VOLUME 23, NUMBER FOUR FOURTH QUARTER, 2016

Volume 23, Number Four Fourth Quarter 2016

OUR FALL PROGRAMS

JGSPBC IIndex on page 3

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JGSPBCI Officers President: Cindy Potter Taylor Vice-President: Jerry Naditch Vice-President: Joel Sisitsky Treasurer: Gary Stone, MD Secretary: Ina Getzoff

Board and Committee Assignments

Archivist/Sunshine: Phyllis FrankBrick Wall: Phyllis Kramer, Mona Morris, Mark JacobsonDirectory/Membership Records: Mona Morris, Jerry NaditchEducational Events: Joel SisitskyLiaison: Sylvia NusinovLibrary Coordinator: Barbara NowakLuncheon: Dennis RiceMedia Publicity: Walter RosenthalMembership Publicity: Marilyn LaneMembership Chair: Eric SharenowNewsletter Editor (Scattered Seeds) Tina Gudin KornProgramming: Dennis RiceReception: Joel Sisitsky, Glenn Segal, Eric Sharenow, Barbara NowakScholarship: Ina Getzoff, Barbara NowakSpeaker's Bureau: Sylvia NusinovSpecial Interest Groups: Mona Morris Telephone Squad: Dorothy Bernstein Webmaster: Jerry Naditch Workbooks: Sylvia Nusinov

Past Presidents

Mona Freedman Morris (Emerita) Alfred M. Silberfeld, Z"L Alfred B. Leeds, Z"L Sylvia Nusinov (Emerita) Marvin Hamburg, Z"L Dennis Rice (Emeritus) Sandra Hirschhorn Mark Jacobson

Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County, Inc.

P.O. Box 7796, Delray Beach, FL 33482-7796 561-450-9577http://www.jgspalmbeachcounty.orgeditor@jgspalmbeachcounty.orgMember IAJGS, Florida State Genealogical Society

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Finally, the brutal heat of summertime in Florida is over! Spending time indoors at my home computer or at the library at their computers, has brought new “leaves” to the branches of my family tree.

Daniel Horowitz, the chief genealogist at MyHeritage.com, came to speak to us in April, 2016. His presentation convinced me to subscribe.

My email box started bursting with messages from relatives who “found” me through their site. Now that my tree is posted as a Gedcom through their service, names appearing on my family tree can now appear on the trees of other subscribers. I am able to prevent others from making changes on my site. Instead, they may contact me.

I am constantly amazed by my new discoveries, especially when the clues were in my notes or on documents that have been in my possession for years.

Periodically, it is a good idea to browse through your collection of memorabilia to see if there is a name or a date whose importance you overlooked.

INDEX

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Message from Editor 3

President’s Message 4

Symposium 5

Ask Mark 6

Fortuitous Facebook 7

Family Reunion 8

Library Partnership 9

Meet Glenn Segal 10

NYC Naturalization 11 - 14

What’s New in Genealogical Info. 15 - 19

Reviews of IAJGS Conference 20 - 21

IAJGS Winning Poster 22

Happy 226th Birthday US Census 23

Annual Luncheon Save the Date 24

Message from Editor Tina Korn

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Cindy Potter Taylor While I was unable to make it to the IAJGS Seattle

Conference, we did have several members in attendance. Not only did Molly Arost Katzman represent us, she was also a speaker at this year’s conference. Fran Smith, Sheryl Stern and our newly appointed JGSPBCI Membership Chairman, Eric Sharenow, rounded out the small group. Next, we’re all looking forward to Orlando (July 23-28) 2017.

At our annual Genealogy Symposium (January 15, 2017-South County Civic Center,) I will be offering a presentation for those who have never attended an IAJGS Conference. Mark your calendars now. I promise you an educational and entertaining PowerPoint show.

Was I idle this summer? I think NOT. I used my time to mentor several people and together we managed to break down several walls. Rather than taking a fee for many hours of work, I had the newbies donate to our Chai Scholarship Fund.

Speaking of the Chai Scholarship Fund…on August 6th we lost a valuable member of our Board of Directors. Following a brief illness, Anne Faivus, the brains behind our Scholarship Fund, died in West Palm Beach. I was absolutely awed by the number of people at her funeral. It was standing room only. She was deeply loved and respected with her ties to Palm Beach County education.

At our August board meeting, we voted to rename the Chai Scholarship Fund to the Anne Faivus Memorial Scholarship Fund. Her name will live on forever in JGSPBCI.

Looking forward to a great season. Don’t forget to pick up the year’s program agenda at any meeting.

