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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Free Webinar: Discover family history through gravestones
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Daniel Horowitz <daniel@...>
Dear friends
I would like to invite you to our next free Webinar: Discover family history through gravestones. Gravestones play a very important role in genealogy, and are a great launching pad for family history investigation. Schelly Talalay Dardashti, MyHeritage's US Genealogy Advisor, will demonstrate the information that can be revealed about your family via gravestones. Then, I will talk about our recent partnership with BillionGraves (http://bit.ly/1cxrZQS) and show how you can use their mobile app to help preserve cemeteries for future generations, as we did ourselves with the successful day digitizing the Segula Cemetery in Israel http://bit.ly/O1gjeq Register for free NOW at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/261346007 Date: Wednesday March 26, 2014. Time: 1 PM CDT / 2 PM EDT / 6 PM GMT (To find the time of the webinar for your location, use this Time Zone Converter http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ) Please feel free to distribute this information among your friends and members. Just in case you have not heard about it, this new method of working with the BillionGraves app is very efficient and adds the unique feature of geo-location to every stone. Societies can definitely start with cemeteries not documented already or complete those that have been only partially recorded. Societies that express interest to join the project will receive resources >from MyHeritage -including advice, guidance, best practices- detailed documentation based on our experience (the largest of its kind ever done in Israel, and perhaps in the entire world), and any help we can extend. Importantly, our unique exchange system means that any content (gravestone photos + index) that every society's volunteers/members will upload, will be given back to the society (co-owned by the society, MyHeritage and BillionGraves and) so your society can do with it as it pleases. MyHeritage is making this content available to all for FREE, but each society can chose how to make it available to its members, the public and even submit it to JOWBR if you like. I hope you and your society will be excited about joining us. If this is the case, please do not hesitate contact me, Daniel Horowitz (Daniel@...). Please feel free to distribute this information among your friends and members. Looking forward to seeing you! Best regards Daniel Horowitz Chief Genealogist |
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Free Webinar: Discover family history through gravestones
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Daniel Horowitz <daniel@...>
Dear friends
I would like to invite you to our next free Webinar: Discover family history through gravestones. Gravestones play a very important role in genealogy, and are a great launching pad for family history investigation. Schelly Talalay Dardashti, MyHeritage's US Genealogy Advisor, will demonstrate the information that can be revealed about your family via gravestones. Then, I will talk about our recent partnership with BillionGraves (http://bit.ly/1cxrZQS) and show how you can use their mobile app to help preserve cemeteries for future generations, as we did ourselves with the successful day digitizing the Segula Cemetery in Israel http://bit.ly/O1gjeq Register for free NOW at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/261346007 Date: Wednesday March 26, 2014. Time: 1 PM CDT / 2 PM EDT / 6 PM GMT (To find the time of the webinar for your location, use this Time Zone Converter http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ) Please feel free to distribute this information among your friends and members. Just in case you have not heard about it, this new method of working with the BillionGraves app is very efficient and adds the unique feature of geo-location to every stone. Societies can definitely start with cemeteries not documented already or complete those that have been only partially recorded. Societies that express interest to join the project will receive resources >from MyHeritage -including advice, guidance, best practices- detailed documentation based on our experience (the largest of its kind ever done in Israel, and perhaps in the entire world), and any help we can extend. Importantly, our unique exchange system means that any content (gravestone photos + index) that every society's volunteers/members will upload, will be given back to the society (co-owned by the society, MyHeritage and BillionGraves and) so your society can do with it as it pleases. MyHeritage is making this content available to all for FREE, but each society can chose how to make it available to its members, the public and even submit it to JOWBR if you like. I hope you and your society will be excited about joining us. If this is the case, please do not hesitate contact me, Daniel Horowitz (Daniel@...). Please feel free to distribute this information among your friends and members. Looking forward to seeing you! Best regards Daniel Horowitz Chief Genealogist |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Emergency projects - Bessarabia Cemeteries
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Yefim Kogan
Dear Bessaraber,
