Martyrs in Satu Mare
An index to Jewish Holocaust Martyrs in Satu Mare, Romania.
An index to Jewish Holocaust survivors in Satu Mare, Romania.
Peter Absolon's effort to digitize the 1930 census.
Track the progrees.
Iasi Archives Places Entire List of Births Online (1865 to 1913)
Birth/marriage/death records from as early as 1800, for towns located near Warsaw, Grodzisk, Mława, Pułtusk, Płock, Lowicz, Cemeteries and Various_ Parishes
Reclaim The Records uploaded the New York City GEOGRAPHIC Birth Index. This record set is an index to all births in New York City from roughly 1880-1912 (or 1917-ish in some cases outside of Manhattan). Unlike a typical birth index arranged by surname or by date, this one is arranged by the child's place of birth, the actual exact street address. There's about 2.8 million names in the dataset.
A Member Guide which can be accessed by clicking here.
See Shoah Names Database, Census, Document & Photo Collection, and Cemeteries on this website
Moshe Wasserman, on Facebook's Tracing The Tribe Group page, shared this detail.
Unable to attend RootsTech 2019 in Salt Lake City this year? Here's the FREE Live Streaming schedule - attend RootsTech 2019 from your home or your office!
On the weekend of 2 – 4 November 2018 MyHeritage hosted their first international user conference, in Oslo, Norway. Now you can review a list of the lectures and watch them.
See it on the MyHeritage Blog, here.
On 21 October 2018, the Board for the Certification of Genealogists (BCG) approved five modified and seven new standards relating to the use of DNA evidence in genealogical work. BCG also updated the Genealogist's Code to address the protection of people who provide DNA samples. See here for more info on the new standards.
An index to Jewish marriages in Satu Mare, Romania, from 1850 - 1921.
These include from Fond 1606, op. 16, Jews in Mukachevo:
Giving back is critical for a community such as ours, one that is uniquely self-supporting and depends whole-heartedly on the kindness of strangers. The financial burden that societies bear to digitize records, create indexes, and educate our ranks is impossible to meet without each of us volunteering time and donating money. Here are just four simple ways we can meet that obligation. Read more.
The National Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the release of its 2018 Family History Conference program, Paths to Your Past. The program, which includes more than 175 lectures, is now available online and as a downloadable sixteen-page registration brochure. See here for more info on the NGS 2018 Family History Conference.
Russ Maurer of Pepper Pike, OH (researching RIEGER in Gorlice) posted to JewishGen that the that the Przemysl branch of the Polish State Archives posted some records of Gorlice schools. The school years span from 1893-1925, and years of birth from roughly 1880 to WWI. Russ created a spreadsheet for most of the Jewish students and downloaded their detail at least once into an Excel spreadsheet. It can be downloaded this line http://goo.gl/E8ro3b.
The website is https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxqHbCHAlXC2SFdWY0V5Um9ZWkk/view.
From Tomasz Malec, Chairman of AntiSchemes 2 Foundation, on behalf of the Board:
In July 2016, the Foundation, with a group of 13 volunteers (students from Tarnow's high schools and Institute of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University) under the supervision of Prof. Leszek Hondo did the inventory of 299 matzevot (gravestones) at Tarnow's Jewish Cemetery. About 100 stones were impossible to read, the rest were inventoried. The result of the whole project was on-line publication.
The website is www.facebook.com/groups/JewishGenealogyPortal.
JewishGen.org has joined together with The Jewish Genealogy Portal on Facebook. Having an active Facebook presence will serve as a companion platform to JewishGen's Discussion Lists. Facebook will allow for instant communication to researchers.
The traditional Discussion Lists will continue to allow for archiving and searching historical posts. Depending on the post, researchers can use either The Jewish Genealogy Portal, the JewishGen Discussion Lists or both.
JRI Poland announces an agreement with Routes to Roots Foundation that will provide researchers of Polish Jewish family histories with new materials freely offered online through the JRI-Poland website.
More about this agreement can be found by clicking on http://www.jri-poland.org/announcements.htm#miriam-weiner
A partial list of the contents of the new Polish material can be found at http://www.jri-poland.org/miriam-weiner-rtrf-agreement.htm.
Subject: U.S. Visas: Background and How to Research Them
Some background for those asking about Visas:
Beginning July 1, 1924, everyone coming into the U.S. had to have an entry
document.
Citizens needed either a birth record or naturalization certificate.
Non-citizen's who wanted to move here permanently applied for immigrant visas.
Eastern Europeans applied for quota visas, while persons from Western Hemisphere
countries applied for non-quota visas. (These were filed at the USCIS as visa files
until after April 1944, when they were filed as alien files.)
