Roots-Key – The JGSLA Research Journal
Roots-Key, the research journal of the JGSLA, is published four times each year
(occasionally two issues of special interest are published as a double issue).
Each issue contains original articles of general interest to the membership and
reflects current research in the Jewish Genealogical community. We may also
include interviews with noteworthy genealogists, book and film reviews, letters
to the editor, announcements of upcoming conferences and lectures, and reports
on past programs. We occasionally publish a companion journal on our JGSLA
website.
Roots-Key is sent to all members of the JGSLA, to selected libraries and
repositories, and is exchanged with other Jewish Genealogical Societies who send
us hard copy journals.
The editing staff consists of interested members with knowledge of general
genealogy, grammar, and English composition. If you would like to volunteer to
help in screening, editing, or reviewing potential submissions, please contact
the editor. This requires that you be able to send and receive email attachments
and are willing to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer.
If you wish to submit an article for publication in Roots-Key, please follow the
submission guidelines and send it to the editors at editor@jgsla.org. Send hard
copy materials to JGSLA, PO Box 55443-0443, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413. The current
editor is David Hoffman.
Back issues are available for $5.00 each, postage included, if mailed within the
U.S. and Canada; for other countries, please add $3.00 for postage. The FallWinter 2007 issue on “Town-Wide Research” is $10 for U.S., $13 for Canadian, and
$17 for overseas addresses. Mail requests and payment to: JGSLA, PO Box 55443,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91413-0443.
Submission Guidelines
The submission dates are December 1 (for Spring), March 1 (for Summer), June 1
(for Fall), September 1 (for Winter).
Authors are encouraged to send a query to the editor before submission.
The preferred format for materials submitted for publication is a Word document,
sent as an attachment to an email letter. Before sending photographs, maps, and
other graphics, please check with the editor for scanning directions and file
formats.
Original articles are given preference. Material accepted for publication
becomes subject to whatever revisions are necessary to meet space requirements
and quality standards. A final copy is always sent to the author for approval
before publication.
Original articles not previously published, once accepted, may not be published
elsewhere simultaneously; after publication in Roots-Key, they may be published
elsewhere with permission of both Roots-Key and the authors, and with proper
attribution. Please contact the editors by E-mail at: editor@jgsla.org.
Items from other sources should be submitted with full attribution (name of
publication and issue date is a minimum), so that reprint authorizations can be
obtained where necessary.
Significant original work should be widely disseminated in a timely way. For
this reason we need the author’s permission to publish his/her article on our
website, soon after it has appeared in our hardcopy version. The same primary
copyright will continue to be held by the author. Other websites may write an
abstract and connect to our website via hyperlink.
ORIGINAL ARTICLES WHICH APPEARED IN PREVIOUS ISSUES OF ROOTS-KEY
Original Articles in the Spring 2009 Issue
You may ask yourself, well...How did I get here? By Bruce Dumes
1.
Dumes Family Site
2.
Jewish Cemetery of Vishki
3.
Vishki Shtetl Site on JewishGEN
4.
the Hotel Dinaburg in Daugavpils (recommended by Bruce Dumes)
5.
Website for Aleks Feigmanis
Uncle Dolek's Tango
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write to Madeleine Isenberg
Using the Internet for Anglo-Jewish Family History Research
1.
JewishGen FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) on how to get started in Jewish
genealogy
2.
UK government website that explains how to get involved in family history
research
3.
History of Jewish Roots in the UK, written by one of the best British
Jewish genealogists, Saul Issroff
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UK National Archives (Formerly PRO)
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Research Outline re UK made available by Church of LDS (free PDF)
6.
Cyndi's List: links to many other websites
7.
Article written by Ron Arons more than 7 years ago on british records
8.
Ancestry Largest online source of genealogical records (commercial;
subscription-based)
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Commercial UK website with 650 million records (censuses, emigration
records, vital registrations, military records; subscriptions or pay-as-you-go)
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(1881 UK Census available for free from Church of LDS)
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1901 census index searchable for free; charges for transcript or census
image
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1911 census index searchable for free; charges for transcript or census
image
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Free search of a limited database of UK civil registrations
14.
Jewish Chronicle Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements [In sections:
1840-69, 1870-79, 1890-1895]
15.
Ancestry: UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
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Poor Jews Shelter database
17.
Common War Graves Commission (WWI & WWII searchable databases)
18.
Cyndi's List (listing of all things genealogical on the net
19.
AJEX: Assoc of Jewish Ex-Servicemen & Women (WWII+) [History but no
searchable database
20.
Google's index of newspaper articles
21.
Jewish Chronicle (London)
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Jewish Telegraph (Manchester)
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Manchester Guardian archives
24.
List of current UK newspapers by region
25.
Old Ordnance Maps available for sale
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Old-Maps the online repository of historic maps
27.
Booth Archives re London's Jewish Community in 1880s and 1890s
28.
Godfrey maps of London
29.
Jewish East End (London)Celebration Society
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Jewish East End Photos
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London cemeteries
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Manchester Jewish records
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Susser Archives (Plymouth and environs)
Virtual "Shtetl"
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Virtual "shtetl" website
From the Chicago Jewish Archives: The Sentinel - Digitized!
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Website of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago
2.
search page for the Sentinel on-line
The Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map and Landowner Records Project
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GesherGalicia website
2.
Searchable inventory database for the Cadastral Map and Landowner Records
Project
3.
Article in The Galizianer about how Zborow was done for this project
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Long Island's (JGSLI) Yearbook Project
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Discussion of the JGSLI Yearbook Project
2.
Listing of the yearbooks available thru the project
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contact the Yearbook Project
4.
form to submit a yearbook to the project
The Lost Shanghai Graves
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Website for the Shanghai Jewish Memorial
2.
contact the shanghai jewish memorial project
Jewish History of Philadelphia
1.
Article on Four Jewish Families in Philadelphia by Leonard Markowitz, for
the Museum of Family History, 2009
2.
Resource Guide from JGS Greater Philadelphia, downloadable or can be read
on line
3.
Information on Philadelphia at the Museum of family history
4.
Information on the book, The Jewish Quarter of Philadelphia: A History and
Guide 1881-1930 by Harry D. Boonin (1999)
Book Reviews:
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publisher of The Pages In Between
2.
Publisher of Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
3.
E-mail to order come with me to Babylon from the Univerisity of New Mexico
Press
The Search for India's Bene Israel
1.
Professor Katz's website on the Jewish communities of India
2.
Interview with Dr. Katz on "The Jews, Israel, and India" at the Institute
for Global Jewish Affairs from November 2005
Memorials for Vanished Communities
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Memorials to Vanished Communities
Original Articles in the Fall 2008 Issue
Note: Listed below each article heading are active links to sites referenced in
the article.
