Can You Name Your Eight Great-Grandparents?
WEINER, MIRIAM
Can You Name Your Eight Great-Grandparents? Exploring Your Jewish Roots Leads to a Link with the Past I am traveling alone. I have a wife and four children in Russia. I am a farm laborer. I have...
...I traced Ricardo through the Vienna telephone directory...
...ington requires completion of a detailed form...
...Most will be pleased to cooperate...
...Louis, where he was naturalized...
...1987...
...We obtained more names and telephone numbers as well as invitations to visit our Soviet relatives...
...relationships of family members who perished during the Shoah...
...atlases, gazetteers and other sources...
...A letter to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, yielded the names of two Odnopozows who perished in Treblinka...
...In the process, I have experienced a renewed pride in my Jewish heritage and a special bonding with my ancestors...
...IL 60648...
...Through the National Archives in Washington, D.C., I sent for the ship manifest for the SS Numidian, arriving from Glasgow, Scodand...
...Census records taken every ten years since 1790 and available at the National Archives in Washington, D.C...
...1870-1910...
...Washington, DC 20540 See: Local History 4 Genealogy, Hebraic Division, Map Division...
...I have logged many Frequent-flyer miles in pursuit of family history and in ancestor-hunting...
...I have also had fun...
...Many of the investigative techniques deHow to Begin Your Genealogical Research • Begin your search with what is familiar...
...censuses for greater New York area...
...When Alexander Rabkin immigrated to America in 1904, he had considerable wealth in comparison to his fellow immigrants...
...Israel Memorial to victims of the Holocaust, extensive library and archives includes more than 2.5 million Pages of Testimony completed by surviving relatives and friends...
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...As old-dmers maintain, her older sister lives in Priluki but has changed her surname...
...Old local newspapers can also provide information...
...Epstein...
...Do you know: the name, of the ship and port of entry...
...These often list family members and relationships as well as personal possessions...
...The Soviet SAGAS will distribute inquiries to the appropriate archives and establish research methods and guides...
...I asked...
...On a local level, the naturalization records are generally indexed alphabetically...
...Leo Baeck Institute, 129 E. 73rd St...
...Guzik, Estelle M...
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...Kurzweil, Arthur and Miriam Weiner...
...Rosenstein, Neil...
...Periodicals • Avotaynu: The International Review ol Jewish Genealogy...
...published genealogies and family histories...
...Throughout my journey into the past and the exploration of my family history, I have discovered previously unknown relatives and reunited branches of the family who have been out of touch for generations...
...More conventional records include the marriage record for my maternal grandparents, Alexander Rabkin and Marrie Adnopoz (as Miriam's name appears on the marriage certificate), who were married in 1905 in Brooklyn...
...Panstwowega Muzeum at Majdanek, Droga Meczennikow Majdanka 67, Lublin 20-325...
...I have no money...
...these copies listed a dozen people with the name I had requested—my family name, "Odnopozow...
...Record and organize your data on charts...
...What are some of your early childhood memories...
...Before glasnost, the frustration of having to find other sources to trace Russian relatives led me to the Library of Congress's substantial collection of Soviet telephone books...
...It added 70 names to my growing family tree...
...Were those letters saved...
...Map Room: Extensive and detailed map collection...
...A Course in Jewish Famfy History...
...New York: Jewish Genealogical Society, 1989...
...Box 48102, Niles...
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...getting immigration records from Washfor various cities and towns in the Soviet Union...
...I had previously determined the ship name from my grandfather's naturalization petition...
...Although I was unaware of specific family members who perished during the Shoah, it soon became obvious that our family could not have escaped completely because many of them had remained in Russia...
...Israel State Archives, P.O...
...relatives assumed that the entire family had emigrated or perished during the Shoah...
...I asked Gertie for whom she was named...
...Like millions of others, I trace my roots to the Soviet Union—to Russia where the spirit of glasnost is just beginning to provide a gliriimer of hope for avid genealogists...
...Kaganoff...
...There are also the Jewish genetic diseases to consider...
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...Were there any special family traditions that have been handed .down through the years...
...My grandfather, Alexander Rabkin, caused me grief because he seldom gave the same date of birth...
...For names of victims at Majdanek, write to Krystyna Madalowa...
...In developing your family history, you can create a medical chart of your ancestors...
