Brick Walls or Dead End July 20 - August 2 https://www.jewishgen.org/education/ Frustrated and at a Loss? Are you at a Dead end or just experiencing a Brick Wall? JewishGen's "Brick Walls or Dead End"

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Open Archives added 10 million historical personal references, in particular, certificates of the Civil registry. These are documents from the following Flemish and Walloon archive repositories: State

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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2020 pre-“Virtual” Conference update to the JOWBR (JewishGen’s Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. Please visit www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ to acce

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Jewish Genealogy Society of Toronto. Exclusive free MyHeritage webinar on Thursday July 9 at 10 am EST. The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto is proud to present MyHeritage Genealogy Expert, Dani

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The (UK) National Archives announced that on July 21st the reading rooms in Kew will reopen after being closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Archives will be providing limited access to parts o

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Data from over 61,000 tombstones in Jewish cemeteries in Turkey is now available in great detail at a new website https://jewishturkstones.tau.ac.il/ It is a project of Tel Aviv University in memory o

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California’s Consumer Privacy Act regulations became effective July 1st. See article from the San Francisco Chronicle. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/How-to-exercise-your-online-privacy-

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The Dutch National Archives have launched the beta version of its new catalog to search and view their records. To access it, log into your account or create one at: https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/en

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I'd like to alert Genners to a new FB group; https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2393633830932600&ref=br_rs Shanghai Internees & Jewish Refugee Group 1945. We should remember those interned on 15

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Have you been working on your family history and now want to share your stories? The objective of this class is to provide the opportunity to write a report of limited scope that you can complete with

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When JRI-Poland added the Belchatow Book of Residents to the database over 13 years ago, we were limited to adding people that were born in the 19th Century. Now that the Polish State Archives had mad

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Congratulations to Robinn Magid for this well-deserved appointment as Assistant Director of JRI-POLAND. It is a given that she is an excellent asset to JRI-Poland and will continue to be. How lucky we

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If you have already registered for the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) 2020 Conference on Jewish Genealogy, then THANK YOU! Our registration numbers look really good

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A new project has been launched to identify and catalog every Hebrew book in Italy—35,000 books over the next three years.. Called I-Tal-Ya Books it is a joint collaboration between the National Libra

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If you have already registered for the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) 2020 Conference on Jewish Genealogy, then THANK YOU! Our registration numbers look really good

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The IGRA Zoom session on July 6 (9 pm Israel, 2 pm EDT) features Daniel Horowitz explaining the new technologies developed by MyHeritage allowing you to take black & white photos and colorize them and

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Fold3.com, a member of the Ancestry family of companies, is offering free access to their Revolutionary War records July 1- July 15, 2020 11:59PM ET. You do have register with your name, email and pas

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This database is described as the “largest tombstone database in the world“ which is simply not true. The search interface relegates NAMES to one of the last search parameters and the names do not app

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Thank you to Phil Shapiro for letting me know about an online discussion of the fate and writings of Matilda Olkinaite, a young Litvak poet whose life was cut short by the Holocaust. The event is orga

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On behalf of the Board of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, I would like to heartily endorse the election of our long-time society member, Robinn Magid, to the position of Assist

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