Re: [ha-Safran]: Value of Encyclopedia Britannica

. Joy Rich former director of a library --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send

Re: [ha-Safran]: Value of Encyclopedia Britannica

Some libraries have their policies posted online, such as http://libweb.uoregon.edu/colldev/cdpolicies/gift.html , http://www.hsl.unc.edu/AboutLib/collections/donating.cfm#value , and http://library.udayton.edu/basics/policies/giftbooks.php . I've seen websites that advise the donor to consult

Re: [ha-Safran]: Assistance Sought [Baranovich]

://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~yizkor Other possibilities: Libraries, Archives with Yizkor Book Holdings http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/yizlibs.html Retail Establishments with Yizkor Book Holdings http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/yizret.html Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY --- Messages and opinions

[ha-Safran]: Preserving the American Historical Record Legislation

Forwarded by Joy Rich = http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/APG/2009-03/1237315376 From: Robert de Berardinis r-e-...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [APG] PAHR Legislation Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13

[ha-Safran]: Steve Morse's When did ... ?

. Find the last time Rosh Hashanah came in August. The utility is in the Calendar section of his home page at http://www.stevemorse.org . Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association

[ha-Safran]: Book review: Google Your Family Tree

). Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu

[ha-Safran]: Inheritance on PBS

commander. A fuller description of the film is at http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/inheritance/about.html . To find out when your local PBS station will be showing it, see http://www.pbs.org/pov/local_broadcast_v4.html . Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran

[ha-Safran]: Canadian 1881 Census

-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.84 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author

[ha-Safran]: Tracing Family Roots in Vilnius

Tracing Family Roots in Vilnius by Matt Gross was published in The New York Times on July 16th at http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/tracing-family-roots-in-vilnius/?emex=121644en=32f45be6203e912cei=5087%0A (or http://tinyurl.com/5doaak). Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages

[ha-Safran]: Cook County Vital Records - Steve Morse One-Step

Additional information about the site has been posted at http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2008/07/illinois-cook-county-vital-records.html . Joy Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish

[ha-Safran]: English Front-End for Bezeq's Israeli Phone Directory

From Steve Morse (http://www.stevemorse.org) Bezeq's website has changed recently and it is more usable, although it's still not as good as it was originally. Originally they would show you an initial batch of hits and would let you keep requesting more hits until you got all those satisfying

New Features on the One-Step Website

and English. Recently, a transliterator for Arabic was added. This appears in the Foreign Language section of the One-Step site. Joy Joy Rich Chapter Representative, New York Metro Chapter Association of Professional Genealogists http://www.apgen.org http://www.apgen.org/chapters/newyork

[ha-Safran]: Preserving the American Historical Record Act

, and The History Channel. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Member, Association of Professional Genealogists Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

[ha-Safran]: Nazi Scrapbooks from Hell on the National

by the perpetrators. Another album showcases the victims as they arrive at Auschwitz. These albums are nothing short of scrapbooks from hell. The scrapbooks are described on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum at http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/ssalbum/?tr=yauid=3566358 . Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY

Online Video - Forgotten Chapter of Jewish History

for New Americans, whose records are being processed at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. The video is 6 minutes and 52 seconds in length. The accompanying article, After a Fight to Survive, One to Succeed, is at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/nyregion/09jews.html . Joy Joy Rich

Re: [ha-Safran]: Looking for a job in New York

Elona, here are some websites you can check. Joy Rich, MLS Brooklyn, NY Metropolitan New York Library Council http://metrojobs.metro.org/N22067OR.cfm?A=search Special Libraries Association, New York Chapter http://units.sla.org/chapter/cny/Jobline.htm New York Library Association http

[ha-Safran]: Dachau Records One-Step

Europe section of his site. http://www.stevemorse.org Joy Rich, MLS Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

Re: [ha-Safran]: Position Announcement

. Joy Joy Rich, MLS Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran

[ha-Safran]: Steve Morse's Additions

Your Own Search Applications; Publications, Awards, and Interviews; and Miscellaneous. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

Re: [ha-Safran]: Publisher interested in Holocaust Memoirs?

