Personal Mentoring – Brickwalls or Dead End

Newspapers.com, part of the Ancestry family of websites, is offering free access through February 15,2021 at 11:59PM MT.  After the free access period ends, you will only be able to view Publisher Extra papers using a Newspapers.com Publisher Extra subscription.

 

To access the free site go to: https://go.newspapers.com/freeaccess

 

You must register to access the newspapers. Either register with your email address, password or you can use your Ancestry subscription.

When you find the article you want, you will find the name of the person highlighted. You can then clip the article and save it to your computer, Ancestry, Facebook or Twitter as well as email the link.

 

8 July 2020

Personal Mentoring – Brickwalls or Dead End

Jewishgen.org through its Education program offers many online courses https://www.jewishgen.org/education/ that newbies and experienced “geners“ will be able to make use of. Nancy Holden offers “Brickwalls or Dead Ends” that certainly will resonate with all researchers. JewishGen’s “Brick Walls or Dead End is a three week course focusing on one […]
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29 March 2020

1918-1920 A Great Granddaughters Perspective

Sharon Taylor writes about her great grandmother and what she faced in Galicia during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic along with pogroms, food shortages, cholera and typhoid Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia . This should put into perspective what we as Jews have faced in the past and how we have […]
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25 March 2020

Ancestry.com Providing Free Lessons

Ancestry with the (US) National Archives are making it easier to explore their family history by providing free access to search 50 million and images on Ancestry,  Ancestry’s usually free online tutorials video courses are all available.  Exploring the records is completely free – just create an account by entering […]
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31 December 2019

Lista Ladosia

An article that appeared in Poland-In may be of interest to you. The article is  about Jews who were saved during the Holocaust by Polish diplomats in Switzerland working with Jewish groups and using fake Latin American passports. It is called the Ładoś List of documents. The list was published by the Pilecki Institute.  […]
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27 December 2019

Storefront Stories

https://mnjcc.org/browse-by-interest/arts-culture/visual-arts/gallery/1387-storefront-stories.html?utm_source=MNjcc+Insider+Newsletter&utm_campaign=57a662e0a5-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9c54dabbe2-57a662e0a5-141918349 About the Exhibit: Jan. 7 – Feb. 3rd 2020Kensington Market is one of Toronto’s most distinct and historically significant neighbourhoods, Storefront Stories organized by the Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, showcases former businesses that once thrived in the Market illuminating the Jewish history of the market and […]
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25 November 2019

Arolsen Archives Access through Ancestry – Holocaust Records

During the IAJGS 2019 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Ancestry announced that through their partnership with the Arolsen Archives (formerly known as the International Tracing Service-ITS) they added new Holocaust-related databases -neither of which requires a subscription-they are indexed and free access on Ancestry.  One of these two new databases […]
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27 October 2019

Easily find your ancestors

As of September 2019, Filae.com has started an English version of their genealogy website.  Filae started their website in December 2016, although Filae was originally created in 1994 by Toussaint Roze. While it allows uses to build their family tree from digitized arches what is of interest to most are the online […]
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24 September 2019

Austria to Grant Citizenship to Descendents of Victims of the Holocaust

As reported in several international newspapers, last week the Austrian Parliament voted unanimously to give descendants of the Holocaust who fled the country before 1955, eligibility for citizenship under the new law. The amended change in the law is the date of 1955 rather than 1945, the year  World War […]
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31 August 2019

Germany Eases Citizenship Rules For Descendants of Those Persecuted by the Nazis

Germany announced that descendants of those who were persecuted by the Nazis will find it easier to regain Germany citizenship. Plans were announced late this week to revise the Nationality law creating new categories of eligibility. The new categories include descendants of women who were forced to emigrate after marrying […]
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2 July 2019

Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands

The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) is offering a free webinar, Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands by Yvette Hoitink, CG, on Tuesday, 16 July 2019, at 2 p.m., U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. The webinar will cover going beyond civil registration of birth, marriages and deaths by demonstrations of […]
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