tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10111901318972644222024-03-19T01:28:24.173-04:00Lara's JewnealogyJewish genealogy blog, going deep into records in Eastern Europe (primarily Ukraine with a sprinkling of Belarus--old Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires) and into America as well as studies of endogamous DNA.Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.comBlogger580125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-6777856945154919252024-03-17T08:55:00.000-04:002024-03-17T08:55:20.603-04:00Soviet Records Via JDoc (Some Declassified!)<p>When I shared a recent post on Facebook, I was asked why there aren't more Soviet-era records available online on JewishGen and similar sites. I believe much of the reason is that pre-Russian Revolution, records were kept by religion, so JewishGen has been able to concentrate on acquiring and indexing records that will be all (or predominantly) Jewish. However, post-Revolution, all religions were kept together, so it's a much larger task to extract Jewish records, and it means searching entire towns, not just the Jews of an entire town. But there <i>are </i>resources for Soviet-era records online (including many found via <a href="https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2:%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B8" target="_blank">Архів</a> and directly on local archive branch sites). And there are also records on sites that are more specialized or obscure. I recently found one such site with information on some of my relatives, so I'll share what I found and how you can see if there are records about your relatives or ancestral towns available there as well.<br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTRESaNPEtBHQu9EQL-ftRV6wX_yMk1EGosRWFWJofesqCBUjsCcSYDzhbUXnkCS0soiFtXIlx4v6d4NLcsPul-BI14-EKVH1z4lMot6FJKIIRATU7dEEVXwhKxDy5wtlG4WIEMrU5FTC1mVbhs_4FHl5g81GxMMLNUR2S-WUmM4RQPhpFty9qIqHtEzT/s4262/%D1%84.%D0%A0-8840,%20%D0%BE%D0%BF.3,%20%D0%B4.11946-AlexanderLefand19.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4262" data-original-width="3014" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTRESaNPEtBHQu9EQL-ftRV6wX_yMk1EGosRWFWJofesqCBUjsCcSYDzhbUXnkCS0soiFtXIlx4v6d4NLcsPul-BI14-EKVH1z4lMot6FJKIIRATU7dEEVXwhKxDy5wtlG4WIEMrU5FTC1mVbhs_4FHl5g81GxMMLNUR2S-WUmM4RQPhpFty9qIqHtEzT/w452-h640/%D1%84.%D0%A0-8840,%20%D0%BE%D0%BF.3,%20%D0%B4.11946-AlexanderLefand19.jpg" width="452"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A page from an investigation into Alexander Lefand, suspected of Zionist activities; 1925-1926</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/03/soviet-records-via-jdoc-some.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-23546888710712095482024-03-12T18:32:00.004-04:002024-03-12T22:03:34.891-04:00Getting a GRIP on Ashkenazic Jewish Genealogy - Week-long Class<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This past week, I got some additional insight, using a strategy that I've mentioned before, but which is always worth a reminder.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkfOoDNB22rNefIhnEVaO3ALI0j8ss59zXNM_MwgtcTQjLpCXz3Rc0E17C-Cvc6RgIYuo6OzyUE8P9Kd4KviMUz21Y_APK0jeVQXuNOuS2V2GLR_2VEVvM8z5HcKVS12uvwyz9Vz8ru4dfclYUo88VyIkmoqZCOelJthA_pykMkdxZzWJs22YFhgaJOPE/s2048/Losinovka1920CensusTolchinsky.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1610" data-original-width="2048" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTkfOoDNB22rNefIhnEVaO3ALI0j8ss59zXNM_MwgtcTQjLpCXz3Rc0E17C-Cvc6RgIYuo6OzyUE8P9Kd4KviMUz21Y_APK0jeVQXuNOuS2V2GLR_2VEVvM8z5HcKVS12uvwyz9Vz8ru4dfclYUo88VyIkmoqZCOelJthA_pykMkdxZzWJs22YFhgaJOPE/w640-h504/Losinovka1920CensusTolchinsky.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1920 Soviet Census; Tolchinsky Family; Losinovka, Chernigov Guberniya</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/03/tolchinskys-in-1920-soviet-census-and.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-48644955903598240192024-01-28T11:59:00.000-05:002024-01-28T11:59:01.286-05:00Town-Focused Searches - New Research Pathways<p>More and more records are being indexed, which is wonderful. But many are misindexed either because of poor handwriting or fading of originals or just poor indexing (often due to unfamiliarity with ethnic names by those indexing), which means that you might not find records that could be critical to your research. Even if everything is indexed correctly, if your family has a common surname, it might be difficult to find your Cohen among all of the Cohen records you'll get with a typical search. </p><p>In addition, not all fields are always indexed in some record sets, so there may be mention of your relatives in records that a simple search wouldn't find. So how do you improve your chances of finding these records? Especially if your family members are from smaller towns and villages, searching only by town can be critical. I'll give examples of how to do this on Ancestry, but you can do similar searches in most of the other large record repositories. <br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWs7OY7gx_WLPSPL6z_Ugghd1iFx8SzEC8ygmBv4CKBVD2uTzdB4_MHDYb8VGqB5IURED4Wuj__Zw-5vPzrCL08ZzhkR8cpYtxksC10U_lR5U87NRKTA8YZxnMGfOjMyXIWNGH6ns8Ug4Gui7oYpKWwUNub27-LzqyKMuZG1SMnOcHQj7TpKRfz_l4uYg/s1776/LebovitschWWII.