Tomorrow night starts Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here are the names of the my 1132 relatives I have traced so far who were murdered in the Holocaust. Remember them.
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An overlooked genealogical resource are hyper-local Facebook groups. People in your ancestral towns may have info you might not have otherwise. Here are some examples of what I’ve found and how you can do it too. #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry
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If you had ancestors who lived anywhere in Europe, here's a resource that might help you find info--including photos and genealogical info. I found cases with photos for relatives who were later killed in the Holocaust!
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There's a tool that helped me find some genealogical records that haven't even been indexed. Here's some of what I found, some searching caveats, and how you can hopefully find new-to-you records as well! #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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Are you researching ancestors who lived in what's now Ukraine? There may be records scanned and online, just waiting for you to find them. Here's info abt a new site that may help you locate scanned and online records:
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There are 2 new searchable collections available w/significant amounts of info on those who survived the Holocaust--often including names of family members. Info and tips to navigate here:
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Researching 1926 Poland (parts of modern-day Ukraine and Lithuania, modern-day Poland and bits of what was Russian Empire, Galicia, Czechoslovakia, East Prussia among others)? Great resource I’ve mentioned b4, now more searchable!
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Don't get too attached to how a surname--or given name--was spelled, or you may miss docs that reference actual family members. Spelling of names wasn't important to our ancestors. Two copies of the same record demonstrate this:
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Tonight starts Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here are the names of the 1023 relatives I have traced so far who were murdered in the #Holocaust. Remember them. #YomHashoah #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry
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If your family was from anywhere within the Russian Empire, Galicia, Romania or even the Ottoman Empire, you may have had relatives who ended up in Odesa. Here’s how to find those potential relatives & know if they might be related to you: #genealogy
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If your family lived in what became the #USSR, they/their family members were likely impacted, may have been arrested &/or executed. A site is consolidating sites w/“repressed" individuals. I found photos, court docs, more for my relatives
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I’d say less. The number gets larger the closer to the revolution, but it was still a very small fraction of the total.
It did happen but was pretty rare.
I've just discovered that my dad has a half 2nd cousin, a Holocaust survivor who thought she had no Diamond/Diment cousins alive. Here's how I reconnected her to many cousins--and share a photo of the father she can barely remember:
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Eastern European newspapers can help flesh out the lives of your relatives. Here's site I used and some of what I found on my own family. With newspapers in Russian, Yiddish, Polish and more, this is a great resource.
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There are treasures in that list!
Have family from Chernigov Guberniya? Check out this record set from AlexKrakovsky. I found my family in 1822 list-here are some things I learned. I still need help w/names, so if you read bad Russian handwriting, help!#genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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I’ve gotten more pages in response to this one woman than all the men whose files I’ve received combined.
Follow the instructions for what to do if someone isn’t in the database. No guarantees they’ll have anything, but it’s worth a try.
I was a beta tester for @reclaimtherecords.org’s awesome new BIRLS service. If you have relatives who served in the US #military & lived in the 20th century, check it out! Here's some of what I got so far. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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I send you images to record books (written in Hungarian or Czech—but if you can read cursive English, you can read these) and excel templates. You extract info like names, places and dates into spreadsheets. And then eventually I get that onto JewishGen for people to search.
Spending my day off today indexing more!! If anyone reading this wants to volunteer, I can get you started so we can help others searching for their families.
Looks like @reclaimtherecords.org had to fight to reclaim their name. Follow them on their actual account to see how they score records for us all!
Yay, that’s awesome! Looks like it says Beatrice Borisov?
Have you thought about doing town-focused searches to help you find records you might not find otherwise? Here’s how that could work and what I was able to find using this technique.
#genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry
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Time to order it and see what it says!!
Relatives not US citizens in 1940 (or some who were but weren't sure themselves), you need to check out AR-2s, newly available from NARA. You may get maiden names, arrival info, signatures+more. And you get them quickly!
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Me please
Me please
Hello, world. Where be the genealogists?
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