Roots-Key 2007

Spring 2007, Issue (Vol. 27. No. 1)

Reconstructing a Family Tree: One family at a Time by Nancy Holden, Editor
Book Review by Rose Feldman
President’s Message by Sandy Malek
Finding Your Jewish Roots in Scotland by Harvey L Kaplan
A Journey to Latvia by Lois Ogilby Rosen, JGSLA
The Bloody Days of the Czar by Isadore Tiep. Contributed by Larry Booth, JGSLA
The Wild West: Searching for Relatives in Deadwood, South Dakota by Marion Hattenbach Bernstein
Happy Hunting: Searching for Family Burial Records by Steve Lasky
Searching the New York State Censuses: 1905-1925 for the City of New York by Joel Weintraub
A Jewish Boyhood in Konotop: A Typical Ukrainian Village by Yosef Hillel Trifon, (1894-1980). Contributed by Bob Sherins, M.D., JGSLA
HIAS: Solving Genealogical Mysteries by Valery Bazarov

Just the Facts by Nancy Holden, Editor
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President’s Message by Sandy Malek
Beshert by Barbara Algaze, JGSLA
From Los Angeles to Leeds: Recreating a Family via the Internet by Jonny Joseph
The Facts and the Back Story by Nancy Biederman and Nancy Holden
Aron and Chaim Shapiro—The Back Story from “The Founders: The Story of the City of Hope” by Bonnie Rogers
Reconnecting with Kishinev by Jerry Touger
Sierpc, Poland My Ancestral Home by Gerald Simon, JGSLA
80629: A Mengele Experiment by Jack Oran
Review by Marion Werle, JGSLA My Future is in America; Autobiographies of Eastern European JewishImmigrants by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer
Networking: The Key To Successful Genealogy by Werner L. Frank, JGSLA

Shtetl Memories by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
Introduction by Sonia Hoffman, JGSLA
A Town-Wide Genealogy: the Ariogala Shtetl Research Group by David and Sonia Hoffman
Jewish Community or Kahal Records
A Tale of Two Shtetls by Nancy Holden, JGSLA
Melitopol and the Kumok Family Records: Alternative Sources of Data by Victor Kumok
Population Studies in Minsk Gubernia in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Vitaly Charny
Kletsk: A Town Without Memories by Henry Neugass
Museums Large and Small for a special report
Picture Perfect by Mike Marvins

Methods to analyze data and integrate databases to reconstruct family and community data
Tombstone Identification Through Database Merging: A Tool for the Virtual Reconstitution of Vanished Jewish Communities by Daniel Wagner
Given Name Analysis: Single Surname Research and Community Genealogies by Israel Pickholtz
Twentieth Century Research—Holocaust Memorials and MemoirsYizkor books, translation projects, biographical memoirs, town associations, innovative ways to uncover the past and build a bridge to the future.
Yizkor Books by Joyce Field
Myślenice: A Future from the Jewish Past by Martin Cahn
Missing a Shtetl by Werner L. Frank, JGSLA
Memories of a Polish Shtetl: Zawady by Joel Petlin
A Short History of Kobylnik’s Jews by Meyer Swirsky
The Kobylnik-Myadel Society in Israel by Meyer Swirsky
A Mitzvah: Reconstruction of Jewish Cemeteries
Memories of Days Gone By by Yitzhak Gordon z’l

Creating a Shtetlpage by Susana Bloch
Overview of a Shtetlinks Site: Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Ukraine by Chaim Freedman
Preserving Their History: Guardian of Names and Places by Eilat Gordin Levitan
Two Torah Scrolls from Klatovy: A Slide Show by Jeffrey Kohn
What Should I Do With All This Stuff?