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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?
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I like how the current lists work. Will I still be able to send/receive emails of posts (and/or digests)?
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Can I post images, accented characters, different colors/font sizes, non-latin characters?
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Can I categorize a message? For example, if my message is related to Polish, or Ukraine research, can I indicate as such?
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What are the new guidelines?
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The JewishGen.org Team
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hadassahlipsius
In lieu of the availability of 20th century Warszawa vital records,
Jewishgen's Warszawa Research Group has been indexing the death notices and memorial service notices >from the Polish-language Jewish periodical Nasz Przeglad ("Our Review"). Nasz Przeglad was a Polish-language Zionist newspaper, published daily in Warszawa >from March 1923 until August 1939. The vast majority of the death notices are for Warszawa residents. However, there were also notices for people in other cities in Poland, as well as in other countries. It is believed that the out-of-country notices were usually for people whose original residence was Warszawa, or who had family living in Warszawa at the time that the notice was published. Out-of-country notices were published for people living in places such as the United States, Palestine, Argentina and Canada. The Database was recently updated by an additional 4000 records and the database now covers the following years 1923-1927, 1929 -1938. We are just missing 1928 and hopefully that will be added in 2015. For more information on this database, go to www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/NaszPrzeglad.htm The website has not yet been updated to indicate the new years but it will happen soon. The Nasz Przeglad database can be searched using Jewishgen's All Poland Database www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/ Best of luck in your search. Hadassah Lipsius Kew Gardens Hills, NY, USA
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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year-end report for the
Memorial Plaques Project database. The MPP database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPP database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update adds approximately 15,000 new records and 11,000 new photos >from 20 synagogues/organizations. The database now includes more than 75,500 records >from the US, Israel Canada and Morocco. These records come >from 111 different synagogues and other institutions. We believe that the MPP is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. This update includes US data sets >from California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Also included is a new data set >from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year end update to the
JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update adds approximately 102,100 new records and 45,200 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 639 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 2.37 million records >from almost 4,970 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 104 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many of the German towns in addition to records >from under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Alla Aizenberg, Sharon Duckman, Helen Furnell, Henry Graupner, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Amit Pinsler, Guy Haber, Sari Tuomioja, and Paula Zieselman. In addition, without our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Johannesburg Cemeteries - Braamfontein Cemetery, Brixton Cemetery, and West Park Cemetery. Moldovan Cemeteries - Balti, Doyna Cemetery (Saint Lazarus Cemetery, and Tiraspol. Berlin, Germany's Weissensee Cemetery. Stockholm, Sweeden's Sodra Judiska Begravningsplatsen. Switzerland's Jewish cemetery in Veyrier. Rabat, Morocco's Cimetiere Israelite (Vieux) in Rabat Lomza, Poland's Jewish Cemetery Chernivtsi, Ukraine Home of Peace (San Jose) Cemetery in San Jose, California Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston, NY Also included in this update are thousands of records in the first installment of Jewish veteran burials in military cemeteries predominantly >from World War I in France, Italy and Belgium and other cemeteries around the world. This update also includes our first records >from 19 new countries, many are for veteran burials; Angola, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uzbekistan. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of cemeteries currently in the JOWBR database. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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hadassahlipsius
In lieu of the availability of 20th century Warszawa vital records,
Jewishgen's Warszawa Research Group has been indexing the death notices and memorial service notices >from the Polish-language Jewish periodical Nasz Przeglad ("Our Review"). Nasz Przeglad was a Polish-language Zionist newspaper, published daily in Warszawa >from March 1923 until August 1939. The vast majority of the death notices are for Warszawa residents. However, there were also notices for people in other cities in Poland, as well as in other countries. It is believed that the out-of-country notices were usually for people whose original residence was Warszawa, or who had family living in Warszawa at the time that the notice was published. Out-of-country notices were published for people living in places such as the United States, Palestine, Argentina and Canada. The Database was recently updated by an additional 4000 records and the database now covers the following years 1923-1927, 1929 -1938. We are just missing 1928 and hopefully that will be added in 2015. For more information on this database, go to www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/NaszPrzeglad.htm The website has not yet been updated to indicate the new years but it will happen soon. The Nasz Przeglad database can be searched using Jewishgen's All Poland Database www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/ Best of luck in your search. Hadassah Lipsius Kew Gardens Hills, NY, USA
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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year-end report for the
