Please join us on Sunday May 22nd, 2016 for our next program.

Location: Temple Bat Yahm
1011 Camelback Street
Newport Beach, CA 92660
1:30 - 3:30 PM

Topic: "Family Names -- Why They Developed and How They Changed"
Speaker: Rabbi Frank Stern

Overview of the Presentation: Rabbi Frank Stern will speak about Jewish last
names: Your Last Name -- and What It Tells You about Your Ancestry

**About Rabbi Frank Stern, PhD, DD **
Ordained in 1965 at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi
Stern served for twenty years as Rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana,
California. As Executive Director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater
Philadelphia, he headed an agency that provided chaplains to nursing homes,
hospitals and prisons in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Still actively
involved in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rabbi Stern served as
President of the Orange County Board of Rabbis and President of the Pacific
Association of Reform Rabbis (seven western states). Until his retirement,
Dr. Stern taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of
Comparative Religion at Cal State University Fullerton. He still teaches at
Orange Coast College. Rabbi Stern is the author of the book A Rabbi Looks at
Jesus' Parables. He lectures extensively throughout California. Rabbi Stern
is President of the Orange County Interfaith Network (OCIN), Founder of the
Council of Religious Leaders of Orange County and Founding President of the
Orange County Jewish Genealogical Society.

Please visit our website: www.ocjgs.org

Cost: $5.00

Susan Rosin

"Cadastral Maps as a Genealogical Resource" will be the topic of a presentation
by Alex Feller at the Sunday, May 22, 2016, meeting of the Jewish Genealogical
Society of Illinois. His presentation will begin at 2 p.m. at Temple Beth-El,
3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, Ill.

The JGSI meeting facilities at Temple Beth-El will open at 12:30 p.m. to
accommodate those who want to use or borrow genealogy library materials, get
help with genealogy websites or ask genealogical questions before the main
program begins at 2 p.m. For more information, visit
http://jgsi.org/ or phone 312-666-0100.

The main speaker for this meeting, Alex Feller, a board member of Gesher
Galicia, says "Cadastral maps and landowner records are sources of information
useful to a genealogist interested in creating a fuller picture of a family's
life." House numbers found in vital records and property lists can help confirm
connections between families and aid in tracking the movement of families
through time, he says. When used in conjunction with cadastral maps, house
numbers can show the location where a family lived. The cadastral maps also
show locations of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, and schools.

"These maps can be compared with current satellite images of the town to show
where a family's house would have stood. All this information also helps the
genealogist to imagine how families within a town may have interacted with
each other," Feller says.

In 2012 the speaker became a board member of Gesher Galicia, a non-profit
organization that promotes and conducts Jewish genealogical and historical
research for Galicia, a province of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, which
is today part of southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.

Also planned for this JGSI meeting is a short presentation by JGSI webmaster
Ron Miller, who will discuss JGSI's online Jewish burial databases.

Submitted by:
Martin Fischer
Vice President-Publicity
Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois

"Cadastral Maps as a Genealogical Resource" will be the topic of a presentation
by Alex Feller at the Sunday, May 22, 2016, meeting of the Jewish Genealogical
Society of Illinois. His presentation will begin at 2 p.m. at Temple Beth-El,
3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, Ill.

The JGSI meeting facilities at Temple Beth-El will open at 12:30 p.m. to
accommodate those who want to use or borrow genealogy library materials, get
help with genealogy websites or ask genealogical questions before the main
program begins at 2 p.m. For more information, visit
http://jgsi.org/ or phone 312-666-0100.

The main speaker for this meeting, Alex Feller, a board member of Gesher
Galicia, says "Cadastral maps and landowner records are sources of information
useful to a genealogist interested in creating a fuller picture of a family's
life." House numbers found in vital records and property lists can help confirm
connections between families and aid in tracking the movement of families
through time, he says. When used in conjunction with cadastral maps, house
numbers can show the location where a family lived. The cadastral maps also
show locations of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, and schools.

"These maps can be compared with current satellite images of the town to show
where a family's house would have stood. All this information also helps the
genealogist to imagine how families within a town may have interacted with
each other," Feller says.

In 2012 the speaker became a board member of Gesher Galicia, a non-profit
organization that promotes and conducts Jewish genealogical and historical
research for Galicia, a province of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, which
is today part of southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.

Also planned for this JGSI meeting is a short presentation by JGSI webmaster
Ron Miller, who will discuss JGSI's online Jewish burial databases.

Submitted by:
Martin Fischer
Vice President-Publicity
Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois

Please join us on Sunday May 22nd, 2016 for our next program.

