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NEWS ALERT
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Updated:
July 31, 2017 |
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New Licensing Agreement with JRI-Poland
The Routes to Roots Foundation and Miriam Weiner have announced an agreement
with JRI-Poland wherein JRI will link to various chapters/entries in Miriam?s book,
Jewish Roots in Poland (now out of print); Additionally, Miriam has donated to JRIPoland,
four large bins of archive inventories, document copies, reference material,
and numerous name lists (including Holocaust-related material), which will eventually
be translated, indexed and made available on the JRI-Poland website at
www.jri-poland.org
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New Partnership with JewishGen/Belarus SIG
The Routes to Roots Foundation and Miriam Weiner have announced an agreement
with JewishGen/Belarus SIG Group wherein Miriam has donated multiple bins of
archive inventories, document copies and other reference material to the Belarus SIG.
On behalf of the Belarus SIG Group, member Paul Zoglin has created a database
(now accessible on the Belarus SIG website) searchable by surname and/or town
name based upon document copies and data acquired during Miriam?s 25+ years of
working in the Belarus Archives. Additionally, various articles about the Belarus
archives are now accessible via the Belarus SIG website at
www.jewishgen.org/Belarus
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New Partnership with JewishGen/Bessarabia SIG
The Routes to Roots Foundation and Miriam Weiner have announced an agreement
with JewishGen/Bessarabia SIG Group wherein Miriam has donated multiple bins of
archive inventories, document copies, name lists (cemetery burials, etc.) to the
Bessarabia SIG. On behalf of the Bessarabia SIG, Yefim Kogan has taken over the
processing of this material including creating name lists from Miriam?s material;
creating a database (to be searchable by name and or town) based upon the many
pages representing thousands of names from documents in the Moldova Archives,
collecting during her 25+ years working in Moldova. Additionally, chapters from
Miriam?s book, Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova are now accessible via the
Bessarabia SIG website at
www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/TPL_Base.asp?id=13
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Remembering Harvey Krueger, Z"L
The Routes to Roots Foundation expresses our profound and deep sorrow over the passing
of board member, Harvey M. Krueger. I first met Harvey in the early 1990s when I began
working with him on his family history in Poland and Lithuania and
later his wife, Connie's, family history in Belarus and Poland.
In 1994, Harvey was instrumental in establishing the Routes to Roots Foundation
and from that time until his death, Harvey served as an active board member,
mentor, supporter (both financially and in a myriad of other ways) and most of all
as a friend. Harvey's continuing guidance, support and passion for genealogy enabled
the RTRF Foundation to fulfill its mission.
Additionally, Harvey was instrumental in bringing about a partnership agreement
between the RTRF and Ancestry.com as well as the subsequent agreement between
the RTRF and the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
We extend heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and colleagues
throughout the world.
Miriam Weiner, President
Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc.
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Access to Lviv Oblast Archives.
The Reading Room of the State Archive of Lviv Oblast is closed to on-site visits by researchers during the inventory process necessitated by the theft of valuable documents. It is unknown as to when this Reading Room will re-open. If a researcher sends a letter to Kiev and applies to the State
Committee on Archives of Ukraine for permission to do on-site research in the Lviv Oblast Archive , the request is usually granted. The Lviv Oblast Archive responds to all research inquiries by e-mail, telephone or fax. However, there are no materials in this archive normally of interest to genealogists (birth/marriage/death records or census documents). These latter documents are housed in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
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Miriam Weiner receives Lifetime Achievement Award
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Fire at the Kamenets Podolskiy Archives in Ukraine!
On April 9, 2003 a fire destroyed a significant amount of the historical documents stored in a warehouse of the Kamenets Podolskiy City-State Archive.
CLICK HERE for more details.
CLICK HERE for images.
CLICK HERE for update (pdf) |
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Availability of Publications - both books out of print!
Both
Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova
and
Jewish Roots in Poland
are now out of print and will not be reprinted.
The archive inventories in the books have been updated and expanded for this website.
Also, many chapters from both books now appear on this website.
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RTR Foundation home page > Archive Database
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