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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 22, Number 34 | August 29, 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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It Is Webtember at Legacy Family Tree Webinars  Every
Friday in September, several live and pre-recorded webinars will be
available on the Legacy Family Tree website—30 sessions in
all. You can join for as many live sessions as you like, and the
pre-recorded sessions will be free to view through the end of the
month. The sessions cover a large number of topics and focus areas,
from DNA and photo scanning to Afro-LatinX heritage in the Old West to
overcoming genealogical angst. Complete information can be found at https://tinyurl.com/dtv93pwa. POLIN Museum Offering Genealogical Research Services  The
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews located n Warsaw is now
offering professional genealogical research services. For many years,
the Resource Center at the museum has been providing support to all
visitors who are looking for their roots and wish to discover the fate
of their ancestors, build family trees, or deepen their knowledge of
the history of Jews in their localities.They state that the Center's staff has many years of experience in genealogical research and conducting source queries. Responding to numerous requests and enquiries regarding genealogical research, the Museum is introducing a new family research service at the Resource Center. Complete information can be found at https://polin.pl/en/cih-genealogy.  Sephardic Genealogical Society Posts More The 50 Lectures The Sephardic Genealogical Society has posted more than 50 lectures of interest to persons researching their Sephardic roots. View the lecture topics at https://www.sephardic.world/sephardic-world. The organization has a web presence at https://www.youtube.com/c/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory. Summer Issue of AVOTAYNU to Printer  The Summer
issue of AVOTAYNU will go to the printer this week. Some of the topics
in the issue are:• Finding an Ancestor’s European Town of Origin • Matzeva (Tombstone) Reading • New Family Roots Research Section at Yad Vashem Archives • New York Genealogical and Biographical Society • Landsmanshaftn and Town Clusters • Genealogical Records on Sephardim in the Amsterdam City Archives • Industrial Removal Office Records In addition, there are the usual columns: From Our Contributing Editors, U.S. Update, Ask Dr. Beider, Book Reviews and From Our Mailbox. The complete Table of Contents is at http://avotaynu.com/2021SummerPage01.pdf. Subscribe to AVOTAYNU at https://www.avotaynu.com/journal.htm.  USHMM Lodz Ghetto
Inhabitant List Now CompletePeter Lande reports that the Lodz Ghetto Inhabitant List of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is now complete with the addition of surnames D through K. You can request and immediately receive digital copies of the original documents through email. Access to the list is at http://tinyurl.com/4sybscac. Excavations at Destroyed Great Synagogue in Vilnius Uncovers Ark and Platform  Jewish Heritage Europe
reports that discoveries in their just-completed sixth season of
excavations at the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Vilnius
include full exposure of the Aron Kodesh (Torah Ark) and the Bimah
(platform). The team of Israeli, Lithuanian and North American
archaeologists even discovered a delicate silver Yad, a pointer used to
read from the Torah, in the soil in front of the Bimah.The Great Synagogue was built in the early 1600 and ransacked and torched by the Germans during World War II. The postwar Soviet regime tore down the ruins and in the 1950s built a school on the site. The article can be read at https://tinyurl.com/c35mam3k. No Published Additions to FamilySearch This Week There were no published additions to FamilySearch this week. New Collections at Ancestry.com  Ancestry has
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.Updated Collections Connecticut, Federal Naturalization Records, 1790–1996 Find a Grave Index, 1600s–Current Florida, Naturalization Records, 1847–1995 Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772–1999 Louisiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1756–1984 Maryland, Wills and Probate Records, 1635–1777 Missouri, Wills and Probate Records, 1766–1988 New Jersey, County Naturalization Records, 1749–1986 New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659–1999 Ohio, Wills and Probate Records, 1786–1998 Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683–1993 Rhode Island, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1802–1945 Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779–2008 Texas, Divorce Index, 1968–2015 Texas, Marriage Index, 1824–2017
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