Roots-Key – The JGSLA Research Journal

Roots-Key, the research journal of the JGSLA, is published four times each year (occasionally two issues of special interest are published as a double issue). Each issue contains original articles of general interest to the membership and reflects current research in the Jewish Genealogical community. We may also include interviews with noteworthy genealogists, book and film reviews, letters to the editor, announcements of upcoming conferences and lectures, and reports on past programs. We occasionally publish a companion journal on our JGSLA website.

Roots-Key is sent to all members of the JGSLA, to selected libraries and repositories, and is exchanged with other Jewish Genealogical Societies who send us hard copy journals.

The editing staff consists of interested members with knowledge of general genealogy, grammar, and English composition. If you would like to volunteer to help in screening, editing, or reviewing potential submissions, please contact the editor. This requires that you be able to send and receive email attachments and are willing to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer.

If you wish to submit an article for publication in Roots-Key, please follow the submission guidelines and send it to the editors at editor@jgsla.org. Send hard copy materials to JGSLA, PO Box 55443-0443, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413. The current editor is David Hoffman.

Back issues are available for $5.00 each, postage included, if mailed within the U.S. and Canada; for other countries, please add $3.00 for postage. The Fall-Winter 2007 issue on “Town-Wide Research” is $10 for U.S., $13 for Canadian, and $17 for overseas addresses. Mail requests and payment to: JGSLA, PO Box 55443, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413-0443.

Submission Guidelines

ORIGINAL ARTICLES WHICH APPEARED IN PREVIOUS ISSUES OF ROOTS-KEY

Original Articles in the Fall 2008 Issue

Note: Listed below each article heading are active links to sites referenced in the article.

The Hidden Skills of Serendipity

1. Sinai Congrgation, Chicago, Marriages Database, 1861-1905

1. Jewish Family History Foundation

1. Google Book Search
2. Logan Kleinwacks (author) has his own search index, which includes the sources below
3. instructions for using the GenealogyIndexer site
4. Digital Library of Wielkopolska
5. the Digital Library of Zielona Gora
6. the Silesian Digital Library
7. the Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
8. the Podlaska Digital Library
9. the Malopolska Genealogical Society
10. European Address/Telephone Directories at the U.S. Library of Congress
11. JRI-Poland/JewishGen
12. the Internet Archive
13. Google translations
14. Polish translations
15. German translations
16. Polish occupation lists
17. Romanian occupation lists
18. German occupation lists
19. Book Wish Foundation, to provide aid such as books, reading glasses, solar lighting, and libraries for people in crisis, starting with 60,000 Darfur refugees in eastern Chad.

1. International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen

1. telephone directory site
2. JewishGen

1. The DNA Shoah Project

1. Jewish Gen Latin America Special Interest Group

1. Google Searches
2. ancestry.com (not accessible through browser search, paid site)
3. Heritage quest (not accessible through browser search)
4. Free Genealogy Search Help for Google
5. LINKPENDIUM - The Definitive Directory
6. Find A Grave
7. Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
8. KindredTrails - Worldwide Genealogy Resources
9. GENUKI - UK and Ireland Genealogy
10. CanGenealogy.com - Genealogy Research in Canada
11. Access Genealogy
12. The Genealogy Register
13. ExpertGenealogy.com - Free Genealogy Resources
14. Cyberpursuits.com - General Genealogy Sources
15. GenealogyLinks.net
16. Olive Tree Genealogy
17. ProGenealogists.com - Genealogy Sleuth Pages
18. John's Genealogy Portal
19. Internment.net - Cemetery Transcription Library
20. American Local History Network (topics)
21. American Local History Network (states)

1. Example of a site that uses old catalogs and trade cards
2. New and Wonderful Invention: The 19th-Century American Trade Cards
3. The Emergence of Advertising in America
4. The Fulton Street Trade Card Collection

1. LitvakSIG Projects: Where Photos, Databases, and Second Cousins Meet
1. Rewriting History - Without Jews
2. BOOKS DONATED TO THE JGSLA LIBRARY
3. THE LOST TRAIN
4. A LETTER TO THE FORWARD
5. TRACING A FAMILY SECRET
6. MY BRUSH WITH YIDDISH
7. PROOF ARGUMENT

Original Articles in the Summer 2008 Issue

Note: Listed below each article heading are active links to sites referenced in the article.

The Quest for the Grave Location of David Oppenheimer

1. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
2. Brooklyn Jewish Cemeteries
3. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
4. JGS Washington State Cemetery Project
5. Google Books Search
6. Ancestry.com
7. Italian Genealogy Society of New York

1. International Al Jolson Society

1. Werner L. Frank, author
2. Online Catalog for the Simon Wiesental Center Library
3. Simon Wiesenthal Library
4. Museum of Tolerance web site

1. All Belarus Database on JewishGen
Alternate method: From www.JewishGen.org , Click on Database, then on Belarus, then on the Jewish Gen Belarus Database
2. Belarus Research Projects
Alternate method: From www.JewishGen.org , Click on Special Interst Groups, then on Belarus, then on the support the work of the Belarus SIG
3. Shtetl
Alternate method: From www.JewishGen.org , Click on ShtetLinks under Projects and Activitists then on Belarus

1. Hearing (9 Apr 1973) on public closure of census release
2. Hearing (2 Aug 1976) on public closure of census release
3. Text of the law on NARA with info on 72 year privacy

1. Pilpul Entry in widipedia
2. 1784 GDL records for rabbinic lines

1. Inmate Search database or signed copies of Ron Arons book

1. SephardicGen Home Page
2. Databases at SephardicGen
2. Databases at SephardicGen - French pages
2. Consolidated Index of Sephardic Surnames (CISS)

1. Rose Blitzstein Elbaum, author
2. Beit-Tal website (English)

1. The Power of the Internet in Genelaogical Research
2. Jewish Immgrants in Mexican Border Crossings, 1903-1957

Original Articles in the Spring 2008 Issue

Note: Listed below each article heading are active links to sites referenced in the article.

