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Free Events for Genealogists of All Levels

<figure data-orig-width="1094" data-orig-height="236" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d6d1f72c1e8cc470ed9b7a8bd5989d3/tumblr_inline_oh27qiqN081r0yq0k_540.jpg" alt="image" data-orig-width="1094" data-orig-height="236"/></figure><p>The Center for Jewish History invites people of all backgrounds to explore their roots at the landmark Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute. Participants will explore the world of family history research with the guidance of expert genealogists, become familiar with local and online resources, and learn how to present and share their family history. The series will provide an entry point for individuals interested in becoming a member of the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute (see <a href="http://membership.cjh.org" target="_blank">membership.cjh.org</a> for more information) or those who wish to utilize additional resources on its new website, <a href="http://genealogy.cjh.org" target="_blank">genealogy.cjh.org</a>.<br/>* To reserve your tickets, please go to <a href="http://genealogy.cjh.org/events" target="_blank">genealogy.cjh.org/events</a></p><h2>December 1, 5:30 PM</h2><h2>No Shushing Allowed: A Library Social Hour</h2><p>Please join us for our first genealogy-oriented library social hour. You will have the opportunity to speak with the librarians and archivists who make the Center for Jewish History’s genealogy materials accessible. We would like to get to know all of you a little better, learn about how you are using our collections and services, and find out what we can do to better support your research. Light refreshments will be served. Free; No reservation required</p><figure data-orig-width="728" data-orig-height="500" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/c96c15bd7c12fb5ca75c8a27d2234e09/tumblr_inline_oh29o7DPqP1r0yq0k_540.jpg" alt="image" data-orig-width="728" data-orig-height="500"/></figure><blockquote><p>Courtesy of the New York Public Library</p></blockquote><h2>December 1, 6:30 PM</h2><h2>Genealogy Research at New York Public Libary’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</h2><p>Co-sponsored by the New York Public Library<br/>The New York Public Library’s extraordinary Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is home to one of the largest research collections in the United States, making it an essential resource for genealogists everywhere. The Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History, and Genealogy is the Library’s center for genealogy research, home to wealth of family history source materials and knowledgeable librarians. From here, librarians can direct you to other divisions in the building—including the Map Division, the Jewish Division, and the Manuscripts and Archives Division—where you can find further materials useful to your research. <a href="http://tix.smarttix.com/Modules/Sales/SalesMainTabsPage.aspx?ControlState=1&SalesEventId=6080&DC=" target="_blank">Free; Reservation Required*</a></p><figure data-orig-width="853" data-orig-height="689" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/ea25bb1aac2940d815bde022c08bbfe9/tumblr_inline_oh29ojoE1e1r0yq0k_540.jpg" alt="image" data-orig-width="853" data-orig-height="689"/></figure><blockquote><p>Courtesy of the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History</p></blockquote><h2>December 8, 6:30 PM</h2><h2>Workshop: Mapping your Family History</h2><p>The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute recently launched a searchable online map of New York’s historical synagogues (synagoguemap.cjh.org). Moriah Amit will provide a tutorial on how to use this map to identify the synagogue(s) your immigrant ancestors most likely attended. She will then demonstrate how you can create your own map of locations relevant to your family history using Google Maps. Please bring a list of towns, such as your ancestors’ birthplaces, or specific addresses, such as your ancestors’ places of residence, to use during the guided practice portion of this workshop. If you do not already have a Google account, please create one in advance at accounts.google.com and bring your username and password. <a