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Andras Koltai of Budapest, Hungary recently developed Famble, an iPhone / iPod / iPad game app that plays with Jewish surnames, It is a classic word search type game, but the words you have to look for are Jewish surnames. Continue reading Famble – a Jewish Surname Game App for the iPhone/iPod/iPad
Goodness… It’s been 35 years since the King passed on. According to an article in tabletmag.com, Elvis’s great great maternal grandmother was Jewish and had a daughter who had a daughter who had a daughter that was Elvis’s mother. For Continue reading Elvis Presley’s Jewish Ancestry
Did you that in just two days, July 16 and 17, 1942, over 13,000 French Jews were rounded up by police and sent to Auschwitz. For the first time, police records of these events have been released. Read more about Continue reading French Holocaust Records Released
The following news release is from prnewswire.com: NEW YORK, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Center for Jewish History, one of the world’s foremost Jewish research and cultural institutions, has announced a cooperative agreement between the Center and The Miriam Continue reading Center for Jewish History & Miriam Weiner’s Routes to Roots Foundation Expand Online Access to Jewish Genealogy Resources
The following is an excerpt from an AP article posted in the March 8, 2012 edition of the Palm Beach Post News: SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to Continue reading The LDS Church Puts Up a Virtual Firewall to Access of the Names of Holocaust Victims
The following excerpt is from an article written by Jeff Jacoby, a Jewish columnist for the Boston Globe. The article is dated March 1, 2012, and is posted at the jewishworldreview.com website. It’s a different take on LDS proxy baptisms Continue reading Another View of Mormon Proxy Baptism of Jews
And the controversy continues… The following is from an extensive article written by Howard Berkes, and posted at the kuhg Houston Public Radio website. He wasn’t Jewish and he wasn’t a victim of the Holocaust, but the discovery of Jan Continue reading LDS Posthumous Baptism Controversy Includes Polish Catholic Witness To Holocaust
The following teaser is from an article published February 20, 2012 edition of the Calgary Herald. LOS ANGELES – Simon Wiesenthal’s parents should not have been posthumously baptized, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has acknowledged. And on Continue reading LDS Church Apologizes for the Proxy Baptism of Simon Wiesenthal’s Parents.
The following excerpt is from a Washington Post article about activist Helen Radkey and her current obsession with going after Governor Romney – attempting to tie him to both the posthumus baptism of off-limits Jews, as well as some of Continue reading Radkey Goes After Romney
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) holds the collected resources from the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities, as well as of local, national and international Jewish organizations, and the private collections of many Jewish Continue reading Guide to Polish Sources for Jewish People
Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy 2011, is a straightforward beginners guide to genealogy research. Some of the books contents are exactly what you would expect to find in any beginning genealogy book, only with a twist for Jewish research. There Continue reading Beginning Jewish Genealogy
The following excerpt is from the August 10, 2011 edition of the Chicago Tribune. Skokie’s Howard Bergman is among more than 14,000 people from 60 countries who have used the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum‘s International Tracing Service to access Continue reading Over 14,000 From 60 Countries Have Accessed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Tracing Service
The following excerpt is from an article by Elaine Alexander, published in the St. Louis Jewish Light. Earlier this month, 94-year-old Elsie Hirsch Levy received an astonishing phone call from Buettelborn, Germany, the town her family had fled during the Continue reading Survivor Receives Family Artifacts – 70 Years Later
The following excerpt is from an AP article published in the May 24, 2011 edition of the Jerusalem Post. Documents apparently confirming rumors that Vladimir Lenin had Jewish ancestors can now be seen at Russia’s State History Museum, AP reported Continue reading Lenin’s Jewish Ancestry on Display in Russia’s State History Museum
The following news release was received from Heather Erickson at Ancestry.com. Millions of Pages of Museum Archives to Be Indexed and Made FREE to All WASHINGTON, D.C./PROVO, Utah – May 3, 2011 – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Continue reading U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum & Ancestry.com Launch World Memory Project