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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 18, Number 31 | August 20, 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.
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Last Chance for Introductory Offer – See What You Are MissingAll Four Issues of AVOTAYNU for only $19.00 Tomorrow, Monday, August 21, is the last day to take advantage of the unusual offer of receiving all 2017 issues of our quarterly, AVOTAYNU: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, for half price; only $19.00. This offer also applies to people outside of the U.S./Canada where the regular price of $46 is reduced to $19.00—a 58% discount. Act now! You will immediately receive the Spring 2017 issue and the remaining three issues—Summer, Fall, Winter 2017 editions—when they are published. Order at http://avotaynu.com/JournalSpecialOffer.html. Will There Be Problems with the 2020 U.S. Census Enumeration? 
Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
notes some people are speculating that the 2020 U.S. Census will not be
taken, as required by the Constitution. They blame bad budget planning
and a lack of leadership as the primary cause of the problems.The Constitution requires the United States government to conduct a census every 10 years to determine how many seats each state will have in the House of Representatives. In my opinion, this guarantees that there will be a 2020 census, because those states that will benefit from the redistribution will demand it be taken. What is possible, is that it will be an abbreviated census similar to the pre-1850 censuses of the country. In those days, only the head of households were named, and there was merely a tally of the number of men and women in the household. You can read the Eastman column at https://blog.eogn.com/2017/08/14/ act-now-to-save-the-2020-census/. Hebrew University’s Index of Jewish Art Includes Photographs of Towns  The
Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has
launched the world’s largest online database of Jewish art today.
The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art is a collection of digitized
images and information about Jewish artifacts from all over the world.
The online collection includes more than 260,000 images from 700
museums, synagogues and private collections in 41 different countries,
as well as architectural drawings of 1,500 synagogues and Jewish ritual
buildings from antiquity to the modern day. Going to the site at http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php and searching by town name reveals that the collection includes many photographs of synagogues, other Jewish buildings and cemeteries. Additional information is at http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/35432. Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy Adds 200 Additional Towns in Poland 
The Blood & Frogs Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy has recently been updated to include 200 additional towns in Poland. This brings the number of towns in the Encyclopedia to more than 1200. The Encyclopedia provides information or links to resources for more than 200 countries and 80 provinces. For country and province topics there are currently seven potential sections of resources: History, Genealogy, Cemeteries, Holocaust, Diaspora, Contemporary and Books. For cities, which currently exists only for Poland, there is also an additional section called General, which provides general (i.e. non-specifically Jewish) links for the city. The Encyclopedia can be found at https://bloodandfrogs.com/encyclopedia. New at Ancestry.com 
Ancestry
has updated 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. Updated Collections U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847–2017 Georgia, Death Index, 1919–1998 U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930–2017 Tacoma, Washington, Obituary Index, 1882–2015 Lodz Names Added to USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database  The
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recently added 68,009 name
records to its Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database taken from the
collection “The Elders of the Jews in the Lodz Ghetto.” You
can request and immediately receive digital copies of the original
documents in your email. Search at https://secure.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=25274.JewishGen Plans to Award Grants  JewishGen
has announced plans to stimulate new initiatives, productivity and
creativity by issuing “Ignition & Signature Grants”
that will result in additional records being accessible on JewishGen's
databases, and to expand this effort beyond our traditional sources of
material. Jewish genealogical and historical societies, as well as any
community based organizations, such as a synagogues, schools and
libraries, are encouraged to apply.JewishGen will be offering ignition grants up to $5,000 and signature grants up to $25,000 for exceptional applications. Projects can focus on primary or secondary records, and are not restricted to any specific geographic location. Applications are being accepted now through November 15, 2017. Winners will be announced in January of 2018. Additional information can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/grants2017.html. 2017 Pamela Weisberger Memorial Fund Awards Given  Gesher
Galicia has announced its first Pamela Weisberger Innovation Award. The
prize of $2,500 comes from the fund established by Pamela’s
family, friends, and colleagues after her death in September 2015. It
is given for “outstanding technology in support of genealogical
research.” This year's recipient is Banai Lynn Feldstein for “Crowd-Sourced Indexing.” With this advanced tool, genealogical groups can organize, work on, and track their entire projects in an easy-to-use, self-contained manner. It is a significant advance in streamlining a basic process fundamental in family history research. The program is free to use and will enable many more groups to engage in indexing projects. The second award is a Pamela Weisberger Creative Grant to Jay Osborn, the technical innovator behind Gesher Galicia’s digital Map Room. This grant of $3,500 is awarded to individuals in the field of genealogy research who “show extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” It is intended as an investment in a person's unique insight and in the potential for the future project development. The awards were formally announced on July 24, 2017, at the Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting at the IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Orlando, Florida. For details about Pamela Weisberger, the Memorial Fund and the awards, go to https://www.geshergalicia.org/ about-gesher-galicia/pamela-weisberger-in-memoriam/. International Tracing Service Receives Grant to Preserve Its Maps  Germany’s
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and the
Culture Foundation of the German Federal States (KSL) have granted
20,000 euros towards restoring layout plans from concentration camps
and maps showing the routes of death marches in the possession of the
International Tracing Service.Within the framework of this project, creases, tears and damages caused by adhesive tape and lamination will be removed from the large-scale maps in the ITS archive. The paper will also be deacidified. Many of the selected documents date from the Nazi period and were produced by the concentration camp administrations. Additional information can be found at http://tinyurl.com/ITSMaps.
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