Memorial Plaques Project database. The MPP database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPP database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update adds approximately 15,000 new records and 11,000 new photos >from 20 synagogues/organizations. The database now includes more than 75,500 records >from the US, Israel Canada and Morocco. These records come >from 111 different synagogues and other institutions. We believe that the MPP is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. This update includes US data sets >from California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Also included is a new data set >from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year end update to the
JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update adds approximately 102,100 new records and 45,200 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 639 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 2.37 million records >from almost 4,970 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 104 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many of the German towns in addition to records >from under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Alla Aizenberg, Sharon Duckman, Helen Furnell, Henry Graupner, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Amit Pinsler, Guy Haber, Sari Tuomioja, and Paula Zieselman. In addition, without our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Johannesburg Cemeteries - Braamfontein Cemetery, Brixton Cemetery, and West Park Cemetery. Moldovan Cemeteries - Balti, Doyna Cemetery (Saint Lazarus Cemetery, and Tiraspol. Berlin, Germany's Weissensee Cemetery. Stockholm, Sweeden's Sodra Judiska Begravningsplatsen. Switzerland's Jewish cemetery in Veyrier. Rabat, Morocco's Cimetiere Israelite (Vieux) in Rabat Lomza, Poland's Jewish Cemetery Chernivtsi, Ukraine Home of Peace (San Jose) Cemetery in San Jose, California Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston, NY Also included in this update are thousands of records in the first installment of Jewish veteran burials in military cemeteries predominantly >from World War I in France, Italy and Belgium and other cemeteries around the world. This update also includes our first records >from 19 new countries, many are for veteran burials; Angola, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uzbekistan. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of cemeteries currently in the JOWBR database. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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(US) Federal Register Published Proposed Rules for Certification for Access to Death Master File
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
On December 22, on this discussion group, I posted the National Technical
Information Service (NTIS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) describing a rule that would, if implemented, establish, pursuant to Section 203 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113-67), a certification program to replace the temporary certification program currently in place for access to the Death Master File (DMF). While the NTIS expected the Federal Register to publish the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on December 24, the Federal Register published it today, December 30. The deadline for comments to be submitted is January 29, 2015. To read the proposed rule see: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-12-30/pdf/2014-30199.pdf The purpose is to reduce opportunities for identity theft and restrict information sources used in filing fraudulent tax returns. The requirements spelled out in the proposed rule follow the requirements established last year in Congress' s passage of Section 203 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113-67). The rule establishes those who can have immediate access to the Limited Access Death Master File for those users who demonstrate a legitimate fraud prevention interest of a legitimate business purpose for the information. One of the "positive" changes is the provision if someone provides the data element(s) that are included in the DMF (name, social security number, date of birth, or date of death) whether that person is certified or not, and the information is obtained independent of the Limited DMF, the information is not considered part of the Limited Access DMF. However, if a certified person receives this information independent >from the Limited Access DMF it is not considered part of the DMF if the NTIS source information is replaced with the newly provided information. This is one area the proposed rule is requesting the public to comment. One of the more onerous provisions, especially for genealogists, is the required security audits by independent third party assessment bodies and requirements to meet those standards. These assessments are required to become certified. The person must submit a written attestation >from an Accredited Certification Body that the applicant has information security systems, facilities, and procedures in place to protect the security of the DMF information. There are penalties ranging >from $1,000 to $250,000 for the certified person unauthorized disclosure of the information. There is no specific mention of the charges that NTIS will impose for accessing the data once the person is certified. However, the current fees are substantial. These are fees in addition to the certification fee-which the proposed rule states NTIS will charge but not what they charge. Currently they are charging $200 for the certification fee only. For those who are considering applying for certification I suggest you read Dee Dee King's article on her experience of becoming certified. Not only is the access to the information very costly, the restricted database no longer provides many of the data elements we were used to in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)-the commercial version of the DMF, nor does it have a search engine that the genealogical firms used that facilitated the search. Dee Dee's article : http://tinyurl.com/kr9g48z Original url: http://www.forensicgenealogists.org/wp-content/uploads/CAFG_Vol_4_Issue_3_DMF-Special.pdf Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (US) Federal Register Published Proposed Rules for Certification for Access to Death Master File
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
On December 22, on this discussion group, I posted the National Technical