href="http://tix.smarttix.com/Modules/Sales/SalesMainTabsPage.aspx?ControlState=1&SalesEventId=6081&DC=" target="_blank">Free; Reservation Required*</a></p><figure data-orig-width="3249" data-orig-height="4973" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e0c5f61fb33c0934f7b43f122cdd8df1/tumblr_inline_oh29otWPoZ1r0yq0k_540.jpg" alt="image" data-orig-width="3249" data-orig-height="4973"/></figure><blockquote><p>Courtesy of Logan Kleinwaks</p></blockquote><h2>December 11, 12:00 PM</h2><h2>GenealogyIndexer.org: Searching Historical European Directories and Other Sources</h2><p>GenealogyIndexer.org is a free website where you can search more than 800,000 pages of historical European directories (business, address, telephone), Yizkor books, Polish and Russian military documents, community and personal histories, Galician secondary school reports, and more. Containing millions of personal names – often with towns, street addresses, and occupations, and sometimes with vital dates or patronymics – this huge collection is mostly comprised of data not searchable elsewhere. This talk will provide an overview of the more than 2,000 sources, primarily from 1844 to 1942, with a focus on newly added sources and new search functionality.<br/><a href="http://tix.smarttix.com/Modules/Sales/SalesMainTabsPage.aspx?ControlState=1&SalesEventId=6082&DC=" target="_blank">Free; Reservation Required*</a></p><figure data-orig-width="632" data-orig-height="713" class="tmblr-full"><img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/c1d4123bfbb00661d9f5c82040876b77/tumblr_inline_oh29p1bXGA1r0yq0k_540.jpg" alt="image" data-orig-width="632" data-orig-height="713"/></figure><blockquote><p> Courtesy of Elayne and Steve Denker <br/></p></blockquote><h2>December 11, 3:00 PM<br/>How to Design and Construct a Family History Book Entirely by Yourself</h2><p>There is probably no gift that can have greater impact on future generations than the book of your family history and stories. We all have spent considerable amounts of time gathering genealogical and historical materials and information. How do we take this mass of stuff and share it with our family? While there are many professional editing and book design firms available to help you create your family history book, their fees can be expensive and they often have a limited set of templates they prefer to use. With today’s self-publishing software and digital printing vendors, taking a do-it-yourself approach to the entire process is an alternative worth considering. Elayne and Steve Denker will discuss the practicalities of how to design and construct your family history book, including organization, page layout, aesthetics, and document reproduction. <a href="http://tix.smarttix.com/Modules/Sales/SalesMainTabsPage.aspx?ControlState=1&SalesEventId=6083&DC=" target="_blank">Free; Reservation Required*</a></p><h2>December 15, 6:30 PM</h2><h2>Reclaim the Records: Using Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogical and Archival Research</h2><p>Our speaker, Brooke Schreier Ganz of Reclaim the Records, says, “Tired of being told by archives, libraries, and government agencies that the records they hold are “unavailable” to the public, only available behind a paywall, or only available to view if you can visit them onsite? We were too, so we figured out how to do something about it. We’re Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group. We use state Freedom of Information (FOI) laws to obtain copies of previously-inaccessible archival record sets, which we then freely post online, without any copyrights or usage restrictions. Our work has enabled the first-ever public access to millions of archival records from New York and New Jersey, from marriage records to registered voter lists to tax rolls. We started with a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York in 2015 – and won! – and are now spreading our legal work to other cities and states.” This presentation will walk through the history and legal basics of FOI laws, and will teach researchers how to file their own state FOI requests for any genealogical or archival records they may want to see returned to the public domain. <a href="http://tix.smarttix.com/Modules/Sales/SalesMainTabsPage.aspx?ControlState=1&SalesEventId=6085&DC=" target="_blank">Free; Reservation Required*</a></p>

