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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 17, Number 35 | September 4, 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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Today Is the Annual European Day of Jewish Culture  Today,
September 4, is the annual European Day of Jewish Culture. The event
was initiated in 1996 in France and now involves twenty-seven European
countries. The aim of the day is to organize activities related to
Jewish culture and expose them to the public, with the intention of
revealing the cultural and historical heritage of the Jewish people.
Each year there is a theme. This year’s theme is Jewish
languages. Events range from exhibits to concerts to conferences to performances to guided tours, food tastings, symposia, book fairs, publications and more. Programs of participating countries can be found at http://www.jewisheritage.org/web/edjc/2016. New Genealogical Service Provides Personal Coaching  Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
(EOGN) notes a new service where genealogists can get one-on-one advice
from a professional. You buy 15-minute increments of the person’s
time. The service has launched with 25 coaches across 47 different categories. Topics include: getting started; genetic genealogy/DNA; tree analysis and writing a research plan; and document translation. Coaches also specialize in researching different regions of the world and different ethnic groups. For example, Lara Diamond is their specialist on Jewish research. Her rate is $17.50 per 15-minute consultation. How it works. EOGN states that shortly before the coaching session, an email link is sent that allows the user to log in to a private video chat room. There they meet face to face, via video chat, to share screens and documents with the genealogy coach, and receive the help they need to keep them moving along in their family history journey. The service, named GenealogyDOTCoach is located at https://genealogy.coach. Website Has Descriptions of Shtetls in Belarus  A
posting by Carola Murray-Seegert to the JewishGen Belarus Discussion
Group notes an Israeli website—"My Shtetl: The Voice of Jewish
Settlements”—that has information on the shtetls of
Belarus. Currently it only includes towns of the Minsk, Vitebsk and
Mogilev regions. Grodno, Brest and Gomel regions are planned. The site
is located at http://shtetle.co.il/index_eng.html.Click on any of the three regions on the map on the home page and it will display a detailed map of the region identifying numerous towns. Click on a particular town and a narrative of the history of the town is provided. Information may include oral histories, family memories, photos and historic texts. Some descriptions are in Russian only. Use Google Translate to convert them to your native tongue. FamilySearch Adds Nearly 7 Million Records This Week 
A list of recent additions to FamilySearch, nearly 7 million indexed records and images, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch090116.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Australia, England, France, Luxembourg, Namibia,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Paraguay, Spain and the U.S. states of
Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas.Most notable for persons with Jewish family history are images of World War II Draft Registration Cards and additions to the index of Boston Passenger Lists Index 1899–1940, 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. JGSLI Adds Video on U.S. Immigration Ports 
The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island
(JGSLI) has added a video to its YouTube website titled “6
Popular Ports of Entry to the U.S. (Not Everyone Came through Ellis
Island).” They note that there are many other ports that were
used by arriving immigrants, and their means of transportation
wasn’t limited to ships. This video covers the six most popular
ports of entry to the U.S., between 1880 and 1920, and a few other
methods used by new arrivals. The video can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUV8xttIn93AwJX2_I0AIAg/feed.
This is the 21st video JGSLI has posted to their site. In 2015, the
project received the “Outstanding Publication Award” of the
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Free Access to Ancestry Job-Related Records Until September 5  In
honor of Labor Day, Ancestry is providing free access to job-related
records through September 5. This includes all federal and state census
records that include occupation, and special collections such as
“California, Occupational Licenses, Registers, and Directories,
1876–1969.” The records can be searched at http://www.ancestry.com/cs/labor-day.FindMyPast Adds British Army Casualty Lists 1939–1945  FindMyPast
has added to their collection 1.1 million War Office records covering
officers and nurses and other ranks. These lists cover individuals
reported as killed in action, wounded, prisoner of war, missing, died
of wounds, missing believed killed, dangerously ill, and involved in
accidents. The collection is located at http://tinyurl.com/FMPCasualtyLists.
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