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Vol.
1, No. 1 February 6, 2000
Hamburg Emigration List Database; Migration from the Russian
Empire; American Jewish Historical Society Opens New York
Facility; Beth Hatefutsoth Develops Virtual Museum on Internet; Sophie
Caplan Awarded Order of Australia; Jewish Genealogy Month; Online
Registration for the Annual Conference; News from Avotaynu, Inc.
Vol.
1, No. 2 February 20, 2000
My Generations; New Genealogical
Software: DoroTree; Need the E-mail Address of a
Jewish Genealogist?; Ancestors Series to Air New Programs Starting in
June; Migration from the Russian Empire; What's Nu:
20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; What's Nu: Avotaynu;
And In Conclusion: A Dialogue Between Nazis
Vol.
1, No. 3 March 5, 2000
The Genealogy Work Station of the Future; Is It Necessary to Order
Films Ahead of Time When Planning a Visit to the LDS (Mormon) Family
History Library; Alexander Beider to Author a Book on Ashkenazic Given
Names; The Death of a Legend
Vol.
1, No. 4 March 19, 2000
Nu? What's New? Adds Archives;
Hamburg Emigration Index Goes Live; Genealogy and the Internet;
Ancestry.com Plans to Reconstruct the 1890 U.S. Census; What's Nu? with
the Annual Conference on
Jewish Genealogy
Vol.
1, No. 5 April 2, 2000
Avotaynu to Sell JPGs of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe; Release of
Canadian Censuses in Doubt; Jewish Vital Statistic Registers for
Czechoslovakia; What's Nu? 20th International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; Oops (correction from last issue)
Vol.
1, No. 6 April 16, 2000
Australian Census to Be In Public Domain; A Good Source for Yizkor
Books; Internet Resource for Argentinean Jewish Genealogy; Ancestry.com
Promotes Jewish Genealogy Month; Reminder: 20th International Seminar
on Jewish Genealogy Early Registration Deadline
Vol
1, No. 7 April 30, 2000
Language Translation Sites on the Internet; DNA and Genealogy;
Improving the Quality of Old Photographs; What's Nu with the Annual
Conference
Vol
1, No. 8 May 14, 2000
Lithuanian Jewish Records To Be Available at LDS (Mormon) Family
History Library for International Conference; Jewish Roots in
Ukraine and Moldova Wins Reference Book Awards; Jewish
Genealogy Yearbook 2000; Spring Issue of Avotaynu;
Additional JPEGs of Eastern Europe Planned
Vol.
1, No. 9 May 28, 2000 Nu? What's New?
Tops 3,000 Subscribers; Ships of Our Ancestors; Prove Kinship the
New-Fashioned Way; Online Hamburg Emigration Lists; Ordering Films
Before Going to the Family History Library; Computer Images of Jewish
Life in Vilnius
Vol.
1, No. 10 June 10, 2000 Family History Library Catalog on
CD-ROM; The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe;
Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Elected to the NGS Hall of Fame; Family Tree of
the Jewish People Reaches Milestones; International Conferences for the
Next Four Years; Additional Scanned Images (JPGs) of Life in Eastern
Europe
Vol.
1, No. 11 June 25, 2000 Avotaynu Offices Closed for
International Seminar; The Next Step in Linking Family Trees; More
Information on Family History Library Catalog; FHL Now Has Finding Aids
for Jewish Records; MyFamily.com Acquires RootsWeb; Some Interesting
Internet Sites
Vol.
1, No. 12 July 16, 2000
Avotaynu Publishes Well-Known Book by Simon M. Dubnow; 20th
International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy; JewishGen and Yad Vashem
Agree to Develop Databases; Building Your Own Family Web Site Can Be
Easy; Large-sized Family Tree Charts; Family History Library Forms
Useful to Jewish Genealogists
Vol. 1, No. 13 July 30, 2000
U.S. Census Records (1790–1920) To Be Available on Internet;
Historical
Maps on the Internet; Conference Syllabus For Sale; JewishGen Continues
to Grow; Annual Jewish Genealogy Trip to Salt Lake City; Jan Karsky
Dies; Inventory of Lithuania Vital Records at Avotaynu Site; Passenger
Arrival Records for Canada; Polish State Archives Liberalizes Their
Access Policy; 21st International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy Internet
Site
Vol. 1, No. 14 August 13, 2000
The Origins of Eastern European Jewry; Hamburg Emigration Index Grows;
E-zine for Polish Genealogy Started; Jewish Burial Registry Started at
JewishGen Site; More JPEGs of Towns in Eastern Europe; English Version
of Belarus State Archives Inventory Now Available; Genealogy
Computing Magazine; Human Interest Stories Wanted for Winter
Issue of Avotaynu
Vol. 1, No. 15 August 27, 2000
Bill Gates Take Note; Summer 2000 Issue of AVOTAYNU; Index to Family
History Library Jewish Records to Be Available Online; Sallyann Sack to
Lecture at Hamburg Symposium; Descriptions Added to Postcard
Collection; British Commonwealth Forces Who Died in WWI or WWII
Vol.
1, No. 16 - September 10, 2000
More on the Online U.S. Censuses; New Capability Added to
Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System; Finding Information On the Internet
About Your Shtetl; Migration from the Russian Empire;
Using the CD Version of the Family History Library Catalog; Bill Gates
- The Sequel
Vol.
1, No. 17 - September 24, 2000
Record Retention in the Information Technology Age; JewishGen
Implementing Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex Improvement; CJSI: Have You Used
It?; Maps of Interwar Polish Towns; Featured Book: Discovering Your
Jewish Roots in Galicia
Vol. 1, No. 18 - October 10, 2000
NWN Reaches 4,000 subscribers; Virtual Old Jerusalem
CD; RootsWeb; Featured Book: How to Document Victims and
Locate Survivors of the Holocaust; More JPEGs Added to
Avotaynu Site
Vol. 1, No. 19 - October 22, 2000
Internet Sites for National Archives of Various Countries; Document
Preservation; Featured Book: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the
Russian Empire; Avotaynu Plans Major Works in Next 12 months; Gone
Fiching
Vol. 1, No. 20 - November 5, 2000
Population Registers; More Articles from the Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU;
More URLs for State Archives; Ships of Our Ancestors; Ancestry.com Adds
1920 Census Data to the Internet; Register Online for the London
Conference; Featured Book: Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family
Histories; Avotaynu Fall/Winter Catalog Now Available; Laugh of the Week
Vol. 1, No. 21 - November 19, 2000
Adding Databases to the Internet; Online U.S. Searchable Vital Record
Indexes; Viewmate on JewishGen; Book About Florida's Jews; Featured
Book: History of the Jews in Poland and Russia; Jerusalem Post
Obituaries; Recovering Insurance Policy Holocaust Assets; A Reminder -
10% Discount
Vol. 1, No. 22 - December 3, 2000
Canadians Still Fight for Access to Post-1901 Census Records; INS
Articles About Their Records; Attention Litvaks; E-Book for Genealogy;
Featured Book: Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy;
FAQ on Hasidism
Vol. 1, No. 23 - December 17, 2000
Library of Congress Experiments with Scanned Images for Interlibrary
Loans ; Jewish Records at FHL on CD-ROM; New York Police Census;
Featured Book: To Our Children's Children; Closeout
Offer; Last Chance for 10% Discount on Avotaynu Products; Ancestry
Offers Free Access to Its Databases
Vol.
1, No. 24 - December 31, 2000
Improvements at the LDS (Mormon) Family History Library; Improvements
at the LDS (Mormon)
Family History Library; Genealogydatabase.com Slips on U.S. Censuses;
More JPEGs of Eastern Europe; Featured Book: WOWW Companion;
YIVO Book Sold Out; Genealogydatabase.com Cancels Census Plans
Vol. 2, No. 1 - January 19, 2001
Genealogydatabase.com Cancels Census Plans;Soundexing: It Is Time for a
Change;Brothers Keeper Version 6.0;Using the 1920 Census Data
Online;Online Morton Allan Directory; Featured Book:
Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins
and Variants; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU Is at the Printer
Vol. 2, No. 2 - January 28, 2001
Pushing Back the Brick Wall; Milestones; IAJGS Conference for 2002 In
Toronto; Don't Count Out Genealogydatabase.com; Bialystok Book Back In
Print; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU Is in the Mail; Featured Book: A
Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel
Vol.
2, No. 3 - February 11, 2001
Jewish Genealogy Month 2001 -- March 25 - April 23, 2001; Funeral
Database Venture Started; JGSNY Publishes Burial Plot Data; Records of
the Polish Nobility (continued); Plans for Migration from the
Russian Empire on CD-ROM; Date Confirmed for 2002 Conference;
DNA Testing Providing Good Results; Annual Conference; Featured Work: The
Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe
Vol. 2, No. 4 - February 25, 2001
Family History Library Judaica Index Now Available; Place Source
Documents in Your Genealogy Database; Portion of 1900 Census On Line;
More On Wooden Synagogues; More Remarkable Results with DNA Testing;
Featured Book: Auswandererhafen Hamburg -- Hamburg Emigration
Port; WOWW!
Vol.
2, No. 5 - March 18, 2001
Major Update to the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index; U.S. Censuses
Online; Jewish Genealogy Month 2001; Annual Jewish Genealogy Trip to
Salt Lake City; Featured Book: The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy
of Posen in 1834 and 1835; List of Vilna Ghetto Residents
Vol. 2, No. 6 - April 1, 2001
Another Nu? What's New? Milestone; Ellis Island
Database to Launch April 17; Migrations from the Russian Empire CD;
London Conference Posts Lecture Schedule; Names, Names, Names;
Sephardic SIG Internet Site; New Version of CJSI a Great Success
Vol.
2, No. 7 - April 15 2001
Batya Unterschatz to Retire; Bremen Emigration Lists on Internet; Do
You Want to Know About Copyright and Genealogy?; Polish CD-ROM;
Ancestry Daily News; More About A Dictionary of Ashkenazic
Given Names; Ellis Island Internet Site; Featured Book: Jewish
Roots in Poland
Vol. 2, No. 8 - April 22, 2001
Special Edition -- Ellis Island Search Engine Has Great Shortcomings
Vol.
2, No. 9 - April 29, 2001
A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given
Names Discount Offer; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; More on the
Ellis Island Database; All Census
Records Digitized by Ancestry.com
Vol.
2, No. 10 - May 13, 2001
Expect Improvements to the Ellis Island Search Ability; A Little Bit of
Ellis Island Humor; Folk Etymology; London Conference; Spring/Summer
Catalog Available; Gone Fiching
Vol. 2, No. 10a - May 13, 2001
More Ellis Island Information
Vol.
2, No. 11 - May 27, 2001
More About the Ellis Island Database; Family History Library Plans
Major Renovations; Roots II Family Board Game; Complete 1880 U.S.
Census Available on CD; Only 19 Days Left to Take Advantage of Discount
on Beider Book; Spamming; Privacy; Virus Alert
Vol.
2, No. 12 - June 10, 2001
Ellis Island Data Base -- Patience, Patience, Patience; My Ancestors
Landed at Hoboken, New Jersey; Last Chance! Discount Offer on Beider
Book Ends June 15; Genealogical Software Prints Pages of Testimony; The
Sweetest Sound; Some Interesting Internet Sites.
Vol.
2, No. 13 - June 24, 2001
Nu?What's New? Switches List
Server Providers; New CD: Russians to America
1850–1896;
Ellis Island Database Advances Backwards; No Good Pastime Goes
Unpunished; An Increasing Trend Toward Charging for Internet Databases;
Leo Baeck Institute Archives and Library Catalog Now Online; Beider
Book to the Printer; A Reminder: The Sweetest Sound
premiere on PBS
Vol. 2, No. 14 - July 8, 2001
More Resourceful Ways to Get Around the Ellis Island Database; Peter
Lande - Consummate olunteer; Genealogical Software Prints Pages of
Testimony; More Images of Jewish Life Available; Summer Issue of
AVOTAYNU
Vol. 2, No. 15 - July 22, 2001
Indexed 1900 Census Now Available Online from Genealogy.Com; Index to
the 1910 Census for New York City, New York State, Connecticut; New
Beginners Guide to Jewish Genealogy: Discovering Your Jewish
Ancestors; Russians to America CD Has
Flaw; From Generation to Generation Back in Print;
Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; Reminder: Jewish Genealogical Research Trip
to Salt Lake City; Avotaynu Book Offerings Has New Look; Peter Lande --
Consummate Volunteer -- The Sequel
Vol. 2, No. 16 - August 5, 2001
Availability and Prices for Index to New York 1910 Census Set; Complete
Galveston (Texas) Immigration Records Online; New Book on the History
of Transylvania Jewry; FGS Conference in Iowa; JPEGs of Palestine; The
Litvaks Back in Stock; Ship Date for Beider Book
Vol. 2, No. 17 - August 19, 2001
Census4all.com; Heritage Quest Census Project Back On Target; News
Media Recognizing the Interest in Genealogy; Immigrant Arrivals to
Argentina 1882–1927; Ellis Island Drops One Step; Rabbinic
SIG; A Torah
in Search of a Home
Vol. 2, No. 18 - September 4, 2001
More Ellis Island Database Comments; Correction to Comment About EIDB
Site; EIDB How-to Site; Australia May Retain Census Data; Can You
Determine the Town Shown?; FGS Conference In Davenport; Avotaynu Site
Now Has Search Engine; Beider Book Being Shipped; 1910 Census Reminder
Vol. 2, No. 19 - September 23, 2001
Please view http://www.avotaynu.com/100901.htm; News from the FGS Quad
Cities Conference; News from Ancestry.com; A Word As Insidious As a
Computer Virus; Terrorism - My Two Cents
Vol. 2, No. 20 - October 7, 2001
The Brick Wall of Eastern European Jewish Genealogy; New Layout for the
Family History Library; National Archives of Canada to Expand Their
Genealogy Focus; Efforts to Release Canadian Census Records Gain
Momentum; Website About Immigration; Information About Jewish
Orphanages in the United States; An Analysis of Errors in the Ellis
Island Database; Two New Databases on JewishGen; Search Engine at
Avotaynu Site
Vol. 2, No. 21 - October 21, 2001
Ancestry Adds User Comments to All Its Databases; October Is Family
History Month; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; Last Chance to Purchase 1910 NYC
Census CD at Discount; Jewish Genealogical Trip to Salt Lake City
Vol. 2, No. 22 - November 4, 2001
News from Salt Lake; Improvements Made to the "Searching the Ellis
Island Database in One Step" Site; Morton Allan Back in Print; An
Opportunity to Contribute to the Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol. 2, No. 23 - November 18, 2001
1910 New York City Index CD; All Census
Images Now at Ancestry.com; Jewish Genealogy Month; Jewish Heraldry?;
In Remembrance
Vol. 2, No. 24 - December 2, 2001
Palestine Post
(1932–1950) Now
Online; Inventory of Polish State Archives Now Online; Finding Aid for
1910 Census; New Book on Rabbinic Genealogical Research; Index to
Immigrants in the 1870 U.S. Census Now on CD; Virus; Postcard Images
Vol. 2, No. 25 - December 16, 2001
New Shareware Is 1910 New York City Census Finding Aid; New York City
World War II Draft Registrations; Ancestry.com Announces World Family
Tree; Law to Give Access to Canadian Census Moves Forward; California
Reigns in Access to Birth Records; More on the Polish Archives
Database; Polish Language Translator on the Internet; Polish Map Site
Vol. 2, No. 26 - December 30, 2001
Hamburg Emigration Index Now Covers Nine Years; 1920 Census for
Manhattan and Brooklyn Indexed; Early News About the Toronto
Conference; 1910 Census of Connecticut Finding Aid;
Emigration/Immigration Internet Sites; New York City Commissioner of
Records Is a Genealogist; Family History Library Renovations Near
Completion; JRI-Poland Now has 1.5 Million Entries
Vol. 3, No. 1 - January 20, 2002
Bureaucrats Behaving Badly--Canadian Style;
British 1901 Census Database Becomes Too Popular; Family Tree of the
Jewish People Reaches 2 Million Entries; 1929 Polish Business Directory
Images Now Online; Jewish Genealogy Month 2002; Winter Issue of
AVOTAYNU; Will the Real Mark Ackerman Call Avotaynu
Vol. 3, No. 2 - February 10, 2002
Finding Aid Developed for 1930 U.S. Census; Czarist Edicts Regarding
Jews Now on the Internet; AOL Becomes a Sponsor of the Ellis Island
Database; Another Company Offering DNA Testing; New York Time Backfile
Available on the Internet; Avotaynu Looking for Stories of ITS
Failures; Chaplain for the Olympics Is a Chabad Rabbi; I'm Going to
Hamburg
Vol. 3, No. 3 - February 24, 2002
Be Sure to Resubscribe to AVOTAYNU by February 28; Using Internet
Search Engines for Genealogical Research; The Melungeons: Do They Have
Jewish Blood?; U.S. Civil War Soldiers/Sailors System on the Internet;
Ancestry.com Adds 1920 Census Index for Chicago and Pennsylvania; List
of Austrian Holocaust Victims of the Web; Finding Aid for 1930 U.S.
Census--An Update; Jewish Genealogy Month Poster in the Mail
Vol. 3, No. 4 - March 10, 2002
Changing Your E-mail Address?; England and
Wales Plans New Policies on Vital Records; Registration Open for 22nd
International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Ancestry.com 1920 Census
Index Now Includes Three More States; Plan to Build Replica of Zabludow
Wooden Synagogue; Winners of AVOTAYNU Resubscription Contest
Vol. 3, No. 5 - March 24, 2002
International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Web Site Now in Operation;
Ancestry.com to Publish 1930 Census Records Within Hours of Official
Government Release; Ancestry.com Marketeers: Use Your Calculators; New
Database of Jews Deported from France; Everyone Should Be Part of the
Bone Marrow Pool; Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
Vol. 3, No. 6 - April 7, 2002
A Case Study in 20th-Century Research;
"Rabbinic Genealogy Bibliography" Has Wider Value; 1911 Encyclopedia
Britannica on Internet; Ancestry.com Starts Making 1930 Census
Available; 1901 British Census Still Not Available Online; Hotel
Reservations at Toronto Conference; Happy Birthday JewishGen Family
Finder; Family Tree Debuts on the History Channel
Vol. 3, No. 7 - April 21, 2002
Eastern European Archival Database Launched; Avotaynu Offers Encyclopedia
of Jewish Life at 25% Off!!; International Roots Conference
July 14–18; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU at Printer; Ancestry.com
Makes
Available First 1930 Census Index; Definition of a Holocaust Survivor;
New Jewish Genealogical Society in Venezuela
Vol. 3, No. 8 - May 5, 2002
New Book by Avotaynu: Between Galicia and Hungary: The Jews
of Stropkov; More Hamburg Emigration Records To Be on
Internet; Sallyann Sack's Annual Trip to Israel; More Microfilms of
Lithuanian Vital Records at Family History Library; Online Registration
for the Toronto Conference; Will the 1901 British Census Ever Go
Online?; 1930 Census Images for California and Connecticut; Avotaynu's
Book on Galician Research
Vol. 3, No. 9 - May 21, 2002
Evaluating Genealogical Software Systems;
News from the Family History Library; Books, Maps, Pamphlets on Eastern
Europe; Tchochkes; Help to Write Your Bio; ...and for the Person Who
Has Everything Genealogical; Plan Database of German Jews Based on 1939
Census; Early Registration Deadline for the Toronto Conference; New
1930 Census Images Online
Vol. 3, No. 10 - June 2, 2002
Shhhhhhh – 1901 Canadian Census Is Online; Complete
Conference Program
On Internet; Meorei Galicia Index Now Online; A
Problem That Won't Go Away; List of Town Names from
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Now Available; JPEG Images of
Postcards Available at Avotaynu Site
Vol. 3, No. 11 - June 16, 2002
Ukrainian Archives Now Has English-language Web Site; Some Advanced
Features of the Morse Ellis Island Database Portal; Complete Index to
1920 Census Now Online; Avotaynu to Exhibit at Toronto Conference; The
Human Side of Genealogy; Internet Summer Camp at International Roots
Conference; Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Wins AJL
Reference Award
Vol. 3, No. 12 - June 30, 2002
Governments Consider Tightening Access to
Vital Records; International Roots Conference Canceled; Breakfast with
Experts and Luncheons at Toronto Conference; Salt Lake City Now Has
Kosher Deli; Advance Order Avotaynu Books for Conference Now; 1930
Census Images of Maryland Now Available; New Shareware Converts Data to
Excel File
Vol. 3, No. 13 - July 14, 2002
Hamburg Emigration Sites Adds Additional Years; Jewish Vital Records of
Quebec Indexing Project; An Alternate Conference; Dorotree Genealogical
Software; Little Known Feature of JewishGen Search Engines; Jews
of Stropkov Shipped
Vol. 3, No. 14 - July 28, 2002
ProQuest Announces "Heritage Quest Online"; Ancestry.com to Offer World
War I Draft Records; Ancestry.com and the 1930 Census; Stephen Morse
Calendar Converter-Worth a Look; Many Eastern European Towns Have
Websites; Reminder: Advance Order Avotaynu Books for Conference Now;
Next Issue of Nu? What's New? Will Slip a Week
Vol. 3, No. 15 - August 25, 2002
More Evidence of "No Free Lunch"; When Will
the Ellis Island Database Be Improved?; IAJGS and FGS Conferences Are
History; Updated Version of Family History Library CD; Ancestry.com
Claims 85% of 1930 Census Now Online; Update on Online England/Wales
Census of 1901; Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Moving
Vol. 3, No. 16 - September 2, 2002 -
Special Edition
Steve
Morse "One-Step" Site Forced to Shut Down
Vol. 3, No. 17 - September 4, 2002 -
Special Edition
The Latest Status of the Stephen Morse
Site; Ellis Island Foundation Explains Its Position
Vol. 3, No. 18 - September 9, 2002
Latest News About the Morse Ellis Island
Site; Deportations from France during the Holocaust; A Very Unusual
Feature of a Genealogical Software System; More on Next Year's
Washington Conference; WOWW-Revised Edition Nearing
Completion
Vol. 3, No. 19 - September 22, 2002
No New Public News About Ellis Island
Database; Where Once We Walked: Revised Edition;
Race and U.S. Immigration Laws; Pedigree Resource File; 1901 Census of
England and Wales Back Online; 10th-Annual Jewish Genealogical Research
Trip to Salt Lake City; Thank You, Stephen Morse
Vol. 3, No. 20 - October 6, 2002
Morse's Handiwork Now Has Copycats; 1901–1906 Jewish
Encyclopedia
Online; WOWW-RE to the Printer; Deadline for Pre-Publication WOWW-RE
Offer Nears; Example of Nearby Town Feature; Apropos to the Worth of
WOWW; Guidelines for Publishing Web Pages on the Internet; CENSUSES IN
THE NEWS; Release of Post-1901 Canadian Censuses Moves a Step Closer to
Success; American Likes the 1901 British Census Online; Entire U.S.
1930 Census Now Online; Ancestry's Next Census Project; Planned Census
Release: Mark Your Calendar for January 1, 2101
Vol. 3, No. 21 - October 20, 2002
Morse/Ellis Island Dispute Resolved; Call
for Papers: 23rd International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Internet
Privacy Policies; Deadline for WOWW Pre-Publication Offers Passes; Next
Edition of Nu? What's New? Will Be November 10
Vol. 3, No. 22 - November 10, 2002
The Appeal of Online Research; 1880 US
Census, and 1881 Canadian and British Census Now Online; Morse "Short
Form" Site Now Giving Good Performance; Avotaynu Marketing Library and
FTJP CDs; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU in the Mail; Ship Date for Where
Once We Walked: Revised Edition; CAHJP Back in Operation
Vol. 3, No. 23 - November 24, 2002
New Book by Avotaynu: Sephardic
Genealogy; Ancestry.com Adds 1930 Census Every-Name Index for
California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania; German Emigration
Lists; Name-Change Gazetteers on the Internet; Article About Auschwitz
Resources on Internet; Stephen Morse Now Has A SSDI Website
Vol. 3, No. 24 - December 8, 2002
Hadassah Lieberman to Be Banquet Speaker at Annual Conference; More
Name-Change Internet Sites; Another Way of Showing Family Trees on the
Internet; Pilot Project Evaluates Ordering Vital Records from Polish
State Archives Online; Jewish Genealogy Month to Be April 3 –
May 2;
Publish Lists of Prisoners in the Siauliai Ghetto; Every-name Index of
the 1930 Census; WOWW Is Shipping
Vol. 3, No. 25 - December 22, 2002
Pressure Mounts to Release Canadian Census
Data; New York City Marriage Indexes Released; The Problem That Won't
Go Away -- The Sequel; Yiddish Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania; Winter
Issue of AVOTAYNU; Avotaynu Office Closed December 29 –
January 17;
JPEG Images of Postcards Available at Avotaynu Site
Vol. 3, No. 26 - January 26, 2003
JewishGen Acquired by Museum of Jewish
Heritage; Genealogy Exhibit at Museum of Tolerance; Canada to Release
1906 Census Records to Public; Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
Updated; New Book: In Their Words: A Genealogist's
Translation Guide--Volume II: Russian; Jewish Genealogy Month
-- April 3 to May 2; Beider Given Name List To Be Used As a Standard;
Ancestry.com Completes Index to 1930 Census; Misspelled Town Names in
the Ellis Island Database
Vol. 4, No. 1 - February 9, 2003
YIVO Photo Collection on Internet; Canadian Parliament to Consider
Census Bill; Register Online for the International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; Articles on World War I and World War II Draft Registration
Cards; Renewal Deadline for AVOTAYNU is February 28; "Genealogy" a Spam
Word?
Vol. 4, No. 2 - February 23, 2003
Final Notice! Renewal Deadline for AVOTAYNU
Is February 28; List of U.S. World War II Casualties Available on
Internet; Archivist of the United States To Be Keynote Speaker at
Conference; Two Holocaust-related JewishGen Databases Are Updated; New
Site for Anglo-Jewish Research; More on Release of Canadian Census
Records; eGenConference Is Planned; IAJGS Planning Genealogy Cruise;
Finding People
Vol. 4, No. 3 - March 16, 2003
Avotaynu Plans to Publish Avotaynu
Guide to Jewish Genealogy; What's Nu with Stephen P. Morse;
Stephen Morse Takes On Ancestry.com; Morse 1930 Census Site Now Links
to Ancestry.com; Morse Ellis Island Site Now Includes All Ports;
Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841–1902) Now Online; New Avotaynu
Offering: Ships
of Our Ancestors; DC Conference Will Include Three State
Archivists; Avotaynu Authors to Have Book Signings at Washington
Conference; Jewish Genealogy Month April 3 – May 2
Vol. 4, No. 4 - March 30, 2003
Avotaynu Brings Back Prenumerantn Lists; At
Last: Genealogical Resources in New York to Be
Published; Routes to Roots Foundation Database Has New Material;
Ukrainian Archives Expands Its Web Presence in English; Morse Ellis
Island Site Makes It Easier for Common Name Searches; JewishGen Adds an
All-Hungary Database; Central Archives for the Jewish People Needs
Financial Aid; Sites with Indexes to New York Naturalizations; Launch
Canadian Genealogy Centre Web Site; Photos of Warsaw Ghetto at Yad
Vashem Site
Vol. 4, No. 5 - April 6, 2003
Sephardic Genealogy Wins ALA
Judaica Reference Award; Articles in the Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU;
Advanced Subscriber List for The Guide
Vol. 4, No. 6 - April 13, 2003
Major Fire at Kamianets-Podilsky Archives;
MyFamily.com Acquires Genealogy.com; Steven Spielberg Develops Online
Films of Jewish Life; Last Chance: Deadline for Genealogical
Resources in New York Offer; Sample Chapter of Avotaynu
Guide to Jewish Genealogy Available on Internet; Spring Issue
of AVOTAYNU; ProQuest Genealogy Databases
Vol. 4, No. 7 - April 27, 2003
Hamburg Emigration Site Adds Additional
Years; Comments on Previous Nu? What's New?
Articles; Head of Romanian Archives to Attend Annual Conference;
Unusual Avotaynu Web Pages; Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy
to Include Illustrations from 1901–1906 Jewish
Encyclopedia
Vol. 4, No. 8 - May 11, 2003
The Problem That Won't Go Away: First American Jewish Families
Used for Posthumous Baptisms; Two Important Deadlines on May 15;
Article on Using the Google Search Engine for Genealogy; AVOTAYNU
on CD-ROM Has Been Updated; Lithuania Discovers Its Jewish
Past and Future; Pictures of the Fire at the Kamenets Podilskiy Archives
Vol. 4, No. 9 - May 25, 2003
Listings in the Advanced Subscriber List of The Guide;
On Privacy and Security; The Nigerian E-mail Scam with a Genealogical
Twist; Tomasz Wisniewski Offering Tour/Photo Services; Beshert -
Pre-ordained - Destined to Be
Vol. 4, No. 10 - June 8, 2003
Mark Your Calendar - Next Year in
Jerusalem; Dictionary of Surnames Currently Used in Poland; More
Canada-to-U.S. Border Crossings Filmed; Gleanings from the NGS
Conference; Online Exhibit of Jews of Lithuania at the Beginning of the
20th Century; Little Old Ladies in Tennis Sneakers?; Genealogical
Resources in New York
Vol. 4, No. 11 - June 22, 2003
eGenConference: A Review; New Online
Indexes; MyFamily.com Abandons Free Use of Its Site; Index to Articles
Appearing in AVOTAYNU Updated; Book Signings by Avotaynu Authors at the
Annual Conference
Vol. 4, No. 12 - July 13, 2003
Another Stephen P. Morse Portal; Next Year in Jerusalem; More Book
Signings at the Conference; News About Online Databases; Hey, Mister,
Wanna Buy a Subscription to AVOTAYNU Cheap?; Classical E-mail Inquiries
Vol. 4, No. 13 - July 27, 2003
Major Announcements Made at 23rd International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; Yad Vashem Unveils Online Pages of Testimony; Yad Vashem to
Digitize Their Microfilm Collection; National Yiddish Book Center to
Reprint Yizkor Books; JewishGen Announces All-Country Database Systems;
JewishGen Launches Online Worldwide Burial Registry
Vol. 4, No. 14 - August 10, 2003
Lawrence Sack Passes Away; Major Improvement to Online Family History
Library Catalog; Jewish Genealogical Research Trip to Salt Lake City;
Auschwitz Archives Prisoner List Online; Canadian Naturalization Index
1915–1932 Now Online; CD-ROM Identifies French
Naturalizations from
1900-1950; FGS Conference in Orlando; New Publication Date for Avotaynu
Guide to Jewish Genealogy; Discovering Your Jewish
Roots in Galicia Going Out of Print
Vol. 4, No. 15 - August 24, 2003
The Wolf Blitzer and Christiane Amanpour of Jewish Genealogy;
JRI-Poland/Polish State Archives Online Ordering Project a Success;
Photographs/Audio Tapes of the Washington Conference Available; Only a
Limited Number of Openings Available for Salt Lake City Trip; Galicia
Book Sold Out; A Case Study
Vol. 4, No. 16 - September 14, 2003
Beth Hatefutsoth May Close Its Doors; Search Bureau Functions Taken
Over by Central Zionist Archives; DNA Testing - I Am Confused As to Its
Value; Ellis Island Database Still Shows No Improvements; Avotaynu
Foundation Publishes Two New Family Histories;
Vol. 4, No. 17 - September 29, 2003
Levite DNA Show Descent from Central Asia;
A 1911 Encyclopedia Online; Center for Jewish History Plans Major
Expansion; Change of Dates for Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy
Vol. 4, No. 18 - October 19, 2003
Call For Presentations, Jerusalem 2004;
Israeli Telephone Book Portal at Stephen Morse Site; IAJGS Offers Films
to Member Societies; Images of Broadsides for Trans-Atlantic
Steamships; Gone Fiching
Vol. 4, No. 19 - November 9, 2003
Demise of Netscape; Ancestry Places World
War I Draft Records Online; JRI-Poland Expands Its Records Shopping
Basket System; Latest News about the 2004 Conference; A Visit to the
Family History Library; Case Study: Locating Ancestral Towns;
Acquisition of Hereditary Surnames in the Warsaw Area; Fear of
Terrorism; "Inappropriate Content"
Vol. 4, No. 20 - November 23, 2003
MyFamily.com Plans Everyname Index to 1850–1892 Ship
Arrivals; Some
Excellent European Maps on the Internet; Origin of Ashkenazic Levites;
Annual Conference Looking for Volunteers; New Jewish Genealogical
Society - Denmark; Feedback about Alternatives to Internet Explorer; My
Annual Trip to Salt Lake City
Vol. 4, No. 21 - December 7, 2003
Avotaynu Updates Magnates List; A
Remarkable Chanukah Gift; A Graphic Example of What the Holocaust Did
to Jewry; More DNA Research Aids in Defining Jewish History; Committee
for Jerusalem Conference Announces Hotel Room Rates; Plans for 2005 and
2006 Seminars; Two New Books on Jewish Surnames; Seeks to Have Gorr
Collection Available for Jerusalem Conference
Vol. 4, No. 22 - December 21, 2003
Hamburg Database Now Includes Nearly 2 Million Emigrants; AVOTAYNU
Issue to Press; A New Book Worth Reading; Website Depicts Latvia Today;
Other Interesting Web Sites; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU to Include Books
In Print; Encyclopedia Orders Sent to Publisher
Vol. 5, No. 1 - January 11, 2004
Jewish Genealogy Month 2004; Book of Sephardic Surnames; Central
Zionist Archives and Search Bureau for Missing Relatives; "The Problem
That Won't Go Away": The Mormon/Jewish Controversy Heats Up
Vol. 5, No. 2 - January 25, 2004
Jewish Records in the Family History Library Database to Be Updated;
Searching for Argentinean Relatives; Ancestry.com Nears Completion of
Pre-Ellis Island Index; News About the Jerusalem Conference; Google Has
a New Operator; RAF Aerial Photos To Be Placed on Internet; New
JewishGen Search Engines; The Children of the Vilna Gaon; And
Finally... "The Problem That Won't Go Away" Who is the Most Famous
Rabbi in America?
Vol. 5, No. 3 - February 8, 2004
Yiddish Book Center Yizkor Book Reprints To
Be Available Soon; Juergen Sielemann Honored With Obermayer Award;
About AVOTAYNU; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU to Printer; Special Offer to
New Subscribers; How AVOTAYNU Gets Edited; The Only Article Ever Banned
from AVOTAYNU
Vol. 5, No. 4 - February 22, 2004
New Printing Technique Makes Publishing Family Histories Cheaper; Yad
Vashem Yizkor Book List Now Online; More News About the Jerusalem
Conference; Pictures of Active Synagogues in the Former Soviet Union
Now Online; Ancestry.com Completes Pre-Ellis Island Index; French
Deportations Online; Two New JewishGen Databases
Vol. 5, No. 5 - March 14, 2004
The Lurie Legacy to be Available
at End of Month; Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy
Nearing Completion; A Possibly Useful Service of Google; Maps and
Material About the Jews of Poland; Romanian-Jewish Name Lists Now
Online; JRI-Poland Completes Its Shopping Cart System; Record Access in
New Jersey; Reminder to AVOTAYNU Subscribers
Vol. 5, No. 6 - March 28, 2004
Have You Renewed Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU?; More Than 700 Yizkor
Books to Be Placed on the Internet; Yad Vashem Digitizing Master Index
of International Tracing Service; Registration for the Annual
Conference in Jerusalem Now Possible; Online Video of the Hamburg
Emigrant Experience; How Napoleon's Coat Became the Curtain for the Ark
of the Torah
Vol.
5, No. 7 - April 11, 2004
Avotaynu Offering From
Generation to Generation At Special Price; Romanian
Archives Restricts Records Access; The Mormon-Jewish Controversy: "The
Problem That Won't Go Away"; 165 Lectures Planned for Israel
Conference; Yad Vashem Central Database of Holocaust Victims Grows;
Index to New York City Deaths 1891–1911 Now on Internet; John
Carlin to
Step Down as Archivist of the United States; Ellis Island Foundation
Concludes "If You Can't Fight Them, Join Them"; 20-year-old Typo Has
Gone Undetected
Vol. 5, No. 8 - April 25, 2004
MyFamily.com Offering Online Courses on Jewish Genealogy; Ancestry.com
Adds 1901 British Census to Its Databases; Online Bremen Lists
Expanded; Imotaynu vs. Imahotaynu; Romanian AVOTAYNU Contributing
Editor Receives Appointment; Avotaynu Business; Another Good Buy from
Avotaynu; Bashert
Vol. 5, No. 9 - May 9, 2004
Yiddish Book Center Makes Yizkor Book Reprints Available; Finally! Avotaynu Guide to Jewish
Genealogy Has Gone to the Printer; News About the
Jerusalem Conference; Family History Library Expanding Again; JPEG
Images of Postcards Available at Avotaynu Site; Avotaynu Office Closed
May 14 – May 24; Beware of a Strange Virus
Vol. 5, No. 10 - May 30, 2004
We've Come a Long Way Baby; Polish
Sources at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People;
News from the NGS Conference; ProQuest 1920 Census Index and Images;
Ancestry.com Adds 1910 Index; A Family Tree Quilt; Publish Your Family
History on CD-ROM; More Regarding DNA for Genealogy; The Incredible Dr.
Morse Does It Again--1910 Census; Pages of Testimony to Be Online This
Fall; Avotaynu Guide to
Jewish Genealogy Ship Date; Reminder: Shabbat Dinner at
Jerusalem Conference
Vol. 5, No. 11 - June 13, 2004
The Amazing Dr. Morse (and Friends); Index to Hamburg Emigrants Passes
2 Million Mark; ITS Records May Be Available to the Public; Shabat
Discussion Group at the Jerusalem Conference; 18th-Century Records of
the Vilna Gaon Family; Argentinean Jewish Death Index Online; NARA
Places World War II Soldier Database Online; Five Books Received the
AJL "Best Reference Book" Award; A Message That Will Be Posted on
JewishGen Ten Years from Now
Vol. 5, No. 12 - June 27, 2004
An Interesting Genealogy Project; Broken Links; Avotaynu Going to the
Conference
Vol. 5, No. 13 - August 1, 2004
The 24th International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy Is History; We've Come a Long Way, Baby; IAJGS Announces
Annual Awards at Jerusalem Conference; Future Conferences; Security in
Israel; Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy Has
Been Shipped; Ancestry.com Collection Now Includes San Francisco
Passenger Lists 1890–1912; First American Jewish
Families Now
on Internet; Jewish Genealogical Research Trip to Salt Lake City;
Global Surname Search; Bklyn-genealogy-info.com; Reminder: Special Book
Offers
Vol. 5, No. 14 - August 15, 2004
Conference Lectures Available on CD-ROM; Photos of New York Buildings;
Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU Contains a "First"; A Scam Involving Holocaust
Assets; Tradition
Vol. 5, No. 15 - August 29, 2004
Did Mr. Roth Have Red Hair?; Two New Functions at Stephen P. Morse
Site; Yizkor Book Reproductions from National Yiddish Book Center;
Clearance Sale; Boy, Have They Got Our Number; Speaking of Food; FGS
Conference in Austin, Texas
Vol. 5, No. 16 - September 12,
2004
Yad Vashem Plans to Launch Its Names Database on November 22; Ellis
Island Site Adds New Search Functionality; More Ellis Island Database
Improvements; The Generic Dr. Morse; News from the FGS Conference; 1901
Canadian Census Being Indexed; Australia Jewish Genealogical Society to
Celebrate Its Bar Mitzvah; Clearance Sale Continues for Russian-Jewish
Given Names: Their Origins and Variants
Vol. 5, No. 17 - September
26, 2004
Nu?
What's New? Has a New Look; Software
for Placing Your Family History on the Internet; A Dictionary
of Jewish Surnames
from Galicia to the Printer Shortly; National Archives of
Canada Adds Online
Collections; Another Stephen P. Morse Function; Postcard Images of
Interwar Poland
on Internet; Search Engine for Nu?
What's New? Archives;
Vol. 5, No. 18 - October 10,
2004
A Conference for Convict Ancestors; Index to Australian Passenger
Arrivals Online;
Italian Genealogy Group Makes New York City Marriage Index Available;
Galician
Book to Go to Printer This Week; Stephen Morse Adds More Search Engine
Portals;
Another Web-based Genealogical Software System; Ancestry.com Updates
World War
I Draft Registration Database; NGS Regional Conference in Phoenix This
January;
Another Language Translation Site; On Privacy, Security (and Now,
Terrorism);
Gone Fiching
Vol. 5, No. 19 - November 7,
2004
AOL Blocks Last Issue of Nu?
What's New?;
Ellis Island Site Improves Search Engine; Information About 25th
International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy; News from Salt Lake City; Status of
Ancestry.com
Passenger Arrivals Indexes; New Avotaynu Catalog Being Mailed; Avoid
This Scam
Vol. 5, No. 20 - November 17,
2004 - Special Edition
Help
Test the Central Database of Shoah Victims'
Names
Vol. 5, No. 21 - November 28,
2004
Early Use of the Yad Vashem Names Database; Ellis Island Database Takes
a Step
Backwards; Using the Advanced Search Feature of the Ellis Island
Database; Submitting
Corrections to the Ellis Island Database; Online Registration for Las
Vegas Conference
Soon; Canada May Allow Public Access to 20th-Century Census Records;
More Utilities
from Stephen P. Morse; A Technique for Finding Missing Relatives; Fall
Issue
of AVOTAYNU; Call for Human Interest Stories, New Family Histories;
Catalog Discount
Ends December 7
Vol.