Breaking through our Female Ancestor's Brick Walls: Genealogical Sources for Maiden Names by Moriah Amit

<p> In honor of Women’s History Month, I would like to offer some guidance to those who are seeking to discover and share the stories of their elusive female ancestors. One of the most common “brick walls” that genealogy researchers face when tracing the family history of a female ancestor is that their family doesn’t know her maiden name. For centuries in much of the Western world, the practice of women replacing their surname with their husband’s surname upon marriage has effectively severed these individuals from their genealogical lineages. Learning a woman’s maiden name is a crucial first step for the modern researcher trying to find documents that shed light on a woman’s early life (prior to her marriage) or that trace her ancestry back to previous generations.</p><figure class="tmblr-full" data-orig-width="564" data-orig-height="800"><img alt="image" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/748eaa6758bcd39ff8906dcb4e433e99/tumblr_inline_onj9v0ShcM1r0yq0k_540.jpg" data-orig-width="564" data-orig-height="800"/></figure><p><i>Marriage contract of Yitzhak son of Moshe(?) Benjamin and Palomba daughter of Shulami Halevy; artist: David Isaac Amarillo; Salonika, 1897; Lithograph on paper with handwritten text.</i></p><p><i>Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, New York</i></p><p><i>Gift of Grace Grant</i></p><p>Ironically, the very documents which mark the occasion on which women are typically stripped of their maiden names are the ones that hold the greatest potential as the source of those names. Of course, I am referring to a woman’s marriage records. Depending on the place, time, and religious affiliation of the wedding, any number of records may have been issued to show the couple’s intent to marry, such as marriage banns, intentions, bonds, newspaper announcements, licenses, and applications, and to document the actual wedding, such as marriage contracts (the <i>ketubah</i> in the Jewish tradition, pictured above), registers, and certificates. With the exception of those that are passed down as family heirlooms, historical religious marriage records have scarcely survived. On the other hand, civil marriage records, even centuries old, are much more likely to have been maintained by a local clerk, registrar, or archives to the present day. For more information on how to locate U.S. marriage records, please consult the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute’s vital records research guide <a href="http://libguides.cjh.org/genealogyguides/us/census" target="_blank">here.</a> For international marriage records, please select <a href="http://libguides.cjh.org/genealogyguides/us/census" target="_blank">our research guide</a> pertaining to your ancestor’s country of marriage </p><p>When a marriage record cannot be located or does not contain a maiden name, there are a number of alternative sources to pursue, beginning with other types of vital records. The birth records of a woman’s children are the second best source for her maiden name, because most birth records solicit that information and the informant (i.e. the person who supplied the information) is typically the woman herself. Records pertaining to a woman’s death, such as death certificates and registers, cemetery ledgers, gravestones, obituaries, and probate records, should be used with caution. If the informant is identified on the document, think about whether that person is likely to have accurately recalled the deceased’s maiden name. If the informant is not identified, think about whether the deceased’s closest surviving relatives are likely to have recalled her maiden name. When in doubt, try to corroborate the name supplied with additional sources. Further guidance: <a href="http://libguides.cjh.org/genealogyguides/us/census" target="_blank">U.S. birth records</a>, <a href="http://libguides.cjh.org/genealogyguides/us/census" target="_blank">U.S. death records</a>, <a href="http://libguides.cjh.org/genealogyguides/us/census" target="_blank">international records by country</a>. </p><p>There are several less commonly used U.S. sources of maiden names that may help you when the aforementioned sources fail. First, if your female ancestor was already married when she emigrated to the U.S., check her and her husband’s immigration records (also known as passenger arrival lists or manifests). They may have identified the woman’s father or one of her brothers (all of whom shared her maiden name) as their closest living relative in their native country or as the relative who they were joining in the U.S. Second, review your female ancestor’s U.S. federal and state census records. Multi-generational extended family households were much more common in the 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries than they are today. Well into your ancestor’s married life, you may find one of her unmarried siblings or one of her widowed parents living in her household. Lastly, a couple of unexpected, but reliable sources for a woman’s maiden name include her social security application and her husband’s veteran pension file (if he served in the U.S. military and predeceased her). Further guidance: <a href="http://libguides.cjh.org/genealogyguides/us/census" target="_blank">immigration records ,</a> <a href="http://libguides.cjh.org/genealogyguides/us/census" target="_blank"> census records </a>,<a href="https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/U.S._Social_Security_Records_for_Genealogists" target="_blank"> social security applications </a>, <a href="https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/US_Military_Pension_Records" target="_blank">veterans’ pension files </a>. </p><p>It is important to note that there are exceptions to this name change pattern. For example, in Spanish-speaking countries, Portuguese-speaking countries, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, among others, women have traditionally retained their maiden names throughout their lives, at least in official documents, and, in many cases, also colloquially. In the historical regions of Galicia (straddling modern Poland and the Ukraine), and Bohemia and Moravia (modern Czech Republic), only the eldest son of a Jewish family was permitted to have a civil marriage and to pass on his surname to his children; these laws effectively forced many younger sons to have only a religious marriage and to register their children under their wife’s maiden name. </p><p>Women’s lives are often erased from the historical record. Women’s History Month is, in part, a corrective measure to this regrettable trend. Through all of the variations discussed above, the librarians at the Genealogy Center are dedicated to helping you discover more about your female ancestors and their families. Please visit us in person or <a href="http://genealogy.cjh.org/" target="_blank">online</a> to learn more. </p>

Singlish: Year-Round Holiday Songs - Volume 4 (2001)

This Little Light of Mine Hooray for Mister Lincoln Michael Finnigan Mr. Rabbit Yankee Doodle This is Halloween Five Little Pumpkins Over the River and Through The Woods Five Fat Turkeys Jingle Bells Oh Hanukkah Must Be Santa This Little Light of Mine (Instrumental Only) Hooray for Mister Lincoln (Instrumental Only) Michael Finnigan (Instrumental Only) Mr. Rabbit (Instrumental Only) Yankee Doodle (Instrumental Only) This is Halloween (Instrumental Only) Five Little Pumpkins (Instrumental Only) Over The River and Through The Woods (Instrumental Only) Five Fat Turkeys (Instrumental Only) Jingle Bells (Instrumental Only) Oh Hanukkah (Instrumental Only) Must Be Santa (Instrumental Only) (c) 2001 Singlish Enterprises. Created By: Ida Larsen.

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