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1938 Vienna Names
#general
Kaplan <vkaplan@...>
I was interested to see the list of names regarding confiscated assets
in Vienna, 1938. On the list are two names on Klosterneubergerstr. My family had a store, confiscated by the Nazis at 73 Klosterneubergerstr. The family name was Karpel. My grandmother, a widow, was remarried and her name was Johanna Kohn at the time. If anyone has information or knowledge of the family or events of that time, kindly reply. Also, has anyone been successful to date with claiming restitution >from Vienna regarding these looted assets? Their home was on Lichtensteinstr. Please write to me at: vkaplan@... Thank you Vivian Kaplan
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen 1938 Vienna Names
#general
Kaplan <vkaplan@...>
I was interested to see the list of names regarding confiscated assets
in Vienna, 1938. On the list are two names on Klosterneubergerstr. My family had a store, confiscated by the Nazis at 73 Klosterneubergerstr. The family name was Karpel. My grandmother, a widow, was remarried and her name was Johanna Kohn at the time. If anyone has information or knowledge of the family or events of that time, kindly reply. Also, has anyone been successful to date with claiming restitution >from Vienna regarding these looted assets? Their home was on Lichtensteinstr. Please write to me at: vkaplan@... Thank you Vivian Kaplan
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Surnames I have info on
#general
Hellfire <hellfire@...>
Dear Genners,
Since making a web page is proving more difficult than I thought, I decided to post the surnames that I have info on here. Attn: Dennis Baer, I think we have a connection through GOTTESMAN'S in Munkacs. Around 1790-1880 Zemplen County Hungary: and Munkacs, Ukraine Leah and Joseph WEBER Next generation Eliezar and Reizel SAMUNOVICS, SIMOWITZ, SIMOVICH, SIMONS, JACOBS, GOTTESMAN, SCHLANGER, FRIEDMAN, BRAUN All left Europe except Rosa Braun and she died in the Shoah but her children escaped to South America. The rest of the family came to the US and their surnames are: GREENFIELD, POMERANCE, KRUMBEIN, AGOOS, ISENBERG, LERMAN, LUBOW, RABINOWITZ, FRAM, WEISS, FOX, EPSTEIN, KAIZEN, BEHRER/BAERER, COBERT, SAWILOWSKY, LEVY,LEVI, WILENSKY, DAMON, HELD, WOLF,KORTICK, SAUL, Most in Georgia. Of course their are more, but I am aware of the sharp eye of the moderator:) so I will cut it here and try again to work with this "GO LIVE" program to build a web page. Web Page Fatigued in Atlanta, GA Sheila Greenfield
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Surnames I have info on
#general
Hellfire <hellfire@...>
Dear Genners,
Since making a web page is proving more difficult than I thought, I decided to post the surnames that I have info on here. Attn: Dennis Baer, I think we have a connection through GOTTESMAN'S in Munkacs. Around 1790-1880 Zemplen County Hungary: and Munkacs, Ukraine Leah and Joseph WEBER Next generation Eliezar and Reizel SAMUNOVICS, SIMOWITZ, SIMOVICH, SIMONS, JACOBS, GOTTESMAN, SCHLANGER, FRIEDMAN, BRAUN All left Europe except Rosa Braun and she died in the Shoah but her children escaped to South America. The rest of the family came to the US and their surnames are: GREENFIELD, POMERANCE, KRUMBEIN, AGOOS, ISENBERG, LERMAN, LUBOW, RABINOWITZ, FRAM, WEISS, FOX, EPSTEIN, KAIZEN, BEHRER/BAERER, COBERT, SAWILOWSKY, LEVY,LEVI, WILENSKY, DAMON, HELD, WOLF,KORTICK, SAUL, Most in Georgia. Of course their are more, but I am aware of the sharp eye of the moderator:) so I will cut it here and try again to work with this "GO LIVE" program to build a web page. Web Page Fatigued in Atlanta, GA Sheila Greenfield
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JGS Palm Springs January Meeting
#general
Glynne
The topic of our January meeting will be Writing our Family History
Rosalyn Sherman Greenberg, Newsletter Editor and Past President of the Illiana Jewish Genealogical Society will speak on the need to pass our family history on to our decendants. Date: Sunday, January 23, 1999 Time: 1 p.m. Place: Jewish Federation 255 N. El Cielo Rd. Palm Springs, CA For more information e-mail Gay Lynne Kegan at Glynne@... Gay Lynne Kegan
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGS Palm Springs January Meeting
#general
Glynne
The topic of our January meeting will be Writing our Family History
Rosalyn Sherman Greenberg, Newsletter Editor and Past President of the Illiana Jewish Genealogical Society will speak on the need to pass our family history on to our decendants. Date: Sunday, January 23, 1999 Time: 1 p.m. Place: Jewish Federation 255 N. El Cielo Rd. Palm Springs, CA For more information e-mail Gay Lynne Kegan at Glynne@... Gay Lynne Kegan
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Lodz surnames from PSA project online!
