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INTERESTED IN JOINING! HAVE A QUESTION! CONTACT MEMBERSHIP AT membership@jgsgp.org
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FALL and WINTER 2015 CHRONICLES ARE NOW AVAILABLE VIEW AND DOWNLOAD -- CLICK ABOVE (PDF version -- Adobe Reader required to view) |
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Read an article about our president, Fred Blum, run in the Winter 2013 edition of Inside magazine at |
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Thanks to the generosity of the Ginsburg, Platsis, Pressman & Vederman families, we have a diary of a 16-year old with advertisements from the John Wanamaker department store. The diary includes references to Sunday school and Gratz. The advertisements show items of the day available at Wanamaker's and other Philadelphia businesses. There are other small articles that include items of interest, including some of special interest to Jews, such as the article on page 294 about the Shofar. This is a large PDF file (346MB) with images of 446 pages. It will take time to download and may not be compatible with all devices. Click on the image of the cover above to view the document. |
The initial batch of Pennsylvania state death certificates is now online through Ancestry.com (as of April 18th). Remember only birth and death certificates that are open records will be online (50 years for death certificates and 105 years for birth certificates). The overall schedule is: • 1906-24 death certificates – April 2014• 1925-44 death certificates – June 2014 • 1945-63 death certificates – November 2014 • 1906 birth certificates – March 2015 Pennsylvania residents (and only Pennsylvania residents) have free access to this particular database as they do with other Pennsylvania State Archives records already scanned and made available online by Ancestry. Free access for Pennsylvania residents is accomplished by registering online at no cost through this link (please be sure to read the instructions carefully): www.portal.state.pa.us. Pennsylvania residents that already have a subscription to Ancestry do not need to do anything as long as they continue to have a subscription to Ancestry. Out of state residents do need a subscription to Ancestry to access these records. However, many libraries and research centers everywhere provide free access to Ancestry. After three years the records will be moved to the Pennsylvania State Archives website and be free to all. Thank you for your help in getting the PA state law changed that made this possible. Without your help we would still be stuck with the old extremely restricted access to Pennsylvania state birth and death certificates and wishing it were different. For more information please visit www.pahr-access.org. Good luck in your searches and keep in mind mistakes in indexing (most especially on Ancestry) and the original certificates are to be expected. |
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From Recent Meetings... |
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Click here
for Joel Spector's presentation entitled "The Growth of the Russian Jewish Population From Early Historical Data through the 1897 Census".
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Links From Recent Chronicles... |
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Click here for ZACHOR – Memories of the Jews of Bialystok by Mark Halpern from Winter 2014 CHRONICLES |
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FUTURE SOCIETY EVENTS |
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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 36th IAJGS International Conference You still can see and hear many of the best presentations of the week by subscribing to the IAJGS 2016 LIVE! video and audio, on-demand, on-line replay service. More than 40 sessions that were live-streamed as they occurred also were recorded and remain available for downloading to your computer until November 10 for a flat fee of $179. To sign up, go to https://s4.goeshow.com/iajgs/annual/2016/registration_form.cfm and complete the form. A confirmation e-mail will contain a link and login information for the LIVE! session download directory. The sessions
available for LIVE! replay are identified in the program schedule at
http://s4.goeshow.com/iajgs/annual/2016/program_schedule.cfm Planning is already under way for the conference, to be held July 23 through 28, 2017, at the Walt Disney World Swan Resort in Orlando, Florida. For more information, send an e-mail to info@iajgs2017.org | ||||||
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We now have a Speakers Bureau To volunteer as a speaker or to request a speaker for your event, click here and please contact Stan or Shelda Sandler stanshel(at)msn.com
JGSGP Beginner and Intermediate Genealogy Workshops Interested in attending or sponsoring a workshop for your Congregation or Organization? Send an email to Stan or Shelda Sandler stanshel(at)msn.com with specifics about your request.
Genealogy Help in New Jersey James Gross is at the Cherry Hill Family History Center most Tuesday evenings 6:30 to 9:00. The FHC is located at 252 E. Evesham Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003. Please call ahead to confirm BEFORE visiting at 856-795-8841.
Brick Walls Q&A A new feature! JGSGP members can ask for help from fellow members with their research challenges. Have an issue? Send a message to BrickWallQuestions@jgsgp.org. Questions may be published in our quarterly journal Chronicles. Answers will be sent to the question originator only by email. |
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LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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MANY INTERESTING EVENTS INCLUDING GENEALOGY - CLICK HERE
GENEALOGICAL WORKSHOP SERIES IN PHILADELPHIA CLICK HERE
An Interactive Website for Exploring the City of Neighborhoods GREAT BOOK ABOUT JEWISH PHILADELPHIA The Life and Times of Congregation Kesher Israel by Harry Boonin Click HERE for Details |
CLICK HERE FOR UPCOMING EVENTS
Jewish Studies Courses Online FREE Click HERE for more information
JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAMS
JUDAIC STUDIES PROGRAM
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