Information Service (NTIS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice) describing a rule that would, if implemented, establish, pursuant to Section 203 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113-67), a certification program to replace the temporary certification program currently in place for access to the Death Master File (DMF). While the NTIS expected the Federal Register to publish the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on December 24, the Federal Register published it today, December 30. The deadline for comments to be submitted is January 29, 2015. To read the proposed rule see: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-12-30/pdf/2014-30199.pdf The purpose is to reduce opportunities for identity theft and restrict information sources used in filing fraudulent tax returns. The requirements spelled out in the proposed rule follow the requirements established last year in Congress' s passage of Section 203 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113-67). The rule establishes those who can have immediate access to the Limited Access Death Master File for those users who demonstrate a legitimate fraud prevention interest of a legitimate business purpose for the information. One of the "positive" changes is the provision if someone provides the data element(s) that are included in the DMF (name, social security number, date of birth, or date of death) whether that person is certified or not, and the information is obtained independent of the Limited DMF, the information is not considered part of the Limited Access DMF. However, if a certified person receives this information independent >from the Limited Access DMF it is not considered part of the DMF if the NTIS source information is replaced with the newly provided information. This is one area the proposed rule is requesting the public to comment. One of the more onerous provisions, especially for genealogists, is the required security audits by independent third party assessment bodies and requirements to meet those standards. These assessments are required to become certified. The person must submit a written attestation >from an Accredited Certification Body that the applicant has information security systems, facilities, and procedures in place to protect the security of the DMF information. There are penalties ranging >from $1,000 to $250,000 for the certified person unauthorized disclosure of the information. There is no specific mention of the charges that NTIS will impose for accessing the data once the person is certified. However, the current fees are substantial. These are fees in addition to the certification fee-which the proposed rule states NTIS will charge but not what they charge. Currently they are charging $200 for the certification fee only. For those who are considering applying for certification I suggest you read Dee Dee King's article on her experience of becoming certified. Not only is the access to the information very costly, the restricted database no longer provides many of the data elements we were used to in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)-the commercial version of the DMF, nor does it have a search engine that the genealogical firms used that facilitated the search. Dee Dee's article : http://tinyurl.com/kr9g48z Original url: http://www.forensicgenealogists.org/wp-content/uploads/CAFG_Vol_4_Issue_3_DMF-Special.pdf Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Jews in Szepes Area
#hungary
jnskraus@...
Evan Wilson asked whether there were any documents on Jews in the Szepes =
area other than tax, census, and vital records currently indexed on = line. There is the book and accompanying disc, JEWS IN THE SPIS REGION 1. = KESMAROK. It was written by Madeline Isenberg and Mikulas Liptak and = published by VIVIT, Mr. Liptak's firm. I do not know if Mrs. Isenberg = has any copies left for sale. Sam Kraus Moderator: This is a one-time message regarding a commercial product. Any further discussions or inquiries must be conducted off-list.
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: Jews in Szepes Area
#hungary
jnskraus@...
Evan Wilson asked whether there were any documents on Jews in the Szepes =
area other than tax, census, and vital records currently indexed on = line. There is the book and accompanying disc, JEWS IN THE SPIS REGION 1. = KESMAROK. It was written by Madeline Isenberg and Mikulas Liptak and = published by VIVIT, Mr. Liptak's firm. I do not know if Mrs. Isenberg = has any copies left for sale. Sam Kraus Moderator: This is a one-time message regarding a commercial product. Any further discussions or inquiries must be conducted off-list.
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Memorial Plaques Project Grows to More Than 75,000 Records. Please help us grow!
#hungary
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year-end report for the
Memorial Plaques Project database. The MPP database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPP database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update adds approximately 15,000 new records and 11,000 new photos >from 20 synagogues/organizations. The database now includes more than 75,500 records >from the US, Israel Canada and Morocco. These records come >from 111 different synagogues and other institutions. We believe that the MPP is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. This update includes US data sets >from California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Also included is a new data set >from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Memorial Plaques Project Grows to More Than 75,000 Records. Please help us grow!
#hungary
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year-end report for the
Memorial Plaques Project database. The MPP database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPP database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update adds approximately 15,000 new records and 11,000 new photos >from 20 synagogues/organizations. The database now includes more than 75,500 records >from the US, Israel Canada and Morocco. These records come >from 111 different synagogues and other institutions. We believe that the MPP is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. This update includes US data sets >from California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Also included is a new data set >from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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JOWBR Grows to Over 2.37 Million Records!