L’ SHANA TOVA

STAFF Scattered Seeds Staff

Editor Tina Gudin Korn

Support Jacqueline Fineblit

Proofreading Marilyn Lane, Mark Jacobson Gary Stone, M.D.

Mailing Mark Jacobson Webmaster Jerry Naditch

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Come to the Symposium

Sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County

Sunday, January

15, 2017

Symposium

9:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.

• Ukraine Special Interest Groups • What Happens When A Name

Changes • Immigration Mythology &

Misinformation • So You Want To Have A Family

Reunion • Introduction To Genealogy • Genealogy And DNA • Naturalization • Family Search • Ancestry.com • Mistakes I Made Exploring My

Maternal Grandfather's Tree • You Found The Town Name, Now

What? • JewishGen • How To Tag Any Photo Or

Document • How To Prepare For The IAJGS

Conference In Orlando

After skipping a year, the big day will be here

shortly........ Sunday, January 15, 2017 our JGS will be

holding its Jewish genealogical Symposium from 9:30

A.M. to 4:00 P.M. This is a "once in a year event" not to

be missed! Sign up forms will be available soon so make

sure you sign up for this fantastic learning experience.

You will have the opportunity to select from 15

extremely knowledgeable presenters who will be

speaking and teaching in their areas of expertise.

Member's fee is $25.00 and non-members and walk-ins

will pay $35.00 at the door. Fees includes box lunch,

snacks, choices from 15 presentations, handouts, and

some great items for a silent auction. Again, don't pass

up this opportunity to learn more in the world of

genealogy. (See side bar for workshop topics.)

We are extremely lucky to have as a special presenter,

Janette Silverman from Salt Lake City, Utah. She is a

Senior Genealogist Research Manager at Ancestry-Pro-

Genealogists, specializing in Jewish Research. Janette

was also Co-Chair of the 2016 IAJGS Conference held in

Seattle, Washington.

As you can see, we have a full day of exciting and

informative presentations. Remember, Sunday, January

15, 2017 at the South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog

Road, Delray Beach, FL. Check us out at our web site:

jgspalmbeachcounty.org.

Location

South County Civic Center, 16700 Jog Road, Delray Beach, FL

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ASK MARK Mark Jacobson, Past President, JGSPBCI

Mark Jacobson will answer questions from our members about Jewish genealogy. Mark is past president of JGSPBCI and an independent genealogy consultant. If you have a genealogical question, please send an email to Markdj1@hotmail.com.

Q: I found my Galician born grandmother's birth record and it says she is "illegitimate" – is this common?

This is a situation unique to Jewish families from Austrian Galicia. It does not mean your great-grandparents never married. Most likely they had a traditional Jewish marriage ceremony and were considered married under Jewish law, but not Austrian civil law. Conflicts between Chassidic Rabbis and the Austrian approved state Rabbis, who performed civil marriages, as well as high fees for civil marriages in Austrian Galicia resulted in a majority of Jews either never having a civil marriage or delaying the civil marriage until late in life. This resulted in a situation where most Jewish births in Galicia in the 19th century, and even into the 20th century, were registered as "illegitimate,” sometimes not even listing the name of the father. If the parents had a later civil marriage, the authorities would usually go back and update the birth record, making the child "legitimate.” Legally, the child had to use their mother's maiden name as their surname and without a civil marriage it was difficult for the child to attend the equivalent of high school. Late civil marriages, after the birth of children, can be found into the 1930s, long after the Austrians had left Galicia and the conflicts were resolved.

Q: My great-uncle's US naturalization petition says he entered the US through Canada in 1900 before coming to the US. Apparently, he arrived in Canada through the port of St. John, New Brunswick. Can I find any records of his arrival?

Many beginners start with an assumption that their ancestors either arrived at "Ellis Island" or the city where they eventually settled but, 100 years ago there were many possible ports of arrival, including Canada. Where immigrants arrived depended on many factors, including where they were sailing from, how much money they had for tickets, what was available when they were sailing, and their ultimate destination. Many immigrants arrived in Canada and crossed over into the United States, so many that the US immigration service set up a border checking and manifest system in 1895. While St. John was one of the most popular arrival ports for immigrants coming to Canada in the winter, their manifests before 1900 are not known to exist. St. John manifests from 1900-1912 are indexed, with images, online at Ancestry and Familysearch, in the collection Canadian passenger lists 1880-1922. At Familysearch, you can manually search the manifests if you can't find your relative in the index but know a ship name and/or when they arrived. Since many Canadian passengers passed through the UK, you can also check the collection UK Outward Passenger Lists 1890-1960. Although these do not contain a lot of genealogical material, they can help pinpoint arrival information.