The Hidden Skills of Serendipity
1. Sinai Congrgation, Chicago, Marriages Database, 1861-1905
BOOK REVIEW: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
1. Jewish Family History Foundation
A RESOURCE FOR DISCOVERING WHERE RELATIVES LIVED
1. Google Book Search
2. Logan Kleinwacks (author) has his own search index, which includes the
sources below
3. instructions for using the GenealogyIndexer site
4. Digital Library of Wielkopolska
5. the Digital Library of Zielona Gora
6. the Silesian Digital Library
7. the Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
8. the Podlaska Digital Library
9. the Malopolska Genealogical Society
10. European Address/Telephone Directories at the U.S. Library of Congress
11. JRI-Poland/JewishGen
12. the Internet Archive
13. Google translations
14. Polish translations
15. German translations
16. Polish occupation lists
17. Romanian occupation lists
18. German occupation lists
19. Book Wish Foundation, to provide aid such as books, reading glasses,
solar lighting, and libraries for people in crisis, starting with 60,000 Darfur
refugees in eastern Chad.
BAD AROLSEN - ITS SECRETS UNLOCKED
1. International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen
BAD AROLSEN - EACH NAME IS A PERSON
1. telephone directory site
2. JewishGen
THE DNA SHOAH PROJECT
1. The DNA Shoah Project
WHY BELONG TO A SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP - THE SOUTH AMERICA SIG
1. Jewish Gen Latin America Special Interest Group
THE BEST GENEALOGY PORTALS ON THE INTERNET
1. Google Searches
2. ancestry.com (not accessible through browser search, paid site)
3. Heritage quest (not accessible through browser search)
4. Free Genealogy Search Help for Google
5. LINKPENDIUM - The Definitive Directory
6. Find A Grave
7. Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
8. KindredTrails - Worldwide Genealogy Resources
9. GENUKI - UK and Ireland Genealogy
10. CanGenealogy.com - Genealogy Research in Canada
11. Access Genealogy
12. The Genealogy Register
13. ExpertGenealogy.com - Free Genealogy Resources
14. Cyberpursuits.com - General Genealogy Sources
15. GenealogyLinks.net
16. Olive Tree Genealogy
17. ProGenealogists.com - Genealogy Sleuth Pages
18. John's Genealogy Portal
19. Internment.net - Cemetery Transcription Library
20. American Local History Network (topics)
21. American Local History Network (states)
JULIUS SAUL and VICTORIAN TRADE CARDS
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Example of a site that uses old catalogs and trade cards
New and Wonderful Invention: The 19th-Century American Trade Cards
The Emergence of Advertising in America
The Fulton Street Trade Card Collection
Articles without web references
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LitvakSIG Projects: Where Photos, Databases, and Second Cousins Meet
Rewriting History - Without Jews
BOOKS DONATED TO THE JGSLA LIBRARY
THE LOST TRAIN
A LETTER TO THE FORWARD
TRACING A FAMILY SECRET
MY BRUSH WITH YIDDISH
PROOF ARGUMENT
Original Articles in the Summer 2008 Issue
Note: Listed below each article heading are active links to sites referenced in
the article.
The Quest for the Grave Location of David Oppenheimer
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The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Brooklyn Jewish Cemeteries
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
JGS Washington State Cemetery Project
Google Books Search
Ancestry.com
Italian Genealogy Society of New York
My Life with Jolson
1. International Al Jolson Society
Genealogical Resources at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Library and Archives
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Werner L. Frank, author
Online Catalog for the Simon Wiesental Center Library
Simon Wiesenthal Library
Museum of Tolerance web site
Searching for Your Roots in Belarus
1. All Belarus Database on JewishGen
Alternate method: From www.JewishGen.org , Click
Belarus, then on the Jewish Gen Belarus Database
2. Belarus Research Projects
Alternate method: From www.JewishGen.org , Click
then on Belarus, then on the support the work of the
3. Shtetl
Alternate method: From www.JewishGen.org , Click
Projects and Activitists then on Belarus
on Database, then on
on Special Interst Groups,
Belarus SIG
on ShtetLinks under
Why the 72 Year Rule for U.S. Census Privacy?
1. Hearing (9 Apr 1973) on public closure of census release
2. Hearing (2 Aug 1976) on public closure of census release
3. Text of the law on NARA with info on 72 year privacy
A Journey into Rabbinic Research
1. Pilpul Entry in widipedia
2. 1784 GDL records for rabbinic lines
Book Review
1. Inmate Search database or signed copies of Ron Arons book
SephardicGen
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SephardicGen
Databases at
Databases at
Consolidated
Home Page
SephardicGen
SephardicGen - French pages
Index of Sephardic Surnames (CISS)
Reunion of Trochenbrod Descendents
1. Rose Blitzstein Elbaum, author
2. Beit-Tal website (English)
Articles without web references
1. The Power of the Internet in Genelaogical Research
2. Jewish Immgrants in Mexican Border Crossings, 1903-1957
Original Articles in the Spring 2008 Issue
Note: Listed below each article heading are active links to sites referenced in
the article.
South African Jewish Genealogy
1. Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter records
2. Southern African Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group (SA-SIG)
3. Southern African Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group (SA-SIG)
Resources
4. National Archives of South Africa
5. LDS Family History Library Microfilms
6. Summary of key documents of interest when going South African Genealogy
Research
7. SA Jewish Rootsbank
8. IAJGS Cemetary Project database
9. Bibliography of publications of interest for Southern Africa
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland
1. JRI-Poland homepage
2. JRI-Poland patronymic webpage
3. Information on Monitor Polski (offical legislative newspaper of Polish
Government)
It's not all on the Internet
1. Cyndi's List (listing of all things genealogical on the net)
2. Center for Jewish History
3. National Archives and Record Administration
4. Library and Archives Canada (LAC) 5. Chicago Jewish Archives (Clike on
"Collections and Research")
6. Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
7. American Jewish Archives
8. Library of Congress
9. American Jewish Historical Society. The AJHS Manuscript Catalog.
10. National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS).
11. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).
Looted Art
1. Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.
2. Resolution on Nazi-Era Looted Art
3. Holocaust Claims Processing Office of the New York State Banking
Department
4. Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal Project
5. Lost Art Internet Database (mostly European institutions)
6. contact Karen Franklin
Israel Festival 2008
1. Festival Information
2. Volunteer to work for JGSLA at the Festival
New Tools at Beth Hatefutsoth
1. Beth Hatefutsoth Homepage
Our European Vacation
1. Contact at the Latvian Historical Archives
Tracing Adopted Mishpocha
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Bastard Nation
Bastard Nation glossary
World Catalog listing of libraries
Cyndi's List
International Soundex Reunion Registry
Why have I done and continue to do Genealogical research?
