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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 22, Number 1 | January 3, 2021 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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Arolsen Archives Gives Year-End Report About #everynamecounts Indexing Project  In a
year-end report, Arolsen archives reports that more than 10,000 people
have volunteered to index the m-ill-ions of records in their collection
of records about people who were persecuted by the Nazis. Called the
#everynamecounts project, data from more than 2.5M documents have
already been transcribed.A few years ago, Arolsen Archives started to place online the 50M+ documents in their collection. They recognized that a document that has been digitized is really just an image. Only when it has been linked to the appropriate keywords will people be able to find it online. This was the genesis of the #everynamecounts project. Their goal is to link the names to all the documents in the archives by 2025. Processing is not defined as complete until the data contained in a document has been entered by three different people. These data sets are then compared with each other. Deviations are identified during quality control and can be checked and corrected if necessary. Only at this point is the data uploaded. The complete announcement can be found at https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/we-look-back-one-year-everynamecounts/. Michael Tobias Receives Order of the British Empire Award  Michael
Tobias of Glasgow, Scotland, who was a pioneer in creating websites for
Jewish genealogy, has received the Order of the British Empire
“for his services to the Jewish community.” In
1995, Tobias joined Susan King to create the online website: JewishGen.
He was Vice President, Programming for JewishGen until 2018. He also
was one of the founders of JRI-Poland.Tobias was a consultant for episodes of BBC's Who Do You Think You Are series and is presently a vice-president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. Following the publication of the landmark study Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry for which he was principal researcher, Tobias was appointed Honorary Research Fellow - Genealogical Studies at the University of Strathclyde. In 2012, Michael received the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) Lifetime Achievement Award. Two other Jewish genealogists have received awards for their contributions to their country. • In 2000, the late Sophie Caplan, founding president of the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society, was honored by the Australian government with the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution in history and genealogy. • In 2016, Stanley Diamond received the Meritorious Service Medal of Canada for his work in documenting Jewish genealogy and particularly for establishing and directing the Jewish Records Indexing – Poland project. FamilySearch Family History Webinars  On a
continuing basis, FamilySearch provides webinars to enhance your
ability to do family history research. Some of those being presented in
January include:• Using the FamilySearch Catalog • The Research Process: An Introduction • Introduction to United States Military Records • Separate webinars on researching your Danish, Norwegian or Swedish ancestry The complete schedule can be found at https://tinyurl.com/FSWebinars2021. The Complete Guide to U.S. State Census Records by Year  Family History
Daily has produced an article it describes as
“The Complete Guide to U.S. State Census Records by
Year.” During the late 1800s and early 1900s, many states
conducted their own censuses. These schedules were taken in the space
between the decade censuses of the federal government.For each state the article lists the years when a census is available, as well as the locations online where you can find those records. It identifies those censuses on FamilySearch, which are available at no charge. Popular subscription sites that contain these records are also listed. Every state is shown. If there were no censuses for a particular state, “No state census records” is shown. The article can be found at https://familyhistorydaily.com/free-genealogy-resources/state-census/. Which Dutch Government Records are in the Public Domain?  The Dutch
website https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/
notes with the new year, additional records are now in the public
domain in the Netherlands.Civil registration records: • Birth records from 1920 • Marriage records from 1945 • Death records from 1970 Legal records: • Court records from 1945 • Police records from 1945 Discover More About Your Family Name “Discover More About Your Family Name!” shouts an email from Family Search. “Enjoy this quick at-home discovery about your family name. Find out where it comes from, what it means, and how many people share it with you.” The source for “where it comes from” are the family trees posted to FamilySearch. The source for “what it means” is the Dictionary of American Family Names. The source for “how many people share it with you,” likely are the family trees posted to FamilySearch. Search your surnames at https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname. FamilySearch Adds More Than 7M Records This Week A
list of recent additions to FamilySearch, 8M index records and images,
can be found at https://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch12282b0.
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(†), Dominican Republic(†),
England(†), Fiji, France, Kiribati, Mexico, Micronesia,
Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Peru, Puerto Rico, Samoa, South Africa,
United States, Venezuela, Zambia(†). Notable additions are: • Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784–1911, 36,618 records • France, Eure, Parish and Civil Registration, 1526–1902, 4,134,825 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. No New Collections at Ancestry.com  Ancestry must
have taken the holiday season off from adding new information to their
collection. There have been no additions/updates in the past two weeks.Links to individual new/updated 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.
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