right to vote. As part of the National Archives "Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote" series, they are holding a book talk and signing on May 23, 2019 at 7:00PM entitled, "America's Jewish Women: A History >from Colonial Times to Today" with Pamela Nadell, American University. This will include women form Emma Lazarus poet to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. For those of us not in Washington DC we can watch this live streamed on National Archives YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg27nyWaKAc To read more about the exhibit and other programs as part of this series see: https://tinyurl.com/y3blx66q Original url: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/americas-jewish-women-a-history-from-colonial-times-to-today And for the entire series: https://www.archives.gov/women Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Passenger Lists for the SS Gallia - 1896-1899
#general
Meron Lavie
Hi,
Where could I find passenger lists for the SS Gallia, 1896-1899? It usually sailed >from the UK to Halifax, I believe. TIA, Meron LAVIE
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Passenger Lists for the SS Gallia - 1896-1899
#general
Meron Lavie
Hi,
Where could I find passenger lists for the SS Gallia, 1896-1899? It usually sailed >from the UK to Halifax, I believe. TIA, Meron LAVIE
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Re: ALBAHARY
#romania
Inacio Steinhardt
I cannot answer specific what you need to know, but perhaps I can
contribute with some side information that maybe you don't know yet. Albahary is a frequent Sephardic name not only in the Balkans but also in Morocco and other North African countries It is an Arab word meaning ">from the sea". "Bahar" is "sea" in Arabic. Some Jews which used originally this surname have translated in Spanish speaking countries to Delmar, with the same meaning - ">from the sea". There was a family Delmar in Ponta Delgada, Azores islands. When searching the surname in any database, try also Delmar. Inacio
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Romania SIG #Romania Re: ALBAHARY
#romania
Inacio Steinhardt
I cannot answer specific what you need to know, but perhaps I can
contribute with some side information that maybe you don't know yet. Albahary is a frequent Sephardic name not only in the Balkans but also in Morocco and other North African countries It is an Arab word meaning ">from the sea". "Bahar" is "sea" in Arabic. Some Jews which used originally this surname have translated in Spanish speaking countries to Delmar, with the same meaning - ">from the sea". There was a family Delmar in Ponta Delgada, Azores islands. When searching the surname in any database, try also Delmar. Inacio
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Don't miss early bird registration for the June 2 DNA Conference of the JGS of Illinois
#general
events@...
Monday is the last day of early bird registration for the June 2 Jewish
Genealogical Society of Illinois DNA Conference in Northbrook, Illinois. "DNA: Tests, Tools and Tales" is the theme of JGSI's one-day conference on Sunday, June 2, 2019, at Temple Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, Ill. This special event will offer two tracks - one for beginners and one for more experienced users of genealogical genetic testing. Through Monday, May 20, early registration fees are $45 for JGSI members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students. After May 20, the fees are $10 higher. Please note: Members of any IAJGS-affiliated society may attend the conference at the JGSI member rate. The conference will feature talks by Lara Diamond and Gil Bardige, two experts in using and understanding DNA analyses for family history purposes. For more information and to register, go to https://www.jgsi.org/event-3360053 . Submitted by: Martin Fischer Vice President-Publicity Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Don't miss early bird registration for the June 2 DNA Conference of the JGS of Illinois
#general
events@...