Location: Temple Bat Yahm
1011 Camelback Street
Newport Beach, CA 92660
1:30 - 3:30 PM

Topic: "Family Names -- Why They Developed and How They Changed"
Speaker: Rabbi Frank Stern

Overview of the Presentation: Rabbi Frank Stern will speak about Jewish last
names: Your Last Name -- and What It Tells You about Your Ancestry

**About Rabbi Frank Stern, PhD, DD **
Ordained in 1965 at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi
Stern served for twenty years as Rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana,
California. As Executive Director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater
Philadelphia, he headed an agency that provided chaplains to nursing homes,
hospitals and prisons in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Still actively
involved in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rabbi Stern served as
President of the Orange County Board of Rabbis and President of the Pacific
Association of Reform Rabbis (seven western states). Until his retirement,
Dr. Stern taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of
Comparative Religion at Cal State University Fullerton. He still teaches at
Orange Coast College. Rabbi Stern is the author of the book A Rabbi Looks at
Jesus' Parables. He lectures extensively throughout California. Rabbi Stern
is President of the Orange County Interfaith Network (OCIN), Founder of the
Council of Religious Leaders of Orange County and Founding President of the
Orange County Jewish Genealogical Society.

Please visit our website: www.ocjgs.org

Cost: $5.00

Susan Rosin

If anyone out there knows of or has on their family tree Gary and/or Marilyn
(and possibly Ricky) KOPEL of New York, please let me know. I have a collection
of photographs of them.

Micah Salb
Washington, DC

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately with contact information.

If anyone out there knows of or has on their family tree Gary and/or Marilyn
(and possibly Ricky) KOPEL of New York, please let me know. I have a collection
of photographs of them.

Micah Salb
Washington, DC

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately with contact information.

Johannes Reiss who is the director of Eisenstadt's Jewish museum
http://www.ojm.at/ dedicated his vacation (everybody needs a hobby!) to
taking some photos of Trieste's Jewish cemetery.

There are ca. 12 000 headstones in that cemetery. The first 162
headstones are online now:
http://www.ojm.at/blog/juedischer-friedhof-triest/

The headstones which are partially inscribed in Hebrew were translated
by Mr Reiss who also put 322 names (index) including photos online.
Naturally, lots of names >from former k.u.k. Austria are to be found such
as Morpurgo, Neuhauser, Ascoli, Brunner, Eppinger, Arnstein...
Good luck for your search!

Traude Triebel
A-2700 Wr.Neustadt

Johannes Reiss who is the director of Eisenstadt's Jewish museum
http://www.ojm.at/ dedicated his vacation (everybody needs a hobby!) to
taking some photos of Trieste's Jewish cemetery.

There are ca. 12 000 headstones in that cemetery. The first 162
headstones are online now:
http://www.ojm.at/blog/juedischer-friedhof-triest/

The headstones which are partially inscribed in Hebrew were translated
by Mr Reiss who also put 322 names (index) including photos online.
Naturally, lots of names >from former k.u.k. Austria are to be found such
as Morpurgo, Neuhauser, Ascoli, Brunner, Eppinger, Arnstein...
Good luck for your search!

Traude Triebel
A-2700 Wr.Neustadt

Genealogy Roadshow's third season begins on Tuesday May 17. Episodes in 6 US
locations, where JGS's participated with tables promoting their societies
and helping the visiting public. PBS has announced the dates and time of
showings are listed as Tuesdays May 17-June 28, 2016 at 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT
7:00-8:00 CT but it is best to check with your local PBS stations which may
be found at: http://www.pbs.org

The dates are:

May 17 Albuquerque ,NM
May 24 Miami ,FL
May 31 Houston, TX
June 7 Our Favorite Stories
June 14 Boston, MA
June 21 Providence, RI
June 28 Los Angeles, CA

Ancestry.com is the sponsor and they have a short write-up about each site
in their blog which may be read at: http://tinyurl.com/jh3t6ur
Original url:
http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2016/05/13/pbs-genealogy-roadshow-season-three-visits-six-new-cities-to-uncover-family-secrets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ancestry+%28Ancestry.com+blog%29

The show is produced by Krasnow Productions and Big Mountain Productions.

I have no affiliation with Ancestry, Krasnow Productions, Big Mountain
Productions nor PBS and this is being posted solely for the information of
the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Genealogy Roadshow's third season begins on Tuesday May 17. Episodes in 6 US
locations, where JGS's participated with tables promoting their societies
and helping the visiting public. PBS has announced the dates and time of
showings are listed as Tuesdays May 17-June 28, 2016 at 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT
7:00-8:00 CT but it is best to check with your local PBS stations which may
be found at: http://www.pbs.org

The dates are:

May 17 Albuquerque ,NM
May 24 Miami ,FL
May 31 Houston, TX
June 7 Our Favorite Stories
June 14 Boston, MA
June 21 Providence, RI
June 28 Los Angeles, CA

Ancestry.com is the sponsor and they have a short write-up about each site
in their blog which may be read at: http://tinyurl.com/jh3t6ur
Original url:
http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2016/05/13/pbs-genealogy-roadshow-season-three-visits-six-new-cities-to-uncover-family-secrets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ancestry+%28Ancestry.com+blog%29

The show is produced by Krasnow Productions and Big Mountain Productions.

