KehilaLinks Project Report for October 2013

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.

Boskovice (Boskowitz), Czech Republic

Compiled by Daniela Torsh

Webmaster: Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/boskovice/boskovice.html

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Dresden, Germany

Created by Eli Rabinowitz

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dresden/Home.html

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Hostice (Hoschtitz bei Wolin), Czech Republic Created by Sam Glaser http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/hostice/hostice.html

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Kasejovice (Kasejowitz), Czech Republic

Compiled by Suzan Buyer

Webmaster:  Sam Glaser

<http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kasejovice/kasejovice.html>http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kasejovice/kasejovice.html

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Kbel, Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kbel/kbel.html

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Kuzova (Wallisgrun), Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kuzova/kuzova.html

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Humpolec (Gumpolds, Humpoltz), Czech Republic Compiled by Vera Finberg

Webmaster:  Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/humpolec/humpolec.html

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Liberec (Reichenberg), Czech Republic

Compiled by Suzan Buyer

Webmaster:  Sam Glaser

<http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/liberec/liberec.html>http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/liberec/liberec.html

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Lomnice (Lomnitz), Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lomnice/lomnice.html

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Naseldowice, Czech Republic

Compiled by Gary Schiller, M.D.

Webmaster: Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/nasedlovice/Nasedlovice.html

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Malinec, Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/malinec/malinec.html

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Podivín (Kostel), Czhech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/podivin/podivin.html

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Prcice (Pertschitz), Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/prcice/Prcice.html

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Prestice (Pschestitz), Czech Repulic

Compiled by Eugene Singer and Sam Glaser

Webmaster: Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/prestice/prestice.html

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Rousínov (okres Rakovník), Czech Republic Compiled by Vera Finberg

Webmaster:  Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/rousinov/rousinov.html

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Safov (Schaffa), Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/safov/safov.html

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Stod (Staab), Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/stod/stod.html

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Unicov (Mährisch Neustadt), Czech Republic Compiled by E. Randol Schoenberg Webpage Design by Sam Glaser http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/unicov/Unicov.html

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Usov (Märisch Aussee), Czech Republic

Compiled by Ann Feder Lee

Webmaster:  Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/usov/usov.html

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Vlci, Czech Republic

Created by Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/vlci/vlci.html

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Vseruby (Neumark), Czech Republic

Compiled by Vera Finberg

Webmaster:  Sam Glaser

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/vseruby/vseruby.html

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Vysoka Libyne (Hochlibin), Czech Republic Created by Sam Glaser http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/vysoka_libyne/vysoka.html

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Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland

Created by Eli Rabinowitz

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/wroclaw/Home.html

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KehilaLinks webpages recently updated:

Dresden, Germany

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dresden/Home.html

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Ivano Frankivsk (Stanislawow, Stanisle) (G), Ukraine http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Ivano_Frankivsk/

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Jaslo (Yaslo) (G), Poland

http://KehilaLinks.jewishgen.org/krosno/krosnojaslo.htm

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Krasilov (Krasyliv), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Krasilov/

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Muizenberg, South Africa)

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/muizenberg/Home.html

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Orla, Poland

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/orla/Home.html

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Ozeryany (Jezierzany) (G), Poland

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostaw/sl_jezierzany.htm

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Pogrebishche (Probishta, Pohrebyszcze), , Ukraine http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/pogrebishche/Pogrebishche.htm

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Sadgura (Sadgora) (Bk), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/sadgura.html

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Zmigrod (G), Poland

<http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Zmigrod/Zmigrodholo.htm#OSIEK>http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Zmigrod/Zmigrodholo.htm#OSIEK

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Some of our KehilaLinks webpages were created by people who are no longer able to maintain them.

The following webpages are "orphaned" and are available for adoption.

Craiova (Belkiralymezo, Canalu), Romania http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dolj/Craiova.html

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Kamiensk (Kaminska), Poland

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kamiensk/

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Kolomea (Kolomyja) (G)

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kolomea/kolomad.htm

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If you wish to create a KehilaLinks webpage or adopt an exiting "orphaned"

webpage please contact us at: < bloch@mts.net>.

NEED TECHNICAL HELP CREATING A WEBPAGE?: We have a team of dedicated volunteer webpage designers who will help you create a webpage.

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Susana Leistner Bloch, VP, KehilaLinks, JewishGen, Inc.

Barbara Ellman, KehilaLinks Technical Coordinator

Veterans Day - Thank You

As we do each year on Veteran's Day, we take a moment to remember, reflect, and express appreciation to all of the brave men and women who have served in the armed forces of the United States of America.

