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JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 JGSGB German SIG German Interest Records What’s new? Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 7 June 2020 7 New books here since we last met in March 2020 Manchester Post WW2 Jews and Other Foreigners Bill Williams Aumie and Michael East End London The Jewish East End Memories Shapiro Han-Werner Dirks and Minden NRW Spuren Juedischen Lebens in Minden Kristan Kossak Spuren Juedischen Lebens in Aachen von Aachen 1850 bis 1938 Bettina Klein Holocaust To Meet in Hell Bernice Lerner Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in der Ost- Eifel. Das Familienbuch der Juden in Ost-Eifel Mayen Mayen bis um 1875 Klaus H S Schulte Holocaust Bergen-Belsen To Meet in Hell Bernice Lerner Plus another couple of volumes of the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. I’m now missing only 1 volume to have the full set! Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 1 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 Address Book for Teltow nr Brandenburg 1927 on Ancestry & https://db-brandenburg.de/?page_id=806&idort=3875 Address Books for Duesseldorf & Eisenach • http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/D%C3%BCsseldorf/ Adressb%C3%BCcher_in_der_UuLB_ D%C3%BCsseldorf • http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Eisenach/Adressbu ch_1900 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 2 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 More Address Book News! • Adressbuch Kreis Diepholz 1901 (Saxony) • Adreßbuch und Geschäfts-Handbuch für die Stadt und Kreis Eckernförde 1910 Schleswig-Holstein https://digipress.digitale-sammlungen.de digiPress - Das Zeitungsportal der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek • The newspaper portal provides access to digitized historical newspapers from the Bavarian State Library. • This is great because we never see many resources for Bavaria! Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 3 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 www.bavarikon.de/?lang=en Koblenz Archive Blog https://stadtarchivkoblenz.wordpress.com • Especially good for German speakers! • Searchable section on Jewish History • Good links to further useful sources of info • E.g. online memorial books to Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein: • www.steinheim- institut.de/wiki/index.php/Memorb%C3%BCcher Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 4 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 www.steinheim-institut.de • Forschung (Research) • Media • Jüdische Friedhöfe / Epigrafik • Epidat - 34.644 Gravestone • Memorbücher photos (66.168 digital images) • Digital_Humanities • Mobil • Posener Heimat • Online-Ressourcen (journals & books) • Jüdische Wohlfahrt • Publikationen www.deutsche-auswanderer-datenbank.de Bremen Emigration Database The German Emigrants Database at the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven is a research project concerned with European emigration to the United States of America. The database comprises information on emigrants who left Europe for the United States of America between 1820 and 1897, 1904 and 1907 primarily from German ports. Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 5 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 New Databases on Ancestry.com (not on .co.uk) • Europe Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees 1939 to 1947 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61758 – from Arolsen Archive • Jewish Records – Holocaust www.ancestry.com/search/categories/jewishholocaust • Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime, 1935-1944 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2027 • Poland, German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp, 1940-1945 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6217 • Italy, German Jews Deported to Auschwitz, 1943-1944 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60815 More Holocaust Records on Ancestry • Munich, Germany, Nazi Documentation Regarding Jews, 1919-1946 (USHMM) - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3651 • Munich, Germany, Displaced Jewish Children at the Ulm Children's Home, 1945-1948 (USHMM) - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2431 • Munich, Vienna and Barcelona Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards, 1943-1959 (JDC) - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1354 • Jewish Holocaust Survivor List from the files of World Jewish Congress, 1918-1982 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1385 • German Concentration Camp Records, 1946-1958 - www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61764 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 6 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 Die Maus – Bremen Genealogical Society https://die-maus-bremen.info • Jüdische Familien im Bremer Raum • The database contains persons of Jewish faith and their descendants who lived in the area of today's city of Bremen and in the mostly rural communities of the Stade rabbinate. This area includes the Elbe- Weser triangle and is bordered in the south by the municipalities of Bremen, Verden and Rotenburg an der Wümme. • For further information that is outside the processing area set here, the database mentioned may be consulted here: • www.online-ofb.de/juden_nw/index.php • Or contact [email protected] Frankfurt am Main Records • www.lagis-hessen.de • ex. Hadis now Archinsis • Hessian Regional History Information System • www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/216113 • Civil Records online but not indexed yet! • Darmstadt • Marburg • Wiesbaden • No central place for all of the records! Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 7 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 Germany Military Killed in Action 1939-1948 www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61641 • http://des.genealogy.net /eingabe- verlustlisten/search?lang =en • WW1 - Verlustlisten Erster Weltkrieg New Berlin Records Ancestry 03/2020 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5753 • Births 1874-1906 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2957 • Marriages 1874-1920 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2958 • Deaths 1874-1920 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60778 • Address Books 1815-1974 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 8 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 NRW Newspapers Portal - https://zeitpunkt.nrw • Discover historical newspapers from North Rhine Westphalia! • Funded by the federal state of North Rhine Westphalia, this project aims at digitizing local newspapers from North Rhine Westphalia from the period of 1801-1945. • This portal presents the digitized newspapers for a broad public and will be expanded continuously. Hispanic Digital Library http://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/index.vm (has German papers too!) Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 9 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 German Archives Portal - www.archivportal-d.de • 22622 Standesaemt – yes really! Search • By State • By type of archive • By place name (A-Z) Polish Archives – what’s new https://allenstein.vffow.de/neues.php • As of 06.06.2020: 58993 • Verein für Familienforschung in documents with 2927269 Ost-und Westpreußen e.V. digitized documents from • https://allenstein.vffow.de 25.04.2020 Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 10 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 Arolsen Archive https://arolsen-archives.org Arolsen ctd. https://arolsen-archives.org • Free to search • Please apply by email if you don’t discover anything online. • UK copy @ Wiener Holocaust Library • Israeli copy @ Yad Vashem • US copy @ USHMM, in DC. • Online digitisation of Arolsen records is now complete according to WDYTYA mag current issue July 2020. • https://arolsen-archives.org/en/learn-participate/interactive- archive/everynamecounts • Appeal for people to take part in the online crowdsourcing project “Every Name Counts” where volunteers enter names found on documents into the online archive to ensure that they will never be forgotten. Slides © Jeanette R Rosenberg 07/06/2020 11 JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 07/06/2020 Top 10 Dutch Genealogy Websites by Yvette Hoitink • Open Archives • Nationaal Archief This website publishes genealogical records from the This National Archives website has their finding aids archives in the Netherlands, often with scans or links to the and genealogical indexes, including emigrants to Australia original records. and freed slaves in the West Indies. • Archieven.nl • Delpher Website where many archives publish their finding aids and This website by the Royal Library contains searchable genealogical indexes. newspapers, journals, magazines, books, and other publications from many heritage collections. • WieWasWie Many archives publish their genealogical records on • Family name database WieWasWie. Advanced search functions require a This database shows the occurrence of Dutch family names subscription. based on the 1947 (most recent) census. Fill in a naam (name) and click the Zoek (search) button. A list of names • FamilySearch will appear. Select ‘kaartweergave’ (map display) to see the International website that contains many Dutch sources. geographical spread. The linked page leads to a search page to search the indexed records. Also check the Catalog for the place name • GenealogieOnline for unindexed records. Website where many Dutch people publish their online trees. • Digital Resources Netherlands and Belgium This portal provides links to records that are available • Dutch Genealogy Facebook group online. These can range from name indexes and Facebook group dedicated to Dutch Genealogy. This is a transcriptions to digitized original records. very friendly community where people help each other solve brick walls. City of Rotterdam Archives Posts Passenger Lists of Holland America Line 1900-1920 • Lots of people left German via NL • Put the passenger’s name you