News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 1845 cadastral map of Pomorzany now in Gesher Galicia's Map Room. An update to their cadastral map collection in the Gesher Galicia Map Room: the complete 1845...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA A Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year to All! NEW: LitvakSIG Discussion Forum. The Litvak Jewish Special Interest Group announced a new LitvakSIG Discussion...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Great News from The U.K. ‘More students involved in Jewish life than ever before.’ A new survey has revealed that 92 per cent were involved with a Jewish...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA MyHeritage Publishes France, Tables of Successions and Absences, 1890–1970. This valuable collection offers an index of deceased or officially missing people...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA MyHeritage Acquires MesAieux.com. Founded in 2004, MesAieux.com (also known as YourFolks.com in English)  has grown to become Quebec’s most popular family...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA The L’Dor V’Dor Foundation (LDVDF) Announces Worldwide Jewish Event Calendar. The calendar, called JDays, was unveiled at the 44th IAJGS International...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA [email protected]  Alien Attack: Get Your Relatives' AR-2s! Many people, especially women, who came to America in the first half of the twentieth century,...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA [email protected]  International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies Award Winners. At the annual IAJGS Gala on Wednesday, August 21, the following...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA [email protected]  Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx. Yitzchak Meyer Twersky has...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Have you heard of Metrical Books? Metrical books are records that were kept by the various religions according to the mandates of the Russian Empire's...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Genie Milgrom Launches New Website. Genie Milgrom who has traced her ancestors back 22 generations to Pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal while identifying 30 or...

News About Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History, and Jewish Culture Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Editor’s Note: This newsletter marks the start of the third year of the Weekly News Nosh. It has always been my intent to keep this newsletter free of charge,...