Preserve Access to Genealogy Records!

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service is proposing considerable price increases for requests for copies of immigration records.

As reported by Jan Meisels Allen "a coalition of genealogists, historians and records access advocates have created a portal about this with suggestions." Please see:
https://www.recordsnotrevenue.com/

At the top of this site is a menu with links which describe the records, provide examples of files, give suggestions for starting conversations about the issue and give instructions about how to make your voice heard.

At the bottom of this site there is a one-page summary to download.

Please take time to read about this important issue and submit your comments before the December 30 deadline.

"Don't delay, submit your comments about the proposed fee hike today! The deadline is December 16 30, 2019!"

I will be sending this message to our members and hope that they will share it with all their contacts.

Paulette Bronstein
President
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Holocaust Documentation & Education Center Exhibit

Link to the museum:
education@hdec.org
(954)929-5690 X 304 or 306
303 N. Federal Highway
Dania Beach, FL 33004
Email: rositta@hdec.org

November 4, 2019 to February 29, 2020

MyHeritage Education

I recently received this message from Daniel Horowitz, Genealogy Expert for MyHeritage.  Please go to the MyHeritage Blog to gain access to the links provided in this message.

http://education.myheritage.com/

Hi Paulette As you know, we recently launched MyHeritage Education, our new online resource center. Available in English, German, Dutch, French, Swedish, and Norwegian, MyHeritage Education offers a wealth of material to help you learn about every facet of MyHeritage. The content includes articles, how-to videos, and webinars covering a wide variety of topics, as well as plenty of tips for everyone, from beginner family history enthusiasts to seasoned genealogists. I’m pleased to share our first monthly update from MyHeritage Education! I hope that you’ll find it useful and enjoy receiving updates on all of the new material we publish each month. Below you’ll find a summary of the new items that we’ve added to the site since its launch in September. Webinars We’ve published 23 videos of the sessions from MyHeritage LIVE 2019 in Amsterdam, plus: On the Go: Using Your Mobile Device for Genealogy Genealogy for Advanced Users: Grow Your Family Tree Online Unlocking English & Welsh Civil Registration Records  Articles 5 Tips for Hosting a Fantastic Family Reunion  5 Tips for an Adoption-Related Search Explaining Ethnic Regions MyHeritage Discoveries Pages DNA Results and Filtering Your DNA Matches How to Use Chromosome Browsers for Genealogy Videos How to Invite People to Your Family Tree How to Use the Consistency Checker What can you do with this information? Stay up to date on new features, expand your knowledge of MyHeritage, and help us promote the new content on your social channels. Please let us know if you have any feedback about the site or ideas for new content. Enjoy! Daniel HorowitzGenealogy Expert MyHeritage Ltd.,P.O.Box 50, 3 Ariel Sharon St.,Or Yehuda, Israel

MENTOR SESSIONS

Dear Members and Friends,

The next mentor sessions are scheduled for Wednesday, November 20 (11 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.) and Wednesday, December 11 (1 P.M. to 3 P.M.) at the Northeast Miami-Dade Public Library Branch (2930 NE 199TH  Street, Aventura, FL 33180). I have reserved small conference rooms which seat 8 to 10 people.  I will be in Room 129 or Room 136.  These conference rooms are free to use once per month.  I can schedule individual mentor sessions in the library common area at a time more convenient to members.

Please contact me (jgsgm.president@gmail.com or 786-200-2705) if you would like to attend the mentor sessions.  If there are no responses I will cancel the group sessions.  Please contact me if you would like an individual mentor session.

If you have any specific research questions kindly send the questions to me prior to the meetings.

