----- Original Message -----

From: m g gugenheim

To: GenshardsII@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:41 PM

Subject: [GenshardsII] Re: Change of Address

Please change my address from:    mgug@...    to    mgug@hal-pc.org Thanks --- On Thu, 7/10/08, Max Heffler <max@...> wrote: From: Max Heffler <max@...> Subject: [GenshardsII] TXUDC Texas Death Certificates now Available Online! To: genshardsII@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 9:17 PM LDS has now placed on-line for FREE all Texas Death Certificates through 1976. You can search, you can print and you can save!!!  You get the actual microfilm image of the original death certificate! !!   http://pilot. familysearch. org http://search. labs.familysearc h.org http://search. labs.familysearc h.org/recordsear ch/start. html#w=;p= 2;c=1320964; t=searchable   Drop down the page to VITAL RECORDS and click on TEXAS DEATHS, 1890-1976 and begin your search.     They have a feature that allows you to click to narrow down your search. You can choose gender, male or female or letter for first name. Example, you search for Smith death in Harris Co., TX, died between 1920-29, female.     Really cool search features that allow you to narrow down your searches.   (And many, many other records!)

----- Original Message -----

From: Max Heffler

To: genshardsII@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 7:45 PM

Subject: [GenshardsII] Discover Your Jewish Family History webiar at Ancestry.com

The attached contains the info for seeing the archive of the 1 hour webinar with Gary Mokotoff regarding the new Jewish Family History pages at Ancestry.com:

View this event again, anytime. Have you seen our other archived webinars? Ancestry.com has many other webinars on a variety of topics. Come visit the archive of other events and see what else we have to offer. This page will also display upcoming events you can register for. Be sure to come back often and see what's new. Ancestry.com Webinar Archive

Please test the test version of the Jewish Herald-Voice database, now
including the years 1908 thru June 2008. What they have on line only goes
thru 2006. They asked us to test what we had for up-to-the-end of 2007 and
no one replied that they tested it. They have now made available thru June
2008 for testing. I was hoping to get the 100 years available during their
hundred year celebration and get some publicity. Please test the test
version of the database by visiting the JewishGen USA Database at
http://jewishgen.org/databases/USA/ and add the word #TEST# after the
surname, i.e. Katz#TEST#. The new records will only be found via that page
and not directly from the Jewish Herald-Voice search page.

Please reply to me if it looks right or if it doesn't so that we can get
this live and get some publicity. I searched for entries I knew were in 2008
and found them.

Thanks,
Max

The JewishGen on-line search of the Jewish Herald-Voice project has now been
extended through June 2008, an additional year and a half of records. We
should now be able to get publicity in the Jewish Herald since we finally
have their first 100 years on-line.

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Blatt [mailto:wblatt@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:52 PM
To: Michael Tobias; Max Heffler
Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update

The intros have been updated, but are not live...
simply have to do a rename of the HTML file.
I'll do so shortly.

W

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Tobias
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:51 AM
> To: Warren Blatt; 'Max Heffler'
> Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
>
> It is live....
>
> Warren are the intros updated and live?
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Blatt [mailto:wblatt@...]
> Sent: 13 November 2008 18:34
> To: Max Heffler; Michael Tobias
> Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
>
> Thanks for the feedback Max.
>
> We'll make this data live shortly.
>
> Warren
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Max Heffler [mailto:max@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:17 PM
> > To: Michael Tobias
> > Cc: Warren Blatt
> > Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
> >
> > Michael,
> >  I am happy with the testing I have done. I can't seem to get the
> > others to reply that they have tested. Go ahead and make it live.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Max
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Tobias [mailto:michael@...]
> > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 8:28 AM
> > To: 'Max Heffler'
> > Cc: 'Warren Blatt'
> > Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
> >
> > This data is now in test mode...  I note the previous update was
> still
> > in test mode and had never been made live.
> >
> > Max please test this data and let us know if it is ok.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Max Heffler [mailto:max@...]
> > Sent: 01 August 2008 01:49
> > To: Michael@...
> > Subject: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
> >
> > Michael,
> >  Attached are the two compressed spreadsheets for the Houston, TX
> > Jewish Herald-Voice database for 1908 thru Jun 2008, the first 100
> > years. I compressed the Excel 2003 format, which is not as efficient
> > as the Excel 2007. Let me know if you prefer and can take the Excel
> > 2007 format.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Max
> >
> > --
> > Web sites I manage: www.texsys.com - Personal home page
> > www.afterhours-band.com/ - After Hours Band (I play keyboards)
> > www.jewishgen.org/Galicia - Gesher Galicia www.texsys.com/ghjgs -
> > Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society
www.woodsidecivicclub.com
> > - Woodside Civic Club www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/SkalaPodol -
Skala
> > Shtetlink www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yanishkelis/ - Joniskelis
> > Shtetlink Pet volunteer project: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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From Warren Blatt at JewishGen:

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Blatt [mailto:wblatt@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:02 PM
To: Michael Tobias; Max Heffler
Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update

OK, intros updated and live, as well as the
"All USA Database" index page.

