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Jewish
Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
The
PJN project went online in April 2007 and is the
most extensive
online archive of English Language Jewish newspapers in the USA.
The project had been funded primarily by Carnegie Mellon
University and the Pittsburgh UJF, but due to the recent economic
challeges new sources of money are needed for the project to continue.
Although primarily focused on the Pittsburgh area Jewish
community
there is a wealth of information on many Jewish topics and
institutions of higher learning as well as genealogists throughout the
world are us.ing it heavily. Currently more than 160,000 images have
been digitized:
- The Jewish Criterion -
complete
from 1895 to
1962
- The Jewish Chronicle - complete from
1962 to
May 1980
- The American Jewish Outlook (1946 only)
Plans had included
adding the Jewish Chronicle through
at
least 1989 and the AJO thru 1962 as well as other website improvements.
You can get further information on the project, how to
contribute, and how to search from this link: Pittsburgh
Jewish Newspaper Project
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Jewish
Genealogical Resources in the Rauh Jewish Archives
Open
House, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, 1-3 pm
Location: Library, 6th floor, Senator John Heinz History Center,1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Program: Learn to trace your family in Western
Pennsylvania and beyond by using resources of the Rauh Jewish
Archives. Archivists and a professional
genealogist will answer questions and provide instruction in the use
of archival and on-line resources and the preservation of family
documents.
The program is free with History Center
admission.
Refreshments provided. Dietary laws
observed.
RSVP to Theresa Rhea at terea@hswp.org
or 412-454-6409
Naturalization
Papers Online
Now available
online from Ancestry.com: Naturalization Petitions of the U.S. District
Court, 1820-1930, and Circuit Court, 1820-1911, for the Western
District of Pennsylvania; (National Archives Microfilm Publication
M1537, 437 rolls); Records of District Courts of the United States,
Record Group 21; National Archives, Washington, D.C, see http://tiny.cc/Ilsku
You need a
personal paid subscription to
Ancestry or check with your local library.
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Links to Online
Pittsburgh Resources
Pittsburgh Area Jewish History
Jacob S. Feldman, The Jewish Experience in
Western Pennsylvania A
History 1755-1945, [1986], 331pps.
Barbara S. Burstin, Steel City Jews
1840-1915, [2008], 366 pps.
Robertt Perlman, From Shtetl to Milltown:
Litvaks, Hungarians, and Galizianers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1925.
124 pps.
Amy Hill Shevitz, Jewish Communities on
the Ohio River, [2007], 266 pps.
Diane Ashton Jewish Life in
Pennsylvania [2007], 75 pps. [read online
at Google
Books]
Ida Cohen Selavan, editor My Voice Was Heard
[Pittsburgh Community Oral History Project], 1981, 278 pps.
Pittsburgh History
Stefan Lorant, PITTSBURGH The Story of
an
American City [1964, 1975, 1988]
George H. Thurston,
Pittsburgh
and Allegheny in the Centennial Year. [1876]. Click
here to read a short excerpt about
a 21 year old major in the Virginia military who arrived at the forks
of the Ohio River in 1753. 271 pps. (Google Books download)
George Thorton Fleming History of Pittsburg and
Environs: From Prehistoric Times to the American Revolution. Vol.I,
1922, 574 pps. (Google Books download),
George Thorton Fleming History of Pittsburg and
Environs
Vol II,
1922, 474 pps. [especially see Chapter 22 The Ecclesiastical
History, 378-464 with 436-441 on Jewish History]
(Google
Books download),
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