This past Thursday, September 3, 2015, a legal petition was filed at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York. Brooke Schreier Ganz and ReclaimTheRecords.org [Petitioner] vs. New York City Department of Records and Information […]
Avotaynu Contributing Editors: Fall 2010
AUSTRALIA (Caplan) Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (Sydney) e-Report, October 2010. On October 31, 2010, as part of the Day of Jewish Culture and Heritage organized by B’nai B’rith, the society displayed books and CDs documenting the history of Jewish communities […]
Contributing Editors: Winter 2009
AUSTRALIA (Sharpe) Jewish Genealogy Downunder, quarterly publication of the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (Victoria), Vol. 11, No 3, October 2009. Bubbles Segall, well known for her work over many years with the South African Special Interest Group (SIG), recently […]
Avotaynu Contributing Editors: Fall 2008
AUSTRALIA (Sharpe) Jewish Genealogy Downunder Vol. 10, Nos. 2 & 3, May-August 2008. Australia’s first national Jewish genealogical conference was held in Canberra, October 26–29 (see <www.ajgs.org.au/conf08/>). <> The Australia Jewish Historical Society website documents Australians’ graves the world […]
Avotaynu Contributing Editors: Summer 2008
AUSTRALIA (Caplan) Six Australians traveled to Arolsen with Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Sack to view the International Red Cross Tracing Service records on Holocaust victims. These included Rieke Nash, president of the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society in Sydney; her husband […]
Avotaynu Contributing Editors: Spring 2008
From Our Contributing Editors (Australia) First National Jewish Genealogy Conference, The Great Synagogue: A History of Sydney’s Big Shule, Insurance policy registers, German Jewish Cemetery Database project; (Canada) Jewish farming colonies, earliest Jews of Montreal, genealogical research and financial identity, […]