5, No. 22 - December 12, 2004
Help
Grow the Shoah Victims' Names Database;
Israel Genealogical Society Helping to Locate Page of Testimony
Submitters; Canadian
Researchers Try the Legal Route to Access Census Records; Steve Morse
Solves
the Last-Name Only Restriction of EIDB; Jewish Presence in
Post-Expulsion Spanish
Colonies; Now Shipping A
Dictionary of Jewish
Surnames from Galicia
Vol. 5, No. 23 - December 19,
2004
New York Public Library Adds Many Yizkor Books Online; New York State
Census
Finding Aids from Stephen P. Morse; Excellent Military Maps of
19th-Century Europe;
Online Gazetteer of the World Has Moved; Web Site Provides Search
Engine to Many
Archives in England; Central Zionist Archives Improves Web Site;
Register Now
for the Las Vegas Conference; New Book: The
Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835: Revised
Edition;
Sephardic Dreidels?
Vol. 5, No. 24 - January 2, 2005
Task Force Requests Public Access to ITS Records; Index to Births,
Marriages
and Deaths of England and Wales; Site Identifies 31,000 Victims at
Mauthausen
Camp; Ancestry.com Now Has Death Index for Florida 1936–98;
Index to
Kishinev
Birth Records Now Online; Morse Withdraws Yizkor Book Portal; Jews-Officers
in the Polish Armed Forces
Vol.
5, No. 25 - January
23, 2005
Avotaynu Now Selling Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames;
Online Encyclopedia
of Genealogy; U.S. Library of Congress Digitizing Some of Its
Books; Historic
Hebrew Newspapers Now Available Online; Ancestry.com Completes
Passenger Lists;
Website Identifies Thousands of Dutch-Jewish Individuals
Vol. 6, No. 1 - February 13,
2005
Morse Adds New Capability to Ellis Island Database Search; What Do Sam
Horowitz
and Peying H Kim Have In Common; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU to the
Printer; Central
Zionist Archives Website; New Book: The Old Jewish Cemeteries
of Newark;
The Latest from Ancestry.com; Grave Locator for Government Cemeteries
in U.S.;
Group Trip to Lithuania; Comments of Articles in the Last Issue of Nu?
What's
New?
Vol. 6, No. 2 - February 27,
2005
Latest News About the Annual Conference; New Book: Genealogical
Gazetteer
of the Kingdom of Hungary; Online Guide to Genealogical
Resources in Israel;
New Google Map Feature; New Ancestry.com Databases of Interest; An
Avotaynu Milestone;
Last Chance to Take Advantage of AVOTAYNU Subscription Offer
Vol. 6, No. 3 - March 13, 2005
Announcing A Dictionary
of German-Jewish Surnames;
New York Public Library Places Many Yizkor Books on Internet; Hamburg
Emigration
Index to Include New Records; Book on Hamburg Experience; The Latest
from Stephen
P. Morse; The Latest from Ancestry.com; Jewish Genealogy Month
Vol. 6, No. 4 - March 27, 2005
London Gazette Now Online;
Searching Eastern European Directories; Deadlines
Looming for Avotaynu Offers; About the All-SIG Databases; New at the
Stephen
P. Morse Site; New from Ancestry.com; Spam Filters and Nu?
What's New?;
Is There Such a Thing as a Beautiful Picture of the Holocaust
Vol. 6, No. 5 - April 12, 2005
The Mormon-Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won't Go Away; Come to
the Las
Vegas Conference; JPEG Images of Postcards Once Again Available at
Avotaynu Site;
Audio Portion of Genealogy TV Show Accessible on Internet; New from
Ancestry.com;
A Passover Story;
Vol. 6, No. 6 - May 1, 2005
Mormon-Jewish Dialogue Continues; Complete Program for Las Vegas
Conference Now
Online; News of Interest to Canadian Researchers; USHMM Filming in
Ukraine; Databases
on Amsterdam Jewry; New York Law May Make Vital Records More
Accessible; Time
To Be Thinking About Passover 2006; Getting Popes Mixed
Vol. 6, No. 7 - May 15, 2005
Canadian Census Law May Pass Soon; Accessing Abandoned Web Pages; Morse
Improves
on Social Security Death Index Search; California Birth Index
1905–1995; Online
Database of Persons Interned in Soviet Gulags; Annual Jewish Genealogy
Trip to
Salt Lake City; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; A
Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames To Be Shipped
Vol. 6, No. 8 - June 12, 2005
Consolidated Jewish Surname Index Updated; "Index of the Repressed";
News from
the NGS Conference; A
Dictionary of Jewish
Surnames from the Russian Empire Out of Print; Using
Stephen P. Morse
Portals for Ancestry.com Databases; State Archives in L'viv Closed to
Investigate
Thievery
Vol. 6, No. 9 - June 26, 2005
Canadian Census Bill May Not Pass Until Fall; Annual Conference Starts
July 10;
Avotaynu Taking Orders Only at Las Vegas Conference; A Bit of Stephen
P. Morse
Humor; Avotaynu Offices Closed July 2–25. Place Orders for
Books Now!;
New Book
by Avotaynu: German Name-Change Gazetteer; New Book: Soft Cover Version
of Sourcebook
for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories; Out of Print:
How
to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust
Vol. 6, No. 10 - June 28, 2005
-SPECIAL EDITION
Canadian Census Bill Is Law!; Last Issue of Nu?
What's New? Until August 1
Vol. 6, No. 11 - August 14, 2005
Second Castle Garden Database Online; JewishGen Adds Enhanced Search
Features;
Canadian 1911 Census Now Online; Searching Online Eastern European
Directories;
French-Jewish Libraries Develop Online Catalog; Paris Police to Open
Their Archives
to Shoah Memorial Archives; Next Year's International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy;
Ancestry.com To Make Available Every-Name Index for 1920 Census; Two
Opportunities
To Do Research in Salt Lake City
Vol. 6, No. 12 - August 28, 2005
Do You Want Your Family History To Be on Television?; Online Polish
Gazetteer;
Online Information About German Soldiers Killed in the Two World Wars;
NARA Has
Online Lists of People; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; Avotaynu Shipping
German Name-Change
Gazetteer; Jewish Genealogical Societies; The Jews of Nigeria; A Little
Bit of
Internet Humor; Next Edition of Nu? What's
New? Will Be September 18
Vol. 6, No. 13 - September 11,
2005
19,234,000,000,000,000 bytes; Shaltiel:
One Family's Journey Through History; Attention Genealogy
Junkies in the
Northeastern United States; American Jewish Historical Society Adds to
Online
Databases; Jewish Community of New Orleans; Firm Measures Popularity of
Genealogy
Vol. 6, No. 14 - September 21,
2005
Avotaynu and JewishGen Servers Not Functioning
Vol. 6, No. 15 - October 2, 2005
Happy New Year to all!; JewishGen and Avotaynu Servers; John Martino,
Consummate
Volunteer; News from Ancestry.com: 1920 Census Index and Florida Ship
Arrivals;
Ukraine SIG Offers Recipes; Last Chance for Discount Offer; What Is the
Most
Universal Jewish Surname?; AOL Users: Font Size Too Small?; Poor
Bernard Kouchel
Vol. 6, No. 16 - November 13,
2005
New York City Brides' Index Online; The Last Useful Feature of the
Ellis Island
Search Engine; Hamburg Emigrant Index Now Extends to 1910; Online
Database of
250,000 Holocaust Records; Project to Index Canadian Passenger Lists;
Wanted:
Human Interest Articles for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Winter Issue of
AVOTAYNU
To Include Books In Print; New Databases at Ancestry.com; Beautiful
Representations
of Family Trees; Paper
Clips
Vol. 6, No. 17 - November 27,
2005
Help Grow the Shoah Victims' Names Database; Who Owns the Copyright?;
Registration
for 2006 Conference Now Online; Plan to Place Canadian Ship Manifests
Online;
Israel Genealogical Society Site Identifies Family Trees; Fall Issue of
AVOTAYNU;
Morse Site Can Search List of 30 Alternatives Too; Seeking Web Sites
With Jewish
Newspapers Online; Sephardic Dictionary Now In Stock
Vol. 6, No. 18 - December 18,
2005
Mormons Baptize Their Relatives As Well As Their Ancestors; Wikipedias
Now Exist
for Many Countries; Article on DNA and Jewish History; Jewish
Newspapers Online;
Using the Polish State Archives Online Catalog; Morse Site Can Overload
Systems;
The Latest at the Stephen P. Morse One-Step Site
Vol. 6, No. 19 - January 8, 2006
New Milestone for Nu?
What's New?;
Speakers for International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Come from
Many Countries;
Ancestry.com to Index 1911 Census of Canada; A Crack in the Romanian
Archival
Dike?; New from Stephen P. Morse; About the United States Commission
for the
Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; A
Guide To Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom; Avotaynu
Catalog; It
Isn't Genealogy but Here Is a Remarkable Map Site; It Also Isn't
Genealogy But...
Vol. 6, No. 20 - January 22,
2006
More from Stephen P. Morse; News from Ancestry; FGS to Start a National
Youth
Family History Society; New Auschwitz Information Online; Canadian
Passenger
Lists to Be Available in March; Pictures of Turn-of-the-20th-Century
Eretz Yisrael;
Salt Lake Plaza to Be Used for Dormitories; CAHJP Needs Financial Help;
40% of
Ashkenazic Jewry Descended from Just Four Women
Vol. 6, No. 21 - February 5,
2006
International Institute for Jewish Genealogy Opens in Jerusalem;
Ancestry.com
Provides Index to Vital Records of England and Wales; MyFamily.com
Places Index
to 1911 Canadian Census Online; Morse Site Now Includes Portals to the
Canadian
1901 and 1911 Censuses; Online Bremen Lists Expanded; New Edition of
AVOTAYNU
on CD-ROM--Special Offer
Vol.
7, No. 1 - February
19, 2006
Chaim Freedman Stirs the Pot; International Institute of Jewish
Genealogy Receives
Warm Reception; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU To Be Mailed Shortly; New from
Stephen
P. Morse; Canada and Australia Censuses Now Have Opt In Plan; Write an
Article
for AVOTAYNU; Last Chance for AVOTAYNU on CD-ROM at Special Price
Vol. 7, No. 2 - March 5, 2006
Comcast Blocked Last Issue of Nu? What's
New?; German Government Blocks Public Access to ITS
Records; Innovation
at the Annual Conference of Jewish Genealogy; Jewish Genealogy Month
2006; Two
Avotaynu Books Win Awards; Montreal Directories Online; U.S. National
Archives
Starts Pilot Project to Digitize Films; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU in the
Mail
Vol. 7, No. 3 - March 19, 2006
Reaction to German "Veto" of Public Access to ITS Data; Australian 2006
Census
Has Opt-in Question; Canadian 2006 Census Opt-in Question; Stephen P.
Morse Completes
Linking of New York Bride and Groom Indexes; Index to 1929 Polish
Business Directory
Online; Time to Renew Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU
Vol. 7, No. 4 - April 9, 2006
Outcry for Release of ITS Records Continues; ArchiveGrid Launched; New
Book: Guidebook
for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel;
26th International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Two Other Conferences Worth
Considering; Searching AVOTAYNU
on CD-ROM for Moments in History; Spring Issue of
AVOTAYNU; "Evelyne Regains
Her Identity"; "Grain of Truth"; It's Not Genealogy, But...
Vol. 7, No. 5 - April 18, 2006
SPECIAL EDITION Germany Approves Release of ITS Records; Tel Aviv
Chevra Kadisha
Provides Online Death Records
Vol. 7, No. 6 - April 23, 2006
USCIS To Provide Fee-for-Service Genealogy Program; Missouri Places
Death Certificates
Online; New At the Stephen P. Morse Site; IAJGS Conference To Include a
Computer
Learning Center; Online Course in Jewish Genealogy; Family Tree DNA
Reduces Prices
for DNA Testing; More Evidence of Rabbinic Pedigrees; New Book: History
of the Jews of Schneidemühl: 1641 to the Holocaust
Vol. 7, No. 7 - May 14, 2006
German Bundesarchiv Updates Gedenkbuch;
American Jewish Committee Archives Online Includes Jewish Yearbooks;
Complete
IAJGS Conference Program Now Online; IAJGS Conference in 2008 Will Be
in Chicago;
Cemeteries Starting To Place Databases Online; Ancestry.com Adds a
Catalog Feature;
Census Browser at Morse Site; Featured Book: History
of the Jews in Russia and Poland; Followup: Online U.S.
Birth/Death Certificates;
Followup: Yet Another Computer Pioneer
Vol. 7, No. 8 - June 4, 2006
ITS Commission Approves Public Access to Their Records; An Important
Article
in AVOTAYNU; Jewish Genealogy Group Forming in Spain; Exhibitors List
for IAJGS
Conference Now Available; Ancestry.com Adds WWII "Old Man's" Draft
Cards to Their
Site; Montreal City Directories Online; New Book: Roots
and Remembrance
Vol.
7, No. 9 - June 18,
2006
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won't Go
Away—Helen Radkey
Banned from Family History Library; Online Directories at Logan
Kleinwaks Site;
French Memorial List; Wanted by Stephen P. Morse: A Few Good
Volunteers; New
Book: Jews of
Kopcheve; Monaco
To Study Its Role in the Holocaust; Help Grow the Shoah Victims' Names
Database;
We Are Now Shipping Guidebook
for Sephardic
and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel; We Are Now
Shipping History
of the Jews of Schneidemühl; On A Personal Note
Vol. 7, No. 10 - July 2, 2006
ITS Director Replaced; Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That
Won't Go Away:
More About the Helen Radkey Incident; Don't Forget the Resource Room at
the International
Conference; New Book: Taking
Tamar;
Ancestry.com Completes U.S. Census Project; ProQuest to Terminate
Remote Access
for Institutional Subscribers; JGS of Montreal Has Index to Jewish
Quebec Vital
Records; Stephen Morse Links to New York Cemetery
Databases; Argentinean
Equivalent of the "Sean Ferguson"
Legend
Vol. 7, No. 11 - July 16, 2006
ITS Charging for Research; Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That
Won't
Go Away--Using Government Records for Religious Purposes; Clarification
of ProQuest
Remote Access; Dick Eastman's Genealogy E-Zine; Book Signings at the
New York
Conference; Avotaynu to Discontinue Offering JPEG Images of Ancestral
Towns;
Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; "Taking Tamar" Now Being Shipped; It Isn't
About Genealogy
- News from the Front
Vol. 7, No. 12 - July 30, 2006
Yad Vashem Adds New Major Database to Internet: "Shoah Related Lists
Database";
Brunhilde Katz: Symbol of the Shoah Related Lists Database; Eight of 11
Nations
Signed Off on Public Access to ITS Records; The Mormon/Jewish
Controversy: The
Problem That Won't Go Away: Genealogical Society of Utah; Don't Miss
the Event
of the Decade: 26th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy;
Avotaynu Presence
at Annual Conference; NARA Plans to Reduce Opening Hours; Last Chance:
Avotaynu
to Discontinue Offering JPEG Images of Ancestral Towns
Vol. 7, No. 13 - August 27, 2006
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won't Go Away: This is
Emes; Stephen
P. Morse Given Lifetime Achievement Award; International Conference on
Jewish
Genealogy a Success; Jewish Genealogy Blog Started; First Genealogy
Skypecast
Held; New Offering: New
Encyclopedia of Judaism;
New book: Grandeur
and Glory (of
Galicia)
Vol. 7, No. 14 - September 6,
2006
IIJG Symposium September 10–12; Petition to Protest NARA
Plans to Reduce
Hours of Operation; Yad Vashem Wants Volunteers to Encourage Pages of
Testimony
Submissions; Leslie Caplan Dies; Site About Polish Jewry; On the Silly
Side:
Auschwitz Renamed
Vol. 7, No. 15 - September 17,
2006
Report on First Symposium of International Institute for Jewish
Genealogy; New
Products at the FGS Conference; New Book: A
Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery; Google Provides
Online Index
to Old Newspapers; Fifth Cemetery in New York City Area Goes Online;
Tooting
My Own Horn
Vol. 7, No. 16 - October 8, 2006
What is the Profile of a Genealogist?; Ancestry.co.uk Now Has British
Phone Books,
1880–1984, Online; FGS Offers Downloading of Conference
Lectures;
Ancestry.com
Adds Newspaper Birth, Marriage and Death Announcements,
1851–2003;
MyFamily.com
Getting a Bit of Competition; Mormon Church to Redo Downtown Salt Lake
City;
Wanted: Human Interest Articles for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; AVOTAYNU
Publishes
Jewish Family History Books in Print; Now Shipping A
Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery; First Blogs and
Now Vlogs;
On the Lighter Side
Vol. 7, No. 17 - October 29,
2006
Problems Receiving Nu?
What's New?; Canadian Passenger Lists
1865–1922 Now
Online; Mormons Plan Substantial Improvements to FamilySearch.org; The
Importance
of Special Interest Groups; Denial of U.S. Citizenship; New Software:
Map My
Family Tree; Benjamin Meed Dies
Vol. 7, No. 18 - November 9,
2006
Special Edition: Ancestry.com Makes Major Announcements About Passenger
Lists;
U.S. Passenger Lists; Stephen P. Morse Portal to Ancestry Passenger
Lists; All
Hamburg Emigration Lists to Be Available December 2006
Vol. 7, No. 19 - November 19,
2006
Lars Menk Wins Obermayer Award; IAJGS Announces Conference Plans;
Website: Museumoffamilyhistory.com;
Special CD Offer of Jewish History Books; News from the SIGs; Article
About International
Tracing Service; Nick Vine Hall Dies; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; Avotaynu
Catalog
Available
Vol. 7, No. 20 - December 3,
2006
Stephen Morse Creates the Ultimate Ellis Island Search Engine; Avotaynu
to Poll "Nu?
What's New?" Subscribers; Ancestry.com Extends Free Use of Passenger
Lists; Last
Chance: Special CD Offer of Jewish History Books; Genealogy Videos on
the Internet;
JewishGen Holocaust Database Now Exceeds One Million Records; List of
Jewish
Refugees in Uzbekistan; News from the SIGs; New Book: La Liste de St.
Cyprien;
Generali Still Accepting Claims; Registry of Holocaust Survivors
Extended to
Include Non-Americans; AVOTAYNU Publishes Jewish Family History Books
in Print
Vol.
7, No. 21 - December 17, 2006
AOL Subscribers Did Not Receive Last Issue; Nu? What's New?
Survey
Provides Interesting Results; Generali Still Accepting Claims; Call for
Papers: 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Add
Your Family Website to JewishGen's FamilyLinks; Online Jewish Genealogy
Classes; New Electronic Magazine: Digital Genealogist;
International
Tracing Service on 60
Minutes; Two Unusual Jewish Organizations:
Kulanu and Shlach Amee V'yavdonee
Vol.
7, No. 22 - December 31, 2006
Many Wikipedias for Genealogy; Shoah Victims' Names Database Grows and
Grows; U.S. Senator Calls for Rapid Release of ITS Records; ITS
Documentary Available on Internet; Center for Jewish History Integrated
Index Now Online; News from the SIGs; Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The
Problem That Won't Go Away--Simon Wiesenthal "Baptized"; Comments on
the Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Avotaynu Site Has a New Look
Vol.
7, No. 23 - January 1, 2007
Special Edition: Hamburg Emigration Lists Online at Ancestry.com; Morse
Adds Portal to Hamburg Lists; Yad Vashem Adds Major Record Groups to
Shoah Victims' Database
Vol.
8, No. 1 - January 14, 2007
British Emigration Lists Online; Mémorial de la Shoah
Website; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU to the Printer; News of the Annual
Conference; News from the SIGs; New Web Site: Footnote.com; Another New
York Cemetery Online
Vol. 8, No. 2 -
January 28, 2007
Pressure Grows to Release Arolsen Records; Online Petition to Release
U.K. Censuses After 70 Years; Two Additional Israeli Burial Societies
Now Have Data Online; Family Tree "Chain Letter" Started; News from the
SIGs; Two Valuable Indexes for Jewish Genealogy; Otto Frank Letters
Found at YIVO Institute; A Case Study in Persistence, Patience and
Networking
Vol.
8, No. 3 - February 10, 2007
UK Emigration Lists 1890–1909 Now Online; Index to Jews
Admitted
to Switzerland at USHMM Site; Paul A. Shapiro To Be Keynote Speaker at
Conference; Sephardic Resource Book Receives Award; IIJG Offering
Grants for Genealogical Research Projects; Website Identifies Hungarian
Jews Caught Up in the Holocaust; “What Happens in Las Vegas
Stays
in Las Vegas”; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU In the Mail
Vol. 8, No. 4 -
February 25, 2007
Canadian Immigrant Database Online; New Book: A Practical
Guide
to Jewish Cemeteries; European Researchers To Speak at
Annual
Conference; News from the SIGs; Ancestry.co.uk Adds Data on World War I
Veterans; An Example of DNA Testing to Exclude Kinship; March 15
Deadline for Resubscribing to AVOTAYNU at a Discount
Vol. 8, No. 5 -
March 13, 2007
ITS Records to Be Released to Participating Countries; JOWBR Database
Grows; March 15 Deadline for Resubscribing to AVOTAYNU at a Discount;
News from the SIGs; Ship Date for A Practical Guide to Jewish
Cemeteries
Vol. 8, No. 6 -
April 1, 2007
Dick Eastman Predicts “A New Computer Revolution Is Rising
Around
Us”; Ancestry.com Cancels Access to Their Databases at Family
History Centers; Ancestry.com Adds Canadian Border Crossings to Site;
More Than Half of Canadians Opt-In On Release of 2006 Census Data;
Computer Workshops and Film Festival Announced for Annual Conference;
U.S. House of Representatives Holds Talks on ITS Records; News from the
SIGs; Manhattan Brides Index 1866–1905 Now Online; Library of
Congress Places Historic American Newspapers Online; Central Archives
for the History of Jewish People Moves; Avotaynu Shipping “A
Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries
Vol. 8, No. 7 -
April 15, 2007
UK Archives Plans to Place 1911 Census Online; A Remarkable CD:
Bibliography
on German-Jewish Family Research and on Recent Regional and Local
History of the Jews;
Access to Romanian Archive Eases; Take Advantage of Early Registration
Price for Conference; Jewish Holdings of Family History Library Updated
Online; Istanbul Jewish Marriage, Death and Burial Records Online;
Winners of the AVOTAYNU Renewal Drawing; Ancestry.com Has Ties to
“The Family”
Vol. 8, No. 8 -
April 29, 2007
Public access to records of the International Tracing Service;
Manhattan Brides Index; Silesian Business Directories; Holocaust
Victims of Vosges Department, France; Montreal City Directories; Access
to New Zealand Vital Records; Conference Early Registration Ends Soon;
German-Jewish Family Research CD; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; Need
Authors for Planned Avotaynu Book;“In Their Words”
Polish
Translation Guide Back In Print
Vol. 8, No. 9 -
May 13, 2007
Update Web Site Created for Where Once We Walked;
Steve Lasky Adds More Functionality to His Site; Public Access to ITS
Records; Seven Down, Four to Go; Ancestry.com Adds Mexican Border
Crossings to Their Collection; Ancestry.com Resolves Problem of
Personal Access at Family History Library; Images of Tombstones in
Polish Cemeteries; Revised Edition of Washington Jewish Genealogy
Resources Now Available; Annual Jewish Genealogy Trip to Salt Lake
City; Translation Guide Tables of Contents Now
Vol. 8, No. 10
- May 15, 2007 - Special Edition
Special Edition. Access to Arolsen Records to Be Expedited; Mormon
Church to Assist Repositories in Making Records Available
Vol. 8, No. 11
- June 3, 2007
ITS Releases Official Statement About Release of Its Records to Public;
Canadian Passenger Lists To Be Indexed; U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services Plans to Implement Fee-for-Service Program;
Pronunciation Guides at Steve Lasky Site; System Developed to Link Page
of Testimony Researchers; Ancestry.com Adds Military Records to Its
Collection; News from the SIGs; Holocaust: Up Close and Personal; New
Portal for Ellis Island Database
Vol. 8, No. 12
- June 17, 2007
FamilyTreeDNA Creates “Jewish DNA Central”;
Attention All
Genealogists: Stop Work! Your Genealogy Has Been Done!; JewishGen USA
Database Grows to 900,000 Records; ShoahConnect An Early Success;
Another ShtetlLinks Site; Online Information About Jewish Cemeteries
Throughout the World; Detailed Map of Contemporary Poland; Prague
Conscription (Residence) Records Online; More Data Added to Museum of
Family History Site; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; Belgian Deportation List
Now on Internet; Archaic Medical Terms Online; Pre-order Books If You
Are Coming to the Conference
Vol. 8, No. 13
- July 1, 2007
PhpGedView; JewishGen Holocaust Database Now Has 1.6 Million Entries;
Access to ITS Records Update; Canadian Census Battle
Looms—Again;
News from the SIGs; Addendum About Polish Maps; Final Reminder:
Pre-order Books If You Are Coming to the Conference; A Political
Vol. 8, No. 14
- July 29, 2007
27th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; JOWBR Now Contains
800,000 Records; Family History Library Outline Series;
“Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian
Empire”;
New York Vital Records Indexes Selectively Blocked; News from the SIGs;
Anita “Nikki” Pikus (1938–2007); Salt
Lake Conference
- Addendum
Vol. 8, No. 15
- August 12, 2007
AOL Blocks Nu?
What’s New?...Again; ITS Records Status from the
“Horse’s Mouth”; Ashkenazic and Sephardic
Jews; New Volumes of Pinkas
HaKehillot
Series for Germany; Yad Vashem to Publish a Newsletter; British World
War I Pension Records; Index to Lodz Cemetery Planned; Raul Hilberg
Dies: Historian of the Holocaust
Vol. 8, No. 16
- August 26, 2007
Spam Filters Screening This E-zine; JewishGen Integrates Access to
Jewish Community Data; First Shipments of ITS Records Reach Yad Vashem
and USHMM; Images of Pre-War Poland Online; Jewish Museum of
Deportation and Resistance: Malines, Belgium; Stephen P. Morse Honored
by APG; Description of Julian and Gregorian Calendars; Family Tree
Maker 2008; News from the SIGs; Clearance Sale! “Jewish
Personal
Names: Their Origin, Derivation and Diminutive Forms”
Vol.
8, No. 17 - September 9, 2007
Happy (Jewish) New Year to All; Newspaperarchive.com and
Holocaustarchive.com; Hamburg Emigration Exhibit Now Open; German
Government Honors Arthur S. Obermayer; Chicago (Cook County) Vital
Records To Go Online; Following
the Paper Trail Now In Softcover; Israeli Unclaimed Asset
Accounts; Jewish
Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation and Diminutive Forms.
Last Chance at a Reduced Price; Some Miscellaneous Observations
Vol. 8, No. 18
- September 23, 2007
Remarkably Detailed Maps of Interwar Poland; UK Emigration Lists
1890–1909 Now Online; British Library Posts Their Jewish
Collections for Eastern European Countries; Portions of New York Times Back
Issues Now Available Free of Charge; Auschwitz Photos Depict Life of
Nazi Officers at Camp; New Book: Until the 'Final Solution' The
Jews in Belgrade 1521–1942; Steve Morse on Roots
Television; A Different Way to Display a Family History;
An Interesting Given
Vol. 8, No. 19
- October 14, 2007
New Ukrainian Research Service Launched; Family History Department
Develops Wiki-Like Web Site; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; Latvian Cemetery
Database Now Online; ITS Ratification: One Down, Two to Go; Lodz Ghetto
Work ID Cards to Be Indexed; Gravestone Inscriptions for Frankfurt and
Prague; Now Shipping New Book: Until the 'Final Solution': The
Jews in Belgrade 1521–1942; Wanted: Human
Interest Articles for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol. 8, No. 20
- October 28, 2007
Mathilde Tagger’s Databases Added to Sephardic Genealogy
Website;
YIVO to Publish Encyclopedia
of Jews in Eastern
Europe;
Military Personnel Files Released by U.S. Government; News from the
SIGs; New Family History: The
Plaut Family-Tracing the
Legacy; NARA and Mormon Church Sign Agreement to Digitize
Documents; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; Second Notice: Human Interest
Articles for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol. 8, No. 21
- November 4, 2007
France and Greece Ratify Public Access to ITS Records; The Treasure
Trove in Bad Arolsen; Shipping New Book: The Plaut Family-Tracing the
Legacy
Vol. 8, No. 22
- November 10, 2007
The Tragedy of Access to Bad Arolsen Records; Paul Shapiro Explains ITS
Holdings on Tracing
Your Roots;
ITS Accepting Online Requests; Biographies of Rabbis Who Perished in
the Holocaust; IAJGS Conference in 2009 To Be In Philadelphia; New
Book: Grin-ealogy;Guardian
and Observer
Place Back Issues Online;
Are You Descended from the Vilna Goan?; Famillion Schedule Slips; Want
to Receive Our Catalog?
Vol. 8, No. 23
- December 2, 2007
USHMM To Have Public Access to ITS Records This Month; USHMM Now Has
Online Inventory of ITS Collection; T/D Files at ITS: What Are They?;
Findmypast.com Adds 10 Million British Burial Records; JOWBR Approaches
One Million Records; Accessibility to Major Belgian Resource In Doubt;
Australia's Electoral Rolls Online; Shipping New Book: Grin-ealogy; More
Candidates for Grin-eology
Vol. 8, No. 24
- December 23, 2007
Trip to Bad Arolsen; USHMM Form Now on Internet; Unclaimed Assets
inEncyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust
Israel Online; Call for Papers for 2008 Conference on Jewish Genealogy;
Ancestry.com Adds U.S. Passports 1795–1925 to Its Collection;
Access to Ancestry.com at Family History Library Restored;
Genealogists/Historians Scuttle Plans to Limit Access to New Zealand
Vital Records; Jewish Genealogy Databases Reach Milestones
Vol. 9, No. 1 -
January 6, 2008
Planned Trip to Bad Arolsen May 4–9; MyHeritage.com Launches
Powerful Search Engine; Call for Papers for 2008 Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; New Latvian Internet Sites; AVOTAYNU on CD-ROM: Good News
and Bad; National Archives and Records Service of South Africa; Russian
Database of Military Personnel Lost in World War II; Lyakhovichi Shtetl
Vol. 9, No. 2 -
January 13, 2008
Milestone: Nu? What's
New?
Now Has 8,000 Subscribes; Time to Register for Planned Trip to Bad
Arolsen May 4–9; Preview of New Book: “Every Family
Has a
Story: Tales from the Pages of AVOTAYNU”; Attention
Europeans:
The Time To Buy Avotaynu Books Is Now;
Vol. 9, No. 3 -
January 28, 2008
Report on Trip to International Tracing Service May 4; Yad Vashem Now
Offers Online Inquiries to ITS Records; Video of Arolsen Trip on the
Internet;Gedenkbuch
Online; Registration for 2008 Chicago Conference Is Now Open; JewishGen
Class on "How to Make Shtetlinks Web Pages"; Another DNA Service
Company; Some British Jewish Marriage Documents To Be Indexed; Will
Great Britain Abandon Censuses?; Plan to Digitize all Dutch Jewish;
Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol. 9, No. 4 -
February 17, 2008
New Book: Every
Family Has a Story; Special Pre-publication Discount Offer
Until March 3 for Every
Family Has a Story;
Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU in the Mail; Findmypast.com Adds 1.2 Million
More Records to Its National Burial Index; Additional IAJGS Conference
News; Sephardicgen.com Adds Index to Viennese Turkish Births;
Immigrants to São Paulo, Brazil, Online; ProQuest
Digitizes Boston
Globe 1872–1922; Dachau Inmates List at Morse
Site
Vol. 9, No. 5 -
March 2, 2008
Deadline for Every
Family Has a Story
Discount Approaches; Peoplefinders.com: A Worthwhile Investment;
International Conference of Jewish Genealogy Now Has a Discussion
Group; First National Conference of Australian Jewish Genealogy
Societies; Database of German Address Books, 1699-1958; Los Angeles
City Directories Online; Complaint Filed in UK About DNA
Testing; Dictionary
of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition;
March 31 Deadline for Resubscribing to AVOTAYNU at a Discount
Vol. 9, No. 6 -
March 16, 2008
A
Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire;
Index to Russians/German/Italians to America Now Online; JewishGen
Offering Basic Education Course; RootsWeb Gets New URL; IIJG Providing
Research Grants for Up to $10,000; Every
Family Has a Story to Ship at End of April; Reminder:
March 31 Deadline for Resubscribing to AVOTAYNU at a Discount
Vol. 9, No. 7 -
March 30, 2008
Genealogy Groups Move Toward More Open Access of Records: ITS
Distributes Displaced Persons Files; Additional Information: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames
from the Russian Empire;
Genealogy Institute Looks for New Director; Final Reminder: March 31
Deadline for Resubscribing to AVOTAYNU at a Discount; Famillion
Partners with Haaretz
Vol. 9, No. 8 -
April 1, 2008
Special Edition - Susan King Retires from JewishGen
Vol. 9, No. 9 -
April 13, 2008
Program for Chicago Conference Now Online; Findmypast.com Completes
Indexing British Passenger Lists; Lists of Persons Caught Up in the
Holocaust; 1916 Census of Canadian Provinces Released; Book: Every Family Has a Story
Delayed; CD Contains Photographs of 1,410 Synagogue Buildings in the
U.S.; Two Slots Opened for Bad Arolsen Trip; Winners of the AVOTAYNU
Renewal
Vol. 9, No.10 -
April 27, 2008
JOWBR Now Exceeds One Million Records; FAMILYTreeDNA Forms Second
Company: DNATraits; New Book: Tide & Wreck: The
History of the Jews of Vardar Macedonia;
New Canadian Genealogy Search Engine; APG To Hold Roundtable on Record
Access; Deadline for Early Registration Looms for Chicago Conference;
Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; Bounced E-mail to Jewish Genealogists;Every Family Has a Story
Being Shipped
Vol. 9, No.11 -
May 12, 2008
Special Issue: A Genealogical Research Trip to Bad Arolsen
Vol. 9,
No.12 - May 18, 2008
IAJGS Announces 2010 Conference To Be in Los Angeles; Ancestry.com
Divulges Planned Databases; British Jewish Marriage Authorisation
Certificates Available; Index to Jews of Kreis Altenkirchen and
Westerwaldkreis; Fee-for-Service Program at USCIS Will Start in August;
Database of Jewish Soldiers, Partisans and Workers Killed in Action
During the Nazi Era; Vatican Opposes Mormon Church Practice of
Posthumous Baptism; News from the SIGs; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; FGS
Conference in Philadelphia September 2–6; ItalianGen: A
Victim of
Success
Vol. 9, No.13 -
May 25, 2008
Special Edition: Announcing A
Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition;
Compare the Two Editions; Avotaynu Brings Back Prenumerantn Lists -
Again; Specifications of the Book; Ordering Information and
Pre-publication Discount Offer Good Until June An Interesting Story:
How I Came to Know Alexander Beider
Vol. 9, No.14 -
June 1, 2008
ICRC Wants to End Its Role at International Tracing Service; London
Jewish Birth Records Indexed; JGSGB Database Identifies Jews Living in
UK in 1851; FamilySearch.org Will Have a New Look; Public Member Trees
on Ancestry.com; Hindsight: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames
from the Russian Empire; Only 15 Days Left for
Pre-publication Offer for A
Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition;
Every
Family Has a Story Pre-publication Purchases Have Been
Vol. 9, No.15
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June 15, 2008
Beider and Morse Create a New Indexing System; Deadline Approaches To
Be an Advanced Subscriber to Beider Book; Yad Vashem Places Photo
Archives Online; Genealogybank.com Has Historical Newspapers; Susan E.
King to Be Feted at Annual Conference; JewishGen Offering Basic
Genealogy Course Again; New FamilySearch Site Adds Philadelphia
Marriages (1885–1951; Additional Functionality at Morse
One-Step
Site; Avotaynu Summer/Fall 2008 Catalog
Vol. 9, No.16 -
June 29, 2008
Do Not Buy Avotaynu Books from Amazon.com; Searchable Eastern European
Business Directories Grows to 31; News from the SIGs; Israeli Online
Telephone Book; More About Stephen P. Morse; Even More About Stephen P.
Morse; “Jewish Data” Adds More Records; Ohio
Obituaries
Online; Map Price
Vol. 9, No.17 -
July 13, 2008
Avotaynu Books “Temporarily Out of Stock” at
Amazon.com;
Theresienstadt Database at Czech Site; Plans for Online Access to
British Vital Records Stalls; Central Archives Wants Family
Correspondence; Jewishdata Information Now at WorldVitalRecords.com;
Cook County (Chicago) Vital Records Service Now Online; Israeli Phone
Book Access Now Possible Through Morse Site; More About Steve Morse;
Annual Jewish Genealogy Trip to Salt Lake
Vol. 9, No. 18
- July 27, 2008
FamilySearch Partnering with Commercial Ventures; Records Preservation
and Access Committee Creates Brochure; 1891 Canadian Census Now Online
at Ancestry.com with Morse One-Step Access; Online FBI Files Accessible
for Free; Order Books for Conference; Wanted: Tree Expert; Amazon
Clearance
Vol. 9, No. 19
- August 10, 2008
JOWBR Now Includes More Than One Million Burials; Ancestry.com Plans
Digitization of a Number of Non-American Records Groups; Especially
Canadians Take Note: Order Books for Conference; New Genealogy
Software: Modern Genealogy; Museum of Family History Adds Search
Engine; New Beider Book to Ship Soon; Second Trip to Bad Arolsen;
Panoramic Views of Synagogues; Maps of Poland, Past and Present;
Assimilation and Name Changes; Varda Books – Caveat Emptor
Vol. 9, No. 20
- August 24, 2008
JewishGen and Ancestry Form an Alliance; Is Ancestry.com Owned by the
Mormon Church?; 28th Conference on Jewish Genealogy a Great Success;
Closure: An Incident at the Annual Conference; USCIS Fee-for-Service
Now in Operation; GRO Abandons Effort to Digitize UK Family Records;
What Do You Think of the New JewishGen Logo?; Jewish Genealogy Trip to
Salt Lake City; Another Academic Institution Providing Accreditation in
Genealogy; New Beider Book to Ship Soon; Various Sites of Potential
Value to Genealogical Research
Vol. 9, No. 21
- September 14, 2008
Correction on Conference Dates; Site Shows in Which Countries a Surname
Appears; Ancestry.com to Partner with City of London; Jewish
Metrical Records from L’viv Archives Recatalogued;
“Do I
Have Jewish Ancestry?”
Vol. 9, No. 22
- September 28, 2008
Happy (Jewish) New Year To All!; No One Has the Right to Involve Other
People’s Families in Their Religion; Morse Implements
Phonetic
Algorithm for Ellis Island Database; NARA Has Online Immigration
Indexes; Mt. Lebanon Cemetery Seventh New York Cemetery Online; UK
Burials at the Cemeteries of the United Synagogue are Online; German
Government Releases List of Jewish Residents During Holocaust Period;
Australian Passenger Lists; Ancestry.com Adds Canadian Passenger Lists,
1865–1935; FindMyPast.com Adds 1901 Census of London;
“Do I
Have Jewish Ancestry?” Addendum<; Back Issues of
“Nu?
What’s New?”
Vol. 9, No. 23
- October 14, 2008
A New Image of Volunteers; Google Translate Now Includes Hebrew; An
Issue of AVOTAYNU—At Last!; Canadian Census Questionnaire To
Be
Made Clearer; Cook County (Chicago) Naturalization Online; Back Issues
of Stammbaum Online; Annual Trip to Lithuania; Suggestion: Searchable
Yahrzeit Reminder Service; Correction About New York
Vol. 9, No. 24
- November 2, 2008
Ancestry Unveils Its Jewish Family History Collection; Webinar Planned;
UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960; 1911 Census of England and
Wales To Be Released Early; France Lessens Privacy Restrictions of
Records; Back Issues of Canadian
Jewish Review
Now Online; Odessa and Cherkassy Jewish Records To Be Indexed; Entries
from 1909 Bukovina Directory Now Online; Wanted: Human Interest
Articles for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; An Excellent Chanukah Gift for
Only $99; Tel Aviv Chevra Kadisha Website Now Also in English and
Russian—Sort Of; Wooden Tombstones of Poland; Hungarian
Jewish
Tourist Brochure available to Download; It’s Not Genealogy,
But...