We have started the Kishinev-Doyna Cemetery project, and there is a team of people who are working with records and photos. That project now at the Bessarabia SIG Projects Donation list. We need your help to pay for the photographs. At least we know that this way we preserve an important part of Jewish past. Please make a donation of $25, $50, $100 to the Kishinev "Doyna" Cemetery Project. I consider this an EMERGENCY project. Two months ago in Kishinev, Primaria signed a new law about maintenance of cemeteries in Kishinev. According to it, if grave does not have historical value and a person was buried there more than 20 years ago, and no one paid an annual fee ($10/year), such grave can be removed and another burial places instead... Please see attached www.dorledor.info/article/%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8 (MOD: http://tinyurl.com/ncapq6m) If anyone interested in a full text of the law in Romanian, please email me. I want to ask you again to make a donation for Kishinev - Doyna and other Bessarabia Cemetery projects! Best regards, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany, Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China Donations may be made via: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=43 |
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Re: Emergency projects - Bessarabia Cemeteries
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Yefim Kogan
Dear Bessaraber,
We have started the Kishinev-Doyna Cemetery project, and there is a team of people who are working with records and photos. That project now at the Bessarabia SIG Projects Donation list. We need your help to pay for the photographs. At least we know that this way we preserve an important part of Jewish past. Please make a donation of $25, $50, $100 to the Kishinev "Doyna" Cemetery Project. I consider this an EMERGENCY project. Two months ago in Kishinev, Primaria signed a new law about maintenance of cemeteries in Kishinev. According to it, if grave does not have historical value and a person was buried there more than 20 years ago, and no one paid an annual fee ($10/year), such grave can be removed and another burial places instead... Please see attached www.dorledor.info/article/%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8 (MOD: http://tinyurl.com/ncapq6m) If anyone interested in a full text of the law in Romanian, please email me. I want to ask you again to make a donation for Kishinev - Doyna and other Bessarabia Cemetery projects! Best regards, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany, Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China Donations may be made via: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=43 |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen free interactive charting software
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Tamar Gold
Is there downloadable software, for free, that is interactive, the way
FTM or Ancestry are? We need to enter the family tree, but want to have the option of entering more information about each person and having it visible by clicking on the ancestor's name. I recognize that this question is not really a Jewish genealogy question, but I am sure it is one that would be of interest to others in this forum. As more concerns are raised with posting trees to a public venue, such as Ancestry or Geni, software that is sharable with others, in a more private way, would be very useful. I'm sure there is something out there already, I'm just not aware of it yet. Tamar Gold Elizabeth, NJ MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies please. Please note that extended discussion of software is outside the scope of this group. |
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free interactive charting software
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Tamar Gold
Is there downloadable software, for free, that is interactive, the way
FTM or Ancestry are? We need to enter the family tree, but want to have the option of entering more information about each person and having it visible by clicking on the ancestor's name. I recognize that this question is not really a Jewish genealogy question, but I am sure it is one that would be of interest to others in this forum. As more concerns are raised with posting trees to a public venue, such as Ancestry or Geni, software that is sharable with others, in a more private way, would be very useful. I'm sure there is something out there already, I'm just not aware of it yet. Tamar Gold Elizabeth, NJ MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies please. Please note that extended discussion of software is outside the scope of this group. |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (US) Missing manifest for Moishe KAUFMAN, 1897/8
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Adam Goodheart
Dear experts,