#poland
Seflaum@...
Late 19th Century Records for the City of Lodz
Polish State Archives Project - Status Report Dear Fellow Lodz Area Researchers, We are very pleased to announce that a list of Lodz surnames, created >from indices to Lodz marriage records >from 1878 to 1890, is now online! See: <http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/psa/lodzsurn.htm> These indices were obtained as a result of the Lodz Polish State Archives Project (the effort to obtain indices to late 19th century Jewish records of the city of Lodz and 37 area towns that were NOT microfilmed by the Mormons). This data has never before been available to the public. Indexing of the city of Lodz marriage records is the first phase in this massive effort! The next two phases will include the indexing of Lodz birth and death records >from 1878 through 1898. The surnames list was created and is being made available in advance of the indices being added to the JRI-Poland database. Once the JRI-Poland data entry team in Warsaw completes transcripton and data entry of the balance of indices to Lodz marriages, >from 1891 through 1898, more surnames will be added to the above-mentioned page. The indices to all Lodz marriages >from 1878 through 1898 will then be released to the JRI-Poland database, ready for you to search! We hope to announce the availability of these indices very soon This is a very promising beginning to the Lodz Polish State Archives Project. However, the continuation of this project will only be possible with the support of those interested in assuring its success. Without this support, the indexing of the city of Lodz birth, marriage and death records may not be completed. To date $2,480 has been raised of the required $6,500 budget, so we have along way to go to meet this goal. Please consider a donation today. For more information about the Lodz Polish State Archives Project and to find out how you can contribute, see: <http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Lodz/LDS.htm> or follow these instructions. Contributions should be sent to: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland Project c/o Sheila Salo, Treasurer 5607 Greenleaf Road Cheverly, MD 20785 USA Please specify "Lodz PSA Project - Lodz" on the "For" line of your check. Sheila will keep us posted. If it is more convenient to make your contribution by Visa credit card, see <http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/visa.htm> NOTE for U.S. citizens: JRI-Poland in a non-profit U.S. Corporation and has 501 tax-exempt status. Your donations will be tax-deductible. Anyone contributing $100 or more is entitled to receive the entire city of Lodz PSA database in Excel format. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email Shirley Flaum at <Seflaum@...> View the status of all 38 towns in the Lodz Polish State Archives Project at: <http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/psa/psastat1.htm> Sincerely, Shirley Flaum Lodz JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Coordinator Morris Wirth Lodz JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Inventory Coordinator Joe Ross Lodz JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Assistance Coordinator
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WHERE do I find RAZYMIN (OR RAZMIN), KLEMBEVE,SADOWNE Data?