Vol. 9, No. 25
- November 9, 2008
Webinar a Great Success; Canadian Research Through Library and Archives
of Canada; South African Research; New FamilySearch Site; Ancestry.com
Adds French Vital Records Index; Scottish Resources; Holocaust Site:
Jewishtraces.org; Recommended Chanukah Gift #2: Every Family Has a Story at a
Discount; Another Excellent Chanukah Gift for Only
Vol. 9, No. 26
- November 23, 2008
Dates Established for 2011 Conference; Yad Vashem Library Catalog Now
Online; Hungarian Name-Change Book on Google Books; Canadian
Immigration Records; Book Identifies Belgian Deportees; Reminder: Human
Interest Articles for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Give JewishGen a
Chanukah Present; Chanukah Gifts for Yourself, Friends and Favorite
Library; Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go
Away: Holocaust Survivors End Discussions with the Church
Vol. 9, No. 27
- December 7, 2008
ITS Hires Archivist to Improve Indexing and Finding Aids; DNA Evidence
Shows Many Spaniards Have Jewish and Muslim Ancestors; New
Book: Google
Your Family Tree; Call for Papers for the
2009
Conference on Jewish Genealogy; What’s New at the Morse
Site?;
JewishGen Discussion Groups; Discounts on Avotaynu Products Through
December
Volume 9,
No. 28 - December 14, 2008
Google
Your Family Tree; Discounts on Avotaynu Products Through
December 22; Chanukah Gifts for Yourself, Friends and Favorite Library
Vol. 9, No. 29
- December 21, 2008
Generations; Status of Internet Access to Canadian Census and Passenger
Lists; Videos of Pre-Holocaust Jewish Poland; Foundation for Jewish
Heritage in Poland; Ancestry.com Now Has 1935 and 1945 Florida Censuses
Online; Centropa.org; Living in America: The Jewish
Experience—Philadelphia; Absolute Last Time to Purchase
Avotaynu
Products at Discount Prices
Vol. 10, No. 1
- January 14, 2009
1911 Census of England and Wales Now Online; Marian Smith; AVOTAYNU at
the Printer; JewishGen Continues to Grow and Grow; Hungarian Death
Notices Online; Prague Conscription (Residence) Records Online -
Progress Report; Calendar Trivia; Planned Tour of Israeli
Archives; Google
Your Family Tree Order Processing Now
Vol. 10, No. 2
- January 26, 2009
JewishGen Relocating to Ancestry.com Servers; IIJG Forms Advisory
Board; Web Site for 29th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy;
MuseumOfFamilyHistory.com Adds Search Engine; Top Sellers of 2008
Vol. 10, No. 3
- February 8, 2009
JewishGen Now on Ancestry Servers; No, JewishGen and Ancestry Are Not
Merging; Registration Open for 29th IAJGS International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy; Ancestry.com Offering 33-Marker DNA Test for $79;
“Who Do You Think You Are?” Genealogy TV Show
Coming to
U.S.; Riverside Cemetery Is Eighth New York-area Jewish Cemetery To Go
Online; JewishData.com Database Grows; Are You a Snowbird?; Photo
Exhibit of Malines Deportations Now Exhibited in Brussels; New Books
Planned by Avotaynu; Digital Publishing
Vol. 10, No. 4
- March 1, 2009
French Priest To Be Keynote Speaker at Annual Conference; Head of
Romanian Archives to Attend Conference; Conference Discussion Group Now
Available; IIJG Web Site Shows Progress of the Institution; Library and
Archives Canada Has 1891 Census Online; MyHeritage.com Search Engine
Updated; New Zealand Vital Records Online; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU;
Theme For AVOTAYNU Spring Issue: “Getting Around Brick
Walls”; Ancestry.com Provides Surname Statistics; We Are In
the
Internet
Vol. 10, No. 5
- March 18, 2009
Economic Downturn May Benefit 2010 U.S. Census; Chicago Jewish
Newspaper Online; Ancestry Adds 1940-Era City Directories; Life
Magazine Photos on Google; IIJG Starts Fund-Raising Drive; Vital Record
Registers of Algeria for 1832–1904 Are Online; Trips to
Lithuania
and Salt Lake City; Avotaynu Offers
Vol. 10, No. 6
- March 29, 2009
Searching JewishGen’s 43,000 Pages; New Book: Road to
Victory:
Jewish Soldiers of the 16th Lithuanian Division;
Preliminary Conference
Program Now Online; ViewMate Returns to JewishGen; Tracing Your Roots
Interview Program; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Contributions to IIJG; Los
Angeles Address Directories; Massive Collection of WWI Documents
Discovered; It’s Not Genealogy, But...
Vol. 10, No. 7
- April 12, 2009
Australian Immigration/Naturalization Records Online; Indexing of 1911
Census of England Now Complete; Update of AVOTAYNU on CD-ROM; London
Databases at Ancestry.com; FamilySearch Indexing Projects; Tool
Converts GEDCOM to Excel, Access or CSV Files; Reminder: Help Grow the
Shoah Victims’ Names Database; Possibly Useful Web Sites; New
Book: Road to Victory:
Jewish Soldiers of the 16th Lithuanian Division; Deadline
for Renewing Subscription to AVOTAYNU at Reduced Rate Is April 20
Vol. 10, No. 8
- April 26, 2009
These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls; JGSLI Yearbook
Project;
Deadline Looms for Conference Early Registration; Register for Meals
and Computer Workshops; Philadelphia
Jewish Resource Guide
Will Help Researchers; Ancestry Adds Border Crossings for U.S. to
Canada; Photographs of Arrival at Auschwitz; Avotaynu Now Offering
Payment Through PayPal; Poland to Publish Online List of WWII Dead;
Blessing of the Sun; It’s Not Genealogy, But...
Vol. 10, No. 9
- May 11, 2009
ITS Plans Program to Preserve Original Documents; New Book: Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn;
British Newspapers 1800–1900 Online; List of British Seamen
Now
Online; Ancestry.com Has German Phone Books; Searching Ancestry.com By
Given Name; News from FamilySearch.org; JRI-Poland Now Has 3.5 Million
Records Indexed; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; Mormon/Jewish Controversy:
The Problem That Won’t Go Away: President Obama’s
Mother
Posthumously Baptized; Winners of AVOTAYNU Resubscribe Contest;
Attention Snowbird AVOTAYNU
Vol. 10, No. 10
- May 31, 2009
Debate on Future of the International Tracing Service Is Underway;
Aufbau Indexing Project Has 47,600 Records Online; Australian Cemetery
Burials Now Online; St. Petersburg's Preobrazhenskiy Jewish Cemetery
Now Online; Second Source for Auschwitz Deaths; Shipping Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn;
All-Hungarian Database Now Has 800,000 Records; JewishGen Forms Board
of Governors; FamilySearch Has Records for Numerous Southern U.S.
States; Planning Worksheet Available for Philadelphia
Conference;Company Claims To Give Origin of Surnames
Vol. 10, No. 11
- June 21, 2009
U.S. National Archives to Get Alien Registration Records; Museum of the
History of Polish Jews Creates Virtual Shtetl Site; British Library
Places 19th-Century Newspapers Online; Canadian Censuses
1851–1916 Now Online; Israel Genealogical Society Places
Mount of
Olives Cemetery Data on Internet; New York State Newspaper Site; The
Importance of Family Health History; HIAS Helps Darfur Child to Reunite
with Parents; New Avotaynu Catalog
Vol. 10, No. 12
- June 28, 2009
Now Available: New Edition of AVOTAYNU on CD-ROM; IIJG Plans
Genealogical Glossary in Hebrew; Valuable Databases to Be Available at
Annual Conference; Ellis Island Videos on YouTube; New Web Site
Information: Censuses of Scotland: ScotlandsPeople; United Synagogue
Marriage Authorisation Index; Contemporary Maps of Hungary, Slovakia
and Romania
Vol. 10, No. 13
- July 10, 2009
Commentary About Identity Theft and Homeland Security; Latvian Jewish
Records Now Online; Estonian Records Online; Report from the
International Institute for Jewish Genealogy; Deadline for AVOTAYNU on
CD-ROM Extended to July 21; List of People Expelled from the University
of Vienna in 1938; Converting Ahnentafel Numbers to Natural Language; Lost Wooden Synagogues of
Eastern Europe Now on CD; The Generations Network Changes
Its Name
Vol. 10, No. 14
- July 19, 2009
New Book: Handbook of
Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants New Book: Sephardic
Genealogy–Second Edition;
Last Chance to Consider Attending Conference; Avotaynu Presence at
Annual Conference; Need Volunteers to Translate Yizkor Book
Information; Deadline for AVOTAYNU
on CDROM Looms;
Vol. 10, No. 15
- July 26, 2009
Lionel Sharpe Receives Medal of the Order of Australia; New Version of
the Canadian Naturalization 1915–1932 Database; New Functions
at
Stevemorse.org; JOWBR Now Has 1.2 Million Records; Mormon/Jewish
Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go Away—Mormon
Leaders
Present President Obama with His Family History; New Avotaynu Books
Available for Sale at Philadelphia Conference; Third Edition of Polish
Translation Guide Published; Jewish Genealogical Research Trip to Salt
Lake City; Handbook of
Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants Price
Correction; My Two Cents
Vol. 10, No. 16
- August 16, 2009
IIJG Presents Session at World Union of Jewish Studies; Ancestry.com
Expands Jewish Record Collection; New Location for IAJGS International
Jewish Cemetery Project; Videos of Polish Jewish Cemeteries on YouTube;
Search for Descendants of Red Star Line Passengers; Google Maps Now
Includes More Ukrainian Towns; Free Indexes to Births of England and
Wales on Ancestry.com; JewishGen Wants More KahaLinks; Online Language
Translators; Philadelphia Conference: A Remarkable Event
Vol. 10, No. 17
- August 30, 2009
CJSI to be Updated; IAJGS Plans Multilingual Conference Internet Site;
Ancestry.com Is Going Public; Where Is Susan King?; Sadie Is Not a
Jewish Given Name; Sephardic
Genealogy–Second Edition Shipped
Vol. 10, No. 18
- September 13, 2009
A Serendipitous Discovery: Archive.org; New Collections at
FamilySearch; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; Frequency and Geographic
Distribution of Surnames by Country; Another Language Translator; UK
National Archives Plans Cuts in Service; Looking for New Databases to
Add to CJSI
Vol. 10, No. 19
- September 29, 2009
30th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Now Has
Website; JewishGen Offering “Build Your Owen ShtetLinks
Page” Course; Kielce-Radom Index To Be Part of JRI-Poland
Database; Feedback from Readers; NewsLibrary.com; GuyShachar.com;
Southern Israelite Indexed; Kiev Mayor Vetoes Babi Yar
Vol. 10, No. 20
- October 2, 2009
Special Edition: Footnote.com Allows Access to Holocaust Collection
Free in October
Vol. 10, No. 21
- October 13, 2009
Google Wants to Digitize “Out-of-Print” Books; IIJG
Announces Latest Grants; More IIJG News; Museum of Family History;
Ancestry.com Offers Webinars; Philadelphia Conference Session
Recordings Available; Reminder: Footnote.com Holocaust Collection
Accessible at No Cost in October; Michelle Obama’s Ancestry
Vol. 10, No. 22
– November 1, 2009
Another Google Translate Feature; Arthur Kurzweil To Be
“Genealogist in Residence” at Annual Conference; TV
Program
“Who Do You Think You Are?”; Jews of Stropkov
Back In Print; FamilySearch Indexing Project to Top 325 Million Names;
“Holocaust by Bullets” Resource Center Opens in
Paris;
Belgium Has ITS Documents; Jennie Lebel Dies; Trip to the Candy Store
Vol.
10, No. 23 – November 15, 2009
Special Edition:
Treat Yourself to a Chanukah Present
Vol. 10, No. 24
– November 16, 2009
Research in Argentina; New Records at JewishData.com; Conference Now
Accepting Lecture Proposals; News from Footnote.com; Jewish Conference
in Jamaica; News from the SIGs; Holocaust Research and the Internet;
Reminder About Discounts
Vol.
10, No. 25 – November 29, 2009
Special Edition:
Tine Is Running Out to Treat Yourself to a Chanukah Present
Vol. 10, No. 26
– November 30, 2009
Documenting History; Historic Jewish Press Internet Site; Dropbox;
Survey on American Jewish Language Use; Reminder About Discounts
Vol. 10, No. 27
– December 20, 2009
Google Fined by French Courts; Annual Conference to Include a
“Market Square Fair”; Dicionario Sefaradi de
Sobrenomes Now
Available in Softcover; Archival Photos of New York City Buildings; New
Resources: Ancestry.com Completes Canadian Arrivals; West Virginia
Vital Records Online; Dictionary of Jewish Bulgarian Surnames; Scotland
Vital Records; Latvian Newspapers 1895–1957 Online;
End-of-Year
Appeal To Help Make IIJG More Successful; Annual Group Trip to
Lithuania; Clearance Sale: Genealogical Resources in New York
Vol. 11, No. 1
– January 3, 2010
Ancestral File To Be Used for Mormon Rituals?; January 15 a Special
Date for Annual Conference; New Website on Jewish Galicia and Bukovina;
Worth Reading: “Why Isn’t It Free?”;
Jewish
Genealogical Yearbook; SynagogueScribes.com; Hamilton County (Ohio)
Documents Online; Hadassah
Magazine Publishes Interesting Story About IIJG
Vol. 11, No. 2
– January 18, 2010
A Potential risk Using Geni; Article about Online Family Trees; ITS
Finishes Digitization of Post-War Records; Germany Relaxes Access to
Civil Registration Records; U.S. Premiere of "Who Do You Think You
Are?" in March; RTR Foundation Now Has Databases (searchable by family
name) and Photos; Genealogyindexer.org; Wanted: Human Interest Articles
for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; AVOTAYNU Publishes Jewish Family History
Books in Print
Vol. 11, No. 3
– January 31, 2010
Online Information about 10,000 European Jewish Cemeteries; Register
Now for the 30th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; Who
Do You Think You Are
Coming to Israel; Mount Olives Cemetery Graves to be Indexed; JewishGen
Uses Video for JOWBR Online Education; Museum of Family History Adds
Lodz Ghetto Deaths; 25th Anniversary Sale! 25% Discount on Guide and WOWW
Vol. 11, No. 4
– February 14, 2010
Last Chance for 25% Discount on Guide
and WOWW;
ITS Digitizing Correspondence Files; Daniel Mendelsohn Keynote Speaker
at Conference; Mass Jewish Migration Database; National Library of the
Czech Republic Digitizing Periodicals and Monographs; Cook County
Naturalizations Online; Brooklyn
Eagle
Online; IIJG Providing Research Grants in Jewish Genealogy;
Jewishtraces.org Adds More Holocaust-Related Data; JGS Colorado Created
Genealogy Video; Google Class Action Agreement Under Scrutiny; Israelis
Create Rolltop Computer
Vol. 11, No. 5
– March 7, 2010
FamilyTreeDNA to Offer Autosomal-Based Tests; Conference Speakers;
Commentary on Who Do
You Think You Are and Faces of America;
1930 U.S. Census Available Free of Charge on the Internet; Museum of
Family History Screening Room; Canadian Newspapers Digitized by Google;
1939 “Census” of England and Wales Available;
Aerial
Photographs of Lithuanian Cities; Site for Jews of Unterfranken,
Bavaria, Germany; Jewish Refugees in Morocco; Firefox’s
Keyword
Feature; JDC Indexing Project- Summer Internship Opportunity
Vol. 11, No.
6– April 4, 2010
Footnote.com Makes U.S. Census Available at No Charge; Another
Auschwitz Database; Online Education Courses by Family History Library;
Review of the New iPad; Anglo-Jewry Database; Michael Bernet
z”l;
AVOTAYNU on CD-ROM; A Race Against Time: Yad Vashem Shoah Victims'
Names Recovery Project
Vol. 11, No.
7– April 18, 2010
Annual Conference Program Now Online; Index to Latvian Vital Records;
Poland Plans Database of “Victims of Repression Under German
Occupation”; Swiss Refugees Database; Books for Jewish
Cemetery
Research; Access to NewFamilySearch May Be Near; Beirut Jewish
Cemetery Online; Attention AVOTAYNU Subscribers; iPad Mania
Vol. 11, No.
8– May 2, 2010
JewishGen Has Information on 5,600 Communities; Random U.S. Directories
and Lists; News from Ancestry.com; Immigrant Databases on
WorldVitalRecords.com; Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their
Variants; Family Tree University; Jewish Genealogical Trip to Salt Lake
City
Vol. 11, No. 9
– May 16, 2010
Verizon.net Users Missing Issues of Nu? What’s New?”
Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; Another List of Directories; Footnote.com Has
Free Access to Newspaper Archives Through May; FamilySearch Adds More
Than 300 Million New Names; Immigrants to American Series Also at NARA
Site; Site Identifies New York City Buildings; The Unbroken Chain
at 40% Discount; The Story of a Calque
Vol. 11, No. 10
– May 30, 2010
Hiring a Professional Genealogist; HIAS Has a New Slogan;
Balticgen.com; Brno and Pilsen Archives Have Online Digitized Images;
40 Million Pages from British Newspapers to Be Digitized; Burial Site
of American Rabbis; Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute to Be
Open on Sundays; Winners of AVOTAYNU Subscription Renewal Contest;
Avotaynu to Publish Its 60th Book—and Some Editorializing
Vol. 11, No. 11
– June 13, 2010
Library and Archives Canada Digitizing Microform Holdings;
FindMyPast.com Offering Free Access During World Cup Period; IAJGS
Conference Program Runs Until Midnight; JOWBR Grows to 1.4 Million
Records; Museum of Family History Adds Photos of Synagogues; Now
Available: Jews of the
Kaišiadorys Region of Lithuania; Afterthought:
Jews of the Kaišiadorys Region of Lithuania; New Book on
Extant Lithuanian Synagogues; Avotaynu Catalog.
Vol. 11, No. 12
– June 27, 2010
New Book: Getting
Started in Jewish Genealogy: 2010 Edition; YIVO Encyclopedia of Eastern
Europe
Online; Annual Conference;: Final Comments; Order Avotaynu Books for
Conference; IIJG Provides Semi-Annual Report; Michigan Jewish Burials
Online; Addendum to Last Issue’s “Library and
Archives
Canada Digitizing Microform Holdings”; Australians Overtake
Finns
on CJSI.
Vol. 11, No. 13
– July 8, 2010
Off to the Annual Conference; 2011 Canadian Census Questions Revised;
More Functionality at the Morse One-Step Site; Getting Started in Jewish
Genealogy Shipped; Opinion: The Value of DNA Testing
Vol. 11, No. 14
– July 25, 2010
2010 Conference Is History; Hal Bookbinder Receives Lifetime
Achievement Award; Cover of Getting Started; Finding Israeli Phone
Numbers; Complaints About Canadian Census Plans Mount; UK May Scrap
Census in Its Entirety; FindMyPast.com Has UK Birth Index
1837–2006; News from Ancestry.com; New Book: One Foot In
America;
Wanted: A Complete Set of AVOTAYNU
Vol. 11, No. 15
– August 15, 2010
ITS Publishes Annual Report; Lots of News from the Israel Genealogical
Society; Chief Statistician of Canada Resigns Over Census Debate;
Improvements to the Morse Ellis Island Database Search; One Foot in America
Shipped; Places Still Available for Jewish Genealogy Trip to Salt Lake
City; Lost
Synagogues of The Bronx Planned
Vol. 11, No. 16
– September 2, 2010
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go Away - A
New Reconciliation?; 1932 Palestine
Directory and Handbook Now Searchable Online; Sixth
International Conference on Genetic Genealogy; Lots of Little Things
Vol. 11, No. 17
– September 28, 2010
Attention: BellSouth and ATT Subscribers; ITS Distributes
Children’s Tracing Branch Data; Deathindexes.com; Index to
Australian Death Notices Online; News from the SIGs (Hungarian privacy
law, Lativian periodicals online, Bessarabia Revision List project);
Ancestry Acquires Parent Company of Foootnote.com; Museum of the Riga
Ghetto Opens; Ukraine Archives to Place Looted Property Documents
Online; IIJG Awards Grant for Hungarian Research; News from
Ancestry.com (Family Tree Maker 2011, England and Wales National
Probate Calendar); Avotaynu of Facebook
Vol. 11, No. 18
– October 3, 2010
ITS Introduces Fee Schedule, Education Program; Does Your Ancestral
Town Have a Shtetl/KahaLinks Page?; Guide, WOWW and CD-ROM Available at
Significant Discounts; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; Internet Security
Vol. 11, No. 19
– October 24, 2010
Agreement Signed Between JRI-Poland and Museum of the History of Polish
Jews; Call for Papers: 2011 Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Last
Chance: Guide, WOWW and CD-ROM Available at Significant Discounts;
FamilySearch; New Version of the Canadian Naturalization
1915–1932 Database; Site for Volunteers from Abroad Who
Fought in
Israeli War of Independence; Judaica Photos; Book on Moravian Jewry;
How to Access FBI Files; Ancestry.com Now Has Records for Three
Notorious Federal Prisons; Internet Security – Followup
Vol. 11, No. 20
– October 31, 2010
Guide, WOWW and CDROM Available at Significant Discounts Ends Today;
Two More New York Cemeteries Online; News from Jewishdata.com;
Ancestry.com Subscribership Rapidly Growing; News from the Hungarian
SIG Discussion Group; Online Register of the Second Anglo-Boer War
1899–1902
Vol. 11, No. 21
– November 14, 2010
Another Chanukah Present to Nu? What’s New?
Readers; NARA Now Allows Ordering of Digitized Images; Are You Having
Trouble With ITS Inquiries?; Familyrelatives.com; Online Map of Poland;
Slovak Jewish Heritage Site; Ancestry.com To Have 1911 British Census
Online; Annual Research Trip to Lithuania; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU;
AVOTAYNU Business
Vol. 11, No. 22
– November 28, 2010
Reminder: Deadline for Avotaynu Discounts is December 1; 2013 Boston
Conference Dates Set; European Union Funds Holocaust Research
Infrastructure Project; Yad Vashem’s “List of
Lists”;
New Season for American and Australian Versions of Who Do You Think You Are;
Fall AVOTYANU to the Printer; FamilySearch Site Adds 15 Million
Indexes; Library and Archives Canada Provides Aid to Immigration
Records; Czech Archives to Digitize Vital Records; Passaic County (New
Jersey) Naturalization Images Online
Vol. 11, No. 23
– December 12, 2010
Index to Online Searchable U.S. Naturalization Indexes &
Records;
Members of the British Palestine Regiment; Using the Daitch-Mokotoff
Soundex and Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching System with the New Lodz
Cemetery Database; Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That
Won’t Go Away—Anne Frank Submitted for Posthumous
Baptism
an Eleventh Time; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Encyclopedia of Jewish Life
Before and During the Holocaust; FindMyPast.com Indexes UK
Marriage Records; Another 1911 Census of England and Wales Available;
AVOTAYNU Reminders
Vol. 11, No. 24
– December 19, 2010
IIJG Proposes a Demographic and Genealogical Review of Scottish
Jewry; Encyclopedia
of the Pioneers and Builders of Israel Digitized; Announce
Latest Celebrities To Be on American Version of Who Do You Think You Are?;
FamilySearch Redesigns Website; Temple Ordinances Now Hidden from the
Public; 2011 Conference Now Has a Blog; France Receives Copy of ITS
Digital Files; Book on History of the Jews in South Africa; U.S.
National Archives Wants Feedback about 2010 Census; New Online Records
of the Jews of Vienna; Richard Holbrooke’s Ancestry; Google Your Family Tree;
Contribute to JewishGen
Vol.
11, No. 25 – December 26, 2010
Nu?
What’s New? to Be Published Weekly by Paid
Subscription; Yad Vashem Now Has 4 Million Shoah Victims Identified;
Site Plans To Have Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina; Judaica
Europeana; South African Jewish Digital Archive Project; First Ever
Family Tree Week Launched in UK; JOWBR Now Has 1.5 million Records;
Hungarian Privacy Laws To Go Into Effect in 2012; Salute to the Romanian Jews in
America and Canada, 1850–2010;
A Message from the Director of the International Institute for Jewish
Genealogy
Vol. 11, No. 26
– January 1, 2011
Happy New Year!; This Is the Last Issue...; Historical Jewish Press
Website; Latvian Newspaper Website; Hint: Search Newspaper Archives for
Ancestral Towns; Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: 2011 Edition;
Recent Additions to FamilySearch Database; NARA Has New Search Engine;
Do You Have Information about Lost Synagogues in Bronx, Manhattan and
Queens?
Vol.
12, No. 1 – January 9, 2011
U.S. Library of Congress Newspaper Collection; Ethnic Newspapers To Be
Online; Family Tree of the Jewish People Now Has 5 Million Entries;
Register Now for the 31st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; January 15 Deadline to Submit Lecture Proposal for Annual
Conference; Use Google Translate for Foreign Language Documents; Recent
Additions to FamilySearch Database; JewishGen Yizkor Book Project;
Ancestry.com Releases Family Tree Maker for Mac
Vol.
12, No. 2 – January 16, 2011
Library and Archives Canada Is Going Digital; Who Do You Think You Are?
Debuts February 4; Non-Israeli Volunteers in Israel’s Wars;
Books
of Vital Records Indexes for London Synagogues; YouTube Films of
Ancestral Towns; Index to the Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre
Now Available; MuseumOfFamilyHistory.com
Vol.
12, No. 3 – January 23, 2011
Hungarian Genealogists Group Formed; GenealogyIndexer.org; Canadiana
Discovery Portal; Litvak SIG Has Translated One Million Records; Find
Your Australian Convict Ancestors Free of Charge at Ancestry.com.au;
Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Special Offer: Five Issues of AVOTAYNU for
the Price of Four; Use Genealogy Webinars To Educate Yourself
Vol.
12, No. 4 – January 30, 2011
Yad Vashem Wants Help from Genealogical Community; A Race Against Time:
Yad Vashem Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project; FamilySearch Partners
with Ancestry.com and FindMyPast.com; Who Do You Think You Are?
Identifies First Two Celebrities; Ancestry.com Running Sweepstakes;
Conference News: Super Early Bird
Deadline, Hotel Reservations, Discussion Group; Last Chance to
Subscribe to AVOTAYNU: Five Issues for the Price of Four
Vol.
12, No. 5 – February 6, 2011
Online Yahrzeit Plaques; Two Papers on Jewish DNA Research; March
26 Who Do You
Think You Are? to Feature Gwyneth Paltrow; Ancestry.com
Has Apps for iPad and iPhone; "Using JewishGen" course begins Feb 15; Handbook of Ashkenazic Given
Names and Their Variants; Have You Visited Your Ancestral
Country Recently?; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU at the Printer
Vol.
12, No. 6 – February 13, 2011
New American Family History Television Program; Family History Centers
to Have Ancestry.com Library Edition; Rabbi Shmuley Boteach To Be
Pre-Conference Scholar; JewishGen Education One-on-One Independent
Study Program; Webinars on DNA and Genealogy; Pittsburgh Jewish
Newspapers Online; Croatian Newspapers
Online
Vol.
12, No. 7 – February 20, 2011
American
Israelite 1859–1867 Now Online; Guide to Jewish Materials Stored
in Latvian State Historical Archives; Genteam.at; Sandra
Hargreaves Luebking; Frequency of Names in the U.S.; Remarkable Offer! Where Once We Walked
for only $25 for Just Three Days; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU Is in the
Mail
Vol.
12, No. 8 – February 27, 2011
Hungarian Archives To Destroy “Immoral Documents of an
Immoral
Regime"; Genealogy Webinars; Tenth International Conference on Jewish
Names; NARA Plans Budget Cuts; Who Do You Think You Are?
Renewed for Third Season; Influence of Ancestry.com on the
Public’s Perception of Genealogy; 1911 Census of Scotland;
Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands; WOWW Shipped;
Reminder: American
Israelite 1859–1867 DVD at a Discount
Vol.
12, No. 9 – March 6, 2011
Canadian Government Continues to Dismantle Planned Censuses; New
Zealand Cancels 2011 Census; Yad Vashem Expands Shoah
victims’
Names Database; IIJG Issues Call for Research Proposals;
Holocaust-Related Photographs; Latvia SIG Newsletters Online; Online
Danish Jewish Cemetery Database; Archives of Ireland Now Online;
FamilySearch Initiates Its First Hungarian Project; Consider Writing an
Article for AVOTAYNU
Vol.
12, No. 10 – March 13, 2011
List of Jewish Genealogy Mailing Lists; Finding Living Persons in the
UK; Finding Living Persons in the U.S.; List of Burial Societies in
Israel; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Announcement: Improvements
to Family Tree
Maker for Mac; Reminder: Renew AVOTAYNU at a Discount; Attention
Snowbirds Who Are AVOTAYNU Subscribers
Vol.
12, No. 11 – March 20, 2011
Mocavo.com; RootsTech 2011; Yad Vashem To Acquire Ukraine KGB Records;
British Library and Findmypast.co.uk to Digitize Five Million Pages of
Family History Records; Congressman Declares October Family History
Month; Basic Jewish Genealogy (U.S. Research) Class Stars April 1;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Turn Rejection Into Success;
Reminder: Renew AVOTAYNU at a Discount – Only 10 Days Left
Vol.
12, No. 12 – March 27, 2011
Plan to Restore Lithuanian Jewish Cemeteries; Canadian Jewish News (1960
to 1993) Is Now Online; Ancestry.co.uk Allowing Free Access to Census
Data Today Only; JRI-Poland Assists Who Do You Think You Are?;
1940 Latvia Telephone Directory Online; Google Loses Book Publishing
Rights; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Jewish Farmers in Utah?;
Reminder: Renew AVOTAYNU at a Discount – Only 3 Days Left
Vol.
12, No. 13 – April 3, 2011
Jewishpostcardcollection.com; Lithuanian Officials Make Commitment To
Assist in Restoring Jewish Cemeteries; Useful References for
Genealogists; List
of Blogs Dealing with Jewish Genealogy; Delivery of AVOTAYNU Winter
issue to Israel Delayed; More about Google Class Action Suit;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; New Book: A History of the Jewish
Community of London Ontario; Books of Vital Records of
London Synagogues; Hvem
Tror Du At Du Er; Give JewishGen Flyer to Friends
Vol.
12, No. 14 – April 11, 2011
Early Registration Deadline Looms for Washington Conference; Family
Tree DNA Discloses Extent of Its Holdings; Multiple Searches of
Surname; 1939 National Enumeration Transcript Books of the UK; Printed
Forms for Genealogy; Polish Metrical Records Being Digitized; Article
about Julius Muller; FamilySearch Additions for the Week;
Vol.
12, No. 15 – April 17, 2011
A Sweet Pesach to All; Back Issues of Jewish Telegraph Agency To Be On;
Latest Blood & Frogs Functions; More Forms for Genealogy;
Conference Program Now Online; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; Working with
PDF Forms; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Basile Ginger
Vol.
12, No. 16 – April 24, 2011
Happy Easter to Our Christian Subscribers; Free Online Genealogy
Research Courses; An Unusual Genealogy Site; Genealogywise.com; American Jewish Year Book 5672
(1911–12) Online; Do You Use
Amazon.com? Contemplating Using Ancestry.com?; Winners of AVOTAYNU
Resubscriber Drawing; Quick Reminders
Vol.
12, No. 17 – May 1, 2011
Access to 1940 U.S. Census Is Coming; Steve Morse Site Is 10 Years Old;
Articles on How To Understand and Interpret Old Family Photos; Many
American Jewish Yearbooks Online; DC Conference will include 24
Technology-Oriented Sessions; USHMM Director To Be Keynote Speaker at
Conference; Maps of the Russian Guberniyas 1820–26; Polish
Digital Library Collection; Machpelah Cemetery (Michigan) Burials
Online; Barcodes on Tombstones?; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
12, No. 18 – May 3, 2011 – Special Edition
American Joint Distribution Committee Places Index to 500,000 Records
on Internet; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Partners with
Ancestry.com
Vol.
12, No. 19 – May 8, 2011
Wildcard Searches; Jewish Telegraph Agency Archives Now Operational;
Cincinnati Birth and Death Index; Generationmaps.com; Remarkable Offer!
Jewish Personal Names for only $9.50 for Just Three Days; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; Have You Used ITS in the Past Year?
Vol.
12, No. 20 – May 15, 2011
Ancestry.com Plans to Add Searching Other Sites; Ancestry.com Today and
Future; JewishData.com Adds More Records; Reader Comments; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; Spring issue of AVOTAYNU in the Mail
Vol.
12, No. 21 – May 22, 2011
100,000 Photos of Tombstones in Polish Jewish Cemeteries; ITS Wants To
Return Personal Belongings; Holocaust Property Claims Site; News from
the SIGs; Choosing a Web Browser; Avotaynu Catalog In Mail;
International Conference on Jewish Genealogy News; Museum of Family
History Site Has New York City Synagogues; Cleveland Jewish News
Online; A Political Statement.
Vol.
12, No. 22 – May 29, 2011
Center for Jewish History Institutions Place Collections Online;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Fully Searchable UK Death Records
Online at Findmypast.com; Archivist of United States To Talk at
Conference Gala; Billiongraves.com; Avotaynu 1, Wikipedia 0
Vol.
12, No. 23 – June 12, 2011
FamilySearch Starts TechTips Website; ICRC to End Role at International
Tracing Service; U.S. Copyright Rules; Holocaust Survivors vs. Victims;
JewishGen Screencasts; Brit Milah Records of Aleppo Indexed; Bessarabia
Revision List Index Now Has 37,000 Records; Last Issue May Have been
Treated As Spam
Vol.
12, No. 24 – June 19, 2011
“Better Than Soundex”?; AARP Has
“Discover Your
Roots” Sweepstakes; Jewish Genealogical Trip to Salt Lake
City;
English Outbound Passenger Lists Online; More On Copyright; Dictionary of Jewish Surnames
from Galicia at 60% Discount;
Vol.
12, No. 25 – June 26, 2011
New Website: Canadian Heritage Jewish Network; Pier 21: A Gateway for
Canadian Immigration; ShtetLinks HTML Coders Needed; AARP Has
“Discover Your Roots” Sweepstakes; Jewish
Washington Tours
Planned for Annual Conference; Todd Knowles Honored by Jewish
Genealogical Society of Great Britain; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week; News Tidbits: Argentina Jewish Cemetery Database; New Haven
Burials; German Name Adoption Lists; GenAmi Has English Version of
Website; Lithuanian Internal Passports; Postscript to “Better
than Soundex”
Vol. 12, No. 26
– July 3, 2011
IIJG Establishes Guidelines for BA and MA Courses in Jewish Genealogy;
ITS Makes Available Additional Documents; Google Image Analyzer;
Resource Center at Annual Conference; Morse Site Has 1940 Census
Learning Aid
Vol.
12, No. 27 – July 10, 2011
Holocaust Conference: “Recording the Names”; Czech
and
Slovakian Jewish Records Online at FamilySearch; Three Major Polish
Resources Now Cross-link to Each Other; Jewish Genealogy Conference
News; Are Your Digital Affairs in Order?; UK Association of Jewish
Refugees “Journal” Online; Resources for Cleveland,
Ohio;
Bibliography of North African Jews (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and
Libya); Jewish
Genealogy Yearbook 2011 Online; FamilySearch Additions for
the Week
Vol.
12, No. 28 – July 17, 2011
An Interesting Consideration in DNA Evaluation; News from
JewishGen—Yizkor Books in Print Project, Independent Study
Program, JOWBR; Deceasedonline.com; Surviving Jews in Holland; Malines
Website Taken Down for a Year; Avotaynu.com Named One of the 101 Best
Genealogy Websites; FamilySearch Completes Indexing 1930 Census; Boston
2013
Vol.
12, No. 29 – July 24, 2011
More Information About Release of the U.S. 1940 Census; Other NARA
Digital Images; More on FamilyTreeDNA Probabilities; USHMM Establishes
a Holocaust Survivor & Victim Database; Latest Conference News:
Lithuanian Ambassador to Address Attendees; Order Avotaynu Books Now to
Pick Up at Conference; Consider a Gift Certificate for a Genealogy
Friend; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Do You Have Information
about Former Synagogues of Manhattan?
Vol.
12, No. 30 – August 1, 2011
New Gesher Galicia Database Search Engine Has Unusual
Features; Google Alerts;
Mocavo.com Now Accepts Family Trees; Recordings of Conference Sessions
To Be Available; Announce Location of 2013 Boston Conference; NARA
Search Engine Good for People Searching; Helene Joseph
Vol.
12, No. 31 – August 7, 2011
No Issue Next Week; Will You Be at the Conference?; FamilyTreeDNA
Accepting Other Companies Y-DNA Results; War Graves Photographic
Project; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; News from the SIGs; Mormon-Jewish
Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go Away; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week
Vol.
12, No. 32 – August 21, 2011
1940 U.S. Census To Be Free on Ancestry.com; Annual Conferences; IAJGS
Annual Awards; Shabbat-goy.com; Beginner’s Guide to Genetic
Genealogy; Genealogie.com; Dutch Naturalizations Online; FamilySearch
Additions for the Past Two Weeks—2.3 Million Images Added to
Its
Hungary Collections; Education Course on Breaking Brick Walls in the
U.S.; Online Yearbooks; Footnote.com Changes Focus and Name;
Australians Opt Out of Public Access to Census Information; Statement
on a Jewish Funeral Chapel’s Website
Vol.
12, No. 33 – August 28, 2011
Information Available About Paris Conference; Record Access for Family
History Research; Israeli Cemetery Online Databases; International
Jewish Genealogy Month; CEMLA in Argentina Provides Immigration
Database; Special Offer on Beider Books; News from the SIGs; JewishGen
Reports on Itself; ITS Annual Report; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week; Findmypast.com Lowers Prices; Ancestry.com Adds More U.S.
Yearbooks to Collection; Clarification of Why No Israel Conference in
2014
Vol.
12, No. 34 – August 29, 2011
Ancestry.com Allows Free Access to Immigration and Naturalization
Records; Don’t Forget Deadline for Beider Book Offer
Vol.
12, No. 35 – September 4, 2011
JewishGen Ending the Use of “Shtetl” in Its
Database Names;
UK Merchant Navy Archives Online; Videos on YouTube by FamilySearch and
NGS; New Book Offering: DNA
& Tradition; New Startup: Am haZikaron - the
Institute of Science and Heritage of the Jewish People; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week
Vol.
12, No. 36 – September 11, 2011
Jewishgen.org Ranks As 14th Most Popular Genealogy Site; Syncing Your
Genealogy Databases; “Taking Tamar” Now an Ebook;
Comprehensive List of Former Synagogues in New York City; Genteam.at
Now Includes Viennese Jewish Burials; Cincinnati Birth/Death Index
1865–1912 Completed; Ancestry.com Has Guide for Finding Your
Immigrant Ancestors; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; DNA &
Tradition Shipped
Vol.
12, No. 37 – September 18, 2011
September 11, 2001; 1940 U.S. Census a Big Yawn?; Article on History of
Jewish Genealogy Planned; FamilySearch Moving Toward Online Ordering of
Microfilms; South African SIG News; Ancestry.com Releases 1930 National
Census of Mexico; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
12, No. 38 – September 25, 2011
Shana Tovah!; Books Published by JGSGB; JewishGen Offering Basic Course
in U.S. Genealogy; Arizona Birth (1855-1935) and Death Records
(1844-1960) Online; History
of the Jews in Russia and Poland Now In Softcover; Geni
Offers an Intermediate Pricing; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
12, No. 39 – October 2, 2011
Jewish Cemetery Restoration Projects in Eastern Europe; Dead Sea
Scrolls Online; FindMyPast.com Adds Prison Records to Manchester
Collection; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Canada Gazette
(1841-1997) Now Online; ProQuest Adds Jewish Newspapers to Its
Collection; GenealogyBank.com; “Biggest” and
“Best”
Vol.
12, No. 40 – October 9, 2011
FamilySearch Location Search Has Problems; Lithuanian Government Shows
Greater Signs of Cooperation in Holocaust-Related Matters;
Internationalarchives.org; Ancestry.com Offering Free Access to
Selected Collections; “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Identifies Participants in 2012 Season; Russia Opens First Jewish
History Museum; Lackawanna County (Pennsylvania) Records Online;
Vol.
12, No. 41 – October 16, 2011
More on Using New FamilySearch Locality Catalog; FindMyPast.com Goes
Into the TV Business; New Book: The
Holocaust in Slovakia: The Story of the Jews of Medzilaborce District;
All-Galicia Database Adds Functionality; History of Brooklyn Jewry
Has Numerous Names; IIJG Announces Two New Research Grants; ITS To
Allow Copying of Entire Record Groups; Avoid Lackawanna County Site
Vol.
12, No. 42 – October 23, 2011
Preview of Paris Conference; Tribute to the Jews of Przedecz, Poland;
Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; Wanted: Human Interest Stories for Winter
Issue; More Avotaynu Business
Vol.
12, No. 43 – November 6, 2011
U.S. Social Security Death Index Having Its Wings Clipped; USHMM
Collections Now of Ancestry.com; At Last: A Good Roman Alphabet Israeli
Telephone Lookup; Ancestry.com Adds More Than 50 Million New Birth,
Marriage and Death Records; List of British National Archives Record
Groups Online; BillionGraves.com Now Has Jewish Burials; JewishGen
Advanced Education Course: Using JewishGen for European Research;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Scottish Census Street Index
Books
Vol.
12, No. 44 – November 12, 2011
Finding Former Province and District Names of Towns; New Book: The Lost Synagogues of The Bronx
and Queens;
Veterans/Remembrance/Armistice Day Sparks Free Access to Military
Records; More on SSDI: Maybe Not a Big Deal; JewishGen Resurrects
LostNFound Desk; 1940 U.S. Census Film; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week
Vol.
12, No. 45 – November 20, 2011
Registration for Paris Conference Formally Opens; Who Do You Think You
Are? Plans Third Season; U.S. National Archives Awards 1940 Census Site
to Archives.com; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; Brief Announcements; Recent
New Books from Avotaynu
Vol.