...The petition also lists names and birth dates for Morris's children and has a photo of Morris attached...
...maps...
...National Archives coordinator, Patricia Eames, and N. N. Mitrofanov, first deputy director general of the Main Archival Administration of the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers, providing for the future establishment of the Soviet American Genealogical Archival Service (SAGAS) to facilitate family history searches in the Soviet Union...
...database of Jewish communities based on entries from Encyclopedia Judaica...
...Chester G. ShtefJ Fmder Gazetteer...
...Subsequendy, the son changed his name from Odnopozow to Ud, which I learned means "firebrand from the fire...
...rabbinic materials, family histories, biographies, Jewish community histories, yizkor books and data on tombstones in Jewish cemeteries...
...I have met many of my pen pals and revel in the stories they tell me about growing up in the old country...
...Do you know of any relatives who have recorded the family history...
...I received a long letter from Ricardo Odnoposoff a few months later, telling me about a family gathering in Moscow attended by several branches of our family, all related to one another but not previously known to each other until my telephone calls from Holland...
...The marriage application disclosed the names of both sets of grandparents, including maiden names, and listed another relative who witnessed the marriage...
...Contact synagogues where your ancestors lived for local histories of the community...
...Beth Hatelutsoth (Museum of the Diaspora), P.O...
...A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel Baltimore-Genealogical Publishmg, 1987...
...extensive Holocaust material from World Jewish Congress Archives...
...censuses for data about ancestors...
...My adventures in genealogy began 20 years ago when, during a visit to New York, I telephoned relatives whom I had never met...
...Jewish Theological Seminary Library, 3080 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Largest collecbon of Hebraica-Judaica in the Western hemisphere, including records of French and Moroccan Jewish communities...
...On file are copies of The Holocaust: The Nuremberg Evidence...
...Do you have names and addresses of relatives who continue to live in the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe...
...Morris Weiner's declaration provided the date and place of his birth, a physical description, the name and place of birth of his wife (my grandmother) and the specifics of his arrival: Liverpool to New York, arriving December 29, 1912, on the SS Celtic...
...Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the U.S.S.R., Vol...
...and many personal records...
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...Collections of Orthodox Jewish institutions and individuals...
...New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978...
...Sack, Sallyann Amdur and Suzan Fisher Wynne Russian Consular Records ^.ayi and Catalog...
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...A priestly tribunal, which convened in a special room in the Temple, was responsible for the upkeep of the genealogical lists and the verification of genealogical data...
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...For the Kohanim (priests), a general genealogical list was maintained in the Temple, which recorded genealogical information on all priestly families...
...Gazetteers and maps, including pre 19th century New York City maps...
...1986...
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...To discover more about the towns where my grandparents grew up, I placed notices in Jewish newspapers throughout the world...
...Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing...
...My next find was aerial photos for the towns, available through the National Archives in Washington, D.C...
...Microfilm can be brought by request to the nearest branch library upon payment of small fee...
...YWO Institute for Jewish Research...
...I turned to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which put me in touch with my Denver cousin, Vladimir...
...Yad Vashem...
...Unfortunately, I waited too long to ask those questions of my own grandparents and I am grateful to hear similar stories secondhand...
...Articles on methodology and data...
...these documents are also available from Immigration and Naturalization Services in Washington, D.C...
...New York: Henry Holt...
...I continued searching for my cousin Ricardo Odnoposoff, whose name I discovered in a listing from Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, sent to me by a friend...
...On the American side, SAGAS will be a clearinghouse to provide assistance on genealogical inquiries and will be located in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA...
...Hirsch Zukerman Galveston, Texas, 1910 Hirsch Zukerman, of Sudilkov, a shtetl southwest of Kiev, was typical, of millions of apprehensive Russian immigrants as they entered these shores...
...What is required is an inquisitive mind, imagination, persistence and patience—the traits of the successful researcher...
...In Russia, people stated that I could get work here...
...Hungary...
...This gave me his name in the old country, a name often unknown to present-day descendants of immigrants...
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...Wiesenttial, Simon...
...Grimsted explains the Soviet Union's complex archival system in her three volume Russian archive directory (see box, p. 46...
...Search: The Quarterly Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society ol annas...
...A central telephone operator in Moscow handled this procedure...
