Dear JewishGen Community, Welcome to 2020!! With the new year, we are kicking off an exciting new time for the Yizkor Book Projects. Please read below to see all of our updates from 2019 and our plans for 2020! Summary of Recent Progress At JewishGen.org, among our biggest priorities is the translation of Yizkor Books, […]
I am happy to report that finally all the Hungarian uploads of this past year made it into the databases. We must thank JewishGen’s new Database Administrator, Scott Seidenstock, who put his shoulders into clearing the huge backlog for all the Research Divisions/SIGs at JewishGen. We now have over 36,000 newly uploaded entries in the […]
Dear Researchers, Here is an update for JewishGen’s Bessarabia Research Division projects for the month of December 2019. See also “What’s New” at the Bessarabia SIG website: https://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/ Bessarabian Databases – Updates: Revision List records were sent to JewishGen in December of 2019. 10,873 records from 3,451 families were transcribed and translated from the following […]
We are pleased to post the following announcement from LitvakSIG and to add the records they have provided to JewishGen’s Lithuania Collection. LitvakSIG and JewishGen are independent organizations, in a strategic partnership to achieve shared goals. LitvakSIG is pleased to announce an update to the free, searchable, All-Lithuania Database. The new records include the following: […]
In 2013, we published Marla Raucher Osborn’s story The Blecher Boys of Bessarabia Become Barbers: From Soroki to Chicago 1909 – 1914. “One boy, per boat, per year, beginning in 1909. From ports like Bremen, Glasgow, Hamburg, and Liverpool, one Blecher boy each year would board a steamship bound for a major American port – […]
Nancy Holden, JewishGen’s Director of Education, recently announced a new range of online courses for 2020. Three-week Mentored Classes with personal instruction based on helping each student progress with research projects. Course begins in January 2020! Home Study Classes that are self-paced and delivered electronically. Workbook Text-Based Courses. For more information on course descriptions, schedules, […]
by Shelly Sanders I had reams of information—dates, cities, and names—but knew nothing about the people on my Jewish family tree. What their lives were like in Russia. Family stories passed down for generations. The difficulties in coming to a new country. Why they kept it all inside, their experiences, the fates of relatives […]
by Randy Schoenberg JewishGen Director of Austria-Czech Research Note: This article first appeared online at The Jewish Journal, and is reprinted here with permission of the author and publisher. I had a crazy idea this past summer for a new presentation at the next Jewish genealogy conference scheduled for August 2020 in San Diego. What […]
by Joel Davidi Weisberger In the above image, Rabbi Akiva Eiger (center) is flanked by Rabbi Yaakov Kalvari (a member of his Rabbinic court) on his left. Kalvari (originally Calahora) was the scion of a Sephardic family that became prominent in Poland in the century after the Jews were expelled from Spain. The image is […]
We are pleased to announce a new addition to the JewishGen Hungarian Collection: Proof of Citizenship Records Košice County, 1924-1928. This set of data contains 1,741 Jewish names, taken from 3 volumes of archival documents ÒEvidencia vydaných osvedčen’ o št‡tnom občianstveÓ (Evidence of Issued Proofs of Citizenship). In total, there are now more nearly 1.3 […]
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