South African Jewish Genealogy

1. Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter records
2. Southern African Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group (SA-SIG)
3. Southern African Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group (SA-SIG) Resources
4. National Archives of South Africa
5. LDS Family History Library Microfilms
6. Summary of key documents of interest when going South African Genealogy Research
7. SA Jewish Rootsbank
8. IAJGS Cemetary Project database
9. Bibliography of publications of interest for Southern Africa

1. JRI-Poland homepage
2. JRI-Poland patronymic webpage
3. Information on Monitor Polski (offical legislative newspaper of Polish Government)

1. Cyndi's List (listing of all things genealogical on the net)
2. Center for Jewish History
3. National Archives and Record Administration
4. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) 5. Chicago Jewish Archives (Clike on "Collections and Research")
6. Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
7. American Jewish Archives
8. Library of Congress
9. American Jewish Historical Society. The AJHS Manuscript Catalog.
10. National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS).
11. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).

1. Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.
2. Resolution on Nazi-Era Looted Art
3. Holocaust Claims Processing Office of the New York State Banking Department
4. Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal Project
5. Lost Art Internet Database (mostly European institutions)
6. contact Karen Franklin

1. Festival Information
2. Volunteer to work for JGSLA at the Festival

1. Beth Hatefutsoth Homepage

1. Contact at the Latvian Historical Archives

1. Bastard Nation
2. Bastard Nation glossary
3. World Catalog listing of libraries
4. Cyndi's List
5. International Soundex Reunion Registry

1. Barry Mann's genealogy

1. Information on neighborhood Joodserad - the Jewish governing council

1. Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree

1. Internation Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Chicago
2. Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland
3. Types of Records available in Chicago
4. Chicago Vital Records information
5. Chicago Residence Records information
6. Life in Jewish Chicago
7. Chicago Arrival Records
8. Chicago 'old country' information
9. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
10. Bibliography on Jewish Genealogy
11. Bibliography on Jewish Chicago
12. Bibliography on general genealogy including Chicago
13. The Spertus Institute of Jewish Study
14. Bibliography on general genealogy including Chicago
15. Asher Library
16. Chicago Jewish Archives, including the Chicago Jewish Historical Society e-mail
17. Newberry Library
18. Catalog of the Chicago Public Library, including the Harold Washington Public Library
19. Cook County Clerk of Court
20. National Archives (NARA) locations

1. LA Family History Center homepage

1. Micrography as Jewish Folk-Art
2. Origination of the Jewish Branch of the Reichard Family

Original Articles in the Fall-Winter 2007, Issue (Vol. 27, No. 3/4)

Companion Website Article on “Museums, Large and Small”

Recreating a Place

How to document the families and Jewish community life of a town using many types of records and sources.

1    Shtetl Memories by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
3    Introduction by Sonia Hoffman, JGSLA
4    A Town-Wide Genealogy: the Ariogala Shtetl Research Group by David and Sonia Hoffman
11  Jewish Community or Kahal Records
12  A Tale of Two Shtetls by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
16  Melitopol and the Kumok Family Records: Alternative Sources of Data by Victor Kumok
21  Population Studies in Minsk Gubernia in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Vitaly Charny
25  Kletsk: A Town Without Memories by Henry Neugass
28  Museums Large and Small <http://www.jgsla.org> for a special report
29  Picture Perfect by Mike Marvins

Analyzing the Data

Methods to analyze data and integrate databases to reconstruct family and community data

32  Tombstone Identification Through Database Merging: A Tool for the Virtual Reconstitution of Vanished Jewish Communities by Daniel Wagner
35  Given Name Analysis: Single Surname Research and Community Genealogies by Israel Pickholtz

Twentieth Century Research—Holocaust Memorials and Memoirs

Yizkor books, translation projects, biographical memoirs, town associations, innovative ways to uncover the past and build a bridge to the future.

38  Yizkor Books by Joyce Field
42  Myślenice: A Future from the Jewish Past by Martin Cahn
45  Missing a Shtetl by Werner L. Frank, JGSLA
48  Memories of a Polish Shtetl: Zawady by Joel Petlin
51  A Short History of Kobylnik’s Jews by Meyer Swirsky
55  The Kobylnik-Myadel Society in Israel by Meyer Swirsky
56  A Mitzvah: Reconstruction of Jewish Cemeteries
57  Memories of Days Gone By by Yitzhak Gordon z’l

Publication

Finding ways to preserve and share history.

58  Creating a Shtetlpage by Susana Bloch
59  Overview of a Shtetlinks Site: Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Ukraine by Chaim Freedman
61  Preserving Their History: Guardian of Names and Places by Eilat Gordin Levitan
62  Two Torah Scrolls from Klatovy: A Slide Show by Jeffrey Kohn
67  What Should I Do With All This Stuff?

Original Articles in the Summer 2007, Issue (Vol. 27. No. 2)

1   Just the Facts by Nancy Holden, Editor
2   Write for Roots-Key Special Issue Fall/Winter 2007
3   President’s Message by Sandy Malek
4   Beshert by Barbara Algaze, JGSLA
5   From Los Angeles to Leeds: Recreating a Family via the Internet by Jonny Joseph
7   The Facts and the Back Story by Nancy Biederman and Nancy Holden
10  Aron and Chaim Shapiro—The Back Story from “The Founders: The Story of the City of Hope” by Bonnie Rogers
12  Reconnecting with Kishinev by Jerry Touger
14  Sierpc, Poland My Ancestral Home by Gerald Simon, JGSLA
16  80629: A Mengele Experiment by Jack Oran
25  Review by Marion Werle, JGSLA My Future is in America; Autobiographies of Eastern European JewishImmigrants by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer
26  Networking: The Key To Successful Genealogy by Werner L. Frank, JGSLA

