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Jewish Genealogy Basics: The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF)
If you’re seriously researching your Jewish roots then you already know about the JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), but for those who are just getting started I wanted to point out this critical resource...
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Jewish Genealogy Basics: Ancestral Town (Shtetl) Information
One of the first steps to doing genealogy research is to find the town that each person in your tree was born. For most Jewish researchers, this means tracking back to towns that may no longer exist or...
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Jewish Genealogy Basics: Mailing Lists
It wasn’t that long ago when collaborating with others doing genealogy research meant going to a local genealogy meeting, or traveling to a regional, national or international conference, or looking up...
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Can’t figure out what the real name of a town is?
Towards work on a future post, I’m looking for people who have found a name of a town in their research that they haven’t been able to identify. For example, I found the town name Tazscharwitz in...
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More on Landsmanshaftn
A few weeks ago I wrote about Landsmanshaftn, the mutual-aid societies that Jewish immigrants around the turn of the century set up with members of their original communities overseas, and their role...
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Win a Free Trip to Your Family’s Homeland
I don’t post a lot of commercial links in my blog, except if it is to an offer for a discount I think would benefit my readers. I’m making an exception here, because, well, I think its pretty cool....
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Tarnów and Thüer (Thier)
Inspired by Edie Jarolim’s post Tarnow Calling in her great Freud’s Butcher blog, I’ve decided to share this document I discovered in a family album. The document is from a factory owned by a relative...
View ArticleImproved notes for Polish towns
I mentioned back in August when I added more towns to the B&F Compendium of Jewish Genealogy (Over two hundred new Polish towns added to the compendium) that I had also turned on notes for towns. I...
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