12, No. 46 – November 27, 2011
Another Test of the New ListServ Provider; ICRC Makes It Official: They
Will No Longer Manage ITS After 2012; Social Security Death Index Under
Attack—Again; YIVO Places “Encyclopedia of Jews in
Eastern
Europe” Online; Avotaynu Joins Cyber Monday Sales Event;
Avotaynu
800 Number Temporarily Not Working; List of Greek Jews; Budapest
Marriages; Hey, Mister, Want to Buy a Copy of the 1940 Census Cheap?;
Vol.
12, No. 47 – December 4, 2011
MyHeritage.com Acquires American Genealogy Company; Lo Tishkach Latvia
Cemetery Survey Completed; Ancestry.com Offering Free Public Access to
Its World War II Collection; British Newspaper Archive; A Source of
Holocaust Victims’ Names; Revised Edition Planned
for Google Your
Family Tree;
Budapest Marriage Index Site Has Birth and Death Records; Contribute to
Genealogy Causes; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Annual Research
Trip to Lithuania with Side Trips to Latvia; Annual Research Trip to
Salt Lake City
Vol.
12, No. 48 – December 11, 2011
FindAGrave.com; Interesting Map Creator; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week; Chanukah Sale – 25% Discount on Selected Books for
Three
Days Only
Vol.
12, No. 49 – December 18, 2011
International Tracing Service Announces Future Plans; ITS Records to Be
Available in the UK; Ancestry.com Drops Social Security Numbers for
Recent Deaths; Getting
Started in Jewish Genealogy – 2012 Version;
JOWBR Now Has 1.76 Million Records; More About FindAGrave.com; New
Jewish Genealogy Site for Argentina;
Vol.
12, No. 50 – December 25, 2011
Happy Chanukah; Three Genealogy Firms Join Forces to Create 1940 U.S.
Census Index; New 1940 Census Aid at Morse Site; 2012 Conference News;
Develop a KehilaLinks Page for Your Ancestral Town; Bill Gladstone
Develops His Own Website; Overview of JewishGen; Getting Started in
Jewish Genealogy – 2012 Version
Vol.
13, No. 1 – January 1, 2012
Happy New Year!; Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Victims’ Lists
Online; Experts in Central and Eastern European History To Lecture at
2012 Conference; JewishGen Plans Basic Four-Week Genealogy Course;
JewishGen Holocaust Database Grows to 2.4 Million Records; Manchester,
England, Burial Records Online
Vol.
13, No. 2 – January 8, 2012
New Genealogy Society Formed in Israel; Virtual Shtetl; Who Do You Think You Are Third
Season Airing Febuary 3; PBS To Air
Another Genealogy Series; German Address Books Online; U.S. National
Archives Puts Genealogy-Oriented Workshops Online; FindMyPast.com Makes
Available Infirmity Column of 1911 Census; Recent U.S. Record Additions
to Online FamilySearch; Ancestry.com Subscribers Reach 1.7 Million
Vol.
13, No. 3 – January 15, 2012
100 Most Popular Genealogy Websites; World Memory Project Approaches
One million Entries; Israel Genealogy Research Association Plans
Webinars; An Outsiders View of the Genealogy Industry; It’s
Not
Genealogy But...; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
13, No. 4 – January 22, 2012
Steven W. Siegel (1946-2012); An Experiment with DNA Testing; Alexander
Dunai Subject of Jewish News Article; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU to Be 84
Pages; Five Issues of AVOTAYNU for the Price of Four
Vol.
13, No. 5 – January 29, 2012
Hearing To Be Held on Fate of Social Security Death Index; Who Do You Think You Are?
Announces Third Season Celebrities; Israel Genealogy Research
Association (IGRA) Holds First Webinar; Five Issues of AVOTAYNU for the
Price of Four Ends January 31; Index to HIAS (Boston) Case Files
Online; Ancestry.com Adds 7 Million Pennsylvania Records to Its
Collection; Synagoguescribes.com
Vol.
13, No. 6 – February 4, 2012
IIJG Forming Ethics Panel; Ancestry.com Planning to Create Database of
Name Variants; U.S. Census Records Available Through Brightsolid; New
“Trees” Feature at Family Search; Who Do You Think
You Are
– Live; Gesher Galicia Search Engine Creator Wins Award;
British-Jewry; Site Provides Ukrainian Archives Information; Genealogy
Quality Code; Discount Offers by Commercial Genealogy Companies
Vol.
13, No. 7 – February 11, 2012
Extra-Large Issue; Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That
Won’t Go Away; Parents of Simon Wiesenthal Posthumously
Baptized
Last Month; Elie Wiesel, His Father and Grandfather Added to Mormon
Rolls; Sign the Petition: Help Save Access to the Social Security Death
Index; Louise Stern Dies; Remarkable Offer for Just Three
Days! Every
Family Has a Story
for Less Than Half Price; FamilySearch To Take Down Its Classic
Version; How “Who Do You Think You Are?” Picks Its
Celebrities; JewishGen Education To Offer Independent Study; IIJG
Issues Its Annual Call for Research Proposals; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU
in the Mail; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Discount Offers by
Commercial Genealogy Companies
Vol.
13, No. 7a – February 14, 2012
Reminders: Every
Family Has a Story Discount Ends Tuesday; Have You Signed
the Petition?
Vol.
13, No. 8 – February 19, 2012
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go Away;
MyHeritage.com and FamilyTreeDNA Become Partners; Book Memorializes
18,000 Children of the Dutch Holocaust; Family History Standards
Organization Formed; Pre- Post-Conference Tours Defined; Rabbi Shmuel
Gorr Archive Catalogued; Royal Naval Seamen (1853–1923)
Online;
Searching JewishGen Databases: An Interesting Variant; Webinar of Latin
American Resources; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Have You
Signed the Petition?; Discount Offers by Commercial Genealogy Companies
Vol.
13, No. 9 – February 26, 2012
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go
Away—Now It Is Anne Frank and Jan Karski; Website Created for
the
1940 Census; Lo Tishkach Reports on Its Latest Cemetery Initiatives;
Site Has Numerous Photographs of Jewish Life; Ukraine SIG Website Has a
New Look; My Perspective on the Social Security Death Index Battle;
Call Him Doctor Feigmanis Now; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
13, No. 10 – March 4, 2012
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Might Finally Go
Away—At Last! The Mormon Church Is Acting Forcefully; Joint
Distribution Commmittee Archives Now Online; World
Memory Project Reaches One Million Records; Jewish Heritage Europe
Website; SSDI: A Solution; Reminder To Resubscribe to Avotaynu;
Deciphering Handwriting
Vol.
13, No. 11 – March 11, 2012
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go Away
–
Church Moves to Stop Helen Radkey; Billiongraves.com Continues To Grow
– Adds Features; The Future of Microsoft Windows; Barbara
Walters’ Roots To Be on TV Program; FamilySearch Additions
for
the Week; Montefiore Censuses of Eretz Israel Now Online; 1940 New York
City Directories To Be Online; “10 Census Questions That Lead
to
More Answers”; Are You a Snowbird? Are You Moving?
Vol.
13, No. 12 – March 18, 2012
Mormon/Jewish Controversy: The Problem That Won’t Go Away
–
Church Makes an Extra Effort; News About the Annual International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Jewish Records Indexing –
Poland
Adds Surname Distribution Mapper; U.S. Senate To Hold Hearings on
Social Security Death Index Controversy; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week Highlighted by California Death and Divorce Indexes and Nevada
Marriage Index
Vol.
13, No. 13 – March 25, 2012
Site Identifies Jewish Cemeteries of Lithuania; MyHeritage.com Gets
into 1940 Census Race; Finding
Your Roots Season Premiere Tonight; Conference Reminder:
Deadline for Early Registration; Back Issues of Aufbau
Now Online; JewishGen Family Finder Approaches 500,000 Entries;
Pennsylvania Birth and Death Indexes; Russian Veterans of World War II;
Salt Lake City’s City Creek Center Opens; FamilySearch
Additions
for the Week
Vol.
13, No. 14 – April 1, 2012
Chag Pesach Sameach (Happy Passover Holiday); 1940 Census Available
April 2; 1921 Canadian Census To Be Released in 2013; Using
City/Telephone Directories Online; Binary Search; German Immigrants to
America 1850–1897; Name Changes in Israel; Mormon Church
Moving
Contents of IGI to FamilySearch; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Include More Than 25 Million World War One Draft Registration Cards;
Early-Bird Registration for Conference Extended to April 10; New
JewishGen Course: Exploring JewishGen; More on Russian Veterans
Database; Discount Offers by Commercial Genealogy Companies
Vol.
13, No. 15 – April 2, 2012
More on the U.S. 1940 Census: A Possible Shortcut to Getting Data from
the 1940 Census; Ancestry.com and the 1940 Census; FamilySearch and the
1940 Census; 1940 New York City Telephone Books Online;
“1940-era” Ancestry.com Records Accessible at No
Charge
Vol.
13, No. 16 – April 8, 2012
1940 Census Mania Abounds; Old FamilySearch Accessible Again; Central
Database of Shoah Victims’ Names Has a New Look; Old Maps
Online;
MyHeritage Adds Two Senior Executives to Staff; Ancestry.com Going That
Extra Mile with 1940 Census; ScotlandsPeople Adds 1915 Valuation Rolls;
Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; Special Offers by Commercial Genealogy
Companies; Winners of AVOTAYNU Subscription Renewal Contest
Vol.
13, No. 17 – April 15, 2012
Yad Vashem To Acquire One Million More Testimonial Pages; 1940 Census
News; Searching the Joint Archives Database; “Lithuanian
Holocaust Atlas” Now in Book From; “Long Lost
Family”
Returns to British Television; If the Pieces of the Puzzle
Don’t
Fit…; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Discount Offers
by
Commercial Genealogy Companies
Vol.
13, No. 18 – April 22, 2012
JewishGen Looking for Volunteer Manager; Routes to Roots Foundation
Databases To Have a Second Home; 1940 Census Update; Another 3-Day
Sale: Buy One, Get One Free; Searchable Australian Newspapers Online;
Immigration to Canada from United States; Kaunas Area Vital Records
Indexed; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Latest in Tombstones Meet
Technology; Discount Offers by Commercial Genealogy Companies
Vol 13, No.
18a –
April 26, 2012
Special Edition: 2015 Conference to Be in Israel
Vol.
13, No. 19 – May 6, 2012
Quality Control in the 1940 Census; FamilySearch 1940 Census Update;
IIJG Ethics Panel Seeks Ethical Dilemmas; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU;
Video on Genetic Genealogy; News from the SIGs—Gesher
Galicia,
JRI-Poland, Romania SIG; Conference Update; Book: Genealogical Resources in New
York;
ItalianGen Adds More New York City Indexes; Genealogyindexer.org;
Ancestry.com Announces Autosomal DNA Testing Service; Photographs of
New York City Then and Now; International Tracing Service Conserving
Dachau and Buchenwald Documents; Mormon Church Changes 95-year Rule to
110-Year Rule
Vol.
13, No. 20 – May 13, 2012
Happy Mother’s Day!; FamilySearch 1940 Census Update: Six
States
Searchable; Ancestry.com Now Has 10 Billion Records; Will Genealogy
Eventually Become an Obsolete Hobby?; 20th Year: Jewish Genealogical
Trip to Salt Lake City; Leo Baeck Institute Digitizes Significant
Subset of Its Collection; Site for Online City/Telephone Directories;
Keep Posting After Your Death; British Newspaper Archive Adds
“Newspaper Titles” Page; Sites for London Research;
Books
Published by Avotaynu
Vol.
13, No. 21 – May 20, 2012
American Version of Who
Do You Think You Are?
Not Renewed for Fourth Season; Online records of Germany, Poland and
South Africa; FamilySearch 1940 Census Progress Report; MyHeritage
Offers a Trickle of 1940 Census; Ancestry.com Adds Maine to 1940 Census
Index; Computer Classes at Annual Conference; Ancestry.ca Offering Free
Access to Immigration Records until May 21; Are You a Member of a
Jewish Genealogical Society?; Special Price: Encyclopedia of Jewish Life
Before and During the Holocaust
Vol.
13, No. 22 – May 27, 2012
Back issues of AVOTAYNU Now Available on Internet by Subscription; Yad
Vashem Creates “Transports to Extinction: Shoah Deportation
Database; 1940 Census for 14 States Now Searchable at FamilySearch;
Follow-up on German Address Books Online; Belarus SIG Plans Newsletter;
Finding Living People in the U.S.; Shame On You, Salt
Lake Tribune
Vol. 13, No. 23
– June 3, 2012
American Chosen New Director of International Tracing Service; 1940
Census Update; Doing British Research; Complete Jewish Holdings of
Latvian State Historical Archives at Latvia-SIG Website; Networking as
a Genealogical Resource
Vol. 13, No. 24
– June 6, 2012
Special Edition; Ancestry.com Indexes New York State 1940 Census;
Ancestry.com Adds Images and Index of New York State 1892, 1915 ands
1925 Censuses
Vol. 13, No. 25
– June 10, 2012
“The Wrecking of Canada’s Library and Archives;
1940 Census
Update: 18 States Now Indexed and Searchable; Functionality on
Ancestry.com’s 1940 Census Pages; IGRA Adds Nine Databases to
Site; Czech Vital Records Online; Bessarabia Business Directory
Vol.
13, No. 26 – June 17, 2012
A
Guide to Canadian Jewish Genealogical Research
Published; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Allows Access to Jewish
Newspapers for June; 1940 Census Update; Website Identifies More Than 3
Million Persons from Russian Empire; MyHeritage.com Now Has One Billion
Profiles – Adds Functionality; Kaunas Gubernia Vital Records
Extracted; Sephardic Heritage Project Joins IAJGS; JewishGen Adds
SubCarpathian Interest Group; International Conference Less Than a
Month Away
Vol.
13, No. 27 – June 24, 2012
Webinars; Rebuilding a Wooden Synagogue; Jewish Genealogy Yearbook 2012
Published; JewishData.com Adds More Records; Add Alabama, Indiana,
Maine and North Dakota to the 1940 Census Index; New Records and
Indexes at FamilySearch; JewishGen Again Offers One-On-One Research
Class; Order DNA Testing Through JewishGen
Vol.
13, No. 28 – July 1, 2012
Summer Holiday: Avotaynu Offices Closed; International Tracing Service
(ITS) Issues Annual Report; ITS Planning to Publish Scholarly Works;
1940 Census Update; MyHeritage Announces SuperSearch; FindMyPast Adds
Prisoner of War Records; Gravesites of North American Tzadikim Online;
JOWBR Now Has 1.86 Million Records; Search Canadian Records at No
Charge through July 2
Vol.
13, No. 29 – July 7, 2012
Belgian Deportation Orders Index Now Online; Warsaw Jewish Museum
Receives Major Donations; Jewish Atlantic World Site Has 5,000
Photographs; Ancestry.com Now Has 2 Million Paid Subscribers;
FamilySearch Sets a Record Too; Ancestry.com Offers Free Access to
Early American Records; A Panicked Subscriber
Vol.
13, No. 30 – July 22, 2012
Paris Conference a Great Success; Jeffrey S. Malka Receives IAJGS
Lifetime Achievement Award; Other IAJGS Awards; Special Discount
on Sephardic
Genealogy;
News from the SIGs; An Open Letter to Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.;
1940 Census Update; Biographies of People in Yiddish Theatre Online;
B’nai B’rith To Relocate Archives to American
Jewish
Archives; Belgian Deportation Orders Actually Were Expulsion Orders;
Looking for Survivors Helped by Sousa Mendes; Latest FamilySearch
Indexes and Browsable Images
Vol.
13, No. 31 – July 29, 2012
IIJG Receives $100,000 Donation from Lisa and Douglas Goldman Trust;
SSDI: I Just Had a Talk with My Banker; International Tracing Service
Published Annual Report; 1940 Census Indexing Nears Completion; Audio
Recordings of Conference Now Available; Stern Grant Award Recipients
Announced; News from the SIGs; Findmypast.com Wants To Penetrate the
U.S. Market; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
13, No. 32 – August 5, 2012
It’s Ancestry.com by a Nose in Race to Complete Indexing of
1940
Census; Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census; FamilySearch Next Big Initiative:
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Records; Gesher Galicia Creates Map
Room; Memory Books of Soldiers from Ukraine During WWII; IGRA Search
Engine Now
Allows Hebrew or Latin Letters; UK Government to Release
Records 10 Years Earlier; Forces War Records Site; Morse Site Now
Includes 1915 and 1925 New York Census Portal; JewishGen Offers Class
in New York City Research; Last Chance to Sign Up for Salt Lake City
Research Trip; Erratum: Mix-up in “Ch”s
Vol.
13, No. 33 – August 12, 2012
Virtual Shtetl Expands into Belarus; ITS Plans Travelling Exhibition of
“Life after Survival”; 1940 Census News; Summer
Issue of
AVOTAYNU; Annual Report Shows Growth of LitvakSIG; Digitized Collection
of Jewish Records; London Burial Records 1770–1833
Vol.
13, No. 34 – August 19, 2012
Who Do
You Think You Are?
May Return to American Television; FamilySearch 1940 Census Project
Nearly Complete; Riga Ghetto List Online; Site Has Jewish Burials in
Russia and Ukraine; Memorial Site to Soldiers from USSR Who Died in
World War II; Romanian Doctors and Pharmacists Listed on Internet;
FindMyPast.com Offering Discount
Vol.
13, No. 35 – August 26, 2012
Brochure Published About the Vel d’Hiv Roundup; Paris
Prefecture
of Police Archives To Be Online in 2015; Avotaynu Anthology of Jewish
Genealogy; FamilySearch Completes 1940 Census Project
Vol.
13, No. 36 – September 2, 2012
Tel Aviv University Researcher Claims He Can Pinpoint Ancestral
Origins; MyGenShare.com; ITS Plans Refugee Exhibition – Seeks
Memorabilia; FamilySearch Record Group Names Misleading; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; Jewish Genealogical Symposium Planned for St.
Petersburg, September 10–12; News from FindMyPast.com; Free
Access to Ancestry.com Census Records through September 3;
It’s
Not Genealogy, But...; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU Being Mailed; Problem
with Last Issue of Nu?
What’s New?
Vol.
13, No. 37 – September 9, 2012
FamilySearch Digitizes 40,000 Family History Related Publications;
Legacy Family Tree Webinars; FamilySearch Adds New Hungarian/Slovakian
Records; Yizkor Books In Print Plans to Publish Additional Books;
Maceva Issues Quarterly Report; Vienna City Directories Online; List of
Sousa Mendes Visa Recipients Online; Do You Own Avotaynu Guide to Jewish
Genealogy?
Vol.
13, No. 38 – September 16, 2012
Shana Tovah!; Historical Jewish Press Website; Joint Symposium on
Jewish Genealogy Held in St. Petersburg; Bessarabian Towns in Pinkas HaKehillot
Being Translated; Clarification of Slovakian Church and Synagogue Books
Article
Vol.
13, No. 39 – September 23, 2012
Who Do
You Think You Are?
Renewed in Canada and Possibly U.S.; City of Promises: A History of the
Jews of New York, 3-volume box set; Secondary Benefit of St. Petersburg
Symposium; MyFamily.com Introduces Record Matching to Its Users;
Ancestry Offers Free Guide to U.S. Censuses; Final Comment About
Slovakian Church and Synagogue Books
Vol.
13, No. 40 – September 30, 2012
2014 Conference Dates Announced; IIJG Announces Research Grants; Status
of Various Freedom of Information Activities in the U.S.; JewishGen
Offering Course in Search Strategies for Genealogy; October 1 Deadline
for Discount on City
of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York; Too many
Myxxx.com, Ancestxxx.com, Genealxxx.com
Vol.
13, No. 41 – October 7, 2012
Index to Jewish Children Deported from Paris Now Online; FamilySearch
Has Free Online Research Courses; Webinar Celebrates Jewish Genealogy
Month; QR Codes on Tombstones; Easier Access to Freedom of Information
Act Documents; Information about the Yad Vashem Photo Archives
Vol.
13, No. 42 – October 13, 2012
Avotaynu Offices Closed – Nu? What’s New?
Skips a Week; DNA Webinar; FindMyPast Releases 56 Million Australian
and New Zealand Records; What Is the Best Genealogy Software?;
JewishGen to Hold Advanced Genealogy Class; Leo Baeck Institute to
Launch Its DigiBaeck System; Forces War Records Adds Home Guard
Records; AVOTAYNU Business
Vol.
13, No. 43 – October 28, 2012
CAHJP to Place Online Inventory List to Polish Holdings; AJDC Cyprus
Collection Now Online; Ancestry.com Acquired by European Equity Firm;
Matching Programs: Case Study; Discount Offers by Commercial Genealogy
Companies; Yad Vashem and Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw Sign
Agreement; YIVO Institute and Museum of the History of Polish Jews Sign
Partnership Agreement; Additions to the FamilySearch Database
Vol.
13, No. 44 – November 4, 2012
Can Cyndi’s List Be Copyrighted?; French Records Removed from
FamilySearch; IIJG Interim Report on Scottish Genealogy Online; World
Memory Project; Do You Subscribe to JewishGen Discussion Groups?;
Austro-Hungarian Army Website; Krakow-Geni Project; Munich Gedenkbuch
Online; Lithuania Research Trip; Romania/Moldova Index on World Memory
Project; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol.
13, No. 45 – November 11, 2012
ITS Releases 224,000 Correspondence Files to Partner Organizations;
Boston Conference Issues Call for Papers; Chanukah Sale – 25%
Discount on Selected Books for Three Days Only; New Site Synchronizes
Genealogical Databases; Map Generator; Jewish Museum of Tolerance Opens
in Moscow; Ancestry Affiliates Providing Free Access to Military
Records for Limited Time; GenesReunited Adds UK Military Records;
Czernowitz Birth Records Indexed; Scottish Wills and Testaments
1902–1925 Online
Vol.
13, No. 46 – November 18, 2012
Shoah Foundation Places More Information About Survivors on Internet;
Judaica Europeana Revisited; Another Chanukah Present to Nu? What’s New?
Readers; FamilyTreeDNA Offers End-of-Year Discounts; Ancestry.com Adds
Military Burials and Headstone Applications; “Who Do You
Think
You Are? Live” Conference to be Held February
22–24; Mark
Your Calendar: November 23, 79043; Program Downloads Batches of
FamilySearch Images
Vol.
13, No. 47 – November 25, 2012
Geni.com Now Includes a Jewish Genealogy Portal; Site Has Argentinean
Jewish Surnames with “De”; News of Interest to UK
Researchers; A Puzzling Inscription; News from the SIGs; Vladka Meed
(1921–2012); Annual IIJG Appeal; Avotaynu Business
Vol.
13, No. 48 – December 2, 2012
Righteous Among the Nations Database Now Online; Ancestry.com Launches
Newspapers.com; MyHeritage Buys Geni.com; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; ICRC
Ends Management of International Tracing Service; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; Miscellany; Reminder: Only Seven Days Left for
Avotaynu Discount Offer
Vol.
13, No. 49 – December 9, 2012
Happy Chanukah!; JRI-Poland Now Linking Index to Online Digitized
Images; Get Copies of Old Books at Google.com; Risks of Using Geni and
MyHeritage Family Tree Environment; Vsia Rossiia
Directories for 1895, 1899, 1900 Now Indexed; Austria to Place Online a
"Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism"; British Colombia
Publishes 700,000 Vital Records Online; JDC Accepting Grant Proposals;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; TheGenealogist.co.uk
Vol.
13, No. 50 – December 16, 2012
Israel Genealogy Research Association Has New Search Engine; Finding
Aid for Toronto Census of 1911; Importance of Town Leaders; Fold3 Has
Navy Muster Rolls (1939–1949); FamilySearch Additions for the
Week; Contribute to Genealogy Causes
Vol.
13, No. 51 – December 23, 2012
Merry Christmas to Our Christian Readers; Boston Conference Call for
Papers Ends January 6; U.S. Government's National Strategy For
Information Sharing a Threat to Genealogists?; Lithuanian Directories
Now Searchable; Website Links to U.S. Census Data Sites; Reminder:
FamilyTreeDNA Discounts Until End of Year; Looking for Academics
Interested in Jewish Genealogy; Scottish Census Records 1841-1901 Now
Online; More Viennese Cemetery Records Online; Museum of Sub-Carpathia
Jewish History Planned; Virtual Shtetl Has a New Owner
Vol.
13, No. 52 – December 30, 2012
Happy New Year; International Institute of Jewish Genealogy Has New
Leadership; JRI-Poland and Polish State Archives Plan New Agreement;
Latest FamilySearch Additions; Database Being Built of German Jews in
1933; More Data Added to Genealogy Indexer
Vol.
14, No. 1 – January 5, 2013
Central Archives Polish Holdings Now Online; Top 100 Genealogy Sites;
Cyndi’s List Files Lawsuit; JewishGen Necrology Database Now
Has
More Than 240,000 Entries; International Tracing Service Starts 2013
With New Director and Head Archivist; New Society: Triangle Jewish
Genealogical Society; Index to Boston Jewish Marriages/Deaths Now Has
More Than 50,000 Entries; 2012 Conference Family Finder Now Online
Vol.
14, No. 2 – January 13, 2013
Theresienstadt Site Has List of Victims and Documents; Ancestry.com
Allows 1940 Census Search on Variety of Fields; MyHeritage Now Allows
Tree Updates from Mobile Devices; Sign Up to Create a
Birds-of-a-Feather Meeting at Boston Conference; New From Library and
Archives Canada; “How to Create KehilaLinks
Webpages” class
to begin February 1; Milestones
Vol.
14, No. 3 – January 20, 2013
YIVO Launches Online Guide to Its Archives; Registration for Boston
Conference Now Open; Incredible Research Opportunities at Annual
Conferences; JDC Places 1,100 Records Online; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Jstor.org
Vol.
14, No. 4 – January 27, 2013
International Holocaust Remembrance Day; Death Master File (Social
Security Death Index) Not Dead; Family Tree DNA Reevaluates Matching
Scheme; Plan Guide to Jewish Material in Belgian Archives; Getting Started in Jewish
Genealogy – 2013 Version;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Webinar on “Best
Internet
Resources for East European Genealogy”; CompactMemory Has
German
Newspapers Digitized; Family Tree Maker At a Discount;
BillionGraves.com Database Now Available on Ancestry.com; Yiddish Book
Center Is in Amherst
Vol.
14, No. 5 – February 3, 2013
An Amazing Internet Conversation; Online List of Foreign Jews Interned
in Italy (1940–1943); FamilySearch Partners with WorldCat
Developers; Museum of the History of Polish Jews To Open in April; News
from the SIGs; IIJG Planning Genealogical Advisory Service; Valery
Bazarov Retires from HIAS; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
14, No. 6 – February 10, 2013
BillionGraves Plus Membership Free in February; MyHeritage Offering
Numerous Discounts on FTDNA Tests; Findmypast.com Offers Digitized and
Indexed British Newspapers; FamilySearch Photo Duplication Service;
MACEVA Provides Annual Report of Accomplishments; 1905 Valuation Rolls
for Scotland Now Online; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Richard
III Mania Affects “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Conference
Vol.
14, No. 7 – February 17, 2013
JRI-Poland Signs New Agreement with Polish State Archives; FamilySearch
Removes Online Cook County Images of Vital Records; Aaron Lansky To Be
Keynote Speaker at Annual Conference; National Library of Australia
Digitizing Additional Newspapers; IIJG Issues Annual Call for Research
Proposals; ROM-SIG Plans to Index Bucharest Jewish Vital Records;
“Who Do You Think You Are–Live?”
Conference Next
Weekend; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Avotaynu Renewal
Vol.
14, No. 8 – February 23, 2013
FTDNA Offers 12-Marker Y-DNA Test for Only $39; JewishGen Announces
Canada Database; Book Hotel Room Now for Boston Conference; Establish
New York State Genealogical Research Death Index (1957–1962);
IAJGS Achievement Awards Call for Nominations; Call for Obermayer Award
Nominations; Connecticut Considering Ban on Access to Death Records;
Family History Library To Be Closed Saturday Evenings; Avotaynu Renewal
Vol.
14, No. 9 – March 3, 2013
Hi Tech in Grave Identification: Version 4; American Version
of Who Do You
Think You Are?
To Be On TLC; Webinar: "Introduction to Genetic Genealogy at Family
Tree DNA"; JewishGen Presents Annual Report;
Germans/Irish/Italians/Russians to American Now On FindMyPast.com;
FamilySearch additions for the week; New
York State Genealogical Research Death Index: Additional Information;
Ancestry.com Reports Growth; Avotaynu Renewal Deadline Looms; Israeli
Marriages
Vol.
14, No. 10 – March 12, 2013
FamilySearch Makes “Family Tree” Database Available
to the
Public; An Unusual Jewish Funeral; FamilySearch Additions for the Week;
Avotaynu Renewal Deadline March 15
Vol.
14, No. 11 – March 17, 2013
FamilySearch Milestone: One Billion Records Indexe00d; Korean War
Casualties Now On Fold3; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as a
Resource; German Communities Database Grows; Tidbits: Index to 1911
Canadian Census, IGRA Site Now Has 100 Databases, 21 Million New Irish
Records Online; Historic Newspapers of Wales Online; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week
Vol.
14, No. 12 – March 24, 2013
Federation of Genealogical Societies Again Proactive on Attacks on
Record Access; Censorship Arrives at Libraries and Archives Canada; ITS
Starting To Catalog Their Collection; Boston Conference Will Feature
SHARE Fair on First Day; Central Database of Shoah Victims'
Names; New York
Times article on family relationships. Museum of the
History of Polish Jews To Feature Ceiling of a Wooden Synagogue
Vol.
14, No. 13 – March 31, 2013
Ancestry.com CEO Discloses Future Plans; First American Jewish Families
Now On Geni.com; Non-Semitic Origins of the
Jews?; A Passover April Fools Prank; People Switching To Gmail
Vol.
14, No. 14 – April 7, 2013
The “Levy Test”; Source of Alternate Town Names;
Ancestry.ca Offering Free Access to Certain Military Collections;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; National Library of Israel and
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Merge; Austrian
GenTeam Site Now Has 7.5 Million Records; Genealogy In Time
Online Magazine Has “Dictionary of Common Genealogy
Words”;
Latest App for Genealogy; “Genealogy a Remedy for Family
Amnesia”; Winners of AVOTAYNU Resubscribers Drawing
Vol.
14, No. 15 – April 14, 2013
Bernard Israelite Kouchel (1928–2013); Online Guide of Murder
Sites of Jews in the Former USSR; FamilySearch Planning Enhancements to
Site and Services; Ancestry.com To Allow Free Access to Marriage
Records; JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database Now Has More Than
320,000 Entries; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Your UK Tweets To
Be Preserved; Nobel Laureate Learns the Truth About His Family Origins;
Portuguese Parliament To Vote on Citizenship for Descendants of
Expelled Jews
Vol.
14, No. 16 – April 21, 2013
JRI-Poland Starting To Link Its Index to Actual Records; Preliminary
Program of 2013 Conference Now Online; Boston University Adds Jewish
Genealogy to Its Curriculum; Ancestry.com Free Marriage Search Ends
Today; JDC Records from Post-WW II Period Now Online; Cape Town Jewish
Burials Online; New Website: Digital Public Library of America; Free
Webinar on Photo Preservation; Museum of History of Polish Jews Opens;
Virtual Shtetl Now Documents More Than 2,3000 Towns; Index to 2,255
Auschwitz Prisoner Photos Searchable Through Morse Site; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; FamilySearch Has Indexed Its One-Billionth
Record
Vol.
14, No. 17 – April 28, 2013
Tours Available During Boston Conference; PBS Planning
“Genealogy
Roadshow”; Book: Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a
Solid
Case; Geni Now Has Smart Matching and Record Matching; European
Equivalent of “Digital Public Library of America”;
A Little
Lesson In Copyright Law; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Jewish
Genealogical Society of South Africa Reborn; Fold3 Adds Index to War
Dead Buried Outside U.S.; Poznan Region Vital Records Being Indexed;
Wanted: A Home for 500 Books
Vol.
14, No. 18 – May 5, 2013
MyHeritage Now Has U.S. Censuses Online; Legacy Family Tree Has
Webinars; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; Connecticut May Enact Legislation
to Limit Death Record Access; Findmypast.com Adds New Collections;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
14, No. 19 – May 14, 2013
Jan Meisels Allen Wins NGS President’s Citation; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week Include Records Significant for Jewish Research
Vol.
14, No. 20 – May 19, 2013
PBS To Air Genealogy
Roadshow; European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Adds
New Tool; JewishGen Memorial Plaque Project; Book: Deciphering Handwriting in
German Documents;
MyHeritage Introduces “Record Detective”; Site
Provides
Pictorial History of Vilna Ghetto; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
14, No. 21 – May 26, 2013
Commercial Genealogy Websites Offer Free
Access to Military Records; U.S. Version of Who Do You Think You Are?”
Returns to Television; New “Forced Labor
1939–1945”
Website; USHMM Identifies Organizations Who Have Taken Oral
Testimonies; UK National Archives Adds Naturalization Records Online;
Plan to Document British People Who Participated in World War I;
JewishGen Offering Intermediate-Level Course in New York Research;
Library and Archives Canada Updates 1871 and 1901 Censuses; Irish
Calendars of Wills and Administrations, 1858–1920;
FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; MyHeritage Subscription at 50% Off
Vol.
14, No. 22 – June 2, 2013
Register Now for Luncheons/Banquet at Conference; Former U.S.
Ambassador to Poland To Be Gesher Galicia Luncheon Speaker; IIJG
Extends Deadline for Call for Research Proposals; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week
Vol.
14, No. 23 – June 9, 2013
1921 Canadian Census To Be Released in Next Few Weeks; Red Star Line
Museum To Open in September; Joint Distribution Committee Has Oral
Histories; Queensland (Australia) Vital Records Now Online; Steve Morse
and Associates Already Planning for the 1950 U.S. Census; National
Library Invites Genealogists To Discuss Family History Research;
BillionGraves.com Reaches Four Million Records
Vol.
14, No. 24 – June 16, 2013
ITS Publishes General Inventory Online; France To Allow FamilySearch To
Publish Images Online; More Cemeteries Online; JRI-Poland To Add Images
from Lublin Branch of Polish State Archives; Virtual Shtetl Is Now Four
Years Old; Websites for 14 Jewish Towns in Southern Poland; U.K.
Version of Who
Do You Think You Are? Reveals 2013 Celebrities;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Recent Ancestry.com Additions;
Attention Gmail Users
Vol.
14, No. 25 – June 23, 2013
Lo Tishkach European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative Partners with VAAD of
Ukraine; International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Wants Genealogist
Input; Christine Usdin z”l; New Book: “Selected
Lectures on
Genealogy: An Introduction to Scientific Tools”; Webinar on
“How Knowing the Law Makes Us Better Genealogists”;
PAF:
RIP; FindMyPast Offering Irish Record Collection at No Charge;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Recent Ancestry.com Databases
Vol.
14, No. 26 – June 30, 2013
Avotaynu Offices Temporarily Closed; U.S. Version of Who Do You Think You Are?
Announces This Year's Celebrities; Historical Jewish Press Site Adds
More Searchable Newspapers; Ancestry.ca Providing Temporary Access to
Some Collections at No Charge; FamilySearch Additions for the Week;
FamilyTreeDNA Discounts Many of Its Products; Shoah Victims’
Names Database
Vol.
14, No. 27 – July 7, 2013
FamilySearch Shows Birth Dates of Living Individuals; New
Book: The Lost
Synagogues of Manhattan;
2013 Conference Planning an App; FamilySearch Additions for the Week;
“My Family Story” Competition Announces This
Year’s
Winners; New Book: Dictionnaire
illustre du judeo-espagnol de Turquie; Avotaynu Moves Its
Offices; Genealogical Research in the 1980s
Vol.
14, No. 28 – July 14, 2013
FamilySearch Immigration Indexing Project Reaches 50 Million Records;
Lost Synagogues of New York City; Lithuanian Internal Passport Indexing
Project Reaches 116,000; Ellis Island Myth
Vol.
14, No. 29 – July 21, 2013
American Version of Who
Do You Think You Are?
Premieres Tuesday; Updated Information on the Boston Conference; Major
Discounts on Avotaynu Books at Conference; FamilySearch Additions for
the Week; Pittsburgh Jewish Newspapers Online; NARA Merges Two
Catalogs; 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies To Include Genealogical
Content; New From Ancestry.com; Family Tree DNA Discounts End July 26
Vol.
14, No. 30 – July 28, 2013
No Issue of Nu?
What’s New?
Next Week; News From JewishGen: JOWBR Reaches Two Million Records, New
Memorial Plaque Database; Watch the Conference From Your Home Through
Video Streaming; Reminder: Major Discounts on Avotaynu Books at
Conference; 72,000 Berlin Restitution Office Case File Records Now
Available Online; JDC Istanbul Office Collection 1937–1949
Now
Online; Oldest Inland European Fort Found in Appalachians Was Occupied
By Crypto-Jews
Vol.
14, No. 31 – August 11, 2013
Boston Conference Great Success; Locations of Next Three IAJGS
Conferences Announced; IAJGS Award Winners Announced at Conference;
Browse 1921 Census of Canada at Ancestry.ca; Ancestry (UK) Allowing
Free Access to 1911 Census Until October 14; U.S. Library of Congress
“Chronicling America” Site Updated; News from the
SIGs:
Bucovina/Moldavia/Bessarabia, Sub-Carpathia; FamilySearch Additions for
the Week; Launch Survey on Difficulty in Accessing Holocaust-Related
Records; How-To Web Pages at UK National Archives Site; IIJG Sponsors
Genealogy Session at World Union of Jewish Studies; MyHeritage
Assisting in Locating People Eligible for Reparations
Vol.
14, No. 32 – August 18, 2013
Ancestry.com Has Soundex and Phonetic Search Capability; Family History
Books Collection of FamilySearch Now Reaches 100,000 Books; Why the
1921 Canadian Census Was Delayed; Article About Ellis Island
Experience; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; This is JewishGen
Video on Youtube; MyHeritage Encouraging Posting Family Photos Online;
Turn-of-the-Century Odessa Directories Now Online
Vol.
14, No. 33 – August 25, 2013
Diane C. Loosle Appointed Director of Family History Library; New
Announcements from FamilySearch; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; New Database
on Medieval Spanish Jewish Surnames; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week; Library of Congress Has Webcast About Ethiopian Jewry; Museum of
Family History's Great Artists Series; NARA To Host Genealogy Fair; New
Book: Tracing
Your Eastern European Ancestors
Vol.
14, No. 34 – September 1, 2013
Shana Tovah!; U.S. to Return Jewish Artifacts to Iraqi Government;
Library and Archives Canada and Canadiana.org Partner on Digitization
of LAC Collections; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; RootsTech
Conference Early-Bird Registration Includes Discount; Ancestry.com Free
Access to Immigration and Travel Records; California Marriage Index
(1949–1959) at Ancestry.com
Vol.
14, No. 35 – September 8, 2013
Ancestry.com and FamilySearch Make a Shidduch (Match); FamilySearch
Additions This Week; Blog: Jewish
Gem's Genealogy: Mining for Your Elusive Ancestors;
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Genes Cannot be Patented; IAJGS Responds to
European Union’s Proposed Data Protection Regulation; JGS of
Maryland Revived
Vol. 14, No. 36
– September 15, 2013
GenealogyInTime Magazine Search
Engine Indexes 2.7 Billion Records; American Version of “Who
Do You Think You Are?” Renewed for Second Year; Jewish
Genealogy Month October 5 – November 3; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week
Vol.
14, No. 37 – September 22, 2013
Genealogy
Roadshow
Series To Premiere This Week; History Map of the United States; Red
Star Line Museum Opens September 28; FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.7
Million Records; MyHeritage Now Allows Attaching Found Records to
Family Tree; IIJG Announces Grant Awards; German Library Publishes List
of Owners of Looted Books; Wiesbaden Holocaust Victims List Online
Vol.
14, No. 38 – September 29, 2013
FamilySearch Adds U.S. Public Records Index; Other Additions This Week
to FamilySearch; Collaborating in Genealogy; Wanted: Human Interest
Stories for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; National Archives (UK) Offering
Genealogy Books at Discount; Rhode Island State Archives Catalog
Online; Jewish Businesses in Berlin 1930–1945; Organized
Jewish
Genealogy Is Now 36 Years Old
Vol.
14, No. 39 – October 6, 2013
Google Limitations on Genealogy Searches; BBC Presents The Story of the Jews;
JewishGen Offering Course on “Getting Organized”;
Future of
Censuses of England and Wales; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Include Passenger Lists; Ancestry.com Acquires Find A Grave; Warsaw
Museum Seeks More Funding; Opening Pushed Back; USHMM Closed Until
Further Notice
Vol.
14, No. 40 – October 13, 2013
Considering Hiring a Professional Genealogist?; FamilySearch Additions
for the Week; New Site Has Israeli Tombstones; Study Claims Ancestors
of Contemporary Jews Were “Shiksas”; FamilySearch
Photo Archives Reaches One Million Images
Vol.
14, No. 41 – October 20, 2013
FamilySearch Continues To Make Alliances; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU;
JewishGen Offering Advanced Course in Genealogy; AncestryDNA Provides
More Comprehensive DNA Test; FamilySearch Additions for the Week;
Another Professional Genealogist Organization; ITS Receives UNESCO
Award; Do You Have to Have Jewish Heritage to Become Secretary of
State?