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="1776" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWs7OY7gx_WLPSPL6z_Ugghd1iFx8SzEC8ygmBv4CKBVD2uTzdB4_MHDYb8VGqB5IURED4Wuj__Zw-5vPzrCL08ZzhkR8cpYtxksC10U_lR5U87NRKTA8YZxnMGfOjMyXIWNGH6ns8Ug4Gui7oYpKWwUNub27-LzqyKMuZG1SMnOcHQj7TpKRfz_l4uYg/w640-h448/LebovitschWWII.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Edmund David Lebovitsch WWII Draft Registration</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/01/town-focused-searches-new-research.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-2363932966275020802023-12-10T12:01:00.004-05:002023-12-10T15:11:03.294-05:00A Diamond Cousin? Searching by Address, Steve Morse, and More.<p>Diamant/Diamond is a very common name. Most Diamonds (and variants) are not related to me, as many distinct families took the same surname. But I’m always on the hunt for Diamonds who are related.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvSGGCzCioONmk15PP7kJp_DomCQQ7oVAT0X0oVhNrMDaK-YxFHGRmD7yR2Gzx2pkDTD4hSx6JlrUJIyuisSbiGp9eHjvq1Pz1rBKcdzUc1feTSjk6NHMNBD7UOguQyGKLepSvyThuEPaq-gLggCWNSl0Z9m-gFlm900zH6pv5L8TvosqqxpDPuSuwOzWF/s1027/SchlomaDimentManifestP1_large.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="1027" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvSGGCzCioONmk15PP7kJp_DomCQQ7oVAT0X0oVhNrMDaK-YxFHGRmD7yR2Gzx2pkDTD4hSx6JlrUJIyuisSbiGp9eHjvq1Pz1rBKcdzUc1feTSjk6NHMNBD7UOguQyGKLepSvyThuEPaq-gLggCWNSl0Z9m-gFlm900zH6pv5L8TvosqqxpDPuSuwOzWF/w640-h146/SchlomaDimentManifestP1_large.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Schloma Diment Manifest; June 5, 1911</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7BGfRHdVTToPQwhRWHcDqLJFH43LbvSVQE6DYragGe05ODqhwHpP54imCXU1aEczeDT38GrbxzMwjSx2Yv0NCmZz-eI8ZnU1lsBRTJcC6kzQYhf2bRBG323LDE0gwGO0kCroi1iYiEgK1kYbI8qq1nj-pOxj9JvqqePkF37eSvVX68aYlgn-r6NNXRJr/s392/DimentTorchin.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="35" data-original-width="392" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7BGfRHdVTToPQwhRWHcDqLJFH43LbvSVQE6DYragGe05ODqhwHpP54imCXU1aEczeDT38GrbxzMwjSx2Yv0NCmZz-eI8ZnU1lsBRTJcC6kzQYhf2bRBG323LDE0gwGO0kCroi1iYiEgK1kYbI8qq1nj-pOxj9JvqqePkF37eSvVX68aYlgn-r6NNXRJr/w640-h58/DimentTorchin.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Results from SteveMorse.org's Gold Form</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><span></span><p></p>Recently I did a search using <a href="https://stevemorse.org/ellis2/ellisgold.html" target="_blank">Steve Morse’s Gold Form</a> to look at Diamants (and variants) that arrived in Ellis Island, and I sorted the results by town. One of the results looked intriguing.<p></p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-diamond-cousin-searching-by-address.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-90097790795389344552023-09-26T18:00:00.000-04:002023-09-26T18:00:43.344-04:00Researching in the USHMM's Shappell Center<p>I recently spent time at the <a href="https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/the-shapell-center" target="_blank">US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Shappell Center</a> (located in Bowie, Maryland), finding documents relating to my relatives. Before going, it's important to have done your homework, reserving materials and logging what you hope to find in each record set. You'll have a set amount of time to do your research, so advance planning is critical to make sure you can get everything you want while there.</p><p>Remember, there are many record sets that are Holocaust-related, but there are also many record sets related to pre-war European Jewry (and some non-Jewish communities as well). <br></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8BCP2at0Dyg0UCL44Wa6uVG_Yhq1xJg6LX3iV4T2Mxia5ajQ2boEuGJYUnE8v3Wnpxc2GvPiZ--9DWmT4PnofltwGTy76-5DyThnJw03cVDFM9VaZscPio20AwwLsDM_OeXvqKthV4xXcAinX44QP9oiZgRtGDXk1QH-HSFbK7yD7-Oc4wwoQMgmMaUu2/s2997/IMG_8449.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2433" data-original-width="2997" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8BCP2at0Dyg0UCL44Wa6uVG_Yhq1xJg6LX3iV4T2Mxia5ajQ2boEuGJYUnE8v3Wnpxc2GvPiZ--9DWmT4PnofltwGTy76-5DyThnJw03cVDFM9VaZscPio20AwwLsDM_OeXvqKthV4xXcAinX44QP9oiZgRtGDXk1QH-HSFbK7yD7-Oc4wwoQMgmMaUu2/w640-h520/IMG_8449.JPG" width="640"></a></div><p></p><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/09/researching-in-ushmms-shappell-center.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-89738176944258844272023-09-14T17:57:00.000-04:002023-09-14T17:57:03.166-04:00USHMM Online Resources<p>I have a scheduled research appointment at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), and I've been preparing for what I'll want to see while I'm there. But one thing I've noticed is that not all USHMM research needs to be done in person, as there are documents that are scanned and available remotely from the comfort of your home. And it's also important to note that not all collections housed by USHMM are Holocaust-related--some documents that the museum has are from events that took place well before the Holocaust.