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Visit JewishGen's New Website
#romania
Nancy Siegel
JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at
www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page to serve as a launching point for the main components of the website. The site is built on a modern, secure platform, which is beneficial for a number of reasons, including: *It has a more intuitive and user-friendly design, *It is mobile-responsive, and *It has a more familiar platform, which will make it easier for us to find qualified consultants, contractors and volunteers to help us in the future. This is not the final plan. It's a stop-gap redesign that addresses some of the shortcomings of our website by creating a visually appealing, mobile-friendly, and easy to navigate homepage that researchers can utilize to find key components on the JewishGen site. While we attracted approximately one million unique visitors to the JewishGen site last year, only a small portion of this group actually registered or became regular users. We anticipate that an enhanced website will improve these results. Specifically, we hope the new landing page will help guide researchers to: *Search the online collection *Locate ancestral communities *Explore life in their ancestral communities *Join our discussion groups *Volunteer, and *Donate. Over the next two months, we will begin crafting a proper technology strategy, which will include our website and databases. In the meantime, however, this new landing page will immediately help researchers, while also demonstrating JewishGen's strategic focus. Thank you to everyone on our staff and volunteer leadership team for their suggestions and contributions to making this happen. Special thanks to Scott Seidenstock, Gary Sandler, and Warren Blatt. Please enjoy the site and visit www.JewishGen.org now. Feedback and suggestions will be most welcome! Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA) Communications Coordinator JewishGen.org
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Romania SIG #Romania Visit JewishGen's New Website
#romania
Nancy Siegel
JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at
www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page to serve as a launching point for the main components of the website. The site is built on a modern, secure platform, which is beneficial for a number of reasons, including: *It has a more intuitive and user-friendly design, *It is mobile-responsive, and *It has a more familiar platform, which will make it easier for us to find qualified consultants, contractors and volunteers to help us in the future. This is not the final plan. It's a stop-gap redesign that addresses some of the shortcomings of our website by creating a visually appealing, mobile-friendly, and easy to navigate homepage that researchers can utilize to find key components on the JewishGen site. While we attracted approximately one million unique visitors to the JewishGen site last year, only a small portion of this group actually registered or became regular users. We anticipate that an enhanced website will improve these results. Specifically, we hope the new landing page will help guide researchers to: *Search the online collection *Locate ancestral communities *Explore life in their ancestral communities *Join our discussion groups *Volunteer, and *Donate. Over the next two months, we will begin crafting a proper technology strategy, which will include our website and databases. In the meantime, however, this new landing page will immediately help researchers, while also demonstrating JewishGen's strategic focus. Thank you to everyone on our staff and volunteer leadership team for their suggestions and contributions to making this happen. Special thanks to Scott Seidenstock, Gary Sandler, and Warren Blatt. Please enjoy the site and visit www.JewishGen.org now. Feedback and suggestions will be most welcome! Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA) Communications Coordinator JewishGen.org
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Testing the #Hashtags Function
Rachel Kolokoff Hopper <r-hopper@...>
Testing to see if the hashtag function works.
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LitvakSIG 2019 Election Results and Leadership positions
#lithuania
Jrbaston
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2019 LitvakSIG election.
Jill Anderson, Russ Maurer and Garri Regev were re-elected to the Board for a new three year term. The result was announced during the LitvakSIG Annual General Meeting at the IAJGS Conference in Cleveland. Also, the Board re-elected Jill Anderson to continue to serve as President, Barry Halpern and Garri Regev to continue to serve as Vice Presidents, Judy Baston to continue to serve as Secretary, and Eden Joachim to continue as Treasurer. Judy Baston Secretary, LitvakSIG
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania LitvakSIG 2019 Election Results and Leadership positions
#lithuania
Jrbaston
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2019 LitvakSIG election.
Jill Anderson, Russ Maurer and Garri Regev were re-elected to the Board for a new three year term. The result was announced during the LitvakSIG Annual General Meeting at the IAJGS Conference in Cleveland. Also, the Board re-elected Jill Anderson to continue to serve as President, Barry Halpern and Garri Regev to continue to serve as Vice Presidents, Judy Baston to continue to serve as Secretary, and Eden Joachim to continue as Treasurer. Judy Baston Secretary, LitvakSIG
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Doner in Radoszyce
#rabbinic
Neil@...
Trying to have someone in Salt Lake City find and make a coy of two
records for Poland, Radoscyze - 1) is the birth of Jakub Szulim Duner, reel # 1,809,027 and 2) the marriage of Nuta Duner in 1902 (Akta 2 - but no reel # listed in Jewish Gen. Many thanks. -- Neil Rosenstein
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Doner in Radoszyce
#rabbinic
Neil@...
Trying to have someone in Salt Lake City find and make a coy of two
records for Poland, Radoscyze - 1) is the birth of Jakub Szulim Duner, reel # 1,809,027 and 2) the marriage of Nuta Duner in 1902 (Akta 2 - but no reel # listed in Jewish Gen. Many thanks. -- Neil Rosenstein
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Anyone going to Mt Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale?
#general
Carol Karp
I would appreciate a photo of a Grave so that I could read the Hebrew
name of the parent. The stone is for Louis Kreiss who died on 9/10/1981 He is buried in in PETROF Lodge. P-1-2-7/8-12A Rear 1 This is a cousin of mine and getting the Hebrew name of his father would really open up the brick wall. Buried nearby are his son Arthur Kreiss and daughter in law Gussie Kreiss p1-4-9 P1-5-9 If it's not too much trouble I would appreciate all three. If not then Louis Kreiss would be fine Carol Karp Bckay1@aol.com Tucson Arizona MODERATOR NOTE: In order to avoid duplication of effort, please contact Carol Karp before going to the cemetery.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Anyone going to Mt Lebanon Cemetery in Glendale?
#general
Carol Karp
I would appreciate a photo of a Grave so that I could read the Hebrew
name of the parent. The stone is for Louis Kreiss who died on 9/10/1981 He is buried in in PETROF Lodge. P-1-2-7/8-12A Rear 1 This is a cousin of mine and getting the Hebrew name of his father would really open up the brick wall. Buried nearby are his son Arthur Kreiss and daughter in law Gussie Kreiss p1-4-9 P1-5-9 If it's not too much trouble I would appreciate all three. If not then Louis Kreiss would be fine Carol Karp Bckay1@aol.com Tucson Arizona MODERATOR NOTE: In order to avoid duplication of effort, please contact Carol Karp before going to the cemetery.
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Doner in Radoszyce
#general
Neil@...
Trying to have someone in Salt Lake City find and make a coy of two
records for Poland, Radoscyze - 1) is the birth of Jakub Szulim Duner, reel # 1,809,027 and 2) the marriage of Nuta Duner in 1902 (Akta 2 - but no reel # listed in Jewish Gen. Many thanks. -- Neil Rosenstein
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Doner in Radoszyce
#general
Neil@...
Trying to have someone in Salt Lake City find and make a coy of two
records for Poland, Radoscyze - 1) is the birth of Jakub Szulim Duner, reel # 1,809,027 and 2) the marriage of Nuta Duner in 1902 (Akta 2 - but no reel # listed in Jewish Gen. Many thanks. -- Neil Rosenstein
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Re: Visit JewishGen’s New Website!
juliana.berland@...
Hello all. A few comments
about the new site as it is still being tested & developed:
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On the page https://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/Who.html, the first sentence has a typo "JewishGen serves as-as the global home..." (I didn't check elsewhere, this was just a chance sighting.) The footer on the new design (for pages such as https://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/Testimonials/) needs work -- it shows too many copyright dates, lists the Wordpress back-end information in 2 different places, & Richard Baum's name is not capitalized. regards, Juliana Berland
On 31/07/2019 18:09, Nancy Siegel
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Re: Trial
Hank Mishkoff
I get a daily digest, and when I open a discussion I see all the notes arranged in chronological order, which means that I have to scroll through all the old notes before I see the new ones. Is that by design? Is there some kind of configuration setting I can change?
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Groups IO Hashtags Option
Rachel Kolokoff Hopper <r-hopper@...>
So in doing some research into quoted messages in replies I came across the hashtag feature in Groups IO. But before you read below, my understanding of the hashtag option is so that topics can be more easily followed. There IS an option that the admins can set to require hashtags in all subject lines.