#poland
Frida Grapa de Cielak <arele@...>
jan/10/2000
WHERE do I find RAZYMIN (OR RAZMIN) Data? WHERE do I find KLEMBEVE Data? WHERE do I find SADOWNE Data? Which bigger towns were close by to have a polish office for this smole shtetl citizens to register births, marriages & deaths? Are they spelled or written correctly? All this town or villages are not registered in Shtetl CO-OPs! My GGGF, SHMIL MORDKHE MARCUSHAMER was born a.1840/50, in RAZYMIN (OR RAZMIN), moved to KLEMBEVE, he dealt in grains & sold wholsale. Either he was married around 1970, there, with ESTER GITL NAPARSTEK or NAPARSZTEK (b.A:1840/50), they had 5 children: Paye, chaim Leib, Hinde, Sara & our GGF. Yankl. We haven't had any luck in finding data >from or about them!!! THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR AID AND A HAPPY HEALTHY MILLENIUM-YEAR TO ALL! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FRIDA (Grapa de) CIELAK<arele@...> Author of the Yiddish Workbook-set "ARELE" Founder of the International YIDDISHER "BRIV FRAYND" Club (Pen-Pals, in Yiddish) fax: (011)(525)294-7275 MEXICO CITY e-mail:<arele@...> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - researching: GRAPA, MARKUSHAMER, SOKOL, AFTEK, CZERWONAGURA, NAPARSTEK, NICZEVNIK, NEIMARK, BEKERMAN, KOROTNIKI, SZMITANKA, CIELAK, TRESTYN and others. (>from POLAND: Wyszkow,Ostrow, Sadowne, Pultusk, Czyzewo, etc.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PLEASE send info Cc: to ANGIE(Chaia) Grapa de DAVID, <ANGIED801@...>, FRIDA(Freydl)Grapa de CIELAK, <arele@...>, JOSE(Yosef Meyer) GRAPA <jgrapa@...>, ENRIQUE(Melej) GRAPA <egrapa@...>, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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JRI Poland #Poland Lodz surnames from PSA project online!
#poland
Seflaum@...
Late 19th Century Records for the City of Lodz
Polish State Archives Project - Status Report Dear Fellow Lodz Area Researchers, We are very pleased to announce that a list of Lodz surnames, created >from indices to Lodz marriage records >from 1878 to 1890, is now online! See: <http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/psa/lodzsurn.htm> These indices were obtained as a result of the Lodz Polish State Archives Project (the effort to obtain indices to late 19th century Jewish records of the city of Lodz and 37 area towns that were NOT microfilmed by the Mormons). This data has never before been available to the public. Indexing of the city of Lodz marriage records is the first phase in this massive effort! The next two phases will include the indexing of Lodz birth and death records >from 1878 through 1898. The surnames list was created and is being made available in advance of the indices being added to the JRI-Poland database. Once the JRI-Poland data entry team in Warsaw completes transcripton and data entry of the balance of indices to Lodz marriages, >from 1891 through 1898, more surnames will be added to the above-mentioned page. The indices to all Lodz marriages >from 1878 through 1898 will then be released to the JRI-Poland database, ready for you to search! We hope to announce the availability of these indices very soon This is a very promising beginning to the Lodz Polish State Archives Project. However, the continuation of this project will only be possible with the support of those interested in assuring its success. Without this support, the indexing of the city of Lodz birth, marriage and death records may not be completed. To date $2,480 has been raised of the required $6,500 budget, so we have along way to go to meet this goal. Please consider a donation today. For more information about the Lodz Polish State Archives Project and to find out how you can contribute, see: <http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Lodz/LDS.htm> or follow these instructions. Contributions should be sent to: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland Project c/o Sheila Salo, Treasurer 5607 Greenleaf Road Cheverly, MD 20785 USA Please specify "Lodz PSA Project - Lodz" on the "For" line of your check. Sheila will keep us posted. If it is more convenient to make your contribution by Visa credit card, see <http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/visa.htm> NOTE for U.S. citizens: JRI-Poland in a non-profit U.S. Corporation and has 501 tax-exempt status. Your donations will be tax-deductible. Anyone contributing $100 or more is entitled to receive the entire city of Lodz PSA database in Excel format. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email Shirley Flaum at <Seflaum@...> View the status of all 38 towns in the Lodz Polish State Archives Project at: <http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/psa/psastat1.htm> Sincerely, Shirley Flaum Lodz JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Coordinator Morris Wirth Lodz JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Inventory Coordinator Joe Ross Lodz JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Assistance Coordinator
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JRI Poland #Poland WHERE do I find RAZYMIN (OR RAZMIN), KLEMBEVE,SADOWNE Data?
