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(Jewish Group) Forward awarded Stern Grant at IAJGS Jewish Genealogy Conference
The Forverts' "Seeking Relatives" ads are a valuable resource for Jewish genealogists, offering insight into the journeys taken by Jewish immigrants and their families.
The Forward has been awarded the Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Grant at the 42nd Annual IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies) International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, held virtually Aug. 21-25.
With grant funding from IAJGS, the Forward will partner with JewishGen to find, translate and publish genealogical records from the Forward’s “Seeking Relatives” advertisements, published between 1920 and 1960. These listings helped Eastern European Jews get in touch with family members in the United States, and assisted Holocaust survivors in their efforts to reconnect with missing relatives.
The project’s goal will be to publish the names of individuals mentioned in those advertisements, along with the sparse but valuable data that accompanied their names, in a free, searchable database on JewishGen.org.
Forward archivist Chana Pollack will lead the project.
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Very cool!