Category Archives: Research Tools

Some Online Resources for WWI Ukrainian Pogroms

Posted by Ann Rabinowitz Ukrainian Orphans, 1919, Warsaw, Poland (On Their Way to South Africa) Resources that focus on the condition of the Ukrainian Jewish population during and after World War I are sometimes hard to find. The reason for … Continue reading

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Journal of a Lifetime

From the Los Angeles Jewish JournalThis year’s 30th annual International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) brings to Los Angeles an organization that helped me during the years I spent researching my own family’s history for my book “How Will … Continue reading

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Guest Post – Researching Your Jewish Family History and Heritage

Guest Post by Jennifer Alford Note: This is the first part of a series of articles describing how family researchers can use JewishGen and other tools to discover their Jewish family history and heritage. In 2008, I suffered a great … Continue reading

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Success! Finding My Relatives with Skype, Google, Facebook and, of course, JewishGen

About a year ago on this blog, I reported of my success using JewishGen to locate my TABAKIN family that was separated by the Holocaust. (You can read that article here). This encouraged me to continue the search, and today … Continue reading

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Commemorative Booklets and Community Blue Books

By Ann Rabinowitz Recently, I was sorting through old items and found a commemorative booklet entitled “Beth Emeth Journal, 1963, for the synagogue that my family was a founding member of in the 1950’s.  The synagogue was Beth Emeth in … Continue reading

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From Beyond The Grave: The Warsaw Ghetto

By Ann Rabinowitz Very often, resources can reach you in various and diverse ways.  The latest one came via my cousin Natalie Wood by a Facebook communication which she had gotten from her contact Frank Baigel, Chairman of the Jewish … Continue reading

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YouTube: A Genealogical Tool

By Ann Rabinowitz One of the tools that developed in this the Internet age is YouTube, (www.youtube.com), a relative newcomer created in 2005 by three friends, who were former employees of PayPal.  The streaming video content allows easy transmission of … Continue reading

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