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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 17, Number 5 | January 31, 2016 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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Underlined words are links to
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Off to RootsTech 
The next issue of Nu? What’s New? may be late because I will be attending the RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City this coming week.KehilaLinks Site for Jews of Posen ===  Edward
David Luft, a regular writer for AVOTAYNU, has created a website on
JewishGen’s KehilaLinks for the province of Posen that has much
useful information for that area. It is located at http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/poznan/Jews_of_Posen.html.
The website covers all 122 towns in which Jews lived in Posen Province
as well as other locations in the province for the period 1772 to about
1923. His latest addition is "The Jews of Posen Province in the 19th Century,” which is the result of his research for more than 28 years. It is a source of both published and archival entries, totaling of 1,990 pages and contains about 10,000 annotated citations of books, articles and archival fonds on the subject. The link also references other reliable resources for research on the Jews of Posen province. For some reason, using Firefox, when I uploaded the book the pages were sideways. Saving the file to my computer and using Adobe Acrobat Reader made the pages appear correctly. Yet another Website: JewGenealogy.com Someone has identified more than 100 record groups on Ancestry.com associated with Jewish genealogical research, and has provided links to the groups at a site named http://JewGenealogy.com. Those groups on Ancestry that are offered at no charge are identified as “free.” Many of these free groups have their original source at JewishGen or the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. It is a useful site for beginners as a possible starting point for research. It is useful to veterans, because it may identify sites they were unaware of. The domain name is registered to a Paul Field of New Jersey. Video on Choosing a Genealogical Software Program 
New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has created a one-hour video on “Choosing a Genealogical Software Program.” It is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcRPsUVKwLk.
The genealogical community has been shaken this past year by the demise
of two popular software programs, The Master Genealogist and Family
Tree Maker, causing many people to look for an alternative. The
genealogy programs discussed in the lecture are: Ancestral Quest,
Brother's Keeper (the one I use), Heredis, iFamily, Legacy,
MacFamilyTree, Reunion, and RootsMagic. Family History Library Announces Webinars for February  During
the month of February, the Family History Library will be hosting a
number of free online family history classes and webinars. These
classes and webinars are designed to help individuals and families find
their ancestors and teach important family history techniques. They are
free to the public. Information about specific classes can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FHLWebinars0216.JRI-Poland Helping to Prove Person is Oldest Man Alive 
An Israeli Holocaust survivor may be the oldest man alive and Jewish Records Indexing – Poland
is providing the documentation to prove it. Yisrael Krystal is 112
years old. JRI-Poland has located his marriage certificate to prove his
age, but it may not be adequate documentation, so they are searching
further. The JRI-Poland participation is mentioned in an article
in Haaretz,
but is not viewable by non-subscribers. Numerous newspapers have picked
up the news item but do not mention JRI-Poland’s participation in
the search. One can be read at http://tinyurl.com/OldestMan112,AVOTAYNU Subscriber Willing to Donate All Back Issues to an Institution An AVOTAYNU subscriber has all back issues of AVOTAYNU from Vol.1 No.1 and is looking for a repository such as a library willing to accept the issues. If you know of such an institution, write to info@avotaynu.com.
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