Non-citizens traveling to the U.S. for a limited time (for example, foreign students,
businessmen, visitors and tourists) applied for a non-immigrant visa. These temporary
packets were later destroyed.
Visas are applied for at U.S. embassies abroad. For more details, see Marian Smith's article at
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Manifests/other/visa/
or the USCIS at
https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/visa-files-july-1-1924-march-31-1944
These immigrant visas contain valuable genealogical information, including exact
date and place of birth, names of parents and children, all places of residence for
5 full years prior to immigration, and a photograph. They usually also contain vital
documents (e.g., birth and marriage certificates).
Genealogists can request copies of visa files from the USCIS under the Freedom of
Information/Privacy Act or directly through the USCIS Genealogy Program. Unless you
already know the visa file number (it is not on the manifest), ask for an index search
first (fee: $65) to determine the file numbers available for that individual Then if a
visa file is found, you can request a copy; the fee is also $65.
Happy hunting!!
From: Phyllis Kramer
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 14:26:48 -0400
Phyllis Kramer, New York City, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla
The website is hpdt.ro:4080.
The Transylvania database (see below) has a nice feature: the original town name and the modern name of the town are both given.
This is a project between University Babes-Bolyai from Cluj-Napoca Romania and Norwegian Historical Data Center of University from Tromso called Historical Population Database of Transylvania 1850-1914 released in April-May 2017.
It contains twelve selected micro zones incorporate as a sample covering about 7% of the historical population of Transylvania.
The database is open and searchable (English and Romanian). Note: This database contains transcriptions from civil registers (births, marriages, deaths)for only a few places in the area of Transylvania.
A list of the communities that are part of the database is available at this link: http://hpdt.ro:4080/docs/documents/docs/1/original_Surse_baza_de_date.pdf
The website is http://tinyurl.com/krwf62w.
This is a 799 roll film series which are book lists of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island from 1906 through 1940 on specific ships. The small books record, on separate pages, the names of the immigrants, one page for each letter of the alphabet for the start of the last name, and the location on the manifest for that person.
The books were probably transcribed directly from the ship manifest on their voyage to Ellis Island. You need to know the ship name, date of arrival, and shipping line to get to a particular film. The films were digitized at FamilySearch library.
Using these films, one can find the name of a passenger whose name has been ripped off of the manifest before filming and then their place on the damaged manifest by looking for their location (page/group# and line #) from the book. You can also get a second opinion as to the name of a person on the ship manifest image, and what the first letter of the last name is as some letters, unless you know the stylistic handwriting, are ambiguous.
These books have been at least partially name indexed. The description states Additional images will be added as they become available.
As is the case with many early stage indexing projects, there are some limitations. Searching is not possible by year of interest, ship name, shipping company, or port of departure. Searching by birth dates and use of wild cards for the name are possible.
The book name index can be an important new tool for finding those elusive relatives at Ellis Island.
Subject: re: new york research
Elena Bazes posted:
I am planning a research trip to New York City. I have a list of the repositories
for the area, but it is extensive. I don't want to waste my time at a place that
would not be helpful, since there are so many to choose from and I have a limited
time to research. I would like to visit repositories that either do not have their
records online, either partially or completely....I would appreciate
recommendations from those who have done research at these places and feel that
they are worth my while.
Elena...
The vital records are online within New York City's privacy limits; if
you see "newer" records, you must adhere to the strict regulations of
the Board of Health. But the marriage licenses (as differentiated from
the marriage certificates) at the Municipal archives will sometimes
yield a goldmine of additional information, such as divorce records.
Additional marriage record years from the City Clerk are now available.
The cemeteries are also worth visiting as many were buried within the
same plots and sometimes you can connect other individuals or find the
names from second marriages. Sometimes a date of birth will lead you
to the maiden name via SSDI.
Sometimes we think New York City, but we really want another county.
So a good resource is the microfiche index for New York State's vital
records, which are held at the NARA on Bowling Green. Also consider
the individual town halls or archives for many of the Long Island
(Nassau/Suffolk) and Westchester towns.
These are some of what we cover in text and discussion in the New York
research class... every summer online at JewishGen
(www.jewishgen.org/education for calendar and
http://www.jewishgen.org/education/description.asp?course=40088 for
class description).
Good luck with your trip
Phyllis Kramer, New York City, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla
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Both Phyllis Kramer and Allan Jordan about covered it in terms of what
one should consider before heading the NYC for research. I do want to
add one resource for NYC probate records that one might check before
heading to the City: FamilySearch.org.
