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International Resources
Hal Bookbinder of IAJGS has steered us to the series “The Internet is Forever”. This is on Safe Computing which was published in the September issue of “Venturing into Our Past”, the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). The twenty-four articles published to date are available in a single PDF which includes an index. This resource is freely accessible using either of the following links:
http://tinyurl.com/jqvk7a6 or http://tinyurl.com/ComputingArticles
September 5, 2018
Hal Bookbinder of IAJGS has steered us to the series “The Internet is Forever”. This is on Safe Computing which was published in the September issue of “Venturing into Our Past”, the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). The twenty-four articles published […]
September 5, 2018
On November 9-10, 1938 Nazis conducted a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms throughout Germany, annexed Austria and areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia…it is known as Kristallnacht. “The Night of Broken Glass”, stems from the broken windows of 267 synagogues, homes and 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses destroyed during the action, as […]
September 5, 2018
Can anyone explain what this chart means? https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/research_resources/shared-cm-project/
September 5, 2018
This is an article from an early issue of Shem Tov that may be helpful for members researching relatives that went missing in the Holocaust. Researchers, here is the link to the Search Bureau. http://: https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/research_resources/ontario-archives/
September 5, 2018
The newly formed Jewish Genealogy Society of Brooklyn has some wonderful links to important websites. This includes # 36, Emily Anne Croom’s lengthy treatise on the importance of citing your sources in either footnotes or endnotes. If you are going to pass your research to the next generation, as you […]
September 5, 2018
https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/links/how-to-read-a-jewish-tombstone/ Headstones are important primary sources of information for family researchers. Unfortunately, not enough of us are able to interpret the Hebrew text. Here are some basics on how to decipher a tombstone or matzeyva מַצֵבָה.
September 5, 2018
David Price’s “Beginners Guide to Jewish Genealogy Websites” https://drive.google.com/file/d/105o0kf-uFcIqaOJ4A3kUzvJV7ekcTXT0/view?usp=sharing
August 30, 2018
The JDC was founded to support Jewish communities dislocated by war and natural disasters. Genealogists may be very interested in searching their Archives for family members who were uprooted as a consequence of World Wars 1 and 2, or who may have emigrated to Palestine before the creation of the […]
August 21, 2018
Millions of records are available online for those researching their ancestors from the former Russian Empire. These records are completely free to access and download. But still so many people won’t touch a link for a website in Russian. I’m trying to figure out why when Google Translate makes it […]
August 21, 2018
The Grand Duchy Research Project was begun by Sonya and David Hoffman. They identified documents relating to Jewish families who lived in the Grand Duchy region during the 17th and 18th centuries. David and Sonia Hoffman founded the Jewish Family History Foundation More than a dozen years ago to acquire […]