Monday is the last day of early bird registration for the June 2 Jewish
Genealogical Society of Illinois DNA Conference in Northbrook, Illinois. "DNA: Tests, Tools and Tales" is the theme of JGSI's one-day conference on Sunday, June 2, 2019, at Temple Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, Ill. This special event will offer two tracks - one for beginners and one for more experienced users of genealogical genetic testing. Through Monday, May 20, early registration fees are $45 for JGSI members, $50 for non-members and $25 for students. After May 20, the fees are $10 higher. Please note: Members of any IAJGS-affiliated society may attend the conference at the JGSI member rate. The conference will feature talks by Lara Diamond and Gil Bardige, two experts in using and understanding DNA analyses for family history purposes. For more information and to register, go to https://www.jgsi.org/event-3360053 . Submitted by: Martin Fischer Vice President-Publicity Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois
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Searching on Ancestry
#general
Charles Fuller <charles.fuller@...>
Hello,
In case this helps list members who use Ancestry for research, the website frequently omits 1 result >from whatever you are searching for. This happens on the UK version of the site and I suspect that the same problem affects all of the country versions. Suppose you are searching using a specific collection/dataset and you get 28 results. The first result on page 2 of the results always seems to be omitted. You can get to see the "missing result" by changing the number of results per page. For example, the default number of results per page is 20, so the 21st. result will not appear. If you change the results per page to 10, the 11th. result will not appear. By changing the results per page setting to 10 or 50, you can scroll through the results to find the missing item. The problem is fully reproducible and I've finally received confirmation from Ancestry that they will look at the problem.Happy searching! Charles Fuller. MODERATOR NOTE: The Moderator tried what Charles suggested with three different Ancestry databases in the Ancestry US version. Searching within the 1915 New York State Census database, the issue was reproduced as described. However, in searching both the marriages database and the military records database the issue did not appear (i.e., checking at both 20 results per page and fifty result per page did not locate any missing results). It may be that this problem is specific to certain databases and not others. Please note, this message is being posted for informational purposes only and not as a prompt for further discussion.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching on Ancestry
#general
Charles Fuller <charles.fuller@...>
Hello,
In case this helps list members who use Ancestry for research, the website frequently omits 1 result >from whatever you are searching for. This happens on the UK version of the site and I suspect that the same problem affects all of the country versions. Suppose you are searching using a specific collection/dataset and you get 28 results. The first result on page 2 of the results always seems to be omitted. You can get to see the "missing result" by changing the number of results per page. For example, the default number of results per page is 20, so the 21st. result will not appear. If you change the results per page to 10, the 11th. result will not appear. By changing the results per page setting to 10 or 50, you can scroll through the results to find the missing item. The problem is fully reproducible and I've finally received confirmation from Ancestry that they will look at the problem.Happy searching! Charles Fuller. MODERATOR NOTE: The Moderator tried what Charles suggested with three different Ancestry databases in the Ancestry US version. Searching within the 1915 New York State Census database, the issue was reproduced as described. However, in searching both the marriages database and the military records database the issue did not appear (i.e., checking at both 20 results per page and fifty result per page did not locate any missing results). It may be that this problem is specific to certain databases and not others. Please note, this message is being posted for informational purposes only and not as a prompt for further discussion.
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LitvakSIG - new batch of Vilnius household registers
#general
Russ Maurer
LitvakSIG is pleased to announce that batch 6 of the Vilnius household
registers is now available to qualified donors. The registers were created between 1919 and 1940 when Wilno (Vilnius) city and Wilno voivodeship were part of Poland. The registers contain detailed information about everyone who lived in Wilno at that time, as well as information about many visitors. They will potentially hold discoveries for anyone whose family was in that general area, which today includes parts of Lithuania, Belarus, and northeast Poland. I urge you to check the free batch previews described below, even if you don't think your family was ever in Vilnius. There have already been unexpected discoveries. There are countless mentions of locations outside the immediate Vilnius area. As this is a very large project that will go on for years, we are releasing data in batches of about 5000 lines. Batch 6, 5030 lines, includes three large apartment buildings located at Zawalna 24 and Wielka Stefanska 27 and 33. You can find these streets on our Vilnius interactive street map (https://www.litvaksig.org/vilnius-map/ ). To help you determine if this batch or a previous batch is relevant to your research, you can review a file containing previews of all six batches to date (http://tinyurl.com/VHR-previews ). The batch preview is a bare-bones version of the batch spreadsheet containing just the full name and year of birth (or age) of each person. The previews are presented both in original order and alphabetically by surname. The previews also include instructions to qualify to receive the full batch data. More information about the Vilnius household registers can be found on the VHR home page, https://www.litvaksig.org/research/special-projects/vilnius-household-registers Any inquiries related to VHR should be directed to me at vhrproject@... Russ Maurer, VHR project coordinator
