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Our next 2 meetings will be
held at 7:30 PM on:
Wednesday, July 7, 2010, and Wednesday, August 4, 2010 in the 2nd Floor Miller Auditorium of Menorah Park Wednesday, July 7, 2010 MYTHS AND MISTAKES: WHAT TO AVOID WHEN RRESEARCHING JEWISH FAMILIES Common assumptions, myths, and mistakes in doing Jewish family research and how to avoid and overcome them. Presented by Cynthia Spikell more ... Wednesday, August 4, 2010 SUDDENLY JEWISH In August 2008, at the age of 61, Roma Baran received a stunning e-mail from a Jewish genealogist looking for heirs to a small estate of a Holocaust survivor -- her father's cousin - and learned that her casually Christian parents, and the whole rest of her family were not Polish Catholics, but Jews, including a rabbi and a Warsaw ghetto leader, and that her parents had survived the Holocaust under assumed names. Presented by Roma Baran more ...
What's available on this website
The search tool for the Jewish Independent Obituary Index has been modified and several hundred entries have been added. This database is mainly composed of extracts of vital information from obituaries. Pre 1906 information mostly comes from the Jewish Review & Observer, another weekly, which began publication in 1899. Post 1964 information was extracted from The Cleveland Jewish News. This database covers about 1898-1982. It evolved as it grew - therefore not every single entry coincides with an obituary. Click here to go to the search tool. Picture of the Month
- Simpson Thorman headstone
Shown at the left is the Mayfield Cemetery headstone
of Simpson Thorman (1811 - 1881), Cleveland's first Jewish settler.
It is one of almost 800 grave marker photos taken there by member
Wendy Lang and available for viewing on this site. To see them,
click here
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