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 Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Footnote's New Holocaust Collection Free Through October
Posted by Diane
Historical records subscription site Footnote and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) just released the Interactive Holocaust Collection of a million Holocaust-related records.
The records are online for the first time—and they’re free through October.
The records, which contain millions of names and 26,000 photos, include:
- Concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz and Flossenburg.
- The Ardelia Hall Collection of records related to Nazi looting of Jewish possessions.
- Captured German records including deportation and death lists from concentration camps.
- Nuremberg War Crimes Trial proceedings.
The Interactive Holocaust Collection also has 600 personal accounts, provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, of those who survived or perished in the Holocaust. They’ll feature social networking tools that let you search for names and add photos, comments and stories, and create Footnote pages. These will remain free.
You can search the collection from Footnote's regular site or through a special Holocaust site with stories of victims and survivors, tools for setting up Footnote Pages to memorialize Holocaust ancestors, information on concentration camps, and descriptions of the original records at NARA.
Note the pages may load slowly at first due to high traffic.
After October, the collection will be accessible with a Footnote subscription ($79.95 a year). As stated, the personal accounts will stay free.
Footnote | Free Databases | Jewish roots
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:11:26 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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Friday, August 07, 2009
Genealogy News Corral: August 3-7
Posted by Diane
Got a few updates for this week’s news roundup:
Read a report on the event and watch a video on the Lansing State Journal Web site.
- The Family History Expo in Sandy, Utah, is right around the corner, Aug. 28 and 29. Hone your genealogy skills in classes on everything from Google to formulating a research strategy, and browse dozens of exhibitors (say hi to Family Tree Magazine editor Allison Stacy in booth 202!). Get more details and register at FamilyHistoryExpos.com.
Genealogy Events | Jewish roots | Libraries and Archives
Friday, August 07, 2009 5:43:17 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Monday, August 03, 2009
Ancestry.com Expands Jewish Records Collection
Posted by Diane
Subscription Web site Ancestry.com is adding to its Jewish records collection thanks to new partnerships with two Jewish heritage organizations.
Ancestry.com’s partnership arrangements keep most of its Jewish Family History Collection free. You can see a list of gratis databases using the Free Collections link on the Jewish records landing page.
Additions from the American Jewish Historical Society include:
- Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum Records (1878 to 1934): admission applications and discharge ledgers
- Selected Naturalization Records, New York City (1816 to 1845): declarations of intention for New York County
- New York Hebrew Orphan Asylum Records (1860 to 1934): admission applications and discharge ledgers
- Industrial Removal Office Records (1899 to 1922): records of Jews who were assisted in relocating from various countries for safety
- Selected Insolvent Debtor’s Cases (1787 to 1861): about 2,000 cases
- Selected Mayor’s Court Cases, New York (1674 to 1860): 6,000 briefs that include summons, complaints, affidavits and jury lists
The Eastern European Archival Database comes from professional genealogist Miriam Weiner’s Routes to Roots Foundation (RTR), a firm specializing in Jewish research in Eastern Europe. Learn more about this database, which has references to records from Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine, on RTR’s Web site (which also has the same searchable database).
Other additions come from JewishGen, a partner that helped launch Ancestry.com’s Jewish collection last year. Those include an 1848 Jewish census from Hungary and the HaMagid Hebrew newspaper’s list of donors to Persian Famine victims in 1871 and 1872.
Ancestry.com | Jewish roots
Monday, August 03, 2009 2:39:49 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Genealogy News Corral: July 20-24
Posted by Diane
This week sure flew by, didn’t it? Here’s our news news roundup:
- New records this week on the free FamilySearch Record Search Pilot include an index to Cheshire, England, Non-conformist records (1671 to 1900), and index to the 1895 Minnesota state census, and images for the 1905 New York state census (the index is still in progress).
New indexing projects are underway for Italy, New Zealand, Perú and the United States; volunteers who can help with foreign language projects are needed. Go to the FamilySearch Indexing site for more information.
- The International Association of Jewish Genealogists conference is coming right up Aug. 2-7 in Philadelphia. Besides genealogy classes and an exhibit hall, you can use a Resource Room stocked with research materials and computers. Extracurriculars include walking tours, bus tours and cemetery research trips. Visit the conference Web site for registration information.
- Ancestry.com has upgraded its “hinting engine” for FamilyTreeMaker. Now a faster, higher-capacity engine will automatically search Ancestry.com and display a leaf next to a name
in FamilyTreeMaker's pedigree and detail views if there's a potential
match. The new engine also searches Ancestry Member Trees instead of One World
Tree data.
Ancestry.com | Canadian roots | FamilySearch | Free Databases | Genealogy Events | International Genealogy | Jewish roots
Friday, July 24, 2009 7:25:54 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Money-Saving Deals on IAJGS and FGS Genealogy Conferences
Posted by Diane
Two upcoming genealogy conferences are offering ways to save on registration fees, plus some opportunities for extra edification and fun:
Among the IAJGS' special workshops are a document- and
photo-preservation session ($10) and the delicious-sounding Tasting
World Jewish Cuisines: Turkish, Syrian, and Ashkenazi-Italkeni Recipes,
with cookbook authors Sheilah Kaufman and Aliza Green ($20). Click here to register.
Bonus for early arrivals in Little Rock: A free Ice Cream Social Tuesday, Sept. 1, 3-5 pm for registered conference-goers.
The Federation of Genealogical Societies is an umbrella organization for genealogical societies. Its conference, planned in conjunction with the Arkansas Genealogical Society, features classes, an exhibit hall, genealogy field trips and banquets.
Genealogy Events | Genealogy societies | Jewish roots
Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:33:42 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Happy Jewish-American Heritage Month!