Vol.
14, No. 42 – October 27, 2013
European Union Committee Votes on Proposed Data Protection
Regulation; Most Meaningful Development in Record Access For
Family Historians in Many Years?; Avotaynu Business: Wanted: Human
Interest Stories for Winter Issue; Wanted: New Family Histories in
Print; Ancestry.com Acquires South African Record Collection;
Montefiore Census of Eretz Israel Online; “German Jews
1933” Database Identifies 32,500 Holocaust Victims/Survivors;
Scottish Property Valuation Rolls for 1920 Go Online; MyHeritage Named
“Most Promising Israeli Start-Up For
2013–14”;
ObamaCare in One-Step; AJDC Honors Staff Member Who Perished
Vol.
14, No. 43 – November 3, 2013
European Union Delays Implementing Privacy Laws; ITS Sends Additional
Correspondence Files to Member Nations; MyHeritage Adds 5.5 Million
Gravestone and 3.5 Obituary Records; Avotaynu
Business—Reminder: Human Interest Stories for Winter Issue,
Reminder: New Family Histories in Print, A Chanukah Present to Nu? What’s New?
Readers; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Ancestry.com Indexes 1921
Canadian Census; GenTeam Adds Viennese Vital Records to Their Online
Database; Burials at New Haven (Connecticut) Cemeteries Now
Online; New Functionality Added to Family History Library Catalog
Vol.
14, No. 44 – November 10, 2013
FindAGrave Now Has Holocaust Victims; Ancestry.ca Offering Free Access
to Canadian Military Records Until November 12 ; MyHeritage To Hold
Webinar; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; Reminder: Discount on Avotaynu Books
Until Chanukah; “Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE
2014” To Be
Held February 20–22, 2014 at Olympia in London; Online
Newspaper
Archive Passes the 7 Million Page Mark; Contribute to the JewishGen
Memorial Plaque Project; JCC Opens in Warsaw; Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies
Vol.
14, No. 45 – November 17, 2013
BillionGraves Partners With MyHeritage; MyHeritage Adds Functionality
tO Their Family Tree Application; FTDNA Has a Holiday Sale;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; International Institute for Jewish
Genealogy Launches Appeal for Funds 2013–14’; New
Towns
Added to KehilaLinks Project; Group Trip to Lithuania - June 17 to June
27, 2014; Avotaynu Business’ A Great Chanukah
Present: Taking
Tamar
Vol.
14, No. 46 – November 24, 2013
Ancestry.com and Associated Press Bring AP Archives Online; New Irish
Genealogy TV Program: Tar
Abhaile; Vilnius Vital Records; Another Collection of
Holocaust Oral Interviews; Werner Frank Book Receives Prize; Avotaynu
Business
Vol.
14, No. 47 – December 8, 2013
Belated Happy Chanukah; 23andme.com DNA Service Under Investigation by
FDA; First Details of the 2014 Conference; A Number of Significant
FamilySearch Additions for the Previous Week; FamilySearch Additions
for This Week; Upcoming Changes to FamilySearch Site Navigation;
JewishGen Announces Basic Education Courses for 2014; New Towns Added
in November to KehilaLinks Project; Photographs of Jerusalem ca. 1900;
Editorial: Iraqi Looted Jewish Property
Vol.
14, No. 48 – December 15, 2013
U.S. Budget Bill to Limit Access to the Social Security Death Index;
Library of Congress Webcasts on Preserving Photographs and Scrapbooks;
UK National Archives to Place World War I Collections Online; Closeout
Discount: A
Field Guide To Visiting a Jewish Cemetery;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; JewishGen Offering Class on
Publishing Family History; Have You Made Your Annual Donation to
JewishGen?; News of Brest, Chmielnik, Gdansk and Gliwice; MyHeritage
Adds 32 Million Nordic Records; Try Backing Up These Files
Vol.
14, No. 49 – December 22, 2013
Limitations to Social Security Death Index Passes Congress; JOWBR
Reaches 2.1 Million Records; New Website Devoted to Genetics and
Genealogy of R1a1a Y-Haplogroup Ashkenazi Levites; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; Jamaican Family Search Research Library Online
Includes Jewish Records; 60th Anniversary of Yad
Vashem—Online
Exhibit of Bratislava; Gesher Galicia Map Room
Vol.
14, No. 50 – December 29, 2013
Happy New Year; Registration for Salt Lake City Conference Now Open;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; JewishGen Education Courses for
January/February 2014; Legacy Family Tree Webinars for 2014; 50%
Discount on MyHeritage Through Eastman Online Genealogy
Newsletter; FTDNA Holiday Sale Ends December 31; Last
Chance To Make Donation to JewishGen or IIJG in 2013
Vol.
15, No. 01 – January 5, 2014
SSDI Now Has a Three-Year Privacy Restriction; JewishGen and
FamilySearch Collaborate on Hungarian Indexing Project; Library and
Archives Canada Has New Version of “Naturalization Records,
1915–1951” Database; MSU Has Index to Online
Newspaper
Collections; FamilySearch Additions for the Week Include Baltimore,
Boston and Philadelphia Passenger Arrival Index Records; Fulton History
Site Now Has Digitized 26 Million Newspaper Pages; Reminder: Conference
Call for Papers Ends January 31; JewishGen Education Courses for
January/February 2014; All Galicia Database Now Includes 267,883
Records; One Additional Year of Vital Records Added to Scotland
Collection; Israeli Knesset To Convene at Auschwitz
Vol.
15, No. 02 – January 12, 2014
New Genealogy Site: Webtrees.com; Tourist Route Through Old Jewish
Towns Planned; IAJGS Makes Appointments; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week; Index and Images of Hessen Jewish Records Now Online; Trove Adds
More Australian Newspapers; Rootstech To Offer Live Streaming Again;
Index to Recent Broward County, Florida, Marriage Licenses Now Online;
Two Unusual Conferences in Texas; Attention Roadrunner and Gmail
Subscribers
Vol.
15, No. 03 – January 19, 2014
100 Most Popular Genealogy Websites; Joint Distribution Committee
Stockholm Collection (1941–1967) Now Online; IIJG Launches
Leslie
Caplan Genealogical Repository; Ancestry.com Adds New York City
Records; Open Access to Mocavo Global Search Until Today (Sunday) at
Midnight; British WW1 Soldier Diaries Placed Online; Leo Baeck
Institute Launches Online Catalog for Romanian Archives Records;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; RootsTech 2014; WDYTYA Schedule
Now Online; IAJGS Annual Competition for International Jewish Genealogy
Month Poster; Peculiarities of the Julian, Gregorian and Hebrew
Calendars
Vol.
15, No. 04 – January 25, 2014
Ancestry.com Expands Collaboration with FamilySearch; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week Include 4 Million Canadian Border Crossings;
Ancestry.ca Offers Free Access to Canadian Vital Records Through
January 27; Site Identifies Greek Holocaust Survivor Testimonies;
ROM-SIG Indexing Vital Records; Write Your Family History and Send It
to the Library of Congress; UK National Archives Places Online WWI
Military Draft Exemption Applications; Beit Hatfutsot Changes Its
Translated Name; FindMyPast Announces Improvements to Site;
“Jewish Surnames Explained”
Vol.
15, No. 05 – February 2, 2014
MyHeritage and Ancestry.com Add Millions of “New”
Records;
RootsTech Conference Announces Free Online Broadcast Schedule; Class on
"How To Create KehilaLinks Webpages"; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Library
Archives Canada to Digitize Canadian Expeditionary Force Service
FilesU.S. Senate Bill Asks Reconsideration of Terms of Return of Iraqi
Jewish Artifacts; Bialystok Repatriations 1945–1950 Now
Searchable; Index to Leeds, England, Jewish Burials Online; Findmypast
Releases British in India Collection; “Jewish Surnames
Explained”: The Sequel
Vol.
15, No. 06 – February 9, 2014
FamilySearch Works To Put the World’s Historical Records
Online
in One Generation; LDS Church Members Will Receive Free Access to
Subscription Genealogy Sites; RootsTech Videos; Commercial Genealogy
Field Attracts Startups; Webinar on Planning Roots Trip to Eastern
Europe; Gravestone Photographic Resource Project; Polish
“Memory
In Stone” Project Documents Jewish Tombstones; Only Four
Places
Available for Lithuania Trip; Findmypast Now Offering New Subscription
Rates; United Polish Genealogical Societies Conference May 2–5
Vol.
15, No. 06a – February 11, 2014
Special Edition: Martha Lev-Zion z”l (1940–2014)
Vol.
15, No. 07 – February 16, 2014
Yiddish Book Center Plans Full-Word Search System; Two New Jewish
Heritage Roots Tours Are Now Available; JewishGen Education Courses in
March; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Archives.com Launches 5
Million U.S. Vital Records; Winners of Obermayer German Jewish History
Awards Honored; Scotland 1885 Valuation Rolls Now Online; Online
Norwegian Censuses; Editorial Comment: Mormons Get Free Ride
Vol.
15, No. 08 – February 23, 2014
IIJG Plans Rabbinic Y-DNA Project; Another Shidduch (Match): MyHeritage
and BillionGraves; MyHeritage Adds U.S. Public Records Index; Webinar
on Sources for
Jewish Genealogy in Ukraine
Now Available; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Conference
Registrants Asked To Submit World War I Stories; Yiddish Books Online
at Polish Site; Philadelphia
Inquirer
Issues Now at FultonHistory.com; Maps of the Habsburg Empire Online;
Australian Convicts and Early Settlers Online; Bucharest Business
Directories Added to GenealogyIndexer.org
Vol.
15, No. 09 – March 2, 2014
Conference “Family Finder” To Be Accessible Online;
Proceedings of the 2012 Paris Conference To Be Available; Ancestry.com
Planning To Implement a Search Control Feature; IIJG Issues Annual
“Call for Research Proposals; USCIS Plans Webinars; Library
and
Archives Canada Posts Description of Their Immigration and Citizenship
Sources
Vol.
15, No. 10 – March 9, 2014
Genealogical Proof Standard; Find A Grave Now Has Mobil App; IAJGS
Conference “WWI Stories” Expanded To Include
Non-registrants; Mocavo Introduces “Free Forever”
Service;
New York State Restricts Access to Probate Files; New Features at
Ukraine SIG Website; Cape Province South Africa Deaths Being Indexed;
Irish Freedom Fighter Records Now Online
Vol.
15, No. 11 – March 16, 2014
Is Genealogy a Doomed Pastime?; TV Program: The Story of the Jews;
Ancestry Allowing Free Access to Its Irish Record Collection;
MyHeritage Says “Me Too” to Irish Record
Collection; Eight
MyHeritage Employees Digitize 51,000 In One Day; Reminder: Renewal Time
for AVOTAYNU; The Museum of Family History Places Guide to the United States For
The Jewish Immigrant
Online; NARA Closing Three Facilities; Belgrade Holocaust Victims
Listed; Vilnius Jewish Birth Records Translated; GenTeam Adds 5,500
Nuremberg Jewish Cemetery Records; It Is Not Genealogy, But...
Vol.
15, No. 12 – March 23, 2014
Additional Comment on European Union Approval of “Right To Be
Forgotten”; MyHeritage Encouraging JGSs To Photograph Local
Cemeteries; More Regarding New York State Restrictions on Access to
Probate Files; IAJGS Requests Nominations for Annual Awards; Reminder:
Renewal Time for AVOTAYNU; Archives of Australia and New Zealand Create
“Discovering Anzacs” Website; 1910 Tarnopol Census
of the
Jews Online; Bessarabian Directories Now Online at
GenealogyIndexer.org;
Vol.
15, No. 13 – March 30, 2014
Accessing Social Security Death Index; Back In Print! In
Their
Words–Russian; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week;
Additional Directories at Genealogy Indexer: 1926 Palestine Directory
and Handbook, Ottoman, Turkish directories + Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece,
Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Romania, Serbia, Syria and More, 1939 Who's
Who In Egypt; Plans To Place Online 1939 Identity Card Register of UK;
Canadian Tombstones Website; MyHeritage Adds “Jewish
Chronicle” to Collection; Last Chance: Renewal Time for
AVOTAYNU
Vol.
15, No. 14 – April 6, 2014
More About Origin of Jews Through DNA Analysis; New York Public Library
Permits Access to More Than 20,000 Maps; Conference Keynote Speaker
Announced; IAJGS Issues Request for Stern Grant Nominations; In Their Words–Russian
Shipments This Week; 1.3 Million Quebec Obituaries Now Online; Brooklyn
Daily Eagle (1841–1955) Online; British Newspaper Archives
Has
Discount Offer; Some Colorado Indians Have Jewish Genes
Vol.
15, No. 15 – April 20, 2014
No Issue Last Sunday; Sid Caesar’s Family History Determined;
“A Glimpse into the Thriving Business of Family
History”;
The Size of Ancestry.com; Gesher Galicia Adds 28 New Record Sets to All
Galicia Database; Pennsylvania Death Records To Be Available Online;
Ancestry Australia Offering Free Access to Immigration Records; Taking
of 2021 UK Census Likely To Be Predominately Online; UK Ancestry.com
Offers Free Access to WWI-Era Records Through April 21; Jewish Heritage
Month in Ontario; Family Tree DNA Reworking Its Population Finder
Feature; Recent FamilySearch Additions; Harry Katzman z”l
(1925–2014)
Vol.
15, No. 16 – April 28, 2014
Nu?
What’s New? Is Late; Today is Yom
Hashoah; It
Is Time for a Professional DNA Analyst; Annual Conference Program Now
Online; FamilySearch Additions; Recently Added Records by Ancestry.com;
MyHeritage Now Has 5 Billion Records; Travel Channel To Have Genealogy
Program; Indiana State Library Places Newspapers Online; Auschwitz
Library Catalog Now Online; Facebook Says Site Which States Jews
Practice Ritual Murder Meets Its Community Standards
Vol.
15, No. 17 – May 4, 2014
About SIGs; Litvak SIG Has Translated All Jewish Vilnius Record
1837–1915; Warsaw Museum Resource Center To Include
JRI-Poland
Database; Travelling to Belarus?; GenealogyBlog.com; YIVO Launches
Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland; FamilySearch Additions for
the Week
Vol.
15, No. 18 – May 11, 2014
Happy Mother’s Day!; Finding Your Roots
to return to PBS; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU to Printers; New DNA Tests
Claims To Trace Ancestry to Within 30 Miles; FamilySearch Additions for
the Week; IIJG Wants Volunteers for Jacobi Project; Dutch Site:
“Wie Was Wie”; National Library of Australia Adds
More
Newspapers to Online Collection; Brodno Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw Will
Be Restored
Vol.
15, No. 19 – May 18, 2014
At Last! A Declaration of Genealogists’ Rights; EU Court Says
Google Must Abide By “Right To Be Forgotten”; IAJGS
Announces Appointments; JewishGen Plans Education Programs for June;
Deadline Looms for Early-Bird Conference Registration Discount; Fold3
Permitting Free Access to Its WWII Collection Through End of May;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; British Pathé
Historical Films Now On YouTube; Museum of Family History Has Al Jolson
Online Exhibit; NGS Gives Award of Merit to New York-based Genealogy
Groups; Iraqi-Jewish Archive To Remain in U.S.
Vol.
15, No. 20 – May 27, 2014
Nu?
What’s New?
Published Tuesday; FamilySearch Offers Free Digitization Services at
Family History Centers; Standards Proposed for Genetic Genealogy; Sign
Genealogists’ Declaration of Rights; Early-Bird Pricing for
Conference Ends May 31; Webinar on Family History Library Geared to
Jewish Family History Research; YIVO Creates Digital Archive on Jewish
Life in Poland; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE
Expands to Scotland
Vol.
15, No. 21 – June 1, 2014
More On “Right To Be Forgotten”; FamilySearch
Additions for
the Week; IIJG Issues Extends Deadline for “Call for Research
Proposals"; Order Parisian Vital Records Online; British Newspaper
Archives Adds 300,000 Pages
Vol.
15, No. 22 – June 8, 2014
Ancestry Dropping Marginal Services; Plans Announced for Conference
Resource Room; Special Discounts on Some of Avotaynu’s Major
Books; Who Do
You Think You Are?
Returns to U.S. Television in July; BillionGraves.com Adds More Than
1.6 Million Entries in May; Galveston Immigrant Database;
MillionShort.Com; FamilySearch To Add Hinting Technology; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; Jewish Conference in Gorodok, Belarus; Link to
Paris Vital
Vol.
15, No. 23 – June 15, 2014
Happy Father’s Day; Conference Planners Announce
“Live!” Schedule; Bennett Greenspan Gives Talk On
Future of
Genetic Genealogy; Family Tree DNA Now Has Processed More Than 1
Million DNA Test Kits; Family Tree DNA Has Father’s Day
Discounts; Special Discounts on Some of Avotaynu’s Major
Books
Ends Wednesday; Geniphile Answers 20 Common Criticisms of Geni; IIJG
Posts Online Digital Maps of the Jewish Populations in Europe
(1750–1950); FamilySearch Additions for the
WeekAustro-Hungarian
WWI Casualty Lists Online; “What Happens When the DNA
Lies”
Vol. 15, No.
24
– June 22, 2014
JewishGen Affected By Ancestry.com Website Down Earlier in Week;
Twisted Twigs; Watch a Preview of “IAJGS LIVE!”;
Preview
Video of Finding
Our Roots Identifies New Celebrities; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week
Vol.
15, No. 25 – June 29, 2014
DNA Testing; Geni Changes Privacy Rules; Ancestry Canada Free Through
July 1; Who Do
You Think You Are?” (UK) Returns
to BBC; “Who Do You Think You Are? Live” Conference
Moving
to Birmingham in 2015; Mocavo Acquired By FindMyPast; TheGenealogist
Adds WWI Casualty Records; Mark Paredes; “Who Counts as a
Sephardic Jew?”
Vol.
15, No. 26 – July 5, 2014
It Had To Happen; FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
15, No. 27 – July 13, 2014
Poland Instituting New Legislation Covering Vital Records; News From
Ancestry.com; British War Graves Online; MyHeritage WWI Military
Records Available at No Charge during July; JewishGen Education Program
for the Summer; FindMyPast Adds New England Naturalizations Records
1791–1906; Database of German Jews in 1933 Almost Complete;
Museum of the History of Polish Jews Creates “Museum on
Wheels”; Who
Do You Think You Are? Receives Primetime Emmy Nomination;
Egg on My Face: U.S. Census Records Access
Vol.
15, No. 28 – July 20, 2014
No Issue Next Week; What To Do In Salt Lake City Besides
Genealogy; Who
Do You Think You Are? Marathon Today (Sunday; USCIS
Planning Webinars; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; New
Book: The
Synagogues of Central & Western Pennsylvania: A Visual Journey;
JDC Facebook App; Charles University in Prague Database; WWII Documents
Now Accessible at U.S. Holocaust Museum
Vol.
15, No. 29 – August 3, 2014
34th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Is History;
AncestryDNA Matching Update Impacts Jewish Ancestry; At Long
Last! Getting
Started in Jewish Genealogy: 2014 Edition; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; All-Galicia Database Now Has More Than 300,000
Records; BillionGraves Launches the Forum; Every British Empire Person
Who Fell in World War I To Be Commemorated; “The Master
Genealogist” (TMG) Software To Be Discontinued; Avotaynu
Website
Named One of 101 Top Family History Sites
Vol.
15, No. 30 – August 10, 2014
Genealogyindexer.org Worth a Visit; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week; JewishGen Courses in the Near Future; Czech Familianten Records
Now Online; New Zealand WWI Service Files Now Online; Who Do You Think You Are?
UK Begins Season; ICRC Has WWI Prisoners of War Online; 2014
International Genetic Genealogy Conference; Antique Telephones at
SteveMorse.org Site; Report on the 34th annual IAJGS International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy: Electronics Age, Awards, Future
Conferences; Exhibitors; Genealogist’s Declaration of Rights;
Yeshiva University Family Discover Club
Vol.
15, No. 31 – August 17, 2014
Google Has Photographs and Street Views of European Towns; Summer Issue
of AVOTAYNU; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services Has Webinars; AJDC to Hold Special Film of Its
History in New York; Riverside Cemetery (New Jersey) Removes Online
Database
Vol.
15, No. 32 – August 24, 2014
Riverside Cemetery: Genealogists 1, Cemetery 0; FamilySearch Additions
for the Week; Gesher Galicia Adds More Cadastral Maps; A Remarkable
(Slovakia) Burial Website; Sachsenhausen List of Dead Now Online; News
from the
UK; ‘Tis the Season Again For Free Offers
Vol.
15, No. 33 – August 31, 2014
“A Report from the Jewish Genealogists’ Summer
Camp”;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Roman Vishniac Pictures of the
Jews of Eastern Europe Online; Free Webinar: “Researching
Your
Jewish Ancestors”; Special Offers of the Week
Vol.
15, No. 34 – September 7, 2014
Ellis Island Website Has New Look; Sites with a Potpourri of
Information; Canadian WWI Militia Lists Online; China Creates Memorial
to “Shanghai Jews”; MyHeritage CEO Featured In TV
Documentary
Vol.
15, No. 35 – September 14, 2014
Geni Spawns New Relationship Definition; Virtual Institute of
Genealogical Research Created; FamilySearch Additions for the Week;
Report Concludes All Ashkenazic Jews Descended from Just 350 People;
British Military Records Now Available in CD Format; Bosnian Historical
Archives To Be Digitized; IIJG Announces New Research Grants
Vol.
15, No. 36 – September 21, 2014
Shana Tovah!; Statistics About FamilySearch; “Finding Your
Roots
with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” Returns on September
23; Dictionary
of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland
Out of Print; Alabama Bill Motivated By News Reporter Complaint;
DeceasedOnline.com Adds Nearly 350,000 Burial Records; Europeans Drawn
from Three Ancient Sources; A Story Worth Sharing
Vol.
15, No. 37 – September 28, 2014
Geni Now Supports Multilingual Profiles; New Historical Newspaper Site;
FamilySearch Wants To Gather Fondest Grandma Stories; Wanted: Human
Interest Stories for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; YIVO to Digitize Its
Vilnius Collection; Free Access to 1875 Valuation Rolls for Scotland
Available; Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Paris
Now Available; These Websites Have New Look
Vol.
15, No. 38 – October 6, 2014
New Genealogy Site Is a Strange One; Dick Eastman Discusses a Paperless
Environment; Canada
Gazette:
A Useful Resource; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; FamilySearch
Additions Part 2 – 183 Million Indexed Records and Images;
Project To Make Billion Records from Obituaries Searchable Online;
FamilySearch and Historical Society of Pennsylvania To Publish
Historical Documents Online; FindMyPast Offers World Subscription for
only $5.00; JGSGB One-day Conference on October 26; Relatives of
Adopted Adults in UK Can Now Access Information; Video on Genetic
Research and the Origins of the Jewish People
Vol.
15, No. 39 – October 12, 2014
CNN Celebrities Trace Their Roots; Next Year in Jerusalem! Registration
Now Open for the IAJGS 35th International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; Have You Signed the Genealogists’ Declaration of
Rights?; JewishGen Offering Independen t Study Class Again;
NARA Plans
Three-day Webinar on Genealogy; U.S. National Archives Has Strategic
Plan to Digitize All Records; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Site
Has Links to U.S. Historical Directories; Petition in UK To Allow
Public Access to Birth, Marriage and Death Records; Warsaw Jewish
Museum To Open Core Exhibit; Plans to Translate Vilnius Vital Records
1919–1940; Latest FindMyPast.com Discount
Vol.
15, No. 40 – October 19, 2014
CNN Places Roots Documentaries on Internet; Call for Papers: Jerusalem
Conference; MyHeritage Creates Library Version of Its Service;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Seeking Couples/Partners Who Met
Through Genealogy; USHMM Plans Collections and Conservation Center;
Mocavo.com Offering Free Access for Limited Time; CanadaGenWeb; Call
for Papers: Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Conference; Names in
Hungarian Labor Battalions and Deported Jew Online at USHMM.org; Social
Security Administration Has Two Versions of Death Index; Online Panel
Discussion on Passenger Ship St Louis; Shoah
Victims’ Names Database Now Documents More Than 4.3 Million
Holocaust Victims; Beware of an Amazon.com Practice
Vol.
15, No. 41 – October 26, 2014
MyHeritage and 23andMe to Collaborate; Family Tree Accepting Autosomal
DNA Results From Competitors; News From JRI-Poland; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; Ancestry.com Adds Millions of German Records;
National Archives Genealogy Fair; U.S. Library of Congress Webinar on
Introduction to Their Online Resources; Webinar on INS Deportation and
Exclusion Files; German Minority Census of 1939 Online; Free Access to
Death Records for Halloween; Right To Be Forgotten and Right To Know;
“Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy” Updates
Reflect
Growth of Jewish Genealogical Resources
Vol.
15, No. 42 – November 2, 2014
International Jewish Genealogy Month; JDC Plans to Place Online Its
Poland Collection 1945–1949; FamilySearch Additions for the
Week;
Billion Graves Has Largest Collection of GPS Tagged Headstones; News of
British and Estonian Newspaper Archives; U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database; Issues of Rom-Sig News:
Romanian Jewish Soldiers Killed in World War I; Is a New Collection
Really a New Collection?; Correcting TracingThePast.org
Database; Nu?
What’s New? Being Treated As Spam
Vol.
15, No. 43 – November 9, 2014
MyHeritage Databases Available in Family History Centers;
Armistice Day Discounts; JewishGen Adds Custom Google Search to Site;
Gesher Galicia Now Multi-lingual; FamilySearch Additions for the Week;
November Webinars by FTDNA; Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island
Establishes a YouTube Channel; News from Genteam.eu; Crestleaf.com
Vol.
15, No. 44 – November 16, 2014
FamilySearch Has No Free Offers; New Military Record Collections at
Family Search; FamilySearch Is 120 Years Old; FamilySearch Additions
for the Week; Fold3.com Offering Free Access to WWII Records Through
November 30; Bennett Greenspan: “75 Percent of Jews Trace
Ancestry to Middle East”; France Adds Online Soldier
Registrations; New Site To Find People in the United States;
Romania-SIG Now Has 54,525 Records for Maramaros County; MyHeritage
Increases Presence in The Netherlands; Film: Forgotten Refugees: Jews From
Arab Countries–A Documentary; Earwitness to
History: WWII U.S. Marine Corps Combat Recordings; Fall Issue of
AVOTAYNU; AVOTAYNU Business
Vol.
15, No. 45 – November 23, 2014
Dick Eastman: “How I Ditched My Laptop for a Tablet Computer;
Dick Eastman Initiates Privacy Blog; Ancestry Uses New Matching Rules;
FamilySearch Discontinuing Photo Duplication Service; New Record Groups
from Ancestry, FindMyPast, Family Search; Using California Birth and
Death Indexes; WikiTree Adds New DNA Matching Functionality;
Massachusetts Images of WWI Soldiers; Who Says Writing Our Congressman
Doesn’t Work?: UK Probate Service Launches Online Probate
Search
Facility; Maramaros Project Was Hungarian SIG, Not Romanian SIG.
Vol.
15, No. 46 – December 7, 2014
FamilySearch Adds FindAGrave Database to Collection; RootsMagic Adds
MyHeritage Matching; MyHeritage Digitizing Tombstones of Largest
Cemetery in Israel; Historic Newspapers of 23 European Countries
Online; FindMyPast Adds 3.4 Million British Trade Union Registers; Call
For Papers: 25th Annual Conference Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies;
Deadline for Lecture Proposals for Jerusalem Conference Is Today; EU
Still Tackles Its Data Protection Plan; Hessen-Darmstadt Jewish Records
Online...Barely; Polish State Archives Puts Warsaw Vital Records
Online; New Organization: The Surname Society; Annual Conference of
Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries; Mazal tov
Vol.
15, No. 47 – December 14, 2014
MyHeritage Announces “Instant Discoveries”; Legacy
Family
Tree Announces 2015 Webinars; JewishGen Offering Four Education Courses
in First Quarter of 2015; AVOTAYNU Offer: 6 issues for Price of 4;
Contribute to Genealogy Non-Profits; “Family Tree
Magazine”
Announces 2014 List of 75 Best Genealogy Sites; U.S. Genealogy Roadshow
Starts Second Season Soon; Order Wills and Probate Records for England
and Wales Online; 1925 Valuation Rolls for Scotland Online; FindMyPast
New Acquisitions
Vol.
15, No. 48 – December 21, 2014
Happy Chanukah to All!; Searchable Yizkor Books at
GenealogyIndexer.org; Who
Do You Think You Are?
New
Season Starts February 24; New FamilySearch Additions; Final Day
— AVOTAYNU Offer: 6 issues for Price of 4; National Library
of
Australia Has Guide to Vital Records; Bureaucracy Comes to
Spain’s Offering of Naturalization of Sephardic
Vol.
15, No. 49 – December 28, 2014
Mathilde Tagger (1933–2014) z”l; Yahad In Unum
Posts Maps of Mass Jewish Killing Sites to Internet; Illegal Immigrants
to Eretz Yisrael Online; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; What Will
Happen to your Historical E-mail and Other Internet Data; Advice:
Wait for Discounts; MyHeritage and Danish National Archives to Index
Records; Last Chance for 2014 Charitable Contributions
Vol.
16, No. 1 – January 4, 2015
Maps of Litvak Jewry; JRI-Poland Now Links to Site With 200,000
Gravestones; JOWBR Now Has 2.37 Million Records; JewishGen Memorial
Plaques Project; Family History Library Announces Online Classes;
Prisoners of War During WWI; An Unusual Tombstone; More About Website
of Illegal Immigrants to Israel
Vol.
16, No. 2 – January 11, 2015
New Guide to Salt Lake City; FamilySearch Indexing Projects; Reminder:
“Genealogy Roadshow” first program January 13;
Webinar:
Introduction to Library of Congress Online Resources; Index to South
Africa Voter Lists on Ancestry.com; Global Family Reunion; Group Trip
to Lithuania - July 21–31, 2015; 1942 Transport lists from
Lodz Ghetto to Chelmno; Webinar:
“Genealogical
Resources at the American Jewish Historical Society–New
England
Archives”; UK WWI Missing/Killed In Action Database Now
Available
Vol.
16, No. 3 – January 18, 2015
Top 100 Most Popular Sites for Genealogy; Family Tree DNA Abandons
Distant Matches; Family Tree Builder Now Available for the Mac;
FamilySearch Launches New App Gallery; Holocaust Memorial Day
–
January 25; Poland Sets New Privacy Limitations on Vital Records;
Virtual Tour of Museum of the History of Polish Jews; Are You a Member
of a SIG?
Vol.
16, No. 4 – January 25 2015
Genetic Genealogy Standards Finalized; Jewish Museum of the American
West: An Online Virtual Museum; New Book: Jewish Surnames from
Bulgaria; Additions to FamilySearch; Drone View of
Bialystok
Jewish Cemetery; Webinar of World Family Reunion; Oral Testimonies of
Holocaust Survivors Online; Yad Vashem News; MyHeritage Partners with
23andMe DNA Service
Vol.
16, No. 5 – February 1, 2015
Recent Additions to FamilySearch: 37.9 Million Indexed Records and
Images; Map of the World Shows Scope of Google Street Views; Watching
Television Programs Broadcast from Other Countries; Making Inquiries to
Argentina; Canadians Want Long-Form Census Back; Library and Archives
Canada Adds New Directories; FindMyPast Adds Kindertransport Records;
Register Now for Conference and Possibly Win Two Free Nights at Hotel;
All JDC Records from Post-World War II Period Digitized; IIJG announces
Research Prize in Memory of Mathilde Tagger z"l; AncestryDNA Testing
Kits Now Available in UK and Ireland; Portugal Says “Me Too;
Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol.
16, No. 6 – February 8, 2015
EU States “Right To Be Forgotten” Applies
Worldwide;
Shiddach (Marriage) Between FamilySearch and MyHeritage Bears More
Fruit; Temporary Free Access to Ancestry.com New Zealand Records; Free
Access to Ancestry.com UK Records; Adopt a Jewish Cemetery in Poland;
Genealogy Roadshow; Renewing Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week Include; UK National Archives Has
Alien Registration Cards Online; 436,000 German Restitution Records Now
Online; Design Poster for Annual IAJGS International Jewish Genealogy
Month; New Society: Twin Cities Jewish Genealogical Society; A VPN
Service That Is Free of Charge
Vol.
16, No. 7 – February 15, 2015
\Who Do You Think You
Are?
New Season Announced; USCIS Webinar On Overview of Their Records; AJDC
Adds Its Warsaw Office Collection (1945–1949) to Its Website;
Biweekly Drawing of Prizes Await IAJGS Conference Registrants; AVOTAYNU
Editor, Sallyann Amdur Sack-Pikus, Discusses Human Interest Stories;
Hungarian Jewish Encyclopedia Online; Ancestry Announces 2015 Product
and Content Plans; FindMyPast Makes Major Announcements at RootsTech;
JewishGen Course on “Complex Genealogy in the United
States” Planned
Vol.
16, No. 8 – February 22, 2015
Israel State Archives to Digitize and Place Its Records Online; New
Genealogy-Related TV Program: Long Lost Family;
FDA Eases Access to DNA Screening for Inherited Diseases;
GenealogyIndexer Adds Automated Hebrew, Yiddish Transliteration System;
IIJG Looking for Volunteers for Its Jacobi Project; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; MyHeritage Adds Millions of Scandinavian
Records; San Mateo County Obituaries; Reminder: Resubscribe to AVOTAYNU
Vol.
16, No. 9 – March 1, 2015
PBS To Air Documentary about 350 Years of Jewish Migration; A Bit of
History: Convicts to Australia and the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System;
Deadline for Renewal of AVOTAYNU; Another Jewish Cemetery Burials
Online; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Recent Additions at
Ancestry.com; Denmark Opens Digital Archives Online; IIJG Mathilde
Tagger Prize for Genealogical Research: More Information; JDC Honors
Its Women in Recognition of International Women’s Day, March 8
Vol.
16, No. 10 – March 8, 2015
Australia May Replace Complete Census with Sampling; Conference Update
– Winners of First Drawing; EU “Right To Be
Forgotten
Law” Faces Opposition; FindMyPast Offering Free Access Until
Monday; Once Again: Deadline for Renewal of AVOTAYNU; Family History Daily
Identifies 50 Free Genealogy Sites; Plan to Reconstruct a Wooden
Synagogue in Poland; Overview of MyHeritage Products; EHRI Offers
Online Holocaust Studies Courses; “Holocaust by
Bullets”
Exhibit in Los Angeles Until March 15; More About Rabbi Israel Porush;
Switched at Birth
Vol.
16, No. 11 – March 15, 2015
News from the German National Archives (Bundesarchiv); Sephsardic News;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Are You Related to an American
Soldier Killed in The Netherlands During WWII?
Vol.
16, No. 12 – March 22, 2015
Right-To-Be-Forgotten vs. Right-To-Know; Conference Early Registration
Ends April 15; Russian Immigration Database; More About Bundesarchiv
Resources; New Book: Jewish
Protected Subjects of the French Consulate in Tunis, 1830–1913;
RootsTech 2015 Breaks Attendance Records; Who Do You Think You Are? Live!
April 16-18, Birmingham, England
Vol 16, No. 13
- March 25, 2105
Special Edition! Announcing "Avotaynu Online"
Vol.
16, No. 14 – March 29, 2015
No New?
What’s New?
Issue Next Week; Have You Registered for Avotaynu Online?; Have You
Friended Avotaynu Online on Facebook?; FamilySearch Has NYC Vital
Records Online; FamilySearch Announces Recent Additions to Its Online
Site; FamilySearch Has GenealogyBank Obituaries; Steve Morse Site Now
Links to Passenger List Indexes on FamilySearch; Yad Vashem Announces
Plans to Participate In Annual Conference; Knowles Collection Reaches
One Million Records; FTDNA to Present 20 Workshops at “Who Do
You
Think You Are LIVE!”; Hungarian Government Pledges Money to
Restore Jewish Cemeteries; Austro-Hungary Military Blogspot
Vol.
16, No. 15 – April 12, 2015
European Union Does Not Like Cookies; An Amazing Discount for an
Amazing Set of Books: "Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During
the Holocaust" for Only $49; News About the Conference; How To Find
Missing
Family Search Records; FamilySearch Additions 18.3 Million Records
(April 2 Announcement); FamilySearch Additions 2.3 Million Records
(April 6 Announcement); Ancestry.com Adds Lodz Ghetto/Czechoslovakia
Lists; U.S. National Archives Adds “Iraqi Jewish
Archives” to Its Site; New: Virtual Museum of Judaica in
Moldova; Wanted: Volunteer To Create Wikipedia Page for Rabbi Malcolm
H. Stern
Vol.
16, No. 16 – April 19, 2015
Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Now Has Wikipedia Entry; Last Chance to Own
“Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the
Holocaust” for Only $49 Plus Shipping!!; RootsTech and
WDYTYA-LIVE! Announce 2016 Conference Dates; JewishGen Creates
Educational Videos; JewishGen Education Offers an Online Forum: The
Jewish in Jewish Genealogy; Ancestry.com Launches “Ancestry
Academy”; Ancestry.com Offering Free Access to Immigration
Records through Monday; AncestryDNA Announces “New Ancestor
Discoveries”; EHRI Online Portal Connects Holocaust Archives
Worldwide; ITS Director Returning to Academic Life
Vol.
16, No. 17 – April 24, 2015
For the Genealogist Who Has Everything: Introducing
Ancestry’s Apple Watch; Now Available: Getting Started in Jewish
Genealogy: 2015 Edition;
FasmilySearch Additions for the Week; Comment: A Small Donation Can Go
a
Long Way; IGRA Site Now Has Nearly 500,000 Records; Reminder: Early
Registration Discount for Annual Conference Ends May 6; IIJG
“200
Years of Scottish Jewry” Project Is Yielding Results
Vol.
16, No. 18 – May 3, 2015
Family History Books Collection of FamilySearch Now Reaches 200,000
Books; FamilySearch Now Has Antwerp Police Immigration Index,
1840–1930; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Fold3
Providing
Free Access to WWII Records Through May 15; Importance of Documenting
Oral History; New Site: GenealogyGophers.com; Online Belgian
Newspapers; New Showings of Who Do You Think You Are?
Planned for This Summer
Vol.
16, No. 19 – May 11, 2015
The Works of Tomasz Wisniewski; Complete Conference Program Online;
Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU to Printer; FamilySearch Plans Webinars on
European Roots; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Crestleaf
Identifies 101 Resources for Finding Your Jewish Ancestors; Website Has
List of Belgian Soldiers Who Died in WWI
Vol.
16, No. 20 – May 17, 2015
Isolating Source of “2nd to 3rd cousins” Derived
from FTDNA
Family Finder Test; Archives Portal Europe; What Is a Genealogical
Society?; “Crowd Sourced Genealogy: Implications for the
Jewish
People”; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Jewish History
of
Las Vegas To Have an Online Presence; Getting Started In Jewish
Genealogy–2015 Edition Shipped; JewishGen Offers
New York Genealogy Course; IIJG Needs More Volunteers for Its Jacobi
Project
Vol.
16, No. 21 – May 24, 2015
ManyRoads Website; Photographs of Old New York City (and San
Francisco); Free Record Collections at Ancestry.com; Free Access to
Ancestry.com Military Records Through May 25; Mocavo Making All U.S.
Census Records Available at No Charge; Toronto Star
Offering Free Access to Their Archives Through May 31; JewishGen
Education: “Get Ready To Publish Your Research”;
Webinar:
“How Castle Garden Records Burned in the Ellis Island
Fire”; Kremenets District Research Group Issues Progress
Report
Vol.
16, No. 22 – May 31, 2015
“Right To Be Forgotten” Policy May Become
Infectious;
“Global Family Reunion” This Saturday, June 6;
FamilySearch
Webinars for June; FamilySearch Additions for the Week – Part
1;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week – Part 2; Forces War
Records
Adds Reports of WWII Casualties; Webinar: “Newspapers.com:
Getting the Scoop on Your Ancestors; Bohemian Census Data Online; Back
River Memorial Gardens (Montreal) Gravestones Now On JOWBR; IIJG
Extends Deadline for Mathilde Tagger Prize for Genealogical Research
Vol.
16, No. 23 – June 7, 2015
Morse Site Shut Down Over Copyright Dispute; IAJGS Conference Offering
Option to Those Who Cannot Attend; Website Identifies Archives in
Israel; All Galicia Database Adds Search-By-House Number Feature;
JewishGen Announces Update to Me morial Plaques and JOWBR
Databases;
Ancestry.com Adds Virginia Vital Records
Vol.
16, No. 24 – June 14, 2015
Stephen P. Morse Site Unblocked; FamilySearch Wiki Page Provides Links
to U.S. Immigration Lists; Google Must Comply With European Union Rules
Globally; Library and Archives Canada Allows Photographing Documents;
News of Value to German Researchers; Hadassah Assouline Offering
Professional Services
Vol.
16, No. 25 – June 21, 2015
European Countries Now Have Their Sights on Facebook; Google Fights
Back in Spain; A Record Access Success Story: Virginia Vital Records;
Can’t Attend Conference? Try “IAJGS On Demand
2015”;
10 Free Canadian Genealogy Websites; Canadiana.ca Now Has 30 Million
Pages Online
Vol.
