This is a great thread / discussion. I think that listing somewhere on the indexes would be very helpful so that there is a reduction of duplicated efforts. So if I manage to track down an actual PSA

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This is a great thread / discussion. I think that listing somewhere on the indexes would be very helpful so that there is a reduction of duplicated efforts. So if I manage to track down an actual PSA

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I agree with Sally Bruckheimer that there is difficulty and danger in linking family records with inadequate understanding and proof of relationships. The JRI-Poland indexes are both extremely helpful

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I agree with Sally Bruckheimer that there is difficulty and danger in linking family records with inadequate understanding and proof of relationships. The JRI-Poland indexes are both extremely helpful

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I wanted to clarify something about the family project I am working on where many of the records are concentrated in the same town (in this family project it is Golub-Dobrzy, but for another it's Radz

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I wanted to clarify something about the family project I am working on where many of the records are concentrated in the same town (in this family project it is Golub-Dobrzy, but for another it's Radz

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As someone who lives in New York I have found this thread truly amazing and very helpful. I wonder if this great advice is compiled anywhere as a FAQ? And as a fledgling librarian, I want to emphasize

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As someone who lives in New York I have found this thread truly amazing and very helpful. I wonder if this great advice is compiled anywhere as a FAQ? And as a fledgling librarian, I want to emphasize

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I agree wholeheartedly with the consensus that you shouldn't throw them out. In answer to your question on advice on what to do: I have been working on digitizing my family's photos for a while now, I

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I agree wholeheartedly with the consensus that you shouldn't throw them out. In answer to your question on advice on what to do: I have been working on digitizing my family's photos for a while now, I

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To follow up on this thread I set up a Flickr account for anyone who is interested in uploading orphan photos they have scanned. The name of the account is Digital.PhotoRepository. Option 1: You can e

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To follow up on this thread I set up a Flickr account for anyone who is interested in uploading orphan photos they have scanned. The name of the account is Digital.PhotoRepository. Option 1: You can e

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Diane, To answer your questions: 1. Yes! There are a lot of surrounding Jewish areas around Mlawa 2. Without being a native Russian speaker the English transliteration is very slippery / difficult. If

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Diane, To answer your questions: 1. Yes! There are a lot of surrounding Jewish areas around Mlawa 2. Without being a native Russian speaker the English transliteration is very slippery / difficult. If

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Anne, OpenStreetMap is an open source tool that allows you to do this. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Google Maps lets you do this too (to a lesser degree) but I think that OpenStreetMap is the easiest

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Anne, OpenStreetMap is an open source tool that allows you to do this. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Google Maps lets you do this too (to a lesser degree) but I think that OpenStreetMap is the easiest

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