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Researching GIVENTHAL,GIVENTAL
#ukraine
Marla Cohen
I am not sure I am doing this right, but I am trying to find the
"jump-off" point for researching a family "name story". According to "lore" our original family name was GIVENTHAL, changed to COHEN in the US prior to the turn of the 20th Century. I cannot find that name anywhere, except my listing in Jewish Gen.Family Finder. Did anyone ever hear that name, or can suggest an origin . Could it be a corruption of something else, a landmark or a town? Supposedly the family came >from Odesa. (That is the town listed on the naturalization papers.) But we all know it could be any where else. I am almost giving up, as it seems my great-grandfather just appeared in the US and was Naturilized. (I cannot follow the paper trace any further back...) Any help would be appreciated. Marla Cohen Researching Giventhal- Odesa Kaplan- Poltava
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Novograd-Volinsky Photographs
#ukraine
AllanDolgow@...
Photographs of Novograd-Volinsky can be found at
https://picasaweb.google.com/117882214317912001319/NovogradVolinsky# Allan Dolgow West Sacramento, CA
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Researching GIVENTHAL,GIVENTAL
#ukraine
Marla Cohen
I am not sure I am doing this right, but I am trying to find the
"jump-off" point for researching a family "name story". According to "lore" our original family name was GIVENTHAL, changed to COHEN in the US prior to the turn of the 20th Century. I cannot find that name anywhere, except my listing in Jewish Gen.Family Finder. Did anyone ever hear that name, or can suggest an origin . Could it be a corruption of something else, a landmark or a town? Supposedly the family came >from Odesa. (That is the town listed on the naturalization papers.) But we all know it could be any where else. I am almost giving up, as it seems my great-grandfather just appeared in the US and was Naturilized. (I cannot follow the paper trace any further back...) Any help would be appreciated. Marla Cohen Researching Giventhal- Odesa Kaplan- Poltava
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Novograd-Volinsky Photographs
#ukraine
AllanDolgow@...
Photographs of Novograd-Volinsky can be found at
https://picasaweb.google.com/117882214317912001319/NovogradVolinsky# Allan Dolgow West Sacramento, CA
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Ukraine SIG: New Wall of Honor for Volunteers
#ukraine
rondoctor@...
Dear Ukraine SIG Friends,
I'm pleased to announce the new Ukraine SIG Volunteers: Wall of Honor. It is at: http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/DCA_WallOfHonor.asp Please visit this page of our website. This is where we acknowledge all those who have provided assistance to Ukraine SIG since we began the revitalization process last July. Currently the Wall acknowledges help from 46 of you. In addition, we now have 76 Town Leaders. A list of ourTown Leaders is on our Key People page. http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/ABT_People.asp Thanks to all of you. Without you we could not have completed this phase of our revitalization. Please let me know if I have inadvertently left out anyone. Best to all, Ron -- Ron Doctor (rddpdx@gmail.com) Coordinator, JewishGen Ukraine SIG www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine where Jewish genealogy is personal Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all >from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all >from Kiev, Uman, Odessa
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Ukraine SIG: New Wall of Honor for Volunteers
#ukraine
rondoctor@...
Dear Ukraine SIG Friends,
I'm pleased to announce the new Ukraine SIG Volunteers: Wall of Honor. It is at: http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/DCA_WallOfHonor.asp Please visit this page of our website. This is where we acknowledge all those who have provided assistance to Ukraine SIG since we began the revitalization process last July. Currently the Wall acknowledges help from 46 of you. In addition, we now have 76 Town Leaders. A list of ourTown Leaders is on our Key People page. http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/ABT_People.asp Thanks to all of you. Without you we could not have completed this phase of our revitalization. Please let me know if I have inadvertently left out anyone. Best to all, Ron -- Ron Doctor (rddpdx@gmail.com) Coordinator, JewishGen Ukraine SIG www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine where Jewish genealogy is personal Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all >from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all >from Kiev, Uman, Odessa
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familysearch.org
#ukraine
srappoport@...
If you have not tried this site, I highly recommend it. Last week I
discovered that my grandparents had a daughter in 1923 who lived only 12 days. It was quite moving to learn that I had an aunt who was never mentioned in our family. I have since sent for and received her death certificate which listed my grandparents address at the time. I recommend searching married and maiden names, and to be flexible on spelling. The LDS volunteers have done a remarkable job digitizing old records, but there are inaccuracies. These may be errors in the original documents or data entry. New records are being added regularly. Kind regards, Susan Rappoport Fallbrook, CA
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine familysearch.org
#ukraine
srappoport@...
