A message was left on the JGSLA phone line from a woman in Santa Barbara who is requesting help from someone in finding out about her family, many of whom were lost in the Holocaust.
If this is something you would be interested in, please contact me for details at president@jgsla.org.
From geneablog Tracing the Tribe (Schelly Talalay Dardashti):
Have you been putting off testing for your DNA genetic genealogy? Perhaps this deal, which starts today, will prompt you to get moving.
Every summer, FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) offers great pricing which helps people get off the fence. Last summer’s special was the most successful in the history of the company.
The offer is for FTDNA group administrators to persuade people to test, grow the projects and also grow the largest industry database. The more samples in the database, the more probability you may find genetic matches.
If you’ve needed an impetus to start a DNA project, this may help you get it off the ground.
The special price starts today, June 5, and ends June 25. Kits must be paid for by June 30.
The prices for this short period are:
Y-DNA37 for $119 (normally $149)
Y-DNA67 for $199 (normally $239)
Y-DNA37+mtDNA for $159 (normally $238)
Now’s the time to learn more about your family!
And remember, FamilyTreeDNA will be at the JGSLA Conference in July. Bring your questions and talk directly to Bennett Greenspan!
I am Joe Manning, an author and historian. Since 2006, I have been conducting a research project to track down and interview descendants of some of the child laborers who were photographed by Lewis Hine in the early 1900s. There are 5,000 of these photos posted on the Library of Congress website. I have been successful for over 200 children. My Lewis Hine Project was the subject of a story on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
In one of the photographs, taken in 1913 in Dallas, TX, Morris and Louis Shuman are pictured as newsboys. They were Russian-Yiddish immigrants who entered the US about 1903. They eventually settled in Los Angeles. I am trying to find living descendants of this family, and I thought someone might be able to help. Here is what I know so far.
The family appears in the 1930 census in LA. They are parents Max and Rebecca Shuman, and their children, Louis, Morris, Solomon and Freida. Max is listed as a butcher. They had other children including Moses, Sophia and Sarah, who were listed in earlier records. According to California Death Records, Max died in 1940, Moses in 1948, Morris in 1955, and Louis in 1970. I was unable to obtain any of their obituaries, but all died in LA. According to the census and California voter registrations records, these are some of the addresses in LA where members of the family lived:
Louis was an auto mechanic, and his wife may have been named Ruth.
To see the photo of the Shuman boys, go to this link on my website:
www.sevensteeples.com/dallas1.html
Joe Manning
575 Bridge Rd, Unit 9-1
Florence, MA 01062
413-584-0679
Six months ago, my 80-year-old aunt, received an email from someone in Ireland who found her on Facebook. She forwarded the email to me, thinking it might be spam.
I was intrigued, and communicated with this person. Turns out, he had the family tree, back 300 years. He was originally from Argentina, now lives in Ireland. But he was searching for a small part of his family, that was connected to my family.
You never know how someone will find you, with information.
So now, besides belonging to JGS, I have a presence on Facebook… just in case.
-Jerry Bluestein
Los Angeles
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