</p><p>Below I'll show an example of a document found that mentions one of my relatives in 1919, and then I'll explain how you can see if there are documents relating to your ancestral town or relatives. <br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijowXmjkogDQbm2ZUaKQ5VlxXCOCppQS-Gf8V_K87JdS1iZx1UxTPNc3ScZ-EHE4jsZ9BG9ykWSWRn2EQhCDJp26kscc8c3mUgC0EKapAH7WJVbQDwae58O1hmJhrKHiXBfHxo3X-yH5uvQ25YSB7ZAiREwyKVagMtfpZC5Cl2t0FoYy0l-f3xjUni9TiL/s737/IsaiLefandNezhinPogromDeath-RG-31.057M.0016.00000944-closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="737" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijowXmjkogDQbm2ZUaKQ5VlxXCOCppQS-Gf8V_K87JdS1iZx1UxTPNc3ScZ-EHE4jsZ9BG9ykWSWRn2EQhCDJp26kscc8c3mUgC0EKapAH7WJVbQDwae58O1hmJhrKHiXBfHxo3X-yH5uvQ25YSB7ZAiREwyKVagMtfpZC5Cl2t0FoYy0l-f3xjUni9TiL/w640-h588/IsaiLefandNezhinPogromDeath-RG-31.057M.0016.00000944-closeup.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">List of 1919 Pogrom Victims for Nezhin; Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Kyïvsʹkoï oblasti via US Holocaust Museum Memorial</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/09/ushmm-online-resources.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-39692690071735628532023-06-25T16:25:00.000-04:002023-06-25T16:25:56.516-04:00The Last Jewish Birth in Dulfalva<p>I've indexed records for many towns for JewishGen. I feel like I get to know families, as I see their joyful events (marriages and births records) and sorrowful ones (death records) unfold over decades. Now that records in Ukraine (which has a 75-year privacy law after which records are accessible) include vital events through 1945, I also see when Jewish life abruptly ended in some of these towns.<br></p><p>Last week, I was indexing records from the villages of Dulfalva, Hungary (now Dulovo, Ukraine) and Talaborfalva, Hungary (now Tereblya, Ukraine). These two adjacent small villages' vital events were recorded in the same books.</p><p>The 1940s were tumultuous in the area, with some of the population's Jews being <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kamenets-podolsk" target="_blank">deported to Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941</a>, and the area changed hands many times--from Czechoslovakia to Hungary to local rule to Hungary and then Germany's invasion. This is reflected in the number of Jewish births each year: 1938 (10 births), 1939 (11 births), 1940 (10 births), 1941 (4 births), 1942 (1 birth), 1943 (2 births). And then no Jewish births in 1944 or 1945 or thereafter.<br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhldJpDihMweYcXlNuS3QwT3iIGVQP3s2HmbKXjMzWH0fP8S8mAO4Z3ZNAfFW589pV-zcZH5kDsZm-nrn_sb6KryeTBPmiJmGv0nVHjSzh8YsdEf6K43ahZGA1MnfQrsfQWDXaKmTKrwgjHynThcyY8MqtcFvD_Lr-OsTOkbreqUGs1ByTLbt2oEreGyKbF/s1072/FridaLaxBirth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="1072" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhldJpDihMweYcXlNuS3QwT3iIGVQP3s2HmbKXjMzWH0fP8S8mAO4Z3ZNAfFW589pV-zcZH5kDsZm-nrn_sb6KryeTBPmiJmGv0nVHjSzh8YsdEf6K43ahZGA1MnfQrsfQWDXaKmTKrwgjHynThcyY8MqtcFvD_Lr-OsTOkbreqUGs1ByTLbt2oEreGyKbF/w640-h132/FridaLaxBirth.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Frida Laksz Birth, Dulfalva, July 1943</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-last-jewish-birth-in-dulfalva.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-57729528841232038422023-05-29T09:29:00.001-04:002023-05-29T09:30:25.987-04:00International Newspapers: Rutners Becoming Landowners<p>My 4th great grandfather David Rutner was born in what is now Kolodne, Ukraine, but which was Darva, Austria-Hungary during his life. I've found various clues about his life over the years, but I know to always check where I've checked before, as more is getting digitized and discovered all the time. I semi-regularly check <a href="https://adt.arcanum.com/en/" target="_blank">Arcanum Digitheca</a>, a great resource for Hungarian newspapers, journals, and more, but it had been a while. And sure enough, when I checked recently, I found a newly-added 1857 article in German that mentioned David Ruthner from Darva!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOnxZwfD3KNPQwWk7EX87JT43ZwookPmUJusDwVJxwQQE5MDmSxAA1ieiYjWv6wEaDU_o7c-Dvw1jN53FpWzBTReGdeyRAki4k8FlVYgAWgpM3rEk0gbeOpeiMYFxSf-MD3iIH7L075VbV1Zfo886gvQulHJ-k4-lzr7_MP-ptJajM10nCBhglHw_EA/s1088/DavidRuthnerPesterLloyd1857Article.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="644" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOnxZwfD3KNPQwWk7EX87JT43ZwookPmUJusDwVJxwQQE5MDmSxAA1ieiYjWv6wEaDU_o7c-Dvw1jN53FpWzBTReGdeyRAki4k8FlVYgAWgpM3rEk0gbeOpeiMYFxSf-MD3iIH7L075VbV1Zfo886gvQulHJ-k4-lzr7_MP-ptJajM10nCBhglHw_EA/w378-h640/DavidRuthnerPesterLloyd1857Article.jpg" width="378"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pester Lloyd, February 5, 1857</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/05/international-newspapers-hungarian.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-62654194309175161062023-04-17T18:14:00.007-04:002023-04-25T11:14:34.953-04:00Yom Hashoah 2023<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) starts this evening. <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/holocaust-memorial-day.html">For the past six years</a>, <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/04/yom-hashoah-holocauast-memorial-day-2017.html">I have</a> <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/yom-hashoah-holocaust-memorial-day-2018.html">listed</a> the names of the family members I've found who were murdered in the Holocaust. <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/04/yom-hashoah-2020.html">In 2020, I listed 454 relatives</a>. In 2021, <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/04/yom-hashoah-2021.html" target="_blank">I listed 515</a>. In 2022, <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/04/yom-hashoah-2022.html" target="_blank">I listed 642</a>. And this year I list 916.<br>
