Highlights this week: RootsTech’s free Relatives at RootsTech cousin-connection experience, JewishGen’s Memorials & Plaques Database surpassing 360,000 records, and a planned restoration of the 1908 synagogue building in Novorossiysk, Russia.
Updates from IAJGS and JewishGen’s JOWBR, plus Qesher programs, newly searchable Ukrainian archives, German Jewish records resources, AI handwriting transcription rankings, and standout Jewish history/culture stories—from ancient Jerusalem finds to Yad Vashem and Yiddish theater in Tbilisi.
Highlights this week: new family history resources, Holocaust remembrance and testimony, and Jewish heritage preservation and community stories from around the world.