1. Barry Mann's genealogy
A Little History and My Discoveries to Date
1. Information on neighborhood Joodserad - the Jewish governing council
SCGS Jamboree 2008
1. Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree
IAJGS Conference Chicago 2008
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Internation Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Chicago
Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland
Types of Records available in Chicago
Chicago Vital Records information
Chicago Residence Records information
Life in Jewish Chicago
Chicago Arrival Records
8. Chicago 'old country' information
9. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
10. Bibliography on Jewish Genealogy
11. Bibliography on Jewish Chicago
12. Bibliography on general genealogy including Chicago
13. The Spertus Institute of Jewish Study
14. Bibliography on general genealogy including Chicago
15. Asher Library
16. Chicago Jewish Archives, including the Chicago Jewish Historical Society
e-mail
17. Newberry Library
18. Catalog of the Chicago Public Library, including the Harold Washington
Public Library
19. Cook County Clerk of Court
20. National Archives (NARA) locations
Resources at the Los Angeles Family History Library
1. LA Family History Library homepage
Articles without web references
1. Micrography as Jewish Folk-Art
2. Origination of the Jewish Branch of the Reichard Family
Original Articles in the Fall-Winter 2007, Issue (Vol. 27, No. 3/4)
Companion Website Article on “Museums, Large and Small”
Recreating a Place
How to document the families and Jewish community life of a town using many
types of records and sources.
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Shtetl Memories by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
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Introduction by Sonia Hoffman, JGSLA
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A Town-Wide Genealogy: the Ariogala Shtetl Research Group by David and
Sonia Hoffman
11 Jewish Community or Kahal Records
12 A Tale of Two Shtetls by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
16 Melitopol and the Kumok Family Records: Alternative Sources of Data by
Victor Kumok
21 Population Studies in Minsk Gubernia in the 18th and 19th Centuries by
Vitaly Charny
25 Kletsk: A Town Without Memories by Henry Neugass
28 Museums Large and Small <http://www.jgsla.org> for a special report
29 Picture Perfect by Mike Marvins
Analyzing the Data
Methods to analyze data and integrate databases to reconstruct family and
community data
32 Tombstone Identification Through Database Merging: A Tool for the Virtual
Reconstitution of Vanished Jewish Communities by Daniel Wagner
35 Given Name Analysis: Single Surname Research and Community Genealogies by
Israel Pickholtz
Twentieth Century Research—Holocaust Memorials and Memoirs
Yizkor books, translation projects, biographical memoirs, town associations,
innovative ways to uncover the past and build a bridge to the future.
38 Yizkor Books by Joyce Field
42 Myślenice: A Future from the Jewish Past by Martin Cahn
45 Missing a Shtetl by Werner L. Frank, JGSLA
48 Memories of a Polish Shtetl: Zawady by Joel Petlin
51 A Short History of Kobylnik’s Jews by Meyer Swirsky
55 The Kobylnik-Myadel Society in Israel by Meyer Swirsky
56 A Mitzvah: Reconstruction of Jewish Cemeteries
57 Memories of Days Gone By by Yitzhak Gordon z’l
Publication
Finding ways to preserve and share history.
58 Creating a Shtetlpage by Susana Bloch
59 Overview of a Shtetlinks Site: Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Ukraine by
Chaim Freedman
61 Preserving Their History: Guardian of Names and Places by Eilat Gordin
Levitan
62 Two Torah Scrolls from Klatovy: A Slide Show by Jeffrey Kohn
67 What Should I Do With All This Stuff?
Original Articles in the Summer 2007, Issue (Vol. 27. No. 2)
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Just the Facts by Nancy Holden, Editor
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Write for Roots-Key Special Issue Fall/Winter 2007
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President’s Message by Sandy Malek
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Beshert by Barbara Algaze, JGSLA
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From Los Angeles to Leeds: Recreating a Family via the Internet by Jonny
Joseph
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The Facts and the Back Story by Nancy Biederman and Nancy Holden
10 Aron and Chaim Shapiro—The Back Story from “The Founders: The Story of the
City of Hope” by Bonnie Rogers
12 Reconnecting with Kishinev by Jerry Touger
14 Sierpc, Poland My Ancestral Home by Gerald Simon, JGSLA
16 80629: A Mengele Experiment by Jack Oran
25 Review by Marion Werle, JGSLA My Future is in America; Autobiographies of
Eastern European JewishImmigrants by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer
26 Networking: The Key To Successful Genealogy by Werner L. Frank, JGSLA
Original Articles in the Spring 2007, Issue (Vol. 27. No. 1)
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Reconstructing a Family Tree: One family at a Time by Nancy Holden, Editor
2
Book Review by Rose Feldman
3
President’s Message by Sandy Malek
4
Finding Your Jewish Roots in Scotland by Harvey L Kaplan
6
A Journey to Latvia by Lois Ogilby Rosen, JGSLA
11 The Bloody Days of the Czar by Isadore Tiep. Contributed by Larry Booth,
JGSLA
13 The Wild West: Searching for Relatives in Deadwood, South Dakota by Marion
Hattenbach Bernstein
16 Happy Hunting: Searching for Family Burial Records by Steve Lasky
18 Searching the New York State Censuses: 1905-1925 for the City of New York by
Joel Weintraub
19 A Jewish Boyhood in Konotop: A Typical Ukrainian Village by Yosef Hillel
Trifon, (1894-1980). Contributed by Bob Sherins, M.D., JGSLA
24 HIAS: Solving Genealogical Mysteries by Valery Bazarov
Original Articles in the Fall-Winter, 2006 Issue (Vol. 26, #3/4)
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Many Threads by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
2
Jewish Heritage Research Group (JHRG in Belarus) posts by Yuri Dorn
3
Presidents' Message by Nancy Biederman and Sonia Hoffman
4
Detecting Faults and Errors in Genealogical Sources by Werner L.
Frank, JGSLA
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The Yad Vashem Database: Next Steps by Rose Feldman
8
B+ Blood: Discovering an Asian Gene in Jewish Inheritance by Robert S.
Sherins, M.D., JGSLA
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Three Methods for Capturing Burial Data for JOWBR by Ada Green
15
Miracle Miracle by Foster C. Kawaler
16
Szabtay Bliacher: Actor of the Yiddish Theater by Celia Male
17
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn-Book Review by Pamela Weisberger, JGSLA
18
Judaica Sound Archives: Rescuing, Preserving & Sharing a HeritageNathan Tineroff, Project Director
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What the Afghan Dog Found by Milly Charon
21
Los Angeles Pioneer by Mark W. Gordon
21
A Boyle Heights Boyhood Remembered by Marc Yablonka
22
BIALYGen-The Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group by Mark Halpern,
JGSLA
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Facts from the Stacks-Recent Donations from our Members by Barbara
Algaze, JGSLA
Original Articles in the Summer, 2006 Issue (Vol. 26, #2)
Why a Special Issue on Napoleon?