16, No. 26 – June 28, 2015
No Issue of Nu?
What’s New? Next Week; Spam Checkers; BBC
Strikes Back at EU “Right to be Forgotten”
Rule; Finding
Your Roots
Temporarily Suspended by PBS; WDYTYA-US Summer Season Will Include J.K.
Rowling; WDYTYA-UK Summer Season Celebrities Announced; Online
Collection of Postcards Depict Scenes of U.S. Towns; New FamilySearch
Additions; Australian Ryerson Index Now Has 5M Entries; DNA Testers: Be
Patient; Deceased
Online Has Entries of Burials in UK and Ireland; Reminder:
Have You Signed the Genealogists’ Declaration of Rights?
Vol.
16, No. 27 – July 12, 2015
MyHeritage Adds Global Name Translation™ Technology;
JewishGen
Improves Performance of Systems; Jerusalem Conference a Great Success;
IAJGS Announces Achievement Awards; IAJGS Announces Annual Grants; More
Free Genealogy Sites; Japanese Court Upholds “Right To Be
Forgotten” Viewpoint; Article on Jewish Surname Adoption in
Russian Empire; List of Online Databases at UK National Archives; New
Collections from GenTeam; Crypto-Jewish Conference Slated for Miami,
Florida, July 19–21
Vol.
16, No. 28 – July 19, 2015
Avotaynu Online Has Article About Family Trees and Privacy Issues;
Organization Wants “Right To Be Forgotten” Rule
Applied in
U.S.; New Book: Dictionary
of Sephardic Given Names; Avotaynu Books for Sephardic
Genealogy; New Season of Finding
Your Roots Will Start in January 2016; Reminder: New
Season of Who
Do You Think You Are? Starts
July 26; Webinar Planned on U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Records; JewishGen Again Offers Independent Study Class; Ancestry.com
Announces AncestryHealth; Publication: Historic Canadian Synagogues;
Copenhagen Jewish Vital Records (1762–1915) Online;
Correction: Judy Baston from San Francisco; New York City Directories
and Phone Books Online
Vol.
16, No. 29 – July 26, 2015
Is Sharing of Databases By Online Genealogical Companies Good for
Genealogy?; Social Security Death Index Has New Companion: Social
Security Applications and Claims Index; Ancestry.com Adds More Than
100 Years of Canadian Yearbooks; Significant FamilySearch
Additions; Family
Tree Magazine Names 101 Best Websites for Genealogy for
2015; GenealogyInTime
Announces/Ranks Top 100 Genealogy Sites; Dictionary of Sephardic Given
Names
Has Been Shipped; FEEFHS Conference in Salt Lake City August
13–15; Join IAJGS 2016 Conference Blog; Book on Jews of
Charleroi, Belgium, at Outset of WWII; TheGenealogist Adds 100K Records
of London Synagogue Seat Holders; Additions to American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee Names Index; FindMyPast Adding 1939 Register of
UK; Annual European Days of Jewish Culture Is September 6
Vol.
16, No. 30 – August 2, 2015
Google Fights Back on “Right to Be Forgotten”
Issue; South
African Jewish Site; UK National Archives Adds Two More Collections
Online; Summer AVOTAYNU To Printer; FamilySearch Gives Progress Report;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; FamilySearch Webinars for August;
Legacy Family Tree Webinars Through End of Year; RootsTech 2016
Conference is February 3–6; Ancestry.com Has Nevada
Naturalization Records; JewishGen Repeats Course: “Getting
Organized”; Courland-Kherson Jewish Relocation Records Now on
JewishGen; “A Return to Poland” Article in New York Times
Vol.
16, No. 31 – August 9, 2015
Site Identifies More Than 5,000 Facebook Sites That Focus On Genealogy;
“Right To Be Forgotten” May Be Spreading;
FamilySearch
Additions for the Week; NARA and Ancestry.com Plan To Renew Their
Partnership Agreement; Didn’t Attend Conference? Try
“IAJGS
On Demand 2015”; Kaunas City Government Agrees to Maintain
Jewish
Cemetery; A First? Facebook Webinar Planned by Bessarabian SIG;
“Who Do You Think You Are?” UK Announces New
Series;
“New” Database: "Name Changes in the Palestine
Gazette"
Vol.
16, No. 32 – August 16, 2015
New Website Identifies Victims of Disasters; FamilySearch Additions for
the Week; Who
Do You Think You Are? Has Special Program
Tonight; British
Jewry Book of Honour 1914–1920; Database of
British Empire Prisoners of War Held by Japan Now Online
Vol.
16, No. 33 – August 30, 2015
Ancestry Collaborates with Gannett To Digitize More Than 80 U.S.
Newspapers; Ancstry.UK Offering Free Access Until August 31; USCIS
Revises Webinar Name and Theme; FamilySearch Additions; Nancy Levin
Presenting Online Seminar: “Jewish Family History Research
I”; FindMyPast (UK) Adds British Jewry Book of Honour
(1914–1920);
Irish Jewish Genealogical Society Has Online Database of 52,000
Individuals; FindMyPast Adds Probate Calendars of England &
Wales
1858–1959; Austrian War Archives Publishes Pamphlet on
Genealogical Research; Jewish Historical & Genealogical Society
of
Western Australia Has Website
Vol.
16, No. 34 – September 6, 2015
Individual Genealogist Fighting Back Against Lack of Record Access;
Records Preservation and Access Committee Wants Greater Access to
Social Security Death Index; Additional Information Posted About 2016
Conference; FamilySearch Adds Index to 1915 New Jersey State Census;
Ancestry.com Adds Probate Records for All 50 States; Ancestry Canada
Giving Free Access to Immigration Records; List of Free Canadian
Genealogy Sites; British Newspaper Archive Now Has 11 Million Pages
Online; European Jewish Heritage Day; Lithuanian Jewish Tourist Guide
Published; International Tracing Service Announces New Director; Yad
Vashem Displays History of Nine Towns in Europe
Vol.
16, No. 35 – September 13, 2015
Shana Tovah!; Lecture: “Seven Unique Technologies for
Genealogy
Discoveries”; MyHeritage To Index All Graves in Israel;
Lithuanian Prime Minister States All Jewish Graves To Be Preserved by
2017; Litvak SIG Site Has a New Look; U.S. National Archives To Partner
With FindMyPast; FindMyPast Adds One Million WWII Prisoner of War
Records; FamilySearch Adds 3.1 Million Records This WeekIndex Created
for Hungarian Jewish Vital Records at FamilySearch; Dick Eastman
Discusses Privacy Issues for Family Historians; Ancestry Academy Now
Has 29 Education Courses
Vol.
16, No. 36 – September 20, 2015
Crowdsourcing Becoming Popular Among Archives, Libraries, Etc.; German
Jewish Registration Cards (1938–1942) Being Indexed; National
Archives of Australia Going Digital; RootsTech Now Open for
Registration; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; JewishGen Announces
Fall Education Courses; FindMyPast Has Free Access For Weekend
Vol.
16, No. 37 – September 27, 2015
Pamela Weisberger z"l; Rieke Nash (1938–2015) z"l;
FamilySearch
Adds More Than Six Million Records This Week; FamilySearch Trying To
AutoIndex Records; FindMyPast Adds 2.9 Million School Records for
England, Wales, Ireland and Australia; Restoration of Kaunas and
Vilnius Jewish Cemeteries Has Started; European Countries Dig In Their
Heels Regarding Privacy Matters
Vol.
16, No. 38 – October 4, 2015
Genealogists 1, Bureaucrats 0: Brooke Schreier Ganz Forces Release of
New York County Records; Plaudits for Pamela Weisberger; Call for
Proposals: IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Yahad-In
Unum To Be Featured on TV Program 60 Minutes;
Stephen P. Morse Improves NYC Marriage Index Results; Call for Papers:
Journal of Multidisciplinary Research; Wanted: Human Interest Stories
for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; FamilySearch Adds More than 11 Million
Records; Ancestry Adds Records for Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Nevada and Utah; Ancestry.de (Germany) Allowing Free Access During All
of October; NEHGS Has Index to Western Massachusetts Jewish Cemetery
Burials; Scotlands People Making 1855 Valuation Rolls Available At No
Charge Through October 13; Crafted Knowledge Has Indexes to Many
Immigration/Military Collections Online; National Library of Australia
Digitized Historical Newspaper Collection; Knesset Caucus on
Descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Communities
Vol.
16, No. 39
– October 12, 2015
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Consider “Right To Be
Forgotten” Case: You Can’t Undo Historical Facts;
European Court of Justice Reaffirms Privacy Rights; Announcing
NARA’s Digitization Priorities; What Was Life Like in a
Typical Village in Eastern Poland?; For the First Time, ITS Places
Documents of Nazi Persecution Online; FamilySearch Adds 8 Million
Records This Week; TheGenealogist Places British Emgiration Lists
Online; National Library of Australia Newspaper Collection Can Be
Searched; Ancestry Adds German Phone Directories (1915–1981);
Digitization of Posen Resident Registrations Is Nearly Complete; The
Library Card Catalog Is Officially Dead
Vol.
16, No. 40 – October 17, 2015
FamilySearch Adds Ellis Island Index (1925–1957; Ancestry
Additions for the Week; New York City Archives Releases Microfilms of
Marriage Index; NARA’s Digitization Priorities
Include
Items of Genealogical Interest; U.S. National Archives Once Again Will
Hold “Virtual Genealogy Fair; Sale: “Every Family
Has a
Story@ For Only $18.50; Planning to Attend the 2016 Conference in
Seattle? Consider an Alaskan Cruise; Selected Lectures from 2015
Conference To Be Available Until End of October; FindMyPast Adds
England and Wales Electoral Registers (1832–1932); JGS of
Great
Britain Has Books to Assist in Family History Research; MyHeritage Adds
46 Million Swedish Household Records (1880–1920); Facebook
Also
Being Scrutinized for Privacy Issues; Google’s Publishing of
Snippets Does Not Violate Copyright
Vol.
16, No. 41 – October 24, 2015
Finding
our Roots Third Season Begins January 5; Genealogy Roadshow
Third Season To Start May 17, 2016; Last Chance to Buy Every Family Has a Story@ For
Only $18.50;
Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU; IIJG Looking for Volunteers to Proofread Paul
Jacobi Genealogies; Call for Volunteers: Raoul Wallenberg Passport
Project; FamilySearch Additions for the Week; Spanish Court Allows
Detrimental News Items To Remain Online; New JewishGen Course: Using
Google for Genealogy; ForcesWarRecords Adds 500,000 Worl War I Hospital
Records; International Jewish Genealogy Month
Vol.
16, No. 42 – November 1, 2015
Announce Project To Digitize Jewish Council Archives In Europe;
FindMyPast Offers 1939 Register of England and Wales (Census);
GenealogyIndexer.org Now Has Indexed 207 Yizkor Books; 23andMe Now
Includes Reports That Meet FDA Standards; Australia Joins
“Right
To Be Forgotten” Proponents; Canadian Census; Read More
Records
Access Alerts; FamilySearch Add 1 million Records This Week;
FamilyTreeWebinars.com Now Has 275 Genealogy Courses; Ancestry Mexico
Launches With More Than 220 Million Records; NEHGS Offering Free Access
to Cemetery Databases Through November 7; Holocaust Center for Humanity
Opens in Seattle
Vol.
16, No. 43 – November 8, 2015
Ancestry Military Records Available At No Charge Through Veterans Day,
Adds Canadian WII Service Files of War Dead (1939–1947);
MyHeritage Introduces “Search Connect”;
FamilySearch Adds
New Features to Search Capability; Reminder: Send Your Human Interest
Stories to AVOTAYNU; Library and Archives Canada Update Naturalization
Database; Canada to Reinstitute Long-Form Census; 170,000 Great
Depression Images Are Now Online; BCG Gives Miriam Weiner Certified
Genealogist Emeritus Status; A Bit of Jewish Genealogy History: Origin
of the JewishGen Family Finder
Vol.
16, No. 44 – November 15, 2015
Seattle Conference Notes: Devin Narr to Deliver Keynote Address,
Deadline for Submitting Proposals is December 15, Consider Touring the
Northwest; Israel Mandate Period Marriage and Divorce Documents Being
Placed Online; “6 ‘Secret’ Google Search
Tricks for
Genealogy That’ll Help You Find Your Ancestors”;
Belgian
War Dead Register for World War I Now Exists; Library of Congress Posts
Its 10 Millionth Newspaper Page; IIJG Announces Tagger Prize
Recipients; GenTeam.au Adds Jewish records of Trebitsch/Trebic to Its
Site; BillionGraves Adds More Than 8 Million New Military Records;
FamilySearch Adds 5.7 Million Records This Week; Ancestry Now Has
Spanish-Language Blog; History of the Jews of Krakow Online; About
Genealogiequebec.com
Vol.
16, No. 45 – November 22, 2015
Dovid Katz Talks of “Two Holocausts in Lithuania”;
European
Jewish Cemeteries Initiative Has New Website; Hong Kong Joins
“Right to be Forgotten” Advocates; Israel Joins
Other Side;
FamilySearch Adds 2.4 Million Records This Week; FamilySearch Adds
British WWI Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) Records
Vol.
16, No. 46 – November 29, 2015
Reclaim The Records Gains Access to Index of 445,000 New Jersey Vital
Records
Google Removes More Than 1M References at EU Request; UK Asks for
Public Consultation on 2021 Census; American Jewish Historical
Society-New England Archives Adds Two Databases; FindMyPast Gives 75%
Discount; All Lithuania Database Adds 59,123 Records; Reminder: Send
Your Human Interest Stories to AVOTAYNU; Our Black Friday Offer: 6
issues of AVOTAYNU for Price of 4
Vol.
16, No. 47 – December 6, 2015
Family
Tree Magazine Publishes Best Websites for U.S. State
Research; Time to Think about Charitable Donations; Our Chanukah
Offering: Practical
Guide to Jewish Cemeteries
for Only $22.00; Library and Archives Canada Updates Home Children
Database; Genealogists Declaration of Rights Nearing Goal; December 15
Deadline for IAJGS Speaker Proposals and AVOTAYNU Human Interest
Stories; John Martino (1936–2015)
Vol.
16, No. 48 – December 20, 2015
Ancestry.com Plans to Abandon “Family Tree Maker”
Causes
Furor in Genealogical Community; MyHeritage Adds 150,000 Books to Its
Online Collection; FamilySearch Adds More Nearly 21 Million Records to
Collection, Many Are of Interest to Persons with Jewish Ancestry;
Reclaim the Records Seeks Public Access to New York City Marriage Index
(1938–2015); Our Chanukah Offering: Practical Guide to Jewish
Cemeteries
at 44% Discount Extended until December 21; FamilyTreeWebinars.com
Announces Lectures for 2016; JOWBR Grows to More Than 2.7 Million
Records: Major Addition of Records from Argentina; JewishGen Memorial
Plaques Database Now Has More Than 105,000 Records; IAJGS Names Banquet
Speaker for 2016 Conference; Center Planned to Emphasize Culture and
Achievements of Lithuanian Jews; Gesher Galicia Posts Five Interwar
Poland Maps; Forward
Newspaper Now Online at National Library of Israel; All-Israel Database
Adds Individuals Who Made Aliyah from Hungary; JewishGen Identifies Top
10 Myths of Jewish Family History Research; Montreal Gazette
Online
Vol.
16, No. 49 – December 27, 2015
U.S. 2020 Census Will Use Internet; Replacing Family Tree Maker Not
Necessarily That Easy; “New York Times” Cautions on
European Union “Right to Be Forgotten” Rule; EU
Privacy
Regulation Specifically Excludes Holocaust-related Documents;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 20 Million Records to Its Collection; Library
and Archives Canada Has Web Pages for Genealogical Research by Ethnic
Group; Swiss Banks Release Names of Dormant Bank Accounts Holders;
JewishGen Courses for January; Last Chance to Make a Tax-Deductible
Contribution to Your Favorite Genealogical Non-Profit Organizations
Vol.
17, No. 1 – January 3, 2016
Brooke Schreier Ganz Announces Latest Plans to Make More Government
Records Available; Can Genetic Research Help You?; “How to
Fail
at Family History Research in 10 Simple Steps”; FamilySearch
Claims to Be Foremost Family History Organization in Year-End Report;
USCIS Announces Two Genealogy Webinars; Free Access to Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Vermont Vital Records; Who Do You Think You Are? Live
in Birmingham, England, April 7–9; France Opens Vichy
Archives to Public
Vol.
17, No. 2 – January 10, 2016
New Season of Finding
Your Roots
In Progress; New Book Has Photographs of Ukrainian Synagogues; New York
Public Library Adds 180,000 Digitized Images Online; Registration Now
Open for Seattle Conference; FamilySearch Adds 2.5 Million Records This
Week; Reclaim the Records Files Request for Copy of New York State
Death Index; Video on 1939 UK National Registration Now Available; Not
Every Company Is Making a Profit from Genealogy
Vol.
17, No. 3 – January 17, 2016
Three Ways to Use Your Smartphone for Family History; A Report on
Preserving Your Digital Documents; Randy Schoenberg Notes 23 Reasons
You Should Be Using Geni; FamilySearch Adds 1.4 Million Records This
Week; Arthur Obermayer (1931–2016) z"l; JewishGen Looking for
Volunteers: Cemetery Photos and Publicity; IGRA Adds Additional Records
to Their Site; German Court Says Facebook “Friend
Finder”
Unlawful; MyHeritage Featured on Israeli TV; L’viv Center for
Urban History Plans Summer Program on Jewish History;
Vol.
17, No. 4 – January 24, 2016
Register Early for the Conference and Have a Chance to Win a Raffle
Prize; FindMyPast Allows Free Access Until January 25; Avotaynu No
Longer Selling Books Through Amazon.com; JOWBR Documenting German
Jewish Soldiers Killed During WWI; ITS Inquiries Increase by 25
Percent; IAJGS Creates Glossary of Terms Used in Records Access
Reporting; Mocavo and Findmypast Are “Coming
Together”; Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27; Have
You Submitted Pages of Testimony to the Shoah Victims Names Project?
Vol.
17, No. 5 – January 31, 2016
Off to RootsTech; KehilaLinks Site for Jews of Posen; Yet another
Website: JewGenealogy.com; Video on Choosing a Genealogical Software
Program; Family History Library Announces Webinars for February;
JRI-Poland Helping to Prove Person is Oldest Man Alive; AVOTAYNU
Subscriber Willing to Donate All Back Issues to an Instistution
Vol.
17, No. 6 – February 14, 2016
Family Tree Maker Rescued; Facebook Receiving Additional Restrictions
from the European Union; Rulings Against Google by European Union;
Latest News About Annual Conference: Film Festival; Winter Issue of
AVOTAYNU Is In the Mail; World Jewish Relief Allowing Inquiries About
UK Refugees; British Red Cross Index Cards of World War I Volunteers
Online; Portions of German Minority Census of 1939 Online; FindMyPast
Announces Partnerships with Other Genealogy
Companies; FindMyPast Plans Major Online U.S. Marriage Collection;
FindMyPast Adds 3 Million New Zealand Vital Records; FamilyTreeWebinars
Announces Program for 2016; JewishGen Planning Ask the Expert Session
on Jewish Naming Patterns; Ukraine SIG Achieves Milestone in
Membership; Central Database of Shoah Victims Database Has New Look;
New TV Series About “Long Lost Family”; Ancestry.ca
(Canada) Records Available At No Charge Through February 15; Ancestry
Makes UK/Irish Records Available At No Charge; Call for Papers for the
Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Conference; RootsTech2016;
Ancestry.ca New Collection: Alberta Homestead Records
(1870–1930;
Video on History of the Jews of Brazil; More About Posen KehilaLinks
Project
Vol.
17, No. 7 – February 21, 2016
New TV Show: Relative
Race;
MyHeritage Adds Audio Recordings Feature; FTDNA Develops Most
Comprehensive Genetic Screening Test; FamilySearch Adds 24 Million
Records This Week; New Book: Mobile Genealogy: How to Use
Your Tablet and Smartphone for Family History Research;
Conferences Abound; Canadian Naturalization Index Will Be Extended to
1946; JewishGen Education Courses for March; Annual Group Trip to
Lithuania – June 28 – July 8, 2016
Vol.
17, No. 8 – February 28, 2016
Conference Will Again Offer Live Streaming of Events; Reclaim the
Records Posts Latest Successes/Failures In Acquiring Public Records;
FamilySearch Adds 1.8 Million Records This Week; IGRA Announces New
Webinars; JewishGen Courses for March; Family History Library Announces
Webinars for March; Websites With Historic Newspaper Collections;
Reminder to AVOTAYNU Subscribers; Adam Brown Off to Antarctica.
Vol.
17, No. 9 – March 6, 2016
Ancestry.co.uk Offer of Free Access to Irish Collection Through March
31 Includes UK Records; JGSLI Now Has 15 Instructional Videos on
YouTube; Spring Season of “Who Do You Think You
Are?”
Starts April 3; Cyndi's List Is 20 Years Old; British Birth Records Do
Not Include Mother’s Name; Share Fair Again Planned for
Seattle
Conference; IIJG Issues Annual Call for Research Proposals; IIJG Needs
More volunteers for Jacobi Project; MyHeritage Adds More Than 5 Million
Dutch Records; TheGenealogist Releases WWII Prisoner of War Records;
Georgetown University Gets $10 Million for Holocaust Research; Reminder
#2 to AVOTAYNU Subscribers; Clarification of Avotaynu’s
Ventures
Vol.
17, No. 10 – March 13, 2016
HIAS Changing Mission, Moves to Maryland; What is the Genealogical
Proof Standard?; USCIS Planning Webinar on Ellis Island Processing; Top
100 Genealogy Websites; Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture Planned for
Annual Conference; MyHeritage Creates Webinar on “Getting
Started
with Your Family History”; 1930 Valuation Rolls For Scotland
Accessible At No Charge Through March 17; Plans Call For Restoration of
Glasgow Jewish Cemeteries; DNA and Genealogy Featured at Ontario
Conference; JRI-Poland Provides Documentation About World’s
Oldest Man; Final Reminder to AVOTAYNU Resubscribers: Renewal Deadline
March 15; Ignore Article About Lack of Mother’s Name On UK
Birth
Certificates
Vol.
17, No. 11 – March 20, 2016
Brooke Schreier Ganz Taking New York City Clerk’s Office to
Court; IAJGS Conference Will Have Special Program for Jewish Educators;
Genealogy Roadshow Announces Third Season Dates; Ancestry Adds 500,000
Gravestone Photographs to Collection; Book: “Nazi Persecution
and
Postwar Repercussions”; FamilySearch Adds More than 5 Million
Records This Week; Doing Republican Delegate Math in One Step;
All-Akkerman Database Created
Vol.
17, No. 12 – March 27, 2016
Bathsheba vs. Goliath; 46-Minute Slide Presentation About Annual
Conference Online; France's Data Protection Regulator Sues Google For
Not Applying Right to Be Forgotten on All Domain Names; Announce First
International Conference on Founder Populations; U.S. National Archives
Wants More Open Government; ITS Redesigns Its Website; Disruptions in
Access to Collections at USHMM
Vol.
17, No. 13 – April 3, 2016
Vast Array of Databases to Be Available at 36th IAJGS International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy; ICRC Places World War 1 Prisoners
Information Online; ProQuest Will Be Distributing Shoah Foundation
Testimonies; Reminder: “Who Do You Think You Are”?
Returns
to TLC on April 3; FamilySearch Adds 14 Million Records This Week;
FindMyPast Adds Records for England and Australia; Eight Steps for
Protecting Water-Damaged Photos; Czernowitz Database Now Includes
128,576 Records
Vol.
17, No. 14 – April 10, 2016
MyHeritage Launches Book Matching; Reclaim the Records Places NYC
Marriage Index 1908–1929 Online; Ancestry Indexing of USHMM
Records Now Reached One Million; 1944 Census of Hungarian Jews Found
Hidden In Wall; JDC Partners with Israel Genealogy Research
Association; Bessarabia SIG Partners with Routes to Roots Foundation;
JewishGen Announces Courses for Spring; American Ancestors: Free access
to One Billion Records Through April 13; FindMyPast Adds Collection of
British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Pension Records; POLIN
Museum
Wins Museum of the Year Award
Vol.
17, No. 15 – April 17, 2016
Annual Conference Schedule Now Online; Workshop on Certification to Be
Offered for First Time at Conference; European Parliament approved the
General Data Protection Regulation; Israel State Archives Places
Records Online; FamilySearch Adds 4 Million Records This Week;
MyHeritage Introduces Audio Recording Feature to Its App; GenTeam Adds
1.3 Million Entries to Their Site; Sophie Caplan Honored by the
Australian Jewish Historical Society; FindMyPast Adds 3.9 Million
Articles to Newspaper Collection; Next Canadian Census Can Be Completed
Online; New England Historic Genealogical Society Extends Free Access
to April 20
Vol.
17, No. 16 – April 24, 2016
JewishGen Creates “Passover Companion”; Tick, Tick,
Tick.
Time Is Running Out to Register Early for the Conference; Genealogy
Roadshow Fourth Season Starts May 17; Article: Three Things to
Periodically Do in Your Genealogy Research; Ancestry Adds WWII
Australian Military Data to Its Collection; Belarus SIG Site Has a New
Look; JRI-Poland Adds 10,000 Gravestone Inscriptions;
“MyHeritage
Community”
Vol.
17, No. 17 – May 1, 2016
Avotaynu News; New York City Department of Health Forces New York
Public Library to Remove Certain Indexes; Make Our Own KehilaLinks
Website; Bessarabia Revision Lists Now Has 108,924 Records; Attention
Snowbirds Who Are AVOTAYNU Subscribers
Vol.
17, No. 18 – May 8, 2016
Government of Canada Improves Access to Information; Annual Conference
to Include Play; Modern Technologies Used to Identify Jewish Burial
Sites and Death Camps; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU; New Book: German
Census Records 1816–1916; Passport Applications as a Source
of
Genealogical Information; FamilySearch Adds 5 Million Records This
Week; FindMyPast Adds More Than 10 million U.S. Marriage Records; Fold3
Offering World War II Collection through May 15 at No Charge; Israel
Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) Adds New Databases to Its Site
Vol.
17, No. 19 – May 15, 2016
Reclaim the Records Acquires New Jersey Vital Records Indexes; Google
Rejects 70–75 Percent of “Right to Be
Forgotten”
Requests; Are You Aware That Google Results Differ by Country?; New
Book: Jewish
Community of Long Island;
Australian Trove Funding May End; Online Lecture on Jews of Posen;
FamilySearch Adds about 300K Records This Week; MyHeritage Initiates
Program to Preserve Family Histories of Remote Tribes; Budapest Birth
Records 1876–95 Online
Vol.
17, No. 20 – May 22, 2016
MyHeritage Planning to Add DNA Matching of Family Trees; Ancestry UK
and Irish Collection at No Charge Through May 23; Genie Milgrom Creates
New Sephardic Genealogy Website; MACEVA Issues Annual Report of
Activities in Lithuania; Bone Marrow Registry at Conference; How to
Download Your Tree from Ancestry.com
Vol.
17, No. 21 – May 29, 2016
New York State Death Index 1957–1966 Online; Conference Hotel
Completely Booked; IIJG Extends Deadline for its 2016 “Call
for
Research Proposals; Online British Columbia (Canada) Newspaper Records
Updated; Correction About Genie Milgrom; Ernest Michel
(1923–2016) z"l
Vol.
17,
No. 22 – June 5, 2016
MyHeritage
Adds Australian Newspapers to Its Collection; Ancestry
Adds Arizona and Indiana Vital Records; Ancestry Publishes More Than
2.9
Million New German Civil Registrations; Library of Congress Webinar on
Introduction to LOC Online Resources; New JewishGen Class: Researching
Your
Roots in Belarus; JewishGen Offers
Online New York Genealogy
Course June 20; Call
for Proposals: RootsTech
2017; New England Historic Genealogical Society Offering
Free Access to
New York Databases<BR><BR>
Vol.
17, No. 23 – June 12, 2016
For Lovers of Yiddish: An Online Review of Alexander
Beider’s The
Origins of Yiddish Dialects;
Yahad-In Unum Now Has Profiled Online 464 Mass Execution Sites of Jews;
FamilySearch Adds 10 Million More Records; New Book: Trace Your German Roots Online; Who Do You Think You Are?
Renewed for New Season; Webpage Design Volunteers Needed for the
KehilaLinks Project
Vol.
17, No. 24 – June 20, 2016
Do You Use Google Alerts?; List of American Jewish Newspapers Online;
My Heritage Adds Sun Charts to System; MapMe Can Create a Historical
Map of Your Family; Enumeration District Maps for US 1950 Census are
Going Online; Searchable Indexes to All Sir Martin Gilbert’s
Books Now Online
Vol.
17, No. 25 – June 26, 2016
Blood & Frogs Site Adds Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy;
IGRA Adds Tel Aviv Records to Its Collection; Findmypast Makes Military
Records Accessible at No Charge; FamilySearch Has Brooklyn and Newark
Naturalization Images Online; JOWBR Now Exceeds 2.8 Million Records;
Memorial Plaque Database Exceeds 128,000 Records; Jewish Heritage
Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society; French and Belgian
Courts Take Opposite View on “Right to Be
Forgotten” vs.
Freedom of the Press; FamilySearch Shutdown Monday; Belarus SIG
Partners with Miriam Weiner and RTR Foundation
Vol.
17, No. 26 – July 4, 2016
MyHeritage Adds New Feature: PedigreeMap™, Geni Announces
Integration of DNA into Its World Family Tree; Ancestry Adds Many U.S.
Naturalization Records; FindMyPast Offering Free Access Through July 6;
Conference Will Again Offer Top Presentations Through Live Streaming;
Ancestry Academy Has Course “Introduction to the 1940
Census”; Belgian Court Rules In Favor of Facebook in Right to
Privacy Case; Lithuania Lifts Major Obstruction to Citizenship
Applications by Jews
Vol.
17, No. 27 – July 10, 2016
RPAC Concerned Access to State and Local Records Will Decline; Journal
of Multidisciplinary Research Devotes Issue to Genealogy;
Annual
Conference an Extravaganza; Six Tips for More Effective Genealogy
Searches; New Issue of Southern African SIG Newsletter Online;
FindMyPast Adds 7.8 Million U.S. Naturalization Petitions, Passport
Applications
Vol.
17, No. 28 – July 17, 2016
Add Links to Encyclopedia
of Jewish Genealogy;
U.S. and E.U. Adopt New Privacy Rules; (U.S.) National Digital
Newspaper Program Expanded; FindMyPast Adds More British Newspapers to
Collection; Who
Do You Think You Are? (UK) Announces New Season
Vol.
17, No. 29 – July 24, 2016
Not Attending Conference? Two Choices to Benefit from Lectures; Joint
Distribution Committee Names Index Continues to Grow;
CanadianHeadstones.com Reaches 1.5 Million Records; MyHeritage Adds
SuperSearch Alerts Feature; Ancestry Earnings Demonstrate Popularity of
Genealogy; USCIS Webinar on Subject Index Planned; Staten Island
Newspapers Now Online; Field
Guide to Jewish Cemeteries (for Poles) Planned
Vol.
17, No. 30 – July 31, 2016
No Issue of Nu?
What’s New?
Next Week; New Collections at FamilySearch; CEO of FamilySearch
Discusses Future Plans; Maceva Now Charging for Access to Its Records;
Opposing Decisions by European Country Courts on “Right to Be
Forgotten”; Family History Library to Hold Seminars/Webinars
on
U.S. and European Research; FindMyPast Adds English/Welsh Criminal
Records
Vol.
17, No. 31 – August 5, 2016
Brooke Schreier Ganz to Get Copy of New York City Marriage Index
1930–1995; Family
Tree Magazine
Names 101 Best Websites for Genealogy for 2016; IGRA Announces New and
Updated Databases; Yet Another Website with Burial Data; FindMyPast
Adds U.S./Canadian Border Crossings; Quest Diagnostics to Provide
Genetic Testing Services for Ancestry.com
Vol.
17, No. 32 – August 14, 2016
2016 IAJGS Conference Is History; MyHeritage Offers New Subscribers
Half-Price Offer Through August 16; New Collections at FamilySearch;
Geni Adds DNA Test Results to Its Environment; A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in
Latvia and Estonia Updated; U.S. National Archives Wants
Outsiders to Help Tag Their Collection
Vol.
17, No. 33 – August 21, 2016
FindAGrave Has Auschwitz Prisoner Records; “The 12 Important
Genealogy Dos and Don’ts You Need to Know”;
FamilySearch
Adds 15 Million Records This Week; Joint Distribution Committee
Archives Adds Polish/Soviet Families Assisted in Years
1969–1975;
JewishGen Once Again Offering Course on “Brick Wall or Dead
End?”; Article About Stanley Diamond at Harvard Business
School
Website; Simon Wiesenthal Back in Mormon Records; Avotaynu Summer Issue
Is in the Mail
Vol.
17, No. 34 – August 28, 2016
“How to View Thousands of Free Records on Ancestry Without a
Subscription”; Adoptees Gaining Greater Access to Birth
Records
in United States; Amazon Will Donate 0.5% of Your Purchases to Charity;
New Collections at Ancestry and Family Search; FindMyPast Adds U.S.
Marriage Index, WWI and WWII Records; Family Tree DNA Offers Summer
Discounts
Vol.
17, No. 35 – September 4, 2016
Today Is the Annual European Day of Jewish Culture; New Genealogical
Service Provides Personal Coaching; Website Has Descriptions of Shtetls
in Belarus; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 7 Million Records This Week; JGSLI
Adds Video on U.S. Immigration Ports; Free Access to Ancestry
Job-Related Records Until September 5; FindMyPast Adds British Army
Casualty Lists 1939–1945
Vol.
17, No. 36 – September 11, 2016
Remembering 9/11; MyHeritage DNA Matching Goes Live; How Ancestry.com
Has Grown; Search Israeli Online Phone Book with Latin Letters; Find A
Grave Site Includes “Gedenkbuch” Holocaust Victims;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week; U.S. National Archives Now Has
Lectures on Demand; Webinar on U.S. Immigration Files; Irish Government
Places Civil Registers of Vital Records Online; Commercial Genealogy
Sites Will Commemorate Anything to Make a Special Offer
Vol. 17, No.
37 – September 18,
2016
News About Records Access (Ohio and Israel); FamilySearch Adds 6.5
Million Records This Week; Registration for RootsTech 2017 Is Now Open;
FindMyPast Adds More Than 3 Million Historic Irish Records
Vol.
17, No. 38 – September 25, 2016
MyHeritage Halfway to Digitizing Every Cemetery in Israel; 23andMe
Offers Ancestry-Only Testing for $99; IAJGS Records Access Alerts;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 1.6 Million Records This Week; British
Newspaper Archive Now Has 15.5 Million Digitized Pages Online; Ancestry
Adds Glasgow Electoral Registers; Easy Button Creates New Sources in
FamilySearch Tree from MyHeritage Records
Vol.
17, No. 39 – October 2, 2016
Shana Tovah!; New York City Marriage Index 1950–1995 Online;
Jewish Travel Apps Available for Many Locations in Europe; FamilySearch
Adds Nearly 7 Million Records This Week; “Nine Places to Find
Information About Your Ancestors’ Death”; Lodz
Registration
Cards Online; RootsTech Early Bird Discount Expires in Two Weeks;
ScotlandsPeople Site Offers Free Access to Vital Records Indexes;
October Is Family History Month—November Is International
Jewish
Genealogy Month; FamilySearch Adds 141 Million Family History Record
Hints; Twile Integrates with FamilySearch; Only in Genealogy: Meetups
in Cemeteries
Vol.
17, No. 40 – October 9, 2016
Now Available: Getting
Started in Jewish Genealogy:
2016–2017 Edition; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 5
Million
Records This Week; JDC Archives Adds 4,289 Names from Postwar Warsaw
Office Records; Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) Lists New
Additions to Collection; Site for Jewish Genealogy in The Netherlands;
Ancestry.ca Offers Access to Quebec Collection until October
10; Who Do You
Think You Are? (UK) Announces 13th
Season; New
York Public Library to Digitize New York City Directories
1786–1923
Vol.
17, No. 41 – October 16, 2016
ITS Plans to Place More of Its Collection Online; Place Your Family
Tree On Multiple Sites; Wanted: Human Interest Stories for Winter Issue
of AVOTAYNU; We Are Now Shipping Getting Started in Jewish
Genealogy: 2016–2017 Edition;
Family History Library Begins Construction of New Discovery Center;
FamilySearch Adds 2.2 Million Records This Week; IGRA to Hold Webinar
on Israeli Immigration; Course on “Researching Your Roots
Using
JewishGen” Begins November 1; IIJG Announces a Research Award
to
Dr. Michaël Gasperoni
Vol.
17, No. 42 – October 23, 2016
Can You Copyright Family Trees?
Vol.
17, No. 43 – October 30, 2016
LAC Launches First World War Personnel Records Database; Ancestry
Creates “We’re Related” App; FamilySearch
Adds Nearly
7 Million Records This Week; NARA Website Goes Mobile Friendly; Video:
“Getting Started Right: Documentation for New
Genealogists”; Bessarabia Cemetery Projects Show Progress;
Wanted: U.S. Update Editor; New Book: History of the Jewish Community
of Schönlanke 1736–1940
Vol.
17, No. 44 – November 6, 2016
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 16 Million Records This Week: Most from
GenealogyBank Obituaries 1980–2014; Fold3 Allowing Access to
WWII
Records in Honor of Veterans Day; British GRO Provides New Search
Engine for Births/Deaths; Japan and Indonesia Join the Fray About
“Right to be Forgotten”; Reminder: AVOTAYNU Wants
Human
Interest Stories; November is Jewish Genealogy Month
Vol.
17, No. 45 – November 13, 2016
MyHeritage Joins DNA Testing Service Business; “Reclaim the
Records” Places Online 1924 New York City Voter Lists; Voting
Records Can Be Source of Information; “Finding U.S. Military
Ancestors in Online Records”; FindMyPast Adds 2 Million
British
Military Records; FamilySearch Adds More Than 4 Million Records This
Week; BillionGraves’ Adds Veteran Finder Tool; Ancestry Adds
New
Jersey Vital Records; "Who Do You Think You Are? Live”
Early-Bird
Discount on Tickets; Discounts at Fee-for-Service Sites
Vol.
17, No. 46 – November 20, 2016
Genealogy In Time Lists Top 100 Genealogy Websites; FamilySearch Adds
Nearly 12 Million Records This Week; MyHeritage DNA Tests Not Available
in Certain Countries; Ukraine SIG Partners with U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum; FindMyPast Adds 5 Million More Records to 1939 Register of UK;
IIJG Launches Annual Appeal for Donations; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU to Go
to Printer This Week
Vol.
17, No. 47 – November 27, 2016
50% Off MyHeritage Full Access Subscription; MyHeritage DNA Service Now
Includes Surname Matching; MyHeritage Announces New Databases; Family
Search Celebrating Ten Years of Indexing; FamilySearch Additions for
This Week; Google App Allows Smart Phone to Replace Scanner; Soldiers
of the First World War Database Online at Library and Archives Canada;
Slovak Database of Jewish Property Seized During World War II
Vol.
17, No. 48 – December 4, 2016
Reclaim the Records Wants Copy of Missouri Birth and Death Indexes;
Fold3 Offering Free Access to World War II Collection; ID Cards of
Thousands of Jews Discovered in Lithuania; New Collections at
MyHeritage; IGRA Adds More Than 15,000 Records to Its Collection;
Seesaw Battle of “Right to Be Forgotten” vs.
“Right
to Know”: Brazil Court Rules Unanimously for “Right
to
Know”; A Gift for the Family Who Has Everything
Vol.
17, No. 49 – December 11, 2016
Stanley Diamond Awarded Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal;
Lithuanian ID Cards Are Not New News; Legacy Family Tree Webinar Series
Plans 76 Classes in 2017; “Family History Daily”
Identifies
No-Charge Genealogy Sites; Blog: Tackling the Problem of Names That Are
Difficult to Read; Ancestry.com Creates Guide to WWII Records; Ancestry
Adds Marriage Indexes and Records for Various States; FamilySearch Adds
Nearly 3.5 Million Records This Week; FindMyPast Adds More to Its
British Newspaper Collection; New Website “Jewish
Bialystok” Covers Much Larger Region; JOWBR Now Has 3 Million
Records; Memorial Plaque Database Exceeds 100,000 Entries; France to
Allow Digitization of Their WWII Archives
Vol.
17, No. 50 – December 18, 2016
Call for Papers: 37th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy; USCIS Increasing Fees for Services; MyHeritage Has Webinar
on DNA; Ancestry Adds More U.S. Marriage Records to Its Collection;
FindMyPast Offer Guide to U.S. Censuses; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 4.4
Million Records This Week; British Jewish Chronicle
Back Issues Now Online at No Charge; Our Chanukah Offering: Practical Guide to Jewish
Cemeteries
for Only $22.00; It Is Time to Think about Charitable Donations;
JewishGen Announces Education Courses for the Beginning of 2017; Dov
Levin (1925–2016) z”l
Vol.
17, No. 51 – December 25, 2016
Site Has State-by-State Listing of Free Vital Records Indexes Online;
MyHeritage Adds New York City Marriages Collection from Reclaim the
Records; Miriam Weiner Donates Eastern European Telephone Directory
mmCollection to Library of Congress; FamilySearch Adds More than 4
Million Records This Week; St.