If you have not tried this site, I highly recommend it. Last week I
discovered that my grandparents had a daughter in 1923 who lived only 12 days. It was quite moving to learn that I had an aunt who was never mentioned in our family. I have since sent for and received her death certificate which listed my grandparents address at the time. I recommend searching married and maiden names, and to be flexible on spelling. The LDS volunteers have done a remarkable job digitizing old records, but there are inaccuracies. These may be errors in the original documents or data entry. New records are being added regularly. Kind regards, Susan Rappoport Fallbrook, CA
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Ukraine SIG: Praise for the SIG and its new website
#ukraine
rondoctor@...
Dear Ukraine SIG Friends,
As you know we took our new website "live" on Tuesday, 21 February. Since then we have been deluged with e-mail messages. If you haven't yet received a response to your message, please have patience. We will reply each one. It is always nice to receive compliments >from your peers for your work. It is especially heartening when long-time leaders of the Jewish genealogy community praise what you are doing. I want to share with you the praise that Gary Mokotoff, Avotaynu's publisher, wrote. Right after the website became publicly available, Gary wrote, "I just want to tell you that you are doing a magnificent job with Ukraine SIG. I have no Ukrainian ancestry, but subscribe to the Ukraine SIG Discussion Group to glean nes for "Nu, What's New?" It is like a rebirth of the Ukraine SIG." And, in the 26 February issue of "Nu, What's New", Avotaynu's e-zine (http://www.avotaynu.com/nuwhatsnew.htm), Gary wrote a long article about our website and SIG. Ukraine SIG Website Has a New Look --------------------------------------- The JewishGen’s Ukraine Special Interest Group website has a new look courtesy of the SIG’s webmaster Ariel Parkansky. It is located at http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/. The new look is oriented toward town and district pages—more than 800 of them. Each town page serves as a portal to all the information known about the town, both on JewishGen and other websites. The province/district/town pages have some excellent use of graphics. If you know roughly where a town is located, you can drill down to the town page >from the SIG’s home page by merely clicking on the province (Russian Empire guberniya) where the town is located. This brings you to the province page which displays a map and the district names within the province. If there is material available at the provincial level, it is shown in the “Articles” and “Related Links” section. Clicking on a district name or its reference on the provincial map brings you to the district page. If there is material available at the district level, it is shown in the “Articles” and “Related Links” section. On the page, there is a map, courtesy of Google, where each town is identified symbolically with a house. There is a list of the towns in the district with codes after each name to indicate whether the town has a Town Leader, Kehilalink, Projects and/or Documents. Finally, clicking on a town name brings you to the page which provides all known information about the town. It includes a satellite photo of the town, a list of all names since it was part of the Russian Empire, its geographic coordinates and a description of the Town Leader, Kehilalink, Projects and/or Documents where appropriate. The whole design is clearly well thought out and the content will grow as Ukraine SIG members add information to the site. Congratulations to all who made it happen. I hope you don't mind that we are posting this, but I am so proud of the accomplishments of our Web Team and our SIG volunteers that I wanted to share this with all of you. Thank you all for your efforts in helping to revitalize Ukraine SIG. Ron -- Ron Doctor (rddpdx@gmail.com) Coordinator, JewishGen Ukraine SIG www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine where Jewish genealogy is personal Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all >from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all >from Kiev, Uman, Odessa
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Ukraine SIG: Praise for the SIG and its new website
#ukraine
rondoctor@...