W

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Tobias
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:51 AM
> To: Warren Blatt; 'Max Heffler'
> Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
>
> It is live....
>
> Warren are the intros updated and live?
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Blatt [mailto:wblatt@...]
> Sent: 13 November 2008 18:34
> To: Max Heffler; Michael Tobias
> Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
>
> Thanks for the feedback Max.
>
> We'll make this data live shortly.
>
> Warren
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Max Heffler [mailto:max@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:17 PM
> > To: Michael Tobias
> > Cc: Warren Blatt
> > Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
> >
> > Michael,
> >  I am happy with the testing I have done. I can't seem to get the
> > others to reply that they have tested. Go ahead and make it live.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Max
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Tobias [mailto:michael@...]
> > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 8:28 AM
> > To: 'Max Heffler'
> > Cc: 'Warren Blatt'
> > Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
> >
> > This data is now in test mode...  I note the previous update was
> still
> > in test mode and had never been made live.
> >
> > Max please test this data and let us know if it is ok.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Max Heffler [mailto:max@...]
> > Sent: 01 August 2008 01:49
> > To: Michael@...
> > Subject: Jewish Herald-Voice database update
> >
> > Michael,
> >  Attached are the two compressed spreadsheets for the Houston, TX
> > Jewish Herald-Voice database for 1908 thru Jun 2008, the first 100
> > years. I compressed the Excel 2003 format, which is not as efficient
> > as the Excel 2007. Let me know if you prefer and can take the Excel
> > 2007 format.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Max
> >
> > --
> > Web sites I manage: www.texsys.com - Personal home page
> > www.afterhours-band.com/ - After Hours Band (I play keyboards)
> > www.jewishgen.org/Galicia - Gesher Galicia www.texsys.com/ghjgs -
> > Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society
www.woodsidecivicclub.com
> > - Woodside Civic Club www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/SkalaPodol -
Skala
> > Shtetlink www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Yanishkelis/ - Joniskelis
> > Shtetlink Pet volunteer project: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
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> > 11/10/2008
> > 7:53 AM

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You might be interested in some or all of these, especially our Jewish
Herald-Voice project. Time for some publicity from the JHV.

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Blatt [mailto:wblatt@...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:09 PM
To: Yizkor Project
Subject: [yizkor] New JewishGen Databases

JewishGen is pleased to announce the release of 120,000
new records, in various databases.  These include:


* JewishGen Holocaust Database -- Five new datasets:

   - Hidden Children in France -
        Information on 4,000 children hidden in France by
        the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE).
   - Rhodes to Ferramonti -
        Persons from Rhodes who were transferred to the
        Ferramonti Di Tarsia Internment Camp, 12-Jan-1942.
   - "Jews For Sale": The Rudolph Kasztner Transports -
        Names of 1,900 rescued Hungarian Jews, 1944.
   - Arad Census - 1942 -
        9,698 names in a census of Arad, Hungary/Romania, 1942.
   - Lost Train from Bergen-Belsen -
        Bergen-Belsen to Trobitz, April 1945.

     The JewishGen Holocaust Database is a collection of
     150 datasets, containing nearly two million records
     about Holocaust victims and survivors.

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust >.


* Hungarian Census Records:

     1,519 records for Bereg county, 1832, 1842.

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Hungary >.


* Bialystok area 1895 and 1903 "Vsia Rossiia":

     1,264 entries from Russian business directories for
     Bialystok, Bielsk, and Sokolka uyezds (districts),
     Grodno gubernia (now in NE Poland).

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/vsia >.


* Bessarabia Vital Records:

     More than 20,000 additional birth, marriage and death
     records for Beltsy, Bendery, and Kishinev (now in Moldova).

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania >.


* Lithuania:

   - Tax and Voters Lists -
        1,598 records for Telz & Shavl districts, 1880s-1915.
   - Revision Lists -
        8,148 records:
        + Panevezys district 1887.
        + Troki district 1834-42.
   - Lithuania Vital Records -
        24,114 new records:
        Births:
        + Alytus 1922-1939 (incl. Butrymonis, Daugai, Jieznas, Simnas)
        + Babtai 1875-1891, 1913-14
        + Cekiske 1865-1906
        + Grinkiskis 1844, 1873-75, 1881-1914
        + Jonava 1922-31
        + Josvainiai 1836-37, 1844, 1873-1914
        + Kaunas 1880-85
        + Panevezys 1876, 1883, 1885, 1892-1903, 1905
        + Seredzius 1897-1906
        + Simnas 1922-26
        + Vilkija 1838-1897
        + Vilijampole 1880-1882, 84-85, 90-91

        Deaths:
        + Babtai 1875-1884
        + Birzai 1881-1898
        + Butrymonis 1922-26
        + Joniskis 1919-39 (includes Linkuva, Zagare)
        + Kedainiai 1854-1910
        + Panemune Frentzela 1826-1837
        + Panevezys 1875, 1880, 1922-24
        + Pasvitinys 1922-26
        + Raseniai 1922-39
        + Varniai 1852-66; 1868-75, 1881-1913
        + Vilkija 1854-57, 1861-1914
        + Vilijampole 1881

   - Lithuania Internal Passports -
        886 records for Siauliai (Shavl),
        338 for Panevezys (Ponevez).

