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Bessarabia Revision Lists and Bessarabia Vital Records uploaded to JG and available
#bessarabia
#records
Yefim Kogan
Dear researchers,
12,306 Bessarabia Revision List records https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/databases/Revisions2020December.pdf 4,174 BessarabiaVital Records https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/databases/2020DecemberVitalRecords.pdf are uploaded to JewishGen Database and available for all of you. Please let me or Inna V. know if you have any questions, suggestions. All the best, Yefim Kogan JewishGen Bessarabia Group Leader and Coordinator
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Ancestry Announces New CEO Deborah Liu
#announcements
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
Ancestry has announced its Board of Directors has appointed Deborah (Deb) Liu as its Chief Executive Officer and a member its board of directors effective March 1.
Previously, Ms. Liu was at Facebook where she created and led Facebook's Marketplace product group. Prior to Facebook, Liu held leadership roles at eBay and PayPal. Liu is actively involved in promoting diversity and women in technology and co-created the Women in Product nonprofit. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Intuit Inc.
To read more about Ms. Liu’s appointment see:
Last week IAJGS posted about Ancestry’s appointment of Mark Thompson as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
To read previous articles about Ancestry see the IAJGS Records Access Alert archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts. You must be registered to access the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization with whom you are affiliated You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Looking for a good researcher in Kiev / Kiev Region
#ukraine
Hi,
I am looking for recommendations for genealogical researcher(s) in Kiev and the Kiev region. Thanks in advance. David Levine davidelevine@... San Francisco, CA, USA
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Future of Holocaust Research In Poland Hinges on Libel Case
#holocaust
#poland
Jan Meisels Allen
Two Polish historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, with the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War ll. The case’s outcome is expected to determine the fate of independent Holocaust research under Poland’s nationalist government. The verdict is expected in Warsaw’s district court on February 9.
The case centers on a 1,600-page, two-volume historical work in Polish, Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected Counties of Occupied Poland, which was co-edited by Grabowski and Engelking. An abridged English version is due to be published in a few months. A spokesperson for the Simon Wiesenthal Center called the book “meticulously researched and sourced book that details thousands of cases of complicity by Poles in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.”
The case is the first major legal test in the wake of a 2018 law that makes it a crime to falsely accuse the Polish nation of crimes committed by Nazi Germany. The law has caused a major diplomatic rift with Israel.
Poland’s conservative party, Law and Justice, which won power in 2015, has sought to discourage investigations into Polish wrongdoing during the wartime German occupation, preferring instead to almost exclusively stress Polish heroism and suffering.
A number of historical institutions such as Yad Vashem and Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah have condemned the case as the verdict nears.
To read more about the libel case see: https://news.yahoo.com/future-holocaust-research-poland-hinges-111105946.html
I have not read the book nor is my posting to be construed as an endorsement of the book. It is mentioned solely for the information of the reader in regard to the libel case.
Thank you to David Oseas, JGS Conejo Valley and Ventura County webmaster for sharing the information with us.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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In one Microfilm digitized by FamilySearch.
#bessarabia
#records
ROBERT WEISS
Is Kagul an uezd or is it reference to the Jewish Community (Kahal) in Bessarabia?
Bob Weiss RWeissJGS@...
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Barbara Levy
Thanks for all your help. I know about the kahal, and their use in filling army quotas. It's not pleasant history, but it's true.
-- Jewish community in Hamina, Finland My grandfather said he was born in Hamina, Finland. Does anyone know if there was a Jewish community in Hamina, Finland? Do you know if Hamina was a Russian territory or a Finnish territory in 1878, when he was born? #general #russia Barbara Levy
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ViewMate translation request - Yiddish postcard
#translation
#yiddish
I've posted a copy of a postcard in Yiddish addressed to one of my great-grandfathers, of which I would appreciate a translation. I would like to know who it is from, whether they are related, or any other information about family members it contains.
