The original message in this thread was from Geoffrey Isaac Collins asking about census records for both Zabludow and Bialystok. Larry provided information from Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundat

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Please join me for a tour of my ancestral town of Bialystok, an important pre-War Jewish city now in Northeast Poland, formerly in Czarist Russia's Grodno Gubernia. Before the War, 60% of Bialystok's

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I have Galician cousins with names Muni and Manio, whose given names were either Munis or Munisch. They were born in Tarnopol and Brzezany, but their great grandfather was born in Skalat. I found the

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All those who were part of the Forum's program yesterday should have received a follow up email with links to many sites of interest to Janet Applefield's story. The part of that email is reproduced b

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Please join me tomorrow, Tuesday, April 6 at 10 am Pacific, 12 pm Central, 1 pm Eastern, 6 pm UK, 8 pm Israel time, for the Forum's Yom HaShoah program. Mark Halpern View this email in your browser De

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Join me in participating in this week's Forum for Dialogue virtual program about visiting Poland. The program is on Wednesday, March 24 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern, 5 pm in UK, 7 pm in Israel. Link

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Join me in the audience for the next virtual program from the Forum for Dialogue. This session concerns their School of Dialogue where students from towns in Poland learn about the history of their to

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Hello Roger; Let me try to clarify things for you. There are privacy periods for vital records. The period is 100 years for births and 80 years for marriages and deaths. Other records may also come un

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Join the Forum for another interesting discussion on Wednesday, March 10 at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern, 6 pm UK, 8 pm Israel. I would like to remind you of tomorrow’s Zoom in on the Forum session wit

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Dear Fellow Genealogists: Continuing on with programs about Lodz, the Forum for Dialogue presents an educator who will talk about the Shoah in Lodz. This subject should be of interest to those with an

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First, let me say that searching Ancestry or any other commercial database is a very poor substitute for using JRI-Poland and Gesher Galicia for Galicia records and JRI-Poland for records from other a

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Dear Fellow Genealogists: Whether you have ancestry from Lodz or not, you don't want to miss this online tour of Jewish Lodz, the second most important Jewish city in Poland after Warsaw. I have been

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Hi Catherine: The birth index found on the Routes to Roots Foundation website is a great new addition of data to the available resources for Jewish Genealogy. This database of over 2 million records i

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Your town is definitely the Galician town of Gwozdziec, now called Hvizdets in Ukraine, located at coordinates 4835, 2517 about 19 km ENE of Kolomyja. This town had a famous wooden synagogue. The pain

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JRI-Poland has come into possession of a 1929 Census of the Jews of Knyszyn, a town near Bialystok and Tykocin. The Census is written in Polish. A sample page is attached. The project is to transcribe

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Miriam Weiner’s Routes to Roots Foundation website was introduced to us about 20 years ago. The Archival database provides the holdings by town of repositories in five eastern European countries plus

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JRI-Poland has indexed and placed online the 1905-07 marriage record indexes. Other than these records, all the Monasterzyska Jewish vital records before and during WWI were destroyed. JRI-Poland has

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Delatyn, Ukraine was in Austrian Galicia before WWI. The Jewish vital records for Delatyn have not survived. To see what other records that are available, search Archive Documents on Miriam Weiner's R

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I have been upset with Yad Vashem since May or June 2020. Let me explain. I found a number of POTs submitted by an Israeli Holocaust survivor in 2012 who has since passed on. He may or may not be a di

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My Bialystoker mother served her great latkes only with sugar. My Galitzianer father never complained. Mark Halpern Conshohocken, PA

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