#poland
Frida Grapa de Cielak <arele@...>
jan/10/2000
WHERE do I find RAZYMIN (OR RAZMIN) Data? WHERE do I find KLEMBEVE Data? WHERE do I find SADOWNE Data? Which bigger towns were close by to have a polish office for this smole shtetl citizens to register births, marriages & deaths? Are they spelled or written correctly? All this town or villages are not registered in Shtetl CO-OPs! My GGGF, SHMIL MORDKHE MARCUSHAMER was born a.1840/50, in RAZYMIN (OR RAZMIN), moved to KLEMBEVE, he dealt in grains & sold wholsale. Either he was married around 1970, there, with ESTER GITL NAPARSTEK or NAPARSZTEK (b.A:1840/50), they had 5 children: Paye, chaim Leib, Hinde, Sara & our GGF. Yankl. We haven't had any luck in finding data >from or about them!!! THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR AID AND A HAPPY HEALTHY MILLENIUM-YEAR TO ALL! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FRIDA (Grapa de) CIELAK<arele@...> Author of the Yiddish Workbook-set "ARELE" Founder of the International YIDDISHER "BRIV FRAYND" Club (Pen-Pals, in Yiddish) fax: (011)(525)294-7275 MEXICO CITY e-mail:<arele@...> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - researching: GRAPA, MARKUSHAMER, SOKOL, AFTEK, CZERWONAGURA, NAPARSTEK, NICZEVNIK, NEIMARK, BEKERMAN, KOROTNIKI, SZMITANKA, CIELAK, TRESTYN and others. (>from POLAND: Wyszkow,Ostrow, Sadowne, Pultusk, Czyzewo, etc.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PLEASE send info Cc: to ANGIE(Chaia) Grapa de DAVID, <ANGIED801@...>, FRIDA(Freydl)Grapa de CIELAK, <arele@...>, JOSE(Yosef Meyer) GRAPA <jgrapa@...>, ENRIQUE(Melej) GRAPA <egrapa@...>, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Chevra ein Jacob
#belarus
Bfrankadv@...
My grandfather Louis BERKOWITZ, originally >from Lida, Belarus and Vilna,
Belarus, came to Brooklyn, NY in early 1900s, married my grandmother, Ida KRASHINSKY, who was originally >from the same Russian community, and went back to Russia with her. They came back to America in 1921. My grandfather, a laundryman in Brooklyn on Chester Street, lived on Eastern Parkway in Brownsville, was a member of the Chevra Ein Jacob Society. I think it was originally >from the same group in Russia. In Brooklyn, the Society was affiliated with their "shul" on Sterling Place between Eastern Parkway and New York Avenue. Everyone >from the Chevra Ein Jacob Society is buried in their plot at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont (Queens) NY. Does anyone have any information about this society or know what the name means. Thank you, Barbara Frank New York City
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Chevra ein Jacob
#belarus
Bfrankadv@...
My grandfather Louis BERKOWITZ, originally >from Lida, Belarus and Vilna,
Belarus, came to Brooklyn, NY in early 1900s, married my grandmother, Ida KRASHINSKY, who was originally >from the same Russian community, and went back to Russia with her. They came back to America in 1921. My grandfather, a laundryman in Brooklyn on Chester Street, lived on Eastern Parkway in Brownsville, was a member of the Chevra Ein Jacob Society. I think it was originally >from the same group in Russia. In Brooklyn, the Society was affiliated with their "shul" on Sterling Place between Eastern Parkway and New York Avenue. Everyone >from the Chevra Ein Jacob Society is buried in their plot at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont (Queens) NY. Does anyone have any information about this society or know what the name means. Thank you, Barbara Frank New York City
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BENDETSON Family
#belarus
RBendetson@...
