Vol. VII, No. 12

Contributor: Barbara Sloan

It's too late for me now that all the elder generation is gone, but these questions may help you in your genealogy research before it's too late. Perhaps others will add to my list. These questions are in no particular order.

~ Who were you named for? Who were your parents named for?

~ Names of grandparents and great grandparents and their dates and places of birth, death and burial.

~ Names of your parents' siblings and extended family and their location(s), plus spouses and children, including births, deaths, burials if applicable.

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Vol. VII, No. 11

Contributor: Ted Gostin

A query was posted about a great grandfather’s travels. The poster could not find the ship and records.

The process of finding this manifest may help others. I was able to find the arrival in less than five minutes with the information that was posted, using search utilities posted by Steve Morse and the flexibility of the search engine on Ancestry.com.

I first tried to identify the ship using the Steve Morse utility "Ship Lists: Searching for Ships in the Ellis Island Microfilms in One Step"...

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Vol. VII, No. 10

Contributor: Andrea Matthews

There's a lot you will need to do yourself even if you hire someone, and if you start with that, you might find you can save a lot of effort and money of having someone else do what you can do for free. In doing this housekeeping, you'll get more ideas about presenting and preserving the collection as well. Take your time with these tasks!!

First, start writing up the stories that go with the objects before they get lost/forgotten, and store a copy of each with the object/group.

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JGSC members and friends are invited to the next NEOGRT Discover! free and open discussion session via Zoom on Thursday 26 September 2024 at 7:00 PM EDT.  Please spread the word!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7981051246?pwd=eHdhM3RZcThHWVJmNWdTOW9kUVdzQT09&omn=83658074081

NEOGRT, The North East Ohio Genealogy Round Table, an undertaking of the Ohio Genealogical Society, is composed of some 50 NEO organizations interested in genealogy.  The website https://neogrt.org attempts to list events of interest in NEO and wider, along with a curated list of links of genealogical interest.

NEOGRT Discover! is a monthly hour of freewheeling, informative, and helpful discussion on any and all matters genealogical and related technical.  Anyone is welcome to come with their questions, brick walls, announcements, and answers.  Often there will be a short presentation of recent news at the beginning.  Guaranteed to last one hour, no more!

Vol. VII, No. 9

Contributor: Harvey Somers

I became more active in Judaism when I retired to Ann Arbor and began to regularly attend services at the Beth Israel Congregation. One “loose end,” however, was never volunteering for an Aliyah, partly because I did not know my Father’s Hebrew name. I knew I was “Chaim” – but I was looking for “Chaim Ben ______.”

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Fall Cemetery Cleanup, sponsored by Federation's Cemetery Preservation Campaign

When: Sunday, September 22, 10am-12pm

Where: Lansing Cemetery, 3933 E. 57th St., Cleveland, OH 44105

Contact: Aviva Roland at aroland@jewishcleveland.org, or (216) 593-2626

Description

Bring your weed trimmers, shovels, clippers, hedgers, gloves, wheelbarrows, and other gardening tools. Together, we’ll rake, prune, and spruce up Lansing Avenue Cemetery in preparation for the High Holidays. Project will include physical labor.

Register Here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-cemetery-cleanup-at-lansing-cemetery-tickets-991162251977?aff=websiteevent

Address

Lansing Cemetery

3933 E. 57th St.

Cleveland, OH 44105

DIRECTIONS

https://maps.app.goo.gl/oLxoLc5DPcsjzRhv9

More about Lansing Cemetery: 

https://www.accessjewishcleveland.org/organizations/lansing-cemetery/

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Vol. VII, No. 8

Contributor: Cynthia Spikell (JGSC member)

Soon it will be the traditional time to visit cemeteries. Perhaps when you visit the graves of loved ones, you might want to see the graves of other relatives in the same cemetery. There are aids to help you find graves whose location you do not know.

For Cleveland Jewish graves, you can consult...

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Vol. VII, No. 7

Contributor: Ken Bravo (Past President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland)

Member Ken Bravo is the Immediate Past President of the IAJGS, and a past president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland. He is a retired attorney who has been researching his family since the mid-1970’s.

You may have heard the name “IAJGS” and you may know that the Cleveland Jewish Genealogy Society is a member of the IAJGS, but what is the IAJGS? It’s an acronym for the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Your next question is probably what does the IAJGS do?

The IAJGS is the umbrella organization for approximately 90 JGSs around the world. It was, according to its web page (iajgs.org) “…formed in 1988 to provide a common voice for issues of significance to its members, to advance our genealogical avocation and to coordinate items such as our annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.” Its members include...

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Vol. VII, No. 6

Genealogy is more than names and dates. Suppose you find that your grandfather was a member of the Workmen’s Circle and attended the 1927 convention in Cleveland. How can you find out more about your grandfather’s participation?

Arnie Berger’s website ClevelandJewishHistory.net has information that will add to the understanding of your Cleveland ancestors. The 1927 Workmen’s Circle Convention in Cleveland is described in the Site Map section of the website. Besides that article and a clipping from the daily newspaper Yiddishe Velt (Jewish World) there is also an attendees’ photograph preserved by Mitchell Rose.

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