It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/view Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Lee Jaffe Joroff/Zarov - Mohilev, Belarus and Snovsk, Ukraine
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Re: 60 Minutes Episode on Home DNA Testing and Genealogy Testing
#dna
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 12:58 PM, Jx. Gx. wrote:
Once it is given you have no control of who has access to it and how it can be used.I do not think there is any facts or evidence to back up this statement, which at least in my 20+ years of experience is quite false. (If you have such evidence, feel free to contact me directly at dnadeb@... as I know this forum is not the place for extended debate.) I suppose there may be differences in privacy policy depending on what organization you give your DNA to, but any reputable lab---certainly the reputable ones that do genetic genealogy testing--gives you complete control over your DNA and how it can be used. If you do not want to do any DNA testing, don't. But please do not make sweeping statements that will frighten others needlessly. Debra Katz Pacific Beach CA USA
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Need help to translate a Hungarian birth certificate
#hungary
#translation
ykrausz10@...
I posted a birth certificate and I need help to read it. It's from someone Betti krausz Born 1863 To father David in village of nyirgyulaj. I would very appreciate anyone who can help me to translate it. Thanks. Here is the link. Https://www.Jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89871#.YBhSup7Bwac.gmail.
Joseph Krausz
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Jules Levin
The status of Jews in the army needs to be clarified. The Cantonist
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system was officially ended in 1871. Afterward Jews were subjected to the same military service as others. Although many Jews in the service had to hear efforts to convert them, a remarkable percent, including those who remained in Finland as Jews, managed to resist. My own relative appears as a Jew living in Viipuri--now Vyborg. These were specifically Jewish veterans. My ancestor was listed as sgt. Many Cantonists thrived in the army and remained loyal Jews, including the highest ranking Jew, a Sargent Major--the highest ranking non-com position. In the Jewish cemetery of Tsarskoe Selo is the grave of a Jew, a Cantonist, awarded the Cross of St. George for heroism in battle. The Jewish language press in Russia--Hebrew, Yiddish, or Russian, often published the reminiscences of Jewish veterans. Joseph Trumpeldor, a hero of the first Yeshuv, had lost an arm in Russian service, and said he would gladly give another arm for the tsar. Alexander I had excused the Jews from the draft, because he considered them weak and untrainable. Nicholas I was a martinet who thought that everyone, even the Jews, could be made into soldiers. In the US, UK, or France the view of Alexander I would be abhorrent to Jews. The problem was that the rabbinate resisted the draft because dietary and other religious laws would not be observed. They facilitated draft evasion and the community failed to meet its quota. [while this was going on, keep in mind that 60% of Russians were serfs, whose owners easily met the quota by sending their property to the army like it or not.] As a result, Russia instituted the Kahal method, and it was the Kahal--the Jewish community leaders, who were responsible for meeting the quota. I realize that many Jewishgenners will be horrified by this contrarian view, but remember that views are shaped by the opinions of ancestors who left Russia. Тhe 6 million Jews who were still in Russia in 1900 were proud of their sons' service, as shown by the many family photos of young men in uniform. Jules Levin
On 2/2/2021 4:20 AM, seligson@... wrote: I am from Finland and three of my eight great-grandparents were
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Re: Manifest Mystery
#names
Sherri Bobish
Lawrence,
I did a quick search in this Ancestry database: Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915 and found: Anna Adelstein marrying Jacob Kaplan in Boston in 1910. Her father is Samuel, mother Esther Skedavitz. Address: 202 Bremen St. Anna gives her age as 23 in 1910, and her age is 23 on the 1906 manifest, but most people at that time did not know their exact age, and the ladies always made themselves younger. Could this be the lady you seek? Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Article of Interest on DNA Testing
#dna
Jan Meisels Allen
This article may be of interest on DNA testing The Hidden Personal Cost of Genealogy Websites
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Polish Translation
#translation
Laufer, Shmuel
I need a translation from the Polish of the marriage certificate of Nuske Zyman and Baila Gitl Borkower. I do not need a complete translation, only the data of names, dates, ages and places. I thank you in advance. Regards.