#hungary
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year end update to the
JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update adds approximately 102,100 new records and 45,200 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 639 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 2.37 million records >from almost 4,970 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 104 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many of the German towns in addition to records >from under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Alla Aizenberg, Sharon Duckman, Helen Furnell, Henry Graupner, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Amit Pinsler, Guy Haber, Sari Tuomioja, and Paula Zieselman. In addition, without our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Johannesburg Cemeteries - Braamfontein Cemetery, Brixton Cemetery, and West Park Cemetery. Moldovan Cemeteries - Balti, Doyna Cemetery (Saint Lazarus Cemetery, and Tiraspol. Berlin, Germany's Weissensee Cemetery. Stockholm, Sweeden's Sodra Judiska Begravningsplatsen. Switzerland's Jewish cemetery in Veyrier. Rabat, Morocco's Cimetiere Israelite (Vieux) in Rabat Lomza, Poland's Jewish Cemetery Chernivtsi, Ukraine Home of Peace (San Jose) Cemetery in San Jose, California Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston, NY Also included in this update are thousands of records in the first installment of Jewish veteran burials in military cemeteries predominantly >from World War I in France, Italy and Belgium and other cemeteries around the world. This update also includes our first records >from 19 new countries, many are for veteran burials; Angola, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uzbekistan. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of cemeteries currently in the JOWBR database. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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Hungary SIG #Hungary JOWBR Grows to Over 2.37 Million Records!
#hungary
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year end update to the
JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update adds approximately 102,100 new records and 45,200 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 639 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 2.37 million records >from almost 4,970 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 104 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many of the German towns in addition to records >from under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Alla Aizenberg, Sharon Duckman, Helen Furnell, Henry Graupner, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Amit Pinsler, Guy Haber, Sari Tuomioja, and Paula Zieselman. In addition, without our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Johannesburg Cemeteries - Braamfontein Cemetery, Brixton Cemetery, and West Park Cemetery. Moldovan Cemeteries - Balti, Doyna Cemetery (Saint Lazarus Cemetery, and Tiraspol. Berlin, Germany's Weissensee Cemetery. Stockholm, Sweeden's Sodra Judiska Begravningsplatsen. Switzerland's Jewish cemetery in Veyrier. Rabat, Morocco's Cimetiere Israelite (Vieux) in Rabat Lomza, Poland's Jewish Cemetery Chernivtsi, Ukraine Home of Peace (San Jose) Cemetery in San Jose, California Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston, NY Also included in this update are thousands of records in the first installment of Jewish veteran burials in military cemeteries predominantly >from World War I in France, Italy and Belgium and other cemeteries around the world. This update also includes our first records >from 19 new countries, many are for veteran burials; Angola, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uzbekistan. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of cemeteries currently in the JOWBR database. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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Memorial Plaques Project Grows to More Than 75,000 Records. Please help us grow!
#galicia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year-end report for the
Memorial Plaques Project database. The MPP database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPP database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update adds approximately 15,000 new records and 11,000 new photos >from 20 synagogues/organizations. The database now includes more than 75,500 records >from the US, Israel Canada and Morocco. These records come >from 111 different synagogues and other institutions. We believe that the MPP is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. This update includes US data sets >from California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Also included is a new data set >from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Memorial Plaques Project Grows to More Than 75,000 Records. Please help us grow!
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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year-end report for the
Memorial Plaques Project database. The MPP database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPP database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update adds approximately 15,000 new records and 11,000 new photos >from 20 synagogues/organizations. The database now includes more than 75,500 records >from the US, Israel Canada and Morocco. These records come >from 111 different synagogues and other institutions. We believe that the MPP is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. This update includes US data sets >from California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Also included is a new data set >from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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JOWBR Grows to Over 2.37 Million Records!
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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year end update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update adds approximately 102,100 new records and 45,200 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 639 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 2.37 million records >from almost 4,970 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 104 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donors' submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many of the German towns in addition to records >from under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Alla Aizenberg, Sharon Duckman, Helen Furnell, Henry Graupner, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Amit Pinsler, Guy Haber, Sari Tuomioja, and Paula Zieselman. In addition, without our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Johannesburg Cemeteries - Braamfontein Cemetery, Brixton Cemetery, and West Park Cemetery Moldovan Cemeteries - Balti, Doyna Cemetery (Saint Lazarus Cemetery, and Tiraspol Berlin, Germany's Weissensee Cemetery Stockholm, Sweden's Sodra Judiska Begravningsplatsen Switzerland's Jewish cemetery in Veyrier Rabat, Morocco's Cimetiere Israelite (Vieux) in Rabat Lomza, Poland's Jewish Cemetery Chernivtsi, Ukraine Home of Peace (San Jose) Cemetery in San Jose, California Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston, NY Also included in this update are thousands of records in the first installment of Jewish veteran burials in military cemeteries predominantly >from World War I in France, Italy and Belgium and other cemeteries around the world. This update also includes our first records >from 19 new countries, many are for veteran burials; Angola, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uzbekistan. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of cemeteries currently in the JOWBR database. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia JOWBR Grows to Over 2.37 Million Records!
