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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS DAY

NATIONAL TODAY - LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS DAY - HISTORY

The League of Women Voters was created on February 14, 1920, through a merger of two organizations: The National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Council of Wome Voters (N.C.W.V.).  In 1909, the women popularly known as 'the mother of women's suffrage" Emma Smith DeVoe, proposed that a separate organization be created from NAWSA to educate women on the election process and create awareness about women's issues.  Her proposal was ignored, and in 1911, she created the National Council of Women Voters.

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Taking us back to the time of the soda jerk and fantasies of a first kiss.

Have you asked your relatives who are married how they first met?

 

COMMITTEE FOR YIDDISH A GALLERY OF MISSING HUSBANDS : "A Gallery of Missing Husbands," with Michael Morgenstern

Committee for Yiddish YouTube Channel : A Gallery of Missing Husbands 

On this video Jewish Community newspapers from the Great Immigration period of American history hold ads in which abandoned wives seek their husbands. Men overwhelmed with the realities of recent immigrant life sometimes disappeared out of shame or because they could not live up to the responsibilities of marriage and children.  Wives desperate for reunion sought them publicly in ads.  Sometimes this effort would later be used to prove they had tried when divorce - and remarriage - was the only answer.

Again, Committee for Yiddish is an excellent YouTube channel and if you go to the link you'll find lots else that is educational.

COMMITTEE FOR YIDDISH - AN EXCELLENT YOUTUBE CHANNEL : How Ashkenazic Jews Got Their Names and the Troubles They Have Caused Them, with Kalman Weiser

 Committee is an excellent channel for learning about the Yiddish language and culture.

Loved this video... 

JEWISH ASHKENAZIM GENEALOGY : NAME CHANGES and OTHER UNIQUE CHALLENGES

Jews have come to America since Colonial Times but in general most of those from Europe came during the Industrial Revolution from Central and Eastern Europe, that Great Immigration period from about 1880 - 1920.  So for American Jews, the genealogy research starts with American records as it would for any other American.

Because of intermarriage between Jews and Christians there are Americans today who might not identify as Jewish or who acknowledge a Jewish ancestor - with many rumors of Jewishness as well - who do Holocaust Genealogy.

There are some special considerations in Jewish genealogy that make it a bit more difficult and that is dealing with Hebrew alphabet and translation, Yiddish language,  naming conventions, and informal name changes.

I've stated it elsewhere on this blog but that officials at Ellis Island changed the names of immigrants coming through is a myth. They had no authority to do that and were also dealing with hundreds of incoming every time a steamship came into the port in New York. It's likely that sometimes an immigrant's name was written down phonetically but that's not the same as an authority changing a person's name.

However Jewish immigrants DID sometimes change their names, sometimes to a German version from a Polish or Russian one - since German Jews had an easier time of assimilation, sometimes to an English or American name, sometimes to make the name easier to spell or pronounce. These name changes were rarely done formally and legally.  In many cases people were known by their Hebrew or Polish or other ethnic surname as well as their new name.

My suggestion is to do the usual genealogy research and perhaps on a marriage or a draft registration or other document the name change will be revealed.  Find the marriage record kept at the temple, not just the civil one. Have tombstones translated and get the cemetery record as well as the death record. Remember that if something comes right up on a database that's a blessing but books, microfilms, newspapers, and writing to archives may still be necessary. 

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