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen LitvakSIG - new batch of Vilnius household registers
#general
Russ Maurer
LitvakSIG is pleased to announce that batch 6 of the Vilnius household
registers is now available to qualified donors. The registers were created between 1919 and 1940 when Wilno (Vilnius) city and Wilno voivodeship were part of Poland. The registers contain detailed information about everyone who lived in Wilno at that time, as well as information about many visitors. They will potentially hold discoveries for anyone whose family was in that general area, which today includes parts of Lithuania, Belarus, and northeast Poland. I urge you to check the free batch previews described below, even if you don't think your family was ever in Vilnius. There have already been unexpected discoveries. There are countless mentions of locations outside the immediate Vilnius area. As this is a very large project that will go on for years, we are releasing data in batches of about 5000 lines. Batch 6, 5030 lines, includes three large apartment buildings located at Zawalna 24 and Wielka Stefanska 27 and 33. You can find these streets on our Vilnius interactive street map (https://www.litvaksig.org/vilnius-map/ ). To help you determine if this batch or a previous batch is relevant to your research, you can review a file containing previews of all six batches to date (http://tinyurl.com/VHR-previews ). The batch preview is a bare-bones version of the batch spreadsheet containing just the full name and year of birth (or age) of each person. The previews are presented both in original order and alphabetically by surname. The previews also include instructions to qualify to receive the full batch data. More information about the Vilnius household registers can be found on the VHR home page, https://www.litvaksig.org/research/special-projects/vilnius-household-registers Any inquiries related to VHR should be directed to me at vhrproject@... Russ Maurer, VHR project coordinator
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Re: Passenger Lists for the SS Gallia - 1896-1899
#general
Charles Fuller <charles.fuller@...>
Hello,
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
The first place to look would be the digitised records held by The National Archives (the one based in Kew, Surrey, England). The page http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/emigration/ gives a good introduction to the topic. [MOD. NOTE: shortened URL - https://tinyurl.com/yy7zvyuh ] The immediate place to look is described in section 4.1 "Outward passenger lists, 1890-1960". These have been digitised and published on the 3 major English* family history websites: Ancestry, FindMyPast, and TheGenealogist. Note (*): By English, I mean pertaining to England and Wales. Records for Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland have their own Record Offices and repositories. The UK lists also include non-UK passengers so it is possible you may find references to travellers >from Germany, etc. - for example, some ships started their voyages at Hamburg. It is frequently possible to match the English "departures" list with the corresponding "arrivals" in the destination country. If you can do this, it is very worthwhile since you frequently get different information - the lists were compiled separately. Please note that a passenger may be identified only by the title (Mr./Mrs.), or by initials, instead of the forename (the surname is always there). This makes life trickier if you use Ancestry to search for records since their search function can't easily cope with this. Note also that the age field is frequently left blank. You also occasionally get the crew listed after the passengers. The English lists will give an intended port of disembarkation, so this should help. Ancestry reckons there are over 23 million records in the UK collection. Regards, Charles Fuller.
On 16/05/2019 18:43, Meron Lavie lavie@... wrote:
Where could I find passenger lists for the SS Gallia, 1896-1899? It usually
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Passenger Lists for the SS Gallia - 1896-1899
#general
Charles Fuller <charles.fuller@...>
Hello,
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
The first place to look would be the digitised records held by The National Archives (the one based in Kew, Surrey, England). The page http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/emigration/ gives a good introduction to the topic. [MOD. NOTE: shortened URL - https://tinyurl.com/yy7zvyuh ] The immediate place to look is described in section 4.1 "Outward passenger lists, 1890-1960". These have been digitised and published on the 3 major English* family history websites: Ancestry, FindMyPast, and TheGenealogist. Note (*): By English, I mean pertaining to England and Wales. Records for Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland have their own Record Offices and repositories. The UK lists also include non-UK passengers so it is possible you may find references to travellers >from Germany, etc. - for example, some ships started their voyages at Hamburg. It is frequently possible to match the English "departures" list with the corresponding "arrivals" in the destination country. If you can do this, it is very worthwhile since you frequently get different information - the lists were compiled separately. Please note that a passenger may be identified only by the title (Mr./Mrs.), or by initials, instead of the forename (the surname is always there). This makes life trickier if you use Ancestry to search for records since their search function can't easily cope with this. Note also that the age field is frequently left blank. You also occasionally get the crew listed after the passengers. The English lists will give an intended port of disembarkation, so this should help. Ancestry reckons there are over 23 million records in the UK collection. Regards, Charles Fuller.
