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Re: Scanning Documents and Photos - personal preferences #general

Bob, Eva, Ari I keep the originals that I have been given or are mine. I return borrowed photos. Borrowed photos are not sually removed from albums, especially old ones. I have begun testing taking

By Dahn Cukier · #641336 ·

Selecting, scanning, identifying and desicarding old paper photographs #general

I wish to thank all and every one of the kind Jewishgenners who provided different ideas, commnents, technical suggestions, etc. to my question. Sorry for not mentioning each person individually. The

By Alberto Guido Chester · #641335 ·

Re: Finding family in Hungary #hungary

All Iknow is they came from Kaley (Bokony)

By Bob · #641334 ·

Taub or Bihari #hungary

looking for any Family Taub in or Bihari in Hungary l

By Bob · #641333 ·

Re: "Unorthodox" - 2015 film about a college year spent in Israel and another, 2020 a wife, 19, flees to Berlin from Satmar Williamsburg #israel #germany #usa

When the book was released there was a wholesale assault (not physical!) on her by the Hassidic community. The book is accurate according to her recollections, meaning it is an autobiography rather

By Elissa Mondschein · #641332 ·

Free online digital map collections #announcements

Some of these collections are world-wide but are located in the hashtag indicated country. https://www.air4edu.com/academic-life/maps-globes-and-plans-an-ongoing-census-of-free-digital-archives-3/

By cohen.izzy@... · #641331 ·

Re: Validation of death date of Dachau prisoner #holocaust #rabbinic

Hello Moses My grandfather Jakob Schmidl also died in a sub camp of Dachau, having been transported from Auschwitz to Dachau on transport Ek on 28 September 1944. His transport card, which is indexed

By Julia Trainor · #641330 ·

Re: Polish Jewish Holocaust Survivors: Lübeck #holocaust #poland

Peter, Can you make this list available to anyone who contacts you privately? Thank you, Danielle Weiner Dallas, TX

By Danielle Weiner · #641329 ·

Re: Scanning Documents and Photos - personal preferences #general

I've copied down the very useful technical hints, but here are some new views on what to keep. It's important not to just crop faces, but also scan the whole picture. Clothes can be important for

By Eva Lawrence · #641328 ·

Marcia Brodsky #latvia

Close ties to Latvia, Lithuania Kanner/Kangiser, Long/Lant, Tischler, Dischler according to dna (2017) but not responsive.

By larrykanner@... · #641327 ·

Re: Yiddish or Hebrew name for IDA #belarus #names

My great grandmother was also called Ida. But her name on arrival to the U.S. was Chaje which was changed to Ida.

By Marilyn Silva · #641326 ·

Re: Selling of Ukrainian Jewish Cemeteries and Mass Graves - Updated #ukraine

Tony, It is beyond distressing to learn that Ukraine wants to sell not only cemeteries but also massacre sites. I looked at some of the files you attached and found it to be overwhelming, I could not

By L Goldstein · #641325 ·

Phinehas ben Avraham Abba Shapiro aka Pinkas of Koretz #belarus #ukraine

I am researching Phinehas ben Avraham Abba Shapiro born 1726 in Belarus and died 14 Aug 1791 in Shepetovka Ukraine. It is family lore that he is the 6th (?) great-grandfather of my brother-in-law

By dferg17@... · #641324 ·

#germany Schnoder Plaque #germany

Dear Friends, Today I received a copy of a document existing in the museum archives of the Kriegshaber Synagogue Museum of Augsburg Germany. I was told that the document is called a "Schnoder Plaque"

By Richard Oppenheimer · #641323 ·

HAASE Family of Frankfurt #germany #israel #holocaust

I am looking for information on the children of Josef and Felicia HAASE. Son Peter Joachim was born on 3 August 1922 in Frankfurt. Peter had to do forced labour at the Jüdisches Forsteinsatzlager

By Carol Jean Weightman · #641322 ·

Re: Selecting, scanning, identifying and desicarding old paper photographs #general

Someone recommended "label the back of every picture now." That is not a good practice, as it can harm the place where the label is, either indenting the letters or causing ink to perhaps bleed

By Sally Bruckheimer <sallybruc@...> · #641321 ·

Re: Scanning Documents and Photos - personal preferences #general

What a detailed and incredibly helpful explanation! Thank you so much. I do append a further question- what do you do with the originals. I shudder at the idea of destroying them- but storage space

By zionsharav <ari@...> · #641320 ·

Re: "Unorthodox" - 2015 film about a college year spent in Israel and another, 2020 a wife, 19, flees to Berlin from Satmar Williamsburg #israel #germany #usa

There are youtube videos with the author Deborah Feldman, who now lives in Germany. This book does not at all seem to have been a hoax. That rumor may have been started by members of the Chassidic

By fredelfruhman · #641319 ·

Surname Loesch #general

Found out many of my ancestor's first names were Abraham, Jacob, Daniel, Johann,. Balthazar, etc. Any way for me to find out what Tribe I came from?

By perrylesh0@... · #641318 ·

Re: Scanning Documents and Photos - personal preferences #general

Dahn, Why scan to jpg or png, both lossy formats, rather than tif, which is lossless? Every edit, including cropping, degrades the quality of jpg and png images, defeating the purpose of scanning at

By Bob Friedman · #641317 ·

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