Shmuel Laufer Rehovot -Israel
Research: Laufer (Przasnysz, Poland); Domb (Pultusk, Poland); Bruckman (Sarnaki, Poland); Zelazo (Sarnaki, Poland); Preschel (Berhomet, Chernivets'ka, Ukraine), Leder (Berhomet, Chernivets'ka, Ukraine); Schnap (Berhomet, Chernivets'ka, Ukraine); Mitelman (Chelm, Poland); Tenerman (Dubienka, Poland)
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JGS Toronto. Free Virtual Meeting. Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors for Genealogical Research. Scott Genzer. Sunday, 28 February 2021, at 10:30 a.m. ET.
#announcements
Jerry Scherer
JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify
Speaker: Scott Genzer
VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Sunday, 28 February 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Photographs have always been a genealogical challenge because, unlike more conventional sources such as vital records, they do not impart clear data. Most often we simply attach the pictures to our trees and then leave them there. However in early 2019 Genzer developed a new technique that shows how to implement facial recognition via artificial intelligence/machine-learning methods to identify unknown people in photographs using large libraries of passport-like images currently available online. Facial recognition enables genealogists to use never before available technology to generate new clues with statistical probabilities from old photos. His presentation will be an elaboration and detailed demonstration of this technique previously published in the fall issue of Avotaynu [PDF copy of the article will be available). Scott Genzer is an amateur genealogist who has spent two decades researching his family tree, particularly his paternal branch from Mielec, Poland. During the day, he is a data scientist at RapidMiner, a software company based in Boston. Scott lives in Norwich, Vermont, with his wife and two daughters.
Please make a voluntary donation in the box titled $ | Other | at this link https://canadahelps.org/en/dn/428 JGS Toronto is a registered charity so Canadian donors will receive a tax receipt.
OR View this livestream meeting on our YouTube channel:
info@... www.jgstoronto.ca Tel: 647-247-6414 twitter: jgsoftoronto facebook: Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
Jerry Scherer Vice President, Communications
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Re: Why was I told my mother's family were German Jews when they weren't?
#austria-czech
jbonline1111@...
My family were all originally considered Russian Jews. However, the borders changed frequently. In his naturalization papers when he arrived, my grandfather listed his country of origin as Russia, but when he actually became a citizen in the early 1930s, it is listed as Poland.
My mother and father had a running joke as who was a Litvak and who was a Galitizianer, which suggests a rivalry if not snobbery. The last names of several great-grandmothers suggest a Germanic origin. As someone else noted, German Jews, no matter where they lived in this country, considered themselves superior to Russian and other Eastern European Jews, partly because they had come to this country earlier. -- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Re: Manifest Mystery
#names
jbonline1111@...
I read the first name as "Yrlja." I was unable to enlarge this enough to read the brother's name.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Re: Hebrew name
#names
Philip Freidenreich
It could be "Bar Reb." If the father were a rabbi, it should have been Bar HaRav. Phil Philip Freidenreich JewishGen Researcher #1797 pfreidenreich@...
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Seeking Dawidowicz from
#lodz
AliseKermisch@...
I am seeking Dawidowicz from Lodz, Poland. I am trying to connect a few different family groupings all from Lodz and locate the common ancestor(s) If you have Dawidowicz from Lodz, please reach out to me at AliseKermisch@... Thank you,
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FTJP - Family Tree of the Jewish People
ifolkson@...
Update - All gedcoms received during the month of January have been processed & included in the FTJP database. All gedcoms received will be processed the last weekend of the month they were received.
Iris Folkson JewishGen Technical Services
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Re: Hebrew name
#names
de.ewenczyk@...
It is not BYR, but B’’R, meaning Bar Rabbi... followed by his father’s first surname. Daniel Ewenczyk
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