Posted by Diane
Jewish American Heritage Month, which starts with the first day of May (that's tomorrow), brings you opportunities to learn about Jewish history. President Bush announced the first monthlong commemoration of American Jewish roots in 2006. May was chosen to mark successful celebration of the 350th anniversary of American Jewish history in May 2004. Check with your library, synagogue and Jewish community center to find events near you. You can learn more about Jewish-American Heritage Month and see online exhibits by clicking here, through this site's events calendar still lists 2008 celebrations. For tips and resources on researching Jewish roots, see our research toolkit and look for Schelly Talalay Dardashti’s seven search strategies in the September 2009 Family Tree Magazine (which mails to subscribers mid-June and goes on sale July 7).
Celebrating your heritage | Genealogy Events | Jewish roots
Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:32:39 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Jewish Group Says Mormons Are Still Baptizing Holocaust Victims
Posted by Diane
The controversy over Mormons’ practice of posthumously baptizing Jewish Holocaust victims is in the news again. The Associated Press reported on yesterday’s American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors (AGHS) press conference. The organization claims the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hasn’t enforced a 1995 agreement to permit its members to submit for posthumous baptism by proxy (often described as “temple work”) names of only those Holocaust victims who are direct relatives. Posthumous baptisms by proxy are central to Mormons' faith because the practice allows families to be reunited in the afterlife. They see the baptisms as an offer that the deceased individual can refuse; many Jews view the practice as disrespectful to those who were killed for their religious beliefs. A researcher the AGHS hired reported finding several thousand names in the LDS church’s genealogy databases, some submitted as recently as July. The church removed Jews’ names after the 1995 agreement, but told the Associated Press that since then a few well-meaning members have “acted outside of policy.” In a written response to the press conference, the LDS church claims AGHS refuses to provide the names of the Holocaust survivors found in the database or respond to LDS proposals stemming from a Nov. 3 meeting of both organizations. New FamilySearch, the online family tree tracking program slowly being released to church members (it'll eventually be publicly available), should help resolve the problem by discouraging mass submissions, and separating names intended for baptism from those submitted for genealogical purposes. Read the full article on CNN. Here's the LDS church's response. AGHS also has links to news coverage of the press conference.
FamilySearch | Jewish roots
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:46:26 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
26 Million Jewish Records Free on Ancestry.com
Posted by Diane
Today we’re seeing the first fruits of subscription database site Ancestry.com’s partnership with JewishGen, announced this summer. Ancestry.com just released 26 million records from JewishGen and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), an international humanitarian organization. The records in today's release will be available free on Ancestry.com. JDC records, online for the first time, include - Jewish Transmigration Bureau Deposit Cards (1939-1954) showing money American Jewish citizens paid to support the emigration of friends and relatives from European countries during and after WWII.
- Munich, Vienna and Barcelona Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards (1943-1959), records of Jews who received food, medical care, clothing and emigration assistance from the JDC.
In addition, the 300-plus databases previously on JewishGen will now be on Ancestry.com, including - Worldwide Burial Registry of more than 1 million names from nearly 2,000 Jewish cemeteries around the world.
- Yizkor Book Necrologies, a list of the names of those murdered in the Holocaust (users are directed to the Yizkor Books, which memorialize town devastated in the Holocaust).
- Given Names Database, where you can learn European, Hebrew and Yiddish translations of an ancestor’s given name.
- Holocaust Database of 2 million names, including those of 1,980 inmates in Oscar Schindler's factories.
Under the agreement, Ancestry.com eventually will receive access to 10 million-plus records, some of which date back to the 1700s, as well as JewishGen’s user base of 250,000. Ancestry.com also will provide technical support to JewishGen's Web site.
Ancestry.com | Free Databases | Jewish roots
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:31:45 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Friday, October 17, 2008
101 Best Web Sites: Canadian Census and Jewish Resources
Posted by Diane
Here's a look at two of our 101 Best Web Sites picks for 2008: - Automated Genealogy: Those with Canadian roots will appreciate this free, volunteer site with transcriptions and indexes of Canadian censuses.
Transcribed and in various stages of proofreading are the 1901, 1906 (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and 1911 enumerations. The 1851-1852 census is underway, with an ambitious effort to link to other online records about each individual. - Avotaynu: Use this site’s Consolidated Jewish Surname Index to run a Soundex search of information about 699,084 surnames, mostly Jewish, in 42 databases totaling more than 7.3 million records. You also can subscribe to Avotaynu’s free e-mail newsletter on Jewish genealogy.
See the rest of the 101 best at FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Canadian roots | Genealogy Web Sites | Jewish roots
Friday, October 17, 2008 6:12:21 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Ancestry.com, JewishGen Team Up
Posted by Diane
The subscription genealogy site Ancestry.com and the Jewish roots site JewishGen have formed an alliance that’ll make JewishGen historical record databases available free on Ancestry.com. Those databases include names of Holocaust victims, yizkor (memorial) books about Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, the Given Names Database, and a ShtetlSeeker (helps you locate towns in Eastern and Central Europe). You can search each database now on JewishGen, but by the end of this year, you'll be able to go to Ancestry.com and search all the databases at once with a more-sophisticated search engine. The JewishGen Web site also will be hosted in Ancestry.com’s data center.
Ancestry.com | Jewish roots
Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:05:41 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Jewish Roots in The Caribbean
Posted by Diane
In a neat article on CNN this morning, reporter Steve Kastenbaum writes about exploring his Jewish roots on a trip to the Caribbean. His grandfather moved there from Germany during the 1920s; his relatives were among the more than 15,000 Jews living in Cuba during the 1940s and 1950s. Kastenbaum—and you—can use these sites to learn more about tracing Jewish roots in the Caribbean:
International Genealogy | Jewish roots
Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:53:04 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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