tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76245732200741864942024-03-18T20:41:29.363-07:00ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GenealogyANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comBlogger1289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-48629065751826623612024-03-16T23:15:00.000-07:002024-03-16T23:15:00.138-07:00MY DIFFICULT RESEARCH INTO A PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY : STEPS SIX and SEVEN and EIGHT: POST #4THESE STEPS SHOW AN EXPANSION OF RESEARCH from the focus on the 1860 immigrant nuclear family in Berks.Step 6 : Considering the formation of Counties (Philadelphia).Philadephia County History from the Pennsylvania Historical SocietyLooking for other families with the same surname in the larger, historical county and general area (Eastern Pennsylvania). As the population grewANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-86857422001265559622024-03-12T09:05:00.000-07:002024-03-12T09:05:00.139-07:00MY DIFFICULT RESEARCH INTO A PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY : STEPS THREE and FOUR and FIVE : POST #2Step three: Houses and Buildings Owned by the familyThe next step was to see if there were property titles (houses or buildings) in the current county with some historical information of ownership. There is a current database that went back a ways and there were some properties under that surname but it appeared as if the descendants of the immigrants took a couple generations to own ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-73653749909524642572024-03-10T13:15:00.000-07:002024-03-10T13:15:00.130-07:00 FAMILY RECORDMake a page for each ancestor?This image is held by the Library of Congress.It was originally copyright 1878 by artist John. R. Staples.ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-31035737483226972852024-03-09T09:35:00.000-08:002024-03-09T16:37:28.888-08:00MY DIFFICULT RESEARCH INTO A PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY : STEPS ONE and TWO : POST #1Let's face it. We think Pennsylvania, one of the 13 original states, and we think Germans! So I want to tell you about a research problem I encountered and maybe you can learn from it.My client has an illustrious American Historical figure on one side of her family. Heavily researched. Books written about. Historical house tours to go on. But her other side, her surname ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-60001093657837332062024-03-01T05:30:00.001-08:002024-03-01T05:30:00.344-08:00 ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-3910850742724094652024-02-28T19:15:00.000-08:002024-02-28T19:15:00.444-08:00WHITE BARN - SNOW STORM ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-69963098835717794872024-02-14T05:00:00.025-08:002024-02-14T05:00:00.164-08:00LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS DAYNATIONAL 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 ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-52840234683880478942024-02-12T05:30:00.000-08:002024-02-12T05:30:00.136-08:00VALENTINEImage from Free Vintage ArtTaking 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? ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-29504940255513930922024-02-08T19:15:00.000-08:002024-02-08T19:15:00.146-08:00COMMITTEE FOR YIDDISH A GALLERY OF MISSING HUSBANDS : "A Gallery of Missing Husbands," with Michael MorgensternCommittee 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 ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-34004374788171545772024-02-06T18:15:00.000-08:002024-02-06T18:15:00.262-08:00COMMITTEE 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... ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-34799781599519267442024-02-03T07:30:00.006-08:002024-02-03T07:30:00.147-08:00JEWISH ASHKENAZIM GENEALOGY : NAME CHANGES and OTHER UNIQUE CHALLENGESJews 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 ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-76027923540815917362024-02-01T05:30:00.001-08:002024-02-01T05:30:00.138-08:00 ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-3173008219967832232024-01-30T18:45:00.001-08:002024-01-30T18:45:00.137-08:00YIZKOR BOOKS : NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYYIDDISH BOOK CENTER - LINKS TO YIZKOR (MEMORY) BOOKS - HOLOCAUST The New York Public Library - Yiddish Book Center Yizkor Book Collection includes 650 digitized Yizkor books from the collections of the two institutions.You can search this online collection by title and by the name of the towns they commemorate, or browse the list on this website by country and community name. You can ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-10473274495023848672024-01-27T06:30:00.030-08:002024-01-27T06:30:00.141-08:00INTERNATIONAL DAY IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST - REGISTER A SURVIVORUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUMUSHMM DATABASES - SURVIVORS - VICTIMS and MOREA collection of 600 ID cardsViolets from Free Vintage IllustrationsANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-25633969563649314202024-01-24T17:45:00.043-08:002024-01-24T17:45:00.144-08:00HOLOCAUST FORGOTTEN : DEDICATED TO THE FIVE MILLION MURDERED IN THE HOLOCAUST WHO WERE NOT JEWISHHOLOCAUST FORGOTTEN 'While there is no argument that Hitler abhorred the Jews and caused almost six million to be ruthlessly killed, often non-Jewish victims are tragically forgotten from Holocaust remembrances. Eleven million precious human lives were lost during the Holocaust. Five million of these were non-Jewish. Three million were Polish Christians and Catholics.ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-28311975254600045552024-01-21T14:35:00.007-08:002024-01-21T14:35:00.159-08:00CHILDRENS MEMORIAL YAD VASHEMANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-20834906605937081172024-01-19T13:30:00.035-08:002024-01-19T13:30:00.129-08:00UNITED STATES MEMORIAL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM : JEWISH PEOPLE - ROMANI (GYPSY) - JEHOVAH WITNESSESExcerpt from Genocide of European Romani page: Roman were anong the groups that the Nazi regine (1933-1945) and its partner regimes singled our for persecution and murder before and during World War II. Roman are pejoratively referred to as Zigeuner in German and as Gypsies" in English.(Just a note here. I'm not so sure the word gypsy is a pejorative, rather a misnomer, however peopleANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-18108443786348534072024-01-16T18:25:00.024-08:002024-01-16T18:25:00.139-08:00YAD VASHEM - SEARCHABLE DATABASES and ONGOING DESIRE FOR MORE INFORMATION : THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG NATIONSYAD VASHAM ; THE WORLD HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE CENTERSearch by town, by person's name, or if you have it, where they died. But also a database of the Righteous Among Nations, testimonials, history - so very much. An excellent site to explore. People who provide testimonials often also provide a photo of the person they have added to the database and so there is always that ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-65094121001132278552024-01-14T13:30:00.014-08:002024-01-14T13:30:00.148-08:00REMEMBERImage from Graphics Fairy ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-77001600356224548502024-01-12T13:15:00.019-08:002024-01-12T13:15:00.275-08:00LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HOLOCAUST - FREE and PAY DATABASES IN EUROPELIBRARY OF CONGRESS - HOLOCAUST STUDIES The following is just ONE of the portholes from this web page. 'The Archives Portal Europe is one of the milestones achieved by the participants of the APEnet Project supported by the European Commission in the eContentplus Programme. The project's consortium currently consists of twelve national archives/national archive administrations and five ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-64968433121789639022024-01-11T21:30:00.000-08:002024-01-11T21:30:00.145-08:00VIOLETSImage from Graphics Fairy ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-70660104488959297322024-01-09T17:45:00.026-08:002024-01-09T17:45:00.143-08:00USC SHOAH FOUNDATION - LAST CHANCE TESTIMONIALSUSC SHOAH FOUNDATION 'We are currently recording survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. If you are a survivor or know someone who is, we would love to hear from you. We are also looking for interviewers.'These newly recorded testimonies will be indexed and preserved in the Visual History Archive, along with the testimonies of 52,000 witnesses and survivors of the ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-79615807862218256002024-01-06T07:30:00.052-08:002024-01-06T07:30:00.146-08:00HOLOCAUST GENEALOGY - JEWS, JEHOVAH WITNESSES, ROMA, and CATHOLICS and CHRISTIANS TOO - ELEVEN MILLIONThe Six Million. You've heard this term. I wonder if you know that it applies to the estimated Jewish victims of genocide by the Nazi's prior to and during World War II? The number is an estimate and based on reportage, concentration camp documents, and the like. However, another Five Million non-Jewish others were also murdered during the Nazi occupation. Though theANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-21802392146762384272024-01-02T05:00:00.018-08:002024-01-02T05:00:00.139-08:00NEW YEAR ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624573220074186494.post-81862191628995364952024-01-01T05:05:00.001-08:002024-01-01T05:05:00.173-08:00 ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353954620458292293noreply@blogger.com