Our goal as genealogical researchers is to take our families back in history.
History itself is a major clue to their destiny. And the stories they left
behind take us to the records. Whether this is a blind alley or the gold at the
end of the rainbow, we do not know until we start.
By recording your stories here, we are laying a trail that allows you to open
your history books. The precise dates and locations of Russian and French units
are recorded in books and on internet sites. Due to space constraints, we have
not put in the exact date to accompany these stories. Cossacks from the Ukraine,
Saxons, the Polish Cavalry, the famous commanders Kutuzof, Ney, Oudinot and
MacDonald all had their say in the lives of our ancestors. From Riga to Moscow,
from Warsaw to Mogilev, follow their trail.
Prelude to War
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Documenting Family History Stories in 1812 by David B. Hoffman, JGLSA
Napoleon’s Sanhedrin suggested by Hadassah Lipsius and Andre Convers
Napoleon or the Czar by Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Napoleon and Rabbi Moshe Meisels of Vilna by Lainey Melnick
Jewish Soldiers in Napoleon’s Army: Prisoner of War by Mathilde
Two Brothers from France by Barbara Kaufman
The Brothers Mushkat by Barbara Mushkat
Napoleon’s Finest by Janice Sellers
Jewish Soldiers in Napoleon’s Army by Pierre Lautmann
Charles Joseph Minard: Mapping Napoleon’s March by John Corbett
Simon Scheuer: Jewish Soldier in Napoleon’s Army by Paul King
The Start of the Russian Campaign by Rabbi Jeffrey A. Marx, JGSLA
An Archivist Looks at Family Legends by Vitalija Gircyte
Letter to Editor from Jerome Seligsohn
Napoleon’s Campaign of 1812 Map and Timeline
Tilsit by Ellen Jacobson, Merkine by Yale Reisner
Fact or Apocrypha by Sheldon Benjamin,
Recommended Reading by Robert E Mitchell
Search Google by Ted Hyman
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Commodore Hornblower by C.S. Forester
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Road to Moscow by Nigel Nicolson,
Pokroy (Pakruojis ) told by Adam Katzeff
Napoleon’s Jewish Mistress by Sarah L. Meyer
Chorostkow, Eastern Galicia by Marc D. Machtinger, Esq.,\
Sompolno, Poland by Rica B. Goldberg
Jedwabne by Saul Marks,
Kaunas to Riga, Salant by Chaim Freedman
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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Alexander I and the Jews by David Meltser and Vladimir Levin
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Search “Napoleonic History” on JewishGen: An Index
March to Moscow
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Where He Marched by Chester Cohen, JGSLA
Simnas, Suwalki by Shirley Holton
Shavli (Siauliai) by Judy Segal,
Vilkovishk by George Mason
Zagare by Mark Gordon
How our Family Got its Name by Barbara Meyers
Olkienik (Valkininkai) by Marcia Pailet-Abrams Jaffe
Olkieniki by Rieke Nash
Lost Jewish Worlds—Olkieniki by Rahel Grosbaum
The Legend of the Family Plaine by Patricia Prinz,
Dusiat or Birzai, Lithuania by Olga Zabludoff,
Eishyshok Horse Fair from There Once was a World by Yaffa Eliach
Raguva/Troskunai by Ruth Kovitz Ellin
Svencionys by Marjorie Rosenfeld
Postovy by Andi Ziegelman
Russian Strategy, Assault by Richard Sapon-White
Retreat from Moscow
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The Jalowayski Odyssey by Irene Jalowayski
28
Berezino: Recollections of Matthew Elkin submitted by his daughter,
Frances A. Bock, Ph.D.
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The Return of the Jewish Volunteer painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
29
One Soldier—Many Stories: Grazutis/Volpe by E. E. Blecker,
Gershon Wolpe by Goldie Silverman
Nadel/Volpe by Eileen Douglas
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Count Nikolai Tolstoy’s Loyal Soldier by Norman Zelvin
Moscow by Ilene Kanfer Murray
French Troops Smashed Near Koidanovo by Les Evenchick
The Battle of Smolensk by Andi Ziegelman
Smolensk to Bobr by Melvin B. Redmount,
Napoleon’s Coat by Neil Rosenstein,
Napoleon Rescued by Aviva M Neeman
Every Turn a Brick Wall! by Harold Krom
The Bug Division, The Retreat from Moscow by Jenni Buch
Drohitczyn by Esther Buchsbaum
Svislovitch by Michael M. Miller
“The Jewish Community of Borisov” by Yehudah Leib Lipkind—translated
from Hebrew by Israel Pickholtz
Bobruisk by Steve Jaffe
In Remembrance—Excerpts from: sefer zikaron le-kehilat Bobruisk uveneteha
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For Further Reading suggested by Melvin Redmount, Saul Isseroff, Leslie
Reich, Jonina Duker
The Lonely Road Home
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Napoleon 1812 by Nigel Nicolson
Gosciniec Napoleonski by Mike Glazer
Veliouna by Todd Lerner, Rasienai
Kovno by Deborah Hatch, Myadel
Belarus by Arye Geskin
Keidan by Peter Arnold
Telz suggested by Chaim Freedman,
Distortion and Disbelief! by Bramie Lenhoff
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They Are Not Forgotten by Joseph H. Miller
Original Articles in the Spring, 2006 Issue (Vol. 26, #1)
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Editor’s Notes
President’s Message
Dear Bubbe by David Weinstein, JGSLA
A Visit to the Ancient Cemetery in Tiberias by Larry Tauber
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Deciphering Cemetery Headstones by Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
12
Bat Mitzvah in Hohenzollern by Sam Zivi, JGSLA
13
Six Degrees of Separation by Deena Goldenberg Gordon, JGSLA
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In Search of the Grandparents I Never Knew by Arnie Schwartz, JGSLA
18
The Word “Jew” as a Name-Component in Ancestral European Towns by
Alexander Sharon
23
Deadly Grade Crossing Again Takes Heavy Toll Researchedby Nancy Holden
JGSLA
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A Sympathetic Lithuanian by Larry and Claire Booth, JGSLA
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The Use of Lithuanian Partisans to Carry Out the Murder of Jews in
Lithuania: Background Notes
Original Articles in the Winter, 2005 Issue (Vol. 25, #4)
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“Editor’s Notes: Unforgotten Moments in Time
“Traces of Ananiev by Andrea Massion
“Reprinted from Roots-Key:
“Cemetery Project Update by Ted Gostin
“Home of Peace Cemetery
“Beth Olam Cemetery Dedicates Holocaust Garden
“The Hebrew Benevolent Society
“The Origin of the Home of Peace Cemetery
“The Home of Peace Cemetery
Chevra Kadisha Burial Society
“The Mt. Carmel Cemetery Project by Stephanie Weiner
“Overheard on the Internet
“Visiting Cemeteries posted by Joseph Fibel
“Cemetery Customs posted by David Simon Bandory
“Cemetery Records Accuracy posted by Judith Lipmanson
“Cemetery Records Accuracy posted by Sally Bruckheimner
“What's New in Jewish Records Indexing-Poland by Stanley Diamond
“ Bank Records: A Gold Mine of Genealogical Information by Susannah E.
