Archive for the 'Jewish' Category

A New Focused Jewish Genealogy Blog

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Tracing the Tribe is a new Jewish genealogy blog being done in conjunction with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a major international news agency. It went live in time for the 26th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in mid-August, and there are now some 39 posts.
According to writer Schelly Talalay Dardashti, the website provides information about […]

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies’ 26th Annual Conference a Success

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

The two cousins met 10 years ago over chef salads in one of the cousin’s homes. But their meeting would never have happened had they not each decided to go online to peel back the layers of their family histories.
Joy Rosnel Weaver got involved with Jewish genealogy because she was curious to find out about […]

55,000 Massachusetts Burial Records Now Online

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

I blogged abut the launching of the New Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts website in early May. The following news release about the site was released today.
NEWTON, Mass., June 20 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, anyone can perform genealogical searches online! So, if someone is looking for late Uncle Ben on their mother’s side […]