discuss Mailing List: Subscription and Non-Subscription Databases and Consultations in the Resource Room

[Jan Meisels Allen (janmallen]

 

 

                      

 

    

 

                    

 

One of the highlights of attending an IAJGS conference is the wealth of research databases available in the Resource Room.  This year’s selection will have something to please everyone.  There will be both subscription databases that are available at no fee during the conference and a selection of databases by category that are “free” databases.   A previous email discussed ProQuest Day—Wednesday, July 31.  This email announces the other subscription and non-subscription databases.  This is a perfect way to try out the subscription databases before deciding to subscribe!

 

It is best to bring with you an USB drive to make copies of any records/newspaper articles etc. that you may find of value. The links to the databases will only be on the resource room computers and their links/password/ user names will not be shared for your personal computers. No exceptions! You are requested NOT to use your own subscriptions on any of the computers accessing the subscription databases as many people will be accessing the same computers.

 

The following are the hours the resource room will be open:

 

Sunday, not open

Monday & Tuesday, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm

Wednesday, 9:00 am - 9:00 pm  ProQuest Day

Thursday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm   ProQuest Databases Available

Friday, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  

Subscription Databases

The subscription databases that will be available during the conference are in alphabetical order:

 

American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society

Ancestry.com -worldwide database

Cleveland Public Library Genealogy Resources/Research Databases

Findmypast.com

Fold3.com

Geni.com

Genteam.at

Godfrey.org Premium subscription databases

IAJGS.org

JewishGen.org

Jewishdata.com Images of Jewish Tombstones, school yearbook pages and Citizen

Jewish Heritage Center at the New England Historic Genealogical Society

Museum of the Jewish People Beit Hatfutsot

MyHeritage.com–all databases including their newspaper database

Newspapers.com

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Yad Vashem

 

JGSs

 

Several JGSs and SIGs that have databases that are usually accessible only to their dues-paid members have agreed to make the databases available to all conference attendees in the resource room.

These JGSs are:

 

Cercle de Généalogie Juive

Israel Genealogical Society (IGS)

Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA)

 

Note all JGSs websites are accessible through the IAJGS link.

 

Non-Subscription Databases

 

SIGs

Gesher Galicia

JRI-Poland

 

Note:  All SIG websites are accessible through the JewishGen link.

 

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

 

There will be hundreds of links to free databases grouped by category on the JGSCV website:

 

Canada, Europe, General Interest, Government Archives, Holocaust, Immigration and Naturalization, Israel, Latin America, Maps, Military Records, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sephardic, South Africa and United States.

 

Consultations

Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfusot  The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfusot representative is Haim Ghiuzeli. His hours are: Monday 12:00 noon –5:00PM; Tuesday 9:00AM – 12:00 noon;  2:00 PM–5:30PM; Thursday 9:00AM –2:00PM

USHMM-will have Holocaust databases that are usually available only in-house on dedicated computers.. The USHMM representative is Peter Lande. His hours are: Monday and Tuesday: 2:00-4:00 PM; Thursday  10 AM-12 noon

Yad Vashem-will have the ITS database and other databases traditionally only available at Yad Vashem- on their own laptop computer. The Yad Vashem representative is: Zvi Bernhardt. His hours are: Monday and Tuesday: 9:00 AM-12:00 noon 1:00-3:00PM;

3:30PM-5:30 PM; Thursday: 9:00AM-12:00 noon

 

There will be hundreds of links to free databases grouped by category:

Canada, Europe, General Interest, Government Archives, Holocaust, Immigration and Naturalization, Israel, Latin America, Maps, Military Records, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Sephardic, South Africa and United States.

 

Looking forward to seeing you at the conference.

 

Jan Meisels Allen

39^th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Database Coordinator