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Tips for researching your Berlin relatives
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Judith Elam
In recent months, with some creative searching, I have found about 100 more
relatives, using the Berlin civil records now available on Ancestry.com, the Berlin newspapers available on the European Library website at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers, and some other sites. I thought I would share my method with you! 1. On Ancestry.com enter "Berlin" under Keyword. This will limit the results to Berlin records and records that contain the word "Berlin". 2. If your surname is common, such as LEVY, or not especially Jewish (I have several, such as BRAUN, NATHAN, WEISS, SCHWARZ, MICHAELIS, etc.) you may be able to skip through hundreds of hits for marriage records by skipping over those entries with several first names. Jews generally had one or maybe two first names only. 3. Marriages required two witnesses, who were usually relatives. Even if the witness is not known, research them. Their age and address will be given on the marriage certificate. They may turn out to be the husband of another relative you have yet to find! Always keep note of these witnesses for possible later identification, if you cannot immediately identify them. 4. The marriage and death records will give the parents' names too, as well as where they lived - and died, if applicable. They will give divorce details, if any, and sometimes death details, and if they had to assume the name "Israel" or "Sara. If you are entering your records on a public site such as Ancestry or Geni, then enter your relative's spouse's relatives (parents, witness) too, to facilitate other researchers linking their tree to yours. They may have additional information on your relatives too that you didn't know about, or their own trees which will then appear as a "hint". 5. Use wildcard searches (*) as much as possible, especially for surnames that can easily be misspelled. If the first name ends in "a" or "e" always use the * to search (for example Johann*), as transcribers will use both randomly, even though the name probably ends with an "e". 6. Let's say you have found a marriage record for your relative and now you want to know if the marriage produced children. Let's assume they were married in 1890. Then do a search using just the surname and enter the search year as 1896 with a 5 year +/-. This will pull up all Berlin BMD records for anyone born 1891 - 1901, which should cover all children, unless it was a large family! You can also use the 2 or 10 year +/- option. 7. If you cannot find the death record for your female relative, also search using her maiden name. She may have remarried. 8. Once you have exhausted Ancestry.com, then use http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers. Of particular interest are the death notices, usually published in the Berliner Tageblatt. In addition to the description of "long and painful suffering" which seems to appear on all these notices, you may find "new" family members. The best way to search is to use "+", for example "Ottilie+SCHWARZ" (my gg-grandmother) This will yield 55 hits. Then click on the 4 Staatsbibliothek (for the Berlin newspapers) hits. The last 2 refer to my Ottilie. The last is her death notice. Click on it and you will see the relevant part in blue on the left side. Click on it to bring that section of the newspaper up. Even if you have found the death certificate on Ancestry, still search for the death notice on this site, in the hopes of finding more relatives. Then you can contact Weissensee cemetery for the burial records. juedfriedweissensee@jg-berlin.org. These can also yield more relatives! 9. If you can't find your married female relative on this site, then try just using "geb+maiden name", which, for some reason, will bring up different results. 10. If you search just using the surname you may get thousands of hits, if it is a common surname. You can then narrow down your search by using "Decades of Publication" on the right side. Click on the desired decade. Then click on the Year, if applicable. You can then sort in ascending or descending time. This will considerably narrow down the hits. 11. This newspaper site also has newspapers >from Hamburg and other countries too, such as Austria. It is also useful for finding engagement notices, marriage notices and birth notices, as well as business details and addresses. A birth notice will typically say a son or daughter was born, often citing the birth date (but no first name), and then you can continue your search back on Ancestry using the surname and the birth year. If your relative lived during the Holocaust years, then also search on http://tracingthepast.org/minority-census/census-database. To find all those living at the same address, just put in the surname and street name. This database is for all of Germany. You can also use http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html.en?result#frmResults, http://db.yadvashem.org/names/search.html?language=en and http://digital.zlb.de/viewer/sites/collection-berlin-adresses/. Judith E. Elam, Kihei, HI elamj@hawaii.rr.comm
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German SIG #Germany Tips for researching your Berlin relatives
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Judith Elam
In recent months, with some creative searching, I have found about 100 more