I am trying to get any information on my ancestors >from Grodno.
My Great Grandfather was Zelig BENDETSON and was a carpenter. My Grandfather was Zavel BENDETSON, also a carpenter who was born in Grodno probably in the 1880's. He married Frieda PINCUS, a tailor's daughter. She died in her thirties at the start of the War. My father Sam BENDETSON (Shmuel) was born in Grodno in 1902. I have discovered several BENDETSONs in the U.S. but can't find any link. Bob Bendetson
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Belarus SIG #Belarus BENDETSON Family
#belarus
RBendetson@...
I am trying to get any information on my ancestors >from Grodno.
My Great Grandfather was Zelig BENDETSON and was a carpenter. My Grandfather was Zavel BENDETSON, also a carpenter who was born in Grodno probably in the 1880's. He married Frieda PINCUS, a tailor's daughter. She died in her thirties at the start of the War. My father Sam BENDETSON (Shmuel) was born in Grodno in 1902. I have discovered several BENDETSONs in the U.S. but can't find any link. Bob Bendetson
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SELIKOFF - please re-send message!
#belarus
Poetessalm@...
Someone sent me an email regarding the name SELIKOFF.
I was in NY for my mother's funeral, Esther SELIKOFF KOSTICK. Since I was sing my daughter's computer, I didn't realize the message wouldn't be saved. Please send it again. The SELIKOFF family was >from a small town near Minsk. The KOSTICK family was >from Kobrin (Kobryn). There are many KOSTICKS buried in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Queens, NY. All of them are my relatives. Arlene Mandell mailto:Poetessalm@...
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Belarus SIG #Belarus SELIKOFF - please re-send message!
#belarus
Poetessalm@...
Someone sent me an email regarding the name SELIKOFF.
I was in NY for my mother's funeral, Esther SELIKOFF KOSTICK. Since I was sing my daughter's computer, I didn't realize the message wouldn't be saved. Please send it again. The SELIKOFF family was >from a small town near Minsk. The KOSTICK family was >from Kobrin (Kobryn). There are many KOSTICKS buried in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, Queens, NY. All of them are my relatives. Arlene Mandell mailto:Poetessalm@...
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Russian words
#belarus
Jonathan Ogur <jmogur@...>
I'm transcribing a taped interview of my grandmother, Edith LEVINE OGUR.
In it, she talks about her childhood in Samokhvalovichi, occasionally using what sound to my untrained ears like Russian words to describe particular objects or people. Here's how these words sound to me, along with their apparent meaning: zalopey vossi = golden hair hopta = stove clergnik = clergyman haneh = store fieress = unheated room or shed attached to a house Can anyone who knows Russian help me with the correct transliterations and translations? Thanks. Jonathan Ogur Researching: LEVINE and BEDIK >from Samokhvalovichi OGUR and APPELBAUM >from Minsk BREGMAN and BEGUN >from Pinsk
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Russian words
#belarus
Jonathan Ogur <jmogur@...>
I'm transcribing a taped interview of my grandmother, Edith LEVINE OGUR.