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Every year, this list grows as I find new branches of my family--and then find that multiple members of those branches were killed between 1941 & 1945. This year I found 274 more people--and many other relatives whose fates are as yet unclear.<br>
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Publishing this yearly list is my one small way to make sure they are all remembered--all 916 of those currently on this list.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Front Row L-R: Yosef Wollich, Mendel Chechman, Devorah Chechman; Back Row L-R: Sara Fine Wollich, Moshe Wollich, Chaike Chechman. All were murdered in the Holocaust</span></td></tr>
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</div><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/04/yom-hashoah-2023.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-52822322222316055522023-04-02T10:13:00.000-04:002023-04-02T10:13:29.343-04:00Amazing Subcarpathian Records, Available Online<p>If you have family from what is now Zakarpattya Oblast, Ukraine, or from the areas immediately bordering (including towns in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary), there is an incredible newly-online resource available. There are records for both Jews and non-Jews in this collection. The predominant languages in the records are Hungarian and Slovakian, but there are also documents in Ukrainian, Yiddish, German, Romanian, and possibly more. I'll talk about where these are from, the types of documents I've found
so far, how to best navigate these records to find your family
members' documents, as well as how to deal with records in foreign (to you) languages below.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2bBlkj9QBnK_coQjuC_Y0ehlas6TMN8Rn0JTFNhmI1hqLUMjarlfiE9CDEiqUhy0gq3iSB3DuqoWd95N4al9jmcmZfOx73NTjVP3hCKvSx5NxFITN50z2qIn9WjTAj-BDFrNiTrzAG9DbxA-4se5Ws4pqQA0mZCM82D5PKmwF2oeavICtJnDIhCWDEQ/s3719/341-2-11-Image00230.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2582" data-original-width="3719" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2bBlkj9QBnK_coQjuC_Y0ehlas6TMN8Rn0JTFNhmI1hqLUMjarlfiE9CDEiqUhy0gq3iSB3DuqoWd95N4al9jmcmZfOx73NTjVP3hCKvSx5NxFITN50z2qIn9WjTAj-BDFrNiTrzAG9DbxA-4se5Ws4pqQA0mZCM82D5PKmwF2oeavICtJnDIhCWDEQ/w640-h444/341-2-11-Image00230.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Statement for Mendel Rutner (my 1C3R), as an industrialist, 1939 (page 2). This second page asks for the paternal and maternal grandparents for both himself and his spouse. It also asks for their children's dates of birth</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/04/amazing-subcarpathian-records-available.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-72233595867989776362023-02-05T11:16:00.000-05:002023-02-05T11:16:10.471-05:00Tips to Find Relatives on JewishGen<p>JewishGen is an incredible collection of resources, especially the databases containing millions of indexed records--which has thousands of new records being added each month. But both because of how JewishGen's search engine works as well as how records are being indexed from (mostly) Eastern European languages to English, you may not be finding indexed records that are there and you would want to find. This post will discuss some different techniques that could help you find these records. And if you have additional techniques, please add them in the comments to help other readers!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCEoH-BB0dQ4R5p6_ckKQT5YUY-34MzXlszhMJzCrFg_V0MQTyTx02YJrDV_OE6WEhBbPu5gJ7LaJP1_8IFQt9h1qBxLkX8lGZ0bXgxMmw4qKhRIGbxFPpCc0tt0o6IB6WzSXEmc5tGQUpciUsLhyK15anv8rG-uXIzWMpr1FcRyHR_R9wD8dAp9OqQ/s422/JewishGenSearch.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="422" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCEoH-BB0dQ4R5p6_ckKQT5YUY-34MzXlszhMJzCrFg_V0MQTyTx02YJrDV_OE6WEhBbPu5gJ7LaJP1_8IFQt9h1qBxLkX8lGZ0bXgxMmw4qKhRIGbxFPpCc0tt0o6IB6WzSXEmc5tGQUpciUsLhyK15anv8rG-uXIzWMpr1FcRyHR_R9wD8dAp9OqQ/w400-h248/JewishGenSearch.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">JewishGen's Search Interface</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/02/tips-to-find-relatives-on-jewishgen.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-59381466025927472712023-01-31T18:03:00.004-05:002023-01-31T18:56:03.412-05:00Records, Not Revenue: We Need Your Help<p>The USCIS Genealogy Program holds many historical records, including US immigrant A-Files and C-Files. These can be a treasure trove of information for genealogists, sometimes including original birth certificates, photos, and more. (To get an idea of the types of information you can get, you can see what I received for my grandfather <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/06/paul-diamonds-c-file-part-12.