Florida: Create a 30-minute ShtetLink, June 28

Learn how to create, set up and organize - in only 30 minutes - an online site for the town where your ancestor lived at the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando (Florida), on Tuesday, June 28.

Speaker Marlis Humphry, Ukraine SIG Project Coordinator, and a JGSGO member, will speak at the Congregation of Reform Judaism in Orlando. The program starts at 2pm.  

She will use the congregation's online connections and website access to demonstrate how to develop elegant and professional web pages honoring ancestral towns. It is no longer necessary to know html to do that, if you can drag-and-drop and copy-and -paste.

JewishGen hosts websites that commemorate any town where Jews lived. and which can be created by anyone interested.  

Learn how to create one, if it doesn't already exist, in 30 minutes. She will demonstrate interactive examples and discuss tools, tips, guidelines and resources and create a site.

Humphrey is a foremost expert on next generation family history publishing. She has applied - to the genealogy world - more than 20 years experience in  communications, technology, marketing and strategic planning.

She is the Ukraine SIG project coordinator. Ancestor Road Show consultant at the Indian River County Library Genealogy Department and a member of the NGS, APG, FGS, JGSGO, IRGS and LitvakSIG.

She has discovered the towns of all her great-grandparents, contacted cousins in more than a 12 states, and found two great-aunts, ages 89 and 98.

Sounds like a great program! If you'll be visiting Orlando's many tourist attractions at this time - and get a bit tired of cartoon characters - this might be a good way to spend a very useful few hours.

JewishGen: ShtetLinks update, December 2010

JewishGen's ShtetLinks Project has issued its report for December 2010 on updates and new sites.

Updated:

Ruzhany, Belarus

New sites:

Cotopaxi, Colorado, USA (Jen Lowe)

Chop (Csap, Cop) (S-C), Ukraine (Marshall J. Katz)

Kezmarok (Kesmark), Slovakia (Madeleine Isenberg)

Park Hills (Flat River), Missouri, USA (Ross DeHovitz)

Some shtetlpages were created by those who can no longer maintain them. Here are some orphan pages up for adoption:

Borisov, Belarus

Krnov (Jaegerndorf), Czech Republic

Lask, Poland

Rozdol, Ukraine

Contact Susanna Leistner Bloch if you wish to create a new webpage for your ancestral shtetl or adopt an orphan page.

Colorado: Create a ShtetLink website, Nov. 14

You've thought about creating a ShtetLinks website to memorialize your ancestral community but don't really know how to do it.

Regardless of your technological skills, you can do it!

Learn all about JewishGen ShtetLinks at the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado on Sunday, November 14.

The program runs from 10am-noon at Congregation Har HaShem, Boulder.

Judy Petersen will present "What are, why use, and how to create a ShtetLinks website."

A JGSCO member, Judy wanted to do more than just keep files of family trees.

She wanted to share the information and place her family in an historical and geographical context. Collaboration with other researchers of the same area was also on her agenda.

Using ShtetLinks on JewishGen, volunteers create individual web pages for their ancestral towns.

Judy will share how she overcame her "technologically-challenged" status and how anyone can develop a site, increase their computer skills and make progress by networking with others researching the same towns.

She began researching her family after her father told about being an orphan after his parents and brother died. She contacted her paternal first cousins and this developed into a quest to find out as much about her extended family.

All she knew was that they came from Russia and her mother's family from Hungary. Today she has determined the towns of origin for all but one of her great-grandparents, constructed an extensive family tree and located living relatives in California, New York, Canada, Argentina, Israel and Denver.

Judy is also active in JewishGen's Hungarian SIG. 

In real life, she is a physical therapist and library director for Congregation Har Shalom, Fort Collins.

For more information and directions, visit the JGSCO website.

JewishGen: ShtetLinks, recent updates

JewishGen's ShtetLinks Project provides a way for genealogists and family historians to memorialize the communities of our ancestors, and provide resources for others who discover their roots.

Here are the newest ones as provided by Susana Leistner Bloch, who is in charge of the project.

-- Berehove (Beregszasz), Ukraine
-- Dzikow Stary (Dzikhev)
-- Kamennyy Brod, Ukraine
-- Klykoliai (Klikol), Lithuania
-- Philippson JCA Colony (Itaara), Brazil
-- Raducaneni, Romania
-- Szczercow (Shtchertzov, Stertzev)
-- Velke Kapusany (Nagykapos), Slovakia

Some pages were started by individuals who can no longer maintain them. One page in this category has now been adopted:

-- Leova, Moldova

Orphaned webpages available for adoption:

-- Borisov, Belarus
-- Krnov (Jaegerndorf), Czech Republic
-- Lask, Poland
-- Rozdol, Ukraine

ShtetLinks webpages recently updated:

-- Raducaneni, Romania
-- Tarnobrzeg, Poland

If you would like to create a webpage for your ancestral shtetl or adopt an orphaned page, send an email to Susana Leistner Bloch. Volunteers are available to help you create your page.

