I saw a notice about this in Nu? What’s New? It’s the “The E-zine of Jewish Genealogy From Avotaynu.” A long-time friend, Gary Mokotoff, is editor of this e-zine. Minnesota has many areas with large Jewish populations. I grew up in such an area, the Highland Park area of Saint Paul. Complex Genealogical Research in […]
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 65 years ago today, the Soviet Army liberated the Jewish prisoners who remained at Auschwitz-Berkenau which combined were the largest of the Holocaust death camps. A CBS news story gives details of the elderly survivors who revisited the camps today. That story said “By the end of World War […]
This is a new press release from Ancestry.com: Collaboration with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Routes to Roots Foundation offers online access to more than 200,000 Jewish records PROVO, Utah, August 2, 2009 — Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, today announced an addition to its Jewish family history record […]