Original Articles in the Spring 2007, Issue (Vol. 27. No. 1)

1   Reconstructing a Family Tree: One family at a Time by Nancy Holden, Editor
2    Book Review by Rose Feldman
3   President’s Message by Sandy Malek
4   Finding Your Jewish Roots in Scotland by Harvey L Kaplan
6   A Journey to Latvia by Lois Ogilby Rosen, JGSLA
11  The Bloody Days of the Czar by Isadore Tiep. Contributed by Larry Booth, JGSLA
13  The Wild West: Searching for Relatives in Deadwood, South Dakota by Marion Hattenbach Bernstein
16  Happy Hunting: Searching for Family Burial Records by Steve Lasky
18  Searching the New York State Censuses: 1905-1925 for the City of New York by Joel Weintraub
19  A Jewish Boyhood in Konotop: A Typical Ukrainian Village by Yosef Hillel Trifon, (1894-1980). Contributed by Bob Sherins, M.D., JGSLA
24  HIAS: Solving Genealogical Mysteries by Valery Bazarov

Original Articles in the Fall-Winter, 2006 Issue (Vol. 26, #3/4)

  1       Many Threads by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
  2       Jewish Heritage Research Group (JHRG in Belarus) posts by Yuri Dorn
  3       Presidents' Message by Nancy Biederman and Sonia Hoffman
  4       Detecting Faults and Errors in Genealogical Sources by Werner L. Frank, JGSLA
  6       The Yad Vashem Database: Next Steps by Rose Feldman
  8       B+ Blood: Discovering an Asian Gene in Jewish Inheritance by Robert S. Sherins, M.D., JGSLA
12       Three Methods for Capturing Burial Data for JOWBR by Ada Green
15       Miracle Miracle by Foster C. Kawaler
16       Szabtay Bliacher: Actor of the Yiddish Theater by Celia Male
17       The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn-Book Review by Pamela Weisberger, JGSLA
18       Judaica Sound Archives: Rescuing, Preserving & Sharing a Heritage-Nathan Tineroff, Project Director
19       What the Afghan Dog Found by Milly Charon
21       Los Angeles Pioneer by Mark W. Gordon
21       A Boyle Heights Boyhood Remembered by Marc Yablonka
22       BIALYGen-The Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group by Mark Halpern, JGSLA
27       Facts from the Stacks-Recent Donations from our Members by Barbara Algaze, JGSLA

Original Articles in the Summer, 2006 Issue (Vol. 26, #2)

Why a Special Issue on Napoleon?

Our goal as genealogical researchers is to take our families back in history. History itself is a major clue to their destiny. And the stories they left behind take us to the records. Whether this is a blind alley or the gold at the end of the rainbow, we do not know until we start.

By recording your stories here, we are laying a trail that allows you to open your history books. The precise dates and locations of Russian and French units are recorded in books and on internet sites. Due to space constraints, we have not put in the exact date to accompany these stories. Cossacks from the Ukraine, Saxons, the Polish Cavalry, the famous commanders Kutuzof, Ney, Oudinot and MacDonald all had their say in the lives of our ancestors. From Riga to Moscow, from Warsaw to Mogilev, follow their trail.

Prelude to War

  3       Documenting Family History Stories in 1812 by David B. Hoffman, JGLSA
  5       Napoleon’s Sanhedrin suggested by Hadassah Lipsius and Andre Convers
  6       Napoleon or the Czar by Rabbi Simon Jacobson
  6       Napoleon and Rabbi Moshe Meisels of Vilna by Lainey Melnick
  7       Jewish Soldiers in Napoleon’s Army: Prisoner of War by Mathilde Taggert
           Two Brothers from France by Barbara Kaufman
           The Brothers Mushkat by Barbara Mushkat
  8       Napoleon’s Finest by Janice Sellers
  9       Jewish Soldiers in Napoleon’s Army by Pierre Lautmann
11       Charles Joseph Minard: Mapping Napoleon’s March by John Corbett
12       Simon Scheuer: Jewish Soldier in Napoleon’s Army by Paul King
16       The Start of the Russian Campaign by Rabbi Jeffrey A. Marx, JGSLA
17       An Archivist Looks at Family Legends by Vitalija Gircyte
           Letter to Editor from Jerome Seligsohn
18       Napoleon’s Campaign of 1812 Map and Timeline
20       Tilsit by Ellen Jacobson, Merkine by Yale Reisner
           Fact or Apocrypha by Sheldon Benjamin,
           Recommended Reading by Robert E Mitchell
           Search Google by Ted Hyman
21       Commodore Hornblower by C.S. Forester
           War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
           The Road to Moscow by Nigel Nicolson,
           Pokroy (Pakruojis ) told by Adam Katzeff
           Napoleon’s Jewish Mistress by Sarah L. Meyer
           Chorostkow, Eastern Galicia by Marc D. Machtinger, Esq.,\
           Sompolno, Poland by Rica B. Goldberg
           Jedwabne by Saul Marks,
           Kaunas to Riga, Salant by Chaim Freedman
           The Red and the Black by Stendhal
23       Alexander I and the Jews by David Meltser and Vladimir Levin
23       Search “Napoleonic History” on JewishGen: An Index

March to Moscow

24       Where He Marched by Chester Cohen, JGSLA
           Simnas, Suwalki by Shirley Holton
           Shavli (Siauliai) by Judy Segal,
           Vilkovishk by George Mason
            Zagare by Mark Gordon
            How our Family Got its Name by Barbara Meyers
            Olkienik (Valkininkai) by Marcia Pailet-Abrams Jaffe
            Olkieniki by Rieke Nash
            Lost Jewish Worlds—Olkieniki by Rahel Grosbaum
            The Legend of the Family Plaine by Patricia Prinz,
            Dusiat or Birzai, Lithuania by Olga Zabludoff,
            Eishyshok Horse Fair from There Once was a World by Yaffa Eliach
            Raguva/Troskunai by Ruth Kovitz Ellin
            Svencionys by Marjorie Rosenfeld
            Postovy by Andi Ziegelman
            Russian Strategy, Assault by Richard Sapon-White