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania >.


* Yizkor Book Necrology Database:
     6,808 records from four Yizkor Books:
      + Lublin, Poland (232 records),
      + Pinsk, Belarus (5,561 records),
      + Suwalki, Poland (685 records),
      + Konotop, Ukraine (330 records).

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor >.


* Houston 'Jewish Herald-Voice' Database:

     Entries for 1,000 new events, completing 100 years
     of this Texas newspaper, 1908-2008.


* Philadelphia 'Jewish Exponent' Obituary Database:

     Entries or 3,000 new events, 1887-2007, from this
     Philadelphia Jewish newspaper.

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA >.


* Duma Voter Lists - Minsk Gubernia:

     Names of more than 35,000 men eligible to vote in the
     Russian parliamentary elections in 1906 and 1907.
     9 districts of Minsk Gubernia, now Belarus.

     < http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus >.


Thanks to all of the volunteers and donors who made
these databases possible.

All of JewishGen's databases can be found at
< http://www.jewishgen.org/databases >.

Warren

Warren Blatt
Managing Director, JewishGen
< wblatt@... >

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Another tool for genealogical research:

-----Original Message-----
From: Joyaa Antares [mailto:joyaa@...]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:31 AM
To: Gesher Galicia SIG
Subject: [galicia] Facebook

Hi All,

In follow-up to Jacob Rosen's comment in praise of Facebook ("I used
my secretary's Facebook account (I am not a member) to send a note
to the potential relative and got a positive response in just half
an hour"), I have also found Facebook a great way to locate
relatives - including sometimes unknown ones. Many of you may be
aware of this possibility already. About a year ago, I was trying to
trace a cousin of mine in Israel. All I knew was that Munie SCHORR
was a retired radiologist whom I had met once only, back in 1985. I
sent a message to all of the SCHORRs in Facebook (24 at the time)
and within 24 hours I had had a reply from his grand-daughter! Munie
had in fact died at the grand old age of 91 a few months previously,
but I am now in touch with his family.

Joyaa Antares
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Researching
ZAUSMER, ZOUSMER, ZESMER, CHAUSMER, CHOUSMER, TSOUZMER etc,
MARCUS, DAVIDOFF in Polangen, Kretinga, Darbenai, Libau, Riga, Memel
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I saw the announcement for geni.com at the IAJGS in Chicago last August,
entered my GEDCOM and forgot about it until a distant cousin found me. Now I
have invited all relatives I have e-mail addresses for and I found so many
new e-mail addresses, relations, photos. It is amazing. Be careful what you
ask for...

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Gesher Galicia, Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society, Woodside Civic
Club, Skala, Ukraine Shtetlink, Joniskelis, Lithuania Shtetlink, and pet
volunteer project - Yizkor book project: www.texsys.com/websites.html

The link Deena mentioned at tonight's meeting regarding the historic
newspaper, including better copies of the early JHV:

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

It is incredible what they have done. I compared Nov 26 1908 p. 5 and our CD
has tons of lines across and this on-line page:

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ndnp:4780224/display.html?n=1&scope=fu
lltext&pageNum=1¤tSort=&mode=list

has no lines. Amazing!

Also, a reminder to check out geni.com. My collection of family and e-mail
addresses for family has grown exponentially.

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Gesher Galicia, Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society, Woodside Civic
Club, Skala, Ukraine Shtetlink, Joniskelis, Lithuania Shtetlink, and pet
volunteer project - Yizkor book project: www.texsys.com/websites.html

We were just discussing the lack of preservation of sites in the Ukraine at
this evening's meeting.

-----Original Message-----
From: FREYAB@... [mailto:FREYAB@...]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:55 PM
To: Ukraine SIG
Subject: [ukraine] Ukraine Holocaust Information

Address your forum messages to <ukraine@...>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Genners,

The following information is of the utmost  importance to all of us.  There
was an article published in the Washington  Post, by Randy Herschaft,
regarding
the Int'l Task Force on the Holocaust and  it's efforts to get governments
to
assume greater responsibility for the  protection of all sites. Paul Shapiro

of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in  Washington, D.C. would be able to
give
guidance to anyone that may want to help in that regard.

from the story:
Father Desbois' work is also having an impact on  efforts to preserve
Holocaust sites. In December, the 26-nation  International Task Force on
the Holocaust called on European  governments to ensure the protection of
locations such as the mass  graves Desbois is uncovering, according to
Shapiro, who helped draft  the resolution.

