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 08/21/2024  2024 German RD Meeting at IAJGS Conference in Philadelphia

The German Research Division (formerly GerSIG) held its annual meeting on 21 August 2024 in Philadelphia. The following is a summary of the IAJGS Conference meeting presentation.



Staying in Touch



Although the German Research Division no longer has its own mailing list there are still a number of ways to stay in touch.



1) JewishGen Discussion Group



- mailing list with more than 16,700 members

Sign up or edit your settings at https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main

Search for archives messages at: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topics



2) FaceBook Groups



GerSIG: German Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group - 1,621 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GerSIGGermanJewishGenealogy



Jewish Genealogy in Berlin - 1,1157 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JewishGenBerlin



JEWS - Jekkes Engaged Worldwide in Social Networking - 2,395 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556357284602836



Hamburg Jewish Ancestors - 310 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/hamburgjewishancestors/



Jewish Genealogy-Jews from Posen and Prussia - 1,948 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/jewsfromposen/



Hoppe Hoppe Reiter - 11,500 Members [צאצאי ייקים צעירים למען שימור מורשת הייקים]

www.facebook.com/groups/HoppeHoppeReiter/



3) Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain German SIG



- Handouts on Jeanette Rosenberg's Blog: https://round2itgenealogy.wordpress.com/category/gersig/



German Research Division Projects



The German RD has several on-going projects:



- Surname Adoption Lists – West of the Rhine

- Württemberg Family Registers

- Former Eastern Germany Vital Records (Gatermann)



Please visit https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/tpl_base.asp?id=23 for full details on these projects. The JewishGen Germany database can be searched at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/germany/



Join the German RD Volunteer Team!



The German RD is looking for volunteers to:



Project Mangers - summarize available materials, coordinate indexing projects

- complete the German portion of the JewishGen communities database

- serve as Regional Leaders - regional leaders will help create regional research guides, and identify and prioritize future indexing projects

- catalog online, printed and archival resources for individual towns, districts and regions - see video and PDF guide at https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/TPL_Base.asp?id=24



We have new opportunities to have indexing work performed by third parties. By serving as a regional leader you can help decide where to next focus these efforts.


Mohel Books available Online


A number of mohel books (circumcision registers) have survived. We hope to index these records as a future project, but for now are providing the link to the list of available books: https://tinyurl.com/germanmohel24.



New, Updated and sometimes Old Online Resources


Bavarian Records

Starting to become available at https://www.gda.bayern.de/service/findmitteldatenbank/Archiv/9.The records are at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and may also be available on their website at https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/archives/cahjp

Towns currently available include: Adelsdorf, Altenkunstadt, Alzenau-Wasserlos, Ansbach, Arnstein, Aschaffenburg, Aschbach, Aub, Aufsess, Bad Brückenau, Bad Kissingen, Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale, Baiersdorf, Floss, Fürth, Mittelsinn, Mitwitz, Nürnberg, Treuchtlingen, Wallerstein, and Walsdorf. Many places have community records but not local vital records.



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Rheinland-Pfalz Vital records

Online at https://www.landeshauptarchiv.de/unser-auftrag/personenstandsarchiv-rheinland-pfalz/digitalisierung

Search Apertus at https://apertus.rlp.de/



Online Resources - Newspapers

Overview: https://wiki.genealogy.net/Digitale_historische_Tageszeitungen

North Rhine Westphalia Newspaper Portal - https://zeitpunkt.nrw/

Baden - https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/

Württemberg - https://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start

Bavaria - https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de/search/simple/

Europeana Newspapers (includes Hamburg and Berlin) - https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/18-newspapers

Frankfurt - https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika

Hamburg - https://zeitungen.sub.uni-hamburg.de/



Archivalia blog https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/



Ancestry.com Digitized German Vital Records - Berlin, Dresden, Eastern Prussian Provinces, Hamburg, Hessen (including Frankfurt), Karlsruhe, Mainz, Mannheim, Worms and others



Overview of Available Years on Ancestry.Com for selected German record sets




Contact us through: https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/ABT_Board.asp

 08/16/2023  German Research Division Database Updates - Aufbau and Württemberg Family Registers

The German RD is excited to announce the addition of more than 10,000 new indexed family notices from Aufbau. These notices cover 1953 to 1957, although some months from that period are still being worked on. Records from this update are located in the 'German Aufbau - 2023 Update' component of the JewishGen Germany database.

Earlier this year the Württemberg Family Register database was also updated. It now contains almost 20,000 records.