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/06/paul-diamonds-c-file-part-22.html" target="_blank">here</a>, as well as my grandmother <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/02/sonia-diamonds-c-file.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/11/sonia-diamonds-file.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p><p>The program has always been slow to respond (it took 16 months to get my grandmother's A-File, and that was with me sending regular pings) and not inexpensive. Back in 2020, USCIS tried to raise the already high rates by an exorbitant amount, and thankfully that request was denied. But they are trying again. And we need your help to stop this 269% (yes, 269%!!) fee hike from happening.</p><p>(And besides, many of these records should already be publicly and readily available at the National Archives, without having to deal with the bottleneck and transparency-free entity that is the USCIS Genealogy Program.) </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvV58GWArcZiQNnMWpLxhAo9J1Jg8szxouPHEhClS4y-PgRQmC4d66HWiHUVk2UmtaIFMG7ZCBFnrda_esn4ex5T7iTfvEY24fsE20AqzZj-JmLwH_sTZtB3W24ajdDC1NYkQMbwf_bjf/s640/RNR.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="640" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvV58GWArcZiQNnMWpLxhAo9J1Jg8szxouPHEhClS4y-PgRQmC4d66HWiHUVk2UmtaIFMG7ZCBFnrda_esn4ex5T7iTfvEY24fsE20AqzZj-JmLwH_sTZtB3W24ajdDC1NYkQMbwf_bjf/w640-h130/RNR.JPG" width="640"></a></div> <p></p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/records-not-revenue-we-need-your-help.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-43617845106846471522023-01-01T15:03:00.000-05:002023-01-01T15:03:47.383-05:00Hungarian Holocaust Survivors (And Other Yad Vashem Additions)<p>Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial, has been digitizing and indexing many Holocaust-related records and making them searchable by the public. Their Pages of Testimony, where people memorialized relatives who were murdered during the war, have been searchable for a while and are an invaluable resource. But even if you've looked at Yad Vashem's database of records in the past, it's definitely worth re-looking every so often because of the scope of record sets they've added.</p><p>One of their recent additions has been information about Hungarian Holocaust Survivors--including many that were from what is now Subcarpathian Ukraine (where my mother's mother's family originated)--which can help you identify relatives who survived the war.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Cb-a6tPnPydf-fFYFMSvzqB7Sr6n53JH51Oh1FwncIiZqKFkqDnHsnaUSr7zG1St2h2oPGdVNCupxejNbCPjksqLoo_pi7u3JX3fxrQsoLYogbFTQOWDEVql5kLR9OyOyIRge8JH527MIO36iPkohSHJKXw7fqCgaSgizpvh-FPnFNwrk2N30khdfA/s1876/SamuelRutnerYadVashemSurvive.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1241" data-original-width="1876" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Cb-a6tPnPydf-fFYFMSvzqB7Sr6n53JH51Oh1FwncIiZqKFkqDnHsnaUSr7zG1St2h2oPGdVNCupxejNbCPjksqLoo_pi7u3JX3fxrQsoLYogbFTQOWDEVql5kLR9OyOyIRge8JH527MIO36iPkohSHJKXw7fqCgaSgizpvh-FPnFNwrk2N30khdfA/w640-h424/SamuelRutnerYadVashemSurvive.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Survivor Card for my 2nd cousin twice removed Samuel Ruttner/Fuchs</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/hungarian-holocaust-survivors-and-other.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-7571029424562290932022-11-28T20:19:00.001-05:002022-11-28T20:19:48.998-05:00JewishGen's Newly-Indexed Ukraine Records--Strategies to Increase Found Family<p>JewishGen's Ukraine Research Division just announced the spectacular news that they have added over 200,000 newly-indexed records to JewishGen's databases, with a promise of more to come. For those of us with Ukrainian ancestry, this is huge! The newly-indexed records are wonderful and will make these records more accessible to researchers--but there are some quirks I've seen that could inhibit searchers from finding records that have been indexed. I'm going to talk about some of these and give you strategies to find records impacted by these quirks--assuming they've been indexed, of course!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP8VEpR8f71moNMIfiPen4OJ6yBlZfhckGwA92Jak4PerZlP_qVP5B1l1eotrS-limazTK8rqMXORA_m1M1VLEGB01uW40pra6VGOenAbiSHGXroBZdbXmc26BqL_CVdRH_3GxVR_SdNObdcK8f3SerR3suIOMD1lzDJmxX2r_whYv2ynVETQseVkzQ/s1522/JewishGenLogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="1522" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP8VEpR8f71moNMIfiPen4OJ6yBlZfhckGwA92Jak4PerZlP_qVP5B1l1eotrS-limazTK8rqMXORA_m1M1VLEGB01uW40pra6VGOenAbiSHGXroBZdbXmc26BqL_CVdRH_3GxVR_SdNObdcK8f3SerR3suIOMD1lzDJmxX2r_whYv2ynVETQseVkzQ/w640-h162/JewishGenLogo.jpg" width="640"></a></div><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/jewishgens-newly-indexed-ukraine.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-68737195001891039592022-11-20T12:04:00.000-05:002022-11-20T12:04:43.142-05:00Ancestry's Concentration Camp Collection - Town Searches<p>Ancestry has a collection of <a href="https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61764/" target="_blank">records from concentration camps</a>. These records can help you learn the fate of relatives, or at least where they were for a period of time during WWII. Some also have significant genealogical information--parents' names, spouses names (with maiden names for the mother and spouse, when applicable), and at times there are photos. Not everyone who was in a concentration camp has records included in this collection (especially those who were murdered upon arrival), but many are.