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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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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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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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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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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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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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 online for those researching Sephardic roots in England and Gibraltar: https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/KetubotWrittenByHakhamAylionSrchFrm.html https://www.sephardicgen.com/databa

#unitedkingdom #announcements #sephardic

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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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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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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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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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

#belarus

Sadly the English version of the search page is blank and unusable. The Hebrew version works. Jeff Malka

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

I rarely receive the SIG digests anymore. When I click on the 'View all your groups.jewishgen.org' or 'Edit your subscriptions here' links I see the only thing I seem subscribed to is "Main". And on t

I essentially agree with everything you've said and hesitated replying and adding to the unnecessary traffic except to add that according to a message I received from Plotz, the 12 message limit is ap

IMHO the old system was a real pain. I, and many others, stopped using it because of its idiosyncrasies and the overly aggressive moderators. For many of us, genealogy is a hobby and thus entertainmen

The new platform is a significant improvement in many ways. IMHO, the 2 major problems can be rapidly solved as follows. 1. Daily digests. It seems that all members who under the old system were subsc

Like many others, I too am annoyed with the multiple 'digests' per day. Having figured out how to solve it here's what I did. Hopefully it will help others. To change the mailing frequency you need to