Israel National Library Digitized Rare Documents

The National Library of Israel has digitized rare documents and community ledgers
 from long-lost Jewish communities of Europe.
The announcement about the collection can be read at the following link:
https://www.apnews.com/3b3811a99f1041e1a4d5909141c3a883
The website of the Israel National Library is:
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/pages/default.aspx
The image is of an 18th century document from Halberstadt, Germany.
Thank you to Jan Meisels for making this announcement in the IAJGS Leadership
Discussion Forum.

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FROM JAN MEISELS ALLEN - Polish Website Highlights Selection of Synagogues That Can Be Visited

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Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (Poland) Polish Website Highlights Selection of Synagogues That Can Be Visited

The website culture.pl has photographs of Poland's synagogues that survived World War ll—some continue to operate today, while others serve as museums of the history and culture of Polish Jews. There is also a gallery of photographs of former synagogues that today function as other buildings. To view the photographs go to:

https://culture.pl/en/article/9-illustrious-synagogues-you-can-visit-in-poland

On the side of the photographs are links to other interesting sites ---just click on the titles:

We're Here: Polish Jews Today; Polish Cities Where Jewish Culture Lives On;  YIVO presents Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland; Prewar Jewish Life: The Secret Life of Menachem Kipnis; Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow and Tel Aviv; An Alternative History of Literature from Poland; Heaven's Gate: Wooden Synagogues in the Territories of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; The Lost World of Yiddish Films in Poland; Remembering the Artists of the Warsaw Ghetto; Painting and Sculpture by Polish Jews in the 19^th and 20^th centuries; The Most Unusual Jewish Publication of Interwar Poland.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Jan Meisels Allen - NEW ONLINE EXHIBITION: The Volunteers: Americans Join World War 1

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:54:36 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (US) New Online Exhibition: The Volunteers: Americans Join World War l

                                                                                                                                                            

The US World War I Centennial  Commission has a new online exhibition: The Volunteers: Americans Join World War l created by the National WWI Museum and Memorial and American Field Service Intercultural Program. The exhibit  examines the stories of the young American men and women who transformed volunteerism in World War l. The volunteers engaged in the war before the United States entered the conflict. Americans served as volunteers in a variety of civilian and military organizations.  The online exhibition can be found at: http://exhibitions.theworldwar.org/volunteers/#!/

The National World War l Museum and Memorial is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Their website includes online databases and to search digital records in their global collection that began in 1920.  To look at their images go to: https://theworldwar.pastperfectonline.com/randomimages. Please read their introduction  and that images may be protected by copyright or other restrictions. See: https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/online-collections-database

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

RESEARCH STRATEGIES AND HISTORICAL WRITING

If any members of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami are looking for an opportunity to learn more about turning your genealogy research into written stories and histories, Family History Fanatics will be producing a "Research Strategies and Historical Writing" online conference on June 29th.  Speakers and topics will include:

Amy Johnson Crow - Writing Your Family History in Bite-Sized Pieces
Devon Noel Lee - A Recipe for Writing Family History
Lisa Lisson - Adding Social History to Family History Writing
Dan Earle - You Down with KDP? Ya You Know Me!: Preparing Your Manuscript for Self Publication

The online sessions will begin at 9 am Central Time on June 29th. A final panel discussion will end the day.  All registrants will be able to view the conference for 30 days.  Register and get your questions answered by some of the most popular genealogy educators! Presentations are live, not pre-recorded, and you can ask questions throughout.

Price is only $19.99 until June 19th and then it will be $24.99.  

More information is available on the website: https://www.familyhistoryfanatics.com/writingconf

Feel free to let any friends, family, or genealogy society members (or anyone else who may be interested) know about this great opportunity. 

Thanks,

Andrew Lee

Family History Fanatics

Humble, TX | 346-704-1433

https://www.familyhistoryfanatics.com/

Israel Pickholtz FREE Webinar: Lessons in Jewish DNA

Subject: Free webinar: Lessons in Jewish DNA

From: "IsraelP@pikholz.org" <ipikholz@googlemail.com>

Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 10:27:23 +0300

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This Wednesday I will be giving a webinar titled "Lessons in Jewish

DNA, One Man's Successes and What He Learned on the Journey."

The webinar is part of Legacy Family Tree Webinars and is free, but

requires registration. It will also be viewable afterwards.

For details and registration, please see

https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=935

Israel Pickholtz

Jerusalem

http://allmyforeparents.blogspot.com/