<br></p><p>While searching just for surnames can help you locate relatives, I've found that searching for town names--with some caveats--can often be even more powerful.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVopsl0OGtKpSbddwJItFjRBRNnwiWy81aTlfNs3VIBDK9LR_BCiL73882WRW9I9-8vDUwe6ZhREhUgRqmw_LeplBIM-n5FBMZiVFxJLW7lV2e4E81vVaHw716z7BuH2ISjHZlQC0MFWjxCFRLG9F06HYaiEhEQiLXKnC0bPGKhuZwubSm3ONrzBXuAg/s3182/DavidRutnerConcCamp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3182" data-original-width="2156" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVopsl0OGtKpSbddwJItFjRBRNnwiWy81aTlfNs3VIBDK9LR_BCiL73882WRW9I9-8vDUwe6ZhREhUgRqmw_LeplBIM-n5FBMZiVFxJLW7lV2e4E81vVaHw716z7BuH2ISjHZlQC0MFWjxCFRLG9F06HYaiEhEQiLXKnC0bPGKhuZwubSm3ONrzBXuAg/w434-h640/DavidRutnerConcCamp.jpg" width="434"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Concentration Camp Intake Form; David Ruttner (my 4th cousin twice removed)</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/11/ancestrys-concentration-camp-collection.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-29160746615768303862022-10-23T11:00:00.000-04:002022-10-23T11:00:46.954-04:00Westernized Ancestral Names<p>My great-great grandfather was Yechiel Suttleman. He did come to the United States, although his first two wives did not (as they had died in Europe). On official papers in America, he used the name Charles or Charlie. His first wife, Kreina, never left Europe or used any westernized name, same as wife #2, Chana. But how do these three people appear on their children's records?</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7fnTt-2z8tTpAdb1lZog5a2L5inOEhBfN-OGBK6n0cOx6IszjYJHGlmB4NP6TEiYtXjmJpcL4zMf0ArOXuRjj_CWRHcu0YoE0gd8QDclBeJsL18OChtaNeE7WQ_l7JOYg_JDMODlUwHj24yBmBg5CHFLAgiUW0mifc_D0fssIGcUBd5TU2tEBrfsdbw/s1246/RosaPaciornikDeath2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="1246" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7fnTt-2z8tTpAdb1lZog5a2L5inOEhBfN-OGBK6n0cOx6IszjYJHGlmB4NP6TEiYtXjmJpcL4zMf0ArOXuRjj_CWRHcu0YoE0gd8QDclBeJsL18OChtaNeE7WQ_l7JOYg_JDMODlUwHj24yBmBg5CHFLAgiUW0mifc_D0fssIGcUBd5TU2tEBrfsdbw/w640-h222/RosaPaciornikDeath2.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Death Record of Roza Zutelman Paciornik; Curitiba, Brazil; 1945</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/westernized-ancestral-names.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-5250421576797567822022-10-12T18:12:00.000-04:002022-10-12T18:12:50.568-04:0080th Yahrtzeit of Senkevichivka Ghetto's Destruction--Details per my grandmother<p>Tonight into tomorrow (18th of Tishrei) marks the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Senkevychivka Ghetto. On that day, thousands of my paternal grandparents' relatives, friends and neighbors were murdered. Among those were three of my great grandparents, a great-great grandfather, great aunts and uncles, and many other relatives. My teenaged grandfather was out of the ghetto on that day on a work detail, but my grandmother was there. I've transcribed her life story before (you can read her nine-part story <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/01/sonia-diamond-july-14-1922-january-2.html" target="_blank">here</a> covering her life before and during the Holocaust). But today I'm going to repeat the chapter about the ghetto's destruction, from her perspective. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSq8nchjvxtI6g1Z-YQKuhDNbL9xp0MSNDYJTLVdic56uiIl-jKSqxZ6nZNrK6uNiJAr8mrAyfIRk-XKXLB9Bvqf9SPGaWCa8KyamV_ZVvxpfCLi_MQHDnWTT8UnlNCMJiFxNDiKNXwzJZaHkfTUJBBKg78Gi9GkHwZWRHCovugtM9xltivKa6-5JeQ/s3926/BaichFromOriginal2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3926" data-original-width="2726" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSq8nchjvxtI6g1Z-YQKuhDNbL9xp0MSNDYJTLVdic56uiIl-jKSqxZ6nZNrK6uNiJAr8mrAyfIRk-XKXLB9Bvqf9SPGaWCa8KyamV_ZVvxpfCLi_MQHDnWTT8UnlNCMJiFxNDiKNXwzJZaHkfTUJBBKg78Gi9GkHwZWRHCovugtM9xltivKa6-5JeQ/w444-h640/BaichFromOriginal2.jpg" width="444"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">My grandmother is on the right, with her arm on her grandmother's shoulder. Her younger sister Malia is to the right. And her parents are in the center. Her grandmother had died before the war.</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span></span></p><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/80th-yahrtzeit-of-senkevichivka-ghettos.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-91137090130611365262022-10-02T12:37:00.000-04:002022-10-02T12:37:51.712-04:00Check and Check Again / Town Searches<p>It's important to keep up-to-date on record sets that are newly digitized &/or newly indexed that might give clues about your family. It's why I consistently re-do searches on JewishGen, Ancestry, FamilySearch, and more. Just recently, a new batch of records was added to JewishGen which helped me to find out more about some branches of my family, and I found it re-doing a search I'd done many times before. And while I did then search in that record set for some of my family surnames, searching for ancestral towns found even more branches than I would have discovered otherwise.