The names of 14 Berlin subway stations form our greeting card for you. It is the aim of the riddle to find out the names of these stations. Please, send us your solution until December, 31st 2006, 24.00 CET via Mail. The first three people sending the correct answer as well as that person who reaches us from the most distant place – therefore please tell us your residence - could choose between the following prizes:
From now on our tips of the month are available also on http://del.icio.us/archivauskunft.de. With the help of such web-services you can manage your bookmarks online, use subject headings (tags) and comments to organize them. You can share your links, keep an eye on other people’s bookmarks about your favorite topics and subscribe to RSS-feeds.
An explanation how to use 
del.icio.us and 
-Feeds you find in Wikipedia.
Thanks to the initiative of the Berlin citizen Mirko Tamkus 26 historical Berlin maps in the time from 1738 until 1989 are accessible to the public at Berlin city map archive.
The navigation of the scans is very comfortable and completed by an index of streetnames.
When you enter the name of a street all those maps are listed where this street could be found. But the index partly seems to be incomplete and still work in progress.
A new map shows building damages in Berlin at the end of Worldwar II. Also an archive of photographs is under construction. Beyond that the offer is supplemented by
a Newsletter, bibliographical references and a linklist.
A further project of JewishGen, the Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) collects data from tombstone inscriptions of and death records.
The data base is searchable by names and regions, sometimes even photographs of the gravestones (matzevot) are displayed. JewishGen-volunteers also help with translating
and/or transliterating Hebrew inscriptions. The cooperating Jewish Cemetery Project, identifies jewish burial sites worldwide and offers closer information about each particular cemetery.
The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) is a database of ancestral towns and surnames currently being researched by over 78.000 Jewish genealogists worldwide. It contains over 100,000 ancestral surnames and 18,000 town names, and is indexed and cross-referenced by both, which makes the Family Finder interesting also for regional studies on jewish history. Researchers should check the JGFF for genealogists with similar research interests, and contact them for an exchange of information. Value-added services for contributors include an ALERT-system and enhanced database search features.
A shtetl (Yiddish: שטעטל) was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe. ShtetlSeeker is an online
feature hosted by the Jewish Gen Web site locating settlements in 31 countrys that are currently located in this region. It covers linguistic and historic variants for names. It is also possible to search by latitude and longitude to locate towns in close proximity and to display maps using links to MapQuest, Expedia, or MultiMap.
In the next months we will introduce a sequence of digitalization projects of JewishGen or, respectively Jewish Records Indexing - Poland. We start with the Polish Business Directory from 1929 (including Gdansk) for trade, industry, handicraft and agriculture.
Browsing the singular PDF-files is rather uncomfortable as access is realized only by Voivodships of Poland. If possible it might be easier to order the printed version
to the reading-room of a library:
Księga Adresowa Polski (Wraz z w.m. Gdańskiem) dla Handlu, Przemysłu, Rzemiosł I Rolnictwa / Annuaire de la Pologne (y compris…Dantzig) pour le commerce,
l’industrie, les métiers et l’agriculture
At the occasion of the upcoming several German archives open their doors to the public on the first weekend in may (6-7 May 2006).
The initiative was launched in the year of the FIFA World Cup under the title “The Ball is Round” (A quote by the former German national coach Sepp Herberger). But also on weekdays it is possible to visit guided tours and exibitions featuring treasures from their own collections. Worth mentioning is eg. the calender of events of theFederal Commissioner for the Records of the National Security Service of the German Democratic Republic (BStU) and their branches in 13 former district towns of the GDR.
In a research project of the Nation’s Memory Institute (Ústav pamäti národa), the history of the first Slovak Republic (1939-1945) and its role in the process of persecution, expropriation and deportation of the Slovak Jews is examined and documented. The Institute provides a database, by the help of which it is possible to search for enterprises, their Jewish owners (podnik), and also the latter tenants (Meno a priezvisko likvidátora), that had profited from the expropriations. Other access points for the database are branches of trade, places and local areas.
Closely connected to their religious believes adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consecrate themselves to genealogical research.
Data is provided online in two different databases to everybody who is interested in family history. familysearch.org allows to search directly for ancestors. Information about them are gathered from church and civil records, lists of the immigration authorities and different censuses in the US. Using the OPAC of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City you can find references to microfilms or microfiches of the original documents. They are sent by the Family History Library to your next Family History Research Center