Dear Ukraine SIG Friends,
As you know we took our new website "live" on Tuesday, 21 February. Since then we have been deluged with e-mail messages. If you haven't yet received a response to your message, please have patience. We will reply each one. It is always nice to receive compliments >from your peers for your work. It is especially heartening when long-time leaders of the Jewish genealogy community praise what you are doing. I want to share with you the praise that Gary Mokotoff, Avotaynu's publisher, wrote. Right after the website became publicly available, Gary wrote, "I just want to tell you that you are doing a magnificent job with Ukraine SIG. I have no Ukrainian ancestry, but subscribe to the Ukraine SIG Discussion Group to glean nes for "Nu, What's New?" It is like a rebirth of the Ukraine SIG." And, in the 26 February issue of "Nu, What's New", Avotaynu's e-zine (http://www.avotaynu.com/nuwhatsnew.htm), Gary wrote a long article about our website and SIG. Ukraine SIG Website Has a New Look --------------------------------------- The JewishGen’s Ukraine Special Interest Group website has a new look courtesy of the SIG’s webmaster Ariel Parkansky. It is located at http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/. The new look is oriented toward town and district pages—more than 800 of them. Each town page serves as a portal to all the information known about the town, both on JewishGen and other websites. The province/district/town pages have some excellent use of graphics. If you know roughly where a town is located, you can drill down to the town page >from the SIG’s home page by merely clicking on the province (Russian Empire guberniya) where the town is located. This brings you to the province page which displays a map and the district names within the province. If there is material available at the provincial level, it is shown in the “Articles” and “Related Links” section. Clicking on a district name or its reference on the provincial map brings you to the district page. If there is material available at the district level, it is shown in the “Articles” and “Related Links” section. On the page, there is a map, courtesy of Google, where each town is identified symbolically with a house. There is a list of the towns in the district with codes after each name to indicate whether the town has a Town Leader, Kehilalink, Projects and/or Documents. Finally, clicking on a town name brings you to the page which provides all known information about the town. It includes a satellite photo of the town, a list of all names since it was part of the Russian Empire, its geographic coordinates and a description of the Town Leader, Kehilalink, Projects and/or Documents where appropriate. The whole design is clearly well thought out and the content will grow as Ukraine SIG members add information to the site. Congratulations to all who made it happen. I hope you don't mind that we are posting this, but I am so proud of the accomplishments of our Web Team and our SIG volunteers that I wanted to share this with all of you. Thank you all for your efforts in helping to revitalize Ukraine SIG. Ron -- Ron Doctor (rddpdx@gmail.com) Coordinator, JewishGen Ukraine SIG www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine where Jewish genealogy is personal Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all >from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all >from Kiev, Uman, Odessa
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Re: Napandeni
#bessarabia
Lily Kohn
Hello,
Well I have been thrown into a tailspin re the post about Napadeni having a population of almost 500 in 1907-1908. I checked the Duma Voter List and even more amazing than the population was that there were no NAPADENSKYS there. Napadeni is located between Kishinev and Beltsi, which is where our shtetl was located but now I know it cannot be the same place. Our shtetl must have been near there. On a Revision list I found for ca. 1850 were were in Teleneshty, Orgeev, Bessarabia; I found a transcription of my grand uncle's birth in Beltsy in 1898. My great-grandparents were married in Telenest. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1912. My search eras are >from what I mentioned above (what I've seen on a Revision List and birth record) and earlier. I am also interested to see if there are ancestors who didn't emigrate and survived the war and where they may be now. Thank you everyone! Lily Kohn Seattle MODERATOR NOTE - please reply privately to sender
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Briceni (Brichany, Britshan) - town in Bessarabia, now in Moldova
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Dear Brichaners,
The reason I wanted to contacts Brichany leaders/researchers is to notify of a number of initiatives and hope that people will volunteer for different projects. Here is list of projects: 1) Brichany Yizkor Book, Tel Aviv, 1964, Project Leader/coordinator Carla Brauer-Lalezari. There are going to be donations collecting soon for at least part of the book, and also volunteers are welcome to translate some chapters; 2) Another book: Britchaner Bessarabier Relief Association, Jubilee Journal, 1940, Yiddish, 54 pages, with many photographs, adds. I propose to put the whole book at the website (KehilaLinks Brichany website), without translation, or only partly translated. For that we can use the design done by Helene Kenvin and implemented for the similar book at Kalarash KehilaLinks website: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/calarasi/Journal-A.html. Helene Kenvin generously offered her design for other projects to use. 3) There is a list of people buried at Brichany cemetery >from 1940-1990, 296 records. It is waiting to be translated >from Russian, and added to JOWBR database (see at the Cemetery section at the website), volunteers are welcome; 4) 3,500 Revision List records for Brichany 1859 are about to be completed and in this spring to be uploaded to the JewishGen database; 5) You probably saw the Brichany portion of the Bessarabia Business directory now available at Bessarabia SIG website and soon be searchable at JewishGen database; 6) There is a great book-memoirs 'The Driven', written by Edward Robbins. It is about life of Edward Robbins as a child - Imic Raboi in the 30s and 40s in Briceni, Bessarabia and the family's experience during the Holocaust. It is available at Family Memoirs, Stories section of the Bessarabia SIG website; 7) Another memoirs soon be uploaded to the site about Family Krupnick or Crupnic, and a photo taken in Brichany, prior to 1921. Please contact me if you are interested participating in some of the projects, or you have any questions about them. All the best, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia SIG Coordinator Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany, Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in Galatz, Romania.
