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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.

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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?

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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?

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Can I still search though old messages?

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Send your questions to: support@JewishGen.org

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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?

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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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Re: CEMETERY OF BEREGSZASZ OR BEREGOVO #ukraine Bud484BG@... #301788 I would be interested in the same information on the BERKOVETSKY cemetery in Kiev for my MINKOVSKY/TALALAYEVSKY family research. Beatrice Markel Redondo Beach
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: CEMETERY OF BEREGSZASZ OR BEREGOVO #ukraine Bud484BG@... #622008 I would be interested in the same information on the BERKOVETSKY cemetery in Kiev for my MINKOVSKY/TALALAYEVSKY family research. Beatrice Markel Redondo Beach
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E-Mail Address Change #germany Gunther Steinberg <beagun27@...> #39183 Excuse the Off-topic item to occasional correspondents. I changed my E-mail address from OLD <<Gunther-Steinberg-PV@...>> OLD to: NEW: <beagun27@...> Thank you. Gunther Steinberg Portola Valley CA 94028 Tel: 650-854-0726 <mailto: beagun27@...>
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German SIG #Germany E-Mail Address Change #germany Gunther Steinberg <beagun27@...> #359572 Excuse the Off-topic item to occasional correspondents. I changed my E-mail address from OLD <<Gunther-Steinberg-PV@...>> OLD to: NEW: <beagun27@...> Thank you. Gunther Steinberg Portola Valley CA 94028 Tel: 650-854-0726 <mailto: beagun27@...>
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Re: h-sig digest: January 06, 2003 #hungary KELENno1@... #73066 I would like to inform you that my email address has changed. Please send all future emails to kelenno1@... instead of kelenno1@.... Thank you. Eva Weiss Moderator VK: Your H-SIG moderator is not responsible for changing the status of your subscription. Please send all change of status messages to <listserv@...> H-SIG's robot computer address. For a change of e-mail address cancel your old subscription and resubscribe using the instructions below. For this option: Send this message: ------------------------- ---------------------------------- To subscribe and receive individual messages: subscribe h-sig Firstname Lastname Example: subscribe h-sig Jane Lavin To receive digests set h-sig digest (instead of individual messages) To temporarily stop mail: set h-sig nomail To restore mail delivery: set h-sig mail To unsubscribe: unsubscribe h-sig For a complete list of List Server Commands: info commands "mail/nomail" toggles receipt of mail
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help in translation #hungary renato mannheimer #73067 Dear h-siggers, I would like to ask if somebody could translate for me >from Hungarian to English these few lines. Thank you! Please answer privately renato@... Renato Mannheimer Milano Italy MANNHEIM József (Pápa, 1820 - Baja, 1893. máj. 23.) tanár, író. Honvédként végigküzdötte a szabadságharcot, majd a bajai zsidóiskolában tanított. Muveibol: Áhítatosság órái. - A zsidó nemzet története. - Magyar-német és francia köszönto.
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: h-sig digest: January 06, 2003 #hungary KELENno1@... #393402 I would like to inform you that my email address has changed. Please send all future emails to kelenno1@... instead of kelenno1@.... Thank you. Eva Weiss Moderator VK: Your H-SIG moderator is not responsible for changing the status of your subscription. Please send all change of status messages to <listserv@...> H-SIG's robot computer address. For a change of e-mail address cancel your old subscription and resubscribe using the instructions below. For this option: Send this message: ------------------------- ---------------------------------- To subscribe and receive individual messages: subscribe h-sig Firstname Lastname Example: subscribe h-sig Jane Lavin To receive digests set h-sig digest (instead of individual messages) To temporarily stop mail: set h-sig nomail To restore mail delivery: set h-sig mail To unsubscribe: unsubscribe h-sig For a complete list of List Server Commands: info commands "mail/nomail" toggles receipt of mail
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Hungary SIG #Hungary help in translation #hungary renato mannheimer #393403 Dear h-siggers, I would like to ask if somebody could translate for me >from Hungarian to English these few lines. Thank you! Please answer privately renato@... Renato Mannheimer Milano Italy MANNHEIM József (Pápa, 1820 - Baja, 1893. máj. 23.) tanár, író. Honvédként végigküzdötte a szabadságharcot, majd a bajai zsidóiskolában tanított. Muveibol: Áhítatosság órái. - A zsidó nemzet története. - Magyar-német és francia köszönto.