I have no affiliation with Ancestry, Krasnow Productions, Big Mountain
Productions nor PBS and this is being posted solely for the information of
the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Looking for translation of 1/2 page typed document I received >from the
Vilnius archives

Neil Rosenstein

Donations to the LitvakSIG Research and Translation Continuity Fund
have now exceeded $45,000! We want to once again thank all of our
donors and supporters. You are helping to ensure the continuing
discovery and preservation of our LitvakSIG heritage!

We recently added a new feature to the Family Honor Roll that enables
display of either photographs or documents. Thus, when you become a
donor to the Continuity Fund, you may choose to honor an individual or
family by including a digital photo or document. To see what this
looks like, you can go to this link:
https://www.litvaksig.org/research/research-and-translation-continuity
-fund/honorary

Please note that you'll have to "cut and paste" the link to get to the
website. Of course, there's no requirement to add a digital document
but the ability to do so is there if you'd like to take advantage of
it.

We do have a request for all readers of the LitvakSIG Digest: whether
or not you've donated to the Continuity Fund in the past, we appeal to
you to "spread the word" to any of your family or friends who may be
able to help support us!

Without your generosity some very important genealogically valuable
material will continue to sit in the Lithuanian Archives.

If you can, please make a donation at
https://www.litvaksig.org/join-and-contribute/

Go to the bottom of the page and choose the "Scroll" option with the words
"Research and Translation Continuity Fund."

Thank you so much for your consideration. We really do appreciate it!
If you have any questions about the Continuity Fund, how to donate,
or any related topic, please don't hesitate to contact us at the email
addresses below.

Ralph Salinger and Barry Halpern (barry.halpern@... and
salinger@...)

Coordinators of the Research and Translation Continuity Fund

Looking for translation of 1/2 page typed document I received >from the
Vilnius archives

Neil Rosenstein

Donations to the LitvakSIG Research and Translation Continuity Fund
have now exceeded $45,000! We want to once again thank all of our
donors and supporters. You are helping to ensure the continuing
discovery and preservation of our LitvakSIG heritage!

We recently added a new feature to the Family Honor Roll that enables
display of either photographs or documents. Thus, when you become a
donor to the Continuity Fund, you may choose to honor an individual or
family by including a digital photo or document. To see what this
looks like, you can go to this link:
https://www.litvaksig.org/research/research-and-translation-continuity
-fund/honorary

Please note that you'll have to "cut and paste" the link to get to the
website. Of course, there's no requirement to add a digital document
but the ability to do so is there if you'd like to take advantage of
it.

We do have a request for all readers of the LitvakSIG Digest: whether
or not you've donated to the Continuity Fund in the past, we appeal to
you to "spread the word" to any of your family or friends who may be
able to help support us!

Without your generosity some very important genealogically valuable
material will continue to sit in the Lithuanian Archives.

If you can, please make a donation at
https://www.litvaksig.org/join-and-contribute/

Go to the bottom of the page and choose the "Scroll" option with the words
"Research and Translation Continuity Fund."

Thank you so much for your consideration. We really do appreciate it!
If you have any questions about the Continuity Fund, how to donate,
or any related topic, please don't hesitate to contact us at the email
addresses below.

Ralph Salinger and Barry Halpern (barry.halpern@... and
salinger@...)

Coordinators of the Research and Translation Continuity Fund

Dear JRI group:

I've posted vital records in German for which I need a full
translation. They are on ViewMate at the following address:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46563

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46564

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46565

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46566

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46571

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Jacob Rubin

Dear JRI group:

I've posted vital records in German for which I need a full
translation. They are on ViewMate at the following address:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46563

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46564

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46565

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46566

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM46571

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Jacob Rubin

I have posted to ViewMate five Galician vital records for which I would
very much appreciate translations of the German entries. The files can
be found at the following addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45646

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45647

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45651

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45652

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45654

Please respond using the form provided in the ViewMate application or to
me directly at rmandelbau@....

Thank you very much,
Robert Mandelbaum
New York, New York
rmandelbau@...

I have posted to ViewMate five Galician vital records for which I would
very much appreciate translations of the German entries. The files can
be found at the following addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45646

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45647

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45651

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45652

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM45654

Please respond using the form provided in the ViewMate application or to
me directly at rmandelbau@....

Thank you very much,
Robert Mandelbaum
New York, New York
rmandelbau@...

Is there a Minsk revision list?
Thanks.
Teri Reid
Oriental, NC

Is there a Minsk revision list?
Thanks.
Teri Reid
Oriental, NC