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11/08/2016 Welcome 1. Introductions 2. Invited Guest Speaker Stephen Falk 3. In Memory of Arthur Obermayer 4. Obermayer German Jewish History Awards Update Karen Franklin 5. Discussion List & Moderation Update John Lowens

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Welcome

1. Introductions 2. Invited Guest Speaker – Stephen Falk 3. In Memory of Arthur Obermayer 4. Obermayer German Jewish History Awards Update – Karen Franklin 5. Discussion List & Moderation Update – John Lowens 6. Data Projects Update – Roger Lustig 7. A New Webmaster & A New Website 8. Volunteering to Help with New GerSIG projects – Jeanette Rosenberg 9. News, Updates & Announcements 10. Any Other Business

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Introductions

  • The GerSIG Directors:

– John Lowens – Roger Lustig – Nancy Grayson Adelson – Jeanette Rosenberg OBE

  • GerSIG’s Invited Guest Speaker for 2016

– Stephen Falk

  • Former GerSIG Director, and Co-Founder

– Karen Franklin

GerSIG’s Invited Guest Speaker

  • Stephen Falk
  • 2 talks:
  • GerSIG Luncheon: The Three

Cemeteries of the Breslau Jewish Community

  • Archival Resources on the Jewish

Community of Breslau 1791-1941 (Breslau, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland)

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Karen Spiegel Franklin

  • Former Director GerSIG
  • Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck

Institute in New York City

  • President of the Obermayer German Jewish History

Awards

  • A past President of IAJGS
  • Past Co-chair - Board of Governors of JewishGen
  • Dr. Arthur S. OBERMAYER (1931-2016)
  • GerSIG Director
  • GerSIG Webmaster
  • Founder of the

Obermayer German Jewish History Awards

  • Tribute available at

http://obermayer.us/aw ard/Tribute_Obermayer _020516.pdf

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http://obermayer.us/award/index.htm

Deadline for 2017 Award is September 21, 2016!

Awards Presented on January 25, 2016

The German Jewish Community History Council together with the GerSIG and the Berlin Parliament gave 5 awards to outstanding Germans who had carried

  • ut important work on Jewish history. They were:
  • Walter Demandt (Norden) and Almut Holler (Hage)
  • Peter Franz (Weimar)
  • Elmar Ittenbach (Thalfang)
  • Elisabeth Quirbach and Hans Schulz (Braunsbach)
  • Werner Schäfer (Frankenthal)

Two Distinguished Service Awards were given to:

  • Nils Busch-Petersen (Berlin)
  • Reinhard Führer (Berlin)

A Tribute to Dr. Arthur S. Obermayer and Obermayer German Jewish History Awardees

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How to Nominate

  • http://obermayer.us/award/nominate.htm
  • Deadline for 2017 Award Nominations is:

September 21, 2016!

  • New this year – not just about individuals, you

can also nominate organisations.

GerSIG Discussion Group

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GerSIG Discussion List

  • Suggested improvements or complaints?
  • Need help putting a message into plain text?
  • Having technical issues with the website?
  • Non-English speaker needing help?
  • Please contact John Lowens the GerSIG list

Moderator - GerSIGmod@gmail.com

GerSIG Discussion List

  • Please send any thoughts or comments about
  • ur discussion list.
  • Not all comments and suggestions can be

posted to the list but they are of interest to the Moderator and are much appreciated.

  • “As GerSIG’s customer service representative, I

am always happy to try to help members solve GerSIG and JewishGen technical problems”.

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From the GerSIG Moderator

  • We strongly urge new subscribers to send "HELLO" or "INTRO" emails to

introduce themselves & their research interests to the rest of the group.

  • Many excellent breakthroughs have resulted from new subscriber

“INTRO" emails.

  • We are particularly keen for people to share by email lists of the names

and places they are researching if they have not done so.

  • Please keep the last names in UPPER CASE and the places in lower

case text, and if possible say when your family lived there.

  • We also appreciate SITE CITE and BOOK CITE and similar messages.
  • We especially appreciate "success stories" and "thank you" messages

from those whom the Forum has helped.

  • A significant and growing number of list messages mention data from and

member participation in other on-line sources - Ancestry, Geni, etc.

  • Many of the List messages are now View-mate translation requests.

Please search the archived GerSIG messages before posting to the list

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  • New indexing projects to be announced soon

– Candidates: Baden surname lists, Württemberg family registers – More as new records come on line

  • Work in progress: index of vital records and other

sources – Filmed items – Originals in archives – On-line materials

Forthcoming GerSIG Projects

The Hessen Gatermann Index

Phase 1:vital records from all Kreise in the former Kassel administrative region of Hessen-Nassau, plus Waldeck. Mainly 1825-1938 (73,000 records) complete

  • Frankfurt now being

digitized

  • Gatermann films for other

parts of Hessen are a small portion of available records

  • Darmstadt archive has

some records on line

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Die Geschichte der Juden in Jebenhausen & Göppingen by Aron Tänzer

  • Published in Frankfurt in 1927
  • In German
  • Images available online
  • 1988 Addendum – what happened

to the community after 1927

  • 1988 version in English translation
  • Project to supplement 1988

version bringing the trees right up to date

  • Steve Weil - Stephenjw@aol.com

www.jewishgen.org/gersig

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GerSIG Website

  • We need both a new webmaster and a new

website

  • Your GerSIG Directors wish to unanimously

propose Alex Calzareth now becomes our new Webmaster and a Director of GerSIG.

