I am very sorry to have to report the very sad news that Stephen (Shlomo) Groll, the father of our JewishGen Executive Director Avraham Groll, has passed away today, March 25, 2022. The entire JewishG

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Elizabeth Horen-Cotter wrote: > Armed with this historical snippet, you, like me, will understand why the Jewish records from approximately 94 synagogues > (amount of synagogues in 1938) are hard to f

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With regard to fixing mistakes on Geni, if the profile managers do not respond, go to the Discussions page at https://www.geni.com/discussions and the first one listed should be "ATTENTION Curators, p

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There is so much misinformation about Geni from people who don’t really use it. The critic Alan Ehrlich, for example, has added just 34 profiles on Geni. Geni is as good as we all make it. For those o

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I added the marriage record to his Geni profile. https://www.geni.com/people/Heinrich-Goldner/6000000014548406203 Randy Schoenberg Los Angeles, CA

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You can also send a check to JewishGen. That would work. Make sure to specify Austria-Czech Czech Cemetery fund. Randy Schoenberg Los Angeles, CA

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You can also send a check to JewishGen. That would work. Make sure to specify Austria-Czech Czech Cemetery fund. Randy Schoenberg Los Angeles, CA

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Exciting news from Bratislava/Pressburg, Slovakia! Several hundred gravestones from the 17th-19th century that were thought to have been destroyed between 1942-44 have just been discovered. Pressburg

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How the names are displayed depends on your personal display preferences. Geni is extremely flexible so it is designed to accommodate all sorts of styles of genealogy. Under Account Settings, go to Na

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Joyaa please look under the Media tab on the Maharal's profile. There you will find (on the right side) 18 documents. Click on "View all" and you will find them, including the most recent scholarship

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Jeffrey, The evidence of progressive correctness comes from the various large areas I have worked, for example, the Frankfurt and Prague and Vienna Jewish communities. I know it is hard for people to

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Aubrey, let me know where I can see a superior genealogical tree to what we have on Geni. Many of us who know much more about genealogy than you do are very satisfied working there. In fact, to your s

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I agree with Max. Geni is by far the best tool we have for Jewish genealogy at the moment. All of the best Jewish genealogists use it. How do I know? Because on Geni we can all see each other's work,

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You can find the same Viennese birth, marriage, death index information on Jewishgen’s Austria-Czech database as you will find on GenTeam. On JewishGen you can do a search for two surnames at the same

Geni is more accurate and complete than any individual tree on Ancestry or MyHeritage in almost all cases, since it is a collaborative tree. Why? Think of it this way. What would be more accurate and

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Dear Friends,I hope you and your families are doing well.As we continue to persevere in the face of COVID-19, JewishGen's staff and volunteers are hard at work trying to obtain information and make it

The first part (A-K) of Lenka Matusikova's new database of Prague post-war death declarations is now online at https://digi.nacr.cz/prohlaseni/ Randy Schoenberg Los Angeles, CA

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The first part (A-K) of Lenka Matusikova's new database of Prague post-war death declarations is now online at https://digi.nacr.cz/prohlaseni/ Randy Schoenberg Los Angeles, CA

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The deadline is just a few days away for everyone who wants to give a talk at next summer's IAJGS conference in San Diego, August 9-14. If you are hoping to come to the conference and can deliver a ta

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The deadline is just a few days away for everyone who wants to give a talk at next summer's IAJGS conference in San Diego, August 9-14. If you are hoping to come to the conference and can deliver a ta

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