To search both of these datasets please visit https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/germany/


 08/02/2023  2023 German RD Meeting at IAJGS Conference in London

The German Research Division (formerly GerSIG) held its first in person meeting in four years on 2 August 2023 in London. The following is a summary of the IAJGS Conference meeting presentation.



Staying in Touch



Although the German Research Division no longer has its own mailing list there are still a number of ways to stay in touch.



1) JewishGen Discussion Group



- mailing list with more than 16,000 members

Sign up or edit your settings at https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main

Search for archives messages at: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topics



2) FaceBook Groups



GerSIG: German Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group - 1,474 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GerSIGGermanJewishGenealogy



Jewish Genealogy in Berlin - 1,028 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JewishGenBerlin



JEWS - Jekkes Engaged Worldwide in Social Networking - 2,387 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556357284602836



Hamburg Jewish Ancestors - 283 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/hamburgjewishancestors/



Jewish Genealogy-Jews from Posen and Prussia - 1,834 Members

https://www.facebook.com/groups/jewsfromposen/



Hoppe Hoppe Reiter - 11,164 Members [צאצאי ייקים צעירים למען שימור מורשת הייקים]

www.facebook.com/groups/HoppeHoppeReiter/



3) Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain German SIG



- Handouts on Jeanette Rosenberg's Blog: https://round2itgenealogy.wordpress.com/category/gersig/



German Research Division Projects



The German RD has several on-going projects:



- Surname Adoption Lists – West of the Rhine

- Württemberg Family Registers - 2023 Update: Almost 20,000 records have been indexed and are part of the Germany database

- Former Eastern Germany Vital Records (Gatermann)

- Aufbau Newspaper Family Notices  - August 2023 Update: 10,000 notices from 1953 to 1957 added to the Germany database



Please visit https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/tpl_base.asp?id=23 for full details on these projects. The JewishGen Germany database can be searched at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/germany/



Join the German RD Volunteer Team!



The German RD is looking for volunteers to:



- index records: prepare documents, enter data and translate records 

- complete the German portion of the JewishGen communities database

- serve as Regional Leaders - regional leaders will help create regional research guides, and identify and prioritze future indexing projects

- catalog online, printed and archival resources for individual towns, districts and regions - see video and PDF guide at https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/TPL_Base.asp?id=24



We have new opportunities to have indexing work performed by third parties. By serving as a regional leader you can help decide where to next focus these efforts.


New Book by Steven M. Lowenstein


In May 2023 Academic Studies Press published The Population History of Germany Jewry, 1815 - 1939 by Steven Mark Lowenstein z'l. A recording of a panel held at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York shortly before the book's release can be viewed at https://www.lbi.org/events/steve-lowenstein/. Also see table of contents on the publisher's website.



New, Updated and sometimes Old Online Resources



Rheinland-Pfalz Vital records

Overview at https://www.landeshauptarchiv.de/unser-auftrag/personenstandsarchiv-rheinland-pfalz/digitalisierung

Search Apertus at https://apertus.rlp.de/



Online Resources - Newspapers

Overview: https://wiki.genealogy.net/Digitale_historische_Tageszeitungen

North Rhine Westphalia Newspaper Portal - https://zeitpunkt.nrw/

Baden - https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/

Württemberg - https://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start

Bavaria - https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de/search/simple/

Europeana Newspapers (includes Hamburg and Berlin) - https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/18-newspapers

Frankfurt - https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika



Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 229 - Special Files of the Smaller Districts and Places with more than 4 million images - now complete! - https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=11158 - search for files under Judensache and Judenrecht 



Archivalia blog https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/



Ancestry.com Digitized German Vital Records - Berlin, Dresden, Eastern Prussian Provinces, Hamurg, Hessen (including Frankfurt), Karlsruhe, Mainz, Mannheim, Worms and others



Overview of Available Years on Ancestry.Com for selected German record sets

 




Contact us through: https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/ABT_Board.asp


 08/22/2022  2022 IAJGS Virtual Conference Update

The German Research Division is once again the German-Jewish Special Interest Group (GerSIG).


Staying Connected - Facebook Groups and Other Resources


GerSIG: German Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group


https://www.facebook.com/groups/GerSIGGermanJewishGenealogy


Jewish Genealogy in Berlin


https://www.facebook.com/groups/JewishGenBerlin


JEWS - Jekkes Engaged Worldwide in Social Networking


https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556357284602836


Hamburg Jewish Ancestors


https://www.facebook.com/groups/hamburgjewishancestors/


Jewish Genealogy-Jews from Posen and Prussia


https://www.facebook.com/groups/jewsfromposen/





Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain German SIG - Handout on Jeanette's Blog: https://round2itgenealogy.wordpress.com/category/gersig/



Jewish Gen Discussion Group



Sign up or edit your settings at https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main


Search for archives messages at: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topics



Statistisches Jahrbuch deutscher Juden (1905) on Compact Memory


German Research Division Projects


The German RD has several on-going projects:


- Surname Adoption Lists – West of the Rhine


- Württemberg Family Registers


- Former Eastern Germany Vital Records (Gatermann)


- Aufbau Newspaper Family Notices


Please visit https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/tpl_base.asp?id=23 for full details on these projects.