Louis Genealogical Society Completes Cemetery Project; Digitizing
Prague Old Jewish Cemetery Nearing Completion; Last Chance for Discount
to Practical
Guide to Jewish Cemeteries; Who Says Yiddish
Is a Dead Language?
Vol.
18, No. 1 – January 1, 2017
Happy New Year!!; FamilySearch Gives Year-End Report; USHMM Holocaust
Survivors and Victims Database Continues to Grow; Site Identifies
Online Canadian City Directories; Amsterdam City Archives Makes 18
Million Records Available Online; JewishGen Offers Four Basic Genealogy
Courses During 2017
Vol.
18, No. 2 – January 8, 2017
Announce Best/Worst Organizations/Products of Genealogy 2016; An
Interview with the Director of the ITS Tracing Section; Ancestry Adds
New Records to Its Collection; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2.4 Million
Records This Week; New York Public Library Digitizing Its Collection of
New York City Directories; Family Tree Maker 2014 Update Available
Vol.
18, No. 3 – January 15, 2017
FamilySearch Sets Goals for 2017; Workshop Planned on Online Access of
Holocaust Documents: Ethical and Practical Challenges; ITS General
Inventory Online; January 27 Is International Holocaust Remembrance
Day; Oklahoma Birth and Death Record Indexes Now Online; Who Do You Think You Are
– UK
to Resume January 25; News from Ancestry: Ohio Naturalizations Updated;
DNA Subscribers Reaches 3 Million; Conference Call for Papers Deadline
Is Today, January 15
Vol.
18, No. 4 – January 22, 2017
Column: “Which Genealogy DNA Test Is the Best?”;
Reclaim
the Records Adds Online Images of New York City Marriages Index
1930–1945; Brooklyn Genealogy Site Taken Down: Steve Morse to
the
Rescue; FamilySearch Adds More Than 4 Million Records This Week; New
Records from Ancestry; FindMyPast Adds Rutland County and
Leicestershire Records; MyHeritage Adds New Features to DNA Matching;
Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service
Files Continues; USCIS Webinar on 19th- and 20th-Century Immigration
and Naturalization Records; JewishGen Class on “Brick Walls
or
Dead End”
Vol.
18, No. 5 – January 29, 2017
Transport Lists and Photographs of People Deported from Belgium Now
Online; Website Article on Iconography of Jewish Tombstones; First Sign
That Trump’s View of America Will Negatively Affect
Genealogists;
“ew ow to Find and Use Image-Only Collections on
FamilySearch”; FamilySearch Adds More than 1 Million Records
This
Week; FindMyPast Adds Victoria (Australia) Petty Court Records; Number
of ITS Inquiries Shows Slight Increase in 2016
Vol.
18, No. 6 – February 5, 2017
Genealogy-Themed TV Program, “Relative Race,”
Looking for
Participants; RootsTech 2017 Announces Free Online Broadcast Schedule;
GenTeam Adds Jewish Records for Nuremberg and Vienna; Index to
19th-Century Name Changes in Hungary Online; FamilySearch Adds 700K
Records This Week; Ancestry New Recomrds for Week; FindMyPast Updates
Australia Electoral Rolls; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol.
18, No. 7 – February 12, 2017
Howard Margol (1924–2017) z"l; MyHeritage Continues to Add
Functionality to Family Trees Database; GenealogyIndexer Adds Hungarian
Directories and Yizkor Books; Family History Library Unveils
“Discovery Experiences” Attraction; Last Chance to
Take
Advantage of Offer: Five issues of AVOTAYNU for the Priced of Four;
FamilySearch Additions for the Week
Vol.
18, No. 8 – February 19, 2017
Lists Exist of Genealogy Facebook Pages Worldwide; Online Course:
“Learn to Use Ancestry.com Like an Expert in 21
Days”; New
Collections from Ancestry; Ancestry Offering Free Access to Canadian,
UK and Irish Records Through February 20; FamilySearch Adds 15 Million
Records This Week; FamilySearch Outlines Genealogy Industry Trends and
Outlook; “Who Do You Think You Are” (U.S.) Returns
March 5;
Documenting 1945 Massacres in Budapest
Vol.
18, No. 9 – February 26, 2017
DNA Tests on Triplets/Quadruplets Produce Nonindentical Results;
Registration Now Open for the 37th Annual IAJGS International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy, July 23–28, 2017; Which
Service
Is Best: Ancestry, FindMyPast, FamilySearch or MyHeritage?; Spring
Issue of AVOTAYNU; Recent Additions to Ancestry.com Collection;
Lithuanian Jewish Museum Planned; L’viv Vital Records
Transcription Project Completed
Vol.
18, No. 10 – March 5, 2017
“DNA Testing: Seven Guidelines for Adoptees”;
“Practicing Safe Computing”; JGS Long Island Now
Has 27
Video Tutorials Online; Relative
Race
Returns to Television March 5; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2 Million
Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com; Belgium Archives Publishes Book
on Sources for Belgian Jewry; Further Comment on My Jewish Blue Eyes;
Your Genealogy Is Done!!!...If You Are Icelandic
Vol.
18, No. 11 – March 12, 2017
Chicago-area Jewish Cemetery Burial Information Online; ITS Places
Online German-Jewish Registration Cards; FindMyPast Adds Victoria
(Australia) Wills, Probate and Divorce Records; BillionGraves Plans to
Match Family Trees; FindMyPast Has Free Access to Irish Records in
Honor of St. Patrick’s Day; FamilySearch Adds More Than 1
Million
Records This Week; JewishGen Course: Complex Jewish Genealogy in the
United States; Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands) Records Online
Vol.
18, No. 12 – March 19, 2017
MyHeritage Adds Consistency Checker to Its Online Family
Trees; Holocaust
in France: A Resource Guide
Published at IGRA Site; New York State Considering “Right to
Be
Forgotten” Law; USCIS Webinar on “Fact, Fiction,
and
Immigration Passenger Lists” Planned; FamilySearch Phasing
Out
Microfilm Collection; Have You Renewed Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU?;
Last Chance: Ancestry Irish Collection Free Access
Vol.
18, No. 13 – March 26, 2017
IAJGS 2017 Conference Program Now Online; New Book: Unbroken Chain – Third
Edition – Volume 1;
Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute Digitizing Their Collection; Yiddish
Digital Library Online; Have You Renewed Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU?
Discount Deadline is March 30 for U.S. Subscribers; FamilySearch Adds
Nearly 6.5 Million Records This Week; FindMyPast Adds Manitoba (Canada)
Probate Records and Victoria (Australia) Cemetery Records; New
Collections from Ancestry; FamilySearch Webinars for April; Reminder:
“Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE” April
6–8; UK
Archives Webinars in April; British Newspaper Archive Now Includes
Every County in England; Learn Yiddish in One of the (pre-Holocaust)
Jewish Capitals of the World; Plan for New York to Have a
“Right
to Be Forgotten” Law Is Dead
Vol.
18, No. 14 – April 2, 2017
AncestryDNA Announces Genetic Communities; FamilySearch Plans Western
European Family History Conference/Webinar; JewishGen Adds France to
Its “All Country” Databases; My First DNA Match;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2.6 Million Records This Week; GenTeam
(Austria) Adds WWI Austria-Hungary Military Casualty Lists; Recent
Additions at Ancestry; FindMyPast Adds University of New Zealand
Collection; “Introduction to Genetic Genealogy
Vol.
18, No. 15 – April 9, 2017
Chag Pesach Sameach (Happy Passover Holiday); Great Interest in DNA
Testing Evident from Number of Sessions at Orlando Conference; I Have
Native American Blood in My Veins; GEDmatch Will Match Your DNA Results
Against Others; “Simple Steps to Preserving Your Precious
Family
Memories”; ESJF to Begin Survey of Jewish Cemeteries in
Bucovina;
IAJGS Announces New Members of Its Board of Directors
Vol.
18, No. 16 – April 23, 2017
Yom HaShoah; Annual Conference Includes Free Access to Fee-for-Service
Internet Sites; Genealogy Indexer Now Scanning Directories Printed in
German Typefaces; DNA Sales in Time for National DNA Day; More On the
Value of GEDMatch; FamilySearch Announces More Than 50 Webinars for
May; “8 Reasons You Should Consider Joining a Local
Genealogical
Society”; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 7 Million Records This
Week;
Recent Ancestry Updates; Ancestry Australia Offers Free Access to Its
Australian, New Zealand and UK Collection; FindMyPast Honors Anzac Day;
Webinar on U.S. Bureaus of Immigration and Naturalization During World
War I; JRI-Poland Adds Index to 90,000 Lodz Vital Records; IAJGS Issues
“Call for Applications"
Vol.
18, No. 17 – April 30, 2017
Harvey M. Krueger z"l; New Book by Dr. Alexander Beider: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames
from the Mediterranean Region, Volume 1: Maghreb, Gibraltar and Malta;
AncestryDNA Now Has More Than 4 Million Customers; “How to
Manage
Your Family's Digital Assets”; FamilySearch Adds More Than 5
Million Records This Week; Ukraine SIG Needs Funds to Index 41,000
Pages of Documents; FamilySearch Now Has Selected French Census
Records; FindMyPast Offers Free Access to Vital Records and Censuses
Until May 1
Vol.
18, No. 18 – May 7, 2017
WDYTYA? LIVE (UK) to Close Its Doors; New York City Marriage License
Index 1908–1972 Now Online; Reader Questions Use of the Word
“Marrano”; JDC Archives Adds Warsaw Emigration
Cards,
Cyprus Births to Names Index; FindMyPast Adds to Its U.S. Marriage
Index; USHMM Encyclopedia
of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
Now Online; MyHeritage Subscription for 50% Off; FamilySearch Adds
Nearly 500K Records This Week; FamilySearch Blog Has Essays About
Family Photographs; New at Ancestry.com Includes California Voter
Registrations 1900–1968; Educational Video: Genealogical Resources at the
American Jewish Historical Society–New England Archives;
Index to 360,00 Transylvanian Vital Records Online
Vol.
18, No. 19 – May 14, 2017
Happy Mother’s Day!; Postcard Images of Jewish Life in
European
Countries; Photographs of Former Jewish Sites in European Countries;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 500K Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com;
Foreign Passports of Russian Citizens Kept in the Russian Delegation in
Berlin, 1876–1924; MACEVA Provides Annual Report
Vol.
18, No. 20 – May 21, 2017
MyHeritage Adds Catalog of Their Collections; New at Ancestry.com;
Ancestry Offers Free Access to UK Records; Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU to
Go to Printer This Week; Winners of the AVOTAYNU Renewal Drawing; Two
Different New York City Marriage Indexes?; Digitization of the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Filems Continues;
JewishGen’s JOWBR Now Exceeds 3 Million Records; The
Importance
of Volunteering
Vol.
18, No. 21 – May 28, 2017
Library of Congress Places Town Maps Online; Index to Boston HIAS Case
Files Online; Centimorgans Explained; TheGenealogist Adds UK Outbound
Passenger Lists to Collection; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2.3 Million
Records This Week; FamilySearch Announces Webinars for June;
Ancestry/Fold3 Has Free Access to Military Records; Correction on NYC
Marriage Indexes
Vol.
18, No. 22 – June 4, 2017
MyHeritage Adds DNA Ethnicity Analysis; FindMyPast Offer: One Month for
$9.95; Clearance Sale! Every
Family Has a Story For Only $19.99; New at Ancestry.com; Auschwitz Album
Vol. 18, No.
23
– June 11, 2017
The Ancestor Hunt Lists Online Newspapers; Reclaim the Records Acquires
New York State Death Index 1880–1956 – Ancestry to
Index
the Collection; MyHeritage Webinar on Site’s Capabilities;
MyHeritage Adds Seven Netherlands Collections; 24-Hour Access to Forces
War Records for Only £1; FindMyPast Announces Weekly
Additions to
Collection; Recent Additions to FamilySearch; Importance of Jewish
Genealogical Societies
Vol.
18, No. 24 – June 18, 2017
Ceremony in Piła, Poland, to Recognize Town’s Yizkor Book;
USHMM “History Unfolded” Project; Every Family Has a Story
For Only $19.99 Extended Until Tomorrow; FamilySearch Adds More than
1.6 Million Records to Their Collection; New at Ancestry.com; USCIS
Webinar on “Disloyalty, Naturalization, and World War
I”
Planned
Vol.
18, No. 25 – June 25, 2017
No Edition of Nu?
What’s New?
Next Week; FamilySearch to Suspend Microfilm Distribution Services;
Time for the Annual Conference Is Almost Here; IGRA Database
What’s
New” Archives; Stanley Diamond Given Canada’s
Meritorious
Service Award; FindMyPast British and Irish Collections Accessible at
No Charge Through Tomorrow; FindMyPast Acquires Six Million Ontario
Records; New at Ancestry.com; Databases of Soviet Army Soldiers as
POWs; Who Do
You Think You Are?
(UK) Announces Celebrities for Its 14th Season; National Library of
Wales Launches Website Containing Pages from Welsh Journals; JewishGen
Elects New Board of Directors
Vol.
18, No. 26 – July 10, 2017
ITS Talks of Plans to Place Records Online; “Digitizing
Family
Photos and Records: What’s the Best Format to
Use?”;
Comprehensive Survey of Jewish Cemeteries in Belarus Announced;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 7 Million Records This Week; New at
Ancestry.com; USCIS Plans Webinar on “Thinking Across Time:
Researching USCIS Records”; USCIS Adds
Immigration/Naturalization
Timeline to Its Site; New Czech Holocaust Database; GenTeam Adds
617,000 Records; Lodz Registration Cards Now Has 54,000 Names; Yizkor
Books in Print Publishes Its 57th Title; JewishGen Again Offers
Independent Study Class
Vol.
18, No. 27 – July 16, 2017
Countdown to the Conference; Announce Fall Season of Finding Your Roots;
Article Compares DNA Testing Services; FamilySearch Adds More Than 6
Million Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com; JewishGen Plans Course
on New York City Resources
Vol.
18, No. 28 – July 30, 2017
2018 IAJGS Conference to Be Held in Warsaw; HIAS Index
1955–2016
Now Online; Miriam Weiner Donates Polish Lists to JRI-Poland; Latvia
Birth Database Launched; Berlin/Frankfurt Address Books Online;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2.8 Million Records This Week; FamilySearch
Webinars for August; New at Ancestry.com; Two Possibly Useful Articles
on the Ancestry Blog
Vol.
18, No. 29 – August 6, 2017
JewishGen Plans to Issue Grants; Finding You Roots
New Season Begins October 3; Awards Recognized Service to Jewish
Genealogy; Family
Tree Magazine
Announces its Free 101 Best Websites for 2017; Cincinnati Funeral Home
Records Online; FindMyPast Adds California and Nevada Marriage Records;
FamilySearch Adds 6 Million Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com;
Latvia Map Identifies Holocaust Memorial Sites; ITS Receives Grant to
Preserve its Child Search Branch Files; Planning to Go to RootsTech?
Book Your Hotel Room Now!
Vol.
18, No. 30 – August 13, 2017
Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU to Go to Printer This Week; Introductory Offer
– See What You Are Missing—All Four Issues of
AVOTAYNU for
only $19.00; “Free UK Genealogy” Offers
Free-to-Search
Online Records; Library of Congress Webinars Will Discuss World War I;
ITS Yearbook Focuses on Child Survivors of Nazi Persecution; New at
Ancestry.com; FamilySearch Updates This Week
Vol.
18, No. 31 – August 20, 2017
Will There Be Problems with the 2020 U.S. Census Enumeration?; Hebrew
University’s Index of Jewish Art Includes Photographs of
Towns;
“Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy” Adds 200
Additional
Towns in Poland; Last Chance for Introductory Offer – See
What
You Are Missing: All Four Issues of AVOTAYNU for only $19.00; New at
Ancestry.com; JewishGen Plans to Award Grants; 2017 Pamela Weisberger
Memorial Fund Awards Given; International Tracing Service Receives
Grant for Preserving Its Maps
Vol.
18, No. 32 – August 27, 2017
Database of People Murdered at Treblinka Being Created; Check
Blog: Jewish
Gem's Genealogy: Mining for Your Elusive Ancestors;
Ancestry UK Collection at No Charge August 25–28; MyHeritage
Adds
New Feature: DNA Match Review; MyHeritage Acquires Legacy Family Tree;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 20 Million Records to Their Collection; New
at Ancestry.com
Vol.
18, No. 33 – September 3, 2017
Auschwitz Death Register Spread Sheet Online; Canada 1921 Census Online
Free of Charge; Free Access to Selected Ancestry Records Through
September 4; FamilySearch Microfilm Service Ends September 7; Hurricane
Harvey Affects Two DNA Testing Services; “Who Do You Think
You
Are?” (US) Starts Next Season in Spring 2018; Today Is
European
Day of Jewish Culture; New at Ancestry.com; FamilySearch Adds Nearly
8.5 Million Records This Week
Vol.
18, No. 34 – September 10, 2017
Article on how to Read Your Ethnicity Results; Ancestry Adds New York
State Death Index to Its Collections; How to Organize Your Family
History: One Expert’s View; IAJGS to Establish Jewish
Genealogical Societies in Additional Cities; Now Available: Unbroken Chain – Third
Edition – Volume 2;
List Shows Ukrainian Towns with Jewish Records in Polish Archives;
Family Tree DNA to Donate to Hurricane Harvey Relief; U.S. Government
to Return Jewish Artifacts to Iraq
Vol.
18, No. 35 – September 17, 2017
Shana Tovah!; 15 Most-Requested Legacy Family Tree Webinars Free for
One Week; Upcoming USCIS Webinar: “Naturalization Numbers
Since
1906”; Auckland War Museum Places Its World War II Records
Online; Now Available: Unbroken
Chain – Third Edition – Volume 2;
FamilySearch Adds 20 Million Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com;
MyHeritage Adds 14 Million Australian Records; ITS/USHMM Statistics;
FamilySearch Offering Services in Preserving Records Damaged by
Hurricane Harvey; Ancestry Sponsoring Ireland’s
“Back to
Our Past” and “50 Plus Expo”
Vol.
18, No. 36 – September 24, 2017
“Contacting DNA Matches: Get More Responses with These Pro
Tips”; RootsTech 2018 Grows to 4 Days; “How Do You
Fight
the Empire State and Win?”; FamilySearch Has More Than 55
Million
Dutch Records; New at Ancestry.com; FindMyPast Adds Dublin Electoral
Rolls; New York City May Change Rules as to Public Access to Vital
Records; European Countries Want to Tax Internet Firms; Field Guides to
Jewish Lodz and Warsaw/Krakow Published; Preserving Jewish
Heritage in Poland
Vol.
18, No. 37 – October 2, 2017
Ashkenazic Jews Descended from Khazars and Other Myths; “13
Lessons to Make You a Better Historical Newspaper
Researcher”;
“Finding Your Roots” New Season Starts October 3;
How to
Develop a DNA Testing Plan; FamilySearch Adds More Than 3.5 Million
Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com; JewishGen Class:
“Brick
Wall or Dead End” to Be Given Again; Hungarian Jewish Museum
Integrates Display with Technology; Museum of Polish Jewry Honored with
EU’s Top Heritage Award
Vol.
18, No. 38 – October 8, 2017
Genetic Testing Results Now Accepted as Proof of Being a Jew; Ancestry
Canada Offers Free Access to Its Collection Through October 9;
RootsTech 2018 Program Now Online; Organization States It Does Jewish
Genealogical Research in Argentina; U.S. National Archives to Hold
Virtual Genealogy Fair on October 25
Vol.
18, No. 39 – October 15, 2017
Annual Jewish Genealogy Conference Now Has Facebook Groups; Newspaper
Article Spoofs Current Addiction to DNA Testing; New York City Wants to
Further Restrict Access to Birth/Death Records — Genealogical
Community Rising to Oppose Changes; Wanted: Human Interest Stories for
Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; New Collections at Ancestry.com Includes New
York City Birth Index, 1910–1965; HIAS Index Cards Online;
Ontario Birth Records 1860–1920 Online; Reclaim The Records
Adds
New Jersey Marriage Index, 1901-2016; Index to L’viv/Lwow
Ghetto
Records Online; ScotlandsPeople 1935 Valuation Rolls Online; Advantage
Preservation Digitizes Library Newspaper Collections; Roots Tech
Early-Bird Registration Discount Ends Monday, October 16; JewishGen
Course: “Research Your Roots Using JewishGen; FamilySearch
Offering Webinars on the Basics of U.S. and Canadian Research
Vol.
18, No. 40 – October 22, 2017
Have You Signed Petition to Oppose New York City Proposed Records
Rules?; “Information for the English-speaking Jewish Tourist
in
Warsaw”; MyHeritage to Hold One-Day Webinar; GRO Pilot Scheme
Allows Ordering Records as PDF Files; FamilySearch Adds More Than 40
Million Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com; Ancestry Offers 30%
Discount to AARP Members; Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary
Force Personnel Service Files Continues; USCIS Repatriation Webinar
October 26
Vol.
18, No. 41 – October 29, 2017
Genealogists Present Their Opinions at NYC Vital Records Hearing; Some
Preliminary Plans for the 2018 Conference; Polish State
Archives’
Branches to Remain Open During Summer 2018; IAJGS 2019 Conference to Be
Held In Cleveland, Ohio; Clearance Sale: A Practical Guide for Jewish
Cemeteries for Only $19.00; About Family History Daily;
JDC Emigration Service Index Cards - Warsaw Added to JRI-Poland
Database; 80% of Hungarian Holocaust Victims Have Been Identified;
JewishGen Education Offers “Writing Short Reports”
November
3–27; 1926 Polish Declarations of Friendship Digitized by the
Library of Congress
Vol.
18, No. 42 – November 5, 2017
MyHeritage Adds New York Passenger Lists (1820–1957) to Its
Collection; MyHeritage Giving Deep Discounts for Their DNA Service;
MyHeritage Webinar Lectures Now Online; Google Makes Significant Change
in Rules for Search Results; Ancestry Permitting Opting Out of DNA
Sharing; New at Ancestry.com; Clearance Sale: “A Practical
Guide
for Jewish Cemeteries” for Only $19.00–Deadline
Tomorrow;
Center for Jewish History Plans “Twitternar”; Blood
&
Frogs Site Adds Links to Archival Records; Ukrainian Genealogist
Pushing for Records Access; Central Database of Shoah Victims. Names
Now Has 4.7 Million Entries
Vol.
18, No. 43 – November 12, 2017
Free Access and Discounts Abound This Season; Call for Papers: 38th
IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Wanted: Human
Interest Stories for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Ancestry Adds New Jersey
Censuses 1855–1915; MyHeritage Plans Blog On DNA Basics;
Report
Shows Status of Polish Cemeteries;
Center for Jewish History Changes Date of Twitternar; Kristallnacht
Commemoration 2017
Vol.
18, No. 44 – November 19, 2017
Happy Thanksgiving!!; Avotaynu Joins Black Friday
Madness–40–74% Discount on Selected Books; Fall
Issue of
AVOTAYNU; FamilySearch to Require Logging In; FamilySearch Adds More
Than 28 Million Records This Week; MyHeritage Adds New York City
Marriage License Index and New York Newspapers; FindMyPast Adds More
British WWI Records; Internet Site Valuable for One-Name Research?;
Family Tree DNA Lowers Prices on Various Products; New York City
Hearing on Public Access to Birth and Marriage Records Now on Internet;
Statistics Canada Wants Feedback on 2021 Census; About the American
Battle Monuments Commission; IIJG Plans International Conference on
Genealogy and the Sciences–Announces Results of Study on
Scottish
Jewry
Vol.
18, No. 45 – November 26, 2017
MyHeritage DNA Price Lowered Yet Again to $49 Each; Tomorrow is Cyber
Monday–Last Day for 40–74% Discount on Selected
Books by
Avotaynu–Deadline Nearly Here; 50% off Ancestry Subscription;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 10 Million Records This Week; JewishGen
Hungarian Database Now Has 1.5 Million Records; Database for Jewish
Cemeteries in Southern Moravia; “Take Care When You Use
Google”: 27th Article in Safe Computing Series; NEHGS
Establishes
Jewish Heritage Center
Vol.
18, No. 46 – December 3, 2017
Can Your Ancestry DNA Be Used by Law Enforcement?; Montefiore Censuses
Indexed and Online; JGSLI Adds New Video to Collection: “What
Genealogists Should Know About DNA…Without the Science
Lesson!”; MyHeritage Adds “Suggestive
Alternatives”
Feature; MyHeritage Webinars Available at No Charge; New at
Ancestry.com; FindMyPast Adds New Collections; British Jews Requesting
Citizenship in Countries Where Ancestors Once Lived; Time to Think
About Donations to Genealogy-Based Institutions; Black Friday Sale a
Huge Success
Vol.
18, No. 47 – December 10, 2017
“Nu? What’s New?” Has New Look; Reclaim
the Records
Motivates Ukrainian to Gain Access to Records; USHMM Survivors and
Victims Database Continues to Grow; New Book: “In Their
Words: A
Genealogists Translation Guide – German”;
Contribute to the
SIGS; FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.5 Million Records This Week; New at
Ancestry.com; TheGenealogist Releases UK Outbound Passenger Lists for
1930s; Maps of 1910 London Now Online; FindMyPast Claims It Has Largest
Collection of British and Irish Newspapers; “Google for
Genealogy: Search Tricks to Tease Out Information”; All
Orders
Have Been Shipped
Vol.
18, No. 48 – December 17, 2017
Holiday Sales Still Abound for DNA Testing; Essay on Newspapers as a
Genealogical Resource; Comprehensive Guide to the U.S. Census for
Genealogy; JewishGen Announces Education Courses for 2018; The
Importance of Volunteering; FamilySearch Adds More Than 5 Million
Records This Week; Reminder: It Is Now Necessary to Log On to Access
Family Search Records; New at Ancestry and Its Affiliates; Recent
Articles on Avotaynu Online; Much Interest in “In Their
Words: A
Genealogists Translation Guide – German
Vol.
18, No. 49 – December 25, 2017
Merry Christmas to Our Christian Readers; Mormon-Jewish Controversy:
The Problem That Won’t Go Away; 30 Percent Discount on
Ancestry
Membership for Senior Citizens; Ancestry (RootsWeb) Announces Possible
Security Breach; FamilySearch Additions This Week; Blog on How to Use
FamilySearch; FamilySearch Adds Gazetteer; Reclaim The Records Releases
Buffalo, New York, Death Index; OpenArchives Site Has Records on 174
Million People in Dutch and Belgian Archives
Vol.
18, No. 50 – December 31, 2017
Happy New Year!; FindMyPast Offers Free Access to 98 Million Atlantic
Emigration Records; MyHeritage Adds British Mandate Period Citizen
Requests to Its Collection; Ancestry Offers Discounts Again; Legacy
Family Tree Webinars for 2018 Announced; Database of Foreign Jews
interned in Italy During the War Period; Sources of Online Information
about Victims of National Socialism (Nazis}; National Museum of Italian
Judaism and the Shoah Opens; Trove of Lost Jewish Material Found in
Vilnius
Vol.
19, No. 1 – January 7, 2018
Index to 1897 Russian Census Head of Households in Kyiv Guberniya
Online; Warsaw Conference Open for Registration; Canada Removes
Restrictions on Access to Census After 92 Years;
GenealogyIndexer Adds German Business Directories; FamilySearch Adds 12
Million Records This Week; GenSoftReviews Announces Genealogy Software
Users Choice Awards for 2017; NEHGS Complete Collection Accessible
Until January 10 at No Charge; MyHeritage Offering to Help Solve
“Family Mysteries”; Essay on Sharing Costs for
Research
with Family Members; Library Archives Canada States We Are Now In the
Digital Age
Vol.
19, No. 2 – January 14, 2018
Yet Another Genealogical Search Engine Worth Using;
“Ashkenazic
Jews Are Not Khazars: Here Is the Proof”; “Many
Sephardic
Jews Aren’t Sephardic”; Good News from Reclaim The
Records:
They Just Sued New York City Again; MyHeritage Announces Updates and
Improvements to Their DNA Matching; MyHeritage Adds New York Newspapers
(1806–2007) and New York City Marriage License Index
(1908–1929); FindMyPast Adds “Hints”
Feature;
FamilySearch Adds 3 Million Plus Records This Week; FamilySearch
Year-End Report of Their Accomplishments in 2017; New at Ancestry.com;
IIJG Announces Two Prizes for Jewish Genealogical Research
Vol.
19, No. 3 – January 21, 2018
Sophie Caplan OAM z"l; Detailed Guide to Family Tree Software: Top Six
Choices; MyHeritage DNA Sale…Again; USCIS Webinar on 1940
Alien
Registration Forms; New Jewish Genealogical Society: Mercer County (New
Jersey) JGS; Jewish Genealogical Society of
Greater Kansas City Forming; UK
Prisoner of War Collection Now Available to the Public; Scotland
Releases Another Year of Birth, Marriage and Death Records; GRO Pilot Project for Ordering
Records in PDF Format a Success; February
Education Classes by JewishGen; Joint Distribution Committee Case Study
Featured on PBS Series “We’ll Meet
Again”; January 27
Is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Vol.
19, No. 4 – January 28, 2018
FindAGrave Indexes Gedenkbuch;
MyHeritage Adds Two Databases Important to Jewish Genealogy and Others;
MyHeritage Disclose Finances and Impact of DNA Testing Venture; What's
Coming from FamilySearch in 2018; FamilySearch Adds more than 5 Million
Records This Week; TheGenealogist Adds 5 Million U.S. Passenger Arrival
Records (1834–1900); New at Ancestry.com; Reclaim the Records
Acquires New York City Geographic Birth Index; The Ancestor Hunt
Publishes Essays On How to Acquire Marriage and Death Information; ITS
Wants to Return Personal Belongings of Concentration Camp Inmates to
Families; Library and Archives Canada Providing New Search Tool
Vol.
19, No. 5 – February 4, 2018
The Ancestor Hunt Has Links to Vital Records Websites; FindMyPast Free
Access to British and Irish Census, Birth, Marriage and Death Records;
“Ghetto List”; Finding Elusive Records on
FamilySearch;
Study Planned on How Endogamy Affects Jewish DNA Results; AVOTAYNU
Winter Issue Goes to Printer This Week; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 3
Million Records This Week Plus 63 million Index Records for Mexico; New
at Ancestry.com; MyHeritage Shows Ethnicities Around the World; Polish
Law Creating Controversy
Vol.
19, No. 6 – February 11, 2018
Instead of Flowers, Consider a DNA Kit for Valentine’s Day;
Gesher Galicia Plans Sub-Conference During IAJGS Conference; Ancestry
Has Unindexed Record Collections: How to Find Them; New Historic
Synagogues of Europe Website; Swedish National Archives Digital
Collections Free to Search and View; New at Ancestry.com; MyHeritage
Publishes “DNA Basics Chapter 3”; AVOTAYNU Special
Subscription Offer Ends Today; New Yad Vashem Exhibit: Flashes of
Memory—Photography during the Holocaust; ITS Plans Conference
on
Tracing and Documenting Victims of Nazi Persecution; African-American
Records Free on Fold3 for Black History Month
Vol.
19, No. 7 – February 18, 2018
MyHeritage Makes Numerous Announcements Regarding Their DNA Service;
Hotel Reservations for the Conference; Free Access to Ancestry.ca
Immigration Records Through February 19; New at Ancestry.com;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 2 Million Records This Week; RootsTech 2018
Announces Free Online Broadcast Schedule; Purim at RootsTech; JewishGen
Has New Videos Primarily for Beginners; Use the “Nu?
What’s
New?” Archives; GenealogyIndexer Adds Hundreds of Directories
Vol.
19, No. 8 – February 25, 2018
Ancestry UK Collections Free of Charge Until End of Today
European Union Regulation Causes Dutch Database to Be Removed from
Internet
Article on Warsaw Jewish Life Today
Jewish Genealogical Society Forms in Kansas City, Kansas
New at Ancestry.com
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Removes “nation of
immigrants” from Mission Statement
Mormon Submits Florida Victims for Baptism
Vol.
19, No. 9 – March 4, 2018
German Project to Provide Biographies of Pre-war German Jews; Alexander
Beider Writing Monthly Column on Jewish Names for
“Forward”; “Are You Researching
Genealogy's Biggest
Clues Machine?”; MyHeritage Makes Numerous Announcements; (1)
MyHeritage Adds 325 Million Records to Its Collection (2) FamilySearch
Tree Sync (3) DNA Quest; Announce Keynote Speakers for Conference (Not
Really)
Vol.
19, No. 10 – March 11, 2018
New York City Enacts New Rules for Public Access to Birth and Death
Records; Warsaw Conference News: (1) Pre/Post-Conference Tours, (2)
Another tour, (3) Looking For / Wanting a Roommate?, (4) Kosher and
Travel Guide to Warsaw; JewishGen Course on “Complex
Genealogical
Research in the U.S.”; Family History Centers Access to
Digitized
Microfilm: How Are They Doing?; TheGenealogist Has 1940s Outbound
Passenger Lists; Commonwealth Day March 12
Vol.
19, No. 11 – March 18, 2018
FindAGrave Using Holocaust Victims’ Lists to Expand Their
Collection; New Book: “Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy:
2018
Edition”; Have You Renewed Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU?;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2 Million Records This Week; IIJG Extends
Deadline for Genealogical Research Prizes ($2,500 and $1,500);
RootsTech Statistics Are Staggering; St. Patrick’s Day
Offers;
Video: “Poland With No Jews”; Tourist Film of
Vienna at the
Time of the Anschluss (March 1938)
Vol.
19, No. 12
– March 25, 2018
GoFundMe Account Set Up to Purchase Scanners for Ukrainian Archives;
HIAS Is No Longer “Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society”;
Israeli-Polish Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony Cancelled Because of New
Polish Law; “Getting Started” Shipments Backlogged;
Have
You Renewed Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU? Renewal Discount for U.S.
Subscribers Ends Saturday; My Heritage Produces Glossary of Terms
Associated with DNA Testing; Genealogical Indexer Has Added More Than
300 Directories; USCIS Webinar on “Married at Ellis Island:
Single Women and Immigration 1892–1924”;
FamilySearch Adds
More Than 2 Million Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com; EHRI
Project Shows Example of How to Do Holocaust Research
Vol.
19, No. 13 – April 2, 2018
News from My Heritage: Customer Support Now 24/7, 27.1 Million
Historical Records Added During March, New Mobile App Features: Inbox
and Scanner, Three Improvements to One-to-Many Chromosome Browser;
Conference Scholar-in-Residence is Antony Polonsky; 2020 U.S. Census to
Include Question About Citizenship; Article on “What is
GEDCOM?”; JewishGen Course “Brick Wall or Dead
End”;
About Canadian Naturalizations; FamilySearch Adds 316 Thousand Records
This Week; New at Ancestry.com; ITS Library Catalog Now Online
Vol.
19, No. 14 – April 8, 2018
Lithuania Bill Would Ban Material That “Distorts Historical
Facts”; New Book: On Oldness: How to Successfully
Navigate
Old Age; Long Lost Family New Season Starts Today; UK
National
Archives Experimenting with Handwritten Text Recognition Software;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 9 Million Records This Week; FindMyPast
Additions for Week; U.S. National Archives Creates “Catalog
Guide
for Genealogists and Family Historians”
Vol.
19, No. 15 – April 15, 2018
New Group to Fight Planned Bans on Access to New York City Birth and
Death Records; MyHeritage Adoptees Assistance Program Goes Worldwide;
GenealogyIndexer Adds Hundreds More Directories; Yad Vashem Adds
Feature to Shoah Victims’ Names Database; Early Bird
Registration
for Annual Conference Ends on April 28; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 5
Million Records This Week; New at Ancestry.com; Has Ancestry Switched
Its Focus to DNA Testing?
Vol.
19, No. 16 – April 22, 2018
DNA Discounts Abound in Honor of National DNA Day; You Had Your DNA
Tested, Now What?; DNA Testing for Genealogical Purposes Is Banned in
France; Webinar on Polish Conference; Reminder to AVOTAYNU
Resubscribers: Renewal Deadline April 30; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 6
Million Index Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com;
Ancestry Announces New Chief Executive Officer (CEO); Library and
Archives Canada Introducing Crowdsourcing
Vol.
19, No. 17 – April 29, 2018
Use of DNA Tests for Solving Crimes Has Backlash; IAJGS Conference
Committee Announces Preliminary Program and Meal Reservations; Early
Bird Registration for Warsaw Conference Extended to May 5; Who Do You Think You Are
New Season Starts May 21; Recent Additions to the AJDC Names Index; JDC
Dedicates New Archives Center in Jerusalem; MyHeritage Blog: DNA Basics
Chapter 5: How DNA Testing Works; JewishGen Providing Online Course on
Using JewishGen; FamilySearch Adds 2 Billionth Image of Records;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.5 Million Records This Week; New
Collections at Ancestry.com; New Jewish Genealogical Society in Albany,
New York, Area; A Letter from IAJGS About the Warsaw Conference
Vol.
19, No. 18 – May 7, 2018
DNA Testing Community Reacts to GEDmatch Being Used to Catch Murderer;
Stephen P. Morse Adds New York State and New Jersey Voters’
Index
to Site;
MyHeritage Founder and CEO Produces Webinar on Founding of MyHeritage;
MyHeritage Adds Pedigree View Feature to Its Family Tree System;
AVOTAYNU Spring Issue Goes to Printer This Week; Mother’s Day
Brings Discounts from DNA Testing Services; UK “The Genealogy
Show” to Replace “Who Do You Think You Are?
Live”;
Family Search Additions for the Week; New Collections at Ancestry
Vol.
19, No. 19 – May 13, 2018
Happy Mother's Day!; 23andme Sues Ancestry for False Advertising and
Patent Infringement;
Visiting an Ancestral Town This Year? Consider Photographing
Tombstones; My Heritage Adds Yet Another Function: Health
Family Tree;
WDYTYA-UK Announces Celebrities to Appear on Show; Winners of AVOTAYNU
Subscription Renewal Contest; Second UK Genealogy Family History Show
to Occur in 2019; NEHGS Presenting a Webinar on Boston HIAS; Library
Archives Canada Provides Detailed Description of 1921 Census;
FamilySearch Records This Week; A Summary: Right to Know vs. Right to
Be Forgotten
Vol.
19, No. 20 – May 20, 2018
Ancestor Hunt Provides Links to Canadian Vital Records Sites; Virtual
Genealogical Society Formed; European DNA Sites Shutting Down Because
of General Data Protection Regulation; Article Explains Site Search
Feature of Google; USCIS Creates Video About Ellis Island; New Jewish
Genealogical Society Located in Hungary; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 200K
Records This Week; No New Collections at Ancestry.com – Free
Access to UK Records
Vol.
19, No. 21 – May 27, 2018
European General Data Protection Regulation Is Now Law; Bessarabia SIG
Documenting All Burials in Region; Jewish Documents from State
Archive of the Kiev Oblast Online;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly
3.5 Million Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
19, No. 22 – June 3, 2018
Now That EU's General Data Protection Regulation Is in Effect
Interest Turns to the Proposed EU ePrivacy Regulation; GDPR Already
Being Mocked; Swedish Court Says “Right to Be
Forgotten” is
Not Global; Suddenly it Is “Be Unkind to Ancestry”
Week;
How to Maintain Your Own Personal Archive; Book “Lithuanian
Jewish Communities” Now Available on Internet; New Updated
Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
19, No. 23 – June 10, 2018
DNA Sales for Father’s Day; New York City Board of Health
Gives
Some Relief on Embargo of Birth and Death Records; “Genealogy
Databases and the Future of Criminal Investigation”; IIJG
Announces Roll-out of Family Tree of Scottish Jewry; MyHeritage
Experiences Security Breach; More Announcements from MyHeritage; The
Ancestor Hunt Now Has 126 Obituary and Obituary Index Links from
Canada; European Commission Plans to Document Jewish Cemeteries in
Europe; New JGS in Northeast Florida; JewishGen Offers Course on New
York Research; FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.5 Million Records This
Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com; Warsaw Conference Has a New Logo
Vol.
19, No. 24 – June 17, 2018
Happy Father’s Day!; “Poznan Project”
Indexing 19th
Century Marriage Records; 20 Largest Genealogy Record Collections
Online: Have You Searched Them?; Reclaim the Records Gains Another New
York City Marriage License Index; Reunions with Birth Parents Capturing
Interest of TV Shows; Digitization of WWI Canadian Expeditionary Force
Records Nears Completion; Last Chance: DNA Sales for Father’s
Day; New Collections at Ancestry.com;There Was No Announcement This
Week of Additions to FamilySearch
Vol.
19, No. 25 – June 24, 2018
ITS Places Online Post-War Files of Survivors of Nazi Persecution; Free
Genealogy-Relevant Sites for State and Local Agencies; Historic Aerial
Photos of the United States; The Ancestor Hunt Lists College Newspapers
Online; FamilySearch Adds More Than 12 Million Records This Week;
Reclaim the Records Requests Copy of New Jersey Death Index
(1904–2017); JOWBR Now Contains 3.33 Million Records and
594,000
Photos; Memorial Plaques Database; Ancestry (UK) Adds Aberdeenshire,
Scotland, Electoral Records; Force War Records Site Has WWI Casualty
Records; Who Is a Jew?