If you go to
https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https://familysearch.org/recapi/sord/collection/1920234/waypoints
If you find an online card image for a relative, you might consider
calling the court and asking if they would pull files for you in
advance of your visit. I don't know if they would do that, but it
doesn't hurt to ask.
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Emily H Garber wrote:
I thought I mentioned the existence of online records at FamilySearch and
Ancestry for New York City probates.
Family Search has the index cards from Brooklyn (Kings County) and Queens but
they are not indexed so you have to browse to hunt out the information. Also
a big caveat from personal experience there are errors in the scanning-- I
have a file from a family member and I went to the online images of the index
and that person is not shown. The next time I was in the Brooklyn records
room I checked the actual cards and the person is there -- somehow it was
missed when they put the images online.
Family Search also has some Manhattan records, plus scanned but not searchable
probates from The Bronx and Queens online but you have to browse the files.
Ancestry also has some of the earlier probate records from New York.
Also from personal experience I would say none of the courts have been willing
to take phone requests and pull files so they are waiting for you. If you get
that service please tell because I can not tell you how much time I have spent
waiting for files to be retrieved.
From: Phyllis Kramer
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:39:43 -0400
i would suggest researching Probate as a first stop. You can find the
addresses, hours, transportation etc from E. Guzik's book and much of
this is online at the New York JGS site (jgsny.org under resources).
Probate yields children's married names and addresses, and details
other relationships. Death certificates are sometimes included, even
when they are within the privacy period. Probate is difficult and
expensive from afar...locally you need the boro (Brooklyn, Manhattan,
Bronx ...) and the year of death. There are indexes in every court so
look for relatives in that index too. In my online course each summer
i offer a field trip to a probate office (see below).
V.P.Education, JewishGen Inc: www.JewishGen.org/education
Researching (all Galicia)
KRAMER, BEIM from Jasienica Rosielna
SCHEINER, KANDEL from Strzyzow & Dubiecko
LINDNER, EICHEL from Rohatyn, Burstyn
STECHER, TRACHMAN from Nowy Zmigrod, Dukla
family web site: KehilaLinks.JewishGen.org/Krosno/Kramer.htm
From: emilyhgarber@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 09:53:05 -0700
[MOD. NOTE: shortened URL - https://goo.gl/OVSX9U ]
you will find that they have digitized the index cards one may view
in person at the Kings County and Queens County Surrogate Courts. The
Kings County cards are supposedly through 1971 and the Queens County
cards are through 1987.
Phoenix, AZ
From: aejordan@aol.com
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 18:23:41 -0400
> [snip] I do want to add one resource for NYC probate records that one might
> check before heading to the City: FamilySearch.org.[snip]
The website is DGGLI.org.
Mission: To educate and inform people about the use of DNA testing for genealogical purposes.
Description: Small group discussions based on experience level and individual help with DNA results. Periodic lectures and guest speakers.
The website is hannivoort.org/test/FindinGmaps.asp.
Evertjan Hannivoort writes: This will work on modern town-names [or decimal coordinates].
Evertjan Hannivoort is from the Netherlands and can be contacted at exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots).
The JGS of Brooklyn is listed as a member Society on the IAJGS website
Reclaim The Records has posted images of the index to marriages in NYC for 1930-1945
The inventory provides an overview of 30 million documents on the Nazi persecution and forced labor and the fates of the survivors.
A new app linked to Google Photos turns your phone into a scanner, preserving print images digitally without removing them from an album or frame.
The New York Public Library is digitizing its collection of New York City Directories, 1786 through 1922/3, serving them free through the NYPL Digital Collections portal.
Reclaim The Records has posted a serchable index to New York City marriages 1950-1995.
This data set, which covers sixty-five years, contains the index to about three million New York City marriage records.
The release includes 87 percent of the people recorded in the census. The index covers the 894 of the original 1008 volumes as 114 volumes have been lost. It includes 1,479,855 names in the census. This is especially important as the 1890 Federal Census was destroyed and this can be used for genealogical research in place of the destroyed census-albeit with less information.
There are no images of the actual records. To see the actual census you will need to go to a library or Family History Center that has the collection. The information on the FamilySearch index includes the Family History Library microfilm number. FamilySearch wiki has helpful information on how to search and what you will find on this new digitized collection. See the Wiki entry.
New York City was not consolidated until 1898. Therefore, not all 5 boroughs as we know them today are included in the 1890 census. In 1890 it was Manhattan and most of the Bronx as we know it today.
Reclaim The Records has created a new online website to search the index of NYC marriage records from 1930 - 1955.
