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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 16, Number 22 | May 31, 2015 Every
government puts value on preserving its history. That is why we have
national archives. Genealogy preserves history; the history of a
family. It cannot be done without access to records, just as historians
cannot preserve a nation's history without access to records. It is a
greater good than the right to privacy. It is a greater good than the
risk of identity theft.
Past issues of Nu? What's New? are
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“Right To Be Forgotten” Policy May Become Infectious 
The European Union’s “right to be forgotten” policy may be getting infectious. Jan Meisels Allen, Chairperson of the IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee, reports that countries outside the European Union are considering whether right to privacy trumps freedom of speech. These countries include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico and South Korea. In general, U.S. courts are still leaning toward freedom of speech having higher precedence than right to privacy. The European Union originally focused on Google as a source of information individuals consider private. Now they are looking into Facebook and Twitter. Can Geni and Ancestry.com be next on their hit list? Furthermore, the EU is arguing that information derived from non-European Union sources about an individual who lives in an EU country and is placed on a non-EU site must be considered for removal. As an example, if Google reports an American newspaper included information that the individual considers derogatory about a person living in an EU country, Google must remove it. This view was confirmed by a French Court decision stating that the EU decision is relevant outside of the EU if the website covers EU residents. That is, the decision of a French court has applicability worldwide. This compares to a circumstance in 2011 where a U.S. court might have approved an agreement between Google and the Writers Guild that would have given Google the right to publish online any copyrighted work, even those copyrighted in France. At that time, the French government said it would dishonor such an American court decision and threatened to ban Google from France if they published any French copyrighted work. (The agreement was eventually thrown out of the U.S. court.) “Global Family Reunion” This Saturday, June 6 
As noted in a previous issue of Nu? What’s New?,
if Geni is right, that indeed we are all cousins, there should be a
family reunion where we are all invited. This dream of A. J. (Arnold)
Jacobs a journalist, author, and lecturer, will be fulfilled Saturday,
June 6, when a “Global Family Reunion” will be held at the
New York Hall of Science, which is on the grounds of the 1964
World’s Fair. There will be more than 50 presenters, many familiar to the genealogical community. They include Gilad Japhet (MyHeritage), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Finding Your Roots broadcast), Bennett Greenspan (FamilyTreeDNA), David Rencher (FamilySearch), D. Joshua Taylor (Genealogy Roadshow), and Pamela Weisberger (vice-president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles and president and research coordinator of Gesher Galicia). Other genealogists are on the program. The full lineup of speakers, entertainers and activities is at http://globalfamilyreunion.com/schedule. If you do not live in the New York City area, there will be simultaneous satellite parties in a large number of U.S. cities and some other countries. The complete list is at http://globalfamilyreunion.com/locations. FamilySearch Webinars for June  During
the month of June, the Family History Library will be hosting 13 online
family history classes and webinars. They are free to the public.
Information about specific classes, including how to join a webinar,
can be found at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/family-history-library- announces-free-classesjune-2015.Some of the topics are: • Danish Research • Preserving Our Slovak Roots in the 21st Century • Case History: How to Find Ancestors in Digitalarkivet of Norway • Hamburg Passenger Lists • German Research Series. Learning to Read Old German Script and Extracting Information from German Church and Civil Records • Extracting Information from German Church and Civil Records FamilySearch Additions for the Week – Part 1
A list of recent additions to FamilySearch, 1.7 million images, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch052615.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Australia, China, India, Peru, Philippines and the
U.S. state of California. All the additions are images rather that index records. The California images are for California County Naturalizations, 1849–1949. FamilySearch Additions for the Week – Part 2
A list of recent additions to FamilySearch, 3.7 million indexed records and images, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch053115.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Belgium, England, Germany, Philippines and the
U.S. states of Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
and South Carolina. The largest group is a list of 2.3 million index records of London Electoral Registers, 1847–1913. Many of the additions to the U.S. collection involve images of crew lists and immigrant arrivals. The item categorized as the Philippines actually is an Index to Filipino Passengers Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii (1900–1952). Note that at the website, announced collections may not be complete for the dates specified and will be added at some later date. Also note that counts shown in the announcement are the number added, not the total number available in the collection, which can be greater. 
Forces War Records Adds Reports of WWII CasualtiesThe fee-for-service UK website ForcesWarRecords has added a new collection, World War II Daily Reports, which identifies British missing, dead, wounded and prisoners of war. More than 380,000 military personnel died, up to 150,000 were wounded and a further 180,000 men were held as POWs in the years 1939–1945. The database can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FWRWWIICasualties. Webinar: “Newspapers.com: Getting the Scoop on Your Ancestors” Ancestry Academy, the webinar presence of Ancestry.com, has available a webinar on how to use newspapers—and specifically their subsidiary website Newspapers.com—for family history research. (Newspapers.com is a fee-for service site offering a seven-day free trial.). The webinar can be found at https://www.ancestry.com/academy/course/ancestors-in-newspapers. Bohemian Census Data Online A posting to the Austria-Czech JewishGen Discussion Group notes that Bohemian census data is online at http://www.projektsoupis.cz/aindex.php. Data is available for the years 1723–1724, 1729, 1733, 1783, 1786, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1799 and 1811. The search engine does not function yet but the inventories can be found at http://pvh.ff.cuni.cz/soupisy.htm. It is interesting to view the early years where the men are shown only with patronymics, but by 1811 all had hereditary surnames. Back River Memorial Gardens (Montreal) Gravestones Now On JOWBR The Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal project to record all the burials and photograph all tombstones at the Back River Memorial Gardens is near completion. The data has been integrated into the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOBR) at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/. JGS Montreal has provided a surname list of the burials at http://jgs-montreal.org/backriver/. There are plans to have an interactive virtual cemetery that allows viewing entire sections, moving up and down lines of graves, and getting statistics for each section or the whole cemetery. IIJG Extends Deadline for Mathilde Tagger Prize for Genealogical Research 
This year, the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy announced
a $5,000 research prize in the name of the late Mathilde Tagger. The
prize is awarded for original research, conducted recently and not yet
published, that either broadens the horizons of Jewish genealogy or
creates an innovative tool or technology designed to assist Jewish
family historians in their endeavors. The deadline for submission has
been moved from May 31 to June 30.Information and instructions to applicants is at the Institute’s website, http://www.iijg.org, under “Research” > “Research Prizes.”
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