#galicia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year end update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update adds approximately 102,100 new records and 45,200 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 639 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 2.37 million records >from almost 4,970 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 104 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donors' submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many of the German towns in addition to records >from under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Alla Aizenberg, Sharon Duckman, Helen Furnell, Henry Graupner, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Amit Pinsler, Guy Haber, Sari Tuomioja, and Paula Zieselman. In addition, without our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Johannesburg Cemeteries - Braamfontein Cemetery, Brixton Cemetery, and West Park Cemetery Moldovan Cemeteries - Balti, Doyna Cemetery (Saint Lazarus Cemetery, and Tiraspol Berlin, Germany's Weissensee Cemetery Stockholm, Sweden's Sodra Judiska Begravningsplatsen Switzerland's Jewish cemetery in Veyrier Rabat, Morocco's Cimetiere Israelite (Vieux) in Rabat Lomza, Poland's Jewish Cemetery Chernivtsi, Ukraine Home of Peace (San Jose) Cemetery in San Jose, California Montrepose Cemetery in Kingston, NY Also included in this update are thousands of records in the first installment of Jewish veteran burials in military cemeteries predominantly >from World War I in France, Italy and Belgium and other cemeteries around the world. This update also includes our first records >from 19 new countries, many are for veteran burials; Angola, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Monaco, Mongolia, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uzbekistan. Visit http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of cemeteries currently in the JOWBR database. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014
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GOTTESMAN, ALEXANDER, HELLER
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Andy Bajrak <aclbajrak@...>
1. Researching Serel GOTTESMAN'S relatives >from Medyka, Poland and
Mostiska, Stary Sambor, Malnivska Volya, Grodek/Horodok in Ukraine 2. Researching her husband Berl/Bernard ALEKSANDER and their children Isak (Jan Bernard), Chaim Jonas, Tyle, and Rafael 3. Researching possible HELLER family connection in Polana, Ukraine Dear GG Discussion Group, During my genealogical search I have traced my Gottesman relatives back to the year 1859 and found my 2x great-grandparents Gimpel and Freide Gottesman as well as their six children - Serel, Judas, Itte, Ciwie, Sender and Refael. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any birth records in the Polish Jewish Index for my great-grandfather Berl Aleksander. Ashkenazi often named their children after deceased relatives and I wonder if Tylly Alexander Heller >from Polana is my great-grandfather Berl's sister. Her parents' names were Isak and Necha Alexander >from Polana. Tylly also had a son named Isak with Chaskel Heller. I wonder if my great-aunt Tyle Aleksander born in 1890 was named after Tylly Heller, who died in 1888 and my paternal grandfather Isak Alexander was named after her father Isak? Also, some members of my paternal grandfather's family survived the Second World War, immigrated to Montreal and wrote to my late father's siblings in Hodyni/Mostiska. Sadly their names and address were lost over the many years. I would love to reconnect with my family and would be very grateful for any information, which you could provide me. Thank you. All the best, Laryssa Aleksander Bajrak
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia GOTTESMAN, ALEXANDER, HELLER
#galicia
Andy Bajrak <aclbajrak@...>
1. Researching Serel GOTTESMAN'S relatives >from Medyka, Poland and
Mostiska, Stary Sambor, Malnivska Volya, Grodek/Horodok in Ukraine 2. Researching her husband Berl/Bernard ALEKSANDER and their children Isak (Jan Bernard), Chaim Jonas, Tyle, and Rafael 3. Researching possible HELLER family connection in Polana, Ukraine Dear GG Discussion Group, During my genealogical search I have traced my Gottesman relatives back to the year 1859 and found my 2x great-grandparents Gimpel and Freide Gottesman as well as their six children - Serel, Judas, Itte, Ciwie, Sender and Refael. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any birth records in the Polish Jewish Index for my great-grandfather Berl Aleksander. Ashkenazi often named their children after deceased relatives and I wonder if Tylly Alexander Heller >from Polana is my great-grandfather Berl's sister. Her parents' names were Isak and Necha Alexander >from Polana. Tylly also had a son named Isak with Chaskel Heller. I wonder if my great-aunt Tyle Aleksander born in 1890 was named after Tylly Heller, who died in 1888 and my paternal grandfather Isak Alexander was named after her father Isak? Also, some members of my paternal grandfather's family survived the Second World War, immigrated to Montreal and wrote to my late father's siblings in Hodyni/Mostiska. Sadly their names and address were lost over the many years. I would love to reconnect with my family and would be very grateful for any information, which you could provide me. Thank you. All the best, Laryssa Aleksander Bajrak
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