The search engine even recognizes soundalike surnames, spelling variants, wildcards (with no minimum number of letters needed), common nicknames, year ranges, borough preferences, and more. Or you can download all the raw data files in XLS, CSV, or SQL format!
How to possibly get better manifest images from the New York immigration films.
See a large amount of detail regarding Satu Mare, including newspapers from Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg county, Hungary and Transylvania. Recommended for a quick search of family names in that region.
See the: Facebook Page on Satu Mare
Documentation of the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery from Sathmar.
Israel State Archives has launched an online search website with over 9 million documents.
Software MacKiev is acquiring the Family Tree Maker software line as publisher for both Mac and Windows versions.
RootsMagic software is to connect with Ancestry by the end of 2016.
See the full announcement: http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2016/02/02/good-news-for-users-of-family-tree-maker/
JGSLI posted a "15 Questions on an Alien Registration Form (AR-2) To Help Your Family Research". The Declaration of Intention or Petition for Naturalization offer detail for citizens. But what if your ancestor wasn't naturalized? Is there another way to find out some of the same information? The Alien Registration Form could be your answer.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has produced a webinar on Choosing a Genealogical Software Program. It is available on their YouTube station for free. It runs 45 minutes presented by Rhonda McClure.
Over the past 18 months several genealogy software programs have either already (The Master Genealogist)or will be no longer supported after the end of this year (Family Tree Maker). The purpose of the webinar is to assist the individual in making an informed decision as to which program to consider using. The genealogy programs that are discussed are: Ancestral Quest, Brother's Keeper, Heredis, iFamily, Legacy, MacFamilyTree, Reunion, and RootsMagic. The webinar demonstrates the basics on each software's data entry screen and import features. The webpage also offers a comparison chart.
The webinar is available at: http://www.americanancestors.org/education/learning-resources/read/genealogical-software-programs
Tombstone images posted online for this Austria Jewish cemetery.
Article by Keith R: Replacing Family Tree Maker: Steps to export from FTM and then import to new software, without loss of data.
The Polish State Archives added digital images of about 135,000 Lodz registration cards for the 1916 - 1921 timeperiod.
The Swiss Bankers Association did say that the total of all of the accounts amounted to roughly 44 million Swiss francs.
Accounts in Switzerland are considered dormant after a decade without contact from a client, though only accounts that have been inactive for six decades or more will be published online each year.
The Swiss Bankers Association recommended that people who think they are entitled to the dormant accounts make requests via the website dormantaccounts.ch, which will be forwarded to the relevant bank.
Ancestry.com responded to the thousands of comments by users. Ancestry is exploring possible relationships with other desktop software solutions.
Warren Blatt, Managing Director of JewishGen posted a handy web page with the perfect responses to all the most common mistakes that some people might make when it comes to Jewish genealogy.
Ancestry.com announced they will cease selling Family Tree Maker as of December 31, 2015 but will continue supporting their longtime #1 genealogy software, Family Tree Maker at least through January 1, 2017.
1168 entries spanning at least the 1860 - 1920 timeperiod.
700 tombstone images posted online for this Krakow Jewish cemetery.
73 tombstone images posted online for this Dubnik, Slovakia Jewish cemetery.
230 tombstone images posted online for this Carei, Romania Jewish cemetery.
An index page on the iVelt website to various Jewish cemeteries throughout the world.
25 tombstone images at the Jewish Cemetery in Conoplja, Serbia.
78 of the over 1000 tombstone images posted online for the Uzhhorod, Ukraine Jewish cemetery.
About 1000 tombstone images posted online for the Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania Jewish cemetery.
Some tombstone images posted online for the Tarnow, Poland Jewish cemetery.
Selected tombstone images posted online from the Eisenstadt, Austria Jewish cemetery.
Subject: Get your Akt together
From: michael@ ... .net
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 01:50:42 +0200
Thank you to all who enquired about this document, which is a guide to locating records in the online Polish State Archives. I put it together a couple of years ago, but I haven't used it for a while, I hope it still serves. And apologies for the delay in responding, I'm away from home and don't have internet access on my laptop at the moment.
This is (I hope) a link to the document on my Google Drive - it should be accessible: http://bit.ly/akttogether
Best wishes,
Michael Shade
Brighton, UK
The archive, located in the German town of Bad Arolsen, said the materials are available at no charge on its site. The 50,000 images posted so far represent only a small part of its collection of some 30 million documents.
Reclaim The Records has won its first court case and will now have many thousands of records released.
They will now try to get the more records from the archives in New York City
An organization using state and Federal FOI laws and Open Data initiatives to get copies of this information released back to the public.
They are starting with archives in New York City
500 tombstone images posted online for this Canadian Jewish cemetery.