relatives, using the Berlin civil records now available on Ancestry.com, the Berlin newspapers available on the European Library website at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers, and some other sites. I thought I would share my method with you! 1. On Ancestry.com enter "Berlin" under Keyword. This will limit the results to Berlin records and records that contain the word "Berlin". 2. If your surname is common, such as LEVY, or not especially Jewish (I have several, such as BRAUN, NATHAN, WEISS, SCHWARZ, MICHAELIS, etc.) you may be able to skip through hundreds of hits for marriage records by skipping over those entries with several first names. Jews generally had one or maybe two first names only. 3. Marriages required two witnesses, who were usually relatives. Even if the witness is not known, research them. Their age and address will be given on the marriage certificate. They may turn out to be the husband of another relative you have yet to find! Always keep note of these witnesses for possible later identification, if you cannot immediately identify them. 4. The marriage and death records will give the parents' names too, as well as where they lived - and died, if applicable. They will give divorce details, if any, and sometimes death details, and if they had to assume the name "Israel" or "Sara. If you are entering your records on a public site such as Ancestry or Geni, then enter your relative's spouse's relatives (parents, witness) too, to facilitate other researchers linking their tree to yours. They may have additional information on your relatives too that you didn't know about, or their own trees which will then appear as a "hint". 5. Use wildcard searches (*) as much as possible, especially for surnames that can easily be misspelled. If the first name ends in "a" or "e" always use the * to search (for example Johann*), as transcribers will use both randomly, even though the name probably ends with an "e". 6. Let's say you have found a marriage record for your relative and now you want to know if the marriage produced children. Let's assume they were married in 1890. Then do a search using just the surname and enter the search year as 1896 with a 5 year +/-. This will pull up all Berlin BMD records for anyone born 1891 - 1901, which should cover all children, unless it was a large family! You can also use the 2 or 10 year +/- option. 7. If you cannot find the death record for your female relative, also search using her maiden name. She may have remarried. 8. Once you have exhausted Ancestry.com, then use http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers. Of particular interest are the death notices, usually published in the Berliner Tageblatt. In addition to the description of "long and painful suffering" which seems to appear on all these notices, you may find "new" family members. The best way to search is to use "+", for example "Ottilie+SCHWARZ" (my gg-grandmother) This will yield 55 hits. Then click on the 4 Staatsbibliothek (for the Berlin newspapers) hits. The last 2 refer to my Ottilie. The last is her death notice. Click on it and you will see the relevant part in blue on the left side. Click on it to bring that section of the newspaper up. Even if you have found the death certificate on Ancestry, still search for the death notice on this site, in the hopes of finding more relatives. Then you can contact Weissensee cemetery for the burial records. juedfriedweissensee@jg-berlin.org. These can also yield more relatives! 9. If you can't find your married female relative on this site, then try just using "geb+maiden name", which, for some reason, will bring up different results. 10. If you search just using the surname you may get thousands of hits, if it is a common surname. You can then narrow down your search by using "Decades of Publication" on the right side. Click on the desired decade. Then click on the Year, if applicable. You can then sort in ascending or descending time. This will considerably narrow down the hits. 11. This newspaper site also has newspapers >from Hamburg and other countries too, such as Austria. It is also useful for finding engagement notices, marriage notices and birth notices, as well as business details and addresses. A birth notice will typically say a son or daughter was born, often citing the birth date (but no first name), and then you can continue your search back on Ancestry using the surname and the birth year. If your relative lived during the Holocaust years, then also search on http://tracingthepast.org/minority-census/census-database. To find all those living at the same address, just put in the surname and street name. This database is for all of Germany. You can also use http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html.en?result#frmResults, http://db.yadvashem.org/names/search.html?language=en and http://digital.zlb.de/viewer/sites/collection-berlin-adresses/. Judith E. Elam, Kihei, HI elamj@hawaii.rr.comm
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Sanzer Rebbe's Torah
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Neil@...
Back in 2011 the Sefer Torah belonging to the Sanzer Rebbe, Haim HALBERSTAM,
which survived to Holocaust, was apparently bought >from two brother descendants (either of the Rubin or Jeruchem families - as quoted in the former case by the Jewish Press and in the latter case by Hamodia). Can anyone clarify these brothers for me and their ancestry? The inheritance would have passed >from Rav Haim to his son Yechezkel, the Sinover Rebbe to one of two possible sons - Moshe or Dovid. Neil Rosenstein MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately with family information.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Sanzer Rebbe's Torah
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Neil@...