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Bessarabia SIG #Bessarabia re: Napandeni
#bessarabia
Lily Kohn
Hello,
Well I have been thrown into a tailspin re the post about Napadeni having a population of almost 500 in 1907-1908. I checked the Duma Voter List and even more amazing than the population was that there were no NAPADENSKYS there. Napadeni is located between Kishinev and Beltsi, which is where our shtetl was located but now I know it cannot be the same place. Our shtetl must have been near there. On a Revision list I found for ca. 1850 were were in Teleneshty, Orgeev, Bessarabia; I found a transcription of my grand uncle's birth in Beltsy in 1898. My great-grandparents were married in Telenest. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1912. My search eras are >from what I mentioned above (what I've seen on a Revision List and birth record) and earlier. I am also interested to see if there are ancestors who didn't emigrate and survived the war and where they may be now. Thank you everyone! Lily Kohn Seattle MODERATOR NOTE - please reply privately to sender
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Bessarabia SIG #Bessarabia Briceni (Brichany, Britshan) - town in Bessarabia, now in Moldova
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Dear Brichaners,
The reason I wanted to contacts Brichany leaders/researchers is to notify of a number of initiatives and hope that people will volunteer for different projects. Here is list of projects: 1) Brichany Yizkor Book, Tel Aviv, 1964, Project Leader/coordinator Carla Brauer-Lalezari. There are going to be donations collecting soon for at least part of the book, and also volunteers are welcome to translate some chapters; 2) Another book: Britchaner Bessarabier Relief Association, Jubilee Journal, 1940, Yiddish, 54 pages, with many photographs, adds. I propose to put the whole book at the website (KehilaLinks Brichany website), without translation, or only partly translated. For that we can use the design done by Helene Kenvin and implemented for the similar book at Kalarash KehilaLinks website: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/calarasi/Journal-A.html. Helene Kenvin generously offered her design for other projects to use. 3) There is a list of people buried at Brichany cemetery >from 1940-1990, 296 records. It is waiting to be translated >from Russian, and added to JOWBR database (see at the Cemetery section at the website), volunteers are welcome; 4) 3,500 Revision List records for Brichany 1859 are about to be completed and in this spring to be uploaded to the JewishGen database; 5) You probably saw the Brichany portion of the Bessarabia Business directory now available at Bessarabia SIG website and soon be searchable at JewishGen database; 6) There is a great book-memoirs 'The Driven', written by Edward Robbins. It is about life of Edward Robbins as a child - Imic Raboi in the 30s and 40s in Briceni, Bessarabia and the family's experience during the Holocaust. It is available at Family Memoirs, Stories section of the Bessarabia SIG website; 7) Another memoirs soon be uploaded to the site about Family Krupnick or Crupnic, and a photo taken in Brichany, prior to 1921. Please contact me if you are interested participating in some of the projects, or you have any questions about them. All the best, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia SIG Coordinator Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany, Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in Galatz, Romania.
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blog entry on DNA testing
#dna
Israel P
My blog this week is on DNA-testing for genealogy.
Israel Pickholtz Jerusalem http://allmyforeparents.blogspot.com
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DNA Research #DNA blog entry on DNA testing
#dna
Israel P
My blog this week is on DNA-testing for genealogy.
