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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 18, Number 19 | May 14, 2017 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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Postcard Images of Jewish Life in European Countries  Frantisek
Bányai of Prague has a website featuring old postcards of Jewish
life in virtually every country in Europe. The images are from
1890–1930. The site is located at http://judaica.cz/.
Mouse over any image and there is a more detailed description of what
the postcard contains. There is a search engine that will isolate
images by town or type.It is not possible to right click and save the image. Furthermore, the image quality is not that great. This may be deliberate. Bányai notes that you should contact him if you wish a high-quality copy of a card. Photographs of Former Jewish Sites in European Countries  Each
year Charles Burns travels to Eastern Europe and photographs former
Jewish sites in various countries: a synagogue, a town square
surrounded by homes and businesses that were formerly owned by Jews,
and always cemeteries. He says he does it “to make a small record
of a vanished culture and to pay respect to that civilization and to
its members.”He has posted many of these photographs on the Internet at http://galiciantraces.com. The site’s name demonstrates that most of the images are from Galicia. This does not mean that all the photos come from that area. Burns notes, “the majority of the places we have visited are in the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, but we have also worked in Bukovina, both the Ukrainian and the Romanian parts; other areas within Romania; perhaps in the southern edge of Volhynia; in Podolia; in the area between Warszawa and Wroclaw to the west of Poznan; and in the Bohemian area of the Czech Republic.” There is an alphabetical list of towns at the site. Burns has copyrighted the images, and he should be contacted for permission to use any of them. FamilySearch Adds Nearly 500K Records This Week  It
was a slow week for Family Search. They placed online only about 500K
new indexed records and images. The list can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch050817.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Cook Islands, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Peru
and the U.S. states of Maine and Florida. In addition, 186K records
were garnered from BillionGraves.com.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. New at Ancestry.com 
Ancestry has added the
following record groups at their site. Note that they do not indicate
how many entries have been added. Announced collections may not be
complete for the dates specified and will be added at some later date. New Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1830–2011 Montana, Prison Records, 1861–1968 New York City, Marriage Indexes, 1907–1995 Updated Pennsylvania, Birth Records, 1906–1909 Texas, Marriage Index, 1824–2014 Texas, Divorce Index, 1968–2014 U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776–2015 Web: Missouri, St. Louis Public Library Obituary Index, 1880–2011 Most significant is the new New York City Marriage Indexes, 1907–1995. Reclaim the Records recently placed digitized images of this collection online at https://archive.org/details/nycmarriageindex, but they are unindexed. Foreign Passports of Russian Citizens Kept in the Russian Delegation in Berlin, 1876–1924 Marilyn Robinson, editor of Jewish Gem's Genealogy, notes that the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) has placed on its website a list of foreign passports of Russian citizens kept in the Russian delegation in Berlin, 1876–1924. There appears to be about 3,000 entries, many bearing Jewish surnames. The site, which is located at http://tinyurl.com/GARFBerlin, is in Russian, so use translating software such as Google Translate if you are unfamiliar with the language. The only information provided is the person’s name and year the transaction was recorded at the Berlin office. You must search in Russian. Use Stephen P. Morse’s English to Russian transliteration utility at http://stevemorse.org/russian/eng2rus.html to transliterate a name into the Cyrillic alphabet. 
MACEVA Provides Annual ReportJewish Heritage Europe reports that MACEVA has issued its annual report of activities for 2016. MACEVA is involved in maintaining and documenting the last remaining Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania. The report notes that significant work was done in the cemeteries of Svencionys, Kauno Zaliakalnis, Trakai, Zidikai and Linkmenys. Additional information can be found at the Jewish Heritage Europe site: http://tinyurl.com/JHEMACEVA2016.
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