I am very pleased to announce a new presentation titled “How to Utilize The JewishGen Discussion Group Effectively”. This one-hour presentation is for anyone who is using or thinking about using the J

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To: All JewishGen Discussion Group Members I am in the process of completing a presentation titled "How to Effectively Utilize the JewishGen Discussion Group" and am looking for individual Discussion

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While Discussion Group Guidelines does not allow political postings at all, this post from new Georgia Senator Jon Issoff goes to the heart of genealogy and while not political, it was inspiration for

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An interesting story in today's New Yorker: Inside the U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art | The New Yorker Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, OK Researching Leet, Brom, Gitow, Goldfarb, Merin

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To: All JewishGen Discussion Group Members A happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous New Year in 2021 from your JewishGen Discussion Group moderators. The JewishGen Discussion Group unites Jewish genealo

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The lead story in Gary Mokotoff’s Nu? What’s New? this week was a lengthy article about Miriam Weiner’s updated website of The Routes to Roots Foundation at www.rtrfoundation.org . In addition, she al

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I have a relative by the name of Barnett Mulmed who was born in Brest-Litovsk on July 17, 1879. He went to London and changed his name to Mulmed and arrived in the US on the SS New York on Feb. 25, 19

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For those of you who cannot attend live the Webinar of Dr. Alexander Beider this coming week or wish to listen to any past JewishGen Talks program, please note that recordings of all past, current, an

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Almost every European Jewish community, whether large or small, possessed a special book in which community members were memorialized, both in writing and in synagogue liturgy. These "Memorbucher" are

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Documentary Film Festival at the National Library of Israel. From November 15-25 some outstanding films available in English for viewing: https://docutext.nli.org.il/program-en-abroad in the event any

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There have also been a few questions on how to donate to JewishGen via PayPal. The link to donate by PayPal is: https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen-erosity/paypal.asp Phil Goldfarb President JGS of Tu

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I am a 4th generation pharmacist by profession and my great grandfather was one in Mogilev and then in Ekaterinoslav from 1895-1904. My grandfather told me that they had a telephone in the drug store

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JewishGen Discussion Group Using the Reply and Like Features DAILY SUMMARY and DIGEST There are two formats for receiving the Discussion Group messages — Daily Summary format and Digest format. Same m

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Dear JewishGen Discussion Group Members: As many of you heard during Avrami Groll’s update on JewishGen this past Tuesday at the 2020 IAJGS Virtual Conference, the JewishGen Discussion Group has had a

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I am hoping that there are some great researchers out there who can help myself and some cousins with a brick wall. We are looking for the name of the wife of Mordecai Braun/Brom from Lithuania. We kn

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Last night the documentary L'dor V'dor Generation to Generation: A History of Tulsa's Jewish Community won the Hartland Division Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary. It was a collaboration betw

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Trying to clear up a puzzle. Does anyone know if the first name Marx (which was found on a death certificate) was a shortened version of Mordecai (a potential relative which was found on a tombstone)

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There is a tailor named Sherman Ray (original name Sasha Rajko) in Tulsa, OK who along with several of his friends escaped the train in Poland and hid in the woods for a year. One of the friends had f

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I don't know if everyone is aware of this new teaching app for children about the Holocaust but our Genealogy Society will be using it in conjunction with our local Synagogue, Temple, and Jewish Feder

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Tulsa along with the Tulsa Historical Society is pleased to announce that their documentary L'dor V'dor Generation to Generation, the Jews of Oklahoma is in the fina

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