“ Lost and Found: Relatives in America by Jan Meisels Allen JGSLA
“ Mystery of the Cane Handle: Three Important Themes by Karen Franklin
“Reports from the Las Vegas IAJGS Conference by Sally Goodman JGSLA
“State Archives: How To Use Them by John Philip Colletta
“Using Nineteenth Century Newspapers by John Philip Colletta,
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“Beyond the SS5 by Jane Neff Rollins JGSLA
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“Facts from the Stacks by Barbara Algaze, JGSLA Librarian
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With Bands Playing and Rockets Glare by David Fox JGSLA
350 Years of Jewish Experience by Rabbi Thomas Louckheim
Go West Young Man by Nancy Holden JGSLA
The American Dream: Short Pieces by Jane Neff Rollins JGSLA
The Tale of a Tailor by Bunny Levine JGSLA
My Father, the Cowboy by Budd Levine JGSLA
The Sephardim in Colonial America by Bob Hattem
“The Book” quote from The Grandees by Stephen Birmingham
It Runs in the Family Funnily by Darla Stone
Farming in Wyoming at the Turn of the Century. Andrea Massion JGSLA
Solomon Star by Lew Holzman JGSLA
Henry Cohn: Gold Rush Pioneer by Arnold Zweig
From Trebisov to Mars in Two Generations by Stephanie Nordlinger, JGSLA
From Rags to Riches: by Ruth Glosser JGSLA
How Our Great Grandfather Won the Civil War for the North by Paul King
Milt Gabler, Storekeeper of the Jazz World by David Hoffman JGSLA
And That as They Say is History: The Straus Family by Joan Adler
Last Will and Testament: The Hymes-Prince Family by Judy Archer
Jewish Identity and Southern Culture: Bibliographic Essay by Patrick
A Sock in the Foot is Worth Two in the Jaw by Judith Berlowitz
Nathan Feldman: Number Four by Ellen Stepak
I Pledge Allegiance to My Flag by Ann Harris JGSLA
Becoming an American by Hal Bookbinder JGSLA
Miriam Kantor Survives the Sinking of the Titanic
Thankful Eyes are Sparkling by Mary Kasindorf
Mary Kasindorf by David Hoffman JGSLA
Sid Kasindorf and the Nazi U-Boats by David Hoffman JGSLA
Searching for Schulman by Vicki Tashman JGSLA
Remembering Stone Street Hill: The War Years by Carol Nahin JGSLA
From the Scrap Business to the Rag Trade by Barry Seltzer JGSLA
An American Rabbi: The Life of Rabbi Nathan Tauber by Larry Tauber
In the Air as War Begins: A Flyer’s Letter Home by Arthur Hoffman
An America Hero: Varian Fry
The 350th Anniversary of New York’s First Jewish Settlers by Harry Macy
Membership Meeting December 1, 2005 at the Skirball Cultural Center
Facts from the Stacks by Barbara Algaze JGSLA
Original Articles in the Spring, 2005 Issue (Vol. 25, #1)
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“To Whom It May Concern by Nancy Holden (Editor’s Notes)
“Facts from the Stacks: Holocaust Related Sources - Barbara Algaze
“Prenumerantn: A Valuable Source for Shtetl Research - Tom Chatt
“You’ve Done All the Research - Now What? - Adar Belinkoff
“Dad’s Letters - Marion Diamond
“Kobylnik Is Liberated - Meyer Svirsky
“What’s in a Name? - Sonia Hoffman
“<http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter> - Fran Bock
“Overheard on the Internet: Sources—A Cautionary Note
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“Searching: Alperovitch from Kurenetz - Andi Alperovich Ziegelman
“Aron’s Business Travels - Carolyn Rosenstein
“The Interlocking Melbourne Russians - Chaim Freedman, Julie Ruth
“Construction of Memory - Regina Kopilevich
“Do You Like Noodle Kugel? - Wendy Holden
“Subject: Trip to Ukraine - Susan Tumarkin Goodman
“A Poem of Remembrance contributed - Jan Meisels Allen
Original Articles in the Winter, 2004 Issue (Vol. 24, #4)
1 Our Mothers, Our Daughters—Women in the Lives of Men (Editor’s Notes)
4 Seventeen Generations of Rabbis and Scholars - Nancy Holden
8 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania Project: Challenges in Researching 18th Century
Records – Sonia and David Hoffman
11 Recent JGSLA Library Acquisitions
12 “Very Nice Man” - Harold Swidler
13 The Memoirs of Rokhel Luban translated - Chaim Freedman
19 With the Intention of Leaving for America - Heinrich Yesianu
23 Searching for Riva Gelfand - Alberta Blumin
24 Memorials of Vanished Communities (MVC) in Israel - Ellen Stepak
27 Dutch Jewish Genealogy - Beverly Shulster Beiman
Original Articles in the Summer/Fall, 2004 Issue (Vol. 24, #2/3) (double issue)
1 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue—The Way We Were (Editor’s Notes)
