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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.”
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Can I still search though old messages?
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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!
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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!
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The JewishGen.org Team
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Re: Researching Kiev
#ukraine
Steven Rosenberg <stvnrsnbrg@...>
Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a researcher based in Kiev. Please advise if you have had experience with someone you were satisfied with and can send me contact details. With Best Regards. Steven Rosenberg. Moderator Note: Please reply privately.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: Researching Kiev
#ukraine
Steven Rosenberg <stvnrsnbrg@...>
Hi
I am looking for recommendations for a researcher based in Kiev. Please advise if you have had experience with someone you were satisfied with and can send me contact details. With Best Regards. Steven Rosenberg. Moderator Note: Please reply privately.
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Online Journal Fall 2018 issue of theJewish Community of Lithuania newsletter
#lithuania
Carol Hoffman
The Fall 2018 issue of the newsletter of the Jewish Community
of Lithuania is rich in feature articles. Highlights of this newsletter include the memorial of 75 years to the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, the visit of Pope Francis to the Ghetto, Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's visit to Lithuania for the first time, news about the community's youth activities and more. Carol Hoffman The newsletter can be found at; https://www.litvaksig.org/information-and-tools/online-journal/ jewish-community-of-lithuania-newsletter-no-22018
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Online Journal Fall 2018 issue of theJewish Community of Lithuania newsletter
#lithuania
Carol Hoffman
The Fall 2018 issue of the newsletter of the Jewish Community
of Lithuania is rich in feature articles. Highlights of this newsletter include the memorial of 75 years to the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, the visit of Pope Francis to the Ghetto, Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's visit to Lithuania for the first time, news about the community's youth activities and more. Carol Hoffman The newsletter can be found at; https://www.litvaksig.org/information-and-tools/online-journal/ jewish-community-of-lithuania-newsletter-no-22018
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Re: Help Translating Polish marriage record
#general
Raphael Thurm <littletalmid@...>
Shalom,
I recently posted a Polish record on ViewMate which needs translating. This is a marriage record registered in 1827, Jozefow, for Szmul Thorem and Laja Aychel. It can be viewed here. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/responselist.asp?key=69956 I'd be very grateful if anyone can help out. Thanks in advance, Raphael Thurm MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately or on the ViewMate form.
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JRI Poland #Poland re: Help Translating Polish marriage record
#poland
Raphael Thurm <littletalmid@...>
Shalom,
I recently posted a Polish record on ViewMate which needs translating. This is a marriage record registered in 1827, Jozefow, for Szmul Thorem and Laja Aychel. It can be viewed here. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/responselist.asp?key=69956 I'd be very grateful if anyone can help out. Thanks in advance, Raphael Thurm MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately or on the ViewMate form.
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Re: using Tracing the Past
#germany
Ruth & Bruce Lynn <lynn33@...>
Hi everyone,
In contrast to Jeffrey Knisbacher's disappointment in Tracing the Past, I've found new information on more than a dozen family members by using this new database! This new information includes death dates and emigration data that is not included in the Yad Vashem Shoah victims database, nor in the German Jewish Roof Card Collection, nor in the 1939 census online. Of course I also checked the database for many, many more family members who did not turn out to be listed there, but I'm thrilled with all of the new information that I did find. Thanks so much to the creators of the Tracing the Past project! Ruth Nadelman Lynn, Lexington, Mass. lynn33@...
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German SIG #Germany re: using Tracing the Past
#germany
Ruth & Bruce Lynn <lynn33@...>
Hi everyone,
In contrast to Jeffrey Knisbacher's disappointment in Tracing the Past, I've found new information on more than a dozen family members by using this new database! This new information includes death dates and emigration data that is not included in the Yad Vashem Shoah victims database, nor in the German Jewish Roof Card Collection, nor in the 1939 census online. Of course I also checked the database for many, many more family members who did not turn out to be listed there, but I'm thrilled with all of the new information that I did find. Thanks so much to the creators of the Tracing the Past project! Ruth Nadelman Lynn, Lexington, Mass. lynn33@...