The following links will allow you to read the  entire story;
_http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_re_eu/eu_holocaust_by_bullets_6_
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_re_eu/eu_holocaust_by_bullets_6)
_http://tinyurl.com/ctgxrg_ (http://tinyurl.com/ctgxrg)

Freya  Blitstein Maslov
Coordinator UkraineSIG

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You might want to try searching Google books. Try a surname and a place name
and see what you find. You might be surprised.

http://books.google.com/

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Club, Skala, Ukraine Shtetlink, Joniskelis, Lithuania Shtetlink, and pet
volunteer project - Yizkor book project: www.texsys.com/websites.html

http://genealogyindexer.org/ replaces Logan Kleinwak's OCR search tool of
the Polish Business Directories and adds a number of new resources.

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Gesher Galicia, Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society, Woodside Civic
Club, Skala, Ukraine Shtetlink, Joniskelis, Lithuania Shtetlink, and pet
volunteer project - Yizkor book project: www.texsys.com/websites.html

The Jewish Herald-Voice database at JewishGen now containing the 100 years
of the Jewish Herald-Voice from 1908 through the end of 2008 is now in test
mode:

Just search the All USA database (http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/ )
and add the word #TEST# after the surname, eg:

Katz#TEST#

Please test this so that we can get some publicity in the Herald about the
entire first 100 years being searchable via JewishGen. Please send me
feedback. No one tested the last update besides me. Please test and reply.

Thanks,
Max

The JewishGen database has been updated to now index the period from the
founding of the paper in 1908 through the end of 2008 completing the first
100 years. We should contact the JHV for some publicity.

Max

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Tobias [mailto:michael@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:42 AM
To: 'Max Heffler'
Cc: 'Warren Blatt'
Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice project updates

We are live

M

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Heffler [mailto:max@...]
Sent: 16 March 2009 21:46
To: 'Michael Tobias'
Cc: 'Warren Blatt'
Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice project updates

Michael,
	 We are happy with the test database. Please make it live.

Thanks,
Max

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Tobias [mailto:michael@...]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:29 AM
To: 'Max Heffler'
Cc: 'Warren Blatt'
Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice project updates

These files are in test mode.

Regards

M

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Heffler [mailto:max@...]
Sent: 27 January 2009 02:58
To: 'Michael Tobias'
Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice project updates

Attached are the two compressed spreadsheets for 1908 thru 2008:



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Tobias [mailto:michael@...]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 6:12 AM
To: 'Max Heffler'
Subject: RE: Jewish Herald-Voice project updates

Updates every 6 months are fine.

M

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Heffler [mailto:max@...]
Sent: 25 January 2009 01:54
To: 'Michael Tobias'
Subject: Jewish Herald-Voice project updates

I am receiving semi-annual updates to the Jewish Herald-Voice database,
although the QC takes a bit of time. Are updates every 6 months too frequent
for you to update the JewishGen JHV database?

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Club, Skala, Ukraine Shtetlink, Joniskelis, Lithuania Shtetlink, and pet
volunteer project - Yizkor book project: www.texsys.com/websites.html

Chicago Jewish Newspaper Online
Digitized images of the Chicago Jewish newspaper, The Sentinel, are now
online at http://hannah.spertus.edu:8881/R covering the years 1911-1949. The
search engine includes an any-word index. When an image is displayed, the
words searched are highlighted for easy location of the information sought.
I was able to get the maiden name of a woman who married into the family
from a 1930 engagement announcement. The search engine is very quick, but
retrieving the actual page from the edition of the newspaper take a while
apparently because the edition is searched again to find the data.

I wish we could do this type of word search with the JHV project. Perhaps I
will talk with Logan again in August in Philly...

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Gesher Galicia, Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society, Woodside Civic
Club, Skala, Ukraine Shtetlink, Joniskelis, Lithuania Shtetlink, and pet
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Ancestry Adds 1940-Era City Directories
Ancestry.com has added to its collection more than 2,000 U.S. city
directories for 1940 and surrounding years. Forerunners of phone books, city
directories typically list head of household with address and occupation.
New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia are not included. It is possible
there were no city directories for those cities at that time. The collection
does include such cities as Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Hartford, Miami,
Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, San Diego and San Francisco. Although Los Angeles is
not included there are directories for a number adjacent suburbs. The
directories can be accessed at
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1540.

In the next few weeks, Ancestry.com will be adding to their U.S. Public
Records Index database more than 525 million names, addresses, ages, and
possible family relationships of people who lived in the United States
between roughly 1950 and 1990.

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