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Re: Kormend 203 #hungary Margarita Lacko <mishpologia@...> #73065 Looking in the Gyongyos (Gyöngyös) microfilms, I also found these numbers. In the death records, sometimes they are followed by the abbreviation: hasz. hsz h. sz. They are house numbers (házszám). Margarita Lackó from "the island" in Miami GENEALOGY: © <mailto:mishpologia@...> <mailto:uzidog@...> <mailto:uzidog2000@...> Searching for FISCHERs, HEBERs, HANOFER/HANNOVERs and KRAUSZ-KOHN -----Original Message----- From: d pfalzer [mailto:d_pfalzer@...] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 22:42 To: Hungarian SIG Subject: [h-sig] Kormend 203 Hi, I have found the address Kormend 203 in the microfilm I have been looking at recently. I was hoping some erudite person would help me understand what it is refering to. It is a house address? a section of town? There are various other numbers found in the films. Generally they seem to have three digits. Sometimes the locations are given just as Kormend without any numbers. Many thanks for your help with this! Denise Moderator: If you are unable to scan the record in which you found this reference you will probably need to provide more info if you'd like any assistance in deciphering this entry. What was the heading on the column in which you found this entry? What other information is provided in the same entry? What language is the record? What year? What is the location (county and town)? What country (pre-Trianon Hungary, post-Trianon Czechoslovakia, etc. etc.)?
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Hungary SIG #Hungary RE: Kormend 203 #hungary Margarita Lacko <mishpologia@...> #393401 Looking in the Gyongyos (Gyöngyös) microfilms, I also found these numbers. In the death records, sometimes they are followed by the abbreviation: hasz. hsz h. sz. They are house numbers (házszám). Margarita Lackó from "the island" in Miami GENEALOGY: © <mailto:mishpologia@...> <mailto:uzidog@...> <mailto:uzidog2000@...> Searching for FISCHERs, HEBERs, HANOFER/HANNOVERs and KRAUSZ-KOHN -----Original Message----- From: d pfalzer [mailto:d_pfalzer@...] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 22:42 To: Hungarian SIG Subject: [h-sig] Kormend 203 Hi, I have found the address Kormend 203 in the microfilm I have been looking at recently. I was hoping some erudite person would help me understand what it is refering to. It is a house address? a section of town? There are various other numbers found in the films. Generally they seem to have three digits. Sometimes the locations are given just as Kormend without any numbers. Many thanks for your help with this! Denise Moderator: If you are unable to scan the record in which you found this reference you will probably need to provide more info if you'd like any assistance in deciphering this entry. What was the heading on the column in which you found this entry? What other information is provided in the same entry? What language is the record? What year? What is the location (county and town)? What country (pre-Trianon Hungary, post-Trianon Czechoslovakia, etc. etc.)?
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Re: Kormend 203 #hungary GilaMiriam Chait <gilamiriamchait@...> #73063 I have found a similar phenomenon in addresses in the village of Gyorasszonyfa as well as other villages near it and presume that each house in the village had its own number. I have the impression that sometimes more than one family, or an extended family lived in each house. It would appear that they didn't have named streets. Gila Miriam Chait --- d pfalzer <d_pfalzer@...> wrote: > ~~~~~~~~~~JewishGen's Annual Appeal and toggle quoted messageShow quoted text YOU~~~~~~~~~~~~ $300,000 needed by year end. $159,466 raised Aug 5 to Dec 6 $140,534 to go! www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Contribute.ihtml ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi, I have found the address Kormend 203 in the microfilm I have been looking at recently. I was hoping some erudite person would help me understand what it is refering to. It is a house address? a section of town? There are various other numbers found in the films. Generally they seem to have three digits. Sometimes the locations are given just as Kormend without any numbers. Many thanks for your help with this! Denise Moderator: If you are unable to scan the record in which you found this reference you will probably need to provide more info if you'd like any assistance in deciphering this entry. What was the heading on the column in which you found this entry? What other information is provided in the same entry? What language is the record? What year? What is the location (county and town)? What country (pre-Trianon Hungary, post-Trianon Czechoslovakia, etc. etc.)?