Despite having some pretty good clues, I've searched long and fruitlessly for the immigration record of my great-grandfather, Moishe (later Morris) KAUFMAN, who arrived in the U.S. in 1897 or 1898. Moishe's U.S. records consistently state that he was born in 1870. His 1907 naturalization record gives his place of birth as "Molitz," which is now Malec, Belarus, former Grodno Gubernia. Many family stories say that he and his wife, Golde EPELBAUM, both grew up in Brest-Litovsk (her birthplace, per the same naturalization record). I have found Golde's arrival record, as Golde Kaufmann (wrongly indexed as "Raufmann") aboard the SS Elisabeth Rickmers >from Bremen, docking at Baltimore on December 26, 1898. She was traveling with her infant son, Chemje (later Nathan), age 11 months. They are stated as having been living in "Vladova" (probably Wlodawa, Poland, her parents' town of origin). They were on their way to meet her husband in Pittsburgh, and the address is that of Moishe's sister Fannie Kaufman and her husband, Samuel WEISBRODE, who had immigrated in the 1880s. If Golde and Moishe's infant son was less than a year old in December 1898, then -- presuming Golde's fidelity -- we know that Moishe must have immigrated in 1897 or 1898. He almost certainly would have named either the Weisbrodes or his brother Aaron Kaufman (then living in NYC) on the manifest. It states that he arrived aboard the SS Rotterdam, >from Rotterdam to NYC, on August 22, 1894 (an impossible date, given his son's age in 1898 -- unless he'd made an earlier trip and then returned). Given all the data I have, I feel like my great-grandfather shouldn't be impossible to find ... I would be grateful for any suggestions or clues >from the experts. Adam Goodheart Washington, D.C. |
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(US) Missing manifest for Moishe KAUFMAN, 1897/8
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Adam Goodheart
Dear experts,
Despite having some pretty good clues, I've searched long and fruitlessly for the immigration record of my great-grandfather, Moishe (later Morris) KAUFMAN, who arrived in the U.S. in 1897 or 1898. Moishe's U.S. records consistently state that he was born in 1870. His 1907 naturalization record gives his place of birth as "Molitz," which is now Malec, Belarus, former Grodno Gubernia. Many family stories say that he and his wife, Golde EPELBAUM, both grew up in Brest-Litovsk (her birthplace, per the same naturalization record). I have found Golde's arrival record, as Golde Kaufmann (wrongly indexed as "Raufmann") aboard the SS Elisabeth Rickmers >from Bremen, docking at Baltimore on December 26, 1898. She was traveling with her infant son, Chemje (later Nathan), age 11 months. They are stated as having been living in "Vladova" (probably Wlodawa, Poland, her parents' town of origin). They were on their way to meet her husband in Pittsburgh, and the address is that of Moishe's sister Fannie Kaufman and her husband, Samuel WEISBRODE, who had immigrated in the 1880s. If Golde and Moishe's infant son was less than a year old in December 1898, then -- presuming Golde's fidelity -- we know that Moishe must have immigrated in 1897 or 1898. He almost certainly would have named either the Weisbrodes or his brother Aaron Kaufman (then living in NYC) on the manifest. It states that he arrived aboard the SS Rotterdam, >from Rotterdam to NYC, on August 22, 1894 (an impossible date, given his son's age in 1898 -- unless he'd made an earlier trip and then returned). Given all the data I have, I feel like my great-grandfather shouldn't be impossible to find ... I would be grateful for any suggestions or clues >from the experts. Adam Goodheart Washington, D.C. |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: 1000 Years of European Border Changes - Automated Map
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If you click to let the video fill the screen you'll see the dates just
above the map at the left. They are hard to read, as are the captions at the lower left that describe the major events taking place. An earlier version had larger dates at the center on the bottom, along with an (annoying) sound track. Alan Shuchat Newton, MA SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig, Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoye), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka) theforsyths@... I would find this video infinitely more useful if there were any way that I could see to correlate any given map with a time-frame. snip........ |
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Re: 1000 Years of European Border Changes - Automated Map
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If you click to let the video fill the screen you'll see the dates just
above the map at the left. They are hard to read, as are the captions at the lower left that describe the major events taking place. An earlier version had larger dates at the center on the bottom, along with an (annoying) sound track. Alan Shuchat Newton, MA SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig, Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoye), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka) theforsyths@... I would find this video infinitely more useful if there were any way that I could see to correlate any given map with a time-frame. snip........ |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Herzliya contact
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Neil@...
Trying to contact Serena Isaacson of Herzlia, Israel,
with whom I was in touch back in March, 2006 about the Roessler/Ressler family. Neil Rosenstein |
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Herzliya contact
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Neil@...
Trying to contact Serena Isaacson of Herzlia, Israel,
with whom I was in touch back in March, 2006 about the Roessler/Ressler family. Neil Rosenstein |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen likely travel route from Minsk to Palestine in 1880s?