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FORTUITOUS FACEBOOK Cindy Potter Taylor, President, JGCPBCI

I’ve had so many “Bingos” with Facebook in finding relatives, that I’m certainly a big believer in social media for genealogical research.

I follow most of our officers and board members so that I can learn about their families. I found out that Phyllis Frank was related to my next door neighbor and that Dennis Rice and I have family in common.

BINGO! I was following Joel and Sandy Sisitsky’s postings about their summer travels to see their children and grandchildren in North Carolina. One of the comments on Facebook came from a Sharon Sklut Rice.

I telephoned Joel Sisitsky (JGSPBCI board member) to inquire, and he told me that Sandy and Sharon were friends of long standing, each growing up in Rhode Island. I had Sandy put in a good word for me, and I messaged Sharon. (Ladies, this is another very good reason to include your maiden name!)

I had already known about the Sklut family from Providence/Cranston (Sharon’s grandfather was William Sklut) but had not had the time to try to tie them with my Sklut family from NYC and the Bronx.

A huge majority of the Sklut family (with several spelling variations) hailed from Volozhin (Russia) and the town is the common denominator.

Other parts of the Sklut clan were scattered all over the USA and Canada, but most likely

our common family was in Vancouver B.C. and Wilmington, Delaware.

My original search for the Sklut family was hampered by a name change of the NY branch.

For a long time I was bogged down trying to find my great grandmother’s sister, Jennie Davis (the curse of the common name,) until I understood: There was a name change! Circa 1917, David Sklut’s son, Louis, changed his surname (in court) to Davis and the rest of the immediate family followed suit. This was also why I could NOT find the family beyond 1920 in the Census Records.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR FUTURE MEETINGS

JGSPBCI meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month

September through May

South County Civic Center 16700 Jog Road Delray Beach

Special Interest Group11:30-12:15

Brick wall12:30-1:00

Program1:00-3:00

Mentor Meetings 3:00-3:30

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On Friday, August 5, 2016, Nancy Joffee, a cousin of my husband John, came to visit. We had not seen her in over 30 years. We also met, for the first time, her adopted son, Max, who is now 15. Nancy, a very bright individual, is 17 years younger than John. She lives in NYC and had come to Florida on a vacation and contacted us.

Ina Getzoff, John Getzoff, Nancy Joffee

Nancy had decided about a year and a half ago that she wanted to learn more about both her maternal and paternal sides of the family. Because we had been in touch on and off since her mother passed away in January, 2011, she contacted me to ask what I knew about her branch of the family history. I had been working on it on and off over the years, but it was not my major project. I did have wedding announcements, obituaries, and census information among some of the paperwork I had found, and I shared it with her.

She and John shared many stories that day and we learned some family history that neither John nor I knew. Her son Max sat mesmerized, as he learned about a part of the family he never really knew. He indicated that when he has the time he would like to research more about “the family history.”

Genealogy is wonderful when you can have a day as we did in August of this year. Many memories and stories were talked about. We are looking forward to seeing Nancy and Max again on our next trip to NYC.

* * *

Max Joffee

A WONDERFUL FAMILY REUNIONINA GETZOF, JGSPBCI

CHAI SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS Ellen & Martin Chester Marianne Gruskin Janice K. Karp Molly Staub Katzman Gerald & Stefan Naids Sylvia & Sam Nusinov

(Reprinted from TSS online newsletter)

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A NEW PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN JGSPBCI and TEMPLE SHAAREI SHALOMBarbara Nowak, JGSPBCI Librarian

Temple Shaarei Shalom (TSS) is located at 9085 Hagen Ranch Road in Boynton Beach.

JGSPBCI has moved our archives to a new home: The TSS library! Through the efforts of our Library Committee, Dennis Rice, Eric Sharenow, President Cindy Potter Taylor, and librarian Barbara Nowak, this great achievement was accomplished. Our archives will be stored and utilized by both of our memberships.

The archives will be available for research only, not circulation. The collaboration has allowed for the joint purchase of library software, shelves, cabinets, etc.

Hopefully, our JGSPBCI Board and our members will mentor TSS members and students to do genealogical research.

NOTE: The library is still under construction.  We hope it will be up and functioning in early October.  When open, a notice will be uploaded on JGSPBCI's web page.