JewishGen: ShtetLink pages updated

The creators and webmasters of ShtetLinks at JewishGen strive to preserve the memory of their ancestral towns and villages.

An update sent by Susana Leistner Bloch indicated the following new and updated links:

Here are the new ones:

-- Belozerka, Ukraine
-- Dzialoszyn (Zaloshin), Poland
-- Eger (Erlau), Hungary
-- Mattersburg (Nagymarton,Mattersdorf) , Austria
-- Osjaków (Shakev), Poland
-- Volodymyrets (Vladimirets), Ukraine
-- Wloclawek (Vloatzlavek, Leslau)
-- Zhuravno (Zurawno, Zuravna) (G)

Some shtetlpages were created by individuals who can no longer maintain them. Those sites are considered "orphaned" and are available for "adoption." Here they are:

-- Borisov, Belarus
-- Craiova (Belkiralymezo, Canalu) / Dolj County, Romania
-- Kamiensk (Kaminsk), Poland
-- Krnov (Jaegerndorf), Czech Republic
-- Lask, Poland
-- Rozdil (Rozdol), Ukraine

Pages recently updated:

-- Berdichev/Berdychiv, Ukraine
-- Bodrogkeresztur (Keresztur)
-- Podgaytsy (Podhajce) (G)
-- Radom, Poland
-- Yurovshchina (Labun)

If you wish to create a ShtetLinks webpage for your ancestral shtetl or adopt an existing "orphaned" shtetlpage, contact the project.

There are even people to help you creat a webpage for your ancestral home. Contact Susana Leistner Bloch for more information.

JewishGen: ShteLinks additions

Check out these geographic locations below. Are any of them part of your unique family history?

If so, view the pages, contact the site creator or compiler and add your family's information. This is one way to create a living memorial to your ancestors.
(NOTE: N=new site, U=updated)

POLAND
Baligrod (N)
Created: Maurice I. Kessler
Webmaster: Arie Schwartz.

Ilza (Drildz) (N)
Created: Barbara Sontz

HUNGARY
Debrecen (N)
Compiled: Eugene Katz
Created/Webpage Design: Marshall J. Katz

Tiszafured (N)
Compiled: Dr. Agnes (nee Szego) Orbanne
Created/Webpage Design: Marshall J. Katz

Hodmezovasarhely (U)

ROMANIA
Iasi (N)
Created: Robert Zavos

AUSTRIA
Lackenbach (Lakompak) (U)

You, too, can create a new ShtetLinks webpage for your ancestral shtetl or adopt an existing page that has been "orphaned" and requires a dedicated person to maintain it.

If you are interested in starting such a project but need help with website design, a team of volunteers is available to help you.

For more information, send an email.

Tracing the Tribe is always available to ShtelLink site creators to help the Jewish genealogy world learn about your project and find more descendants who may wish to get involved.

JewishGen: Adopt a ShteLinks page

Are you looking for a way to honor your ancestors and remember your ancestral shtetl?

Some ShteLinks pages were created by individuals who can no longer attend to them. These pages offer valuable resources, but what they really need is a person or persons to maintain the page and add new material - as it becomes available.

The pages have already been set up so all you need to do is to continue the process of adding material.

Pages up for adoption include:

Barysaw (Borisov), Belarus

Dolj County, Romania

Kamiensk, Poland

Krnov (Jagerndorf), Czech Republic

Lask, Poland

Rozdil (Rozdol), Ukraine

Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislawow), Ukraine

For more information, contact Susana Leistner Bloch.

Michigan: Create a family website, March 14

In 2009, Robert Ruskin created a ShtetLink page for Selets (Shiletz), Belarus, for his father's birthplace.

He is researching his parents' families (ORECHKIN, SHIFMAN).

Ruskin will demonstrate how participants can create a family website or ShtetLinks site for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan, on Sunday, March 14.

The meeting begins at 11am, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills.

A JGSMI member, Ruskin is a native Detroiter.

He's a retired radiologist and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1955. Until 1996, he was in private practice and at Sinai Hospital in Detroit. He was also an assistant professor of radiology at Wayne State University Medical School and taught a computer filmmaking class at SOAR.

