Yes, we do plan to contact the cemetery managers in the near future. -- Martin Fischer Vice President-Publicity Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois JGSI website: https://jgsi.org

Yasher koach, Yocheved!! And thank you!

Here’s a thought: has anyone thought to contact the managers of the Waldheim cemetery to see if any relatives/descendants complained that someone’s tombstone had been possibly vandalized such

I do not need photos from there but I think your offer is very generous. Have you considered letting the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois know about this?

I have attempted to write to awoodle=verizon.net@... - it BOUNCED How can I reach Alex Woodle please? David Lewin

I have several things to add to Andy Monat's detailed message about Bayside and Acacia cemeteries, Several months ago Shaare Zedek erected a chain link fence at between Bayside and Acacia. It's no

The ability to make corrections is the best feature of FamilySearch. I have yet found indexed data that is over 90% correct, and usually much less. Dani When you start to read readin, how do you

Hello It has been warmer so I dont think it will take long for the snow to melt. Do you happen to know what section you ancestors would be in? Please give me the names of who you want me to take

The “IAJGS Salute! Committee” is pleased to announce that Yocheved Klausner has been awarded an IAJGS Salute! Award. IAJGS Salutes are designed to provide recognition on an ongoing basis of

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27th. January 27, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration, the ending of World War ll

Chaike Berkman (Хайка Берхман) left Tarashcha, Ukraine in 1900 and went to her husband Abraham Berkman (Аврум Берхман) in Boston. Address: 60 South St. Boston. I have got this

If you call the cemetery a day or two before you are coming and give them the grave information, they will clear the snow from the grave and from path to it from the road. Obviously this only helps if

Russ, anybody can make a note of correction to documents of FamilySearch.

Familysearch posts the collections updated weekly on their website. Here's the link for this week's

It’s not uncommon for adult children to get their own naturalization, especially if they married an American. If my math is correct, he would have been 20 by then. It might have even been an

I have posted an 1864 Lomazy marriage record for WEINGARTEN m. ZILBERWASSER, viewmate ID 73963. I would greatly appreciate a complete translation of this record. Thank you, Tammy

JGSI of Illinois explores mystery of gravestone portrait photo cache By Martin Fischer The Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois website has posted photos of a mysterious collection of gravestone

This is wonderful! My great grandparents were buried in Acacia cemetery! If anyone else goes there, the last name is Zalka. Joan Silverman Revere, Massachusetts

Does familysearch.org have and update a list of record sets for which it has posted images? I just discovered, by accident, that a record set I am interested in was supplemented sometime recently. It

Thank you for the update Andy. I had no idea of the sale of Shaare Zedek's property and major efforts to clean-up the neglect I found when I last visited. My great grandfather and his brother and a