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Re: Kormend 203 #hungary AttilaRona@... #73064 It was probably the house number where they lived. Attila Rona
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: Kormend 203 #hungary GilaMiriam Chait <gilamiriamchait@...> #393399 I have found a similar phenomenon in addresses in the village of Gyorasszonyfa as well as other villages near it and presume that each house in the village had its own number. I have the impression that sometimes more than one family, or an extended family lived in each house. It would appear that they didn't have named streets. Gila Miriam Chait --- d pfalzer <d_pfalzer@...> wrote: > ~~~~~~~~~~JewishGen's Annual Appeal and toggle quoted messageShow quoted text YOU~~~~~~~~~~~~ $300,000 needed by year end. $159,466 raised Aug 5 to Dec 6 $140,534 to go! www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Contribute.ihtml ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi, I have found the address Kormend 203 in the microfilm I have been looking at recently. I was hoping some erudite person would help me understand what it is refering to. It is a house address? a section of town? There are various other numbers found in the films. Generally they seem to have three digits. Sometimes the locations are given just as Kormend without any numbers. Many thanks for your help with this! Denise Moderator: If you are unable to scan the record in which you found this reference you will probably need to provide more info if you'd like any assistance in deciphering this entry. What was the heading on the column in which you found this entry? What other information is provided in the same entry? What language is the record? What year? What is the location (county and town)? What country (pre-Trianon Hungary, post-Trianon Czechoslovakia, etc. etc.)?
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: Kormend 203 #hungary AttilaRona@... #393400 It was probably the house number where they lived. Attila Rona
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Yizkor Book update-December 2002 and annual #hungary Joyce Field <jfield@...> #73062 I took a two-week vacation >from Dec. 20- Jan. 4 and I have just about crawled my way out >from under a mountain of emails that poured in during my absence. Hence, the delay in writing the monthly update for the Yizkor Book Project. It's great to get away but hard to return to an avalanche of mail. To those of you who wrote me during my absence, please give me a few more days to reply!!! A reminder to new JewishGen researchers: all translations can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html and a description of the Yizkor Book Project as well as the FAQ, database, libraries, and other matters can be accessed >from http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/. During December 2002 we added 3 books, 2 new entries , and 11 updates. New books: -Dusetos, Lithuania -Suprasl, Poland -Tomaszow, Poland New entries: -Dorosauti, Romania (Pinkas HaKehillot Romania) -Poddebice, Poland (Pinkas HaKehillot Poland, volume 1) Updates: -Buchach, Ukraine -Gorodenka (Horodenka), Ukraine -Lida, Belarus -Miklulintsy, Ukraine -Pinsk, Belarus -Radekhov, Ukraine -Rokitnoye, Ukraine -Rozniatow, Ukraine -Slutsk, Belarus -Sokoly, Poland -Staszow, Poland 2002 was a productive year for the Yizkor Book Project. We added 29 new books and 97 entries, and updated 188 books. We had approximately 270,000 hits in December and over 2.8 million hits to the web site for the year, a record. All this would not have been possible without the dedicated volunteer Yizkor Book Staff, especially Lance Ackerfeld, the generous donors who contributed translations, the incredibly hard-working and talented project coordinators, and finally the financial donors whose contributions allowed us to hire translators. A Happy and Peaceful New Year to you all. We look forward to another successful year. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Research