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Jonathan Malamy
My 2xGreat Grandparents (David Eliezer RESNICK and Esther Reichel WEISBROD)
left Minsk for Palestine in the early 1880s. Can someone advise me or point me to resources that helps me understand what that journey was like? What route(s) did those in the First Aliya follow? Are there any travel records likely generated >from such a journey? Many thanks for your guidance and expertise. Jonathan Malamy |
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likely travel route from Minsk to Palestine in 1880s?
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Jonathan Malamy
My 2xGreat Grandparents (David Eliezer RESNICK and Esther Reichel WEISBROD)
left Minsk for Palestine in the early 1880s. Can someone advise me or point me to resources that helps me understand what that journey was like? What route(s) did those in the First Aliya follow? Are there any travel records likely generated >from such a journey? Many thanks for your guidance and expertise. Jonathan Malamy |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Lipkany Jewish Cemetery destroyed!
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Yefim Kogan
Yesterday, March 20, 2014 in Lipcani, Briceni district, fire almost
completely destroyed the Jewish cemetery. http://daylinews.net/v-lipkanax-sgorelo-evrejskoe-kladbishhe/ Yefim Kogan Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany, Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China |
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Lipkany Jewish Cemetery destroyed!
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Yefim Kogan
Yesterday, March 20, 2014 in Lipcani, Briceni district, fire almost
completely destroyed the Jewish cemetery. http://daylinews.net/v-lipkanax-sgorelo-evrejskoe-kladbishhe/ Yefim Kogan Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany, Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen what is a So 5 Quota immigrant (US)?
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Jake Jacobs
I have a family immigration record to the US >from 1946. The card filled
out at immigration notes that the family came to the US in 1946 "as a So 5 Quota Immigrant for permanent residence." They were in fact Holocaust survivors, so perhaps it relates to that. Does anybody know what this quota was? I can't find reference to it online. The second letter in So got typed over, so it may not be an O. And the 5 in "So 5" has some kind of mark next to it, which looks a bit like an single quotation mark, but it may be a stray mark. Would appreciate any information. Thank you! Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas |
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what is a So 5 Quota immigrant (US)?
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Jake Jacobs
I have a family immigration record to the US >from 1946. The card filled
out at immigration notes that the family came to the US in 1946 "as a So 5 Quota Immigrant for permanent residence." They were in fact Holocaust survivors, so perhaps it relates to that. Does anybody know what this quota was? I can't find reference to it online. The second letter in So got typed over, so it may not be an O. And the 5 in "So 5" has some kind of mark next to it, which looks a bit like an single quotation mark, but it may be a stray mark. Would appreciate any information. Thank you! Diane Jacobs Austin, Texas |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen New records available in Canada
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Merle Kastner <merlek@...>
Searching for records in Canada?
A total of 7,358 personal names are now available on the Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (http://cjhn.ca ), including at least 451 files containing obituaries. These include archival files of news clippings, correspondence and some family trees. They enhance the name resources already available through the Family History section of the website at http://www.cjhn.ca/en/family-history.aspx For the moment these listings can best be searched using the Advanced Search page of the website at http://www.cjhn.ca/en/explore/advanced-search.aspx. To preview ALL of this collection, enter the initials "zb" in the box called "Numbers" By early next week the names will all be indexed and available though the general "Keyword Search" bar on the right of the home page. Merle Kastner JGS of Montreal merlek@... |
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New records available in Canada
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Merle Kastner <merlek@...>
Searching for records in Canada?
A total of 7,358 personal names are now available on the Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (http://cjhn.ca ), including at least 451 files containing obituaries. These include archival files of news clippings, correspondence and some family trees. They enhance the name resources already available through the Family History section of the website at http://www.cjhn.ca/en/family-history.aspx For the moment these listings can best be searched using the Advanced Search page of the website at http://www.cjhn.ca/en/explore/advanced-search.aspx. To preview ALL of this collection, enter the initials "zb" in the box called "Numbers" By early next week the names will all be indexed and available though the general "Keyword Search" bar on the right of the home page. Merle Kastner JGS of Montreal merlek@... |
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