JewishGen.org Discussion Group FAQs
What is the JewishGen.org Discussion Group?
The JewishGen.org Discussion Group unites thousands of Jewish genealogical researchers worldwide as they research their family history, search for relatives, and share information, ideas, methods, tips, techniques, and resources. The JewishGen.org Discussion Group makes it easy, quick, and fun, to connect with others around the world.
Is it Secure?
Yes. JewishGen is using a state of the art platform with the most contemporary security standards. JewishGen will never share member information with third parties.
How is the New JewishGen.org Discussion Group better than the old one?
Our old Discussion List platform was woefully antiquated. Among its many challenges: it was not secure, it required messages to be sent in Plain Text, did not support accented characters or languages other than English, could not display links or images, and had archives that were not mobile-friendly.
This new platform that JewishGen is using is a scalable, and sustainable solution, and allows us to engage with JewishGen members throughout the world. It offers a simple and intuitive interface for both members and moderators, more powerful tools, and more secure archives (which are easily accessible on mobile devices, and which also block out personal email addresses to the public).
I am a JewishGen member, why do I have to create a separate account for the Discussion Group?
As we continue to modernize our platform, we are trying to ensure that everything meets contemporary security standards. In the future, we plan hope to have one single sign-in page.
I like how the current lists work. Will I still be able to send/receive emails of posts (and/or digests)?
Yes. In terms of functionality, the group will operate the same for people who like to participate with email. People can still send a message to an email address (in this case, main@groups.JewishGen.org), and receive a daily digest of postings, or individual emails. In addition, Members can also receive a daily summary of topics, and then choose which topics they would like to read about it. However, in addition to email, there is the additional functionality of being able to read/post messages utilizing our online forum (https://groups.jewishgen.org).
Does this new system require plain-text?
No.
Can I post images, accented characters, different colors/font sizes, non-latin characters?
Yes.
Can I categorize a message? For example, if my message is related to Polish, or Ukraine research, can I indicate as such?
Yes! Our new platform allows members to use “Hashtags.” Messages can then be sorted, and searched, based upon how they are categorized. Another advantage is that members can “mute” any conversations they are not interested in, by simply indicating they are not interested in a particular “hashtag.”
Will all posts be archived?
Yes.
Can I still search though old messages?
Yes. All the messages are accessible and searchable going back to 1998.
What if I have questions or need assistance using the new Group?
Send your questions to: support@JewishGen.org
How do I access the Group’s webpage?
Follow this link: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main
So just to be sure - this new group will allow us to post from our mobile phones, includes images, accented characters, and non-latin characters, and does not require plain text?
Correct!
Will there be any ads or annoying pop-ups?
No.
Will the current guidelines change?
Yes. While posts will be moderated to ensure civility, and that there is nothing posted that is inappropriate (or completely unrelated to genealogy), we will be trying to create an online community of people who regulate themselves, much as they do (very successfully) on Jewish Genealogy Portal on Facebook.
What are the new guidelines?
There are just a few simple rules & guidelines to follow, which you can read here:https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/guidelines
Thank you in advance for contributing to this amazing online community!
If you have any questions, or suggestions, please email support@JewishGen.org.
Sincerely,
The JewishGen.org Team
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Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#rabbinic
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#rabbinic
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Best DNA testing company?
#dna
Louis Kopolow <kopolowmd@...>
What do people think is the best testing operation for genetic research----
FTDNA, 23 and me, or some other group. Ari Kopolow
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Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#latvia
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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DNA Research #DNA Best DNA testing company?