Jews have played an active and key role in the military of the United States since they first arrived from New Amsterdam in 1654. From that time until today, Jews have risen to the highest ranks and have served with valor and distinction in defense of this great country.
Click here to view a list of American Jewish soldiers who have been killed defending this great country in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This link (http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/brody_military.pdf) points to an online exhibit focusing on Jews in the American military. It was put together by Seymor "Sy" Brody and it tells the story of how Jews became a part of the armed forces of America (both before and after the declaration of Independence in 1776).

After you read the story, click here to view stories that Jewish war veterans who served during WWII shared with the museum as part our "Ours To Fight For: American Jews In The Second World War" exhibit.

It will serve to foster an even greater appreciation for all of the United States soldiers who have and continue to protect this great country. Most of all, when we see a Veteran, and say Thank You - we will mean it.

Thank You

Beyond Genealogy: Preserving Jewish Memory in Rohatyn

Posted by: Marla Raucher Osborn

For most Jewish genealogists, it's all about the records: finding them, getting them, cherishing them. 

But, what happens when on a visit to your family shtetl, Jewish artifacts - physical traces of the town's pre-War  Jewish past - are found? 

For some, such unexpected confrontations are too painful to deal with. For others, a kind of paralysis sets in because the topic is too big to manage: what to do now? how to proceed? For most, the visit ends with photos and memories, but the traces - the physical reminders of the Jewish lives lived and lost - remain where they were discovered: back in the shtetl. 

Not so for the Rohatyn Shtetl Research Group (« RSRG ») founded by Dr. Alex Feller of Chicago.

Though initially formed in 2009 as an informal genealogy-based discussion group of diverse people sharing a common heritage - Rohatyn - the RSRG today embraces a new passion, a new sense of obligation: the recovery, preservation, and perpetuation of Rohatyn's pre-War Jewish heritage. 

In summer 1998, a handful of Rohatyn survivors and their decendants converged upon the town for the express purpose of unveiling several commissioned monuments at Rohatyn's two destroyed Jewish cemeteries and two mass grave sites. Over the next decade, Jewish memory receded back into the community, with only the rare, occasional visitor from outside Ukraine arriving in town to walk the streets of his or her grandmother and to emotionally gaze upon the forlorn emptiness of Rohatyn's Jewish cemeteries, largely devoid of headstones. 

But, all was not forgotten during the intervening decade, at least by the townspeople - the non-Jewish locals who today live and work in Rohatyn. 

A retired Rohatyn school teacher named Mr. Vorobets steadily and seriously continued to document Rohatyn's Jewish past by interviewing elderly residents, combing through local records, and writing articles for the local newspapers. More importantly, he collected up any Jewish headstones or headstone fragments found in town - abandoned on river banks, uncovered during City maintenance of sidewalks and roads, discovered during garden and home renovations - and arranged to have them moved - sometimes by horse and cart, sometimes by hand - to one of Rohatyn's Jewish cemeteries. 

There they waited - these artifacts, these vessels of Jewish memory - until April 2011, when I made my second visit to the town and was introduced to Mr. Vorobets. 

Over the next 2 1/2 years, working hand-in-hand with Mr. Vorobets as well as Rohatyn's Mayor and administration (the same Mayor who attended the 1998 memorial 1 commemoration along with Mr. Vorobets), the local Ukrainian Church, and Rohatyn's head librarian, a project was born - a community project - to recover Jewish memory. Mr. Vorobets became the touchstone, the contact point, if someone living in town had or heard about a Jewish headstone. He coordinated the recovery and transportation, 
he managed those he hired, he kept detailed records of when and from where each stone was found. The RSRG funded the nominal costs - sometimes paid by Mr. Vorobets in Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH), sometimes in candy if the stones were small enough for children to act as his assistants. 

By May 2013, about 150 headstones and headstone fragments had been recovered and now lay scattered at the base of the 1998 memorial at the northern Jewish cemetery. Each and every stone was photographed, then uploaded to the RSRG website for discussion, posterity, and translation where possible. 

So, now what? 