With warm regards,

Paulette Bronstein

President

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Pittsburgh Tree of Life official announcement - Jan Meisels Allen

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Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (US-PA) October 27 is One Year Anniversary of Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: Synagogue to be Center for Jewish Life in US

A memorial for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. (Hane Grace Yagel)

October 27 will be one year since the worst anti-Semitic act of violence in the United States: The Pittsburgh shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue OrL’Simcha and two other synagogues in the same building. The shooting left 11 worshippers dead. It has been announced that the synagogue can no longer be a place for worship and has never reopened. However, at Yom Kippur services it was announced that it will reopen as a “center for Jewish life in the United States.”  The statement may be read at:

https://twitter.com/treeoflifepgh/status/1185223170531483649/photo/1

Until then services for Tree of Life Synagogue OrL’Simcha will continue to be held at Rodef Shalom’s Levy Hall in the Oakland neighbored of Pittsburgh.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Holocaust Documentation and Education Center Announcement

from:		HDEC Education Dept <Education@hdec.org>
to:
cc:		Rositta Kenigsberg <Rositta@hdec.org>
date:		Oct 25, 2019, 3:21 PM
subject:		Exodus: The Ship That Launched A Nation Film Screening - Nov. 17 @ 1:30 PM
mailed-by:		hdec.org

Good Afternoon Friends,

A special screening of Exodus: The Ship That Launched a Nation is taking place on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at the HDEC.

  

Attached and below please find further details regarding this program.

RSVP to education@hdec.org or call 954-929-5690 X 304 if you wish to attend this program.

General Admission $10 | Student Admission $5; Survivors, Liberators and their spouses admitted free of charge

  

Payments can be made through:

• Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/HDECM
• https://www.paypal.me/HDECM

• Checks can be made payable to the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center, Inc. and can be mailed to: 303 N. Federal Hwy. Dania Beach, FL 33004.

• If you wish to pay by credit card over the phone please call (954) 929-5690 X 304 or X 306.

Please know, all attendees will also be welcome to tour the Israel: Then & Now exhibition after the screening concludes.

Please note, the HDEC is booking Group and individual tours for our next traveling exhibition, Israel: Then & Now, which will run from November 4, 2019 – February 29, 2020. Attached please find the tour request form.

A preview of the exhibition can be found here: http://www.maltzmuseum.org/isr/

http://www.maltzmuseum.org/isr/

For groups of over 20 people please inquire with Erin Cohen at education@hdec.org (education@hdec.org)re: fees and payment.

Looking forward to seeing you all.

Best Regards,

Erin Cohen

Educational Outreach Coordinator

Holocaust Documentation & Education Center

303 N. Federal Highway

Dania Beach, FL 33004

Phone: (954) 929-5690 X 304

Fax: (954) 929-5635

Education@hdec.org

Education@hdec.org

Practicing Safe Computing - Hal Bookbinder

This link will take you to all of Hal's articles about "Practicing Safe Computing".

https://tinyurl.com/ComputingArticles

Paulette Bronstein

President

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

This month’s Practicing Safe Computing article is "Making the most of your Password Manager". Password managers provide a convenient way to login to the various password-protected sites that we use. If you don’t already use a password manager, you should seriously consider it. If you have a password manager, are you getting full value from its capabilities?

The article has been published in the October/November issue of "Venturing into Our Past", the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). Current and prior newsletters are freely available at the Society's website, http://www.jgscv.org.

All Practicing Safe Computing articles published to date are available in a single PDF which includes an index. This resource is freely accessible using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/ComputingArticles.

We will continue to update this resource with monthly articles. Consider placing a link to it on your society's web site or otherwise sharing it with your members as an ongoing free resource, reminding them when new articles are available.

If you have any questions or suggestions for future articles, please contact me.

Hal

Hal Bookbinder

hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu

Los Angeles, CA

JAN MEISELS ALLEN-New Book-Dutch Railway 1939-1945

   1. (Netherlands) Dutch Railroad Reckons with Holocaust Shame 75
      Years Later (janmallen@att.net)



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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:10:05 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (Netherlands) Dutch Railroad Reckons with Holocaust Shame 75 Years Later

German railroads were an instrumental part in the Nazi machine of transporting Jews and others to the death and work camps of World War ll.  The Dutch railway , Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or N.S. participated in the Nazi scheme, regardless that the Dutch government in exile in London ordered the railway workers to strike—which they did for 8 months. The strike occurred after 107,000 Jewish residents of the Netherlands were already deported, of the 140,who identified themselves as Jews to the extermination camps. Others deported included the Sinti, Roma, gay men and lesbians, disabled and resistance fighters.