Retreat from Moscow

27       The Jalowayski Odyssey by Irene Jalowayski
28       Berezino: Recollections of Matthew Elkin submitted by his daughter, Frances A. Bock, Ph.D.
29       The Return of the Jewish Volunteer painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
29       One Soldier—Many Stories: Grazutis/Volpe by E. E. Blecker,
           Gershon Wolpe by Goldie Silverman
            Nadel/Volpe by Eileen Douglas
30       Count Nikolai Tolstoy’s Loyal Soldier by Norman Zelvin
           Moscow by Ilene Kanfer Murray
           French Troops Smashed Near Koidanovo by Les Evenchick
           The Battle of Smolensk by Andi Ziegelman
           Smolensk to Bobr by Melvin B. Redmount,
           Napoleon’s Coat by Neil Rosenstein,
           Napoleon Rescued by Aviva M Neeman
           Every Turn a Brick Wall! by Harold Krom
          The Bug Division, The Retreat from Moscow by Jenni Buch
           Drohitczyn by Esther Buchsbaum
           Svislovitch by Michael M. Miller
          “The Jewish Community of Borisov” by Yehudah Leib Lipkind—translated from Hebrew by Israel Pickholtz
           Bobruisk by Steve Jaffe
           In Remembrance—Excerpts from: sefer zikaron le-kehilat Bobruisk u-veneteha
33       For Further Reading suggested by Melvin Redmount, Saul Isseroff, Leslie Reich, Jonina Duker

The Lonely Road Home

34       Napoleon 1812 by Nigel Nicolson
           Gosciniec Napoleonski by Mike Glazer
           Veliouna by Todd Lerner, Rasienai
           Kovno by Deborah Hatch, Myadel
           Belarus by Arye Geskin
           Keidan by Peter Arnold
          Telz suggested by Chaim Freedman,
           Distortion and Disbelief! by Bramie Lenhoff
35      They Are Not Forgotten by Joseph H. Miller

Original Articles in the Spring, 2006 Issue (Vol. 26, #1) 

1       Editor’s Notes
  2       President’s Message
  3       Dear Bubbe by David Weinstein, JGSLA
  5       A Visit to the Ancient Cemetery in Tiberias by Larry Tauber
10       Deciphering Cemetery Headstones by Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
12       Bat Mitzvah in Hohenzollern by Sam Zivi, JGSLA
13       Six Degrees of Separation by Deena Goldenberg Gordon, JGSLA
16       In Search of the Grandparents I Never Knew by Arnie Schwartz, JGSLA
18       The Word “Jew” as a Name-Component in Ancestral European Towns by Alexander Sharon
23       Deadly Grade Crossing Again Takes Heavy Toll Researchedby Nancy Holden JGSLA
25       A Sympathetic Lithuanian by Larry and Claire Booth, JGSLA
26       The Use of Lithuanian Partisans to Carry Out the Murder of Jews in Lithuania: Background Notes

Original Articles in the Winter, 2005 Issue (Vol. 25, #4)

  1      “Editor’s Notes: Unforgotten Moments in Time
  3      “Traces of Ananiev by Andrea Massion
  4      “Reprinted from Roots-Key:
          “Cemetery Project Update by Ted Gostin
          “Home of Peace Cemetery
          “Beth Olam Cemetery Dedicates Holocaust Garden
          “The Hebrew Benevolent Society
          “The Origin of the Home of Peace Cemetery
   7     “The Home of Peace Cemetery
   7      Chevra Kadisha Burial Society
   8      “The Mt. Carmel Cemetery Project by Stephanie Weiner
   9      “Overheard on the Internet
           “Visiting Cemeteries posted by Joseph Fibel
           “Cemetery Customs posted by David Simon Bandory
           “Cemetery Records Accuracy posted by Judith Lipmanson
           “Cemetery Records Accuracy posted by Sally Bruckheimner
11      “What's New in Jewish Records Indexing-Poland by Stanley Diamond
14      “ Bank Records: A Gold Mine of Genealogical Information by Susannah E. Brooks
17      “ Lost and Found: Relatives in America by Jan Meisels Allen JGSLA
19      “ Mystery of the Cane Handle: Three Important Themes by Karen Franklin
20      “Reports from the Las Vegas IAJGS Conference by Sally Goodman JGSLA
           “State Archives: How To Use Them by John Philip Colletta
           “Using Nineteenth Century Newspapers by John Philip Colletta,
21      “A JewishGen Success Story by Tamar Dothan
22      “ Mining for Gold by Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
24      “Beyond the SS5 by Jane Neff Rollins JGSLA
24      “Facts from the Stacks by Barbara Algaze, JGSLA Librarian

Original Articles in the Summer-Fall, 2005 Issue (Vol. 25, #2) (Click for PDF copy)