In it, she talks about her childhood in Samokhvalovichi, occasionally using what sound to my untrained ears like Russian words to describe particular objects or people. Here's how these words sound to me, along with their apparent meaning: zalopey vossi = golden hair hopta = stove clergnik = clergyman haneh = store fieress = unheated room or shed attached to a house Can anyone who knows Russian help me with the correct transliterations and translations? Thanks. Jonathan Ogur Researching: LEVINE and BEDIK >from Samokhvalovichi OGUR and APPELBAUM >from Minsk BREGMAN and BEGUN >from Pinsk
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JewishGen's Millennium Gift to Newbies
#hungary
Carol Skydell <skydell@...>
To the Hungarian Sig
As we have always done in the past, JewishGen is here to help... and this time our gift is in the person of Phyllis Kramer, knowledgeable genealogist, super teacher, patient, supportive, and most important willing to do an online Introduction to Genealogy Course as JewishGen's way of saying thank you to all those who have supported us financially within the past year.... Phyllis' course will cover all the basics....all you need to know to get started and to keep going to find that ever elusive bit of information that somehow got a little tweaked in the family lore we all believed until we got into research <grin> (like grandpa's name was changed at Ellis Island from Shoin Fagessin to Sean Ferguson)Okay...let's get serious. This is going to be a 12 session course (possibly adjusted to meet the needs of students) paired to a private discussion group for course participants only. We're using a similar model to that which we set up for Mark Heckman when he taught folks how to create web-pages and then held a question and answer session until everyone was comfortable to go to the next step. All your research "how-to" questions will be answered, you will be guided through learning how to research census records, passenger manifests, vital records, all the myriad records that make up the arrows in the genealogist quiver. The course is slated to begin on or about the first week in February. You will get a course outline as we get close to the start date. Now, here's the caveat....this class is open only to those people who have made a financial contribution to JewishGen within the past year. If you have not done so, and this course looks like it might be the answer to your prayers...and more importantly your questions <grin> before you send in your subscribe e-mail go straight to http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/ and make a contribution of at least $25 for the year. If, on the other hand, you are current in your support and you want to subscribe to this course here's how: address an e-mail to listserv@... and say subscribe genintro-2000 <your first name> <your last name> You will be getting back a request for confirmation, just hit the reply button on your e-mail program and it will come back to us. It will take some time for verification that you are in fact current in your support....you will be notified by e-mail that you are subscribed....don't write in asking about it...we will get back to you as soon as possible. If there are any questions about this course, please direct them to support@... Carol Skydell JewishGen Operations
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Hungary SIG #Hungary JewishGen's Millennium Gift to Newbies
#hungary
Carol Skydell <skydell@...>
To the Hungarian Sig
As we have always done in the past, JewishGen is here to help... and this time our gift is in the person of Phyllis Kramer, knowledgeable genealogist, super teacher, patient, supportive, and most important willing to do an online Introduction to Genealogy Course as JewishGen's way of saying thank you to all those who have supported us financially within the past year.... Phyllis' course will cover all the basics....all you need to know to get started and to keep going to find that ever elusive bit of information that somehow got a little tweaked in the family lore we all believed until we got into research <grin> (like grandpa's name was changed at Ellis Island from Shoin Fagessin to Sean Ferguson)Okay...let's get serious. This is going to be a 12 session course (possibly adjusted to meet the needs of students) paired to a private discussion group for course participants only. We're using a similar model to that which we set up for Mark Heckman when he taught folks how to create web-pages and then held a question and answer session until everyone was comfortable to go to the next step. All your research "how-to" questions will be answered, you will be guided through learning how to research census records, passenger manifests, vital records, all the myriad records that make up the arrows in the genealogist quiver. The course is slated to begin on or about the first week in February. You will get a course outline as we get close to the start date. Now, here's the caveat....this class is open only to those people who have made a financial contribution to JewishGen within the past year. If you have not done so, and this course looks like it might be the answer to your prayers...and more importantly your questions <grin> before you send in your subscribe e-mail go straight to http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/ and make a contribution of at least $25 for the year. If, on the other hand, you are current in your support and you want to subscribe to this course here's how: address an e-mail to listserv@... and say subscribe genintro-2000 <your first name> <your last name> You will be getting back a request for confirmation, just hit the reply button on your e-mail program and it will come back to us. It will take some time for verification that you are in fact current in your support....you will be notified by e-mail that you are subscribed....don't write in asking about it...we will get back to you as soon as possible. If there are any questions about this course, please direct them to support@... Carol Skydell JewishGen Operations
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