When he retired, he attended the University of Michigan Film School.

Fee: JGSMI members, free; others, $5. Register in advance here.

ShtetlLinks: New, updated pages

JewishGen ShtetLinks has added new and updated pages that serve as memorials to the Jewish communities that once lived in those places. The sites also provide resources for future generations of descendants.

N =new page
U = updated page

UKRAINE

N - Chumal'ovo (Csmolif)
Helen Ganz Kastenbaum

N - Yurovshchina (Labun)
Emily Garber

AUSTRIA

N - Lackenbach (Lakompak)
Yohanan Loeffler

BELARUS

N - Lebedevo (Lebiedzieva)
Eilat Gordin Levitan, WebPage design, Judith Goldsmith

MOLDOVA

N - Leova
Rennie M. Salz

POLAND

N - Pultusk (Pultosk, Ostenburg)
Stanley Finkelstein

N - Radom
Susan Weinberg

N - Rawa Mazowiecka
Merav Shub

HUNGARY

N - Sarvar (Savar)
Anne-Marie Pollowy Toliver

U - Bodrogkeresztur

Readers who wish to create a ShtetLinks webpage for their ancestral shtetl or to adopt an orphaned shtetlpage should contact Susana Leistner Bloch, VP ShtetLinks. Volunteers are available to help create these webpages.

JewishGen: ShtetLinks' update

JewishGen's ShtetLinks pages have been added or updated:

Belarus: Dunilovichi (Dunilovitsh), Krivichi (Kshyviche, Krzywicze), Radoshkovichi (Radoshkovits). Ruzhany (Rozihnoy) was updated.

Romania: Husi (Khush)

Poland: Nowogrod

Lithuania: Pasvalys (Posvel, Posvohl)

To create a ShtetLink page for your ancestral shtetl or adopt an "orphaned" page, send an email.

If you'd like to do a page, but need help in creating it, email Susana Leistner Block.

ShtetLinks: What's new for you?

Many researchers have created online memorials to the Jewish communities where their ancestors once lived. These sites are a valuable resource for current researchers and for those who will be searching for information in the future.

The sites are on JewishGen at the links below for each.

These are the new (N) as well as the updated (U) sites for October, listed by current country.

CHINA
Harbin, China (U)

BELARUS
Homyel (Gomel, Homl), Belarus (N)
Created by: Paul Zoglin

LITHUANIA
Varniai (Vorne), Lithuania (N)
Created by: Susan Gerichter
Webpage Design: ShtetLinks volunteer Greg Meyer

Zagare (Zhager), Lithuania (N)
Created by: Cliff Marks
Webpage Design: ShtetLinks volunteer Nicky Carklin

Aukstoji Panemune (Panemon, Poniemon Frentzela), Lithuania (U)

POLAND
Pila (Schneidemuhl), Poland (N)
Created by: Peter Cullman

SLOVAKIA
Poruba pod Vihorlatom (Nemetvagas), Slovakia (N)
Created by: Marshall J. Katz

UKRAINE
Grimaylov (Grzymalow, Hrymajiliv), Ukraine (N)
Created by: Susana Leistner Bloch
Webmaster: Edward Rosenbaum

Strabychovo (Sztrabicso, Strabichevo), Ukraine (N)
Compiled by: Amos Israel Zezmer
Created/Webpage Design: Marshall J. Katz

Kovel (Kowel), Ukraine (U)

Tracing the Tribe readers who would like to create a webpage for their ancestral shtetls or kahals (there is a Sephardic communities section), or adopt an existing orphan shtetlpage should send an email for more information.

If creating webpages and HTML is not your thing, don't worry. A group of dedicated individuals will help you create this memorial for your ancestral home.

For more information, contact Susana Leistner Bloch, ShtetLinks vice president.

ShteLinks: New and updated pages noted

New (N) and updated (U) JewishGen ShtetLinks webpages have been announced. See the links below for much more about each locality where our ancestors lived.

Ukraine:

(N) Chynadiyovo (Szentmiklos)
(N) Kovel (Kowel)
(U) Jewish Agricultural colonies in the Southern Ukraine

Hungary:

(N) Edeleny (Balajt, Ladbesenyo)
(N) Vamospercs
(U) Bodrogkeresztur (Keresztur)
(U) Kormend
(U) Tiszalok

Belarus:

(N) Selets (Shiletz)

Poland:

(N) Zloczew

Tracing the Tribe readers who want to create a new site for their ancestral shtetls or adopt an existing "orphaned" page, should send an email.