3 Genealogy Can Change Your Life - Sonia Hoffman
4 Herb Mautner on the Founding of JGSLA
5 The JGS and Me - Heidi Auerbach Farkash
6 From Ten, the Many - Regina Spiszman
7 JGSLA Early Days - Michael Hirschfeld
8 Twenty-Five Years, Kinnehora - Chet Cohen
10 JGSLA 1979-2004 - Hal Bookbinder
10 The Hidden Side - Susan Stock
11 The Beginning and a Discovery - Agnes Branch Pearlman
12 You Are Invited for a Meeting with the KGB - Miriam Weiner
13 Chicago - Marsha Epstein
14 I Found the Genealogical Needle in a Haystack - Werner L. Frank
18 Return to Ramnicu Sarat - Les Berman
20 Rebecca - Harry Shragg, M.D.
21 If It Hadn’t Been For. . . - Sally Goodman
23 From “Z” to “A” - Rabbi Lennard Thal
23 Interviewing for Posterity - Don Goodman
24 “Reviving” the Kezmarok Jewish Cemetery - Madeleine R. Isenberg
25 Where Did It Get Me? - Heidi Auerbach Farkash
26 Finding Jennie - Barbara Algaze
27 The Way We Were—The Way We Looked - Nancy Collier Holden
29 Bobby Furst’s Scrap Book
30 Ruth Glosser’s Photo Album
32 Every Picture Tells a Story - Andrea Massion
34 Jan Meisels Allen Family Photographs
36 Dear Miss Holden - Hans Colsman
37 Seek and You Shall Find: Memories for Our Children - Faith Ann Goldman
38 Why Los Angeles by Glenn Gorelick
40 The Solomons of Africa - Robert Sherins, M.D., Beryle Solomon Buchman
44 Beshert: It Is Meant To Be - Judie Rice
46 Windmills, Tulips, and Chocolate - Barbara Algaze
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A Skeleton in the Closet - David Einsiedler
I Confess - David Einsiedler
An Exercise in Futility - Henry Goldfield
Aunts and Uncles and Thirty-Two Cousins - Barbara Algaze
A Word to the Wise - Barry Seltzer
Memories Are Made of Love - Deena Goldenberg-Gordon
Mash in the Attic, A Still in the Bedroom - Alma Lasher
The Internet Opens a Door - Jan Meisels Allen
How We Found Our Weisberg Relatives - Bobby Furst
Genealogy Is More Than a Hobby - Susan Fisher Boyer
The Life of Moses Bruml as Related by Himself submitted - Susan Fisher Boyer
By Any Other Name - Adar Belinkoff
You Got To Have a Little Mazel - Herb Mautner
False Leads, False Hopes: A Cautionary Tale - Ann Harris
In Memoriam: Melody Katz
Our Crowd
In the Beginning - Delaine Winkler Shane
The Way We Were, Milestones Along the Way (Timeline)
Original Articles in the Spring, 2004 Issue (Vol. 24, #1)
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Everywhere the silent forests…”a world without Jews” – Nancy Holden
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From the East, West, and South: Documenting the Foundation of Jewish
Communities – Kevin Brook
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The Columbus Enigma – M.I. Bob Hattem
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Sephardic Traces – Debbi Korman
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Return to Skalat – Pamela Weisberger
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Rabbinical Research and DNA Testing: the Auerbach Surname Project – Toby
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There’s a Rabbi There Somewhere – Marjorie Halpern Holden
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Isidor & Jennie: Where They Walked – Sid White
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Dear Cousin: I am Alter and Zelda’s great-granddaughter… - Caren Turner
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Southeastern Ukraine: Jewish Colonies 2002 – Mel Comisarow
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A Trip to My Grandfather’s Birth Place – Ed and Renee Sokolski
Original Articles in the Winter, 2003 Issue (Vol. 23, #4)
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Our Rabbis, Our Teachers - David Einsiedler
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The Menorah Tree - David Einsiedler
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Menorah rendering - Jon Collier
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Ethical Wills - Dorothy Kohanski
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The True Meaning of Mishpacha - Peter Lande
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The New Story Tellers - Nancy Holden
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Russian Archival Research: Tracking family in the Russian Empire - Sonia
and David Hoffman
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A Future Vision: At the Turn of the Century, Jews Invested in the Holy
Land - Schelly Talalay Dardashti
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Archival Holdings in Belarus: Regional and District Holding According to
Chronological Period - Dr. Oleg Perzashkevich
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The Mystique of Odessa - Bob Weinberg
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An Accidental Discovery: History of the Jewish Community of Vienna Robert S. Sherins, M.D.
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Captured German World War II Photographs - Jan Meisels Allen
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The Polish census of 1765 and 1766 - Harry D. Boonin
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Moises Ville - Mario N. Jeifetz
Original Articles in the Summer/Fall, 2003 Issue (Vol. 23, #2 & #3) (double
issue)
The Early Jewish Presence in Los Angeles 1845-1945 - Nancy Holden
President's Message...Migrating West - Sonia Hoffman
The Kingsbaker-Loew-Sunderland Family of Los Angeles - David Meyer
Jews in Early Santa Monica - David Hoffman
Michael Levy, Pioneer - M. I. Bob Hattem
Sarah Vasen M.D., First Jewish Woman Doctor in Los Angeles - Julie Beardsley
Social Action, Yiddish Culture and Zionism: Leo Blass and the Eastern
European Influence David Hoffman & Sonia Hoffman
The Genesis of Sephardic Jewry in California: Backdrop for an Elite Culture
in Judaism M. I. Bob Hattem
From Billipili to Los Angeles - Debra Katz
The Founders: The Story of the City of Hope - Bonnie Rogers
City of Hope: A Love Story - Sonia Hoffman
Boyle Heights and Beyond: A Personal History - Harriet Shapiro Rochlin
Roosevelt High School Students Protest - Abraham Hoffman
Mother's Day 2003 - Suzanne Cohan Lange
My L.A. - Jackie Schwartz
Girl Wins Herald and Express Oratory Contest: Mildred Blass 1st of Sex to
Head List
The Lake, The Pits and Me - Don Goodman
Habonim and Hashomer Hatzair - Adar Belinkoff
Companion Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~nholdeneditor
Original Articles in the Fall, 2002 Issue (Vol. 22, #3)
The Challenges and Hopes - Genealogical Resources in Poland - Gayle
Schlissel Riley
Publishing Your Family History - Cathy Flamholtz
Do You Use Jewishgen? - Debbi Korman
New Vital Records Legislation in California - Jan Meisels Allen
Genealogists Collaborate to Confirm Family Lore - by David B. Hoffman
Original Articles in the Summer, 2002 Issue (Vol. 22, #2)
1910 Census Index for New York City - Debbi Korman
Researching the Uncommon Name - Debbi Korman
Original Articles in the Spring, 2002 Issue (Vol. 22, #1)
Obtaining pre-1906 New York Naturalization Records - Sonia Nayle
City Directories on Microfilm at the LA Public Library - Barry Silver
Exploring the Ariogala (Lithuania) Cemetery - Sonia Hoffman
Original Articles in the Winter, 2001-2002 Issue (Vol. 21, #4)
Search Strategies for the 1930 U.S. Census - Joel Weintraub
Returning Home (visit to Muckachevo, Ukraine) - Samuel Katz
London 2001: News from the International Jewish Genealogy Conference - Sonia
Hoffman
The Levanda Index: A LegalResource on Jewish Life in the Pale - Michael
Steinore
Forgotten Streets of NY - Debbi Korman
Original Articles in the Fall 2001 Issue (Vol. 21, #3)
Major Slovok Database Initiative - Debbi Korman
Yiddish Cowboy - Elaine Morhar
My Little Miracle - Gayle Schlissel Riley
Chiam Friedman: Lost at Sea - Sonia Hoffman
Descent from King David: "Leap of Faith" - Gary Fitleberg
Jews of the German Countryside (Book Review) - Werner L. Frank
Original Articles in the Summer, 2001 Issue (Vol. 21, #2)
Murder in Pushelat - The Ehud Barak Connection - Howard Margol
Rabbinic Genealogy - David Einsiedler
Immigration - Great Resources for Passenger Arrival Information - Debbi
Korman
Emigration via Cherbourg - Francois Chetreanu
Canadian Immigration - Form 30A - Ocean Arrivals 1919-1924 - Gary Fitleberg
Overcoming Dead Ends - Hal Bookbinder
Original Articles in the Spring, 2001 Issue (Vol. 21, #1)
Official Correspondence in the Kaunas Regional Archives as a Source of
Genealogical Data - David B. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Polish Synagogues - Gary Fitleberg
Russian Telephone Directories - Marion Diamond
Hungarian/Slovak Resources - Debbi Korman
ViewMate - New Feature of JewishGen - Debbi Korman
Original Articles in the Winter, 2000/2001 Issue (Vol. 20, #4)
Resources for Austria and Czech Republic - Debbi Korman
1910 Census Tips - Geraldine Frey Winerman
Jewish Genealogy Numerology - Gary Fitleberg
Amazing Jewish Website! - Carolyn Rosenstein
Original Articles in the Fall, 2000 Issue (Vol. 20, #3)
Sherlock Holmes and the Swedish Connection - Jane Rollins
Using Online Library Catalogs in Your Research - George Morgan
A Mitzvah Always Pays Off - Gary Fitleberg
Original Articles in the Summer, 2000 Issue (Vol. 20, #2)
Index to Roots-Key Volumes 16-19 - Debbi Korman
JGSLA Shoah Foundation Tour - Sonia Hoffman
A Jewish Gen Tale...An Unknown Cousin Found - Phoebe Kassenoff, Orange Co.
