Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Recently this forum posted a message >from me about my blog post
regarding Jewish genealogy bloggers who attended (and wrote about) the
IAJGS Conference.
http://extrayad.blogspot.com/2013/08/time-for-blogging-iajgs-2013-in-boston=
.html
[MOD NOTE,Use TINYurl: <http://tinyurl.com/mzncmjk> ]


Several readers told me that they'd not previously known about these
bloggers. The ones I've listed are but a few of the Jewish genealogy
bloggers. To see a more full list, go to Geneabloggers.com . Click on
the Genealogy Blog Roll tab and then put the word Jewish in the
search box. As of this morning, there are 36 Jewish genealogy blogs
listed.

Additionally, some people enjoyed some of the blogs I listed so much
that they have decided to subscribe to some of them via email. Most
blogs feature an RSS feed tab on the blog page that allows one to
subscribe that way.

Another alternative, particularly if one wishes to subscribe to
several blogs and doesn't want to be overwhelmed with emails, is to
use an aggregator program. Aggregators collect updates of blogs to
which one has decided to subscribe. One enters the URLs for the blogs
one wishes to follow. To view selected blogs, click on the aggregator
program and view whichever blog posts are of interest. One may look at
just post titles or just a few paragraphs. Most aggregators have
features one can select to customize one's viewing/reading experience.

I am currently using Feedly.com. To see summaries of that and others,
go to Lifehacker, which did a review of several options this past
June. http://lifehacker.com/google-reader-is-shutting-down-here-are-the-bes=
t-alter-5990456
[MOD. NOTE, use TinyURL: <http://tinyurl.com/k5ws8oj> ]

I find genealogy blogs, whether Jewish or not, a great educational
tool. There are several star bloggers out there who are both good
writers and excellent genealogists. One can learn quite a bit.

Emily Garber
Phoenix, AZ
http://www.extrayd.blogspot.com
http://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/yurovshchina/index.html

Recently this forum posted a message >from me about my blog post
regarding Jewish genealogy bloggers who attended (and wrote about) the
IAJGS Conference.
http://extrayad.blogspot.com/2013/08/time-for-blogging-iajgs-2013-in-boston=
.html
[MOD NOTE,Use TINYurl: <http://tinyurl.com/mzncmjk> ]


Several readers told me that they'd not previously known about these
bloggers. The ones I've listed are but a few of the Jewish genealogy
bloggers. To see a more full list, go to Geneabloggers.com . Click on
the Genealogy Blog Roll tab and then put the word Jewish in the
search box. As of this morning, there are 36 Jewish genealogy blogs
listed.

Additionally, some people enjoyed some of the blogs I listed so much
that they have decided to subscribe to some of them via email. Most
blogs feature an RSS feed tab on the blog page that allows one to
subscribe that way.

Another alternative, particularly if one wishes to subscribe to
several blogs and doesn't want to be overwhelmed with emails, is to
use an aggregator program. Aggregators collect updates of blogs to
which one has decided to subscribe. One enters the URLs for the blogs
one wishes to follow. To view selected blogs, click on the aggregator
program and view whichever blog posts are of interest. One may look at
just post titles or just a few paragraphs. Most aggregators have
features one can select to customize one's viewing/reading experience.

I am currently using Feedly.com. To see summaries of that and others,
go to Lifehacker, which did a review of several options this past
June. http://lifehacker.com/google-reader-is-shutting-down-here-are-the-bes=
t-alter-5990456
[MOD. NOTE, use TinyURL: <http://tinyurl.com/k5ws8oj> ]

I find genealogy blogs, whether Jewish or not, a great educational
tool. There are several star bloggers out there who are both good
writers and excellent genealogists. One can learn quite a bit.

