+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Courland Area Research Group +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ A JewishGen InfoFile I. General Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The goals of the Courland Area Research Group are to: -- Acquire census documents that contain information about Courland (within Latvia) Jews. Such documents will include property owners' lists, business owners' lists, house lists, census lists, and tax records. -- Study and transcribe data from the census documents -- Create scanned images and a computer database with data about Courland Jews from the census document data. -- Make the scanned images and database available through the JewishGen web site Please see the following web site for completed samples of our work. http://members.aol.com/liepajalat Please understand that this web site is not yet tailored for this group and will contain census information and other related information for Liepaja. This is just an example of one city that was in Courland. We will expand our focus to other cities in Courland. We are currently working on property lists and business lists for Liepaja (formerly Libau). We have a large collection of documents from that city. Individuals interested in other Courland cities are welcome to suggest projects. Working cooperatively not only lessens the impact on time, energy, and money it appears to be a very successful model for acquiring records and conducted whatever transliteration is necessary to get data online as quickly as possible. CONTACTS: For questions concerning financial contributions: Martha Lev-Zion For questions concerning the mailing list: Abraham Lenhoff For questions concerning transcriptions and data entry, Constance Whippman II. Subscription Primer: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Should you wish to participate... A. Go to the JewishGen WebForm to manage your subscription. There you can easily subscribe/unsubscribe, digest/nodigest, mail/nomail. http://www.jewishgen.org/listserv/sigs.htm or B. Via Email. Send change-of-status messages to: << <<