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Yizkor Book update-December 2002 and annual #hungary Joyce Field <jfield@...> #393398 I took a two-week vacation >from Dec. 20- Jan. 4 and I have just about crawled my way out >from under a mountain of emails that poured in during my absence. Hence, the delay in writing the monthly update for the Yizkor Book Project. It's great to get away but hard to return to an avalanche of mail. To those of you who wrote me during my absence, please give me a few more days to reply!!! A reminder to new JewishGen researchers: all translations can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html and a description of the Yizkor Book Project as well as the FAQ, database, libraries, and other matters can be accessed >from http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/. During December 2002 we added 3 books, 2 new entries , and 11 updates. New books: -Dusetos, Lithuania -Suprasl, Poland -Tomaszow, Poland New entries: -Dorosauti, Romania (Pinkas HaKehillot Romania) -Poddebice, Poland (Pinkas HaKehillot Poland, volume 1) Updates: -Buchach, Ukraine -Gorodenka (Horodenka), Ukraine -Lida, Belarus -Miklulintsy, Ukraine -Pinsk, Belarus -Radekhov, Ukraine -Rokitnoye, Ukraine -Rozniatow, Ukraine -Slutsk, Belarus -Sokoly, Poland -Staszow, Poland 2002 was a productive year for the Yizkor Book Project. We added 29 new books and 97 entries, and updated 188 books. We had approximately 270,000 hits in December and over 2.8 million hits to the web site for the year, a record. All this would not have been possible without the dedicated volunteer Yizkor Book Staff, especially Lance Ackerfeld, the generous donors who contributed translations, the incredibly hard-working and talented project coordinators, and finally the financial donors whose contributions allowed us to hire translators. A Happy and Peaceful New Year to you all. We look forward to another successful year. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Research
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History of (the) Latvian Jews #latvia Sandra and Donald Hirschhorn <donsandyh@...> #255096 We have just learned >from the publisher of "History of the Latvian Jews" that this book is almost out of stock. There are very few copies still available. Therefore, if any of you are interested in obtaining a copy we suggest you don't wait any longer. It is available on the JewishGenMall http://www.jewishgenmall.org at a special price. Go into the Mall and type COL129 into the "Browse by Title or Mall Code" line and click "Search" for a description and price information. Have your credit card ready and follow the ordering instructions. All profits go to help support JewishGen. Sandra and Donald Hirschhorn Managers, JewishGenMall
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Latvia SIG #Latvia History of (the) Latvian Jews #latvia Sandra and Donald Hirschhorn <donsandyh@...> #575380 We have just learned >from the publisher of "History of the Latvian Jews" that this book is almost out of stock. There are very few copies still available. Therefore, if any of you are interested in obtaining a copy we suggest you don't wait any longer. It is available on the JewishGenMall http://www.jewishgenmall.org at a special price. Go into the Mall and type COL129 into the "Browse by Title or Mall Code" line and click "Search" for a description and price information. Have your credit card ready and follow the ordering instructions. All profits go to help support JewishGen. Sandra and Donald Hirschhorn Managers, JewishGenMall
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Research help #ukraine Emabear@... #301783 If this question has been answered already please forgive me. I have printed out, >from Ellis Island database, many names of people with my mother's maiden name, with various spellings. She does not recognize any of the names but was only ten when she arrived in the States in 1921. What would be the next step in trying to track down these names since I have no clue as to where they went once here? If this question was answered previous could someone with a suggestion write me off line. Thank you. Ellen Mayers Ginsburg searching Marutchnik (Odessa) and Leitchzer, Brasotsky (Stavische - Ukraine)
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Research help #ukraine Emabear@... #622003 If this question has been answered already please forgive me. I have printed out, >from Ellis Island database, many names of people with my mother's maiden name, with various spellings. She does not recognize any of the names but was only ten when she arrived in the States in 1921. What would be the next step in trying to track down these names since I have no clue as to where they went once here? If this question was answered previous could someone with a suggestion write me off line. Thank you. Ellen Mayers Ginsburg searching Marutchnik (Odessa) and Leitchzer, Brasotsky (Stavische - Ukraine)
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