JGS
Original Articles in the Spring, 2000 Issue (Vol. 20, #1)
Directory of Craftsmen & Shopkeepers in Hungary, 1891 - Debbi Korman
Austrian Census for Galicia - Gayle Riley
Finding Jewish Family Records in Croatia - Ed Zweiback
...New Insight into ... a Researcher's Family in Wyoming - Andrea Massion
Still Missing a Link, But Having Fun - Harold Friedman, Orange Co. JGS
Original Articles in the Winter, 1999-2000 Issue (Vol. 19, #4)
Jekabpils, Latvia - Gary Feitelberg
Survey of Jewish Latvian Sites - Gary Feitelberg
Remember, Never Give Up! - Gloria Sondheim
Languages of the Jews - David Einseidler
Original Articles in the Fall, 1999 Issue (Vol. 19, #3)
Sarajevo Cemetery - Gary Feitleberg
Odessa, Ukraine Research - Dorothy Kohanski, Orange Co. JGS
A Visit to the State Historical Archives in Vilnius, Lithuania - Sonia and
David Hoffman
Memorial Man (Staszow, Poland) - Gary Feitleberg
The Key Unlocks (Zivi of Haigerloch, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) - Sam Zivi
Original Articles in the Summer, 1999 Issue (Vol. 19, #2)
City Directories Updated - Barry Silver
Help to Make Your Own Luck - Debbi Korman
Traveling Need Not Hamper Research - Nancy Holden, Orange Co. JGS
Put Medical Information in Your Family Tree - Dorothy Kohanski, Orange Co.
JGS
Genealogical Clues in Czarist Decrees - Michael Steinore
"Jewish Budapest, Monuments, Rites, History", Kinga Frojimovics, et al Book Review by Debbi Korman
Original Articles in the Spring, 1999 Issue (Vol. 19, #1)
Cemetery Research - Marge Dallis
Inquisition Resources and Other Spanish Records - Debbi Korman
Korczak/Goldszmit Connection - Martha Eisenberg Lasser
Submitting Names to Yad VaShem - Debbi Korman
Luck Was With Me - Jean Ershler Schatz
Litvak SIG Develops New Relationships with Kaunas Regional Archives - David
Hoffman and Davida Noyek Handler
Revision Lists in the New LitvakSIG Online Lithuanian Database - David
Hoffman
"Jewish Autonomy in Poland and Lithuania Until 1648", Shmuel Cygielman Book Review by Gary Fitleberg
Original Articles in the Winter, 1998/1999 Issue (Vol. 18, #3)
A Mitzvah Always Pays Off - Gary Fitleberg
A Trip to the German Rhineland - Fred Levy
Let Them Come to You - Arthur Nitikman
Reunion Tips - Dorothy Kohanski
Original Articles in the Fall, 1998 Issue (Vol. 18, #2)
British Research Resources - Ena Jacobs
Reflections on Chai (18th Annual Seminar) - Herman and Hessy Merkel
Jewish Genealogical Research in Hungary - Debbi Korman
Researching Holocaust Victims and Survivors - Dibbi Korman
Report on Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting - Deena Gordon
Solving a Yiddish/English Translation Puzzle - Hershl Hartman
A Journey to Radom - Marc Weinman
Dowry in Galicia - Cindy King
Finding My Cousin - Grace McElhiney
Helping a Cousin "Prove" Jewish Descent - Dorothy Dellar Kohanski
Dowry in Galicia - Cindy King
Original Articles in the Spring, 1998 Issue (Vol. 18, #1)
Hollywood Chai Seminar - Speakers List - Ted Gostin
Lesser-Known Resources at UCLA - Ted Gostin
UCLA University Research Library - A Personal Assessment - Marion Werle
Bookstores for Judaica in Greater Los Angeles - Ted Gostin
City Directories on Microfilm - Barry Silver
Unique Documents from Southern Germany - Louise Kopulsky
Community and Organizational Records - James Gross
Original Articles in the Winter, 1997/1998 Issue (Vol. 17, #4)
JGSLA Motions (actions taken by JGSLA Board, 1/97-8/97)
International Address Book - Bosnia and Hercegovina, Canada, Croatia,
Estonia, Germany, Israel, Macedonia, Montenegro, Servia, and Slovenia
Various articles and registration information about Hollywood Chai, the 18th
Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy
Poland and Hungary Re-Visited - Marge Dallis
Book Review of 'The Mezuzah in the Madaonna's Foot' by Trudy Alexy - Carolyn
Rosenstein
Original Articles in the Fall, 1997 Issue (Vol. 17, #3)
Am I Ashkenazic? - Garry Fitleberg
1910 Census Help - Samuel Kraus
Researching Roots in Ukraine - Shirley Rose
here is Miklos Reismann - Debbi Korman
A Medical Family Tree - David Einsiedler
Original Articles in the Summer, 1997 Issue (Vol. 17, #2)
International Address Book - Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Macedonai,
Moldova, Poland, Slovakia
A Hard to Find, Find (getting past dead ends) - Sandy Zimmerman
Mystery Photographs - Debbi Korman
JGSLA Microfiche Collection at the LA Family History Library - Les Amer
The "Yekke" Museum in Tefen - Herb Mautner
Manes Had a Brother in Chicago - Debbi Korman
Original Articles in the Spring, 1997 Issue (Vol. 17, #1)
Research Techniques for Lithuania - Sandy Zimmerman
The Oldest Jewish Dynasty: A 3400 Year line of Descendants - David
Einseidler
Your Ancestor's Cemetery: Where to Find It and What to Do When You're There
- David Joel Priever
Research in Great Britain - Judy Wolkovitch
Members' Success Stories: INS Success - Judy Wolkovitch
Original Articles in the Winter, 1996-97 Issue (Vol. 16, #4)
Researching FBI Files - Liz Appell Bernstein
