I’ve been alerted by a JG researcher that there is a very old Jewish cemetery in Paterson, NJ that is in jeopardy of being destroyed by a commercial builder. Ahavat Joseph Congregational Cemetery was

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JewishGen's Holocaust Database already has a searchable data set of more than 61,000 records that seems to be very similar, if not the same, as the UMass Amherst set. Please see the explanation of the

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JewishGen greatly appreciates that the Kamp Westerbork organization has permitted JewishGen to add more than 101,500 records to the JewishGen Holocaust Database. The original source records came from

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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2021 year-end update for the Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database inclu

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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2021 year-end update to the JOWBR (JewishGen’s Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. Please visit www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ to access the JOWBR dat

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If you're not tired of hearing me yet, I was interviewed for The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery Podcast yesterday. Our conversation covered a wide range of cemetery and genealogical topics. If you'r

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If you have corrections for the JOWBR database, please see the "Corrections" paragraph in the last section of the "Submitting Data to JOWBR" page at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Submit

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Hi all, Just a reminder that if you would like to submit your data / photos for the June “pre-Conference” update, the due date is May 31st. After June, the next semi-annual update will take place at c

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Hi all - I’m sending this announcement on behalf of Dr. Francesconi, the Director of the Judaic Studies program at the University at Albany. Thanks. Nolan Altman Dear Friends, It is with great pleasur

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The “IAJGS Salutes! Committee” is pleased to announce that Dorit Perry, Uri Sagi and “Giving a Face to the Fallen” have been awarded an IAJGS Salute! Award. IAJGS Salutes! are designed to provide reco

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On behalf of the IAJGS Board and our current membership, it is with great pleasure that we welcome 3 new members to our growing family of IAJGS organizations: Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Geshe

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JewishGen is pleased to announce the addition of two new component data sets and a significant update to an existing component database in the Holocaust Database at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases

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Accessing any of JewishGen's databases is free. You need to register but there is no charge for a 1 field search in this or any of the databases. (A single field search includes surname, given name, t

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In February of 1939, Równe, was part of Poland. Subsequently, the town was part of the Soviet Union and today is known as Rivne, in Ukraine. (For more information on the town, please see JewishGen’s C

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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2020 year-end update for the Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database inclu

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JewishGen is proud to announce its 2020 year-end update to the JOWBR (JewishGen’s Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. Please visit www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ to access the JOWBR dat

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Peter Absolon updated the 2,468 records from the Bardejov, Slovakia data set in JewishGen’s Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) The set has now been retitled “Slovak Je

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JewishGen is pleased to announce that two new data sets have been added to the Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) Selected Jewish Refugee Passenger Manifests In the ye

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HI Moses, Would you please share your database, and photos if you get them, with JewishGen so we can add the material to the JOWBR database? Please contact me at NAltman@... Thank you in adv

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Congratulations Gary! Well-deserved!

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