 1       Editor’s Notes
 3       With Bands Playing and Rockets Glare by David Fox JGSLA
 4       350 Years of Jewish Experience by Rabbi Thomas Louckheim
 6       Go West Young Man by Nancy Holden JGSLA
 7       The American Dream: Short Pieces by Jane Neff Rollins JGSLA
 8       The Tale of a Tailor by Bunny Levine JGSLA
 8       My Father, the Cowboy by Budd Levine JGSLA
 9       The Sephardim in Colonial America by Bob Hattem
13     “The Book” quote from The Grandees by Stephen Birmingham
14      It Runs in the Family Funnily by Darla Stone
15      Farming in Wyoming at the Turn of the Century. Andrea Massion JGSLA
16      Solomon Star by Lew Holzman JGSLA
18      Henry Cohn: Gold Rush Pioneer by Arnold Zweig
19      From Trebisov to Mars in Two Generations by Stephanie Nordlinger, JGSLA
20      From Rags to Riches: by Ruth Glosser JGSLA
24      How Our Great Grandfather Won the Civil War for the North by Paul King
29      Milt Gabler, Storekeeper of the Jazz World by David Hoffman JGSLA
31      And That as They Say is History: The Straus Family by Joan Adler
33      Last Will and Testament: The Hymes-Prince Family by Judy Archer
35      Jewish Identity and Southern Culture: Bibliographic Essay by Patrick Reed
41      A Sock in the Foot is Worth Two in the Jaw by Judith Berlowitz
44      Nathan Feldman: Number Four by Ellen Stepak
45      I Pledge Allegiance to My Flag by Ann Harris JGSLA
46      Becoming an American by Hal Bookbinder JGSLA
46      Miriam Kantor Survives the Sinking of the Titanic
47      Thankful Eyes are Sparkling by Mary Kasindorf
48      Mary Kasindorf by David Hoffman JGSLA
49      Sid Kasindorf and the Nazi U-Boats by David Hoffman JGSLA
50      Searching for Schulman by Vicki Tashman JGSLA
51      Remembering Stone Street Hill: The War Years by Carol Nahin JGSLA
54      From the Scrap Business to the Rag Trade by Barry Seltzer JGSLA
55      An American Rabbi: The Life of Rabbi Nathan Tauber by Larry Tauber
61      In the Air as War Begins: A Flyer’s Letter Home by Arthur Hoffman
64      An America Hero: Varian Fry
65      The 350th Anniversary of New York’s First Jewish Settlers by Harry Macy
68      Membership Meeting December 1, 2005 at the Skirball Cultural Center
68      Facts from the Stacks by Barbara Algaze JGSLA

Original Articles in the Spring, 2005 Issue (Vol. 25, #1) 
 
   1     “To Whom It May Concern by Nancy Holden (Editor’s Notes)
   2     “Facts from the Stacks: Holocaust Related Sources - Barbara Algaze
   4     “Prenumerantn: A Valuable Source for Shtetl Research - Tom Chatt
   6     “You’ve Done All the Research - Now What? - Adar Belinkoff
   7     “Dad’s Letters - Marion Diamond
10      “Kobylnik Is Liberated - Meyer Svirsky
12      “What’s in a Name? - Sonia Hoffman
13     “<http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter> - Fran Bock
14     “Overheard on the Internet: Sources—A Cautionary Note
16     “Searching: Alperovitch from Kurenetz - Andi Alperovich Ziegelman
20     “Aron’s Business Travels - Carolyn Rosenstein
22     “The Interlocking Melbourne Russians - Chaim Freedman, Julie Ruth
25     “Construction of Memory - Regina Kopilevich 
26     “Do You Like Noodle Kugel? - Wendy Holden
27     “Subject: Trip to Ukraine - Susan Tumarkin Goodman
28     “A Poem of Remembrance contributed - Jan Meisels Allen

Original Articles in the Winter, 2004 Issue (Vol. 24, #4)

1 Our Mothers, Our Daughters—Women in the Lives of Men (Editor’s Notes)
4 Seventeen Generations of Rabbis and Scholars - Nancy Holden
8 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania Project: Challenges in Researching 18th Century Records – Sonia and David Hoffman
11 Recent JGSLA Library Acquisitions
12 “Very Nice Man” - Harold Swidler
13 The Memoirs of Rokhel Luban translated - Chaim Freedman
19 With the Intention of Leaving for America - Heinrich Yesianu
23 Searching for Riva Gelfand - Alberta Blumin
24 Memorials of Vanished Communities (MVC) in Israel - Ellen Stepak
27 Dutch Jewish Genealogy - Beverly Shulster Beiman

Original Articles in the Summer/Fall, 2004 Issue (Vol. 24, #2/3) (double issue)

1 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue—The Way We Were (Editor’s Notes)
3 Genealogy Can Change Your Life - Sonia Hoffman 
4 Herb Mautner on the Founding of JGSLA
5 The JGS and Me - Heidi Auerbach Farkash
6 From Ten, the Many - Regina Spiszman
7 JGSLA Early Days - Michael Hirschfeld
8 Twenty-Five Years, Kinnehora - Chet Cohen
10 JGSLA 1979-2004 - Hal Bookbinder
10 The Hidden Side - Susan Stock
11 The Beginning and a Discovery - Agnes Branch Pearlman
12 You Are Invited for a Meeting with the KGB - Miriam Weiner
13 Chicago - Marsha Epstein
14 I Found the Genealogical Needle in a Haystack - Werner L. Frank
18 Return to Ramnicu Sarat - Les Berman
20 Rebecca - Harry Shragg, M.D.
21 If It Hadn’t Been For. . . - Sally Goodman
23 From “Z” to “A” - Rabbi Lennard Thal
23 Interviewing for Posterity - Don Goodman
24 “Reviving” the Kezmarok Jewish Cemetery - Madeleine R. Isenberg
25 Where Did It Get Me? - Heidi Auerbach Farkash
26 Finding Jennie - Barbara Algaze
27 The Way We Were—The Way We Looked - Nancy Collier Holden
29 Bobby Furst’s Scrap Book 
30 Ruth Glosser’s Photo Album 
32 Every Picture Tells a Story - Andrea Massion 
34 Jan Meisels Allen Family Photographs
36 Dear Miss Holden - Hans Colsman
37 Seek and You Shall Find: Memories for Our Children - Faith Ann Goldman
38 Why Los Angeles by Glenn Gorelick
40 The Solomons of Africa - Robert Sherins, M.D., Beryle Solomon Buchman
44 Beshert: It Is Meant To Be - Judie Rice
46 Windmills, Tulips, and Chocolate - Barbara Algaze
47 In Memoriam: Sara Lieber McKinney
48 A Skeleton in the Closet - David Einsiedler
49 I Confess - David Einsiedler
49 An Exercise in Futility - Henry Goldfield
50 Aunts and Uncles and Thirty-Two Cousins - Barbara Algaze
51 A Word to the Wise - Barry Seltzer
52 Memories Are Made of Love - Deena Goldenberg-Gordon
53 Mash in the Attic, A Still in the Bedroom - Alma Lasher
54 The Internet Opens a Door - Jan Meisels Allen
55 How We Found Our Weisberg Relatives - Bobby Furst
55 Genealogy Is More Than a Hobby - Susan Fisher Boyer
56 The Life of Moses Bruml as Related by Himself submitted - Susan Fisher Boyer
57 By Any Other Name - Adar Belinkoff
58 You Got To Have a Little Mazel - Herb Mautner 
59 False Leads, False Hopes: A Cautionary Tale - Ann Harris
59 In Memoriam: Melody Katz
60 Our Crowd 
63 In the Beginning - Delaine Winkler Shane
64 The Way We Were, Milestones Along the Way (Timeline)

