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: […]
Over the past few months, JewishGen has uploaded a number of valuable datasets. Highlights include: Bessarabia: 10K+ records Belarus: 45K+ records Hungary: 1.7K+ records Latvia: 11K+ records Lithuania: 25K+ records Germany: 30k records comprising family trees (in partnership with the Leo Baeck Institute), records of inhabitants of Bavarian-Swabia, and the 1845 Altona-Hamburg Census For more information, and to search our archival collections, please […]
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 Ann Rabinowitz This past September 2019, a new Facebook page was created by Michelle and Stephan Lurie that focuses on Jewish genealogy in South Africa. It is called “South African Jews – Tracing Our Ancestors” and has much of interest for South African researchers. One of the first things covered was how to […]
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 […]
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