#dna
Louis Kopolow <kopolowmd@...>
What do people think is the best testing operation for genetic research----
FTDNA, 23 and me, or some other group. Ari Kopolow
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Latvia SIG #Latvia Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#latvia
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#dna
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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DNA Research #DNA Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#dna
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@lyris.jewishgen.org and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Yizkor Book necrology database volunteers
#general
Lance Ackerfeld <lance.ackerfeld@...>
Shalom,
As I'm sure you know, the necrology database is an integral part of the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project, but what you might not know is that it requires a great deal of work behind the scenes >from a team of dedicated volunteers to prepare the necrology lists into a format suitable for uploading to the database. This database provides a unique source of information about our lost families and these days comprises around a quarter million records! http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor/ Now, in order to continue this important enterprise, we are in need of additional help, and so if you are comfortable with Excel, have some time available to assist, perhaps you would like to add volunteering to the necrology database team as one of your New Year resolutions? If this sound like it's for you, please contact me, and you'll receive warm words of appreciation, and an explanation of what is involved in this enterprise. Shana Tova, Lance Ackerfeld Yizkor Book Project Manager
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Yizkor Book necrology database volunteers
#general
Lance Ackerfeld <lance.ackerfeld@...>
Shalom,
As I'm sure you know, the necrology database is an integral part of the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project, but what you might not know is that it requires a great deal of work behind the scenes >from a team of dedicated volunteers to prepare the necrology lists into a format suitable for uploading to the database. This database provides a unique source of information about our lost families and these days comprises around a quarter million records! http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor/ Now, in order to continue this important enterprise, we are in need of additional help, and so if you are comfortable with Excel, have some time available to assist, perhaps you would like to add volunteering to the necrology database team as one of your New Year resolutions? If this sound like it's for you, please contact me, and you'll receive warm words of appreciation, and an explanation of what is involved in this enterprise. Shana Tova, Lance Ackerfeld Yizkor Book Project Manager
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Article in Hamodia on the Jewish History of the Bronx
#general
Martin Kaminer
A beautifully illustrated article on the Jewish history of the Bronx
with emphasis on synagogues and schools >from the English edition of Hamodia is at http://bit.ly/QmDFbZ Thanks to my friend Yitz Twersky, son of Harav Yaakov Yosef Twersky zt"l for his fine work on it and on so many other important genealogical projects. Martin Kaminer
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Article in Hamodia on the Jewish History of the Bronx
#general
Martin Kaminer
A beautifully illustrated article on the Jewish history of the Bronx
with emphasis on synagogues and schools >from the English edition of Hamodia is at http://bit.ly/QmDFbZ Thanks to my friend Yitz Twersky, son of Harav Yaakov Yosef Twersky zt"l for his fine work on it and on so many other important genealogical projects. Martin Kaminer
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A new blog from the historical archive of Petah Tikvah
#general
Rose Feldman <rosef@...>
A new blog >from the historical archive of Petah Tikvah (in Hebrew).
They plan on telling using it to tell stories about the Petah Tikvah that will celebrate its foudning 134 years ago and to let people know about new materials. http://ptarchive.wordpress.com/ IGRA wishes them much success. Rose Feldman Israel Genealogy Research Association
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen A new blog from the historical archive of Petah Tikvah
#general
Rose Feldman <rosef@...>
A new blog >from the historical archive of Petah Tikvah (in Hebrew).
They plan on telling using it to tell stories about the Petah Tikvah that will celebrate its foudning 134 years ago and to let people know about new materials. http://ptarchive.wordpress.com/ IGRA wishes them much success. Rose Feldman Israel Genealogy Research Association
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My visit to Checiny and Zarnowiec
#general
Bryan Langer
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I have just returned >from an amazing family heritage exploration of Poland. I have brought back detailed information on the families of my grandmother's place of birth, Checiny (near Kielce) and my grandfather's place of birth, Zarnowiec (near Pilica). I visited both Civil Records Offices and would be happy to share my findings. Please contact me if you are interested and have roots in either of these towns. Have a happy and healthy New Year! Best, Bryan Langer Zarnowiec, Poland: LANGER/LANGIER, KLAPFER/KLOPFER, APFELBAUM, ROZENBLUM, KLAJDER, RAJNSTAJN, CYMERMAN, FIDGENDLER, FLANSZAKER Checiny, Poland: GARNEK, BRZYSKI, SYLBERBERG, GOLA, PERELSTAJN
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen My visit to Checiny and Zarnowiec
#general
Bryan Langer
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I have just returned >from an amazing family heritage exploration of Poland. I have brought back detailed information on the families of my grandmother's place of birth, Checiny (near Kielce) and my grandfather's place of birth, Zarnowiec (near Pilica). I visited both Civil Records Offices and would be happy to share my findings. Please contact me if you are interested and have roots in either of these towns. Have a happy and healthy New Year! Best, Bryan Langer Zarnowiec, Poland: LANGER/LANGIER, KLAPFER/KLOPFER, APFELBAUM, ROZENBLUM, KLAJDER, RAJNSTAJN, CYMERMAN, FIDGENDLER, FLANSZAKER Checiny, Poland: GARNEK, BRZYSKI, SYLBERBERG, GOLA, PERELSTAJN
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ViewMate translation request - Hebrew & Russian
#general
Howard Coupland <how.jacque@...>
Hi
I've posted 4records in Hebrew for which I need translations. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24389 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24390 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24391 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24392 Also I have posted 1 Record in Russian for which I need a translation http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24393 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Many thanks and appreciation, Howard Coupland Leeds,England
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate translation request - Hebrew & Russian
#general
Howard Coupland <how.jacque@...>
Hi
I've posted 4records in Hebrew for which I need translations. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24389 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24390 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24391 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24392 Also I have posted 1 Record in Russian for which I need a translation http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24393 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Many thanks and appreciation, Howard Coupland Leeds,England
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