Original Articles in the Spring, 2004 Issue (Vol. 24, #1)

1       Everywhere the silent forests…”a world without Jews” – Nancy Holden (editor’s notes)
4       From the East, West, and South: Documenting the Foundation of Jewish Communities – Kevin Brook
7       The Columbus Enigma – M.I. Bob Hattem
9       Sephardic Traces – Debbi Korman
11     Return to Skalat – Pamela Weisberger
14     Rabbinical Research and DNA Testing: the Auerbach Surname Project – Toby Brief
15     There’s a Rabbi There Somewhere – Marjorie Halpern Holden
19     Isidor & Jennie: Where They Walked – Sid White
23     Dear Cousin: I am Alter and Zelda’s great-granddaughter… - Caren Turner
25     Southeastern Ukraine: Jewish Colonies 2002 – Mel Comisarow
28     Extra! Extra! Read All About It!! – Joan Rimmon
29     A Trip to My Grandfather’s Birth Place – Ed and Renee Sokolski

Original Articles in the Winter, 2003 Issue (Vol. 23, #4)

1       The Jewish in Jewish Genealogy
4       Our Rabbis, Our Teachers - David Einsiedler
4       The Menorah Tree - David Einsiedler
5       Menorah rendering - Jon Collier
6       Ethical Wills - Dorothy Kohanski
8       The True Meaning of Mishpacha - Peter Lande
10     The New Story Tellers - Nancy Holden
12     Russian Archival Research: Tracking family in the Russian Empire - Sonia and David Hoffman
14     A Future Vision: At the Turn of the Century, Jews Invested in the Holy Land - Schelly Talalay Dardashti
16     Archival Holdings in Belarus: Regional and District Holding According to Chronological Period - Dr. Oleg Perzashkevich
18     The Mystique of Odessa - Bob Weinberg
20     An Accidental Discovery: History of the Jewish Community of Vienna - Robert S. Sherins, M.D.
23     Captured German World War II Photographs - Jan Meisels Allen
25     The Polish census of 1765 and 1766 - Harry D. Boonin
26     Moises Ville - Mario N. Jeifetz

• The Early Jewish Presence in Los Angeles 1845-1945 - Nancy Holden
• President's Message...Migrating West - Sonia Hoffman
• The Kingsbaker-Loew-Sunderland Family of Los Angeles - David Meyer
• Jews in Early Santa Monica - David Hoffman
• Michael Levy, Pioneer - M. I. Bob Hattem
• Sarah Vasen M.D., First Jewish Woman Doctor in Los Angeles - Julie Beardsley
• Social Action, Yiddish Culture and Zionism: Leo Blass and the Eastern European Influence -
  David Hoffman & Sonia Hoffman
• The Genesis of Sephardic Jewry in California: Backdrop for an Elite Culture in Judaism -
  M. I. Bob Hattem
• From Billipili to Los Angeles - Debra Katz
• The Founders: The Story of the City of Hope - Bonnie Rogers
• City of Hope: A Love Story - Sonia Hoffman
• Boyle Heights and Beyond: A Personal History - Harriet Shapiro Rochlin
• Roosevelt High School Students Protest - Abraham Hoffman
• Mother's Day 2003 - Suzanne Cohan Lange
• My L.A. - Jackie Schwartz
• Girl Wins Herald and Express Oratory Contest: Mildred Blass 1st of Sex to Head List
• The Lake, The Pits and Me - Don Goodman
• Habonim and Hashomer Hatzair - Adar Belinkoff

Companion Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor

• The Challenges and Hopes - Genealogical Resources in Poland - Gayle Schlissel Riley
• Publishing Your Family History - Cathy Flamholtz
• Do You Use Jewishgen? - Debbi Korman
• New Vital Records Legislation in California - Jan Meisels Allen
• Genealogists Collaborate to Confirm Family Lore - by David B. Hoffman

• 1910 Census Index for New York City - Debbi Korman
• Researching the Uncommon Name - Debbi Korman

• Obtaining pre-1906 New York Naturalization Records - Sonia Nayle
• City Directories on Microfilm at the LA Public Library - Barry Silver
• Exploring the Ariogala (Lithuania) Cemetery - Sonia Hoffman

• Search Strategies for the 1930 U.S. Census - Joel Weintraub
• Returning Home (visit to Muckachevo, Ukraine) - Samuel Katz
• London 2001: News from the International Jewish Genealogy Conference - Sonia Hoffman
• The Levanda Index: A LegalResource on Jewish Life in the Pale - Michael Steinore
• Forgotten Streets of NY - Debbi Korman

• Major Slovok Database Initiative - Debbi Korman
• Yiddish Cowboy - Elaine Morhar
• My Little Miracle - Gayle Schlissel Riley
• Chiam Friedman: Lost at Sea - Sonia Hoffman
• Descent from King David: "Leap of Faith" - Gary Fitleberg
• Jews of the German Countryside (Book Review) - Werner L. Frank