MEET OUR BOARD MEMBERby Walter Rosenthal, JGSPBCI

Glenn Segal

It seemed natural for Glenn to continue his genealogy research after his long career of investigation with the

Framingham, MA Police Department and years of service with the Marine Corps Reserve.

Those experiences inspired him to travel on his own path of inquiry and discovery. Some of the “brick walls” he encountered are familiar to all researchers: a very common last name, the lack of living relatives, and survivors’ reluctance to speak of their past. His careers taught him perseverance and today his family tree has yielded extraordinary fruit.

Attendees at the monthly JGSPBCI meeting can find Glenn at the reception desk, enrolling new members, greeting old friends and opening doors to the intriguing study ofgenealogy.

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Lauren & Sharon Duckman

Linda Faber

Stevie & Jerry Naids

Ruth Padorr

Life Member: Rita Redlick

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JEWISHGEN OFFERS ONLINE COURSE Phyllis Kramer, JGSPBCI; VP, Education, JewishGen

What's special about JewishGen mentored courses? Answer: you have an instructor who will personally respond to your questions, make suggestions and assist you in researching the branch you choose. 24/7. You'll learn about resources and techniques unique to research on JewishGen.

These individualized four week courses will help you delve into JewishGen's rich resources. Your course material includes seven text based lessons delivered online (which you can download) with hundreds of links and suggestions.

If you are new to genealogical research or if your genealogy research is scattered about in piles of paper, sticky notes and unnamed images, perhaps you need a direction? Build an effective research plan, manage your data with our fabulous format, and let our tips and techniques overcome research obstacles.

Requirements: Students must be comfortable browsing the Internet and downloading files and have 8-10 hours per week to organize their papers, read the lessons, search online and interact with the FORUM. Tuition for this U.S. Genealogy Course is $125 (there is no waiver for this course.) Registration will open October 15 at www.jewishgen.org/education.

For questions about this course or which course is right for you.... email the instructor at JewishGen-education@lyris.jewishgen.orgPhyllis Kramer, VP, Education, JewishGen.

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Possibly the most valuable document you can obtain for an immigrant ancestor who came to the United States is a record of their naturalization, particularly if they became a citizen after 1906. Naturalization records beginning in the middle of 1906 include at least a Declaration of Intention, a Petition for Naturalization, and a Certificate of Arrival (only for those who arrived 1906 or later.)

The Declaration of Intention will include details like a physical description, birth and arrival information, and a photograph beginning in 1930.

The Petition for Naturalization will also include information on birth and arrival but adds details about a spouse and children including names, dates and places of birth. It will also include the names and addresses of two witnesses who are already United States citizens.

The Certificate of Arrival will verify that the applicant arrived on the date and ship they declared and usually includes the name they used on the manifest so this can be a very important document.

Not too long ago it was difficult to find naturalization records. The main options were to search LDS microfilm indexes for various courts or write to the US National Archives closest to where your ancestor lived and hope they had the record. You could also contact the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now the USCIS) who hold duplicate copies of

all United States naturalizations since 1906, but until recently this was very complex and time consuming. It is still time consuming, but now it is also an expensive option since you usually have to order and pay for an index search followed by a separate record search.

In the past 5-10 years, genealogy websites have begun uploading indexes and/or images of these records for various times and places. Most online images come from branches of the National Archives, but many also come from local courts and other repositories. The major websites where you can find large numbers of indexes and images of naturalization records are Ancestry.com and familysearch.org, although there are many other websites where you can find limited indexes or images from various courts throughout the United States. I will focus on records available at the free access Familysearch.org.

Familysearch.org includes many collections of record images that are not yet linked to indexes. Eventually you will be able to search for a name and view the record image, but right now you can only view the images. I'll provide some links but be aware that links are not permanent, so if they don't work search the familysearch website for the collection name.

NEW YORK CITY NATURALIZATION RECORDS Mark Jacobson, Past President, JGSPBCI

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NEW YORK CITY NATURALIZATION RECORDS (Continued)

For New York City, these include two major collections of Federal court records: United States Eastern District Naturalizations 1865-1958 (this Brooklyn court also included Queens) https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/988724?availability=Family%20History%20Library and United States Southern District Naturalizations 1824-1946 (this Manhattan court also included the Bronx) https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/51903?availability=Family%20History%20Library.

It also includes a significant collection of local court records grouped together as New York County Naturalization Records 1791-1980 that includes various images and indexes of county court naturalization records for Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn (Kings) and the Bronx https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https://familysearch.org/recapi/sord/collection/1999177/waypoints.

