Here’s something different as a written long-term solution: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS https://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/gifts.html I haven’t read it through thoroughly, but it seems that if you print out

Dear Yale- I agree so strongly. Diversification is a MUST! I have also sent my trees to cousins, printed out and mailed, and I maintain a list of interested parties for each branch. Updated trees

My story the same. The family arrived in 1856 in NY departing from Hamburg. Both manifests found after months of searching on a family unit of parents and 4 children. Found using ages and many

FamilySearch Update: I have been following up on the suggestion to put my trees in Family Search‘s special Archival area. As far as I can determine, this area is called IGI-International

I believe that this is now referred to as Norwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood_(charity) and you would have to write direct to them to obtain , if I understand the law, any relevant

I am also using FamilyTreeMkaker and regularly make an Outline Descendant report on paper. But there is a possibility to add or create new fields on the report. With the facts windows. I have not

The records that have been uploaded to jewishgen, certainly to JRI-PL, have usually been rudimetarily translated by poeple working for the archives. They are not in depth and names are sometimes not

One matseva in the cemetery in Jodłowa, Poland (southeast of Tarnów) bears in small Hebrew letters the inscribed name and town of the stonecutter, H. Hojfmeister, Tarnow. He is listed in the Tarnów

contact info https://www.norwood.org.uk/ David Barrett

I have a number of family members buried in a cemetery in Hungary and several of them had the stone cutter's name at the bottom of the stone. These were from the early to mid 1800s. Alex

Richard Werbin – External CD/DVD drives for laptops and desktops remain an option. Plus most desktops still have 5.25” bays, plus SATA power and data connectors, so internal drives are easily

That's not an "L" with a stroke; it's a completely different letter that just looks like an L with a stroke. The letter L (uppercase) / l (lowercase) looks the same in English and Polish. See

A new initiative: Coalition of Guardians of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland was announced by Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. It includes a map with all the Jewish cemeteries

Like anything reproducible you want to preserve, the best approach is diversification, i.e., multiple copies on paper, on the computer, on a service, etc. Another place to preserve your data is by

Jacob, This process is discussed at length in "The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II" by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz (1979). While it may not give you

Jacquie asked "Were there markings on Jewish headstones that identify who the stonecutters were?" The answer has to be "sometimes". Some Jewish headstones have markings identifying the stonemason. It

Here in Melbourne, Australia it is common practice for the stone mason to leave a small plaque with his contact details in a discreet place on the tombstone. Usually in the lower corner of the plinth

Dear Allan Jordan/"A. E. Jordan", I have not contacted the court involved with my grandfather's name change -- and have not found the name change file. (I'm not as diligent as many other with respect

Many names depending on original location of the family. Variations can include Icek for instance. I’m named after Avraham Yitzhak from the part of Russia that is now Lithuania. Jeff

DVDs are not a long term option. Today most laptops & desktops no longer include a DVD / CD reader. It is considered to be an obsolete options and is no longer supported. Yes, that is true but an