Vol.
19, No. 26 – July 1, 2018
Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day; Poland Reduces Consequences of
Controversial Holocaust Law; New Museum to Exhibit Accounts of Polish
Christians Who Saved Jews; European Union General Data Protection
Regulation Having Immediate Impact; Only MyHeritage Offering DNA
Discounts for American Independence Day (July 4); Much DNA News from
MyHeritage: MyHeritage Opens European Distribution Center for DNA Kits;
MyHeritage Blog Adds Another Chapter on Understanding DNA Testing;
MyHeritage Adds Filtering System to DNA Matches; FamilySearch Adds 135M
New Records for Denmark, Finland, Sweden; News for Ancestry; Who Do You Think You Are?
(UK) New Season Starts July 9
Vol.
19, No. 27 – July 8, 2018
Yad Vashem Comments on Polish Complicity in the Holocaust; Reclaim the
Records Sues New York State Department of Health; Family History Is
Good for Your Kids; Warsaw Conference On-Demand Now Available;
Alexander Avram Wins IIJG’s Chava Agmon Prize for Jewish
Genealogy; UK General Register Office to Offer Online Birth and Death
Records Indefinitely; “Compendium of Jewish
Genealogy” Now
Has More Than 25,000 Links; 130,000 Lodz Registration Cards Now Online;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 5 Million Records This Week; MyHeritage
Provides Free Access to Newspapers Collection; Ancestry UK Offering
Free Access to UK/Irish Records Through July 10
Vol.
19, No. 28 – July 15, 2018
MyHeritage to Present Online Conference; Irish Jewish Genealogical
Society Has Online Database; New Book: Unbroken Chain – Third
Edition – Volume 3 Published; 1,500 Free Online Yearbooks Now
Available; Castle Garden, the Predecessor to Ellis Island, Featured on
FamilySearch Blog; MyHeritage Adds Chapter 7 to Its Series on DNA
Basics; New Society: Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society; Free
Access to AmericanAncestors.org Through July 17
Vol.
19, No. 29 – July 22, 2018
Memorial to the Jews Deported from France Database Now Online at Morse
Site; Genie Milgrom Awarded the Medal of the Four Sephardic Synagogues;
News
of the Week About DNA Testing: 23andme Offering 30% Discount Until
August 9, 23andme Heath and Ancestry Service, Findmypast and
Living DNA Announce a Partnership; Yahad-In Unum Creates Interactive
Map of Holocaust Murder Sites; Jewish Heritage Europe Has Information,
Links and Resources for Jewish Cemeteries; Alternate Site for Irish
Records; JewishGen offers New Class: Jewish Genealogy in East Prussia
and the Baltic States; The Ancestor Hunt Identifies 240 Free Online
Photo Archives for Canada; MyHeritage Adds 25 Million New Records in
June; New Collections at Ancestry.com; Genteam Announces Additions to
Their Collection
Vol.
19, No. 30 – July 29, 2018
No Issue of Nu?
What’s New?
Next Week; Reclaim The Records Adds New Jersey Death Index; 12 Free
Genealogy Research Sites for Australia and New Zealand; Renegade
Pictures (UK) Looking for Subjects for Family History Show;
FamilySearch Adds 29 Million Netherlands Records; Adds Nearly 7 Million
Records This Week; Controversy Still Exists About Return of Iraq Jewish
Archives
Vol.
19, No. 31 – August 12, 2018
Warsaw Conference Is History; IAJGS Award Winners; Consumer Genetic and
Personal Genomic Testing Companies Issue Position on Privacy;
“Finding Your Roots” Season 5 to Premier January 8,
2019;
Reclaim The Records Asking for Brooklyn “Old Town”
Records;
More Comprehensive List of Research Sites for Australia and New
Zealand; “The Immigration Act of 1924 and the End of Ellis
Island”; Map of Remaining Synagogues of Europe Online;
WorldCat
Produces Map of Libraries Worldwide; Digitization of the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files Is Complete; Family History
Show in London September 22; FamilySearch Adds More Than 1 Million
Records (July 30 Report); FamilySearch Adds Nearly 8 Million Records
(August 6 Report); Let’s Stop Referring to
“Jews”
When Discussing Eastern Europe
Vol.
19, No. 32 – August 19, 2018
JewishGen’s New Direction: Partnering; JewishGen Establishes
Miriam Weiner Routes To Roots Collection; Avotaynu to Publish
Genealogies Created By Paul J. Jacobi; Mormons Don’t Want to
Be
Called “Mormons” Anymore; JGS of the Conejo Valley
and
Ventura County Has Links to Genealogy Sites; Family Search Now Has
Online New York Passenger Lists 1820–1957; Family Tree Magazine
Publishes Annual Best Genealogy Websites; USCIS Webinar on
“Indexes to Alien Case Files (A-Files) at the National
Archives”; New ITS e-Guide Explains Nazi Documents; A Case
Study
in Finding an Ancestral Town
Vol.
19, No. 33 – August 26, 2018
If You Wish You Had Attended the Warsaw Conference But Didn’t
,
Try Conference ON-DEMAND!; Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU; David E. Rencher
New Family History Library Director; “Do You Have Errors
Hiding
in Your Family Tree? Here’s How to Find Out”;
Library and
Archives Canada Updates Finding
Aid 300: Other Census and Related Documents (1640 to 1945);
JDC Places “Jerusalem 1944–1952”
Collection Online;
UK National Archives Adds Alien Registration Cards 1918–1957;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2 Million Records This Week; News From Ancestry
Vol.
19, No. 34 – September 2, 2018
New Society: Sociedade de Genealogia Judaica do Rio de Janeiro; Free
Access to Ancestry’s Yearbook Collection; Ancestry Has Lodz
Ghetto Register Books; USCIS Webinar on “Indexes to Alien
Case Files (A-Files) at the National Archives”; RootsTech
Expands to London in 2019; FamilySearch Adds
“Compare-a-Face” Feature
Vol.
19, No. 35 – September 9, 2018
Shanah Tovah (Happy New Year); “Privacy Best Practices for
Consumer Genetic Testing Services”; MyHeritage Enters the
Retail
Store Marketplace; Reclaim The Records Acquiring Geographical New York
City Birth Index; FindMyPast Offering Free Access Through September 7;
JewishGen Again Presents Independent Study Program
Vol.
19, No. 36 – September 16, 2018
AncestryDNA Claims New Algorithm Delivers Ethnicity Estimates With
Increased Precision; News from MyHeritage: MyHeritage Adds
“DNA
Basics Chapter 8: Genotypes and Phenotypes”; MyHeritage DNA
Now
Supports 23andMe V5 And Living DNA Uploads; Reclaim The Records
Publishes Online New York State Birth Index, 1881–1942; Tips
for
Searching
Newspapers Online; New Interactive Map About Jewish Life in Germany; UK
National Archives World War I Records; USCIS Webinar: Introduction to
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Records at the National
Archives; New Jewish Genealogical Society: JGS of Western North
Carolina; FamilySearch Adds More than 5 Million Records This Week;
Updated Collections at Ancestry.
Vol.
19, No. 37 – September 23, 2018
Extraterritoriality Applies to Me, But Not You; UK National Archives
Has Photo Collection Online; “10 Ways To Get Children Excited
About Family History”; Report Some People Upset About
Ancestry
DNA New Ethnicity Evaluations; AncestryDNA Integrates Music with
Heritage; Joods Monument (Jewish Monument) Commemorates Dutch Holocaust
Victims; Registration Is Open for RootsTech 2019; FamilySearch Adds
Nearly 3 Million Records This Week
Vol.
19, No. 38 – September 30, 2018
Ancestry Australia Offering Free Access to Records; Historical
Newspaper Site Has 185 Million Articles; FamilySearch Adds More Than
4.7 Million Records This Week; All Lithuania Database Now Has More Than
2 Million Records; Lodz Ghetto Lists Added to USHMM Database; Article:
“iPhone Tips”; Hamburg State Archives Destroys More
than
One Million Death Records; Wanted: Human Interest Stories for Winter
Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol.
19, No. 39– October 7, 2018
New Article: “Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy”;
Free Access to Ancestry.ca Through October 8; New eBook, Back to Shul
Documents Lithuanian Synagogues;
New Collections at Ancestry.com; JewishGen Offering Course on
Belarussian Research; Now You Can Have Your Dog’s DNA Tested;
The Name “Mormon Tabernacle Choir” Is No More
Vol.
19, No. 40 – October 14, 2018
Weizmann Institute in Israel to Host Conference on Genealogy and the
Sciences; DNA Websites Allowing Much of U.S. Population to Be
Identified; USCIS Presents a Documentary “USCIS and the
Legacy of
Ellis Island”; USCIS Presenting Webinar on Its Name Index;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 9 Million Records This Week; JewishGen
Providing Course on Galician Research
Vol.
19, No. 41 – October 21, 2018
Kazerne Dossin Publishes 23,850 Portraits of Belgian Deportees; Reclaim
The Records Suing for Brooklyn “Old Town” Records;
Current
Prices for Autosomal DNA Tests from the Major Companies; MyHeritage
Adds More Than 20 million Records to its SuperSearch; FindMyPast Adds
54 Million Records to England Electoral Register Collection; Why
Aren’t FamilySearch Digitized Records Available Online to the
Public
Vol.
19, No. 42 – October 28, 2018
MyHeritage Oslo Conference to Be Live Streamed; New Jersey Jewish News
Digitized and Online; Second Call–Wanted: Human Interest
Stories
for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Practicing Safe Computing #37: Facebook Tokens;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 3.6 Million Records This Week; Swiss Federal
Archives to Provide Online Access to Its Archival Records; Planned U.S.
Television Program: “Family History”; How to Do
Italian
Genealogical Research; Shanghai Address and Business Directory of
Jewish Refugees Is Online
Vol.
19, No. 43 – November 4, 2018
State of Maine Creates “Digital Maine Library” with
At-Home
Access to State Residents; MyHeritage Publishes “DNA Basics
Chapter 9: Explaining Ethnic Regions”; DNA Tests Now
Available In
Stores – Latest Prices; Free Access to Ancestry Military
Records
Through November 12; 1926 Census of Canadian Prairie Provinces to Be
Indexed; Updates to British/Irish Databases; FamilySearch Adds
Additional Records This Week
Vol.
19, No. 44 – November 11, 2018
Other Family Trees Are Not a Valid Source; International Tracing
Service Places Online Another 900,000 Records; U.S. Version of Who Do You Think You Are?
Returns for a New Season; MyHeritage Announces New Features at Its Oslo
Conference; Latest Prices for DNA Tests; Genealogy Sites Recognize
100th Anniversary of End of World War I; Historical Photographs of New
York City Buildings Online; UK National Archives Has Digitized/Index
World War I Records; FamilySearch Adds More Than 3.5 Million Records
This Week; FindMyPast Additions for Week; Free Access to American
Ancestors Collection Through November 13
Vol.
19, No. 45 – November 18, 2018
Reclaim The Records Files Lawsuit Against U.S. Veterans Agency; Latest
Prices for DNA Tests; The Ancestor Hunt Has List of Online U.S. College
Newspapers; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU Going to Printer; Shared Ancestral
Places Added to MyHeritage DNA Matches; AncestryDNA Introduces Traits
Feature; FamilySearch Unlocking Centuries of Italian Ancestry Records;
Over 60 Million Pages of Digitized Canadian Documentary Heritage Soon
to Be Available at No Charge; Photographs of New York City Buildings
Now Accessible Through Morse Website; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 5.5
Million Records This Week; FindMyPast Adds British First World War
Soldiers’ Medical Records
Vol.
19, No. 46 – November 25, 2018
Happy Thanksgiving!!; Avotaynu Joins Black Friday
Madness–40–74% Discount on Selected Books; DNA
Testing
Price War Continues; Improving Quality of Photos; DNA Basics Chapter
10: How DNA Testing Can Help You Find New Relatives; Report Discusses
Status of Jewish Cemeteries in Ukraine; UK National Archives Has
Available 56 Guides to Its First World War Collections; FamilySearch
Additions for the Week
Vol.
19, No. 47 – December 2, 2018
Happy Chanukah!!; Last Chance to Buy Selected Books Published by
Avotaynu for 40–74% Discount; Year-End Is Approaching: Help
Support Your Genealogy Non-Profits; IIJG Launches Its Annual Appeal for
Support; Reclaim The Records Wants More New York State Marriage
Indexes; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA Testing; MyHeritage LIVE 2018
Lectures Now Online!; MyHeritage Extends Free DNA Uploads to December
16; New Collections at Ancestry.com; USHMM Adds Sachsenhausen Documents
to Collection; New Documentary About History of Russian Jews Online at
YouTube; FamilySearch Has Virginia Jewish Cemetery Records Index, ca.
1800–1986; New Book: The Canadian Jewish Experience
(CJE): A Tribute to Canada
Vol.
19, No. 48 – December 9, 2018
JewishGen Adds Ability to Save Searches; Top 4 Costs Family Historians
Face and How to Avoid Them; Research on Names of Auschwitz Inmates;
Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA Testing; Call For Papers: 39th IAJGS
International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Tomasz Wisniewski Awarded
2018 POLIN Poland Award; Jewish Cemeteries in Poland to Be Mapped and
Entered into an Online Database; Legacy Family Tree Webinars to Include
Closed Captioning; Reminder: Conference on “Genealogy and the
Sciences” in Israel; Discount Offered for RootsTech
Conference
Registration; FamilySearch Adds an Astounding 47.2 Million Records This
Week; MyHeritage Adds More Than 51 Million Records in November; Broken
Link: Donations to the Joint Distribution Committee
Vol.
19, No. 49 – December 16, 2018
RootsTech to Live Stream Some of Its Lectures; Nine Reasons Why You
Should Be Researching Voter Records; JewishGen to Hold Two Education
Courses in January; Survey Made of Jewish Cemeteries in Volhyn Region
of Ukraine; FamilySearch Adds More Than 8 Million Records This Week;
New Collections at Ancestry.com; Back Issues of Detroit Jewish
Newspapers Now Online; World War I Newspaper Clippings, 1914 to 1926,
are Now Available Online; Warsaw Ghetto Museum to Open in 2023
Vol.
19, No. 50 – December 23, 2018
Merry Christmas to our Christian readers!; Michael Tobias Leaves
JewishGen; How Did Ashkenazi Jews End Up With Famous Non-Jewish Last
Names?; New Genealogy Website Has Index to 1897 Census of Ukraine
Online; Eight Reasons You Cannot Find Anything About Our Ancestors;
Updates to Jewish Genealogy Databases; FamilySearch Adds 1.3 Million
Records This Week; Clarification on Documenting Jewish Cemeteries in
Ukraine
Vol.
19, No. 51 – December 30, 2018
Happy New Year!!; Landmark Conference on “Genealogy and the
Sciences” Held in Israel; Online Genealogy Records Can
Disappear:
Simple Ways to Protect Your Research; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA
Testing; What’s New on Ancestry.com. Answer: I
Don’t Know;
Library Archives Canada Publishes Year-End Progress Report; Study Shows
Many Latin Americans Are Descended from Conversos
Vol.
20, No. 1 – January 6, 2019
2019 Milestone Year for Avotaynu Publications; Jan Meisels Allen Gives
Year-End Report on the Status of Records Access; Genealogy Websites
Announce Accomplishments for 2018; What’s Coming to
FamilySearch
in 2019; Creating Your Own Family History Video; Finding Your Roots
New Season Starts January 8; New Feature On FamilySearch:
“Learn
About Your Family”; Discounts on Ancestry and MyHeritage
Memberships; Internet Site Has List of Cantors Who Were Holocaust
Victims; Wanted: “U.S. Update” Editor for AVOTAYNU
Vol.
20, No. 2 – January 13, 2019
New Lists in the JDC Archives Names Index; Plans to Map 1,500 Jewish
Cemeteries in Five European Countries; Website Provides Statistics on
the Growth of Genealogy Industry; ITS Discovers 2,000 photos of Dachau
Concentration Camp Survivors; New Book: Unbroken Chain –
Third
Edition – Volume 4 Published; Advisory Opinion States
“Right to Be Forgotten” Is Not Extraterritorial;
Fulton
History Site Now Has Digitized 44 Million Newspaper Pages; Webinar:
"Hidden Gems of Jewish Genealogy"; FamilySearch
Adds More Than 600K Records This Week; Article on 1890 U.S. Census
Substitutes; Last Chance to Submit Presentation Proposals for Cleveland
Conference
Vol.
20, No. 3 – January 20, 2019
Autosomal DNA Tests on Identical Twins Yield Different Results; French
Law Bans Recreational DNA Testing; MyHeritage Adds More Than 22.7
Million Records in December; National Library of Israel Wants Family
History Books; More Than 717,000 Records Added to National Burial Index
for England & Wales; YIVO Institute Vilna Collection Has 1.3
Million Documents and Books Online; Project to Survey and Digitize
Jewish Heritage in Slovenia
Vol.
20, No. 4 – January 27, 2019
Today Is International Holocaust Remembrance Day; Identical Twins Are
Not Totally Identical; Webinar on Photo Organizing and Preservation;
The Ancestor Hunt Has Links to 19 Special Collections of Online
Historical Newspapers; JewishGen Offers “Brick Walls or Dead
End” Class; Wanted: Brick Wall Cases for Spring Issue of
AVOTAYNU; FamilySearch Adds An Astounding 23.7 Million Records This
Week; GenTeam (Austria) Adds 530K Records; New/Updated Collections at
Ancestry.com; Library and Archives Canada Acquires 1944 Book Previously
Owned by Hitler
Vol.
20, No. 5 – February 3, 2019
Now Possible to Reserve Hotel Room for Cleveland Conference; New IAJGS
Member Society: Miami Valley (Ohio) Jewish Genealogical and Historical
Society; MyHeritage Offers DNA Testing For Only $59; Geni World Family
Tree Now Has 129 Million Profiles; Geni Adds Pedigree View to Its Site;
Travel Guide to Jewish Lithuania; Reclaim the Records Lauded As an
“Intellectual Freedom Fighter”; FamilySearch Adds
More Than
800K Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com; Forces War
Records (UK) Now Has 5 Million WW2 Records Available to Search Online
Vol.
20, No. 6 – February 10, 2019
Registration for Cleveland Conference Now Open; FamilyTreeDNA Comes
Under Fire for Cooperating with FBI; MyHeritage Creates Love Letter
Contest; MyHeritage and Family Tree DNA Offer DNA Testing For Only $59;
Options Available to Watch RootsTech Presentations Remotely; The Holocaust in France: A
Resource Guide;
MyHeritage Webinar on Tools to Improve Your Family Tree Data; Three New
Collections Added to USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 6 Million Records This Week
Vol.
20, No. 7 – February 17, 2019
Ancestry UK Allowing Free Access to Records Through Monday, February
18; The Simple Dos and Don’ts for Preserving Old Family
Photos at
Home; MyHeritage LIVE Planned for September 6–8 in Amsterdam;
New
Jewish Genealogical Society in São Paulo, Brazil;
FamilySearch
Adds Nearly 1 Million Index Records This Week; New Records Added by
MyHeritage During January; New Collections for the Week From
FindMyPast; Avotaynu Business; Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU at Printer;
Special AVOTAYNU Subscription Offer; Wanted: Brick Wall Cases for
Spring Issue of AVOTAYNU
Vol.
20, No. 8 – February 24, 2019
GEDCOM Importing Returns to Geni; Two More New York Area Cemeteries
Online; Winter Issue of Avotaynu In the Mail; DNA Has Become a Popular
Topic; DNA As a Tool For Genealogists Diluted by Public Involvement; A
Small Lesson in Autosomal DNA Testing; JewishGen Guide to Canadian
Jewish Genealogical Research Updated; Vernon Directories for Ontario to
Be Digitized; 12 Genealogy Sites You Must Search If You Have UK
Ancestors; Do You Have a UK Criminal Ancestor on Your Family Tree?; The
World’s Largest Shared Family Tree Is…;
FamilySearch Adds
More Than 5.7 Million Indexed Records This Week; Ancestry.com Adds
British WWII Alien Internees to Its Site; New Genealogy Search Engine:
KinCrawler
Vol.
20, No. 9 – March 3, 2019
MyHeritage Completes Digitization of All Israel’s Cemeteries;
What’s New at Ancestry.com; What’s New at
MyHeritage;
MyHeritage Extends Offer of Free DNA Kits to Adoptees; RootsTech-London
to Be Held October 24–26; Forces War Records (UK) Offering
Free
Access Through March 3; FamilySearch Places Canada 1926 Census of the
Prairie Provinces Online; FamilySearch Center at UK National Archives
to Close Permanently; FindMyPast Adds School Records
1870–1914
for Liverpool and Lancashire; FindMyPast to Publish 1921 UK Census; New
Collections at Ancestry.com; Encyclopedia of the Warsaw Ghetto
Planned
Vol.
20, No. 10 – March 10, 2019
New Information About Annual Conference;
Ancestry and Family Tree DNA Offering DNA Testing For Only $59; New
Society: Jewish Genealogy Society of Central Maryland; Four Enduring
Ways to Share Your Family History Research; JewishGen Once Again
Presents Independent Study Program; RootsTech Announces Statistics
About Recently Completed Conference; FamilySearch Adds More Than 4
Million Records This Week; New Collection at Ancestry.com; The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Starts Dropping Name
“Mormon”
Vol.
20, No. 11 – March 17, 2019
FamilyTreeDNA Updates Terms of Service and Privacy Statement; How Many
People Subscribe to the Various DNA Services?; Ancestry Discouraging
Limited Free Access to Their Collection; New Society: Jewish Genealogy
& History Society of South Australia; JewishGen Course on
Galicia;
National Library of Australia recently launched the Australia Web
Archive; Essay on “Preserving Old Family Letters”;
MyHeritage Offering Free Access to Irish Collection; Free Access to
Ancestry’s Irish Collection; FamilySearch Adds More Than
Million
Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com; FindMyPast Adds
U.S. Passport Applications and Records for Costa Rica; “The
Ancestor Hunt” Now Has 30,000 Free Online Historical
Newspaper
Links; Reminder: Renew Your Subscription to AVOTAYNU
Vol.
20, No. 12 – March 23, 2019
Announcing The
Jacobi Papers: Genealogical Studies of
Leading
Ashkenazi Families; Hints on How to Contact DNA Matches;
FamilySearch Adds Nearly 3.5 Million Records This Week; Additions to
FindMyPast This Week; Finding Aid for the Records of HIAS Now Online;
More About Jewish Genealogy & History Society of South Australia
Vol.
20, No. 13 – March 31, 2019
Reclaim The Records Gains Access to New York State Marriage Index
Post-1965; Reminder: Many RootsTech 2019 Lectures Available Online;
FamilySearch April Webinars Include One for Polish Archival Records;
JewishGen Director Provides Progress Report; Yad Vashem Will Build a
New Shoah Heritage Collections Center; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 3
Million Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.
Vol.
20, No. 14 – April 7, 2019
News About 39th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy;
Genealogy Indexer Adds 75 Ukrainian Telephone Directories
(1970–1994); Nadia Lipes’ Ukrainian Database Now
Has
823,000 Entries; List of 4,000 Names of Jewish Women Liberated from
Bergen Belsen; Links to Polish State Archives Records Exist at
JRI-Poland Site; UK Family History Show Will Be in Three Locations This
Year; Historical Caribbean Newspapers Online; FamilySearch Adds More
than 800K Records This Week; Updated Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 15 – April 14, 2019
No News; JewishGen Creates “Passover Companion”
Vol.
20, No. 16 – April 21, 2019
Reclaim The Records Wants New York City Death Certificates and
Restrictions on Access Overturned; Early-Bird Registration Ends Soon
for Cleveland Conference; Joint Distribution Committee Partnering with
International Tracing Service; JewishGen Worldwide Burial Registry Now
Has 3.45 Million Records; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA Testing; Why
You Need to Quit Attaching Records to Your Family Tree and What to Do
Instead; Company Experiments with DNA Tracking by Trying to Identify
Its Own Employees; Webinar on Comparing Genealogy Giants; Site Has
Information on Jews Who Fled Denmark to Sweden During WWII;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.6 Million Records This Week; FindMyPast
Adds Birth, Marriage, Death Civil Registrations for Jamaica; New
Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 17 – April 28, 2019
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) Is This Thursday; Program Schedule
for 39th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy Now Online; DNA Matching
May Come Under Attack; Latest DNA Testing Prices; FamilySearch Adds
Audio Capability to Photographs; 13 Secrets to Getting Replies from DNA
Cousin Matches; Avotaynu Online Has Article about Possible Sephardic
Origins for Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen; JewishGen Looking for a
Full-Time Database Administrator; New Collections at Ancestry.com;
FindMyPast Additions for the Week; FamilySearch Adds 42 Million Records
for Index to 1939 England and Wales National Register
Vol.
20, No. 18 – May 5, 2019
Ancestry Receives Some Bad Publicity After Changing Their DNA Ethnicity
Estimates; New York State Challenging Reclaim The Records Win;
Conference Hotel Fully Booked; Cook County (Chicago) Removes Records
Searching from Website; JewishGen Class: Writing Short Reports; Latest
DNA Testing Prices; FindMyPast to Implement Tree Matching; FamilySearch
Adds More Than 1 Million Records This Week; Updated Collections at
Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 19 – May 12, 2019
Happy Mother’s Day; No Edition of Nu? What’s New?
Pages of Testimony Now Part of MyHeritage Records Match; Next Week;
AVOTAYNU Spring Issue Is at the Printer; Winners of AVOTAYNU
Subscription Renewal Contest; MyHeritage Runs Mother’s Day
Look-alike Competition; MyHeritage Free Access to Danish and Finnish
Records Through May 12; Latest DNA Testing Prices; Keynote and Banquet
Speakers Announced for Annual Conference; “Who Do You Think
You Are?” Is Returning to NBC; Family History Library to Add
Sunday and Longer Monday Hours to Schedule; FamilySearch Adds More Than
7 Million Records This Week
Vol.
20, No. 20 – May 26, 2019
International Tracing Service Places More Than 13 Million Documents
Online; Changes Name to Arolsen Archives; GEDmatch Implements Required
Opt-In for Law Enforcement Matching; Association for Genealogy
Educators and Schools Formed; MyHeritage Adds New Capability to Family
Tree System: PhotoDiscovery; New Society Formed in Nashville,
Tennessee; Miriam Weiner Honored by National Genealogical Society;
MyHeritage Now Offering a DNA Health + Ancestry Test; MyHeritage Offers
Free Access to Military Records for Memorial Day; New Webinar: Advanced
Features on Geni.com; Updates to Special Interest Groups (SIG)
Collections: Bessarabia. Lithuania; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 700K
Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com; Recent Additions to
FindMyPast; FindMyPast Adds 114 Million European Vital Records Index
Vol.
20, No. 21 – June 2, 2019
Ancestry DNA Now Has More Than 15 Million Customers; Index to files of
“Austrian Concentration Camp Association” Now
Online; New
Book: “Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries in Central and Eastern
Europe”; JGS-Montreal Creates Website That Links to 100
Genealogical Resources; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA Testing;
JewishGen Holocaust Database Now Has 2.75 Million Records; JewishGen
Course on New York City Genealogy Starts June 14; FamilySearch Adds
More Than 4 Million Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com)
Vol.
20, No. 22 – June 9, 2019
Newspapers.com Offering Free Access Through Today; Ancestry Free Access
to Military Records; Webinar on “Lessons in Jewish
DNA”;
Interested in Taking a Vicarious Trip to Part of Ukraine?; MyHeritage
Plans Series on Articles on Genealogy; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA
Testing; Nine Illustrious Synagogues You Can Visit in Poland; Index to
Irish Vital Records; New/Updated Collections at Ancestry.com;
FindMyPast Additions for Week; No FamilySearch Additions Announced This
Week
Vol.
20, No. 23 – June 16, 2019
Happy Father’s Day!!; Shoah Foundation to Index Lithuanian
Testimonies; New York State Assembly May Consider Allowing Access to
Birth Records of Adoptees; GenTeam Adds 630,000 Records; Volunteers
Sought for Summer Program in Western Ukraine; Who Do You Think You Are?
(UK) Announces Eight New Episodes; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA
Testing; FamilySearch Adds More Than 10 Million Records This Week
Vol.
20, No. 24 – June 23, 2019
Warren Blatt Assumes New Role at JewishGen; Many Fee-Based Genealogy
Websites Available at No Charge at Conference; Why You Need to Quit
Attaching Records to Your Family Tree and What to Do Instead; Israel
National Library Has Digitized Jewish Communal Ledgers (Pinkasim);
MyHeritage LIVE 2019 Announces Speaker Schedule; FamilySearch Adds More
Than 3 Million Records This Week; Updates to Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 25 – June 30, 2019
Memorial to the Jews Deported from France Database Recently Updated;
Avraham Groll Given Title of JewishGen Executive Director; JewishGen
Course: “Exploring the JewishGen Website”;
AncestryDNA
Becoming Specific by Community; Geni Adds Multiple Relationship Paths
Feature; FamilySearch Adds Similar Historical Records to Search System;
Where to Find WWII Records on FindMyPast; FamilySearch Adds More Than
1.3 Million Records This Week
Vol.
20, No. 26 – July 7, 2019
Conference App Now Available; Library Archives Canada Has a New
Collection Search Tool; MyHeritageLIVE Agenda Announced; List of Online
Resources for Jewish Heritage in the Czech Republic; Site has 114,000
Photographs of Hungary 1900–1990; FamilySearch Adds Nearly
3.5
Million Records This Week
Ancestry Adds New Collections to System
Vol.
20, No. 27 – July 14, 2019
A Jewish Genealogical Success Story: The Power of Volunteerism; More
Than 8,000 Montreal Burials Now Included in JOWBR; How to Remove Glue
From Your Old Photos; Mandatory Palestine Naturalization Applications
Are a Treasure Trove of Information; FamilySearch Now Allows Users to
Edit (Correct) Names in Databases; FindMyPast Now Has U.S. Passenger
and Crew Lists; FamilySearch Additions This Week; New Collections at
Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 28 – July 21, 2019
No Issue of “Nu? What’s Nu?” Next Week;
Europeana
Site Has Numerous Artifacts of European Countries; “No, You
Don’t Really Have 7,900 4th Cousins”; Summer Issue
of
AVOTAYNU Going to Printer; Early 23andme DNA Customers Not Receiving
Recent Updates; The Ancestor Hunt Now Has Links to Nearly 30,000
Newspaper Sites; More Ukrainian mJewish Records Online; Reclaim The
Records Files for Summary Judgement in Missouri Index Request; Ireland
Allows Leaving Personalized Message on Census; FamilySearch Adds Nearly
1.4 Million Records This Week; Some Suggestions When Doing Database
Searches
Vol.
20, No. 29 – August 4, 2019
Ancestry Partners with Arolsen Archives to Place Holocaust Records
Online; JewishGen Has a New Home Page; Reclaim The Records Continues
Fight for Access to New York City Death Certificates
1949–1968;
23andMe Genetic Testing is Tax Deductible; JewishGen Memorial Plaques
Database Now Has 190,000 Records; Blood & Frogs Website Now
Includes Polish Archives Contact List; Genealogy Basics Chapter 2:
Build a Family Tree in Six Steps; RootsTech 2020 to Be Held February
26–29; German Towns Database Grows to More Than 37K Records;
Five
Million Britons to Receive Free DNA Tests; Some Jewish Cemeteries in
Eastern Europe Being Restored; MyHeritage Featured on “Dr.
Phil”; New MyHeritage Record Collections Added in July; New
Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 30 – August 11, 2019
Index to Toronto Jewish Vital Records Now Online; Finding Your Roots
Extended Through Fall 2020; Wanted: Brick Wall Cases for Fall Issue of
AVOTAYNU; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA Testing; Arolsen Archives
Adds Passenger Lists Digitized and Indexed by Ancestry; Polish State
Archives Moving Its Website; JewishGen Offers Belarus Class; MyHeritage
Donates Thousands More DNA Kits to Adoptees and Their Families;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 2 Million Records This Week; New
Collections at Ancesty.com
Vol.
20, No. 31 – August 18, 2019
Arolsen Archives Ponders Making Its Records Available on the Internet;
More Than 26 Million People Have Taken At-Home DNA Test; Study Shows
Hungary Has the World’s Second Largest Percentage of
Population
with Jewish Ancestry; You Can Now Use Your Phone to Turn Old Negatives
and Slides into Photos; Additions Made to JewishGen UK Cemeteries
Database; Chronicling America Receives Additional Grant to Digitize
U.S. Newspapers; Article on Budapest Synagogues That Are No Longer
Synagogues; Population Registers Amersfoort Online; RootsTech London
2019 Announces Lineup of Keynote Speakers and Entertainers;
FamilySearch Adds More 7 Million Records This Week; New Collections at
Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 32 – August 25, 2019
Federation of Genealogical Societies and National Genealogical Society
to Merge; Latest Prices for Autosomal DNA Testing; FamilySearch Adds
More Than 8 Million Records This Week: More than 7 Million Are U.S.
World War II Draft Registration Cards; New Collections at Ancestry.com;
MyHeritage Adds “France, Nord Civil Marriages,
1792–1937” Collection
Vol.
20, No. 33 – September 1, 2019
Did You Receive the Last Two Issues of Nu? What’s New??;
Wiki Genealogy Site Publishes 90,000th Article; Colorize Your Photos;
Findmypast Describes UK Census Records; DNA Collections Can Show
Migration Routes; MyHeritage Offers Essay on DNA Basics Chapter 11;
Ancestry Canada Offering Free Access to Occupational Records Through
September 2; Free Access to Ancestry’s Yearbook Collection
Through September 2; MyHeritage Offers Free Access to U.S. and Canadian
Census Records Through September 2; New Historical Records Added by
MyHeritage in August; FamilySearch Adds More Than 5.6M Records This
Week: Major Addition is New York State Death Index
(1880–1956);
Findmypast Adds Numerous Scottish and Lancashire Records to Its
Collection; New Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 34 – September 9, 2019
Phyllis Kramer z"l; Where to Find Printable Forms on the Internet; Mark
Your Calendar: 2020 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy;
U.S. National Archives Adding OCR to Its Search Capability; Family Tree
Magazine Announces 2019 List of Best Genealogy Sites; Discovering
Budapest’s Lesser Known Synagogues – Part 2;
FamilySearch
Will Be 125 Years Old This November; FamilySearch Additions This Week;
New Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 35 – September 15, 2019
New Book: Unbroken Chain – Third Edition – Volume 5
Published; Getting Copies from the UK National Archives; Introducing
MyHeritage Education; New Genealogy-related U.S. Television Program
This Fall; It’s Not Genealogy But…; FamilySearch
Adds More
Than 600K Records This Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 36 – September 22, 2019
Filae.com Has 1.5 Billion Names from French Records; Legacy Family Tree
Has Now Produced 1,000 Webinars; 5 Easy Steps to Preserving Newspaper
Clippings; Registration for RootsTech 2020 is Now Open; FamilySearch
Adds Nearly 6M Index Records This Week; New Updates at Ancestry.com;
It’s Not Genealogy, But…
Vol.
20, No. 37 – September 29, 2019
Shanah Tovah (Happy New Year); New Website for Israeli Burials; EU
Court Rules “Right to Be Forgotten” Is Not
Extraterritorial; New Genealogy TV Show: “A New
Leaf”;
Writing a Personal History, Journal Ideas and Why It’s
Important;
Who Are Ashkenazic Jews Descended From?; MyHeritage LIVE 2019 Lectures
Now Online; National Archives of South Africa Has a New Site; U.S.
Justice Department Sets Rules for Using Genealogy Sites to Solve
Crimes; Locating Individuals Living in the U.S.: PeopleFinders Now
Requires Given Names; Discovering Budapest’s Lesser Known
Synagogues – Part 3; JewishGen Offering Course on Researching
East Prussia and the Baltic States; FindMyPast Adds “Tree
Hinting” to System; FamilySearch Adds More Than 15M Records
This
Week; New Historical Records Added by MyHeritage in September 2019; New
Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 38 – October 6, 2019
Talk to Friends and Relatives After They Die; Claiming the Holocaust
Never Happened Is Not a Form of Freedom of Expression; 23andMe Adds
More Precise Ancestral Regions as Well as Family Tree Builder;
FamilyTreeDNA Forms Investigative Genetic Genealogy Unit; 23andMe
Lowers Cost of DNA Tests; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 5M Records This
Week; New Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 39 – October 13, 2019
“M” for M-i-l-l-i-o-n; JewishGen Updates Their
Discussion
Group Platform; JRI-Poland to Upgrade Its Website and Data Management
System; Wanted: Human Interest Stories for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU;
23andMe Adds “VIP Health + Ancestry Service”;
MyHeritage
DNA Kit for Only $49; Ancestry Preannounces Planned DNA Health
Services; FamilySearch Adds 4M Records This Week; MyHeritage Additions
for Second Half of September; New Collections at Ancestry.
Vol.
20, No. 40 – October 20, 2019
Five Best Free Sites for Online Newspaper Research for Genealogy; Too
Many Brick Walls? Consider Hiring a Professional Genealogist; Survey
Shows DNA Health Testers Improve Their Health Behavior; Demographics on
Genealogists Show Trend Toward a Lower Age; To Use or Not to Use
Viewmate; Geni Database Used to Identify Social Patterns; Irish Birth,
Marriage, and Death Certificates Now Available Online; FamilySearch
Adds Nearly 5M Records This Week; Updated Collections at Ancestry.com
Vol.
20, No. 41 – October 27, 2019
Ancestry Announces New DNA Test Called AncestryHealth; USHMM Places
WWII Displaced Persons Care and Maintenance Records Online; Auschwitz
Exhibit at Museum of Jewish Heritage Extended Until August 30, 2020;
Selected London RootsTech Sessions Online; Reclaim The Records Adds New
York City Geographic Birth Index; JewishGen Partners with Leo Baeck
Institute to Place Family Trees Online; FamilySearch Adds More Than
6.5M Million Records This Week
Vol.
20, No. 42 – November 3, 2019
Ancestry Adds 262M Obituary Images; Call for Papers for IAJGS 2020 San
Diego Conference; Latest DNA Testing Discounts; Exploring the Lists in
the Joint Distribution Committee Names Index; Photos of Soviet Army
Veterans Now Online; Video: “Making Holocaust Archives
Available
to Everyone”; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 1M Records This Week;
New
Collections at Ancestry.com; Second Notice: We Want Human Interest
Stories for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU; Fall Issue of AVOTAYNU to Printer
Vol.
20, No. 43 – November 10, 2019
GEDmatch Issued Search Warrant Causing Concern Among DNA Testers; Your
DNA Results May Help Others to Find Missing Relatives; Sites Offer Free
Access for Veterans/Armistice Day Period; About FamilySearch Digital
Library; Geni Adds Consistency Checker; New Dutch Resources; National
Library of Israel to Place 120,000 Books Online; What’s New
at My
Heritage Education?; Genealogy Basics Chapter 3: Discovering Historical
Records; FamilySearch Adds More Than 1.8M Records This Week; New
Collections at Ancestry.
Vol.
20, No. 44 – November 17, 2019
New York State to Allow Adoptees to Access Original Birth Certificates;
FamilySearch Celebrates 125th Anniversary; Conference in Poland to
Discuss Polish Jewish Cemetery Issues; GRO Adds Death Records Index
from 1984–2019; FamilySearch Adds Nearly 2M Records This
Week;
New Collections at Ancestry.com; New Records at FindMyPast
Vol.
20, No. 45 – November 24, 2019
Avotaynu Joins Black Friday Madness–40–74% Discount
on
Selected Books; Arolsen Archives Adds Another 10M Names to Its Online
Collection; JewishGen United Kingdom SIG Adds Rabbinic Profiles to
Site; FamilySearch Adds “How You Are Related to Other
Users” Feature; Ancestry Uses Artificial Intelligence to
Extract
Obituaries from Newspapers; JewishGen Announces Courses for 2020; Final
Notice: We Want Human Interest Stories for Winter Issue of AVOTAYNU;
FamilySearch Adds More Than 4.5M Records This Week; MyHeritage
Additions for First Half of November; Ancestry Adds Norway Censuses to
Collection
Vol.
20, No. 46 – December 1, 2019
Black Friday Results in Very Low DNA Test Prices; MyHeritage Adds Nine
New Reports to Its Genetic Health Product; British Newspaper Archive
Exceeds 35M Pages; Time to Think About Donations to Genealogy-Based
Institutions; Are You Familiar with Family History Centers?; A
Beginner's Guide to Searching for Records on Findmypast; Swiss National
Archives Has New Website; FamilySearch Adds More Than 10M Records This
Week; Findmypast Adds More Than 6M Scottish Records
Vol. 20, No. 47 – December 8, 2019
USCIS Fee Increases Creating Furor in Genealogical Community; Portions
of 1764–1766 Census of Jews in Poland and Ukraine Now Online;
MyHeritage Education Adds Webinars and Articles; Testing Firms Extend
DNA Sales; Three Challenges in the Genealogy World and How FamilySearch
Is Helping; Britain Has Closed Almost 800 Libraries Since 2010; List of
1,689 surnames from Cairo shown at Avotaynu Online; Reclaim The Records
Publishes Mississippi Death Index (1912–1943); MyHeritage Adds
8.8M Records in Second Half of November; FamilySearch Adds More Than 9M
Records This Week; FindMyPast Additions This Week; Updated Collections
at Ancestry.com
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