Back in 2011 the Sefer Torah belonging to the Sanzer Rebbe, Haim HALBERSTAM,
which survived to Holocaust, was apparently bought >from two brother descendants (either of the Rubin or Jeruchem families - as quoted in the former case by the Jewish Press and in the latter case by Hamodia). Can anyone clarify these brothers for me and their ancestry? The inheritance would have passed >from Rav Haim to his son Yechezkel, the Sinover Rebbe to one of two possible sons - Moshe or Dovid. Neil Rosenstein MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately with family information.
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Re: Dorosic Forced Laborers
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tom
As an aside, having read the moderator's note at the end of Paul Nussbaum's
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posting, I followed the link to the description of the Dorosic massacre, and read the description of the data set. But I haven't been able to figure out how to look at a list of the victims' names. Using the All Hungary Database, a search for "Dorosic" either in any field, or in town, returns zero records. How can I browse the records, without having to know their names in advance? tom klein, Toronto
paulnuss@aol.com wrote:
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Dorosic Forced Laborers
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tom
As an aside, having read the moderator's note at the end of Paul Nussbaum's
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posting, I followed the link to the description of the Dorosic massacre, and read the description of the data set. But I haven't been able to figure out how to look at a list of the victims' names. Using the All Hungary Database, a search for "Dorosic" either in any field, or in town, returns zero records. How can I browse the records, without having to know their names in advance? tom klein, Toronto
paulnuss@aol.com wrote:
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Re: Dorosic Forced Laborers
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tom
For what it's worth, my father was also a forced labourer at the same
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time and place, and barely escaped being killed there. His unit was there, and they were told that they were setting up a field hospital, in a barn, for those who were too sick to continue marching. My father was sick, but he said that there were others who were in worse condition, and he could still go on. The massacre was carried out that night. Do you know much about your father's experiences during the war? tom klein, Toronto
paulnuss@aol.com wrote:
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Dorosic Forced Laborers
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tom
For what it's worth, my father was also a forced labourer at the same
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time and place, and barely escaped being killed there. His unit was there, and they were told that they were setting up a field hospital, in a barn, for those who were too sick to continue marching. My father was sick, but he said that there were others who were in worse condition, and he could still go on. The massacre was carried out that night. Do you know much about your father's experiences during the war? tom klein, Toronto
paulnuss@aol.com wrote:
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Almost Magical Translations
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Bob Fitterman
Today I had a bit of insight to combine two things together that had
never crossed my mind. It might be of use to some of you in your research. In looking at the email >from Logan Kleinwaks to Carol Rombrol Rider's query about directories, I decided to try genealogyindexer.org . In my case, I put in my maternal grandmother's maiden name and up popped dozens of listings in Cyrillic. I had cast a very wide net and there were too may listings to be of use, plus while I can sound out Russian, I have no grounding in vocabulary and grammar. To me it's just phonetic. Nonetheless, I clicked through a few of them and found a listing I was curious about. I tried to copy the text, in hopes of putting it into translate.google.com . Like many sites with full-text searching, the thing on the screen is an image, so it's either impossible to select the image or if you do select an image, there's no way to put it into the web-based version of Google Translate. What I did that was new was I picked up my phone, where I have installed the Google Translate App, and pointed it at the screen. (My exact steps were to choose >from Russian to English translation, then press the camera icon at the lower-left corner.) Having told the app it was searching for Russian, it started translating words >from the computer screen onto my phone screen. It wasn't all entirely readable, but it was enough to figure out section headings of the document. (It felt like that magic moment in the movies of the 1930s when the Chinese signs temporarily melt into English and back.) The pages I found did not help, yet, in my particular case, but I think this might help some of you navigate through documents in unfamiliar languages. It's no substitute for a fluent translator. Note that some languages support this instant translation while others only support a scan feature that requires tapping the screen and then selecting an area to translate which is much more cumbersome. Yiddish is unsupported and handwriting will not work either. I'm sure that things like headstones will completely confuse the program. Maybe I'm sharing something very obvious, but I had never thought to put the two things together. Bob Fitterman New York City
