IN THIS ISSUE Avotaynu Announces a New Venture: Avotaynu Online ...... Adam Brown, Gary Mokotoff, Sallyann Amdur Sack-Pikus 3 A Call for a Genetic Census of the Jewish People ...... Bennett Greenspan 4 New Acquisitions at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Offer Riches for Genealogists ...... Vadim Altskan and Ellen Hegen 6 Jewish Genealogy 2015: Trends, Breakthroughs and Trajectory; Reflections on the Evolution of Jewish Genealogy...... Marlis Humphrey 11 Leo Baeck Institute Seeks to Support German-Jewish Family Research...... William H. Weitzer 19 Jerusalem IAJGS: A Conference Program Like No Other...... Garri Regev 21 Alexander Beider Resolves Name Mystery...... Beth Galleto 23 Genealogy As a Unique Lifelong Learning Experience...... Arnon Hershkovitz and Sharon Hardof-Jaffe 25 Endogamy Versus Exogamy: Balancing Health, Economic and Group Cohesion ...... S. Zev Kalifon 27 Family and Kinship in the Jewish City of Piotrkow Trybunalski in the 19th Century..... Tomasz Jankowski 30 The Children’s Transport from the Bialystok Ghetto to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz: Analysis of Names on Deportation Lists...... Joachim Albrecht 35 Archival Records from the Russian Courts, Police, Notaries and Other State Agencies ...... Nadia Lipes 38 Found and Lost...... Reeva Jacobson Kimble 40 ARTICLES ON SEPHARDIC GENEALOGY: A TRIBUTE TO MATHILDE TAGGER (1933–2014) z"l Sephardic Genealogy Today: An Overview...... Jeffrey Malka 42 From Balat, Turkey: The Sephardic Jews of Peabody, Massachusetts ...... Marjorie Short 44 Salonikan and Greek Genealogical Resources at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People ...... Yitzchak Kerem 46 Le Progrès de Salonique: Jewish Newspaper in 1911 as a Source of Genealogical Information...... Anne-Marie Faraggi Rychner 47 Records of Ottoman Subjects Domiciled in France: A Source Waiting To Be Discovered ...... Laurence Abensur-Hazan 51 The Queen’s Presents ...... Philip Abensur 52

From Our Contributing Editors ...... 55 U.S. Update ...... Diane Goldman 59 Breaking Through Brick Walls ...... Randy Daitch 62 Ask the Experts ...... Randy Daitch 62 Book Review: Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor and Life in the Kingdom of Poland...... 64 From Our Mail Box: Use Genetic Counselors for BRCA Testing; Who Is a “Shoah Victim”; Discrepancies in Genealogical Research; More About German-Jewish Children’s Aid ...... 65

Volume XXXI, Number 1 Spring 2015