  • We’ve been working with Alex
  • Want to welcome him by acclaim
  • Mazal Tov!

New GerSIG Website - 2016

In Honor of/In Memory of

  • Dr. Arthur S Obermayer

GerSIG Webmaster 1998-2016

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JewishGen

  • All Germany Database
  • Locality Pages
  • Kehila Links
  • Data
  • Web traffic

Alemannia Judaica Obermayer Awards & Awardees Leo Baeck Institute NY DigiBaeck Old GerSIG Website * New GerSIG Website to be hosted by JewishGen & located at www.jewishgen.org/gersig Communi ty Histories to Yizkor Books Database ?

New Data & Recor ds Funding stream for new data & records

Stronger Linkages * Old website online until replacement is ready

Further ideas – from Alex (Feb 2016)

  • Header image with logo?
  • GerSIG projects - Naldex
  • In memoriam?

– Arthur Obermayer – Martha Lev Zion – Michael Bernet

  • Membership survey?
  • German societies
  • Map of Jewish communities ?
  • Standard town page?
  • Stolpersteine
  • Holocaust research
  • 1939 Minority census
  • Current Jewish communities?
  • Ad hoc translations
  • Germans (Obermayer awardees

and others) interested in certain towns - directory?

  • Connect descendants to their

hometowns

  • GerSIG event Calendar?
  • Historical conference speakers

and materials?

  • GerSIG speakers bureau ?
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A different page for each town

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First Towns

  • Steve Jaron

– Duisburg & Randerath

  • Stephen Falk

– Breslau, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland

  • Kehilalinks
  • Your Towns?

Peter Landé’s Databases Collection

  • 1933 German Jews Database
  • Kindertransport Database
  • German Jews: Death Certificates
  • They will all find their way on
  • to our new website!
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NRW Jewish records Online

  • Reg.bez. Detmold:

http://tinyurl.com/gpvg fbh

  • Reg.bez. Arnsberg:

http://tinyurl.com/zk7y 5qm

NRW – Westfalen & Lippe

  • About 900 Jewish &

Dissident Registers

  • Digitised Images of

Original Records

  • Covering: 1808-1874
  • RB Arnsberg - P5
  • RB Detmold - P2
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Other Future Projects….

  • Rolf Hoffman Files
  • Other projects with LBI, NY
  • Collaboration with CAHJP
  • Arising from ITS Collection
  • In cooperation with the Wiener Library in London
  • GerSIG Directors are interested in your views

about what records you want us to work on

Can You Help GerSIG?

  • What can you do to help us help GerSIG

Researchers:

– Sign up today, or contact Jeanette – Please send your name, Email, Volunteer Interests & Skills

  • Scanning
  • Data Entry
  • Translation
  • Donating Materials
  • Organizing Projects
  • Which town will you manage?
  • We will contact you!
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Thank you to our Donors

  • Fundraising for GerSIG

– The General Fund – The Speaker Bureau

German Jewish GerSIG DNA Project

http://jewsoffrankfurt.com

www.facebook.com/jewsoffrankfurt

WIRTH Group

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JGSGB German SIG

  • Quarterly meetings – with presentations
  • Workshops to explore our research brick walls
  • Supporting mutual genealogy research
  • Answering research questions
  • Using the genealogy & history research library
  • Keeping in touch with GerSIG activities
  • Handouts with links to new resources – ask me

for more info about this.

International Germanic Genealogy Conference

  • July 28-29, 2017 in

Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • Deutsche

Arbeitsgemeinschaft genealogischer Verbände e. V.

  • www.dagv.org
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Gunnar Pudlatz - schuwoe@gmx.de

  • Looking to find names of the German Jews hidden by her

Grandparents Karl Anton Kessler and his wife Gerda nee Bertram who lived in Bernauer Strasse 16, Altlandsberg, Niederbarnim, east of Berlin between 1939 and 1945.

  • They hid children and adults.
  • According to oral testimony they had hid up to 50-60

German Jews in their home and basement, some also for a longer period of time.

  • Gunnar’s grandmother, who survived the war, never gave

her any names of the hidden Jews.

  • Gunnar wants to find testimony from witnesses who were

hidden, maybe as children, by her grandparents or testimony in letters and biographies.

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The End of an Era

  • Nancy Grayson Adelson is standing

down as a Director of GerSIG at the end of our Conference.

  • BIG Thank you to Nancy from all of

us here today.

Any Other Questions or Suggestions

  • Any questions from GerSIG members?
  • Further ideas?

– please contact the GerSIG Directors

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Contact GerSIG Directors

  • Alex Calzareth - GerSIGweb@gmail.com
  • John Lowens - GerSIGmod@gmail.com
  • Roger Lustig - GerSIG.Research@verizon.net
  • Jeanette Rosenberg OBE - jeanette.r.rosenberg@googlemail.com

See you next year in Orlando

  • July 23-28, 2017
  • But please keep in

touch between now and then!

  • Thanks for coming!