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Almost Magical Translations
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Bob Fitterman
Today I had a bit of insight to combine two things together that had
never crossed my mind. It might be of use to some of you in your research. In looking at the email >from Logan Kleinwaks to Carol Rombrol Rider's query about directories, I decided to try genealogyindexer.org . In my case, I put in my maternal grandmother's maiden name and up popped dozens of listings in Cyrillic. I had cast a very wide net and there were too may listings to be of use, plus while I can sound out Russian, I have no grounding in vocabulary and grammar. To me it's just phonetic. Nonetheless, I clicked through a few of them and found a listing I was curious about. I tried to copy the text, in hopes of putting it into translate.google.com . Like many sites with full-text searching, the thing on the screen is an image, so it's either impossible to select the image or if you do select an image, there's no way to put it into the web-based version of Google Translate. What I did that was new was I picked up my phone, where I have installed the Google Translate App, and pointed it at the screen. (My exact steps were to choose >from Russian to English translation, then press the camera icon at the lower-left corner.) Having told the app it was searching for Russian, it started translating words >from the computer screen onto my phone screen. It wasn't all entirely readable, but it was enough to figure out section headings of the document. (It felt like that magic moment in the movies of the 1930s when the Chinese signs temporarily melt into English and back.) The pages I found did not help, yet, in my particular case, but I think this might help some of you navigate through documents in unfamiliar languages. It's no substitute for a fluent translator. Note that some languages support this instant translation while others only support a scan feature that requires tapping the screen and then selecting an area to translate which is much more cumbersome. Yiddish is unsupported and handwriting will not work either. I'm sure that things like headstones will completely confuse the program. Maybe I'm sharing something very obvious, but I had never thought to put the two things together. Bob Fitterman New York City
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Re: Seeking Records from Palestine (Ukraine>Palestine>US)
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Rose Feldman <rosef@...>
Shalom Eric,
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There are two main repositories for immigration to Palestine. The Central Zionist Archives [CZA]and the Israel State Archives. The Israel Genealogy Research Association [IGRA] in working with the CZA on some of the immigration lists to build databases which will be part of the IGRA collection. The State Archives have scanned some of the lists through 1933, but they are not indexed so you have to go thru page by page. I suggest you follow the IGRA website or facebook for notices of new databases being added. Rose Feldman Israel Genealogy Research Association http://genealogy.org.il http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and Jewish and Israeli roots in particular with http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl From: Eric Ellman <eellman@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:28:04 +0000 (UTC)
I am trying to locate information on several family members during their
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Seeking Records from Palestine (Ukraine>Palestine>US)
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Rose Feldman <rosef@...>
Shalom Eric,
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There are two main repositories for immigration to Palestine. The Central Zionist Archives [CZA]and the Israel State Archives. The Israel Genealogy Research Association [IGRA] in working with the CZA on some of the immigration lists to build databases which will be part of the IGRA collection. The State Archives have scanned some of the lists through 1933, but they are not indexed so you have to go thru page by page. I suggest you follow the IGRA website or facebook for notices of new databases being added. Rose Feldman Israel Genealogy Research Association http://genealogy.org.il http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and Jewish and Israeli roots in particular with http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl From: Eric Ellman <eellman@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:28:04 +0000 (UTC)
I am trying to locate information on several family members during their
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Skalica, Slovakia new KehilaLink
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Yohanan
A new KehilaLink was born and has just been activated - a website about the
Jewish community of Skalica, Slovakia (formerly Szakolcza, Hungary). You may view it at: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/skalica/skalica_index.html Comments and corrections are welcome. If you wish to add any information to the website please contact me to: loeflery@netspace.net.au . We are still missing some more family stories and photos. Thanks to Barbara and Susana for their support! Yohanan Loeffler Melbourne Australia
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Skalica, Slovakia new KehilaLink
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Yohanan