According to Susana Leistner Bloch (JewishGen's VP for ShtetLinks) and ShtetLinks technical coordinator Barbara Ellman, a team of volunteers are ready to help readers create pages for their ancestral homes. If you would like to create a page but require help, send an email as above.

JewishGen: New ShtetLinks added

The following new pages have been added to JewishGen's ShtetLinks. These pages create memorials to those Jewish communities that once lived there and provide a valuable resource for future generations.

Some are new (N), some updated (U) and some newly adopted (A). Do check them out for valuable information.

ARGENTINA

Basavilbaso (Lucienville) (N)

HUNGARY

Hodmezovasarhely (N)

Tiszalok(N)

Ujfeherto (Ratzfert) (N)

SLOVAKIA

Michalovce (Nagymihaly) (N)

CZECH REPUBLIC

Mikulov (Nikolsburg) (A)

CHINA

Harbin (U)

For more information on either starting a page or adopting an orphan page, email ShtetLinks to reach JewishGen ShtetLinks vice president Susana Leistner Bloch or ShtetLinks technical coordinator Barbara Ellman.

JewishGen: ShtetLinks pages added

Have you thought about creating a memorial to your ancestral villages and the Jewish communities that once lived there? It is a way to preserve valuable resources for future descendants.

Consider creating a webpage for your ancestral community at ShtetLinks on JewishGen and join many researchers who have already done just that. Look at the pages below for ideas and possibilities.

Consider creating a ShtetLink for your ancestral community.

New pages (N) and updated pages (U) include:

Belarus:
- (U) Kamenka
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kamenka/kamenka.html

Hungary:
- (N) Bodrogkeresztur (Keresztur) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bodrogkeresztur/Welcome.html

Lithuania:
- (N) Aukstoji Panemune (Panemon, Poniemon Frentzela)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Aukstoji_Panemune/

- (U) Mazheik (Mazeikiai)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/mazeikiai/introduction.html

Moldova:
- (N) Oliscani (Olishkan)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Oliscani/index.html

Poland:
- (N) Dabrowa Tarnowska (Dombrowa)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/dabrowa_tarnowska/

- (U) Pilzno
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Pilzno/Pilzno.html

Romania:
- (N) Valea lui Mihai (Ermihalyfalva)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Valea_lui_Mihai/

Ukraine:
- (N) Mizhhirya (Okormezo , Volovo)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Mizhhirya/

- (N) Voynilov (Wojnilow)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Voynilov/Voynilov.html

- (U) Krasilov (Krasyliv)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Krasilov/index.html

If you'd like to create a page for your ancestral shtetl or adopt an existing orphan page, email ShtetLinks vice president Susana Leistner Bloch and ShtetLinks technical coordinator Barbara Ellman.

ShtetLinks welcomes new pages

Susana Leistner Bloch and Barbara Ellman have announced the following webpage additions to JewishGen ShtetLinks.

ShtetLinks are memorials to Jewish communities which once lived in those towns and villages. The pages provide a place for text and photographs so that these communities may be remembered by future generations. The creators and designers are to be commended. Look through ShtetLinks and see if there is a site for your town of interest. If not, consider creating one.

Chabanivka (Bacsava, Bacovo, Batschive), Ukraine
Created by Marshall Katz
Click here.

Hirlau, Romania
Created by Lea Haber Gedalia
Web Design by ShtetLinks volunteer Robert Zavos
Click here.

Kamenka (Kamionka), Belarus
Created by Ze'ev Sharon
Click here.

Koden (Kodni), Poland
Created by Joyce Oshrin
Click here.

Kolonja Izaaka (Kolonia Isaaka, Isakova), Belarus
Created by Irwin Keller
Click here.

Krasnoye (Krasne), Belarus
Created by Eilat Gordin Levitan and Kevin Lo
Click here.

Minsk, Belarus
Created by Eilat Gordin Levitan and Kevin Lo
Click here.

Susanna is the newest JewishGen VP for ShtetLinks, and Barbara is the ShtetLinks Technical Coordinator.

Add Susanna and Barbara:

If you wish to follow their example and create a ShtetLinks webpage for your ancestral shtetl or adopt an exiting "orphaned" shtetlpage, please contact us at shtetl-help@jewishgen.org

There is now design help available to help those who wish to create pages. A recent appeal for HTML volunteers means that a dedicated team can help create a webpage for your ancestral home. Contact Susanna and Barbara at the email above if you'd like such help.