I use GRAMPS https://gramps-project.org/blog/ , which is free and open source -- Yaacov Kleinman

Worked at Lerman Day Camp in Westwood, MA in the 60's & Camp Kingswood, Bridgton, ME. in '68 Deborah A. Stone San Diego, CA abaco.enterprises@...

For some of us (including me) in the late '40's and 1950's, camp was the only place I was exposed to Judaism. Sure, I knew I was Jewish, and my grandmother cooked Jewish dishes, but our home was not

I've been SO enjoying reading all these stories. Thanks to those CYJ (Amherst, NH) folks who contacted me. Would love to hear from others. Apropos of the topic, just saw this article in JewishBoston.

Hello, I am also interested in seeing this list if possible. I am searching for family members who moved to the US, New York City. I am not sure when they did it. But they tried contacting family back

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Surname-Evolution More research into how we got our Surnames! Good Luck to all Ilan Leibowitz Kibbutz Afikim Israel

Although it wasn’t billed as a Jewish camp, I was a CIT and counselor at Crane Lake Camp in West Stockbridge, MA., owned and run by the Ulanoff family. We had Friday night services. Ironically, the

Hi I have used Legacy for the past 8/10 years and found it holds everything you need. The version I have is the free software but you can add additional data at a small charge. I uploaded my Gedcom

Thomas and Robert are common German names. William would be Wilhelm. -- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada

I'm using RootsMagic for these purposes. In addition to syncing with Ancestry (both ways), it also compares profiles with MyHeritage and Familysearch and alerts you to possible matches. There's a free

Has anyone come across forenames being anglicised before departure from Czechoslovakia in 1939? I am looking at a mother's passport issued by the Nazis and the children's names are listed as Thomas,

To answerd the question raised about the file name 'Alt Schotland names 1891': I added it as an abbreviated reference for myself since it is refers to correspondence between 1886 and 1891 in relation

Following my last query about the updated working searchable website of the Buenos Aires cemeteries I got privately 2 answers from fellow Genners. The website covers only the Ashkenazi cemeteries in

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Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Guest Speaker: Serafima Velkovich The Central Database of Shoah Victimsʼ Names and Other Sources at Yad Vashem

Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society invites you to Speaker: Guest Speaker: Gil Bardige Part 1: Updated: Help! I Just Got My DNA Results and I’m Confused Prioritize your match list, get

Dear researchers Many of my relatives perished during the Holocaust in Transnistria. They lived and worked in Kishinev but then were forced to travel by the most primitive means to Transnistria.

Two weeks at Camp Wise on Lake Erie was pretty common if you grew up Jewish in Cleveland, Ohio in the forties. My camping memories from my one stretch thereare pretty blurry. Sure, there were all

Family Tree Maker (2019 latest version) will allow you to sync your tree on Ancestry down to your computer, then you can make updates either on your computer and/or online and keep them in sync. It

I attended Camp Young Judaea in Texas in the 60s and worked as a madrich there 1967-70. I also worked at Camp Tel Yehudah (Young Judaea’s National camp) in Barryville NY in 1971. Those experiences