Embracing the project was the easy part; grappling with the hard questions that come with this new responsibility, another matter: 

• How best to preserve these stones (some made of very fragile and soft materal) from further deterioration by weather and the elements, especially the harsh Ukrainian winters? 
• If they are to be incorporated into a memorial, such as wall, how should it be designed to allow for the continued recovery of stones in future years? Who should design it? And perhaps most importantly, how to pay for it?
• The RSRG does not have answers to all these important questions, but it has contacted a Lviv-based artist for advice. 
• In late October, this artist will be attending a seminar in Wrocław, Poland on best practices for Jewish cemetery preservation and conservation. He is taking his new commission seriously, and because it is outside his usual artistic medium, wishes to learn as much as possible before embarking on this project for the RSRG. He is bringing questions to the seminar. He is thinking about ideas. He will walk the streets and jewish cemeteries of Rohatyn on November 5, 2013 with me. He will then submit a proposal to the RSRG. It will then be up to the group to find the means to fund the project. 

I am hopeful they will. 

Marla Raucher Osborn
Prague, Czech Republic (formerly Paris, France) 

PS. To stay abreast of the RSRG's Jewish heritage projects in Rohatyn, please visit our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RohatynJH 

To see photos of my visits to Rohatyn since 2011, including the headstones: 

• http://www.pbase.com/nuthatch/ua_2013_rohatyn_f 
• http://www.pbase.com/nuthatch/ua_120524_rohatyn_t 
• http://www.pbase.com/nuthatch/ua_2011_rohatyn_t 

To watch an interview of RSRG by Ukrainian TV in summer 2011 (with English subtitles): 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0vDMhyycmI 

To read about the RSRG's other Jewish heritage projects and issues in Rohatyn: 
http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/focus/projects/rohatyn-ukraine-jewish-headstones-human-remains-where-to-go-from-here 

Announcement: JGS of NY

The Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc.(NY), established in 1977 as the first modern Jewish genealogy group, is celebrating its Double Chai - 36th Anniversary - with a gala luncheon, presentations on its founding and history, and a featured talk by award-winning genealogist, Tammy Hepps. Ms. Hepps is the founder of Treelines.com, a family story-sharing website, and was the winner of the RootsTech 2013 Developer Challenge.

This event will take place on Sunday, October 27th, 2013 at 1 PM at the Sutton Place Synagogue, 225 East 51st St., New York. The cost of $40 includes the Kosher luncheon and program. Visit the website www.jgsny.org for more information and to make your reservation.

Yizkor Book Project, September 2013

Shalom,

Although September was chockablock with Jewish festivals and our minds and time were generally located in other directions, we at the Yizkor Book Project  did manage to "squeeze out" quite a number of new entries and updates, as you will see.

Hopefully, you saw the announcement a few days ago sent to the various forums regarding the latest books that were recently published as part of our Yizkor Books in Print Project so I won't repeat the list. If, however, you are interested in seeing what is available and what this particular project is all about, please go to:

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html

In recent times, we have begun the first steps in setting up Translation Fund projects for the following books:

Gorlice, Poland - "Sefer Gorlice; ha-kehila be-vinyana u-ve-hurbana"

(Gorlice book; the Building and Destruction of the community) Zolochiv, Ukraine - "Der Untergang fun Zloczow" (The Downfall of Zloczow)

Sometime soon these funds will appear amongst the other funds already running at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23

Note that these funds have been set up in order to raise money to allow for the professional translation of these books and to enable all of us to read this unique material concerning  our communities and families that were decimated during the Holocaust. For those of you who are US citizens, donations to these funds are also tax deductible.

Now to facts and figures for September, during this last month we have added one new project:

- Through Forests and Pathways

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/forests/forests.html

Added in 8 new entries:

- Dragomiresti, Romania (The Marmaros Book; In Memory of 160 Jewish

Communities) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/maramures/mar161.html

- Janovice nad Uhlavou, Czech Republic (The Jews and Jewish Communities of Bohemia in the past and present) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bohemia/boh391.html

- Ieud, Romania (The Marmaros Book; In Memory of 160 Jewish Communities) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/maramures/mar188.html

- Mirovice & Mirotice, Czech Republic (The Jews and Jewish Communities of Bohemia in the past and present) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bohemia/boh403.html

- Novoselytsya, Ukraine (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume II) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/rom2_00368.html

- Sacel, Romania (The Marmaros Book; In Memory of 160 Jewish Communities) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/maramures/mar171.html

- Sokyryany, Ukraine (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume

II) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/rom2_00382.html

- Soroca, Moldova (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume II) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/rom2_00372.html

We have continued to update 21 of our existing projects:

- Babruysk, Belarus (Memorial book of the community of Bobruisk and its

surroundings) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bobruisk/bysktoc1.html

- Chelm, Poland (Commemoration book Chelm) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/chelm/chelm.html

- Chisinau, Moldova (The Jews of Kishinev) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kishinev/kishinev.html

