I have a copy of Mel Young's book. If you only need a couple of lookups, I will be glad to do it for you. Please reply to me privately. Peggy Mosinger Freedman Atlanta, GA

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HI Peter, If the "Family Lists" are Revision Lists, then the information in them is changed by the record keeper as time passes. Is it possible that the older brother died, and a younger brother was b

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On Wednesday, April 6th at 7:00 pm, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University will host the Brickman-Levin Symposium, a free online event presented on Zoom, which will highlight the sch

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I was stunned to find my relative's testimonies in the JewishGen index of the Shoach Foundation testimonies that is now part of the JewishGen Holocaust database. Thank you for a detailed explanation a

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Hi Erika, I also have cousins who went to Venezuela - mine went after the Shoach. Because the surname is unusual - SPIELBERGER - and because I have been looking for a long time and talked to many peop

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia, Atlanta Jews of Color Council, and The Breman Museum present Professor Laura Leibman speaking about her book - Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journe

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Hi Michael, Thank you for pointing me to the Irish Jewish Genealogical Society! I found the mysterious record on that site - it is an extracted birth record, and still mysterious. But now we know wher

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I am mentoring someone who is researching his uncle, Joseph David BLAUFOX. We know that Joseph David was born in London in July 1892, emigrated to the USA in 1900, and fought with the RAF (probably vi

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@ Michele Shari - Have you tried using ViewMate on JewishGen? For a small project like a couple of photographs, there are really generous volunteers on JewishGen who will help with short translations.

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Hi Kathy, I think other people have given you links to prettier maps. But if your question is about tracking movements, I have found Google Maps to be very effective. Sometimes in my family from Austr

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The 45th annual conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society will be held virtually from October 21 to October 23, 2021 and will be free of charge. There will be panel discussions and speakers

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There is an excellent article about "The 1st National Census of the Russian Empire" by Thomas Edlund in the Fall/Winter 1999 Issue of the FEEFHS Journal (Federation of Eastern European Family History

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I recently learned of the Hathi Trust Digital Library at https://www.hathitrust.org/ While looking for the town where my Spielberger family lived, I found a book that appears to be a list of Austrian

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You can get advice about interpreting a Y DNA kit from the Avotaynu DNA Project team. In order to do this, Log into the Y DNA kit Hover the curson on GROUP PROJECTS in the top menu bar A menu dropdown

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There is an excellent history of the Jewish Community of St Louis called Zion in the Valley by Walter Ehrlich. According to Ehrlich, there was an active United Hebrew Relief Association (UHRA) founded

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The Breman Museum of Jewish Heritage in Atlanta also has a number of Holocaust recordings. The museum is in the process of making these available on their website here: Collection: Esther and Herbert

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Have you considered that there might be more than one Jack HYMAN born the same year as your grandfather living in New Jersey? At our last house (about 20 years ago) there were two Steven FREEDMANs liv

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Hi Geoffrey, It is my understanding that the first CENSUS in the Russian Empire was in 1897. Before that, there were Revision Lists. Revision Lists have different rules, standards, and dates than an A

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I searched just The Jewish Encyclopedia for "Frumkin, Eben Shemuel" and found this additional information by looking at other articles that include him in the bibliography: Frumkin, Eben Shemuel, Wiln

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I think that you will have better luck with blogs than with a book because the field is changing so rapidly. I know that Lara Diamond started a project to come up with statistics about shared cMs and

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