• Murder in Pushelat - The Ehud Barak Connection - Howard Margol
• Rabbinic Genealogy - David Einsiedler
• Immigration - Great Resources for Passenger Arrival Information - Debbi Korman
• Emigration via Cherbourg - Francois Chetreanu
• Canadian Immigration - Form 30A - Ocean Arrivals 1919-1924 - Gary Fitleberg
• Overcoming Dead Ends - Hal Bookbinder

• Official Correspondence in the Kaunas Regional Archives as a Source of Genealogical Data - David B. Hoffman, Ph.D.
• Polish Synagogues - Gary Fitleberg
• Russian Telephone Directories - Marion Diamond
• Hungarian/Slovak Resources - Debbi Korman
• ViewMate - New Feature of JewishGen - Debbi Korman

• Resources for Austria and Czech Republic - Debbi Korman
• 1910 Census Tips - Geraldine Frey Winerman
• Jewish Genealogy Numerology - Gary Fitleberg
• Amazing Jewish Website! - Carolyn Rosenstein

• Sherlock Holmes and the Swedish Connection - Jane Rollins
• Using Online Library Catalogs in Your Research - George Morgan
• A Mitzvah Always Pays Off - Gary Fitleberg

• Index to Roots-Key Volumes 16-19 - Debbi Korman
• JGSLA Shoah Foundation Tour - Sonia Hoffman
• A Jewish Gen Tale...An Unknown Cousin Found - Phoebe Kassenoff, Orange Co. JGS

• Directory of Craftsmen & Shopkeepers in Hungary, 1891 - Debbi Korman
• Austrian Census for Galicia - Gayle Riley
• Finding Jewish Family Records in Croatia - Ed Zweiback
• ...New Insight into ... a Researcher's Family in Wyoming - Andrea Massion
• Still Missing a Link, But Having Fun - Harold Friedman, Orange Co. JGS

• Jekabpils, Latvia - Gary Feitelberg
• Survey of Jewish Latvian Sites - Gary Feitelberg
• Remember, Never Give Up! - Gloria Sondheim
• Languages of the Jews - David Einseidler

• Sarajevo Cemetery - Gary Feitleberg
• Odessa, Ukraine Research - Dorothy Kohanski, Orange Co. JGS
• A Visit to the State Historical Archives in Vilnius, Lithuania - Sonia and David Hoffman
• Memorial Man (Staszow, Poland) - Gary Feitleberg
• The Key Unlocks (Zivi of Haigerloch, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) - Sam Zivi

• City Directories Updated - Barry Silver
• Help to Make Your Own Luck - Debbi Korman
• Traveling Need Not Hamper Research - Nancy Holden, Orange Co. JGS
• Put Medical Information in Your Family Tree - Dorothy Kohanski, Orange Co. JGS
• Genealogical Clues in Czarist Decrees - Michael Steinore
• "Jewish Budapest, Monuments, Rites, History", Kinga Frojimovics, et al - Book Review by Debbi Korman

• Cemetery Research - Marge Dallis
• Inquisition Resources and Other Spanish Records - Debbi Korman
• Korczak/Goldszmit Connection - Martha Eisenberg Lasser
• Submitting Names to Yad VaShem - Debbi Korman
• Luck Was With Me - Jean Ershler Schatz
• Litvak SIG Develops New Relationships with Kaunas Regional Archives - David Hoffman and Davida Noyek Handler
• Revision Lists in the New LitvakSIG Online Lithuanian Database - David Hoffman
• "Jewish Autonomy in Poland and Lithuania Until 1648", Shmuel Cygielman - Book Review by Gary Fitleberg

• A Mitzvah Always Pays Off - Gary Fitleberg
• A Trip to the German Rhineland - Fred Levy
• Let Them Come to You - Arthur Nitikman
• Reunion Tips - Dorothy Kohanski

• British Research Resources - Ena Jacobs
• Reflections on Chai (18th Annual Seminar) - Herman and Hessy Merkel
• Jewish Genealogical Research in Hungary - Debbi Korman
• Researching Holocaust Victims and Survivors - Dibbi Korman
• Report on Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting - Deena Gordon
• Solving a Yiddish/English Translation Puzzle - Hershl Hartman
• A Journey to Radom - Marc Weinman
• Dowry in Galicia - Cindy King
• Finding My Cousin - Grace McElhiney
• Helping a Cousin "Prove" Jewish Descent - Dorothy Dellar Kohanski
• Dowry in Galicia - Cindy King

• Hollywood Chai Seminar - Speakers List - Ted Gostin
• Lesser-Known Resources at UCLA - Ted Gostin
• UCLA University Research Library - A Personal Assessment - Marion Werle
• Bookstores for Judaica in Greater Los Angeles - Ted Gostin
• City Directories on Microfilm - Barry Silver
• Unique Documents from Southern Germany - Louise Kopulsky
• Community and Organizational Records - James Gross

• JGSLA Motions (actions taken by JGSLA Board, 1/97-8/97)
• International Address Book - Bosnia and Hercegovina, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Israel, Macedonia, Montenegro, Servia, and Slovenia
• Various articles and registration information about Hollywood Chai, the 18th Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy
• Poland and Hungary Re-Visited - Marge Dallis
• Book Review of 'The Mezuzah in the Madaonna's Foot' by Trudy Alexy - Carolyn Rosenstein

• Am I Ashkenazic? - Garry Fitleberg
• 1910 Census Help - Samuel Kraus
• Researching Roots in Ukraine - Shirley Rose
• here is Miklos Reismann - Debbi Korman
• A Medical Family Tree - David Einsiedler

• International Address Book - Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Macedonai, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia
• A Hard to Find, Find (getting past dead ends) - Sandy Zimmerman
• Mystery Photographs - Debbi Korman
• JGSLA Microfiche Collection at the LA Family History Center - Les Amer
• The "Yekke" Museum in Tefen - Herb Mautner
• Manes Had a Brother in Chicago - Debbi Korman