As reported in the New York Times, a new book, The Dutch Railroad in Wartime, 1939-1945 clarifies the role of the Dutch railways.  The research found 112 Dutch trains went from the Netherlands to nine Nazi camps from June 1942 to August 1944 covering Germany, Austria and Poland.

To read the article and learn more about Dutch railroad complicit actions with the Nazis, see:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/28/world/europe/ns-dutch-railway-holocaust.html

I have no affiliation with the book on the Dutch Railroad and am sharing this information solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

The Center for Jewish History (Robert Jacobvitz Presentations)

Robert Jacobvitz at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

On Sunday, September 15th at the Temple Beth Am Sunday Salon and on Sunday, September 22nd at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation JGSGM meeting Robert Jacobvitz gave presentations about The Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, New York, NY). The CJH (https://www.cjh.org/) is one of the largest and most comprehensive archives of modern Jewish experience.  It's partners are the  American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the American Sephardi Federation (ASF), the Leo BaecK Institute (LBI), Yeshiva University Museum  (YU Museum), and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO). You must register and create an account to use their archives.  You can register at this link:

http://libraryservices.cjh.org/aeon

Military Burial for Harold Rose AKA Rosenstone

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation recommended our Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami to a granddaughter who was desperate to find military records so that her grandfather could be buried with military honors.  The VA could not find any records because her family changed their last name after World War II.  I am happy to report that we were able to find the necessary information to enable the family to have a military burial.  A full report will be featured in the next issue of our JGSGM newsletter, BRANCHES.

Paulette Bronstein

President

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Phyllis Kramer z"l from Ann Rabinowitz

Successful in her professional life, Phyllis Kramer, came to be known all over the Jewish genealogy world for her contributions to genealogy education. 

As one of JewishGen’s well-known volunteers and board members, she went out of her way to use her professionally-gained skills to construct an educational component that Jewish genealogy newbies as well as more advanced students could easily access and use on-line to further their knowledge.

She was a special person and as she worked tirelessly over the years to build this education component, she also took it upon herself to speak to Jewish Genealogy Societies and other groups and assisted in IAJGS educational courses at Conferences. 

She was a forthright educator who could use simple terminology and explanations to enable the newest genealogy enthusiast to understand what was being taught.  In addition, she was happy to answer inquiries and make suggestions for further research which made her a popular speaker.

Her participation in bringing knowledge in innovative ways to the JGSGM membership was much appreciated.   She will certainly be remembered fondly by the many Jewish genealogy researchers around the world for her contributions to Jewish genealogy.

May her soul rest in peace and her family be comforted by their sweet memories of her.

Ann Rabinowitz

Jan Meisels Allen - Genealogy Online

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:01:22 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (Belgium- Netherlands) Genealogy Online Provides Jewish Monument of WW2 Victims

Genealogy Online has information on Belgian and Dutch Archives. They are commemorating the end of World War ll by marking the World War ll victims in their publication While their website has a list of over 5,500 marked World War ll victims, one of the items is the War Graves Foundation of the Jewish Monument with over 104,000 people who were persecuted in the Netherlands and did not survive the Holocaust.

Within the online monument, visitors, editors, family members and historians work together to collect stories and memories.

Go to this website to see the Jewish monument. Some have family trees as part of their story:

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/wo2slachtoffers/filtered/index.php?filter=jdsm&pagina=1

To see all of the databases go to:

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/wo2slachtoffers/

The website is offered four languages:

Nederland, English, German and French. The word “taal” is language and you may change to any of the four languages.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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MyHeritage is holding its LIVE Amsterday program 6-8 September.  For those who are unable to attend in person

they will live stream the genealogy and DNA tracks.  It is available for free at  https://live2019.myheritage.com/

It will start at 9:00 a.m. Amsterdan time on September 7.

To see the schedule go to: https://tinyurl.com/y4cqfsgw

Thank you Jan Meisels Allen for sharing this message.