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
JewishGen Update
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Dear JewishGen Community,
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French SIG #France JewishGen Update
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Dear JewishGen Community,
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JewishGen Update
#yiddish
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Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre JewishGen Update
#yiddish
bounce-3666663-772983@...
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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ViewMate Translation request #72538
#general
Walter Rosett
I need a translation of the back of two photos. I have been told that it is Yiddish
written in Hebrew. Both are short and in one photo # 72538. You may respond on the image page. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72538 Walter Rosett
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate Translation request #72538
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Walter Rosett
I need a translation of the back of two photos. I have been told that it is Yiddish
written in Hebrew. Both are short and in one photo # 72538. You may respond on the image page. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72538 Walter Rosett
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SUGARMAN, Sam and Dora - Baltimore, Maryland
#general
Claudia Kugelmass
I'm helping someone find information about her grand and greatgrandparents.
Known: Dora (possibly also SUGARMAN) was born in 1900 in Austria. Dora's mother died in childbirth; father was in the Polish army. At age 13 (1913), Dora was sent to the U.S. Dora married Samuel SUGARMAN in Baltimore, Md. in around 1917. They had one child, Lillian, born 1818. At some point - likely not longer after - Dora, with her daughter only, moved to Canada. Samuel SUGARMAN is said to have died young of meningitis. I've verified that Dora's expatriation was processed in 1938 and she applied for Canadian naturalization. I can't find anything about Samuel SUGARMAN >from Baltimore. I am fully aware that I'm tossing out a story with little detail hoping for a miracle. Thanks in advance. Claudia Kugelmass claudiakugelmass@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen SUGARMAN, Sam and Dora - Baltimore, Maryland
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Claudia Kugelmass
I'm helping someone find information about her grand and greatgrandparents.
Known: Dora (possibly also SUGARMAN) was born in 1900 in Austria. Dora's mother died in childbirth; father was in the Polish army. At age 13 (1913), Dora was sent to the U.S. Dora married Samuel SUGARMAN in Baltimore, Md. in around 1917. They had one child, Lillian, born 1818. At some point - likely not longer after - Dora, with her daughter only, moved to Canada. Samuel SUGARMAN is said to have died young of meningitis. I've verified that Dora's expatriation was processed in 1938 and she applied for Canadian naturalization. I can't find anything about Samuel SUGARMAN >from Baltimore. I am fully aware that I'm tossing out a story with little detail hoping for a miracle. Thanks in advance. Claudia Kugelmass claudiakugelmass@...
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JewishGen Update
#general
Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JewishGen Update
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Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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JewishGen Update
#unitedkingdom
Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom JewishGen Update
#unitedkingdom
Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
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Bruce Drake
Jewish life hundred years ago in Korczyn >from the Yizkor book of
Korczyna in the southeast tip of Poland, is a wonderful compendium of details about life in this mostly Hasidic community which had a population of about 1,000 in 1900. You learn how the men and women dressed (a married man always wore a streimel, or fur hat, and married women had their heads shaved and wore a kerchief); what people did for the sick; and how the Sabbath was observed. Parental respect has its own section of the chapter: In those days, the father was the patriarch of the family in all respects and his word was law.There is much to say about the rituals of marriage >from the work of the matchmaker to the day before the wedding when the excited and nervous bride and groom first met: Love did not exist in Korczyn a 100 years ago. If a marriage resulted as a result of love, the parents would not divulge it for it was considered in poor taste. Korczyn met the fate of the other Jewish communities during the Holocaust. It is noted elsewhere in this book that With the end of the war, 15 men and one woman survived the German occupation and 11 men and 6 woman survived in Russia the war. These are all the survivors of the Jewish community of Korczyn. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2192578187430991?__tn__=K-R Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD. Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#general
Bruce Drake
Jewish life hundred years ago in Korczyn >from the Yizkor book of
Korczyna in the southeast tip of Poland, is a wonderful compendium of details about life in this mostly Hasidic community which had a population of about 1,000 in 1900. You learn how the men and women dressed (a married man always wore a streimel, or fur hat, and married women had their heads shaved and wore a kerchief); what people did for the sick; and how the Sabbath was observed. Parental respect has its own section of the chapter: In those days, the father was the patriarch of the family in all respects and his word was law.There is much to say about the rituals of marriage >from the work of the matchmaker to the day before the wedding when the excited and nervous bride and groom first met: Love did not exist in Korczyn a 100 years ago. If a marriage resulted as a result of love, the parents would not divulge it for it was considered in poor taste. Korczyn met the fate of the other Jewish communities during the Holocaust. It is noted elsewhere in this book that With the end of the war, 15 men and one woman survived the German occupation and 11 men and 6 woman survived in Russia the war. These are all the survivors of the Jewish community of Korczyn. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2192578187430991?__tn__=K-R Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD. Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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Jewish Genealogy Facebook Groups
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Melissa Mendelsohn <jewishgenealogysurnameproject@...>
Hi All,
The following link will take you to a list of Facebook Groups pertaining to Jewish Genealogy Research. The most popular link is: Jewish Genealogy FB Groups-listed by Country, then towns. If anyone has groups to add, please email me the link..jewishgenealogysurnameproject@... http://jewishgenealogysurnameproject.com/facebook-groups/ Thanks, Melissa Mendelsohn Searching for: MENDELSOHN-BIRNBERG-BERLADZ TREIBER-TUCKER-ALTMAN-REISMAN TAGER-HANDIN/GANDIN-RUBIN MESHORER/MESHEIRER BERGER-STERN
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Jewish Genealogy Facebook Groups
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Melissa Mendelsohn <jewishgenealogysurnameproject@...>
Hi All,
The following link will take you to a list of Facebook Groups pertaining to Jewish Genealogy Research. The most popular link is: Jewish Genealogy FB Groups-listed by Country, then towns. If anyone has groups to add, please email me the link..jewishgenealogysurnameproject@... http://jewishgenealogysurnameproject.com/facebook-groups/ Thanks, Melissa Mendelsohn Searching for: MENDELSOHN-BIRNBERG-BERLADZ TREIBER-TUCKER-ALTMAN-REISMAN TAGER-HANDIN/GANDIN-RUBIN MESHORER/MESHEIRER BERGER-STERN
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JewishGen Update
#bessarabia
Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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Bessarabia SIG #Bessarabia JewishGen Update
#bessarabia
Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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JewishGen Update
#belarus
Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
Please click the following link for an exciting update regarding the next phase of JewishGen's development and improvement, along with a series of personnel shifts and restructuring that has resulted from our recent strategic reviews. https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/updates.html Avraham Groll Director JewishGen.org
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INTRO - Beginning my Search for Persons named SELO, KORMAN, COHN, VERTUN, WITT or SALTZSTEIN
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Elaine Selo <eselo7284@...>
I have just reactivated my search for members of my family who lived in
Berlin, Germany, Koenigsberg, Germany, Gouda, Holland and Eastern Europe. The information I am researching concerns persons my grandparents, Gertrud COHN-SELO, Max SELO, Great grandparents Doris VERTUN-COHN, Fritz COHN, Great Aunt Anna COHN-WITT, Grandparents Esther SALTZSTEIN-KORMAN, Paul KORMAN. I would be most grateful for any information about any of these relatives or persons they knew. Elaine Selo, Oakland, California eselo7284@...
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