...In 1956, the surviving son submitted two Pages of Testimony to Yad Vashem for his mother and brother listing his address...
...Soon I received the Manifest of Alien Passengers for the United States, which told me that my grandfather was 29 when he arrived in New York from Sudilkov...
...District Court in St...
...The petition included name and address of a relative at his destination, occupation, age and last residence...
...The passenger record also revealed that my grandfather could read and write...
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...When did he/she come...
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...New York...
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...What contact continued with the old country...
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...Bowie...
...Jewish Genealogy: A Sourcebook of Family Histories <S Genealogies...
...Do you know of any cousins (including distant cousins) who emigrated to the U.S., Canada, South America, England, France, Australia, South Africa and Israel before and after World Wars I and II...
...Zukerman, speaking in Yiddish, described his plight during a meeting of a Board of Special Inquiry held at the Jewish Immigrant Home in Galveston on July 29, 1910...
...On an employment application he stated 1890 as his How To Find Information Archives and Libraries • American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave...
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...Each time, she replied "no...
...Luba Odnopozov worked in 1944-1945 in the town archives, then she married and left town...
...He later sent it to me via Ricardo, drawn on cardboard and taped together in sections...
...Files of aerial and ground level photos birth date because, he didn't want his prospective employer to know he was really 75 years old...
...Documents (Jacob Robinson and Henry Sachs), jointly published by Yad Vashem and the YTVO Institute for Jewish Research (1976), includes a digest, index and chronological tables...
...Later, when he was ready to request social security benefits, he listed his true date of birth—1875...
...1983...
...Researchers are now studying family trees to get to the root of genetic diseases...
...One person, however, who has had virtually unlimited access to Soviet archives is Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, a research associate at the Ukrainian Research Institute and a fellow of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University...
...Jerusalem 91034...
...NJ: Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy...
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...Box 3477...
...Local History & Genealogy: Indices to federal census records...
...Germany...
...Who was the first ancestor in your family to immigrate from the old country...
...Los Angeles: American Congress of Jews from Poland and Survivors of Concentration Camps, 1985...
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...court records...
...A. My wife's mother sold her home and gave me the money...
...Kurzweil, Arthur, from Generation to Generation...
...Mogilanski, Roman...
...1987...
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...Kurzweil, Arthur...
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...There are also a number of computer programs available for this purpose...
...Baltimore: Ottenheimer Publishers, 1990...
...The Russian operators were generally not cooperative, but persistence paid off...
...Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, P.O...
...During the same trip to Tulsa, I went to the hospital where my grandfather had died and requested copies of his patient history...
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...veloped in the course of interviewing witnesses apply as well to oral histories of family members (see box on p. 48...
...Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies IAJGS), 1485 Teaneck Rd., Teaneck...
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...Box 1149, Jerusalem 91919, Israel Holdings include Turkish census records...
...He and his brother Adolfo Odnoposoff, violinist and cellist respectively, were listed as musicians who had played many concerts in the Soviet Union...
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...tory...
...Louis and a short time later, my grandmother Malka married my grandfather, Morris Weiner, then known as Moische Winikur...
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...Grimsted...
...I learned he had three sisters, in addition to the two brothers known to me...
...European Division...
...Even within the framework of glasnost, access to vital records and on-site research in the Soviet Union is not yet possible...
...Gertie smiled and said, "My father's sister...
...My paternal grandfather, Morris Weiner, came to this country in 1912, according to his "first papers," known officially as the Declaration of Intention (to become a citizen...
...Eventually we added more than 70 names to the growing Odnopozow family tree...
...Did any of the family members serve in the military armed forces, either here or in the old country...
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...in one case, the tree exceeds 20 feet in length...
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...This cardboard family tree was in Russian, of course, but it has since been translated by my Denver cousin, Vladimir, who has pledged to help preserve our mutual family history...
...Records for the U.S...
...Check cemetery records...
...I began researching where Sudilkov and nearby Shepetovka were on the map, what life was like there and what Morris Weiner/ Winikur left behind...
...A 1912 death certificate in Albany introduced me to my previously unknown great-grandmother, Hodey Retshinsky Adnopoz, who died one year prior to my mother's birth...
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...In this instance, a letter to the city of Albany with the approximate date of death (within a three-year span) produced the 1912 death certificate for a $3 fee...