Israel Pickholtz Jerusalem http://allmyforeparents.blogspot.com
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Connie Fisher Newhan
Dear All,
I've posted document in Polish for which I need a translation. The document concerns my grandfather Herman FISZER. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=21709 Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Connie Fisher Newhan (#1272) California, USA FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER, FISZEL (Warszawa& Bedzin, Poland),S(Z)PRINGER, KOKOTEK, HERSZLIKOWICZ, HAMBURGER (Bedzin, Lagiza, Zarki, Poland), GERSTEN (Obertyn, Galacia) BARSKA/BARSKY/BARSKIY(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Sokolka?), FELDMAN (Veliuona,Kaunas), CAHN (Koln), FRIEDSAM (Bodendorf, Coln? Germany, Pittsburgh, PA), NEWHAN/NEUHAN/NEUHAHN (Hesse Cassel, Meimbressen, Germany, Baltimore, MD), BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), LEVINE, BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ, ABRAMS, RABINOWITZ
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Michael Goldstein
The IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies)
recognizes individuals and organizations with four prestigious annual awards for excellence in Jewish genealogy. It is now time to submit your nominations for the 2012 awards to be announced at the IAJGS Conference in Paris. Please consider what projects, people and processes have been instrumental to your Jewish genealogy experience and make a nomination. The four categories of awards are: . IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award . Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy via the Internet, Print or Electronic Product . Outstanding Programming or Project that Advanced the Objectives of Jewish Genealogy, and . Outstanding Publication by a Member Organization of IAJGS. Nominations are accepted only >from current IAJGS member organizations. Therefore, you are encouraged to contact your local member society with suggestions for nominees. Explanations of the awards and the criteria are located at http://www.iajgs.org/awards/awards.html. You will also find a listing of past recipients of the awards at the same above web address. The nominations will be submitted online through a One-Step form located at: http://stevemorse.org/awards/nominate.php For nominations that require paper materials to be submitted please view the instructions found on the One-Step form. If you require assistance in using the One-Step form, please contact the Chair of the Awards committee, Barbara Hershey, at Barbara.hershey@comcast.net. The deadline for submission of award nominations is April 17, 2011. Questions? Contact Barbara.hershey@comcast.net We look forward to receiving your nominations and reading about the wonderful work taking place in the genealogy community. On behalf of the 2012 Awards Committee, Barbara Hershey, Chair; Evelyn Steinberg - Toronto, ON, Canada Carol Hoffman - Tel Aviv, Israel; Joel Spector - Cherry Hill, NJ, USA; Jay Sage - Boston, MA, USA Michael Goldstein _________________ Michael Goldstein president@iajgs.org President IAJGS
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Connie Fisher Newhan
Dear All,
I've posted document in Polish for which I need a translation. The document concerns my grandfather Herman FISZER. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=21709 Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Connie Fisher Newhan (#1272) California, USA FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER, FISZEL (Warszawa& Bedzin, Poland),S(Z)PRINGER, KOKOTEK, HERSZLIKOWICZ, HAMBURGER (Bedzin, Lagiza, Zarki, Poland), GERSTEN (Obertyn, Galacia) BARSKA/BARSKY/BARSKIY(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Sokolka?), FELDMAN (Veliuona,Kaunas), CAHN (Koln), FRIEDSAM (Bodendorf, Coln? Germany, Pittsburgh, PA), NEWHAN/NEUHAN/NEUHAHN (Hesse Cassel, Meimbressen, Germany, Baltimore, MD), BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), LEVINE, BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ, ABRAMS, RABINOWITZ
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Michael Goldstein
The IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies)
recognizes individuals and organizations with four prestigious annual awards for excellence in Jewish genealogy. It is now time to submit your nominations for the 2012 awards to be announced at the IAJGS Conference in Paris. Please consider what projects, people and processes have been instrumental to your Jewish genealogy experience and make a nomination. The four categories of awards are: . IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award . Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy via the Internet, Print or Electronic Product . Outstanding Programming or Project that Advanced the Objectives of Jewish Genealogy, and . Outstanding Publication by a Member Organization of IAJGS. Nominations are accepted only >from current IAJGS member organizations. Therefore, you are encouraged to contact your local member society with suggestions for nominees. Explanations of the awards and the criteria are located at http://www.iajgs.org/awards/awards.html. You will also find a listing of past recipients of the awards at the same above web address. The nominations will be submitted online through a One-Step form located at: http://stevemorse.org/awards/nominate.php For nominations that require paper materials to be submitted please view the instructions found on the One-Step form. If you require assistance in using the One-Step form, please contact the Chair of the Awards committee, Barbara Hershey, at Barbara.hershey@comcast.net. The deadline for submission of award nominations is April 17, 2011. Questions? Contact Barbara.hershey@comcast.net We look forward to receiving your nominations and reading about the wonderful work taking place in the genealogy community. On behalf of the 2012 Awards Committee, Barbara Hershey, Chair; Evelyn Steinberg - Toronto, ON, Canada Carol Hoffman - Tel Aviv, Israel; Joel Spector - Cherry Hill, NJ, USA; Jay Sage - Boston, MA, USA Michael Goldstein _________________ Michael Goldstein president@iajgs.org President IAJGS
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