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIhkrZIf_V92pKSAUMfEyyz_8aziLOyX9b1SaDO3aY2oL6pM6bKp-VHyL_ZOPaZHSnJbuvFBeMpjHW50z39QcP5SvJn6oJ9wpadoTgz8N4YsohRLdWr_hE3rz2cn8Gsvpi31Wcy4T81SJU83-4AB3-nbW0SGaZLb8eDncrI1bF2zZobP9jM3zBBv4CA/s1657/Fried1930CzechCensus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1205" data-original-width="1657" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIhkrZIf_V92pKSAUMfEyyz_8aziLOyX9b1SaDO3aY2oL6pM6bKp-VHyL_ZOPaZHSnJbuvFBeMpjHW50z39QcP5SvJn6oJ9wpadoTgz8N4YsohRLdWr_hE3rz2cn8Gsvpi31Wcy4T81SJU83-4AB3-nbW0SGaZLb8eDncrI1bF2zZobP9jM3zBBv4CA/w640-h466/Fried1930CzechCensus.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1930 Czechoslovakian Census; Fried Family; Kosice, Slovakia</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/10/check-and-check-again-town-searches.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-67202756110414081342022-08-21T13:16:00.000-04:002022-08-21T13:16:20.734-04:00Eastern European Archives' Webpages / Finding more Diments<p>Eastern European archives historically did not have much of a web presence, and those that had webpages generally didn't have digitized records. Well, that has changed over the last decade! The Polish State Archives and the Latvian State Historical Archives are at the forefront of making records accessible by digitization. But other countries are catching up--including Ukraine. Despite the current war (and perhaps as a consequence, with archives realizing that physical records are in danger), Ukrainian archives continue to digitize records. I keep a close eye on branches that would hold records for my ancestral towns, following their Facebook pages, and looking at their webpages to watch for newly-added digitized records. Most of those records aren't for towns I'm researching (but perhaps they cover areas of interest to <i>you</i>). But some are.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTyQBiEVrnPYygct6EFAIJ8T_Qhrkavlm-20YyxFy-Jt_9OkR8mgFB91tM3_knEby5XenZQm_aZ6bfE4tzl8Xb3HMRcpMwCJ7TaTFae6u-yU90JlM-6Lcjt25zqD_RwA8JYJX3OGnpD5-7OvAHNQ0JS0rYKNnkgjNjaFZ8-HhUu7VT-Bh_PqryKR_1hg/s922/ChaimLajbDimentLutskCensus1920P1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="922" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTyQBiEVrnPYygct6EFAIJ8T_Qhrkavlm-20YyxFy-Jt_9OkR8mgFB91tM3_knEby5XenZQm_aZ6bfE4tzl8Xb3HMRcpMwCJ7TaTFae6u-yU90JlM-6Lcjt25zqD_RwA8JYJX3OGnpD5-7OvAHNQ0JS0rYKNnkgjNjaFZ8-HhUu7VT-Bh_PqryKR_1hg/w640-h444/ChaimLajbDimentLutskCensus1920P1.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chaim-Lejb Diment & Family; 1920 Lutsk Census (page 1)</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/08/eastern-european-archives-webpages.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-29264241988109770642022-08-01T20:14:00.003-04:002022-08-01T20:49:02.247-04:00Ashkenazic Shared DNA Survey - August 2022 Update<p>Thank you to everyone who has contributed data about shared DNA in
people with Ashkenazic ancestry! I have 6455 data points to analyze,
and that should help the entire genetic genealogy community (I'm still
collecting data--you can find out more about the project and how to
contribute <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/01/ashkenazic-jewish-shared-dna-survey.html">here</a>).<br>
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This iteration looks at how shared DNA will differ depending on how much (documented) Ashkenazi DNA each individual has.<br>
<span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/08/ashkenazic-shared-dna-survey-august.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-45124743680452125992022-07-31T14:15:00.000-04:002022-07-31T14:15:29.030-04:00Probable Relatives Becoming Definite Relatives - Keep Track of Those Stray Branches!<p>I'll often find a family with the surname that I'm researching, in a place nearby where my family lived, but where I don't know for sure how (or even if!) they are actually related to me. I keep track of these families and often can connect them into my larger trees later; other times I'm able to prove that they're actually <i>not</i> related to the family I've been researching. I'm always glad later that I've kept track of these stray branches, because the information is often helpful.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfwT-yFOgqKeWLsoqAxVDUTz17fnHxiLzk59B14EP3EnxjstIQiAzDOFEkR3ZicS6Wks4hISZS0P0CaMymouN2Ayz07qoTiYNSIZXUqX90jLKenf_a1yv9pwemRZO1gB8mRFVcH5b9Ch6odkheYe-SWrN5JiuSPBiXzNqYx97sk0RMlfRMTxcvO1a5w/s438/YerachmielDimentBirth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="438" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfwT-yFOgqKeWLsoqAxVDUTz17fnHxiLzk59B14EP3EnxjstIQiAzDOFEkR3ZicS6Wks4hISZS0P0CaMymouN2Ayz07qoTiYNSIZXUqX90jLKenf_a1yv9pwemRZO1gB8mRFVcH5b9Ch6odkheYe-SWrN5JiuSPBiXzNqYx97sk0RMlfRMTxcvO1a5w/w640-h638/YerachmielDimentBirth.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Birth of Yerachmiel Diment; Torchin; 1926</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/07/probable-relatives-becoming-definite.