We need more help!


We cannot move forward without project managers


Can you help index - Scan, prepare materials, data entry, translation


Can you help research German-Jewish communities that are missing from the JewishGen communities database?


We need regional leaders


- We are looking to expand the German RD by adding regional leaders


- Suggest indexing projects and help to recruit volunteers to manager them


- Help compile basic overviews of research in your region


- Can you write up a research guide?


German Research Division Resource Cataloger sought





Index Your Town - Index the vital records for the towns your family came from


Transcription of the Mohel Book of R. Seligmann of Hüffenhardt - http://tinyurl.com/mohelbookindexsh


Online Resources


Rheinland-Pfalz Vital records

Overview at https://www.landeshauptarchiv.de/unser-auftrag/personenstandsarchiv-rheinland-pfalz/digitalisierung

Search Apertus at https://apertus.rlp.de/


Online Resources - Newspapers

Overview: https://wiki.genealogy.net/Digitale_historische_Tageszeitungen



North Rhine Westphalia Newspaper Portal - https://zeitpunkt.nrw/

Baden - https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/

Württemberg - https://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start

Bavaria - https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de/search/simple/

Europeana Newspapers (includes Hamburg and Berlin) - https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/18-newspapers


Ktiv - The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts - https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/en/manuscript


Database of Jewish Cemeteries in Alsace and Lorraine - http://judaisme-dev.sdv.fr/cimetieres/index.html


Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 229 - https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=11158


Archivalia blog https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/


Ancestry.com Digitized German Vital Records - Berlin, Dresden, Eastern Prussian Provinces, Hamurg, Hessen (including Frankfurt), Karlsruhe, Mainz, Mannheim, Worms and others



Sponsored Speakers - Please let us know your suggestions!


Contact us through: https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/ABT_Board.asp


 08/03/2021  2021 IAJGS Virtual Conference Update

New to German Research - Complete the JewishGen Form at https://forms.gle/QsLFW1ELHJawd6Pz5



Staying Connected - Facebook Groups and Other Resources





GerSIG: German Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GerSIGGermanJewishGenealogy

Jewish Genealogy in Berlin

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JewishGenBerlin

JEWS - Jekkes Engaged Worldwide in Social Networking

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556357284602836

Hamburg Jewish Ancestors

https://www.facebook.com/groups/hamburgjewishancestors/

Jewish Genealogy-Jews from Posen and Prussia

https://www.facebook.com/groups/jewsfromposen/



Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain German SIG - Handout on Jeanette's Blog: https://round2itgenealogy.wordpress.com/category/gersig/

 



Jewish Gen Discussion Group





Sign up or edit your settings at https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main

Search for archives messages at: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topics



 



Obermayer Awards



2022 Award nomination deadline: August 13, 2021
 



German Research Division Projects



The German RD has several on-going projects:

- Surname Adoption Lists – West of the Rhine

- Württemberg Family Registers

- Former Eastern Germany Vital Records (Gatermann)

- Aufbau Newspaper Family Notices

Please visit https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/tpl_base.asp?id=23 for full details on these projects.





We need more help!

We cannot move forward without project managers

Can you help index - Scan, prepare materials, data entry, translation

Can you help research German-Jewish communities that are missing from the JewishGen communities database?

We need regional leaders

- We are looking to expand the German RD by adding regional leaders

- Suggest indexing projects and help to recruit volunteers to manager them

- Help compile basic overviews of research in your region



- Can you write up a research guide?

German Research Division Resource Cataloger sought



Index Your Town - Index the vital records for the towns your family came from

Transcription of the Mohel Book of R. Seligmann of Hüffenhardt - http://tinyurl.com/mohelbookindexsh

 



Online Resources





Ktiv - The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts - https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/en/manuscript

Database of Jewish Cemeteries in Alsace and Lorraine - http://judaisme-dev.sdv.fr/cimetieres/index.html

Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 229 - https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=11158



Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)

current catalog: https://www.nli.org.il/en

collection of PDF finding aids:https://bit.ly/37gHGf5

Archivalia blog https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/



Sponsodred Speakers - Please let us know your suggestions!

Contact us through: https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/ABT_Board.asp



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