The following excerpt is from an article in the February 20, 2013 edition of The Jewish Daily Forward. Researchers of Polish Jewry are set to gain online access to one million new documents following a new agreement signed by the Polish State Archives. Under the agreement, signed on February 15, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, an online [...]
The following is from FamilySearch, dated Februry 15, 2013: Included in this week’s records update are 18 new collections; seven from Napoli, Italy, seven from the United States, four from Germany, and one from Netherlands. Among these collections are the United States Draper Manuscript Collection from 1740-1960 (more information can be found here), the Germany, [...]
Originally created to help genealogists trace their Jewish ancestors through Europe, Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust has become a primary resource for finding original town and community names across Europe for all types of researchers, including non-Jewish genealogists. Perhaps no other area in the world has [...]
The following excerpt is from an article published in the January 20, 2013 edition of stuff.co.nz: The Jewish community has taken pity on one of the youths who desecrated graves at a cemetery in Auckland with Nazi symbols – causing worldwide outrage – and is even offering to pay his university tuition fees so he [...]
The following excerpt is from an interestig article dealing with the origins of European Jews. Despite being one of the most genetically analysed groups, the origin of European Jews has remained obscure. However, a new study published online today (Thursday) in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution by Dr Eran Elhaik, a geneticist at the [...]
The following was received from the President of IGRA: The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has released a new search engine for their AID (All Israel Databases) section www.genealogy.org.il/AID/ . In July, at the IAJGS International Conference in Paris, IGRA was awarded the Stern Grant with the intent that these monies to be used to [...]
The following excerpt is from an AP article published at the December 20, 2012 website of Fox News. THESSALONIKI, Greece – In a find that local Jewish groups have described as highly significant, Greek police said Thursday that hundreds of marble headstones and other fragments from Jewish graves destroyed during the Nazi occupation in World [...]
Andras Koltai of Budapest, Hungary recently developed Famble, an iPhone / iPod / iPad game app that plays with Jewish surnames, It is a classic word search type game, but the words you have to look for are Jewish surnames. The game can be accessed at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/famble/id543534434?l=hu&ls=1&mt=8 Check it out. It’s only 99 cents.
Goodness… It’s been 35 years since the King passed on. According to an article in tabletmag.com, Elvis’s great great maternal grandmother was Jewish and had a daughter who had a daughter who had a daughter that was Elvis’s mother. For a guy with Jewish ancestry, he sure did sing great gospel. I’ve spent hours relaxing [...]
Did you that in just two days, July 16 and 17, 1942, over 13,000 French Jews were rounded up by police and sent to Auschwitz. For the first time, police records of these events have been released. Read more about it in the following article found at ajc.com: French Holocaust records exhibited for 1st time [...]
The following news release is from prnewswire.com: NEW YORK, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Center for Jewish History, one of the world’s foremost Jewish research and cultural institutions, has announced a cooperative agreement between the Center and The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation (RTRF). The new collaboration brings together some of the world’s [...]
The following is an excerpt from an AP article posted in the March 8, 2012 edition of the Palm Beach Post News: SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust [...]
The following excerpt is from an article written by Jeff Jacoby, a Jewish columnist for the Boston Globe. The article is dated March 1, 2012, and is posted at the jewishworldreview.com website. It’s a different take on LDS proxy baptisms of Jews. Interesting… Memo to the kvetchers: Get a life — especially when dealing with [...]
And the controversy continues… The following is from an extensive article written by Howard Berkes, and posted at the kuhg Houston Public Radio website. He wasn’t Jewish and he wasn’t a victim of the Holocaust, but the discovery of Jan Karski‘s name on Mormon proxy baptism records has angered those already upset about posthumous Mormon [...]
The following teaser is from an article published February 20, 2012 edition of the Calgary Herald. LOS ANGELES – Simon Wiesenthal’s parents should not have been posthumously baptized, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has acknowledged. And on Monday, an official with the church apologized. The uproar began last week when it was [...]
