There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

Family roots in San Diego, California? If so, the new searchable website of The Jewish Historical Society of San Diego may help you add leaves to your family tree.The JHSSD offers more than 50 collections of personal and communal papers, documents and photos, local Jewish newspapers, including signi...

I didn't expect to find a story about Eastern European Jews in Argentina in the Financial Times. However, it was a bit disconcerting that an article titled "Argentina's Jewish heritage," completely ignored the Sephardic community, only addressing Ashkenazi history.. The charms of Entre Ríos, a nort...

JewishHistory.com offers a collection of Jewish Civil War History sections. There is the Cemetery for Hebrew Conferate Soldiers in Richmond, Virginia. This is detailed, with names from an 1866 plaque, over at the International Jewish Graveyard Rabbit. There's a section on interesting Union and Confe...

Mark Halpern, program chair of the 29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, seems to have been the impetus for Steve Lasky's most recent online exhibit at the virtual Museum of Family History. Steve learned about Harry Boonin's book, "The Jewish Quarter of Philadelphia," and decided ...

Marlene Bishow of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW) has provided information on new records added to the group's website for the "Ken Poch Index of Jews Buried in Arlington National Cemetery" (ANC). This project is important enough that I have also posted this announcement (...

JewishGen has added 120,000 new records, in various databases. Explore these databases at the links indicated below. JewishGen Holocaust Database additions - 4,000 Hidden Children in France (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants - OSE); Persons transferred from Rhodes to Ferramonti Di Tarsia Internment Camp...

Petra Laidlaw has informed us that the latest set of revisions have been uploaded to the 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database. The database now includes some 25,000 entries. Petra believes that there were about 30,000 Jews in the British Isles then, so this should represent some 80% of them. If your ancestors ...

Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about Reading Planet by Reading is Fundamental. I’m writing today about another terrific site from the same great organization. Leading to Reading is, “A free resource to help parents and childcare providers develop the language skills of their infants, ...