Emily Garber
Phoenix, AZ
http://www.extrayd.blogspot.com
http://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/yurovshchina/index.html

As Dr. Janette Silverman became coordinator of the Ukraine SIG last week in
Boston, she announced the discussion group mailing list was at 3189
subscribers, noting that we are the largest discussion group on the
JewishGen server, with the exception of the JewishGen Discussion Group,
itself. As of today, we have hit yet another milestone, welcoming our
3200th subscriber! In the past two years, our mailing list has increased by
more than 25%, and all of us who have been involved in leadership positions
on this board appreciate all of your efforts. With 77 gigabytes of new
birth, marriage, death, and other records provided to us last week >from the
Central Archives of the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, we will
soon begin organizing several new transcription projects that will place
over 250,000 new names in the Ukraine Names database, as well as on the
JewishGen database. Skillsets that are most important include the ability
to enter data in an Excel spreadsheet and an ability to read Russian.
However, there are many other projects that don't need either of these
skills.

In order to identify the talents for transcription of our readers, we ask
that you go to our Ukraine SIG home page (www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine) and
take our volunteer survey, if you have not done so already. A link to the
survey is on the lower right hand corner of the page. Records >from your
ancestral towns may become available and we will need to identify people
with a variety of skills to help us in the near future. Even if you don't
have much time to donate to Ukraine SIG, we will have things that take less
than an hour a week to do. With your skills and interest, we can continue
the process of growing our databases and information. Everything you, our
talented volunteers can do, helps all of us move forward.

As of last week, we currently have 195 Town Leaders, but we need many more.
We have identified over 900 towns and cities throughout Ukraine that had a
significant Jewish population before 1941. As Town Leader, you will have
the opportunity to coordinate records transcription projects and other
projects that we can identify together. If there is not a KehilaLinks site
for your town, we can help you create one. If you do not have web skills,
don't worry. We have volunteers who do. But as with any volunteer
organization, it starts with you. If you are interested in becoming a Town
Leader, please contact me. If we do not already have a Town Leader in place
for your town, we can add your name to the Town page as a resource. Some of
the tasks a Town Leader can do are found on our infosheets regarding Town
Leaders, found on our home page under the "Research" tab. If you have
other questions, please contact me.

Finally, if you are on Facebook, please "like" our Ukraine SIG page. We are
continuing to grow our social media presence, and there will be information
on that page that might be of great interest to you, as well as a photo
album >from the Boston Conference. Enjoy!

On behalf of the board of Ukraine SIG,

Chuck Weinstein
Towns and Districts Director, Ukraine SIG
Cmw521@...

As Dr. Janette Silverman became coordinator of the Ukraine SIG last week in
Boston, she announced the discussion group mailing list was at 3189
subscribers, noting that we are the largest discussion group on the
JewishGen server, with the exception of the JewishGen Discussion Group,
itself. As of today, we have hit yet another milestone, welcoming our
3200th subscriber! In the past two years, our mailing list has increased by
more than 25%, and all of us who have been involved in leadership positions
on this board appreciate all of your efforts. With 77 gigabytes of new
birth, marriage, death, and other records provided to us last week >from the
Central Archives of the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, we will
soon begin organizing several new transcription projects that will place
over 250,000 new names in the Ukraine Names database, as well as on the
JewishGen database. Skillsets that are most important include the ability
to enter data in an Excel spreadsheet and an ability to read Russian.
However, there are many other projects that don't need either of these
skills.

In order to identify the talents for transcription of our readers, we ask
that you go to our Ukraine SIG home page (www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine) and
take our volunteer survey, if you have not done so already. A link to the
survey is on the lower right hand corner of the page. Records >from your
ancestral towns may become available and we will need to identify people
with a variety of skills to help us in the near future. Even if you don't
have much time to donate to Ukraine SIG, we will have things that take less
than an hour a week to do. With your skills and interest, we can continue
the process of growing our databases and information. Everything you, our
talented volunteers can do, helps all of us move forward.

