JewishGen.org Discussion Group FAQs
What is the JewishGen.org Discussion Group?
The JewishGen.org Discussion Group unites thousands of Jewish genealogical researchers worldwide as they research their family history, search for relatives, and share information, ideas, methods, tips, techniques, and resources. The JewishGen.org Discussion Group makes it easy, quick, and fun, to connect with others around the world.
Is it Secure?
Yes. JewishGen is using a state of the art platform with the most contemporary security standards. JewishGen will never share member information with third parties.
How is the New JewishGen.org Discussion Group better than the old one?
Our old Discussion List platform was woefully antiquated. Among its many challenges: it was not secure, it required messages to be sent in Plain Text, did not support accented characters or languages other than English, could not display links or images, and had archives that were not mobile-friendly.
This new platform that JewishGen is using is a scalable, and sustainable solution, and allows us to engage with JewishGen members throughout the world. It offers a simple and intuitive interface for both members and moderators, more powerful tools, and more secure archives (which are easily accessible on mobile devices, and which also block out personal email addresses to the public).
I am a JewishGen member, why do I have to create a separate account for the Discussion Group?
As we continue to modernize our platform, we are trying to ensure that everything meets contemporary security standards. In the future, we plan hope to have one single sign-in page.
I like how the current lists work. Will I still be able to send/receive emails of posts (and/or digests)?
Yes. In terms of functionality, the group will operate the same for people who like to participate with email. People can still send a message to an email address (in this case, main@groups.JewishGen.org), and receive a daily digest of postings, or individual emails. In addition, Members can also receive a daily summary of topics, and then choose which topics they would like to read about it. However, in addition to email, there is the additional functionality of being able to read/post messages utilizing our online forum (https://groups.jewishgen.org).
Does this new system require plain-text?
No.
Can I post images, accented characters, different colors/font sizes, non-latin characters?
Yes.
Can I categorize a message? For example, if my message is related to Polish, or Ukraine research, can I indicate as such?
Yes! Our new platform allows members to use “Hashtags.” Messages can then be sorted, and searched, based upon how they are categorized. Another advantage is that members can “mute” any conversations they are not interested in, by simply indicating they are not interested in a particular “hashtag.”
Will all posts be archived?
Yes.
Can I still search though old messages?
Yes. All the messages are accessible and searchable going back to 1998.
What if I have questions or need assistance using the new Group?
Send your questions to: support@JewishGen.org
How do I access the Group’s webpage?
Follow this link: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main
So just to be sure - this new group will allow us to post from our mobile phones, includes images, accented characters, and non-latin characters, and does not require plain text?
Correct!
Will there be any ads or annoying pop-ups?
No.
Will the current guidelines change?
Yes. While posts will be moderated to ensure civility, and that there is nothing posted that is inappropriate (or completely unrelated to genealogy), we will be trying to create an online community of people who regulate themselves, much as they do (very successfully) on Jewish Genealogy Portal on Facebook.
What are the new guidelines?
There are just a few simple rules & guidelines to follow, which you can read here:https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/guidelines
Thank you in advance for contributing to this amazing online community!
If you have any questions, or suggestions, please email support@JewishGen.org.
Sincerely,
The JewishGen.org Team
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JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#rabbinic
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#rabbinic
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#scandinavia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#scandinavia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#sephardic
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#rabbinic
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#rabbinic
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Scandinavia SIG #Scandinavia JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#scandinavia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Scandinavia SIG #Scandinavia Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#scandinavia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Sephardic SIG #Sephardim JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#sephardic
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#dna
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#dna
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#latvia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#latvia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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DNA Research #DNA JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#dna
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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DNA Research #DNA Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#dna
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Latvia SIG #Latvia JOWBR Update - JOWBR Grows to Over 3.3 Million Records!
#latvia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR
(JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 100,000 new records and 34,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 510 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.33 million records and 594,000 photos from approximately 7,750 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 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. Significant new and updated sets to the database include collections from Belarus, Czech Republic, Moldova, France, Germany, England, Poland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, United States and Zimbabwe. We've also added a large number of Montreal, Canada headstone photos. For a complete listing please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been helping me to find and gain permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennett, Lineke Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Cori Plucer, Deborah Ross, Marylin Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. 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 VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Latvia SIG #Latvia Memorial Plaques Update - Database Grows to More Than 177,500 Records. Please help us grow!
#latvia
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2018 pre-Conference update for the
Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added approximately 8,400 records and 6,900 photos. This update brings the Memorial Plaques holdings to 177,500 records and 124,000 photos from 263 synagogues / institutions representing 11 countries.We believe that the MPD 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. For a complete listing of the institutions currently in the database, please see http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition June, 2018
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Logan J. Kleinwaks
The JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG will meet during the IAJGS Conference
in Warsaw on Monday, August 6, 1:30-2:30 PM in room Katowice-Boardroom. If you think you might attend, please email me and include the Danzig surnames you are researching and the date ranges for which you would most like to see Danzig records (e.g., 1930s, late 18th century). Please also let me know if you plan to visit Gdansk during your trip to Poland. I will discuss the known Danzig Jewish genealogical sources, focusing on the sources most relevant to the research interests of the attendees who emailed me and on recently acquired sources. I will also report on some of the sources at the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin, which I will examine just before the conference. Also, if you might be interested in volunteering to transcribe or proofread Danzig records -- German (handwritten Kurrent-script, normal handwritten, or typewritten) or Hebrew (handwritten cursive or print) -- please contact me. We have several datasets that only need proofreading before they can be added to searchable databases on JewishGen and we have new projects waiting for volunteers. Logan Kleinwaks Coordinator, JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG kleinwaks@alumni.princeton.edu near Washington, D.C.
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Logan J. Kleinwaks
The JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG will meet during the IAJGS Conference
in Warsaw on Monday, August 6, 1:30-2:30 PM in room Katowice-Boardroom. If you think you might attend, please email me and include the Danzig surnames you are researching and the date ranges for which you would most like to see Danzig records (e.g., 1930s, late 18th century). Please also let me know if you plan to visit Gdansk during your trip to Poland. I will discuss the known Danzig Jewish genealogical sources, focusing on the sources most relevant to the research interests of the attendees who emailed me and on recently acquired sources. I will also report on some of the sources at the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin, which I will examine just before the conference. Also, if you might be interested in volunteering to transcribe or proofread Danzig records -- German (handwritten Kurrent-script, normal handwritten, or typewritten) or Hebrew (handwritten cursive or print) -- please contact me. We have several datasets that only need proofreading before they can be added to searchable databases on JewishGen and we have new projects waiting for volunteers. Logan Kleinwaks Coordinator, JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG kleinwaks@alumni.princeton.edu near Washington, D.C.
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