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-67131417729030704112022-07-10T06:51:00.002-04:002022-07-11T19:49:31.500-04:00Chernigov Guberniya Jewish Community Records, 1839-1842<p>(ADDITION: Please do not contact me asking me to search for your specific ancestral surname. A link to the records are below, so you can search for as many names as you want. And yes, I had to add this because of the number of personal requests I've received--there are over 1000 pages here!) <br></p><p>Two days before the Russians invaded Ukraine, I had sent money to Chernihiv Archives to get records that I thought would contain metrical (vital) records for the Nizhyn/Nezhin Jewish community. Once the invasion happened, I (understandably!) didn't receive the records. So I was very surprised to get a recent email letting me know that my records were ready to be downloaded. And I was also surprised to see what was actually in this (huge) file.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhgKFj0XPchbmjQQa0KUD0oFaLsAklGE9xZhZ3RX_iUAgw_6TLvQwEelasYccpWVUe0yGENAbPBk4sOW1jhiqJet5cTsBks1TaN0rTpZYfOH6JbGjQx4rNcsuwd29kx440K1DPYrL5XmHUUS-zwvSeV3FwC13J5Ux0pkbRASSnPqrtzf3z_jCMzojGzQ/s5237/804-03494474-l-a-w-127-1-3999-0778.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4100" data-original-width="5237" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhgKFj0XPchbmjQQa0KUD0oFaLsAklGE9xZhZ3RX_iUAgw_6TLvQwEelasYccpWVUe0yGENAbPBk4sOW1jhiqJet5cTsBks1TaN0rTpZYfOH6JbGjQx4rNcsuwd29kx440K1DPYrL5XmHUUS-zwvSeV3FwC13J5Ux0pkbRASSnPqrtzf3z_jCMzojGzQ/w640-h502/804-03494474-l-a-w-127-1-3999-0778.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A page of family lists</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/07/chernigov-guberniya-jewish-community.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-35364978932101394412022-06-12T11:58:00.000-04:002022-06-12T11:58:28.007-04:00Full Siblings Different Surnames - Important Austria-Hungarian Surname Impacts<p>I've <a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/delayed-austro-hungarian-marriages.html" target="_blank">mentioned before</a> that many couples in Austria-Hungary never civilly registered their marriages, or only registered them years after the fact. These couples had religious weddings, and their communities considered them fully married, but the government considered their children to be illegitimate, and therefore they were given their mothers' surnames. Multiple successive generations of religious-only marriages could have a major impact on surnames used by children--and sometimes full siblings within the same family would use different surnames. Without accounting for this, you could miss records and full branches of your family. Here's how this phenomenon manifested itself in one family.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88jdajBjfiDfrVva35W5xWpVSVuVitm7q8nK7_S4kz5uQH0Cy9Y_E4DXr2C2eMXsLpIOzJAisVYq5jaaMGRKTO0esrFKrjBuwabK_NFc_efSVdR2oxtjy7fdN1pAaiCjhr0g9_jAUtGzZVzyO1Yc7_6SbhA7T7aoUDB8jX2RS5X4rh-nN4Bno6aVyQw/s1192/JudeszStauberBirth1892.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="1192" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88jdajBjfiDfrVva35W5xWpVSVuVitm7q8nK7_S4kz5uQH0Cy9Y_E4DXr2C2eMXsLpIOzJAisVYq5jaaMGRKTO0esrFKrjBuwabK_NFc_efSVdR2oxtjy7fdN1pAaiCjhr0g9_jAUtGzZVzyO1Yc7_6SbhA7T7aoUDB8jX2RS5X4rh-nN4Bno6aVyQw/w640-h142/JudeszStauberBirth1892.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Judesz Stober/Kaufman Birth; 1892</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/06/full-siblings-different-surnames.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1011190131897264422.post-41404346947097368672022-05-30T17:23:00.001-04:002022-05-31T19:25:59.183-04:00Giving Them Names - Finding Names of Holocaust Victims<p>My grandmother was able to tell me about her mother's first cousin, Chaim Fine. Chaim was killed in the Holocaust--as were his wife and their daughters. But my grandmother couldn't remember the names of Chaim's wife and girls. And after watching the Shoah Foundation video of one of her other cousins, he also just mentioned "Uncle Chaim and his children." For more than three decades, Chaim's wife and daughters have been listed on my family tree as "Wife of Chaim Fine" and "Daughter1 of Chaim Fine," etc. I've been able to identify and memorialize more distant relatives who were killed in the Holocaust, but these Fine cousins' names were just a huge gap. But now I am able to give them names.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2puCQ5VFwgxvBaqzPPhi_qiDM-dJcwHrCBlO4cM7VjWSFlsDFvyNc5H9DIEz0qNdS0VgASWPS6MVcViQHYZ_PasomO_aiTlrGCtPS8y6bjMhsnFeNbN19IV9m6TpNHp1wcSwH1eLeDMNhpUQqiuICayds1XfzJFww1jKPylPUdQHzvxVhT8S6cDnYiw/s1800/Szklin%20kolonia%20Fajn.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="1800" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2puCQ5VFwgxvBaqzPPhi_qiDM-dJcwHrCBlO4cM7VjWSFlsDFvyNc5H9DIEz0qNdS0VgASWPS6MVcViQHYZ_PasomO_aiTlrGCtPS8y6bjMhsnFeNbN19IV9m6TpNHp1wcSwH1eLeDMNhpUQqiuICayds1XfzJFww1jKPylPUdQHzvxVhT8S6cDnYiw/w640-h132/Szklin%20kolonia%20Fajn.png" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fajn Family, 1932</span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><a href="https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/05/giving-them-names-finding-names-of.html#more">Continue Reading »</a>Lara Diamondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01059622807880866607noreply@blogger.com2