The records in these collections are not linked to indexes, but the images can be accessed. You have to know the name, court, year and petition number to find your record in these images. We can begin with an index search at the ItalianGen website: http://italiangen.org/records-search/naturalizations.php . This index includes most of the Eastern and Southern District naturalization records and many of the county court records. This search includes many courts and time periods, so if you are looking for a common name it would help to narrow your search. I am looking for the naturalization record for my grandmother Lola Kamerman with a broad search.

    It  brings  me  to  the  page  below  where  there  are  almost  2000  images  for  this  group.  

The white box allows me to type in an image number

so I don't have to go page by page. Type the number

you want to go to and click the "enter" button on your

keyboard. I know I am looking for something closer

to the beginning than the end of this file so I start with

image 100. After some trial and error I find the correct

image number 525, petition number 274769

for Lola Kamerman.

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NEW YORK CITY NATURALIZATION RECORDS (Continued)

Now  I  have  the  informa0on  I  need  to  find  the  record;  name  Lola  Kamerman,  court  is  Eastern  District  of  New  York,  year  is  1940  and  pe00on  number  (called  Record  #)  is  274769.

I  will  go  to  the  familysearch  link  above  to  their  collec0on  of  naturaliza0on  records  from  the  Eastern  District  of  New  York  since  it  includes  1940  hNps://familysearch.org/search/catalog/988724?availability=Family%20History%20Library  .  The  records  for  this  court  for  1940  are  not  currently  available  on  ancestry.com  or  anywhere  else  online.

I can now download this image to my computer and record all the information for my files. Before I leave I save the link so I can find it again. I also click the image arrows both left and right to see what other records are in this file. My grandmother was married to a citizen so she did not have to file a Declaration of Intention. Clicking the left arrow does bring me to her Certificate of Arrival, showing her arrival at the port of New York in 1922 on the Manchuria as Lolia Tuchfeld. (Unfortunately it is not always easy to find the naturalization record you need online, but using the tips above I hope you have some luck.)

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NEW YORK CITY NATURALIZATION RECORDS(Continued)

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NEW GUIDE TO NYC MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES

The NY Genea-logical and Biographical Society (NYGBS) announced they have published a new guide of the NYC Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians.

The Guide includes coverage of vital records of births,

marriages, and deaths; court records; real estate records; and photographs.

Less well known collections also are covered, including early records of the Dutch and English colonial eras; extensive Farm Histories that trace deed chains for former Manhattan farms to their earliest days; records of the Civil War Volunteer Soldiers’ Family Aid Fund; and Almshouse Records, which span 200 years and provide information on the inmates of numerous City institutions.

To read more or order the book see:

http://newyorkfamilyhistory.myshopify.com/collections/products/products/the-new-york-city-municipal-archives-an-authorized-guide-for-family-historians-members-pre-order

TIPS ON HOW TO FIND THE GRAVE OF A RELATIVE Merle Kastner, JGS Montreal, Canada

When you find a relative's grave in a cemetery, it's a good idea to look around. Families are often buried together. In older Jewish tradition, men and women are buried separately, so you will often find married couples in nearby grave numbers, but in different rows.

JOWBR is great for finding burials by name, but provides no way to look at neighbors, or even in the same cemetery section. When there are pictures in JOWBR, and other services, like JewishData, I use a trick to look at the neighbors. The trick takes advantage of how the image files are named, typically, with a prefix and a number, which increments grave-by-grave, and how the pictures are taken, walking up and down rows.

Joshel Pearson's gravestone features an acrostic, which you can see in the JOWBR image. You can fiddle with the image URL, but I use a little tool I call PicNear, (photo tool) which automatically generates adjacent image locations. You can see that Feiga Pearson is next to Joshel, who could be his wife (her death record in Drouin names her husband as Jack.) There is another Feiga Pearson in the Back River, and PicNear shows a clearer marriage relationship because you can see a shared headstone, something not displayed in JOWBR because only one image is shown per record. In addition to filling out the picture location, you can also drag-and-drop an image, even an image shown in PicNear, to the picture location, making it possible to "walk" along a line of stones. The info link shows metadata about the image, including GPS coordinates, but only if available.

Editor’s Note: This information pertains to places in Montreal, Canada.

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY DATABASE

Did you know that Yeshiva University of New York has a a fully searchable database of bulletins and newsletters published by Modern Orthodox synagogues in New York City which they created from records held at YU.

Information found in synagogue bulletins can often provide insight into family milestones such as: weddings, bar mitzvahs, births, deaths, synagogue officers and much more.

