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Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington
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Dedicated to helping people discover, document, and share their Jewish family history.

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Reclaim the Records has done it again!
NY State Death Index 1880-2017!
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Reclaim The Records
We’re Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. We identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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In Galveston, descendants of a forgotten Jewish migration keep their community's story alive - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Texas city was briefly known as "The Ellis Island of the West" thanks to Jacob Schiff.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Generations Newsletter - December 1, 2025

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Generations Newsletter
Volume 18, No. 11, December 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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What Is a Township and Why Is It Important in Historical Research?? - MyHeritage Blog
A township is a type of local government within a county and appears in federal census records to show where each household lives. Civil townships were
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December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Responsible AI Photo Restoration | Making Family History
AI tools can restore faded and damaged family photos. They can also change important historical details. Learn to use these powerful tools responsibly.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Why your old AI prompts aren’t working anymore (and how to fix them)
Gemini 3 and ChatGPT 5.1 are out. Learn why that matters and get three new prompts that work for newer AI models.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Reconstructing the Lost 1890 Census: Recent Records and AI Tools (2025 Updates) - Genealogy Bargains
Author’s Note: I want to be transparent that this article – Reconstructing the Lost 1890 Census: Recent Records and AI Tools (2025 Updates) – was created in
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December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Why Your Ancestor Changed Their Name (And No, It Wasn't Ellis Island) - Genealogy Explained
Here's what you think happened: Your great-grandfather stepped off the boat at Ellis Island. A cranky clerk couldn't pronounce "Wojciechowski," shrugged, and
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December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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How to Hire a Professional Genealogist
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Ancestry Just Banned Forensic Genealogy - Here's Why That Matters
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Philanthropy in Boston’s Jewish Community at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Pathways to Belonging Citizenship, Rights, and Records through History
YouTube video by Allen County Public Library
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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Welcome to the new and improved JGSGW website! Visit us at www.jgsgw.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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From today's issue of #WashingtonJewishWeek

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Reclaiming Citizenship in Lands Once Fled
About four years ago, Temple Rodef Shalom member Robbie Kaplan began looking into her family’s ancestry “just like everybody else.”
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November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Amsterdam to the Americas: The Making of a Sephardic Atlantic
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November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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JGSGW Upcoming Events
Email from Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington Mark Your Calendar   UPCOMING EVENTS   Sunday, October 19 at 1:30 PM Location: ZOOM For the Protection of Girls and Women – The Crisis of Jewi
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October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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JGSGW Member Renee Carl recently authored this post on the HARPP Substack

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With NARA funding cuts, access to America’s memory is on the chopping block
The White House and Congress are proposing to fund record-keeping like it’s still 1999.
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September 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Generations Newsletter
Volume 18, No. 9, October 2025
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September 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Using Derivate & Imaged Sources - By Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CG, FASG
Modern genealogists are blessed to have billions of records easily available—in print, in some derivative format, and as images online.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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How to Use Local Archives Online — Heritage Discovered
Learn how to use local archives online so you can find more information about your family and ancestors without leaving your home.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Did you know that September 22 is #nationaldeardiaryday ?

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FREE CHEAT SHEET! National Dear Diary Day: The only time snooping in someone’s personal life makes you a historian instead of a creep.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Gary Mokotoff, founding president of IAJGS, passed away on August 31.

Gary was a computer software pioneer who led to the creation of many genealogical innovations, such as JewishGen’s Family Finder and the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system.

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IAJGS Remembers Gary Mokotoff - IAJGS
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September 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Friendly reminder - CENSUS SEARCH - when you're certain where a family should be living, and they're just not coming up, swap the surname and forename. Just tracked down a family in the 1911 Irish Census using their address which matched 1909 and 1912 birth records. Sure enough, bingo! #Genealogy
September 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The World’s Largest Y-DNA Haplotree
FamilyTreeDNA’s Y-DNA haplotree includes over 95,000 branches and 788,000 variants — the most detailed paternal ancestry map in the world. Each month, we update this post with the latest growth stats,...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Are you researching ancestors who lived in what's now Ukraine? There may be records scanned and online, just waiting for you to find them. Here's info abt a new site that may help you locate scanned and online records:
#ancestry #genealogy #familyhistory
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Ukrainan Online Records - Use the Duck!
Genealogy tips & stories tracing family with microfilmed records, records in Ukrainian archives, and (sometimes) online records. Jewish genealogy blog
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September 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM