The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS)
announces its 40th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will
be a virtual conference for the first time, held Aug. 10-13, 2020.
"Given COVID-19, we are unable to hold our usual in-person conference,
but are excited with the possibilities in continuing to offer our
broad array of presentations and meetings on a virtual platform to our
diverse audiences worldwide, from first-timers to conference veterans,"
said Robinn Magid, conference chair.

Brainstorming and Connectivity will be the focus of four days of live,
streamed sessions on broad topics presented as plenary sessions, panels
and webinars. Meeting rooms will be provided for Special Interest
Groups (SIGs) and Birds-of-a-Feather (BOFs) to help gather our
worldwide audience. The Pre-Recorded Video Archive available to
conference registrants for up to 60 days after the virtual conference
will offer an even wider range of specialized presentations beyond the
scheduled, live sessions.

Early Bird Registration is now open June 21 through July 5 on the
Conference website at www.iajgs2020.org .

Conference Chair is Robinn Magid, a retired management consultant from
Berkeley, California, who has 30 years of experience in Jewish
genealogy research. She was also the chair of the 2018 conference in
Warsaw, Poland. Robinn is a frequent speaker at the IAJGS conferences
and various American Jewish Genealogical Societies.

The Conference is hosted by IAJGS, an umbrella organization of more
than 90 Jewish genealogical organizations worldwide. The IAJGS
coordinates and organizes activities such as its annual International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy and provides a unified voice as the
spokesperson on behalf of its members. Ken Bravo of South Euclid,
Ohio, is IAJGS president.

The IAJGS's vision is of a worldwide network of Jewish genealogical
research organizations and partners working together as one coherent,
effective and respected community, enabling people to succeed in
researching Jewish ancestry and heritage. Find the IAJGS at:
www.iajgs.org and like us on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/iajgsjewishgenealogy .

Chuck Weinstein
Communications Chair
40th Annual IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy (and first Virtual Conference)
Chuck1@...

Hi Mark,

Might be Ventspils, Latvia.

Alternate names: Ventspils [Latv], Windau [Ger], Vindava [Rus], Vindoi [Yid], Windawa [Pol], Ventspilis [Lith], Vindavi [Est], Wentspils, Vindau

Region: Courland

https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-3214120

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ

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Bill Lash
bill.lash73@...
Southern California, USA

In Polish, nou nd often end in -a in the nominative case. Israel's does not mean son of Israel, it means Izrael. Mal e and female names both end in -a. Israelowicz means son of Israe l.

My tablet seems not to know much today.

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton. NJ

Read the "Background" of this part of the JewishGen USA database https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/PhilaBlitzstein.htm donated to JewishGen by the Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Greater Philadelphia. This will answer some of your questions.

Mark Halpern
JGASGP 

In Dec. 1894, an immigramt disembarked in NY, from Russia via Liverpool. Sometime before 1897. he returned to Russia. I don't know how long he was there, but in 1897 he returned, this time "immigrating for the first time" to Boston. He immediately returned to to New York and filed his Declaration of Intention (First Papers) to seek citizenship. In this document, he gave the 1894 immigration date as his first entry, and provided the ship name. My question is why he would say, at the second entry, that this was his first entry to the U.S. My guess is that he may have thought that his length of time out of the U.S. would have negated his first entry date and that the residency requirement clock would be reset.

Does anyone know what was the continuous residency requirement in 1897?

Thanks,
J. E Lipmanson

Yoni Ben-Ari, I know you have been searching this family for a long time, because I took special note when I lived in the New Haven area.  I wonder if you were able to search marriage certificates in the area.  I lived in CT for many years.  The silver trade, if you mean manufacturing, was based in Meriden and Wallingford, CT, at that time.  These are adjoining towns about halfway between Hartford and New Haven.  I suggest considering that your ancestor lived in New Haven County rather than the city of New Haven. Unless there was great trolley or train service back then, it's likely that she lived near her work.  Both towns are in New Haven County.  There is currently train service from New Haven to Hartford that stops in both Wallingford and Meriden, so I suspect trains ran between them even over 100 years ago.  Furthermore, the train depot in Wallingford is within walking distance of where the silver company was.  I can't recall if that is true in Meriden, but there were no doubt streetcars at that time.  I hope this opens up some new avenues of investigation. I am replying to the group in case this will help anyone else.
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) announces its 40^th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be a virtual conference for the first time, held Aug. 10-13, 2020.

“Given COVID-19, we are unable to hold our usual in-person conference, but are excited with the possibilities in continuing to offer our broad array of presentations and meetings on a virtual platform to our diverse audiences worldwide, from first-timers to conference veterans,” said Robinn Magid, conference chair.