For more details and to search, go tohttp://digital.library.yu.edu/new-york-synagogue-bulletins

SEARCHING FOR “PLACES” ON JEWISHGEN Phyllis Kramer, JGSPBCI; VP Education, JewishGen

The Communities Main Page on JewishGen lets you search for all towns within up to 30 miles of the latitude and longitude of a given location.

HERE’S HOW:

1. Go to any JewishGen page and click on the Database Oval.

2. Then Search for places by name, such as The JewishGen Gazetteer.

3. Then you have three choices:

4. a The JewishGen Communities Database (~6,000 places.) b Search for places by name The JewishGen Gazetteer c. Search for places by location Radius Search (within 30 miles)

SEARCHING FOR ARCHIVES OF MONTREAL, CANADA GAZETTE NEWSPAPER? NEW ARCHIVEThe Montreal Gazette is archived on Google Newspapers with high definition images. Back issues dated from the 1870s up to the 1980s, with thousands of issues per decade can be researched.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC

also:

At the present time, the Library and Archives Canada website includes an index to all Canadian Naturalizations from 1915 to 1944. 1945 and 1946 have now been completed. Ruth Diamond Canadian Naturalization Project Lead, JGS of Montreal

WELCOME TO iCENSUS 2020!Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, posted in December 2015

“iCensus2020Technology” is replacing a lot of things: landline phones, television, pocket pagers, election paper ballots, and now paper census forms. The U.S. Census Bureau expects to use the Internet — plus smart phones and perhaps some other technologies for the next decennial census, in 2020. Welcome to iCensus2020!“The primary reason for the change is to save money. The 2010 Census cost taxpayers $96 per household, including the American Community Survey that has now replaced the old long form. The cost of taking the census has almost doubled in two decades, up from $70 per household in 2000 and $39 as recently as 1990. “The current version of the Census 2020 Operational Plan may be downloaded from http://goo.gl/0cd8cT.”

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MEMBER TIDBITS - GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION SHARED BY MEMBERS

WE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM PASSPORTSfrom Venturing Into Our Past, August, 2016, JGSCV

Passport  applica9ons  hold  informa0on  of  interest  for  genealogists.  Those  that  are  available  online  are  1906  to  1925  and  may  be  found  on  Ancestry  and  FamilySearch.  The  U.S.  State  Department  has  passport  applica0ons  on  microfilm  for  the  years  1795  to  1905  and  January  2,  1906  –  March  31,  1925.  

Lisa  Louise  Cooke  recently  posted  about  this  in  her  Genealogy  Gems  blog  hNp://lisalouisecooke.com/2016/07/find-­‐recent-­‐genealogy-­‐records/.  

What  about  passport  applica9ons  a;er  1925?  The  Passport  Services  maintains  U.S.  passport  records  from  1925  to  the  present,  which  are  protected  by  the  Privacy  Act  of  1974.  For  more  informa0on  see:  hNps://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports/services/obtain-­‐copies-­‐of-­‐passport-­‐records.html  

If  you  are  a  third-­‐party  who  is  making  the  inquiry,  it  falls  under  the  Freedom  of  Informa0on  Act  (FOIA)  which  can  be  ordered  by  mail.  Send  your  request  to:  U.S.  Department  of  State  Office  of  Law  Enforcement  Liaison  FOIA  Officer  44132  Mercure  Circle,  P.O.  Box  1227  Sterling,  VA  20166

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RECLAIM THE RECORDS announced a successful outcome for their Freedom of Information lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York, resulting in the first ever public copy of the New York City marriage index 1930-1995. For more information go to: www.reclaimtherecords.org

JEWISHGEN VIDEO INTRODUCTIONS TO RESEARCH

These five-minute videos are useful as introductions to research. Phyllis Kramer, V.P. for Education, created them and said recently, “with a few exceptions, they are valid today.”

The subjects are: › Navigate JewishGen › Prepare for Your Search (for U.S.A. researchers) › Find Your Ancestral Town (for USA researchers) › Communicate with Other Researchers via:• JGFF: The JewishGen Family Finder -- for Surnames/Towns • FTJP: Family Tree of the Jewish People – for over 5 million people • JewishGen Discussion Groups • Special Interest Groups and Hosted Organizations› Jewish Records Indexing - Poland › Jewish Genealogy Websites & Organizations › Jewish Genealogy Websites - Part I (JewishGen and IAJGS/JGS) › Jewish Genealogy Websites - Part IIFind these at www.jewishgen.org/education .

