From the YouTube description: Rainbow in the Night, offers a glimpse into World War II Krakow as seen through the eyes of a survivor. Read More »

Posted by Susana Leistner Bloch We are pleased to welcome the following webpages to JewishGen KehilaLinks We thank the owners and webmasters of these webpages for creating fitting memorials to these Kehilot (Jewish Communities) and for providing a valuable resource for future generations of their descendants. Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen The Catskills Institute (http: //catskills.brown.edu/index.shtml ) along with other organizations**, is sponsoring two paired writing contests–fiction and non-fiction as part of a book project, Summer Haven: How the Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen The New York Times has an article on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and the long delays by government agencies in complying, The Courts have ruled the agencies must comply in 20 days, but some agencies have taken 20 years. Unfortunately, the National Archives has a request pending since 1992. Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen I have previously written on this forum about Virginia HR 272 [death and marriage], SB 309 [marriage records] and SB 310 [death records] which reduce the “closed” period for marriages and deaths held by the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) from 50 to 25 years. Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV) will be meeting on Sunday, February 12, 2012 1: 00-5: 00 pm at the Los Angeles Family History Library 10741 Santa Monica Blvd. West Los Angeles (on grounds of the LDS Temple ). Parking is free. Read More »

Israeli woman tracks down local vet, others to thank them for saving her father during the Holocaust. Click here to read the entire article from “The State” (hat tip: Deborra Wood) Read More »

Please Join Us at the Next Meeting of The Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland on Sunday, February 5, 2012, at 1: 30 PM. Read More »

Posted by Lance Ackerfeld Shalom, Here we are again, at the end of the month, the activity in which can be categorized with some endings and also some new beginnings in our Yizkor Book Project. Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen In memory of the Holocaust, the United Nations (UN) remembers on January 27 each year, this day which is called International Holocaust Remembrance Day. An article, “Heroic Act of Resistance at Auschwitz-Birkenau” was published in commemoration http: //ifounditinthearchives.tumblr. Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen IAJGS as one of the 3 voting members of the Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) http: //www.fgs.org/rpac/index. Read More »

Posted by : Jan Meisels Allen In 1973 a devastating fire burned millions of US military records located in the St. Louis, Missouri facility–we all thought the records were lost forever. A recent article in the St. Louis Beacon , http: //tinyurl. Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen On January 19, the Senate Education and Health Committee unanimously reported out (approved) SB 309 on marriage, divorce records http: //tinyurl.com/79jfq8x original URL: (http: //lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB309+pdf ) and SB 310 on death records http: //tinyurl. Read More »

JGS of Greater Miami will be meeting Sunday, January 29, 2012, 10: 00am Greater Miami Jewish Federation, 4200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL Free Secure Parking on site. Press #001on the box and the gate will open. Have ID. Special complimentary refreshments. Read More »

Project Description The objective is to secure sufficient funding to photograph 18th and 19th century headstones and photograph 20th century cemetery books for the Jewish cemetery in Miskolc, Hungary. Read More »

Posted by Phyllis Kramer Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to organize it into a set of images, but don’t know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history  pages for your family. Read More »

“What’s Jewish about Jewish Genealogy: Naming Patterns; Calendar;  Gravestones; Lifecycle, etc.” with Ellen Kowitt Sunday, January 22nd from 1: 00 to 3: 00 pm in Denver at the Congregation Hebrew Education Alliance, 3600 South Ivanhoe Street,  Denver Read More »

Posted by Eli Rabinowitz The Nasielsk, Poland Kehilalinks Page is now active, and can be viwed at:  http: //kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/nasielsk .  Our aim is to re-establish a “virtual” Jewish life in this town, a meeting place for descendants of the Jews of Nasielsk. Eli Rabinowitz Perth, Australia eli@elirab. Read More »

Posted by : Jan Meisels Allen The Southern California Genealogical Society offers free webinars to anyone worldwide. The next free webinar is: “The Two Sides of Interviewing” with Jean Wilcox Hibben. Read More »

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen It was just announced that the third season of Who Do You Think You Are will explore the family histories of: Martin Sheen, Marisa Tomei, Blair Underwood, Reba McEntire, Rob Lowe, Helen Hunt, Rita Wilson, Edie Falco, Rashida Jones, former NFL running back Jerome Bettis, Jason Sudeikis and Paula Deen. Read More »