My maternal grandparents, Isaac Kolnik and Sarah Karp, emigrated to New York City around the beginning of the 20th century. They do not appear in the U.S. census for 1900, and I have not been able to locate their arrival […]
JGS Newsletter Summary: Fall 2008
by Diane Goldman To read an article or news release excerpted in U.S. Update, order the issue of the publication in which it appeared from the appropriate JGS. A list of Jewish Genealogical Societies can be found at <iajgs.org/members/members.html>. A […]
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 […]
Death In Venice: Seeking the Katzenellenbogen Tombstones [AB-033]
This article was first published on Chaim Freedman’s blog at http://chfreedman.blogspot.com/—Ed. Having recently discovered my descent from the Katzenellenbogen family, I decided to trace the graves of members of the early generations while I was in Italy in May […]
Jewish Genealogical Search Engines, Databases and Social Interaction Networks
This paper is based upon a talk given at the IAJGS Conference in Chicago, August 2008.—Ed. Many genealogists have discovered the value of the Internet to search for information about Jewish ancestors, descendants who migrated to other lands […]
Australia Holds First National Conference
The Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (AJGS) convened Australia’s first National Conference on Jewish Genealogy in the nation’s capital city, Canberra, in October 2008. Organized by the local Jewish genealogical societies of Melbourne and Sydney with the active support of the […]
Jewish Surnames Adopted in Various Regions of the Russian Empire
This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the IAJG Conference in Chicago, August 18, 2008—Ed. Generally speaking, it is relatively easy to distinguish Sephardic surnames from Ashkenazic surnames. For example, if one sees two lists, the […]
Philadelphia: Site of 29th International IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy
It has been 28 years since the Philadelphia Phillies won baseball’s World Series, and it has been 20 years since the IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy visited Philadelphia. In summer 2009, however, the 29th conference will come to Philadelphia. […]
Gleanings from a Week in Israel
On the surface, Jerusalem seemed relatively calm the first week in December. It was unseasonably warm; flowers were blooming, and the rebuilding of the famous Hurva Synagogue in the Old City (destroyed by the Jordanians during the War […]
Newspaper and Magazine Websites Valuable For Genealogical Research
Newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries are rich sources of genealogical data, but gaining access to them can be difficult and time-consuming. This article discusses two new websites that offer full-text, key-word access to these newspapers: […]
A Website List of Latvian Jewry Prior to World War II
This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the IAJGS Conference in Chicago, August 2008—Ed. The purpose of the Latvian Holocaust Jewish Names Project is to recover the names and the identities of Latvian Jews who perished during World […]
Paul Armony z”l (1932—2008)
Paul Armony, president of Asociación de Genealogía Judía de Argentina (Association of Jewish Genealogy of Argentina), died in Buenos Aires on October 24, 2008, after a battle with acute leukemia. Armony was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1932. His father, […]
From Our Mailbox: Summer 2008
Correct Article In my article “Age Makes a Difference,” (AVOTAYNU, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, Winter 2007), a clarification is necessary. BL, the woman who made herself five years younger to remain with her sister, has informed me that the change […]
Book Review: Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors. A Guide for Family Historians. Rosemary Wenzerul. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire
Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors. A Guide for Family Historians. Rosemary Wenzerul. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 2008. Price: £ 12.99 This excellent guide focuses primarily on United Kingdom Jewish genealogy, but also has much to offer to […]
Book Review: Every Family Has A Story: Tales From the Pages of AVOTAYNU, Edited by Gary Mokotoff
Every Family Has A Story: Tales From the Pages of AVOTAYNU. Edited by Gary Mokotoff. Hardcover, 292 pages. Avotaynu, Inc., Bergenfield, NJ. Price: $37 There are several dozen genealogical adventure stories in this collection, straight from the pages of AVOTAYNU, […]
Ask the Experts: Summer 2008
I need help finding more information about my father’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Sinberg (possibly Zinberg originally). Most of all, we would like to know where he is buried, where he was born, when he immigrated to the United States, and […]
JGS Synopses: Summer 2008
by Diane Goldman To read an article or news release excerpted in U.S. Update, order the issue of the publication in which it appeared from the appropriate JGS. A list of Jewish Genealogical Societies can be found at <iajgs.org/members/members.html>. A […]
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 […]
Accessing Archival Sources: Project Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia Judaica
Genealogical research does not always end with the compilation of a family tree. The desire for a colorfully illustrated tree of life often inspires the dream of putting specific faces to the names one has found, investigating more closely the […]
JRI-Poland Database and Rabbinic Data Merging
In the Spring 2008 issue of AVOTAYNU, in an article that focuses on tombstone identification, Professor Daniel Wagner highlights the integration of “family data from different sources and databases from different repositories” (“Tombstone Identification through Database Merging”). In a similar […]
Transatlantic Gap: Publishing “Private” Personal Data
This article first appeared in French in the Revue of the Cercle de Genealogie Juive—Ed. Jewish genealogists have become a worldwide community: Worldwide because, although Jews forever have been migrating, the events of the 20th century have dispersed us over […]
US Citizenship and Immigration Service Opens Fee-for-Service Genealogy Program
The long-anticipated U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) fee-for-service genealogy program opened to the public in August 2008 with USCIS’s well-known historian Marian Smith as Acting Chief. Complete details and history of the program were described by Arline Sachs in […]
Litvak Migratory Decisions in the 19th Century And Their Consequences: Prussian Transit Migration
This article is based on a lecture given at the 28th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy held in Chicago, August 2008. The history of Jewish migration from the Czarist Russian Empire beginning in the second half of the 19th century […]
Jewish Newspaper Research in Philadelphia
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Philadelphia (JGSGP) will co-sponsor the 29th annual International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) conference on Jewish genealogy in August 2009. To help researchers prepare for the conference, this article outlines the history of Jewish […]
28th IAJGS International Conference On Jewish Genealogy in Chicago
From the opening ceremony to the closing banquet, the 28th International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) International Conference on Jewish Genealogy offered more than 200 events, lectures, workshops, films, meetings, luncheons, trips, and research opportunities that required the 800 […]
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