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HOW TO VIEW THOUSANDS OF FREE RECORDS ON ANCESTRY WITHOUT A SUBSCRIPTION (Excerpted from Family History Daily) This article enlightens readers to the relatively large assortment of completely free collections–and they are 100% searchable.

When you attempt to locate a record on Ancestry via their main search function, the free collections, and you do NOT have a paid membership, it is difficult and tedious to find accessible information.

Their Free Index Collections page offers the ability to search and sort numerous cost-free collections and provides a complete list of these collections at the bottom of their page.

Of course, many of these same collections can be found on other sites for free as well, and some are provided in partnership with free access to: The National Archives or FamilySearch.

You will need a free Ancestry account to take advantage of most of this data. But since they cannot charge you without credit card information, there is no risk you’ll accidentally sign up for the wrong account. When trying to access a free record they will simply prompt you with the free membership signup page. You do not need to sign up for a 14 day trial to search or access the free records. If you are asked to enter credit card information, then you are trying to view paid resources.

Despite the fact that the title of the page is Free Index Collections, not every free collection is an index.

This article describes how to isolate more than 600 record groups that Ancestry provides without cost. It can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/FHDAncestryFreeRecords.

FROM GENEALOGYINTIME MAGAZINE, June 4, 2016

[Google Limitations on Genealogy Searches]

The online magazine has an interesting article describing how and why GOOGLE is able to limit genealogy searches to only two listings per website per page. If you are doing research, you need to know this, so that you do not think that youhave all of the complete information available. Since the records that GOOGLE shares are archived records, you need to do additional searches to find additional information. go to: A Country Guide to Google Search Engines for more information.

GOOGLE SEARCHES BY COUNTRY

The online magazine has posted 192 search engines by country and region The list will be updated periodically to reflect the latest changes on Google http://tinyurl.com/z84397z

To subscribe to a free weekly e-newsletter: www.genealogyintime.com

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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE 2016 IAJGS CONFERENCE HELD IN SEATTLE Eric Sharenow, Vice-President, JGSPBCI

Marlis Humphrey & Eric Sharenow

I felt that the conference was well run and well worth attending.

I was given many opportunities to see how our JGSPBC is part of a much larger organization and how we compare to several other JGS’s. The other societies also struggle with similar issues such as getting speakers, dues, and increasing the membership. I left the luncheon knowing that our JGSPBC is one of the stronger societies and that we have one of the most active memberships.

The conference provided a wide variety of presentation topics which would appeal to all genealogists. They included research tips and DNA both of which help us find older family members. I was interested in the social media presentations, because I am also looking for living relatives who can open some doors.

Other topics included writing techniques, immigrant care organizations, and Yizkor Books. In addition, I took the opportunity to learn about new products and get help in breaking through my brick walls.

I was particularly interested in the presentations of Jewish surnames. I always thought the 18th and 19th century European governments were meddlesome and anti-Semitic. However in their attempt to identify and control the Jews, they inadvertently aided our genealogy research. Jewish surnames make it easier to trace our ancestral lineage. Unfortunately, some of the surname adoption rules created additional problems.

The conference also provided representatives and experts from various software companies who gave personal, individualized instruction. Ancestry’s research suggestions and discovering Family Tree Maker’s powerful features helped me break through some long standing brick walls.

Access to My Heritage databases and Russian language translators added to feeling that I was surrounded by and could tap into so much knowledge.

There was always something of interest being presented. The days went quickly. I departed the conference with many leads, much work to do, and convinced that I attended an exceptional experience. I am looking forward to the next IAJGS Conference in our own state -

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IAJGS CONFERENCE SATISFIES THRONGS IN SEATTLE Molly Staub Katzman, JGSPBCI

(l to r) Molly Staub Katzman, Fran Smith, Sheryl Stern, Eric Sharenow

About 1,000 attendees participated in the 2016 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy held in Seattle beginning Aug. 6th. Although some were day visitors, delegates of all ages– some of whom had traveled from as far away as South Africa and Australia — displayed total enthusiasm throughout. Our own chapter was represented by Sheryl Stern, Fran Smith, Eric Sharenow, and myself. Lecturers included superstars of Jewish Genealogy: Stephen Morse, Nolan Altman, Janet Silverman, Ron Arons, Genie MIlgrom, and Stanley Diamond, who were accessible to all. An optional Educators’ Forum was available, while a resource room provided free access to many subscription databases.

