Hello! I would like to introduce myself to you as an author and speaker. I give talks on all my books but I believe you would be most interested in my book, Dear Cara-Letters From Otto Frank–based on a correspondence and friendship with Anne Frank’s father that lasted nearly 20 years. Recently, I wrote three blogs featuring the cousin of Anne Frank, Buddy Elias and his wife, Gerti; and two other longtime correspondents of Otto. I think you’ll enjoy them. My website is: www.wordsfromcara.com
Thank you so much!

Cara Granat
cara@wordsfromcara.com

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I am considering an upgrade to FTM 2012 and was wondering if anyone had any recent experience with this version — i.e. success or problems. I will be upgrading from FTM 2006 and remember that there was a version in the past (2008?) that caused a lot of tsuris.

Don London
londondon@sbcglobal.net

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JewishGen Education is offering a new class in “Researching your Roots
in Canada and The (U.S.)Great Lakes Region” (States: Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois) May 15 – June 17 2012

Did you ancestor settle in Canada? Did your ancestor settle in the
Great Lakes states Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan or Wisconsin?
Did your ancestor immigrate through a Canadian Port and settle in
the United States Great Lakes Region (i.e.Chicago, Detroit or St Paul,
Buffalo, Toledo or Milwaukee?)Did your ancestor come into a U.S. port
and cross the border into Canada?

JewishGen is offering a four week class discovering your roots
in Canada, passage through Canada to northern U.S. cities of the
Great Lakes (i.e. Chicago, Detroit, Duluth and St Paul).
Course will include (1) entrance and exits through Canadian Ports,
(2) Border Crossings (3) vital records, naturalizations and census
records in Canada and Great Lakes Region U.S.

Course open by application
Application http://www.jewishgen.org/education/
Click on “Requirements and Course Details”

http://www.jewishgen.org/education/description.asp?course=20228

Send your application or questions to nholden@interserv.com
Instructors: Nancy Holden, Bruce Brown
May 17 – June 17 $80. Payment after acceptance.
Enrollment limited to 20 students

Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com

For those researchers who can’t locate family in the new online 1940 census because they don’t know their addresses, the New York Public Library has digitized the 1940 New York City Telephone Directories and posted them on line. You can access them at: http://directme.nypl.org/directory/manhattan#document/p319

They are listed by borough–use the tab on the top of the page to choose the borough you want. The pages are shown alphabetically by surname.

Barbara Algaze
Barbara@jgsla.org

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Now that the 1940 U.S. Census is out I would like to find the data on my grandmother, who would have been a resident of the Jewish Home For The Aging (or whatever other name they used) in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. Would anyone have that address on record so I can search by ED? Thank you for this help.

Sandi Root
roadrunr2@usa.net

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