A new KehilaLink was born and has just been activated - a website about the
Jewish community of Skalica, Slovakia (formerly Szakolcza, Hungary). You may view it at: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/skalica/skalica_index.html Comments and corrections are welcome. If you wish to add any information to the website please contact me to: loeflery@netspace.net.au . We are still missing some more family stories and photos. Thanks to Barbara and Susana for their support! Yohanan Loeffler Melbourne Australia
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Lincoln and Jewish Equality
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Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
I was looking up the web site for the NY Historical Society to send to
Judy as a potential source for her knitting mills question. I discovered that the Society currently has an exhibit "Lincoln and the Jews." http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/lincoln-and-the-jews March 20, 2015 thru June 07, 2015 Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination, this exhibition focuses on the significant, and hitherto unknown, relationships and interactions between Abraham Lincoln and his Jewish friends and associates. At a time when Jews comprised less than one-half of one percent of the American population, and with the country rampant with prejudice, Lincoln's positive and meaningful personal relationships with Jewish individuals not only arguably changed him but also had an important and lasting impact on the status of American Jews. Lincoln stood up to his anti-Semitic generals even as he depended upon them to win the war, and became an advocate for Jewish equality and acceptance. Through never-before displayed original documents, artifacts, photographs, Lincoln's own writings, and first person accounts primarily >from the Shapell Manuscript Collection, the exhibition will trace events in Lincoln's life through the lens of his Jewish contemporaries, such as Abraham Jonas, who became Lincoln's political strategist and most valued friend, and Issachar Zacharie, his enigmatic confidant. Furthermore, the exhibition will explore Lincoln's profound interest in and connection to the Old Testament, as exemplified in his wish to see Jerusalem before he died. People in the NYC area might want to check this out. Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, Hyde Park, NY christine3cats@gmail.com
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German SIG #Germany Lincoln and Jewish Equality
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Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
I was looking up the web site for the NY Historical Society to send to
Judy as a potential source for her knitting mills question. I discovered that the Society currently has an exhibit "Lincoln and the Jews." http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/lincoln-and-the-jews March 20, 2015 thru June 07, 2015 Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination, this exhibition focuses on the significant, and hitherto unknown, relationships and interactions between Abraham Lincoln and his Jewish friends and associates. At a time when Jews comprised less than one-half of one percent of the American population, and with the country rampant with prejudice, Lincoln's positive and meaningful personal relationships with Jewish individuals not only arguably changed him but also had an important and lasting impact on the status of American Jews. Lincoln stood up to his anti-Semitic generals even as he depended upon them to win the war, and became an advocate for Jewish equality and acceptance. Through never-before displayed original documents, artifacts, photographs, Lincoln's own writings, and first person accounts primarily >from the Shapell Manuscript Collection, the exhibition will trace events in Lincoln's life through the lens of his Jewish contemporaries, such as Abraham Jonas, who became Lincoln's political strategist and most valued friend, and Issachar Zacharie, his enigmatic confidant. Furthermore, the exhibition will explore Lincoln's profound interest in and connection to the Old Testament, as exemplified in his wish to see Jerusalem before he died. People in the NYC area might want to check this out. Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, Hyde Park, NY christine3cats@gmail.com
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JGSLA Assisted Research Day with Ancestry.com's Crista Cowan - Sunday, April 12
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Pamela Weisberger
Come join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles at our next program:
"Members Only Assisted Research Day" with Crista Cowan of Ancestry.com Sunday, April 12, 2015: 11:30AM - 6:00PM Los Angeles FamilySearch Library 10742 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles 90049 Join us for a fun-filled day of making strides in your genealogical research and learning >from the experts. You'll have access to the LDS microfilm collection, the full JGSLA library, online subscription databases (FindMyPast, Ancestry.com, Fold3) mentoring and help from our volunteers, and free translators for your German, Russian, Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew documents or headstones. Our special guest, Crista Cowan, the "barefoot genealogist" >from Ancestry.com will give two lectures: 1:30PM - 2:45PM: "Getting the Most Out of Ancestry" 3:45PM - 5:00PM: "Strategies for Breaking Through Your Brick Walls" During the hour break between talks, Crista will be available to help answer your stickiest Ancestry research questions and there will be plenty of time after each talk for discussion. Make sure to bring your notes, trees, photos and brick wall documentation...and we'll do our best to help you! Crista Cowan has been doing genealogy since she was a child and is one of the most popular speakers at the major family history conferences and workshops. She has been employed at Ancestry.com since 2004 as the Community Alliance Manager. You must be a current JGSLA member to attend this program, but you can join or renew at the door. Appointments for translations will be taken in advance. Go to our home page for details: www.jgsla.org Pamela Weisberger Program Chair, JGSLA pweisberger@gmail.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGSLA Assisted Research Day with Ancestry.com's Crista Cowan - Sunday, April 12
