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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 21, Number 42 | October 18, 2020Every
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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Reclaim The Records Wants B-illions of NARA’s Digitized Records  For
a number of years, the U.S. National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) has partnered with companies such as Ancestry to
digitize NARA’s collections in exchange for exclusive rights
to make them available on the internet. After an agreed-upon period of
time, known as an embargo period, NARA gained unrestricted rights to
the digital copies and the associated metadata transmitted to NARA by
the partner, including the right to give or sell digital copies in
whole or part to other entities, if NARA so chooses. Reclaim The Records (RTR) states that the embargo period for many of these collections has passed and NARA has made no effort to make these collections online. RTR claims that NARA has repeatedly denied independent requests for copies of even subsets of this voluminous partnership-created digital data, claiming they would put the records online themselves. RTR has now made a formal request to NARA under the Freedom of Information Act for copies of these records. RTR has a reputation of not accepting “no” as an answer to their requests to U.S. state/city agencies for their records. In many instances, they have gone to court to get these agencies to release these records—and won—with the court, in many instances, requiring the state agency to pay for RTR’s legal fees. Additional information can be found at https://tinyurl.com/RTRvsNARA. MyHeritage Halloween Gift to All: Free Access to Death Records  In
recognition of Halloween, MyHeritage is allowing free access to its
collection of death records from October 29 – November 2.
MyHeritage offers 153 collections in this category, containing nearly
550M records. Normally, most of these collections are free to search,
but require a paid MyHeritage plan to view fully and save the
information to your family tree.Additional information is at https://tinyurl.com/MHSept2020. Australian Jewish Newspapers to Be Digitized  The
National Library of Australia, National Library of Israel and the
Australian Jewish Historical Society will collaborate to digitize 180
years of Australian Jewish newspapers. The more than 200,000 pages will
be openly accessible through Trove, Australia’s free online
research portal and the Historical Jewish Press Project. With permission from the Australian Jewish News and their publisher, Polaris Media, all issues of the Australian Jewish News will be digitized, as will all other Australian Jewish newspapers published up to the copyright date of 1954. Jews have been in Australia since the first European settlement in 1788. Known as the “First Fleet,” their passengers were criminals from England, and the British decided to establish a penal colony in Australia. Interestingly, the very first article in the first issue of AVOTAYNU, was about the First Fleet Jews. Additional information about the digitization project can be found at https://tinyurl.com/AustNewspapers. MyHeritage Adds 21.7M Records in September MyHeritage reports it added
21.7M records from 12 new collections from Armenia, Australia, British
Commonwealth, Canada, France, Germany and the U.S. This brings the
total number of historical records on MyHeritage to 12.55B historical
records.The announcement can be found at https://tinyurl.com/MHSept2020. JewishGen Webinar: Translating Russian Documents for the Non-Russian Speaker  The
latest presentation in JewishGen’s series, JewishGen Talks,
will be a webinar on “Translating Russian Documents for the
Non-Russian Speaker.” The event will occur on October 21 at
2:30pm ET. The presenter, Dr. Alan Levine, will describe strategies
translating documents that require only knowledge of the alphabet and a
few basic rules of grammar.Register for the webinar at https://bit.ly/JGTalks-TranslatingRussianDocuments. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about how to join the webinar. Turn Family Photos into Wall Art MyHeritage has partnered with Mixtiles to allow
MyHeritage users to convert their family photos into wall art. The
service includes up to 50% in discounts. All prints are 8×8
inch (20×20 cm) and stick/restick to the wall without a
hammer or nails.The cost for a print was not included in the announcement, but going to the Mixtiles website indicates the price is $12 per print. Discounts to MyHeritage users are: If you are ordering to the U.S., U.K. or Canada, you will benefit from the following discounts: • 20% off for orders of 3+ Mixtiles • 35% off for orders of 6+ Mixtiles • 50% off for orders of 12+ Mixtiles Complete information is at https://tinyurl.com/MHWallArt.  Who Do You Think You Are? (UK) Begins Its 17th Series Who Do You Think You Are? (UK) began its 17th series this past week tracing the family history of actor Jodie Whittaker. Four additional programs will occur in the series. The announcement can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007t575. FamilySearch Adds More Than 4M Records This Week  A
list of recent additions to FamilySearch, more than 4M index records,
can be found at https://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch101220.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. Those
identified with a dagger (†) are church records. They
include records from Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada,
Mexico(†), Germany(†), Great
Britain(†), Guatemala, Niue(†), Norway, Nova
Scotia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Samoa, South Africa, United States and
Zambia. A notable additions are: • Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784–1911 22,411 records. • New York, New York, Index to Passengers Lists of Vessels, 1897–1902, 331,215 records • New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824–1946, 300,335 records • Ohio, Voter Records, 1893–1960, 1,582,448 records 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 Collections at Ancestry.com  Ancestry has
added/updated the following record groups at their site. The list with
links to individual collections can be found at https://www.ancestry.com/cs/recent-collections.
Announced collections may not be complete for the dates specified and
will be added at some later date. There is also no indication of how
many records were added to the updated collections.New Collections WEB: France, Death Records, 1970–2018 New York, New York, Riverside Church Records, 1841–1969 Norway, Church Records, 1812–1938 Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania Card Catalog, 1553–2015 Updated Collections Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s–1999 Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Jewish Refugees Evacuated from the Soviet Union, 1941–1942 U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925–1970 Finland, World War II Military Casualties, 1939–1945 1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census U.S., Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests, 1790–1860 Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906–1968 Wyoming, U.S., Divorce Records, 1941–1969 Wyoming, U.S., Marriage Records, 1941–1969 |
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