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Translation of family eulogy
#general
A relative sent me a pdf file that is a eulogy for a family member. It
is in Hebrew. It is a pdf file which I cannot convert easily into a jpeg file to upload to viewmate. Would appreciate it if someone would translate the eulogy into English for me. Here is a link to the file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJ_f8XzLBSjEu-SKd__RPZlL7nzq1ZiO/view Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD (primary email address: thausner@...) MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Translation of family eulogy
#general
A relative sent me a pdf file that is a eulogy for a family member. It
is in Hebrew. It is a pdf file which I cannot convert easily into a jpeg file to upload to viewmate. Would appreciate it if someone would translate the eulogy into English for me. Here is a link to the file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJ_f8XzLBSjEu-SKd__RPZlL7nzq1ZiO/view Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD (primary email address: thausner@...) MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately.
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Help Translating Polish marriage record
#general
Raphael Thurm <littletalmid@...>
Shalom,
I recently posted a Polish record on ViewMate which needs translating. This is a marriage record registered in 1827, Jozefow, for Szmul Thorem and Laja Aychel. It can be viewed here. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/responselist.asp?key=69956 I'd be very grateful if anyone can help out. Thanks in advance, Raphael Thurm MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately or on the ViewMate response form.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Help Translating Polish marriage record
#general
Raphael Thurm <littletalmid@...>
Shalom,
I recently posted a Polish record on ViewMate which needs translating. This is a marriage record registered in 1827, Jozefow, for Szmul Thorem and Laja Aychel. It can be viewed here. https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/responselist.asp?key=69956 I'd be very grateful if anyone can help out. Thanks in advance, Raphael Thurm MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately or on the ViewMate response form.
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#general
Bruce Drake <BDrake@...>
According to its Yizkor book, "Stryj on earth was destroyed by the
Nazis in 1943, in the year 5703 of the Jewish era." Eleven years after the extermination of the Jews in this Ukraine town, Jonah Friedler recounted the terrible and blood-chilling events that began with the arrival of the Germans, the establishment of the ghetto, and the hardships and horrors the people suffered not only >from the Nazis, but especially the Ukrainians who he called "the axe in the hands of the Gestapo." Friedler's account can best be summed up in his own words: "Death is a dreadful thing, but sevenfold more dreadful was the way that led to it." URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1982947205060758 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 <BDrake@...>
According to its Yizkor book, "Stryj on earth was destroyed by the
Nazis in 1943, in the year 5703 of the Jewish era." Eleven years after the extermination of the Jews in this Ukraine town, Jonah Friedler recounted the terrible and blood-chilling events that began with the arrival of the Germans, the establishment of the ghetto, and the hardships and horrors the people suffered not only >from the Nazis, but especially the Ukrainians who he called "the axe in the hands of the Gestapo." Friedler's account can best be summed up in his own words: "Death is a dreadful thing, but sevenfold more dreadful was the way that led to it." URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1982947205060758 Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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ViewMate translation request - German
#germany
Pierre HAHN
I've posted vital records in German for which I need the genealogical
information. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69996 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69997 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70000 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70002 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70003 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco
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German SIG #Germany ViewMate translation request - German
#germany
Pierre HAHN
I've posted vital records in German for which I need the genealogical
information. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69996 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69997 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70000 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70002 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70003 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco
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Subject: More on Jewish soldiers serving in Franz Yosef's army
#galicia
I subscribe to several discussion groups and earlier this month
responded to a query in Gesher Galicia, posted on October 6, 2018, namely, "Subject: Jewish soldiers serving in Franz Yosef's army." I responded back referring to a dual language (German/English) book I own, published in 1989, by Dr. Erwin A. SCHMIDL, with the English title, "Jews in the Habsburg Armed Forces, 1788-1918." Since that posting, I was inundated by interested individuals asking how they could get a copy (either impossible or very expensive); some wanting to find out if their family member's name was mentioned; and some sending me histories of their soldier-relative. To help them, I copied out the list of names in the book and created a PDF of it. The problem then became, how do I make this available to people? Since the initial query was >from Gesher Galicia, and thinking Poland, I decided to post it at the bottom of this page of my only Polish KehilaLinks site (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/nowy_targ/Nowy_Targ-Other.html). I also managed to contact the writer himself, and Dr. Erwin A. SCHMIDL was very gracious in also providing me with the similar index list for his newer book entitled, "Habsburgs Juedische Soldaten, 1848-1918." This book, published in 2014, is entirely in German, but Dr. SCHMIDL is working on an extended English version that is due out sometime 2019-2010. In the meantime, he sent me the similar list of names and places in the existing German language book. This list (in PDF format) has also been added at the end of the same webpage, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/nowy_targ/Nowy_Targ-Other.html Dr. SCHMIDL (erwin.schmidl@...) added that he would welcome receipt of soldier-histories >from those who have them. Regards, Madeleine Isenberg madeleine.isenberg@... Beverly Hills, CA Researching: GOLDMAN, STEINER, LANGER, GLUECKSMAN, STOTTER, SINGER in various parts of Galicia, Poland, such as: Nowy Targ, Wachsmund, Lopuszna, Ochotnica, possibly Krakow, who migrated into Kezmarok or nearby Straszky/Nagy-Eor/Nehre, both now in Slovakia. GOLDSTEIN in Abaujszina (Sena), Szkaros, Szikso, and Kosice, Slovakia; Tolcsva, Hungary; Possibly Timosoara, Romania
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Subject: More on Jewish soldiers serving in Franz Yosef's army
#galicia
I subscribe to several discussion groups and earlier this month
responded to a query in Gesher Galicia, posted on October 6, 2018, namely, "Subject: Jewish soldiers serving in Franz Yosef's army." I responded back referring to a dual language (German/English) book I own, published in 1989, by Dr. Erwin A. SCHMIDL, with the English title, "Jews in the Habsburg Armed Forces, 1788-1918." Since that posting, I was inundated by interested individuals asking how they could get a copy (either impossible or very expensive); some wanting to find out if their family member's name was mentioned; and some sending me histories of their soldier-relative. To help them, I copied out the list of names in the book and created a PDF of it. The problem then became, how do I make this available to people? Since the initial query was >from Gesher Galicia, and thinking Poland, I decided to post it at the bottom of this page of my only Polish KehilaLinks site (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/nowy_targ/Nowy_Targ-Other.html). I also managed to contact the writer himself, and Dr. Erwin A. SCHMIDL was very gracious in also providing me with the similar index list for his newer book entitled, "Habsburgs Juedische Soldaten, 1848-1918." This book, published in 2014, is entirely in German, but Dr. SCHMIDL is working on an extended English version that is due out sometime 2019-2010. In the meantime, he sent me the similar list of names and places in the existing German language book. This list (in PDF format) has also been added at the end of the same webpage, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/nowy_targ/Nowy_Targ-Other.html Dr. SCHMIDL (erwin.schmidl@...) added that he would welcome receipt of soldier-histories >from those who have them. Regards, Madeleine Isenberg madeleine.isenberg@... Beverly Hills, CA Researching: GOLDMAN, STEINER, LANGER, GLUECKSMAN, STOTTER, SINGER in various parts of Galicia, Poland, such as: Nowy Targ, Wachsmund, Lopuszna, Ochotnica, possibly Krakow, who migrated into Kezmarok or nearby Straszky/Nagy-Eor/Nehre, both now in Slovakia. GOLDSTEIN in Abaujszina (Sena), Szkaros, Szikso, and Kosice, Slovakia; Tolcsva, Hungary; Possibly Timosoara, Romania
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ViewMate translation request - German
#france
Pierre HAHN
I've posted vital records in German for which I need the genealogical
information. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69996 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69997 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70000 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70002 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70003 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. -- Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco
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French SIG #France ViewMate translation request - German
#france
Pierre HAHN
I've posted vital records in German for which I need the genealogical
information. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69996 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69997 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70000 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70002 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM70003 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. -- Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco
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