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Phil Chikov
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Marlene Krantz
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Re: Advice sought on DNA for beginners
#dna
Pieter Hoekstra
Apologies up front for OT digression but this seems a good place to pop my head up with so many knowledgable people engaged. I have been sitting on the fence for a long time re DNA testing but realise this is my only path for answers. I want to find the 1917 unnamed father of a close (deceased) female relative from UK. What tests should I pay for?
-- Pieter Hoekstra Moss / Moses, De Costa - London and Brighton Barnett, Da Costa, Lazarus, Joseph, Judah, Solomon - London
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French Genealogy Blog Article on French Genealogy-Ancien régime Geography is Important
#france
Jan Meisels Allen
For those researching older French history The French Genealogy Blog has an interesting article about ancient France and Jews and where they lived prior to their expulsion in 1394. The article has maps of how France looked at the time. It states, “that if working only with a modern map of France you will have the impression that the three main areas of Jewish communities, the Southwest, Alsace-Lorraine and Papal States and Provence survived the expulsion within France but they were not within France at the time and areas not within France at the time of the expulsion as areas were controlled by other powers:
Paris was a special as – while Jews were not supposed to living there, most likely they were.”
Anne Mordell wrote the article and she is a professional genealogist living in France.
She also reminds us of the language differences and that in all locations Jewish documents may also be in Hebrew. Mordell also states the best research for each of the different regions may be done at Departmental and Municipal archives with their names, but not their websites.
To read the posting go to:
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Document describing the founding of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg in 1915
#southafrica
Roy Ogus
A document that describes the founding of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg in 1915 has been posted on the Southern African SIG Johannesburg Communities
web page at:
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Findmypast Free Access to Newspaper Archive to Honor the Late Queen
#announcements
#unitedkingdom
Jan Meisels Allen
To honor the late Queen Elizabeth ll, findmypast is offering their newspaper archive free of charge Friday September 16 10:00 BST until Tuesday 20, 2022 10:00BST.Use time zone converter to convert times to your local time by using: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
To search the newspapers go to: https://www.findmypast.com/page/free-access You will need to register with name and email address. No credit card information is required.
Your search results will have a newspaper and camera icon. When you click on it you will see the name or subject highlighted in the article.
To access findmypast's historical newspapers, select 'Search' and then 'Newspapers and Periodicals' from the site menu when logged in. You'll be taken to our newspaper search where you can choose a collection and filter your search by date, access type location, newspaper title and article type. If you try to search after September 20 or try to search the other collections, you will be invited to subscribe.
I have no affiliation with findmypast and am sharing this solely for the information of the reader.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Advice sought on DNA for beginners
#dna
Cathy Miller
I would agree with buying Your DNA Guide: The book.
I did a couple of courses with Diahan Southard (Y DNA and autosomal DNA) and the book came along with the course on Autosomal DNA. I learned a huge amount from the course (and the book) that I wish I had learned at the start of this DNA matching exploration which by the way has been very fruitful indeed. But the course is not cheap and the one you would really need at start out is the autosomal one which in any event takes 6 weeks.. She has a lot of practical tools and advice in the book - minimum segment size for example to consider a true relative, a bit on endogamy and so on. I am not sure how well it would work in isolation from the course. On the other hand the book could be a good back up to the course offered by Arthur - and I will be watching this space to see if he offers a free beginners course as I still consider myself a beginner -- Cathy Miller, New Zealand cathymillernz@...
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jbonline1111@...
Can you either put this in viewmate or give the link to the page? It is rather tiny to read on the computer this way.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Re: Advice sought on DNA for beginners
#dna
LMEIXLER@...
HI Barry,
I would suggest going to www.stevemorse.org. On the left column, go to "genetics" He has a very easy to follow and very thorough discussion of DNA, etc. Best regards, Lew Meixler Beth El Genealogy Club East Windsor, NJ
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Re: Advice sought on DNA for beginners
#dna
Barry,
I went down through the list of books at https://isogg.org/wiki/Genetic_genealogy_books and found Your DNA Guide: The Book (2020). Author is Diahan Southard. I haven't read the book, but I've been on the site where book and other materials can be found: https://www.yourdnaguide.com/your-dna-guide-the-book. There are free downloads in each area. I read one called, "WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW About DNA Testing and Family History." I think the downloads and/or book may provide you with the top-level framework you're looking for.