- Czestochowa, Poland (The Jews of Czestochowa) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Czestochowa1/Czestochowa1.html

- Czyzew, Poland  (Czyzewo Memorial Book) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Czyzew/Czyzew.html

- Dieveniskes, Lithuania (Devenishki book; memorial book) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/dieveniskes/dieveniskes.html

- Dzyarzhynsk (Koidanov), Belarus (Koidanov; Memorial Volume of the Martyrs of Koidanov) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Dzyarzhynsk/Dzyarzhynsk.html

- Golub-Dobrzyn, Poland (In Memory of the Communities Dobrzyn-Gollob) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/golub_dobrzyn/golub_dobrzyn.html

- Goniadz, Poland (Our hometown Goniondz) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/goniadz/goniadz.html

- Gostynin, Poland (Book of Gostynin)

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Gostynin/Gostynin.html

- Hrubieszow, Poland (Memorial Book of Hrubieshov) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Hrubieszow/Hrubieszow.html

- Klobuck, Poland (The Book of Klobucko; in memory of a martyred community which was destroyed) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/klobuck/klobuck.html

- Michalovce, Slovakia (The Book of Michalovce) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Michalovce/Michalovce.html

- Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Poland (Memorial book of Nowy-Dwor) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Nowy_Dwor/Nowy_Dwor.html

- Ostroh, Ukraine (Ostrog book; a memorial to the Ostrog holy community) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ostroh/Ostroh.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book of Jezierna) http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozerna/Ozerna.html

- Ozerna, Ukraine (Memorial book of Jezierna) http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Ozerna/Ozernah.html [Hebrew]

- Ozeryany, Ukraine (Memorial book, Jezierzany and surroundings) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Ozeryany/Ozeryany.html

- Shumskoye, Ukraine (Szumsk, memorial book of the martyrs of Szumsk) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szumsk/szumsk.html

- Slovakia (The Tragedy of Slovak Jewry in Slovakia) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Slovakia/Slovakia.html

- Stryy, Ukraine (Book of Stryj)

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/stryj2/stryj2.html

Some important links to note:

- This month's additions and updates are flagged at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html to make it easy to find them. 

-  All you would like to know about the Yizkor Books in Print Project http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip.html

-  Yizkor Book Translation Funds

http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23

where your financial support will assist in seeing more translations go online.

At this time, I would like to wish all of you and your families that you can also look forward to a very sweet year in your personal and professional lives.

All the best,

Lance Ackerfeld

Yizkor Book Project Manager

KehilaLinks Project Report for September 2013

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.

Belilovka (Bilylivka), Ukraine

Created by Mark Fainstein

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/belilovka/

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Breclav (Lundenburg), Czech Republic

Created by E. Randol Schoenberg

Webmaster: Ann L. Fuller

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/breclav/

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Buki (Buky, Baki), Ukraine

Created by David Schreiber

Webmaster: Richard Baum

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Buki/

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Ckyne (Kieselhof), Czech Republic

Created by E. Randol Schoenberg

Webmaster: Ann L. Fuller

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/ckyne/Index.html

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Hodonín (Göding), Czech Republic

Created by E. Randol Schoenberg

Webmaster: Ann L. Fuller

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/hodonin/

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Horodok (Gorodok) (Podolia), Ukraine

Created by Steven Schreiber and Marc Goldberger http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/horodok/

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Kolodeje nad Luznicí (Kaladei), Czech Republic Created by E. Randol Schoenberg

Webmaster: Ann L. Fuller

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kolodeje_nad_Luznici/

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Koryeany (Koritschan), Czech Republic

Created by E. Randol Schoenberg

Webmaster: Ann L. Fuller

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/korycany/

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Przasnysz (Proshnits), Poland

Created by Joanne Grossman

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/przasnysz/index.html

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Raczki (Rotzk), Poland

Created by Robert Zavos

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Raczki/Index.html

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Uhersky Ostroh (Shtaynitz, Ungarisch-Ostra), Czech Republic Created by E. Randol Schoenberg

Webmaster: Ann L. Fuller

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/ostroh_CZ/

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KehilaLinks webpages recently updated:

Belozerka (Bielozorka), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Belozerka/

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Bocki (Bodki), Poland

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/bocki/Bocki.html

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Chorzele (Chortzel), Poland

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/chorzele/

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Ivano Frankivsk (Stanislawów, Stanisle) (G), Ukraine http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Ivano_Frankivsk/

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Kalush (Kalusz, Kalish) (G), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kalush/

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Krasnoye (Krasne, Krasnoya), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Krasnoye_ukr/Krasnoye.html

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Lubny (Luben), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Lubny/Lubny.html

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Muizenberg, South Africa

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/muizenberg/Home.html

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Raducaneni, Romania

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/raducaneni/

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Shpikov (Shpykiv), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Shpikov/Shpikov.html

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Yampol (Iampil'), Ukraine

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/yampol/

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Some of our KehilaLinks webpages were created by people who are no longer able to maintain them.

