Good Morning Everyone, I sent this response to Felisa, but since there might be other researchers interested in St. Jospeph the response to jer is below. Asa general note...rabbis tend to be a good so

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There are many reasons... in one instance, a person was ill and could not travel so he gave the ticket to his brother. Matt Friedman

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If it is an invasion of privacy, don’t put up a yahrzeit plaque. The whole idea of a memorial wall is visibility, sharing and remembrance. Matt Friedman

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A few weeks ago I viewed an Ancestry map of potential DNA matches and saw a friend, Susan Breslauer, as a potential 4th cousin. I called her and she exuberantly said that she had recently discovered t

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A great place to look for life cycle announcements that include births, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, engagements, weddings, significant anniversaries and deaths are Jewish newspapers. The announcements are not in

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A great place to look for life cycle announcements that include births, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, engagements, weddings, significant anniversaries and deaths are Jewish newspapers. The announcements are not in

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The suggestions regarding what to do with genealogical data have been excellent. In particular the suggestion to donate to more than one archive is a good one. We don't know where future researchers w

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The suggestions regarding what to do with genealogical data have been excellent. In particular the suggestion to donate to more than one archive is a good one. We don't know where future researchers w

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Davida Noyek Handler asked about the repercussions of noting a suicide within a family tree. I would urge her to include it. Family history is family history and there are valuable insights that can b

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Davida Noyek Handler asked about the repercussions of noting a suicide within a family tree. I would urge her to include it. Family history is family history and there are valuable insights that can b

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Hi Folks, I took a quick first peek at the 1940 census using a known address on Paterson St. in Jersey City, NJ. It took only a few minutes. The image quality was clear and it was quite fun to see my

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Hi Folks, I took a quick first peek at the 1940 census using a known address on Paterson St. in Jersey City, NJ. It took only a few minutes. The image quality was clear and it was quite fun to see my

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Sorry for joining into the discussion a bit late... About ten years ago I was in Salt Lake, and I looked the LDS microfilms for churches in the Horodenka area. I did not find anything that even hinted

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Sorry for joining into the discussion a bit late... About ten years ago I was in Salt Lake, and I looked the LDS microfilms for churches in the Horodenka area. I did not find anything that even hinted

#galicia

I do not have the book in front of me, but I beleive a passenger manufest of the SS St. Louis can be found in the book, "Voyage of the Damned." The book describes the St. Louis incident and was also t

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I do not have the book in front of me, but I beleive a passenger manufest of the SS St. Louis can be found in the book, "Voyage of the Damned." The book describes the St. Louis incident and was also t

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Hi All, I don't know why this question hasn't occured to me sooner, but does anyone know if there has been any attempt to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a genealogical tool? GIS combines

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Hi All, I don't know why this question hasn't occured to me sooner, but does anyone know if there has been any attempt to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a genealogical tool? GIS combines

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Hi folks, A few days ago I responded to a post regarding the borders of Galicia and Bukovina. I received several e-mails of inquiry about FRIEDMAN connections. Unfortunately some of them were inadvert

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Hi folks, A few days ago I responded to a post regarding the borders of Galicia and Bukovina. I received several e-mails of inquiry about FRIEDMAN connections. Unfortunately some of them were inadvert

#galicia