-- Since the technolgy and techniques frequently evolve, you do find many workshops and videos, and experience difficulty "putting it all together.". And the resources may be specific to certain populations and/or DNA testing sites. So developing a generic base knowledge, like you're asking, is a great idea. I think of your request as something that a professor answers in the very first class in a life-long course about genealogy. If you can develop good direction from the first class (or book), you'll be able to categorize everything that comes later, I'm sure. Ed Wurster Voorhees, NJ Leider (Leader) | Samowitz (Samuels)
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tompa@...
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 07:59 PM, Sara Spiegel wrote:
August 11, 1970Attached is a PDF of the page with her obituary. Martin Tompa Seattle, WA, USA
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Re: Help reading passenger list
#translation
Sherri Bobish
Linda,
Since Meyer Gold's address is in Cornelia, Ga, I did a search at Ancestry for surname Blumenthal and Cornelia, GA in the lived in field, and found a 1924 U.S. passport application for Gershon Blumenthal, born in Bialystok in 1899. Gershon's father is Meyer David Blumenthal. The passport application has a photo of Gershon. M. GOLD of Cornelia, GA was a witness to Gershon Blumenthal's 1922 petition for naturalization. Good luck in your search, Sherri Bobish Searching: RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala, Lith.); LEFFENFELD / FINK / KALTER (Daliowa & Jasliska, Pol.) BOJDA / BLEIWEISS (Tarnow & Tarnobrzeg, Pol.); WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne, Pol.) LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.); SOLON / SOLAN / SOKOLSKY (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.) BOBISH / BLUMENKRANZ / APPEL / WEINER / ROSENBERG (Vysoko-Litovsk, Brest, Biala Podlaska)
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Sara Spiegel
The Seattle public library has digitized copies of the Seattle Times archive available to library members. Is there a Seattle resident out there who would be willing to look up an obituary for me? I'm not asking for a visit to the library, just hoping someone can see if the obituary is available online through the library website.
I believe that the obituary was published on August 11, 1970. The details are: Rebecca Weisberg ABBIT Born approx. 1895 in Russia; lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Died August 10, 1970 in Seattle, Washington She had children Ernest, Harry, Minnie, and Bessie. Thank you for any guidance or assistance! Kind regards, Sara Spiegel - Redwood City, CA Researching WEISBERG, DUGAN/DUGIM, GOLDFARB in Pittsburgh, PA
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Re: Help reading passenger list
#translation
Diane Jacobs
Above Meyer Gold it says daughter ?. Smith, 11 Glendale Street, Brockton, Mass. Diane Jacobs
On Sep 16, 2022, at 5:28 PM, David Buford <davidlinda@...> wrote:
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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
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Orange County CA JGS Meeting on Sunday at 10:00 am Pacific Time
#announcements
#jgs-iajgs
Michelle Sandler
September 18 at 10:00 am (Pacific time zone) Lisa Cooper: A Forgotten Land: Growing up in the Jewish Pale Based on recorded conversations Lisa Cooper’s father had with his mother, Pearl, about her early life in Ukraine, Lisa’s book A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and civil war.
Many Jewish immigrants to the West refused to talk about the ‘old country’, choosing to forget the unhappy times, not to pass on their memories. Lisa is fortunate that her grandmother was a great storyteller. Her father, who grew up in Canada surrounded by these tales of Eastern European shtetl life, later made recordings of the stories in the 1970s, before Pearl died. Lisa asked her father to translate the recordings (from the Yiddish) before he himself passed away, and turned them into a book so that we, today, can better understand how our ancestors lived. Register in advance for the virtual meeting by clicking this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkfuiurD4sHd2TOK9_kf3blnwY81Y7Iwcy. $5 for non members payable on our website and members are free. Michelle Sandler MLS
Vice President of Programming OCJGS
Westminster, California
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Re: Does anyone know of any upcoming lectures regarding shtetls specifically in Ukraine?