As of last week, we currently have 195 Town Leaders, but we need many more.
We have identified over 900 towns and cities throughout Ukraine that had a
significant Jewish population before 1941. As Town Leader, you will have
the opportunity to coordinate records transcription projects and other
projects that we can identify together. If there is not a KehilaLinks site
for your town, we can help you create one. If you do not have web skills,
don't worry. We have volunteers who do. But as with any volunteer
organization, it starts with you. If you are interested in becoming a Town
Leader, please contact me. If we do not already have a Town Leader in place
for your town, we can add your name to the Town page as a resource. Some of
the tasks a Town Leader can do are found on our infosheets regarding Town
Leaders, found on our home page under the "Research" tab. If you have
other questions, please contact me.

Finally, if you are on Facebook, please "like" our Ukraine SIG page. We are
continuing to grow our social media presence, and there will be information
on that page that might be of great interest to you, as well as a photo
album >from the Boston Conference. Enjoy!

On behalf of the board of Ukraine SIG,

Chuck Weinstein
Towns and Districts Director, Ukraine SIG
Cmw521@...

Although I don’t have any information to provide for Valdas Balciunas, I
am excited to see reference to Zagare, would be interested to hear more
about Jo Ann’s recent visit.

I am also writing in the hopes that possibly someone can provide some
information regarding my family >from Zagare. While I’ve learned a great
deal about the history of Zagare >from the Kehilalinks site and other
places, I’ve yet to find out anything specific about my own ancestors
prior to their arrival in the US.

My great-grandfather Morris Moses MEHR (son of Eliahu Zvi) and my
great-grandmother Hode TRUBIK MEHR (daughter of Aryeh Leib) both arrived
in New York City in 1899 with their children Harry, Ida, Louis and Eva,
although I’ve only found Hode and the children listed on Ellis Island.
Furthermore, my father always said that Morris had first gone to South
Africa before ending up in the US. He couldn’t be sure if Morris had
returned to Zagare or gone directly to the US >from South America
independent >from Hode’s journey, meeting her in New York. I did learn

from my readings that many Jews >from Zagare did indeed go to South Africa.

I have a photo and verso (24539 and 24538 in the ViewMate archives)
which further helped me place the family in the area of Zagare. Theonly
other piece of information I have regarding Morris and Hode is that Hode
had a sister named Yetta TRUBIK BROWN. Morris had a brother, of whom I
know nothing. The descendents are a very large family about whom I have
much information, but that’s another story!

One last thing. I am a bit confused to see reference to Zagare on the
Latvia SIG digest, since I read on the Kehilalinks site that it was in
Lithuania. But I had originally signed up to the Latvia digest because
my grandmother always said she was >from Riga. Go figure!

I look forward to any replies.

Sincerely,

Diane Sophrin
Vermont, US

Researching:
Lithuania/Ukraine/Latvia: MEHR, SCHLIMOWITZ, SCHOPHRIN/SOPHRIN, TRUBIK,
Poland: FUCHS/FUKS/FOX, GRUNBAUM/ GRINBAUM/GREENBAUM/, PULVERMACHER,
SELIGMAN/ZELIGMAN, SZCZECINSKI, SZALADAJEWSKI, VAN FELIX,

From: J.Goldwater <jogold@...> <mailto:jogold@...>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 07:46:51 -0400

I have just came back >from a wonderful trip to Riga and Zagare where
my father's families, the Kagans and the Goldwassers originated.
Some of you may have heard of Valdas Balciunas, an amazing young man

from Zagare who is very much involved in preserving the memories of

the Jewish population of the shtetl which at one time was quite
substantial.
...
Valdas would like to know if anyone knows of a social club that was
formed in New York by Jews >from Zagare who immigrated there in the
early part of the 20th century. He is also interested in any photos,
or other family memorabilia you may have >from Zagare.

Although I don’t have any information to provide for Valdas Balciunas, I
am excited to see reference to Zagare, would be interested to hear more
about Jo Ann’s recent visit.