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Pamela Weisberger
Come join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles at our next program:
"Members Only Assisted Research Day" with Crista Cowan of Ancestry.com Sunday, April 12, 2015: 11:30AM - 6:00PM Los Angeles FamilySearch Library 10742 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles 90049 Join us for a fun-filled day of making strides in your genealogical research and learning >from the experts. You'll have access to the LDS microfilm collection, the full JGSLA library, online subscription databases (FindMyPast, Ancestry.com, Fold3) mentoring and help from our volunteers, and free translators for your German, Russian, Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew documents or headstones. Our special guest, Crista Cowan, the "barefoot genealogist" >from Ancestry.com will give two lectures: 1:30PM - 2:45PM: "Getting the Most Out of Ancestry" 3:45PM - 5:00PM: "Strategies for Breaking Through Your Brick Walls" During the hour break between talks, Crista will be available to help answer your stickiest Ancestry research questions and there will be plenty of time after each talk for discussion. Make sure to bring your notes, trees, photos and brick wall documentation...and we'll do our best to help you! Crista Cowan has been doing genealogy since she was a child and is one of the most popular speakers at the major family history conferences and workshops. She has been employed at Ancestry.com since 2004 as the Community Alliance Manager. You must be a current JGSLA member to attend this program, but you can join or renew at the door. Appointments for translations will be taken in advance. Go to our home page for details: www.jgsla.org Pamela Weisberger Program Chair, JGSLA pweisberger@gmail.com
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JGS of Montreal's next program: Jeffrey Gorney, "Remembered Voices", Monday, April 13, 2015
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Merle Kastner <merlek@...>
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
in association with the Jewish Public Library is pleased to announce as our guest speaker: Jeffrey Gorney 'Remembered Voices' The meeting will be held on Monday April 13 2015 at 7:30 pm Gelber Conference Centre 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine/1 Carre Cummings This talk explores oral history as a vital path to discovering Jewish roots. Drawing on his recent book 'Mysterious Places: Journey. Memoir. Quest' Jeffrey Gorney tells how vibrant family recollections of a Romanian shtetl inspired him. He will discuss his journeys to Romania: first shortly after the Romanian Revolution then years later as photographer on assignment in a vastly changed nation. Jeffrey will relate what it means to actually visit ancestral lands, Jewish identity before and after World War II and how Romanian pogroms helped shape the Holocaust. *Following Jeffrey's talk, there will be a sale and signing of his book* For all information on our upcoming meetings & Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshops - call the JGS of Montreal Hotline - 24 hours a day: 514-484-0969 Please visit our website: http://jgs-montreal.org/ and 'friend' us in Facebook Merle Kastner Programming merlek@bell.net
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGS of Montreal's next program: Jeffrey Gorney, "Remembered Voices", Monday, April 13, 2015
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Merle Kastner <merlek@...>
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
in association with the Jewish Public Library is pleased to announce as our guest speaker: Jeffrey Gorney 'Remembered Voices' The meeting will be held on Monday April 13 2015 at 7:30 pm Gelber Conference Centre 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine/1 Carre Cummings This talk explores oral history as a vital path to discovering Jewish roots. Drawing on his recent book 'Mysterious Places: Journey. Memoir. Quest' Jeffrey Gorney tells how vibrant family recollections of a Romanian shtetl inspired him. He will discuss his journeys to Romania: first shortly after the Romanian Revolution then years later as photographer on assignment in a vastly changed nation. Jeffrey will relate what it means to actually visit ancestral lands, Jewish identity before and after World War II and how Romanian pogroms helped shape the Holocaust. *Following Jeffrey's talk, there will be a sale and signing of his book* For all information on our upcoming meetings & Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshops - call the JGS of Montreal Hotline - 24 hours a day: 514-484-0969 Please visit our website: http://jgs-montreal.org/ and 'friend' us in Facebook Merle Kastner Programming merlek@bell.net
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