Dorot Back Issues

Features: The Development of a Research Project from Conception to Completion [Remembrance of Synagogues Past: The Lost Civilization of the Jewish South Bronx, a book published online]; The Missing New York Passenger List Index; Genealogical Research Can Require Time, Tenacity, and Travel: Researching a German Jewish Ancestor; Online Directories to Manuscript and Archival Collections. Program Reports: The Saga of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the United States; Sneak Preview: The Center for Jewish History’s Dynamic New Website and Online Catalog; New York Genealogy on the Web.

Features: Lucille Gudis, 1933-2005 z”l; Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting; Finding a Sergeant [follow-up to In Search of a Sergeant, 26:1-2]; A Conversation with Rabbi Avraham Laber [Jewishdata.com]; Letters from the Dead [letters written by Jews held in the Lodz ghetto that are housed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]. Program Reports: JGS Membership Brunch; My Grandfather’s House: The Journey Home.

Features: Bibliography of Selected Jewish-American Manuscript and General Collections in the New-York Historical Society Library; The IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee; Family History Archive [LDS’s online digitization book project]; What’s New in Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, 2005. Program Reports: Genealogy: The Last Frontier in the Historiography of the Holocaust; Castle Garden Records: 19th Century New York City Immigration History. 

Features: Reports from the 2005 IAJGS Conference. Program Reports: HIAS: Reconnecting with the Past; What Became of Them? The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers; The Treasures of the United States History, Local History and Genealogy Division and the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library; Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors: Using Resources from the National Archives.

 Features: Bringing Bukaczowce Back to Life; Suggested Genealogical Resources for a Jewish Library; Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz; In Search of a Sergeant; Genealogical Research from Moscow to Queens. Program Reports: The First Settlers and the First Synagogue; Yad Vashem – Pages of Testimony Online; Using Records of New York State Institutional Hospitals; Yizkor Books Online.

Features:Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online™: A Valuable, Free Resource for Genealogists; Reports from the IAJGS 24th International Conference, July 4-9, 2004, Jerusalem; Gershon’s Story; Orphanage Records at the American Jewish Historical Society. Program Reports: Combining Genealogical and Family Trait Genetic Research; Next-Gen Genealogy: Exciting Pre-teens and Teens about Family History; Read All about It! Historical Newspaper Research; The Jews of Sing-Sing: Might One of Them Belong on Your Family Tree?; Book Reviews: Chinese Exile: My Years in Shanghai and Nanking; From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History.

Features: Heritage Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries; Surname Navigator Online; Hidden Children of the Holocaust and Their Recovery of Jewish Identity. Program Reports: American Jewish Committee, Office of War Records, 1918-1921, and National Jewish Welfare Board, Bureau of War Records, 1940-1969; How to Use the Belarus SIG Website to Find Your Belarussian Ancestors and Their Shtetls; “Beyond the Basics” Seminar; Jewishdata.com.

Features: Researching in London; Next-Gen Genealogy: Teens and Genes: Can We Excite Jewish Teenagers about Genealogy? Here’s How the Samberg Family History Program Does It. Program Reports: Jewish Given Names: Why Is Mordecai, Mortka and Also Max?; Understanding Your Galician Vital Records; the International IAJGS 24th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; The Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy; Polish Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project.

Features: How the JGS Anniversary Luncheon Changed Jewish New York; Washington DC 2003: A Capital Conference. 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (reports); “Only in New York” (New York City resources); Genealogical Projects of the Israel Genealogical Society Prepared for the 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, July 4-9, 2004; Next-Gen Genealogy: The Bar Mitzvah Connection. Using Genealogy to Enrich the Bar Mitzvah Experience–and Vice Versa; Genealogy 101: The 12-Step Approach. A Primer for the Novice Genealogist. Book Reviews: The Enemy at His Pleasure; Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World; From Suwalki to St. Ignace: A History of the Rosenthal, Reinhertz, Blumrosen, Winkelman and Related Families.

Features: How the JGS Anniversary Luncheon Changed Jewish New York; Washington DC 2003: A Capital Conference. 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (reports); “Only in New York” (New York City resources); Genealogical Projects of the Israel Genealogical Society Prepared for the 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, July 4-9, 2004; Next-Gen Genealogy: The Bar Mitzvah Connection. Using Genealogy to Enrich the Bar Mitzvah Experience–and Vice Versa; Genealogy 101: The 12-Step Approach. A Primer for the Novice Genealogist. Book Reviews: The Enemy at His Pleasure; Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World; From Suwalki to St. Ignace: A History of the Rosenthal, Reinhertz, Blumrosen, Winkelman and Related Families.