Many brick walls were knocked down, including one case solving why my son’s DNA shows a small percentage of North African and Iberian Peninsula matches, thanks to expert Yefim Kagan. Translations were available throughout. The seriousness was lightened with a film festival spotlighting 33 films mounted by Jewish cinema expert Eric Goldman. And a hilarious evening of “Jewperdy,” Jeopardy with a Jewish spin, provided offbeat entertainment. Unbelievably, all the audience members began humming the theme song. Seems lots of Jews watch the show.

IAJGS SEATTLE 2016-LIVE SCAN Ina Getzoff, JGSPBCI, Secretary

At this point you may have already read the critique of this year’s IAJGS conference from our membership chair, Eric Sharenow, writing this from a different prospective which is watching it at home from the LIVE STREAM that was available.

Two of the biggest advantages for doing this from home are: one, if a speaker is boring you can turn the lecture off and two, if there is more than one session being live streamed at the same time that you want to see, you can view the lecture later. Sessions are available for 90 days after the conference, so you can watch at your leisure or you can watch it more than once.

This is the first time I have watched this conference on my computer and it was a very worthwhile experience. Sixty of the most interesting sessions were streamed with, for the most part, great speakers.

The theme of this year’s conference was “The Wandering Jew.” The Keynote speaker, Devon Naar was a very powerful speaker, but he was reading from his notes the entire time. I thought about turning it off but stayed with it until the end which was worth it. His talk, “Sephardic Family History as Jewish Family History,” showed how DNA helped to find family.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who cannot attend live but would still like to have the opportunity to listen to some excellent speakers and gain some great genealogical information. I, for one, learned many things that I did not know and learned that some of the things I thought I knew were not true. I am now working on correcting some of those misconceptions and adding new facts to my family history.

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SAVE THE DATE The  37th  annual  IAJGS  Conference  will  be  in  Orlando.                                    JULY  23  -­‐  28,  2017.                WALT  DISNEY  WORLD  SWAN  RESORT.  

                         Information  and  details  to  follow.  

IJGM Poster CompetitionIAJGS sponsors and supports IJGM and offers an annual poster contest which promotes the IJGM. The IJGM Poster submissions are due by June 20th each year. See the previous winners.

International Jewish Genealogy Month

2016 International Jewish Genealogy Month Winning Entry (Jillian Beroza JGS Long Island)

Mission Statement: The International Jewish Genealogy Month (IJGM) honors our Jewish ancestors through the pursuit of Jewish family history research.

From 1999 through 2006, Avotaynu, Inc. promoted Jewish Genealogy Month. In 2007, IAJGS took over the promotion of this special month. It is our hope that our member organizations will take advantage of the International Jewish Genealogy Month to promote Jewish genealogy and publicize their organization and its activities all over the world. The International Jewish Genealogy month is

celebrated during the Hebrew month of Cheshvan. For 2016, the dates are November 1 to November 30, 2016.

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Genealogical Society of Palm Beach CountyWINTER PROGRAM 2017

Date: January 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am through 4:00 pmPlace: Embassy Suites, 1601 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach

Speaker: George G. Morgan (EDITOR’S NOTE: This is NOT our JGSPBCI. Please read carefully. We support other genealogy groups in our area.)

For information: Phone: (561) 616-3455 - email: ancestry@gensocofpbc.org

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HAPPY 226th BIRTHDAY, U.S. NATIONAL CENSUSby Dick Eastman reprinted from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter http://eogn.com

One of the most valuable tools for US genealogists is the National Census that is enumerated (created) every ten years. Census results were never intended to benefit genealogists. That is simply a side benefit. The primary purpose is to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives and to realign congressional districts.

Over the years, the Census numbers also have become important for the formulas that distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds each year. The first national census took place on August 2, 1790, when marshals under the direction of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson canvased the original 13 states plus Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, and the Southwest Territory (Tennessee).

They asked six questions: name of the head of the household, and number of persons in each household in these categories: free white males over 16; free white males under 16; free white females; all other free persons; and slaves.

A total of 3,929,214 were counted. Compare that to 2010, when the count was 308,745,538. In what would become a decennial dissatisfaction, not everyone was happy with that very first count; both President George Washington and Secretary Jefferson expressed skepticism about the total, believing it was too low.

For anyone interested in the history and the impact of the Census, the US Census Bureau has created a web site where you can learn about legislation related to the censuses, the efforts to improve the count, and the technical innovations introduced to improve data collection, processing, and publication. You can start at https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/.

The web site even includes complete Census Instructions for each decennial census. When the information recorded about your ancestor doesn’t make sense or seems to possibly be in error, a quick look at the Census Instructions will clear the mystery. Census instructions may be found at https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/census_instructions/.

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