#ukraine
Johanna
Hi Steven,
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Susan J. Gordon
I don't know about age rules, but I do recall learning that children ages 2 and older were required to walk independently, without holding on to a grownup's hand (and certainly, not being carried). I learned this when I was writing my story, "Ellis Island Hanukkah," and researching the reopening of the immigration center at Ellis Island in 1900, when the new, red brick fireproof Main building opened (after the previous one - burned down). Guess what? Opening day was during Hanukkah!
Susan J. Gordon BIALAZURKER - Zbarazah LEMPERT - Lvov, Skalat, Czernowitz SCHOENHAUT - Skalat
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Help reading passenger list
#translation
David Buford
I need help reading what is written above Meyer Gold. Part is George Blumenthal but can not make out the rest.
Thanks in advance.
-- Linda Gold Buford davidlinda@... Researching: Poland or other GOLD, BREWDA - BREVDA - BRAUDA , BLUMENTHAL, PALTER - SPITZ, GILCHENSKI Kobryn, Belarus Belarus - KAMENETZKI - KAMIENKA Russia - SALIMAN, SCHREIBER, SEGAL, WALDMANN Israel - PALTER
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Announcing the Publication of the RADOM Yizkor Book
#yizkorbooks
#announcements
Susan Rosin
Shalom,
JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 152nd title:
The Book of Radom; The Story of a Jewish Community in Poland Destroyed by the Nazis
This is the translation of: Sefer Radom
Details:
Hard Cover 8.5” x 11”, 914 pages with original photographs
Editor of Original Yizkor Book: Y. Perlow; Alfred Lipson (English Section) Project Coordinator: Anita Frishman Gabbay Formatting and Name Indexing: Jonathan Wind Reproduction of Photographs: Stefanie Holzman Cover Design: Rachel Kolokoff Hopper
Radom, Poland is located at 51°25' N 21°09' E and is 58 miles south of Warsaw. The first records of Jews in Radom are from the year 1568 after which a chain of Jewish tribulations, decrees, persecutions, and expulsions began. Despite it all, the Jewish people thrived. The struggle for rights of residency in the settlement succeeded, and it became an important Jewish city. Radom was a dynamic Jewish city of industry and commerce, Torah and Hassidism, love of Zion and ideals of freedom; a city with fine wealthy philanthropists and honorable workers; intelligentsia and folksy, simple and sincere Jews. There were rabbinic personalities, who at first were the pride of the city, and later, of all Poland. There were tens of cheders and two Talmud Torahs. In the final years before the Holocaust, Radom had a Jewish population of approximately 30,000 individuals (about 34% of the total population). All this came to a bitter end when the Germans occupied the city in September of 1939. At the beginning of 1940, labor camps for Jews were set up in the Radom area. In the spring of 1941 two separate ghettos were established. Mass killings and deportations followed.
May this book be a memorial to all those who lived, worked and dreamed in Radom. To the proud and lively community that no longer exists. For more details and where to order, please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Radom.html To see all JewishGen Press publications, please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html I would like to take this opportunity and wish everyone "Shana Tova". Susan Rosin JG Press Publications Manager
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David Buford
I need help reading what is written above Meyer Gold. First part is George Blumenthal then I can not figure out the next part.  -- Linda Gold Buford davidlinda@... Researching: Poland or other GOLD, BREWDA - BREVDA - BRAUDA , BLUMENTHAL, PALTER - SPITZ, GILCHENSKI Kobryn, Belarus Belarus - KAMENETZKI - KAMIENKA Russia - SALIMAN, SCHREIBER, SEGAL, WALDMANN Israel - PALTER
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Re: Does anyone know of any upcoming lectures regarding shtetls specifically in Ukraine?
#ukraine
csicher@...
As an ancillary aide, this might be helpful: Chaim Buryak
JewUA.org - Research of Jewish Heritage in Ukraine +38 (096) 392-58-00
Kiev, Ukraine
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Carol SichermanOakland,CA
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