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...Neil...
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...The Ghetto Anthology...
...Using Grimsted's third volume, on the Ukraine, I found the name and address of an archive in the small town of Priluki, northeast of Kiev, where my maternal grandmother, Miriam Odnopozov Rabkin, was born...
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...Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy...
...Elizabeth...
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...Sack...
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...I received the most exciting correspondence and documentation in my 20 years of research: extracts of 17 birth records for Odnopozov family members, including my grandmother, three of her first cousins and other relatives whose exact relationship I am now determining...
...Natalia did some research on her own and in her letter says: You will also be interested to learn that people from this family live now in our town...I spoke with local residents...
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...Benzion C A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History, New York: Schocken Books, 1977...
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...A master Index to passenger lists, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index compiled by P. William Rlby and Mary K. Meyer, contains the immigrant name, age, place and year of arrival as well as the source from which the information is derived...
...1989...
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...Israel Surviving records from Europe and the Middle East including extensive collections for Germany...
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...over 10,000 photographs and 1,500 audio recordings...
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...Poland...
...Many historians and genealogists welcome the release of this material (see box, p. 40...
...We reached 11 of the 12 people, although some of the listings were more than 10 years old...
...There I discovered street maps for some small towns in Eastern Europe such as Priluki (home of the Odnopozows) and Konotop, the ancestral home of my grandfather, Alexander Rabkin...
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...New York, on the other hand, limits access for certain years to preserve confidentiality and does not permit you to handle the original records...
...And who was Aunt Golda...
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...In a brief letter to the archive, written in English, I explained that my family formerly resided in Priluki and I was interested in learning more about the town's local hisI found the name of an archive in the small town of Priluki where my maternal grandmother, Miriam, was born...
...Industrial Removal Office records and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of Boston documents...
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...Is there a cousins' club or family circle club in existence...
...Do you know the origin of the name...
...Q. How do you expect them to live...
...Washington, DC 204O8 (Regional branches throughout the U.S...
...New York: Garland Publishing...
...and on microfilm at its regional branches...
...it lists the date that ships arrived into ports in New York, 1890-1930, and Baltimore...
...France, Poland and Italy...
...Q. Did she give you all the money resulting from the sale of her house...
...In addition, the 1860-1885 mortality schedules list those who died during the 12 months prior to the census...
...What were the family occupations— in the old country and the early years here...
...The final document in this series, the Certificate of Naturalization, provides scant biographical data...
...Turn to a genealogical library (see box, p. 46...
...Goftesman library of Hebraica-Judaica...
...Reprint...
...Adolfo, I learned, had moved to Texas in 1975, where he became a professor of cello at North Texas State University...
...In what other nearby towns did you have family members...
...The documents include 46 Sterbebucfoer (death books!, containing nearly 70,000 death certificates from the Auschwitz concentration camp, and lists of prisoners in Sachsenhausen, Gross Rosen, Dachau and Buchenwald...
...Record and Remember: Tracing Your Roots through Oral History...
...It also serves as an information and referral source...
...Ricardo wrote that I was toasted in absentia for my efforts to discover and reunite the family...
...The Archives will furnish copies of census pages prior to 1910 (the 1920 census will become available in 1992...
...Interview older family members (see box, p. 48...
...MD: Heritage Books...
...Now I was ready to learn something about Sudilkov, which turned out to be a small village in the district of Volhynia in the western Ukraine...
...In building your medical genealogy, you can check past U.S...
...We are links in a great chain of history extending to the future...
...Who were they...
...Now that I knew the exact date and port of arrival in this country, I could obtain a copy of the passenger manifest of the SS Celtic, which arrived December 29, 1912, in New York Harbor...
...If visiting the cemetery, look at neighboring graves for other family relationships...
...A litde research on my part produced the name and address of the surviving son, which I sent to Natalia with a further request for specific information about my family members...
...New York, NY 10033 Archives...
...Ellen & Mendelsohn, Rona...
...In September the American Red Cross opened its Holocaust and War Victim's Tracing and Information Center in Baltimore to service people who want to know the fate of relatives in the Shoah or who need certification ot internment for survivions of forced labor camps seeking reparations or pensions...
...notable for its series of guides to research resources in many cities...