Cherille, I would appreciate it if you would post to ha-Safran a list of the publishers you hear about. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Editor, Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society (New York) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author

[ha-Safran]: Discovery of *Hitler Albums*Documenting Looted Art

November 1, 2007 National Archives Announces Discovery of Hitler Albums Documenting Looted Art Washington, DC . . . Today at a National Archives press conference, Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, Michael Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services and Robert M. Edsel,

[ha-Safran]: Russian Cursive to Print and Print to Cursive

Steve Morse has added conversion tools for Converting from Russian Cursive to Print in One Step and Converting from Russian Print to Cursive in One Step to his website. They are in the Dealing with Conversions in Foreign Alphabets section at www.stevemorse.org . Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY

[ha-Safran]: JFRA Israel and Pages of Testimony

PoTs. See http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1191257222035pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull . Written by Schelly Talalay Dardashti, its title is Before it's too late. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author

[ha-Safran]: Final Report of the Nazi War Crimes and

-releases/2007/nr07-143.html) about its program to declassify more than eight million records about Nazi and Japanese war crimes. The IWG's 156-page final report to Congress is at http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/final-report-2007.pdf. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed

[ha-Safran]: Steve Morse - Two New Search Tools

Steve Morse has created two new search tools, both listed in the Births, Deaths, and Other Vital Records section at www.stevemorse.org . Social Security Numbers: Decoding Social Security Numbers in One Step Credit Card Numbers: Validating Credit Card Numbers in One Step Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY

[ha-Safran]: Family Reunion Article

/servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411384092pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull . Joy Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

[ha-Safran]: Jewish Genealogy Podcast

and the link to the free podcast are at http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2007/09/dearmyrtles-family-history-hour-4-sept.html . Enjoy! Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish

[ha-Safran]: NYGBS Proposes No More Members

that your proxy be destroyed and vote at the meeting. Joy Rich Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha

[ha-Safran]: Charlotte, A Holocaust Memoir: Remembering

, has been posted on JewishGen at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Charlotte/Charlotte.html . Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

[ha-Safran]: Salaries

Notices about available jobs detail the usually quite extensive responsibilities, whereas salaries are only described as competitive and commensurate with experience. To be fair to potential applicants, at minimum, a salary range should be stated. Joy Rich Messages and opinions expressed

[ha-Safran]: Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning

. Joy Rich Editor, Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society http://www.jgsny.org Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

[ha-Safran]: Doctoral workshop The Memory of the Camps:

. Submitters must be doctoral candidates or recently-graduated researchers who are working on the history and the memory of the concentration camps. The deadline for submission is April 30, 2007. See http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=156160 . Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY

[ha-Safran]: A tale of three women - and a lost family

in The Jerusalem Post ( http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173823735649pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull ) tells the story of two young cousins who survived the Holocaust and how they were reunited after sixty-six years. Joy Joy Rich Chapter Representative, New York Metro Chapter

[ha-Safran]: Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning

. Joy Rich Editor, Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society http://www.jgsny.org Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

[ha-Safran]: Suffolk County, NY, Marriage Index Online

/suffolkcountymarriagesearch.asp and the German Genealogy Group at http://www.germangenealogygroup.com/suffolkcountymarriagesearch.asp . Steve Morse has created a One-Step search form for it and placed it in the Births, Deaths, and other Vital Records section of his website. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions

[ha-Safran]: Hamburg Passenger Lists One-step

is the next-to-the-last item under Other Ports of Emigration on his website at http://www.stevemorse.org . Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

Re: [ha-Safran]: Collection assessment

Toby, if people offer you suggestions offlist, please summarize the responses on the list. Thank you. Joy Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

[ha-Safran]: Ellis Island Gold Form

form was superior to the form on the ellisisland.org website, and the gold form is far superior to the white form. The gold form is the third item listed under Ellis Island Search Forms and Ship Arrivals (1892-1924) on Steve's website at http://www.stevemorse.org. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Chapter