• Research Techniques for Lithuania - Sandy Zimmerman
• The Oldest Jewish Dynasty: A 3400 Year line of Descendants - David Einseidler
• Your Ancestor's Cemetery: Where to Find It and What to Do When You're There - David Joel Priever
• Research in Great Britain - Judy Wolkovitch
• Members' Success Stories: INS Success - Judy Wolkovitch

• Researching FBI Files - Liz Appell Bernstein
• Research Techniques for Poland - Sandy Zimmerman
• A Center for Jewish History - David Einsiedler
• Family Trees in JGSLA Archives - Herb Mautner
• Kollel America Tifereth Yerushalayim - Gayle Schlissel Riley

• International Address Book - addresses in Austria, Chech Republic, Romania & Lithuania
• Successful U.S. Research Techniques - Sandy Zimmerman
• 1848 Jewish Census of Obuda, Budapest, Hungary - Debbi Korman
• On Line Major Resources - Herb Van Brink
• New York, New York, What's in a Name? - Gary Fitleberg
• City Directories on Microfilm - Updated by Barry Silver
• "Memoirs From the Warsaw Ghetto" - Book Review by David Einsiedler

• Genealogical Research Facilities in the Los Angeles Area
• JGSLA Completes Mt. Zion Cemetery Index - Ted Gostin
• Russian Gubernia at the Turn of the Century - Hal Bookbinder
• Journey to Ancestral Towns (Nowe Miasto, Raciaz & Pavlovce Nad Uhom) - Debbi Korman
• Multilingual Translator Recommended - Carolyn Rosenstein
• Jewish Genealogy-A Cultural Perspective - David Einsiedler
• CD-ROM Telephone Directories - Hal Bookbinder

• City Directories at the LA Public Library - Barry Silver
• The Jewish Community of Alsace, Part II - Dan Leeson
• Surname Book Offers - Kenneth Stern
• California Public Agencies as a Genealogical Source - Debbi Korman
• Researching 20th Century Immigration Records - David Abrahams
• Cemeteries in Presov, Slovakia - Debbi Korman
• Jewish Genealogy on the World Wide Web - Ted Gostin

• 97 Orchard Street, The Tenement Museum - Gerry Winerman
• The Jewish Community of Alsace, Part I - Dan Leeson
• Fathers of Jewish Genealogy, Part V - David Einsiedler
• Eastern European Maps Available on the Internet - Debbi Korman

• A Journey Through a Family Heritage Book - Debbi Korman
• The Pale of Settlement - Hal Bookbinder

• Polish-Jewish Records at the Family History Library - Ted Gostin
• New York City Research, Obtaining New York City Records - Ellen Harris
• Fathers of Jewish Genealogy, When their Sources Conflict - David Einsiedler
• U.S. Naturalization Laws - Hal Bookbinder

• Translators - Liz Appell Bernstein
• Just Write the Letter! - Debbi Korman
• Cemetery Project Update - Ted Gostin
• Networking and Persistence Pay Off - Gerry Winerman
• 1920 Census, a Step by Step Guide - Maida Dacher and Regina Spiszman
• Fathers of Jewish Genealogy (Feivel Hirsch Wettstein, Tzvi Hirsch Horowitz - David Einsiedler
• How to Get the Most out of Budapest Vital Records: Marriage Records - Debbi Korman
• Finding my Ukrainian Roots - Ruth Glosser
• Resources Used by the Holocaust Museum, Part II - Sandy Zimmerman
• JewishGen Update - Jeffrey S. Bock
• More Internet Genealogy - Herb Van Brink

• Trace Ancestors with Newspapers - Miriam Weiner
• Resources Used by Holocaust Museum - Sandy Zimmerman
• Fishing the Internet - David Fein
• Fathers of Jewish Genealogy - David Einsiedler
• Genealogical Computing Magazine - Reviewed by Barry Chapman
• Published Memoirs: From Shtetl to Holocaust - Miriam Weiner
• Accessing the JewishGen Bulletin Board - Ted Gostin
• Directory of Language Translators - Ted Gostin

• Poland & Ukraine Genealogy Tour - Miriam Weiner
• Fathers of Jewish Genealogy - David Einsiedler
• Time Travel to Budapest - Debbi Korman
• Historical Male Chauvinism, a genealogical perspective - James Gross
• Gazetteers as a Source of Jewish Population Data - Ted Gostin
• Jewish Population Data form the 1856 Gazetteer of the World
• A Supreme Thrill - Steven Abrams (congrats to his cousin, Justice Steven Breyer)

• Unconventional Resources - Liz Bernstein
• Unusual Hobby Leads to Family Reunifications - Miriam Weiner
• Landsmanshaftn Burieals in the NYC Area - Flora and Herbert Gursky
• Plant Your Family Tree in Israel (Dorot Genealogy Center)
• Sixteen Jewish Literatures, Part II - David Einsiedler
• How to Get the Most out of Budapest Vital Records - Debbi Korman
• Wifely Guidance - Jerry Title
• The 1994 Jerusalem Seminar, a Review - Herb Mautner
• Foreign Embassies and Consulates - Hal Bookbinder
• A discovery in Korolevka Rivals - Miriam Weiner

• Old Letters Never Die - Debbi Korman
• The Telephone Genealogist - Gayle Riley
• Lithuanians Deported in 1941 - Rabbi Jeffrey Marx
• Slovak Vital Records - Debbi Korman
• Discovering Jewish Roots in Riga - Miriam Weiner
• Sixteen Jewish Literatures, Part I - David Einsiedler
• Jewish Geography - Miriam Weiner
• Guides for Jewish-Oriented Travel in Poland - Miriam Weiner
• Genealogy Bulletin Board Systems - Hal Bookbinder