Yizkor Book Project Update – March 2020 Dear JewishGen Community, The JewishGen Yizkor Book Team is always active starting, continuing, and completing Translation Projects. Here are some successes from this past month. See All Active Projects To view all ongoing Yizkor Book translation projects click here. If there is any information that needs updating, […]
JewishGen.org, in partnership with The Matzevah Foundation and the Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland, is pleased to announce the second annual JewishGen Future Scholars Fellowship program to take place from July 14, 2020 – July 23, 2020. We invite graduate students as well as third and fourth-year college students to apply for this unique […]
Dear JewishGen Community, The JewishGen Yizkor Book Team has been very active in the past month. Here are some highlights of what we have accomplished and are continuing to work on: Addition to the Yizkor Book Homepage The homepage of the JewishGen Yizkor Book website has now been updated to display our list of active […]
Dear JewishGen Community. As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th Anniversary since Auschwitz was liberated, JewishGen remains steadfast in our commitment to ensure that our Jewish family history and heritage will never be forgotten. On this day of remembrance, here are some JewishGen resources that we encourage you to search and […]
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, […]
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