by Martin Bodek Every eon has its eras; every era its periods; every period has its epochs; every epoch has its ages. Outside of what we learn in Geology class, the two words in my Dickensian opening sentence with which we are vernacularly familiar are “era” and “age.” There are unending lists of significant cultural human interests that […]
by Karen S. Franklin To mark the centennial anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic, New Jersey historians studied the Washington Monumental Cemetery in South River. Their work addressed the mystery of a long-established legend in the area – that an open field in the southeast corner of the cemetery was home to hundreds of unmarked […]
In 2013, we published Aaron Hurwitz’s story A Blissful Reunion: Finding a New Branch of My Blistein Family. Aaron connects with an unknown branch of his Blistein family as a result of his posts on JewishGen’s Family Finder and Family Tree of the Jewish People. “… When we exchanged pictures, any doubt that I had […]
Most of us will be spending more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage you to use some of that time to advance your family history research by logging in to the resources of JewishGen, such as: FAMILY FINDER: Make sure you have entered all the surnames and ancestral towns you are researching […]
“I’m pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes in The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, a memoir of his journey to find […]
Recently, my young cousin, Ethan, rambled up to the top of the highest peak in the British Isles, Ben Nevis, which is in the Scottish Highlands. Quite an accomplishment for a 16-year-old. It reminded me of a cautionary tale from 1929 which was told to me by my mother about the premier Jewish rambler, Phil […]
JewishGen is pleased to announce that nearly 19,000 new records havebeen added to our Sub-Carpathia Vital Records collection. You can search these records by visiting https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/all/ and selecting “Hungary/Slovakia”as the region. The new records include: 13,264 births 1,557 marriages 3,882 deaths To learn more about these records, please click here: https://www.jewishgen.org/new/sub-carpathia-collection-vital-records/ The addition of these […]
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 […]
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