...Census records from 1850 to 1910 have columns of information pertaining to the physical or mental condition of individuals, and the 1880 census also has a column indicating any sickness or disability...
...Begin with yourself and work backwards recording essential information on birth, marriage, divorce, death, occupation and placets) of residence...
...Recendy a protocol was signed by the U.S...
...For names of victims at Auschwitz/Birkenau, contact Panstwowe Muzeum, 32-603 Oswiecin, Poland...
...largest collection of yizkor books in the work...
...Did you receive letters from relatives who remained in Europe...
...Another document in the naturalization process, the Petition for Naturalization, contains additional information such as "name under which you entered the U.S.," in my grandfather Morris's case, "Moische Winikur...
...Before the war, 1941-1945, several Odnopozov families lived in our town...
...Both census and mortality schedules can be found at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., or in its regional branches throughout the country...
...The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and the Genealogy ol Illustrious Jewish Families from the J 5th-20th Century Rev...
...Manuals and Sourcebooks • Cohen...
...Box 1149, Jerusalem 91010...
...Computerized repository for Jewish genealogies from around the world...
...Latter Day Leaders, Sages and Scholars: Bibliographical Index...
...1654 1988...
...A. I left her without money...
...What to Ask in an Oral History Interview • Was your name changed...
...New York: Behrman House...
...as part of captured German documents from World War II...
...During a trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where my mother grew up, a visit to Congregation B'nai Emunah disclosed a published synagogue history spanning over 50 years...
...For each of our ancestors who came to America, there were cousins, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles who remained behind, who had children, and many later became one of the six million Jewish victims...
...Box 92...
...My previous experience as a private detective didn't hurt, but it is not required...
...The letter concluded with a request for a response...
...Box 1134, Teaneck, NJ 07666...
...NJ 07666 International umbrella group of all Jewish genealogy societies, maintains information about societies throughout the world...
...The original documents are housed In Arolsen...
...I have since met with David and he told me much about the Odnopozow family, with translations by Franka...
...One of those who attended the family gathering was the father of the woman we had called from Holland, the man who had been working on the family tree for years...
...I cannot read nor write...
...New York, NY 10021 Records of Jews in German-speaking lands...
...600 Genealogies...
...It also gave the names of his nearest relatives in the old country along with their town of residence, Sudilkov...
...To get copies of his naturalization papers, I wrote to the U.S...
...She paused a moment and replied "For my Aunt Golda...
...Family History Library, 35 Northwest Temple St...
...Cite your sources so that future readers can locate the same information...
...Has anyone published a history of your family...
...As a private investigator, I learned to try different approaches for the same information...
...When he saw the 20-foot Odnopozow family tree, the look on his face froze...
...A. Yes...
...Fifth Ave...
...Stem...
...Every Day Remembrance Day...
...Latvia, Lithuania and Selorussia (19811, Vol...
...I told them I was researching the Odnopozow family whose primary origins were in Priluki, Poltava district, but cousins had also lived in Piryatin, Smela, Rudovka, Romny, Lubny and other nearby villages—all in the Ukraine...
...Q. What arrangements have you made for the support of your wife and children in Russia until such time as you are able to send them money...
...You may find information on an individual's Jewish activities, as well as records of life cycle events, • Request probate records (wills, inventories, letters of guardianship) of deceased ancestors...
...special collection on microfilm from other sources...
...Natalia included her office phone number, but indicated she does not speak English, although she can read and understand it...
...Look up death, marriage and birth notices: they often contain biographical Information...
...landsmanshaftn records...
...Another newfound cousin told us her son had moved to Denver in 1973...
...The manifest includes information such as name and address of relative at destination, occupation, age, valuables in possession, and last residence...
...German and British consulate records and Mandate Citizenship Index...
...citizen...
...Do you have any old family documents or old photos...
...While most passenger records are indexed from 1897 to the present, some ports are indexed from as early as 1800...
...My mother was acquainted with Boris Odnopozov, who was killed at the front...
...Eventually I hope to walk the streets of my ancestors' shietls...
...Elizabeth, NJ: Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1983...
...After playing 'Jewish geography" with my new-found cousins, I began constructing a family tree...
...yizkor books (memorial books for synagogues or towns) and local histories: personal interviews...
Vol. 15 • December 1990 • No. 6
