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September 26, 2018
This is an excellent site for genealogists to view stories of communities, family trees and millions of pictures. Click on the Open Databases Project.
September 14, 2018
The most appropriate way of considering names used by Jews in Eastern Europe is to separate the discussion of personal names from that of family names. Indeed, personal names represent an organic part of Jewish culture. Their corpus developed over the centuries in a natural way, inside the community. Their […]
September 13, 2018
Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., is a professional genealogist specializing in DNA evidence. He is the author of the long-running blog The Genetic Genealogist, and frequently gives presentations and webinars to educate others about the use of DNA to explore their ancestry.
September 13, 2018
Israel Pickholz hosts a very compelling blog All My Foreparents for those genealogists who have an interest in using DNA to find family and/or confirm your document findings. Pickholz is a professional genealogist and author of Endogamy: One Family One People. He has meticulously traced his family from Skalat Poland […]
September 13, 2018
Lara Diamond has been researching her family for over 25 years. She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most multiple generations back in Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austro-Hungarian Records. Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. […]
September 5, 2018
FindMyPast offers the “single best resource you may not be using”. The PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) enables you to easily locate key information about people and places. It contains over 2.5 million entries from thousands of historical, genealogical and ethnic publications, making it an invaluable, comprehensive family history resource. PERSI […]
September 5, 2018
Hal Bookbinder of IAJGS has steered us to the series “The Internet is Forever”. This is on Safe Computing which was published in the September issue of “Venturing into Our Past”, the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). The twenty-four articles published […]
September 5, 2018
Click on the link below (see Read More) to open up an extensive list of Jewish Genealogy related websites. Thanks are extended to David Price for compiling and updating this list. More Jewish Genealogy Websites by David Price Revised 22Nov2016 https://practice.jgstoronto.ca/research_resources/additional-jewis…d-by-david-price/
September 5, 2018
IGRA celebrates International Jewish Genealogy Month! The first lecture in our series was on the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) by Nolan Altman. This webinar explores the importance of patronymics and how headstones are one of the best sources for this information. You’ll have a chance to get to […]
September 5, 2018
On November 9-10, 1938 Nazis conducted a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms throughout Germany, annexed Austria and areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia…it is known as Kristallnacht. “The Night of Broken Glass”, stems from the broken windows of 267 synagogues, homes and 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses destroyed during the action, as […]