On 16/05/2019 18:43, Meron Lavie lavie@... wrote:
Where could I find passenger lists for the SS Gallia, 1896-1899? It usually
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Margaret May Golding nee Saunders
#southafrica
Michelle Essers
Margaret May Golding nee Saunders of Germiston/Durban: I am looking
for relatives and/or descendants for a genealogy research project. Margaret was born about 1930 or 1932 About 1948 she may have lived in Knights Road, Knightsdeep, Germiston. By c.1980's she was in Durban. I know this is a very long shot, sometimes they do pay off :) If you have any information or know of anyone who could possibly have information, please email me michelleessers@... Thanks in advance, Michelle
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Margaret May Golding nee Saunders
#southafrica
Michelle Essers
Margaret May Golding nee Saunders of Germiston/Durban: I am looking
for relatives and/or descendants for a genealogy research project. Margaret was born about 1930 or 1932 About 1948 she may have lived in Knights Road, Knightsdeep, Germiston. By c.1980's she was in Durban. I know this is a very long shot, sometimes they do pay off :) If you have any information or know of anyone who could possibly have information, please email me michelleessers@... Thanks in advance, Michelle
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(US) National Archives Program on America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
#usa
Jan Meisels Allen
The National Archives is celebrating the centennial of the 19th amendment
which gave women the right to vote. As part of the National Archives "Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote" series, they are holding a book talk and signing on May 23, 2019 at 7:00PM entitled, "America's Jewish Women: A History >from Colonial Times to Today" with Pamela Nadell, American University. This will include women form Emma Lazarus poet to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. For those of us not in Washington DC we can watch this live streamed on National Archives YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg27nyWaKAc To read more about the exhibit and other programs as part of this series see: https://tinyurl.com/y3blx66q Original url: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/americas-jewish-women-a-history-from -colonial-times-to-today And for the entire series: \ https://www.archives.gov/women Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Early American SIG #USA (US) National Archives Program on America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
#usa
Jan Meisels Allen
The National Archives is celebrating the centennial of the 19th amendment
which gave women the right to vote. As part of the National Archives "Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote" series, they are holding a book talk and signing on May 23, 2019 at 7:00PM entitled, "America's Jewish Women: A History >from Colonial Times to Today" with Pamela Nadell, American University. This will include women form Emma Lazarus poet to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. For those of us not in Washington DC we can watch this live streamed on National Archives YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg27nyWaKAc To read more about the exhibit and other programs as part of this series see: https://tinyurl.com/y3blx66q Original url: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/event/americas-jewish-women-a-history-from -colonial-times-to-today And for the entire series: \ https://www.archives.gov/women Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Records and other historical information for Hamborn in the Rhineland during 1918 sought
#germany
Dave Lichtenstein
Hello there
I know that four members of my paternal LICHTENSTEIN family lived and worked in Hamborn and other places in the Rhineland during the First World War. My Grandfather Friedrich and his sister (my Great Aunt) Rose were part of the war machine. My grandfather a singer (and also in the German army) together with my aunt Rose an actress entertained troops on the Rhineland in both Germany and German-occupied areas. I also know that my Grandfather performed in a theatre in Hamborn and my great Aunt performed in a theatre in Dusseldorf. I don't know the name of these theatres nor whether they still exist today. In addition, my grandfather served as a prisoner of war camp guard some where close by to Hamborn. Again I don't know where. It was in Hamborn that my Grandfather met my Grandmother Sussana nee RAUSCHER who was working in the Post Office. They were married in March 1918 and my father was born on 11th