Research Techniques for Poland - Sandy Zimmerman
A Center for Jewish History - David Einsiedler
Family Trees in JGSLA Archives - Herb Mautner
Kollel America Tifereth Yerushalayim - Gayle Schlissel Riley
Original Articles in the Fall, 1996 Issue (Vol. 16, #3)
International Address Book - addresses in Austria, Chech Republic, Romania &
Lithuania
Successful U.S. Research Techniques - Sandy Zimmerman
1848 Jewish Census of Obuda, Budapest, Hungary - Debbi Korman
On Line Major Resources - Herb Van Brink
New York, New York, What's in a Name? - Gary Fitleberg
City Directories on Microfilm - Updated by Barry Silver
"Memoirs From the Warsaw Ghetto" - Book Review by David Einsiedler
Original Articles in the Summer, 1996 Issue (Vol. 16, #2)
Genealogical Research Facilities in the Los Angeles Area
JGSLA Completes Mt. Zion Cemetery Index - Ted Gostin
Russian Gubernia at the Turn of the Century - Hal Bookbinder
Journey to Ancestral Towns (Nowe Miasto, Raciaz & Pavlovce Nad Uhom) - Debbi
Korman
Multilingual Translator Recommended - Carolyn Rosenstein
Jewish Genealogy-A Cultural Perspective - David Einsiedler
CD-ROM Telephone Directories - Hal Bookbinder
Original Articles in the Spring, 1996 Issue (Vol. 16, #1)
City Directories at the LA Public Library - Barry Silver
The Jewish Community of Alsace, Part II - Dan Leeson
Surname Book Offers - Kenneth Stern
California Public Agencies as a Genealogical Source - Debbi Korman
Researching 20th Century Immigration Records - David Abrahams
Cemeteries in Presov, Slovakia - Debbi Korman
Jewish Genealogy on the World Wide Web - Ted Gostin
Original Articles in the Winter, 1995-96 Issue (Vol. 15, #4)
97 Orchard Street, The Tenement Museum - Gerry Winerman
The Jewish Community of Alsace, Part I - Dan Leeson
Fathers of Jewish Genealogy, Part V - David Einsiedler
Eastern European Maps Available on the Internet - Debbi Korman
Original Articles in the Fall, 1995 Issue (Vol. 15, #3)
A Journey Through a Family Heritage Book - Debbi Korman
The Pale of Settlement - Hal Bookbinder
Original Articles in the Summer, 1995 Issue (Vol. 15, #2)
Polish-Jewish Records at the Family History Library - Ted Gostin
New York City Research, Obtaining New York City Records - Ellen Harris
Fathers of Jewish Genealogy, When their Sources Conflict - David Einsiedler
U.S. Naturalization Laws - Hal Bookbinder
Original Articles in the Spring, 1995 Issue (Vol. 15, #1)
Translators - Liz Appell Bernstein
Just Write the Letter! - Debbi Korman
Cemetery Project Update - Ted Gostin
Networking and Persistence Pay Off - Gerry Winerman
1920 Census, a Step by Step Guide - Maida Dacher and Regina Spiszman
Fathers of Jewish Genealogy (Feivel Hirsch Wettstein, Tzvi Hirsch Horowitz David Einsiedler
How to Get the Most out of Budapest Vital Records: Marriage Records - Debbi
Korman
Finding my Ukrainian Roots - Ruth Glosser
Resources Used by the Holocaust Museum, Part II - Sandy Zimmerman
JewishGen Update - Jeffrey S. Bock
More Internet Genealogy - Herb Van Brink
Original Articles in the Winter, 1994-95 Issue (Vol. 14, #4)
Trace Ancestors with Newspapers - Miriam Weiner
Resources Used by Holocaust Museum - Sandy Zimmerman
Fishing the Internet - David Fein
Fathers of Jewish Genealogy - David Einsiedler
Genealogical Computing Magazine - Reviewed by Barry Chapman
Published Memoirs: From Shtetl to Holocaust - Miriam Weiner
Accessing the JewishGen Bulletin Board - Ted Gostin
Directory of Language Translators - Ted Gostin
Original Articles in the Fall, 1994 Issue (Vol. 14, #3)
Poland & Ukraine Genealogy Tour - Miriam Weiner
Fathers of Jewish Genealogy - David Einsiedler
Time Travel to Budapest - Debbi Korman
Historical Male Chauvinism, a genealogical perspective - James Gross
Gazetteers as a Source of Jewish Population Data - Ted Gostin
Jewish Population Data form the 1856 Gazetteer of the World
A Supreme Thrill - Steven Abrams (congrats to his cousin, Justice Steven
Breyer)
Original Articles in the Summer, 1994 Issue (Vol. 14, #2)
Unconventional Resources - Liz Bernstein
Unusual Hobby Leads to Family Reunifications - Miriam Weiner
Landsmanshaftn Burieals in the NYC Area - Flora and Herbert Gursky
Plant Your Family Tree in Israel (Dorot Genealogy Center)
Sixteen Jewish Literatures, Part II - David Einsiedler
How to Get the Most out of Budapest Vital Records - Debbi Korman
Wifely Guidance - Jerry Title
The 1994 Jerusalem Seminar, a Review - Herb Mautner
Foreign Embassies and Consulates - Hal Bookbinder
A discovery in Korolevka Rivals - Miriam Weiner
Original Articles in the Spring, 1994 Issue (Vol. 14, #1)
Old Letters Never Die - Debbi Korman
The Telephone Genealogist - Gayle Riley
Lithuanians Deported in 1941 - Rabbi Jeffrey Marx
Slovak Vital Records - Debbi Korman
Discovering Jewish Roots in Riga - Miriam Weiner
Sixteen Jewish Literatures, Part I - David Einsiedler
Jewish Geography - Miriam Weiner
Guides for Jewish-Oriented Travel in Poland - Miriam Weiner
Genealogy Bulletin Board Systems - Hal Bookbinder
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