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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If you want to find out if there’s a JewishGen Research Division or other outside group that covers your ancestral town, here’s an easy way to do it…. Go to JewishGen’s Town Finder at https://www.jewi

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Hi Susan, According to the Town page for Vileika, that area is covered by JewishGen's Belarus Research Group and Litvak SIG. Scroll down to the bottom right of the Town page and see the names of the r

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JewishGen is pleased to announce that a new data set has been added to Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) This is a small collection, put together by the World Jewish

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JewishGen is pleased to announce that this new significant data set has been added to Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) Beginning in 1933, the German Government revok

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

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Due Date – July 15th! Dear SIG, RD, BOF, RG leader, As you are probably aware by now, this year’s IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be a “Virtual Conference”. The good news is that the confere

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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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Dear SIG, RD, BOF, RG leader, As you are probably aware by now, this year’s IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be a “Virtual Conference”. The good news is that the conference Chairs have worked

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Hi Erika, I'm not sure if all of JewishGen's Research Divisions handle their introductions in the same way, but each data set within the Holocaust Database has its own "Introduction". The purpose of t

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Hi all, JewishGen's JOWBR database has more than 3,400 burial records for those buried in the Ghetto Sections. The identifications were made through by the IDF working with the Yad LeZehava Holocaust

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Hi Richard, The .jpg files you referred to are pictures of the ledger pages that were used to create the database...they are not photos of the actual headstones. The ledger was compiled by the "Organi

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JewishGen is pleased to announce that a new data set has been added to Holocaust Database (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/) In April 1945, just before the end of the war, about 1,000 Je

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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: Jewish Genealogical Society of New Zealan

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Hi Nurit, The spreadsheet can be downloaded from https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm (I've attached a copy to this posting.) BTW...if the synagogue has a digital listing of their m

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Hi Peter, Although I don't think there is a legal privacy issue with either, I can see the argument reversed. The cemeteries are usually private cemeteries so the administrators may ask you to leave i

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Salute! to Shalom Bronstein The “IAJGS Salutes! Committee” is pleased to announce that Shalom Bronstein has been awarded an IAJGS Salute! Award. IAJGS Salutes are designed to provide recognition on an

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There were two typos in the first uploaded letter. Please use this revised one. I apologize for any inconvenience. Nolan

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