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US military marriage Nathanson Goldenberg in 1944 Cairo
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Nat Nathanson was an active duty US officer stationed in Cairo when he met and in 1944 married Eva Goldenberg who was born and raised in Cairo. I assume the US military must have some record of that m
Nat Nathanson was an active duty US officer stationed in Cairo when he met and in 1944 married Eva Goldenberg who was born and raised in Cairo. I assume the US military must have some record of that m
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Research in Egypt 1930s-1940s?
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Try searching the 1941 Egypt directory at https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/DirectoryEgypt1941.html or other databases in the Egypt section of https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/databases.htm
Try searching the 1941 Egypt directory at https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/DirectoryEgypt1941.html or other databases in the Egypt section of https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/databases.htm
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"Holy Silence" Documents Vatican's Role in the Holocaust
#announcements
#holocaust
We watched it too. Excellent documentary. The only sound problem we encountered was a slight timing dtiscrepancy between the sound and the image. Not much, 1 second or so, perhaps because of the diffe
We watched it too. Excellent documentary. The only sound problem we encountered was a slight timing dtiscrepancy between the sound and the image. Not much, 1 second or so, perhaps because of the diffe
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Ancestry purchased by Blacksone
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Anytime you put anything on the internet you lose control of it and what may one day become of it. That is inherent in that media. Regardless of what the 'small print' may or may not say. The advantag
Anytime you put anything on the internet you lose control of it and what may one day become of it. That is inherent in that media. Regardless of what the 'small print' may or may not say. The advantag
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Housing Family Trees for FREE
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Besides the religious aspects, there are other problematic aspects. One of them is simple implied misinformation. I remember looking up some prominent Jewish individuals and to my surprise retrieved t
Besides the religious aspects, there are other problematic aspects. One of them is simple implied misinformation. I remember looking up some prominent Jewish individuals and to my surprise retrieved t
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Records? Ancestor moved from Boston to Tel Aviv in 1920s.
#israel
Thanks Alan. How early do these arrival records of the Immigration Department of the Palestine Zionist Executive start? What's the earliest date available? Thanks. Jeff Malka, M.D. "Sephardic Genealog
Thanks Alan. How early do these arrival records of the Immigration Department of the Palestine Zionist Executive start? What's the earliest date available? Thanks. Jeff Malka, M.D. "Sephardic Genealog
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Jewish cemeteries in Turkey digitized
#announcements
#sephardic
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
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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Late Registrations in the SubCarp Records
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I encountered a similar situation with a marriage record. My wife's grandmother, from Nagy Turjajog in subcarpathia. came to NYC in 1905. Her husband was from a town near Serednye and came to the US i
I encountered a similar situation with a marriage record. My wife's grandmother, from Nagy Turjajog in subcarpathia. came to NYC in 1905. Her husband was from a town near Serednye and came to the US i
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Vetting family tree submissions to genealogy sites for data soundness
#general
I could not have said it better. Like Prof. Gath, i've found it a huge waste of time to look in those commercial databases. To pay them money as a subscriber is adding insult to injury. Reminds me of
I could not have said it better. Like Prof. Gath, i've found it a huge waste of time to look in those commercial databases. To pay them money as a subscriber is adding insult to injury. Reminds me of
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Seeking Moritz and Louise KREMER Cairo circa 1910
#sephardic
Accessing records in Cairo is essentially impossible. Records of the Jewish community are in the custody of the Jewish community of Cairo (a handful of elderly widows) under control of the government.
Accessing records in Cairo is essentially impossible. Records of the Jewish community are in the custody of the Jewish community of Cairo (a handful of elderly widows) under control of the government.
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Dov Cohen's list if Izmir brides and grooms
#sephardic
In Paris, at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the International Jewish Genealogy Conference Professor Dov Cohen presented a list of names of 7,300 Brides and Grooms from the Jewish community of Izmir. That
In Paris, at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the International Jewish Genealogy Conference Professor Dov Cohen presented a list of names of 7,300 Brides and Grooms from the Jewish community of Izmir. That
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Davidic Ancestry in the First Century?
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I totally agree with you. In some of my lectures many years ago I had a section with a PowerPoint slide that asked 'who in this room is descended from King David?' I then went on to show the increasin
I totally agree with you. In some of my lectures many years ago I had a section with a PowerPoint slide that asked 'who in this room is descended from King David?' I then went on to show the increasin
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New databases for London (Bevis Marks) and Gibraltar
#unitedkingdom
#announcements
#sephardic
New databases online for those researching Sephardic roots in England and Gibraltar: https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/KetubotWrittenByHakhamAylionSrchFrm.html https://www.sephardicgen.com/databa
New databases online for those researching Sephardic roots in England and Gibraltar: https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/KetubotWrittenByHakhamAylionSrchFrm.html https://www.sephardicgen.com/databa
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Beider's books on Mediterranean regions
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Alexander Beider's last 2 name dictionaries covered regions with large Sephardic communities. Searchable indexes of these two books are now available at https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/BeiderBo
Alexander Beider's last 2 name dictionaries covered regions with large Sephardic communities. Searchable indexes of these two books are now available at https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/BeiderBo
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The film Unorthodox on Amazon Prime
#israel
It seems there are several film with that same title. The one I was referring to about the college year in Israel is on Amazon Prime by Anna Wexler, 2015. Not the Netflix one with the same name or sev
It seems there are several film with that same title. The one I was referring to about the college year in Israel is on Amazon Prime by Anna Wexler, 2015. Not the Netflix one with the same name or sev
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"Unorthodox" - 2015 film about a college year spent in Israel and another, 2020 a wife, 19, flees to Berlin from Satmar Williamsburg
#israel
#germany
#usa
The film 'Unorthodox' (free on Amazon Prime) might be of interest to those whose children will be spending their first college year in Israel. An eyeopener, at least to me. PS It seems there are sever
The film 'Unorthodox' (free on Amazon Prime) might be of interest to those whose children will be spending their first college year in Israel. An eyeopener, at least to me. PS It seems there are sever
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Lapichy in Belarus
#belarus
Some time ago I downloaded >from Jewishgen a semi-humerous piece entitled "Lapitch and Til Eulenspiegel" by Yakov Davidon (translated by Eial Dujovny). can't seem to find it again on Jewishgen. Does a
Some time ago I downloaded >from Jewishgen a semi-humerous piece entitled "Lapitch and Til Eulenspiegel" by Yakov Davidon (translated by Eial Dujovny). can't seem to find it again on Jewishgen. Does a
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Lapichy in Belarus
#belarus
Some time ago I downloaded >from Jewishgen a semi-humerous piece entitled "Lapitch and Til Eulenspiegel" by Yakov Davidon (translated by Eial Dujovny). can't seem to find it again on Jewishgen. Does a
Some time ago I downloaded >from Jewishgen a semi-humerous piece entitled "Lapitch and Til Eulenspiegel" by Yakov Davidon (translated by Eial Dujovny). can't seem to find it again on Jewishgen. Does a
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grave on Mt. Of Olives
Sadly the English version of the search page is blank and unusable. The Hebrew version works. Jeff Malka
Sadly the English version of the search page is blank and unusable. The Hebrew version works. Jeff Malka
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Contact with Joshua Michael Swerling
Sorry for barging in but I've long been searching unsuccessfully for information about a Sara Swerling (25 Jun 1879 - 27 Mar 1968) taught English in Riga, married a Jacob Gelfand in Belarus and died i
Sorry for barging in but I've long been searching unsuccessfully for information about a Sara Swerling (25 Jun 1879 - 27 Mar 1968) taught English in Riga, married a Jacob Gelfand in Belarus and died i
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