Brainstorming and Connectivity will be the focus of four days of live, streamed sessions on broad topics presented as plenary sessions, panels and webinars.  Meeting rooms will be provided for Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds-of-a-Feather (BOFs) to help gather our worldwide audience.  The Pre-Recorded Video Archive available to conference registrants for up to 60 days after the virtual conference will offer an even wider range of specialized presentations beyond the scheduled, live sessions.

Early Bird Registration is now open June 21 through July 5 on the Conference website at www.iajgs2020.org.

Conference Chair is Robinn Magid, a retired management consultant from Berkeley, California, who has 30 years of experience in Jewish genealogy research.  She was also the chair of the 2018 conference in Warsaw, Poland.  Robinn is a frequent speaker at the IAJGS conferences and various American Jewish Genealogical Societies.

The Conference is hosted by IAJGS, an umbrella organization of more than 90 Jewish genealogical organizations worldwide.  The IAJGS coordinates and organizes activities such as its annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy and provides a unified voice as the spokesperson on behalf of its members. Ken Bravo of South Euclid, Ohio, is IAJGS president.

The IAJGS’s vision is of a worldwide network of Jewish genealogical research organizations and partners working together as one coherent, effective and respected community, enabling people to succeed in researching Jewish ancestry and heritage. Find the IAJGS at: www.iajgs.org and like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/iajgsjewishgenealogy.

Chuck Weinstein
Communications Chair
40th Annual IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy (and 1st Virtual Conference)
chuck1@...

My paternal great-grandparents all came from Suwalki Gubernia, now split between Poland and Lithuania.  I'm interested in reading about how during the 1885-1900 period (a) relatives in the US sent money and tickets to those wanting to come to USA  (b) how they traveled to the ports given that for many Jews, travel was restricted, (c) what documentation was required to cross borders and to board the ship, (d) how easy it was to falsify surnames or change surnames during the process, (e) how they navigated from entry (usually New York) to final destination without speaking English or knowing how things work in the US.  Would greatly appreciate seeing links to articles on these topics. Thanks.

While I am not descended from Dutch Jews, one of my (German) aunts married a Dutchman and they lived in Amsterdam, from where they and their young child were deported to Westerbork and killed in Sobibor. 

As the family name is Cohen, it has not been particularly easy to find the family, although I ultimately had some success.  Today, based on the information in a new post, I learned of the multiple records available through the Dutch archives and have begun to plow through, although many are only in Dutch.

This is what I know about my uncle.  His name was Herman COHEN, born in Arnhem in 1908.  His father was Louis Simon COHEN, son of Simon Jacob COHEN and Sijtje SONDERVAN.  His mother was Louise DESSAU, daughter of Hermann DESSAU and Bertha KALISCHER.

If anyone has information about these families, please reply privately.

I have also learned that there is a "Jokos" file on my uncle and aunt's family, which I would like to pursue, but do not know how.  The file is said to reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation of valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (there is a claim number).  I am hoping that learning who filed this claim may leas me to surviving relatives of my uncle's, but have no clue as to how to proceed with this investigation. 

A public reply to this part of my request might be helpful to others.

Thank you.
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

One of the survivors of my family’s town was named Israela. I thought it was a woman. It meant son of Israel.
Maybe similar to your. Son of Shir?
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Shelley Mitchell, NYC    shemit@...
Searching for TERNER, GOLDSCHEIN, KONIGSBERG, SCHONFELD, in Kolomyya; PLATZ, in Delaytn; and TOPF, in Radautz and Kolomea.

"from somewhere around Courland/Kurland as he's buried in one of the Kurland plots at Mount Zion Cemetery in Maspeth Queens"

Sometimes burial societies sold plots to 'anybody', so he may have been from there, and maybe not. One of my cousins is buried in the burial plot of a society for a place nowhere near where he came from. They must have been selling at a good plot when he died.

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ

Schelly--we suspect we are related thru the Merlin line, as you know.  Just can't quite figure it out yet.  We'll have to connect again soon.  

Donna and Laura--I'd love to connect with you privately.  My grandfather was Schachne (Samuel) Merlin who emigrated from Zaverezyhe in 1904 at age 24 (b. 1880).  He had a brother Leyba (Louis) b. 1870, married to Doba Plotkin (Dora).  Louis and Dora had 9 children.  Are you a descendant of one of them?  

Sonia Merlin Lipetz
Boston, MA
soniabbnj@...