3rd Annual Meeting of JewishGen

Sub-Carpathia SIG6 August 2013Marshall Katz

Packard40@aol.com33rd IAJGS Jewish Genealogy Conference – Boston, Mass.

Agenda• Introductions• KehilaLinks• Research in Sub-Carpathia • Trip reports • Current projects• New projects• 2014 IAJGS conference• My availability, etc.• Open discussion and conclusion

Introductions• Please state your:

• Name

• Hometown, state or country

• Ancestral village or town

• Family surnames

KehilaLinks• All registered in Family Finder are contacted

• Content desired - pre-WWII:

• Postcards

• Photos

• Documents

• Notable citizens

KehilaLinks• Content desired - today:

• Photos

• Testimonies, interviews or articles about the town

• Family histories

• Vital documents

• Travelogues

KehilaLinks• Status Report:

• Sub-Carpathia SIG “Portal” on JewishGen

• 114 Sub-Carpathia KehilaLinks on JewishGen

• 82 KehilaLinks in-progress from my 2013 trip

• 25 Towns and Villages planned for my 2014 trip

• Add your Sub-Carpathia ancestral town(s) on the Survey form---if not already visited, I will in 2014

Research in Sub-Carpathia• Impossible to undertake any meaningful research

• Any news will be published to the Sub-Carpathia SIG mail list and on the Sub-Carpathia SIG “Portal”

Trip Reports• 2011 Trip Report

• 47 towns and villages visited/26 cemeteries

• 2012 Trip Report • 102 towns and villages visited/72 cemeteries

• 2013 Trip report:• 176 towns and villages visited/100 cemeteries

• Total in three years: • 325 towns and villages visited /198 cemeteries

Current Projects• gazetteer of Sub-Carpathian villages and towns, linked to a map, by former Hungarian or Ukranian name today

• transcription of the Velikiy Bereznyy mohel book

• translation of the Vynogradiv yizkor book

• transcription of tombstones from 2011, 2012 and 2013

• providing guidance for travel to/from Sub-Carpathia

New Projects• make a Chevra book for the Berehove cemetery

• support of Museum of Jewish History in Sub-Carpathia

• transcription of a List of Names of all deported from Sub-Carpathia---by village or town

• 82 new KehilaLink web sites and add new photos of villages and cemeteries to the Sub-Carpathia SIG “Portal”

• photos from visitors to their ancestral villages

2014 IAJGS Conference• 34th IAJGS Jewish Genealogy Conference

• 27 July – 1 August 2014

• Salt Lake City, Utah

• Hosted by: IAJGS and Utah JCS

• Anyone planning to attend?

My Availability, etc.• My availability during the conference

• My e-mail address: Packard40@aol.com

• JewishGen Sub-Carpathia SIG “Portal” web site:

• http://www.jewishgen.org/Sub-Carpathia/

• If you are not on the Sub-Carpathia mail list, please sign-up to receive announcements.

Open discussion and conclusion• Ideas for future Sub-Carpathia SIG projects

• Interest in forming a Sub-Carpathia SIG Board

• Open discussion of topics by attendees

• Thank you for attending and hope to see you in Salt Lake City, Utah next year