I am also writing in the hopes that possibly someone can provide some
information regarding my family >from Zagare. While I’ve learned a great
deal about the history of Zagare >from the Kehilalinks site and other
places, I’ve yet to find out anything specific about my own ancestors
prior to their arrival in the US.

My great-grandfather Morris Moses MEHR (son of Eliahu Zvi) and my
great-grandmother Hode TRUBIK MEHR (daughter of Aryeh Leib) both arrived
in New York City in 1899 with their children Harry, Ida, Louis and Eva,
although I’ve only found Hode and the children listed on Ellis Island.
Furthermore, my father always said that Morris had first gone to South
Africa before ending up in the US. He couldn’t be sure if Morris had
returned to Zagare or gone directly to the US >from South America
independent >from Hode’s journey, meeting her in New York. I did learn

from my readings that many Jews >from Zagare did indeed go to South Africa.

I have a photo and verso (24539 and 24538 in the ViewMate archives)
which further helped me place the family in the area of Zagare. Theonly
other piece of information I have regarding Morris and Hode is that Hode
had a sister named Yetta TRUBIK BROWN. Morris had a brother, of whom I
know nothing. The descendents are a very large family about whom I have
much information, but that’s another story!

One last thing. I am a bit confused to see reference to Zagare on the
Latvia SIG digest, since I read on the Kehilalinks site that it was in
Lithuania. But I had originally signed up to the Latvia digest because
my grandmother always said she was >from Riga. Go figure!

I look forward to any replies.

Sincerely,

Diane Sophrin
Vermont, US

Researching:
Lithuania/Ukraine/Latvia: MEHR, SCHLIMOWITZ, SCHOPHRIN/SOPHRIN, TRUBIK,
Poland: FUCHS/FUKS/FOX, GRUNBAUM/ GRINBAUM/GREENBAUM/, PULVERMACHER,
SELIGMAN/ZELIGMAN, SZCZECINSKI, SZALADAJEWSKI, VAN FELIX,

From: J.Goldwater <jogold@...> <mailto:jogold@...>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 07:46:51 -0400

I have just came back >from a wonderful trip to Riga and Zagare where
my father's families, the Kagans and the Goldwassers originated.
Some of you may have heard of Valdas Balciunas, an amazing young man

from Zagare who is very much involved in preserving the memories of

the Jewish population of the shtetl which at one time was quite
substantial.
...
Valdas would like to know if anyone knows of a social club that was
formed in New York by Jews >from Zagare who immigrated there in the
early part of the 20th century. He is also interested in any photos,
or other family memorabilia you may have >from Zagare.

I've posted part of a letter in Yiddish for which I need a loose
translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM28600
Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Tamar Gold

I've posted part of a letter in Yiddish for which I need a loose
translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM28600
Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Tamar Gold

Searching relatives of:
BASSECHES, Max, born Aug. 04 1879 in Brody, Austria, soldier 1st world war
Austrian army, merchant, Berlin.
BASSECHES, Marie, born with surname ORCHARDESCH Oct 01 1883
in Hamburg, homemaker, Berlin.
Both refugees in Norway 1939-1942, when arrested, deported to Auschwitz,
murdered Dec 01 1942.
Daughter M. MICHALLIS, age 34 (in 1942) lived in New York.

Signed: Liv Berntsen, Notteroy, Norway

Searching relatives of:
BASSECHES, Max, born Aug. 04 1879 in Brody, Austria, soldier 1st world war
Austrian army, merchant, Berlin.
BASSECHES, Marie, born with surname ORCHARDESCH Oct 01 1883
in Hamburg, homemaker, Berlin.
Both refugees in Norway 1939-1942, when arrested, deported to Auschwitz,
murdered Dec 01 1942.
Daughter M. MICHALLIS, age 34 (in 1942) lived in New York.

Signed: Liv Berntsen, Notteroy, Norway