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Re: Trial
Dick Plotz
But you (and I, in my second reply) are responding to individual
posts. That will invoke whatever your e-mail client is set to, and has nothing to do with the group interface. Sally was responding to the digest, and in that case there's no way to provide context except by laboriously copying and pasting from the original message, which I would expect virtually nobody to do. So we have two extremes. 1. Replies to the digest will virtually never include quoted material (unless there's a setting for that in the groups.io configuration). 2. Replies to individual messages will almost always include quoted material. For those of us on gmail, the quoted material will not be visible as we write our response unless we ask to see it, so threads will tend to accumulate tails, which can get very, very long. Neither extreme is user-friendly. In the first case, most readers will not understand most replies. In the second case, digest readers will have to deal with long interruptions, which will make it hard to identify the starts of new posts among all the quoted starts of old posts. That will be much less of a problem for people who receive the full-featured digest, and I would expect those to be most subscribers. But for those of us who quickly scan the text digest now looking for information or questions of interest, if we do get the option to receive a text digest having all those tails will make our task much harder and more time-consuming. Those who do receive the full-featured digest will have another problem, though: many posts come in with subject lines that don't tell readers anything about what's in their message. Typical examples, which moderators see every day: Subject: Help! Subject: Family research If digest readers have to click through to read those messages, I predict that most of the time very, very few people will ever see them. My 20 years of experience moderating JewishGen lists and reading digests leads me to some conclusions about these problems. 1. The best format for digests would be similar to the current digests that come out of Lyris, but with the list of subject lines at the top being live links to the start of the corresponding message. After the list would come the posts strung together, allowing readers to either scan subject lines and click through or scan the full list and look for material of interest. Having only one of these options available for any given subscriber would be a big step backward. 2. Moderators currently are able to edit subject lines freely. That capability solves the problem of uninformative subject lines that would otherwise hobble readers of either the current index version or future index or full-featured versions. 3. Moderators currently are able to manage long tails by editing them to leave only enough of the previous message to provide context for the reply. It's one of the main things we do, and it saves the digest from being virtually unusable, which it otherwise would be. 4. Currently, replies can be made only by e-mail, not in a web interface (although Lyris does provide that option, which we have never supported). For most users, that means replies come with the message they're replying to quoted below the reply. Replies to the digest quote the whole digest; if it's clear what message is being responded to, the moderator can remove all the extraneous stuff if the sender hasn't already done that. This also gives the moderator an opportunity to repeat, in a note, the request to remove extraneous quoted material when responding to the digest. If it's not clear, the moderator will return the message asking the sender to include only the relevant material. 5. Points 2-4 above require that moderators have an edit option in addition to the approve as is or reject options, which were all that were available in Google Groups. I haven't yet seen the moderation interface in groups.io, so I don't know if editing is possible there. If it's not, we're going to be stuck with digests that have either too much or too little information, or both too much and too little at different points. If readability is to remain a priority, there's no way to outsource this work to an algorithm. Algorithms have not made the work of copy editors unnecessary, and I don't expect that to happen for a long time. Not that it hasn't been tried; I'm sure it has. But for the most part it's not conducive to readability. Dick On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:42 AM Rachel Kolokoff Hopper <r-hopper@...> wrote:
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Visit JewishGen’s New Website!
Nancy Siegel
JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page to serve as a launching point for the main components of the website. The site is built on a modern, secure platform, which is beneficial for a number of reasons, including:
This is not the final plan. It’s a stop-gap redesign that addresses some of the shortcomings of our website by creating a visually appealing, mobile-friendly, and easy to navigate homepage that researchers can utilize to find key components on the JewishGen site. While we attracted approximately one million unique visitors to the JewishGen site last year, only a small portion of this group actually registered or became regular users. We anticipate that an enhanced website will improve these results. Specifically, we hope the new landing page will help guide researchers to:
Over the next two months, we will begin crafting a proper technology strategy, which will include our website and databases. In the meantime, however, this new landing page will immediately help researchers, while also demonstrating JewishGen's strategic focus. Thank you to everyone on our staff and volunteer leadership team for their suggestions and contributions to making this happen. Special thanks to Scott Seidenstock, Gary Sandler, and Warren Blatt. Please enjoy the site and visit www.JewishGen.org now. Feedback and suggestions will be most welcome! Nancy Siegel Communications Coordinator JewishGen.org
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Re: Trial
I se what you mean. I'm surę I'll reply from my email, and didn't see sm option to quote original. Can that be included in this program? Margie AZ, USA Marjorie Geiser, RD, MBA
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Re: Trial
Rachel Kolokoff Hopper <r-hopper@...>
I am wondering if the quoted original message in the reply is a feature that can be set by the admin. I agree that it is very confusing to get a response to a message and not see what the post was about. I am getting a lot of individual messages and have no idea what the original subject matter was. I do not get digest so it is happening with all forms of delivery.
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On Jul 30, 2019, at 7:49 AM, Sally Bruckheimer via Groups.Io <sallybruc@...> wrote: On the Lyrica version, people usually reply to a comment, mentioning or quoting something of what they are replying to. That is very helpful to remind us what subject or town the reply concerns. In this groups.io version, nobody seems to do that. I, for one, often don't understand what the reply is talking about. Do people here agree with me? Sally Bruckheimer Princeton, NJ
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Rabbi Shmuel Avigdor TOSEPHA (RABINOWITZ) Pinsk 19th cent.
#rabbinic
Yonatan Ben-Ari
Can anyone share Rabbi Shmuel Avigdor TOSEPHA (RABINOWITZ) of Pinsk
(or Karlin) 19th cent. family tree. Thanks Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Rabbi Shmuel Avigdor TOSEPHA (RABINOWITZ) Pinsk 19th cent.
#rabbinic
Yonatan Ben-Ari
Can anyone share Rabbi Shmuel Avigdor TOSEPHA (RABINOWITZ) of Pinsk
(or Karlin) 19th cent. family tree. Thanks Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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