Dear Jewish Genealogy Leaders, This past May 1st, 2012; US President Barack Obama made a Presidential Proclamation to design May as the "Jewish American...
It's my pleasure to inform the leadership forum that Karen Franklin, a past chair of IAJGS and a co-chair of the Board of Governors of Jewishgen Inc. has been...
Portal of Texas History - Digital Collection on-line needs users to take a short survey ... please help out .... http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22FLT7B7RCD...
As with many other countries and states struggling with diminished funding, the Canadian government has reduced the budget of Library and Archives Canada and...
Channel 8 Houston PBS did a very good program on genealogy ... You can watch online at ... The program interviewed Susan Kaufman, Manager of Clayton Library...
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, named William Meyer as the Executive for Research Services effective June 18, 2012. Most recently, Mr....
The JGS Great Britain has recently used IAJGS GoToWebinar account to deliver two lectures and has found it to be very successful. Despite there being short...
The IAJGS Membership Development Committee developed a basic flier for JGSs to use to promote their JGS, entitled "Why Join a JGS". It is now posted to the...
New Book Announcement: "The Destruction of Czestochova" is one in a series of English translations of Yizkor books being made available through the auspices of...
George Washington's 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, in which the first president vowed that America would give "to bigotry no...
On May 9 the House of Representatives voted an amendment by Representative Daniel Webster (R-FL) to HR 5326 to prohibit the use of funds with respect to the...
... Holocaust era. I have found relatives on this site whom I have not found on any other site, and spouses and children I didn't even know existed, by ...
Legacy Family Tree has added six new webinars to their existing list of webinars for the rest of the year. The webinars are free and open to the to the public...
Good Morning JSG Leaders, JGS Greater Orlando also had success in using GoToWebinar. Earlier this week, Mark Nicholls explained how GoToWebinar works well to...
As promised, here is more information about the IAJGS sponsored International Jewish Genealogy Month and Poster Contest: International Jewish Genealogy Month...
The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945 Volume II (parts A,B) was recently published by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The book includes 200...
Ancestry.com commented on NBC's decision not to renew the Who Do You Think You Are? television series for a fourth season. Ancestry CEO Tim Sullivan, in...
The IAJGS will be taking a table in the exhibit hall for the FGS (Federation of Genealogical Societies) convention in Birmingham, Alabama, August 29-September...
Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter on May 12 (http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/05/) included an article on using internment serial...
RootsTech 2013 will be held March 21-23, 2013 in Salt Lake City. This third RootsTech conference brings together those interested in family history and those...
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education . The Library of Congress provides this calendar as a public service to help people access training in the practice...
The (USA) National Archives has announced the opening of the Immigration Center Files and dedication to the Tom Lantos* Research Center. The National Archives...
I recently posted about IAJGS taking a table in the exhibit hall at the FGS Conference in Birmingham Alabama August 29-September 1. We will need volunteers at...
In celebration of Victoria Day, Ancestry Canada is offering all immigration records from their worldwide collection "free"--for the next 4 days only. Explore...
The Associated Press has an article on the under reporting of 7.5 million people in the 1940 census. While the largest part of the under reported population...
Graduations are here and Father's Day in US is almost here (June 17th). And this is the time of the year for weddings -- jewelry, clothing, foodstuffs, books...
The Belfast (Ireland) City Council has placed on line about 360,000 burial records including Belfast City Cemetery-records from 1869 including Jewish records,...
Another TV show of how wonderful the Clayton Genealogy Library is here in Houston http://www.khou.com/news/KHOU-Anchor-Len-Cannon-does-genealogy-search-to-fin ...