August 1918. This coming July-August, as part of an overseas trip, I will be travelling to both Germany and Poland to follow family roots. I am staying in Duisburg and after considerable search have found myself an English-speaking guide residing there. He has told me that the Hamborn Post Office still exists today so that I can at least visit that place associated with my family and not seek further information on that place. However. I am finding considerable difficulty in establishing where both my Grandfather and Grandaunt performed on the stage in the Rhineland as well as the location of the prisoner of war camp, nearby Hamborn. Added to this while I know of my Grandparents marriage and my father's birth, >from other family records, viz March 1918 and 11 August 1918, respectively. We do not seem to these marriage and birth records among our family papers. The first question I have - does anyone know where I would find marriage and birth records for Hamborn in 1918? In Hamborn itself? Or nearby Duisburg? Or Dusseldorf? Or where else in Germany? Information >from these records might tell me where my Grandparents were married in Hamborn. I can tell you that it was a mixed marriage and therefore most likely in a marriage registry. Does anyone know where the marriage registry office in Hamborn was located in 1918? Is it still there, today? Likewise I might gather >from the birth record where my father was born - at home or in a hospital? Any assistance in the location of 1918 Hamborn birth and marriage records, location of the World War 1 Prisoner of War camp, nearby Hamborn and theatres in Hamborn and Dusseldorf in 1918 would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Dave Lichtenstein, Sydney, Australia lichtend@...
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German SIG #Germany Records and other historical information for Hamborn in the Rhineland during 1918 sought
#germany
Dave Lichtenstein
Hello there
I know that four members of my paternal LICHTENSTEIN family lived and worked in Hamborn and other places in the Rhineland during the First World War. My Grandfather Friedrich and his sister (my Great Aunt) Rose were part of the war machine. My grandfather a singer (and also in the German army) together with my aunt Rose an actress entertained troops on the Rhineland in both Germany and German-occupied areas. I also know that my Grandfather performed in a theatre in Hamborn and my great Aunt performed in a theatre in Dusseldorf. I don't know the name of these theatres nor whether they still exist today. In addition, my grandfather served as a prisoner of war camp guard some where close by to Hamborn. Again I don't know where. It was in Hamborn that my Grandfather met my Grandmother Sussana nee RAUSCHER who was working in the Post Office. They were married in March 1918 and my father was born on 11th August 1918. This coming July-August, as part of an overseas trip, I will be travelling to both Germany and Poland to follow family roots. I am staying in Duisburg and after considerable search have found myself an English-speaking guide residing there. He has told me that the Hamborn Post Office still exists today so that I can at least visit that place associated with my family and not seek further information on that place. However. I am finding considerable difficulty in establishing where both my Grandfather and Grandaunt performed on the stage in the Rhineland as well as the location of the prisoner of war camp, nearby Hamborn. Added to this while I know of my Grandparents marriage and my father's birth, >from other family records, viz March 1918 and 11 August 1918, respectively. We do not seem to these marriage and birth records among our family papers. The first question I have - does anyone know where I would find marriage and birth records for Hamborn in 1918? In Hamborn itself? Or nearby Duisburg? Or Dusseldorf? Or where else in Germany? Information >from these records might tell me where my Grandparents were married in Hamborn. I can tell you that it was a mixed marriage and therefore most likely in a marriage registry. Does anyone know where the marriage registry office in Hamborn was located in 1918? Is it still there, today? Likewise I might gather >from the birth record where my father was born - at home or in a hospital? Any assistance in the location of 1918 Hamborn birth and marriage records, location of the World War 1 Prisoner of War camp, nearby Hamborn and theatres in Hamborn and Dusseldorf in 1918 would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Dave Lichtenstein, Sydney, Australia lichtend@...
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