Re: [ha-Safran]: Jewish Encyclopedia, Circa 1901

Rich, at http://www.biblio.com/books/95736463.html , the 1901-1906 twelve-volume set in very good condition is selling for $944.40. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association

[ha-Safran]: IAJGS Conference Lectures and Syllabus Available

; only the CD version of the syllabus is available. The cost is $10, including airmail delivery. The syllabus can be ordered at http://www.jgsny2006.org/book_link.cfm. Joy Rich Co-chair, Repositories Committee 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Messages and opinions

[ha-Safran]: Purchasing Recordings of the IAJGS Conference

NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE! Joy Rich Co-chair, Repositories Committee International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies 26th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy New York, NY August 13-18, 2006 http://www.jgsny2006.org Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran

[ha-Safran]: Serving Genealogy Patrons: A Librarian's Guide

help with the brick walls they've run into. She'll also discuss the best genealogy resources to have in a library collection. Handouts will include getting started packets, interview forms, and a Genealogy Research To Do List for the patron. Joy Rich Co-chair, Repositories Committee International

[ha-Safran]: New York NARA Summer Genealogy Workshops

-mail them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://www.archives.gov/northeast/nyc/public/workshops.html for more information. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL

[ha-Safran]: Articles about the IAJGS Conference in The Jewish Week

will talk about the study and his future research. Full information about the conference is at http://www.jgsny2006.org, including online registration. Joy Rich Co-chair, Repositories Committee International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies 26th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy

[ha-Safran]: Mount Zion Cemetery Searches, Queens, NY

screen. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu

[ha-Safran]: Ashkenazi or Sephardi? DNA unites Jewish

the common ancestor as Sephardi and another as Ashkenazi. Herbert Huebscher, born in Vienna, and Saul Issroff, born in South Africa, will talk about the project and its interesting results at the IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy. Joy Joy Rich Co-chair, Repositories Committee International

[ha-Safran]: Academic Programming at the IAJGS Conference

The 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies will feature some exciting academic lectures. Among them are two talks by Hasia Diner, the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. Professor Diner will

[ha-Safran]: Education Programming at the IAJGS Conference

The 26th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy holds exciting opportunities for professional educators, librarians, and genealogy educators. This is the line-up of presentations: * Lifelong Learning: Teach Genealogy to Adults Join panelists Shelly Talalay Dardasti, Nolan Altman, and Rhoda Miller

[ha-Safran]: Jewish Genealogy Conference Early-Bird

Registration ends May 15 X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.0.16 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Score: 0.20 () [Hold at 5.00] PORN_RP_VIDEOS X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com)

[ha-Safran]: Interments in Mount Carmel and Mount Hebron

page at www.stevemorse.org scroll down to Births, Deaths, and other Vital Records, and click on Cemeteries. Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL

[ha-Safran]: New IAJGS Conference Story

of it in Yiddish is at http://www.jgsny2006.org/in_the_news.cfm. An English-language translation of it by Gloria Berkenstat Freund, Program Committee Chairperson, is at http://www.jgsny2006.org/in_the_news.cfm. Joy Joy Rich Co-chair, Repositories Committee International Association of Jewish

[ha-Safran]: IAJGS Conference Update

/e_pop_profiles.cfm?session=1session_id=54925class_id=51035 Sign up for the conference mailing list at http://www.jgsny2006.org/list_serve_directions.cfm. And register for the conference online at http://www.jgsny2006.org/registration.cfm. I hope many of you will be there! Joy Joy Rich Co-chair

[ha-Safran]: International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

. Information about the conference is available at http://www.jgsny2006.org, with more to follow. Yours truly, Joy Rich Co-coordinator, Repositories Committee 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual

Re: [Ha-Safran] Does anyone have any info on Steimatzky's in Los

-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Here is their listing from superpages.com at http://www.superpages.com/. Steimatzky 19566 Ventura Boulevard, Tarzana, CA 91356 (818) 708-2347 Joy Rich Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author