The following webpages are "orphaned" and are available for adoption.

Craiova (Belkiralymezo, Canalu), Romania http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dolj/Craiova.html

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Kamiensk (Kaminska), Poland

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kamiensk/

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Kolomea (Kolomyja) (G)

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kolomea/kolomad.htm

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If you wish to create a KehilaLinks webpage or adopt an exiting "orphaned"

webpage please contact us at: < bloch@mts.net>.

NEED TECHNICAL HELP CREATING A WEBPAGE?: We have a team of dedicated volunteer webpage designers who will help you create a webpage.

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Susana Leistner Bloch, VP, KehilaLinks, JewishGen, Inc.

Barbara Ellman, KehilaLinks Technical Coordinator

JGS of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County September 15 Meeting--Beyond the Family Tree- Bringing Your Stories to Life

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen

The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County(JGSCV) will be meeting on Sunday,  September 15, 2013 1:30-3:30 pm at Temple Adat Elohim, 2420 E Hillcrest Drive in Thousand Oaks, CA.

The Topic: Beyond the Family Tree – Bringing Your Family Stories to Life

When you bring out your family tree and genealogy reports at a family gathering, do your relatives’ eyes glaze over? Are you overwhelmed with data after so many years of research and wonder how to tell your family’s story without getting lost in the details? Have you done so much research that you don’t even know where to start in telling your family’s tale? If so, this program is for you. Marion Werle will discuss approaches to adding interest to your family stories. She will cover what to write about, where to begin and how to keep from being overwhelmed. She will discuss various techniques, how to add background and context to make your ancestor come alive and using timelines to help tell your story. She will also discuss the importance of sharing your own life history.

Speaker: Marion Werle, began her family history research over 17 years ago, researching family from Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus. She is on the board of JGSCV, is a past president of the Latvia SIG and has also been on the board of JGSLA.  She is a member of the SCGS Writers Group and has attended a number of lectures on family history writing, and has several writing projects in progress. She has master’s degrees in both European History and Library Science from UCLA.

Our schmoozing corner, which starts 20 minutes before the meeting begins will be facilitated by Debra Kay-Blatt, JGSCV Secretary and founding member. This permits attendees to ask questions on brick walls and get directions on how to do their research.

In lieu of the 5-minute genealogical hint, we will show the new 7-minute JewishGen video that premiered at the recent IAJGS Boston Conference.

Our traveling library will have categories A -D books that have not been placed in our permanent library. The books are available starting 30 minutes before the program to shortly after the program. To see which books are coming to the meeting, please see our website www.jgscv.org  under traveling library. Note the books that are in the process of be transferred to the permanent library at the Agoura Hills Library have not been noted until the process is complete.

See our website for directions, future meetings and more information on the JGSCV  www.jgscv.org

The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County is dedicated to sharing genealogical information, techniques and research tools with anyone interested in Jewish genealogy and family history.

(www.jgscv.org ). There is no charge to attend the meeting and all are welcome to attend. Annual dues are $25 for an individual and $30 for a family. Dues paid are good through December 2013.

For more information about JGSCV, including directions for the meeting see our website www.jgscv.org

Jan Meisels Allen

President, JGSCV

[USA] National Archives Know Your Records With Genealogy Clinics and Records Lectures

Published by: Jan Meisels Allen

If you missed the recent excellent [USA] National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair you may catch it again at http://tinyurl.com/c3qry5

Original url:

http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/know-your-records/genealogy-fair/

On that site scroll down to “view live broadcast”  and click on the US Stream—once there click on the right side for day one or day two and chose which sessions you wish to watch.  You may also download the handouts from the sessions.

The [USA] National Archives announced their “Know Your Records” programs and lists a number of genealogy related  lectures—held on Tuesdays at the National Archives in Washington DC with some repeated in their College Park, MD location There are also genealogy programs that are offered on various days of the week at the National Archives Washington DC location. 

For more information see: http://tinyurl.com/28bnx26

Original url:

http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/know-your-records/

Jan Meisels Allen

IAJGS Vice President

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee