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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).
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Dedicate a Week of Research
#ciechanow
#poland
Anne Vaccari
Research Dedications: Week of April 8, 2019 by Anonymous, "In memory of
Samantha Josephson. May God comfort her mourners among the mourners of Tzion v'Yerushalayim." To dedicate a day of research, please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/PayPal.asp Best regards, Anne Vaccari Associate JewishGen.org
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#Ciechanow #Poland Dedicate a Week of Research
#ciechanow
#poland
Anne Vaccari
Research Dedications: Week of April 8, 2019 by Anonymous, "In memory of
Samantha Josephson. May God comfort her mourners among the mourners of Tzion v'Yerushalayim." To dedicate a day of research, please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/PayPal.asp Best regards, Anne Vaccari Associate JewishGen.org
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Searching: BRANZBURG from Vitebsk
#belarus
aryenudelman@...
Hi
My wife's grandmother, Galia BRANZBURG (Gilula) is looking for her maternal side relatives, she did mtDNA test of FTDNA She was born in Vitebsk Belarus ~1936 (she is alive yet the date is inaccurate). I found her father's side his name was Tsodik BRANZBURG he had a lot of something made him leave to Birubijan during the 30's. Galia with her Mother Dvoira and Grandmother Hanna (Channa) evacuated toward Astrakhan before the WWII (~1941) Hanna and Dvoira died in some hospital somewhere in the Astrakhan area, they died >from coldness and starving. Galia was only ~5 years old, during the being at Astrakhan Galia's mother & grandmother met Fruma, after their death , more accurate after the WWII at 1946 Fruma took Galiya to her (Fruma) aunt Fiega Resnik in belts Moldova, during the travel Fruma lost all Galia's documents so Galia only remembers the names that were mentioned, Galia lived there with adoptive parent. Fiega Resnik since 7 till she married to Itzhak Gilula when she was 25. Fiega Resnik had few kids of her own that were envy to Galia thus Galia worked very hard at Fiega house jobs. She would be very happy if she could somehow find more information>about her mother/Grandmother Channa or even other details about her maternal side. Thanks for any assistance Arye Nudelman MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately with family information.
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Searching: BRANZBURG from Vitebsk
#belarus
aryenudelman@...
Hi
My wife's grandmother, Galia BRANZBURG (Gilula) is looking for her maternal side relatives, she did mtDNA test of FTDNA She was born in Vitebsk Belarus ~1936 (she is alive yet the date is inaccurate). I found her father's side his name was Tsodik BRANZBURG he had a lot of something made him leave to Birubijan during the 30's. Galia with her Mother Dvoira and Grandmother Hanna (Channa) evacuated toward Astrakhan before the WWII (~1941) Hanna and Dvoira died in some hospital somewhere in the Astrakhan area, they died >from coldness and starving. Galia was only ~5 years old, during the being at Astrakhan Galia's mother & grandmother met Fruma, after their death , more accurate after the WWII at 1946 Fruma took Galiya to her (Fruma) aunt Fiega Resnik in belts Moldova, during the travel Fruma lost all Galia's documents so Galia only remembers the names that were mentioned, Galia lived there with adoptive parent. Fiega Resnik since 7 till she married to Itzhak Gilula when she was 25. Fiega Resnik had few kids of her own that were envy to Galia thus Galia worked very hard at Fiega house jobs. She would be very happy if she could somehow find more information>about her mother/Grandmother Channa or even other details about her maternal side. Thanks for any assistance Arye Nudelman MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately with family information.
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JOWBR Update
#belarus
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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Belarus SIG #Belarus JOWBR Update
#belarus
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JOWBR Update
#general
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JOWBR Update
#yizkorbooks
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JOWBR Update
#general
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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Yizkor Books #YizkorBooks JOWBR Update
#yizkorbooks
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JOWBR Update
#dna
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JOWBR Update
#latvia
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JOWBR Update
#rabbinic
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JOWBR Update
#scandinavia
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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JOWBR Update
#sephardic
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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DNA Research #DNA JOWBR Update
#dna
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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Latvia SIG #Latvia JOWBR Update
#latvia
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic JOWBR Update
#rabbinic
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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Scandinavia SIG #Scandinavia JOWBR Update
#scandinavia
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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Sephardic SIG #Sephardim JOWBR Update
#sephardic
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest 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 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. 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 additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, 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 VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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