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Edward David Luft Bibliography

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edward David Luft was born in Rockville Centre, New York, in 1943. He was graduated from Syracuse University in 1965 with an A. B. and received his Juris Doctor degree from White College of Law, Syracuse University, in 1968. After two years in the Peace Corps in Botswana, he worked for The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. He retired from United States Government employment in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835, Decatur, GA: Scholars Press; ©1987, Brown University; 183 pp.; Series “Brown Studies on Jews and their Societies,” No. 4; Library of Congress call number DS135.P62P636 1987; New York Public Library call number *PXV 91-4277; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus I, 42 SA 496-4, and Haus II, 1 A 41254; Revised edition: Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, ©2004, 278 pp. DS135.P62P636 2004 and at the Library of Congress, Hebraic Section Reference; at Biblioteka im. Adama Mickiewicza, Special Collections Department, 1519012 III. See http://www.avotaynu.com/books/posen.htm/. Cited by the British Library, http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/phliosrel/jewish

stud/jewishstudies/jewsinpoland/jewsinpoland.html See http://www.avotaynu.com/books/posen.htm and by Witkowski, Rafał, “Uwag Kilka o Dziejach Gminy Żydowskiej w Pleszewie,” Rocznik Pleszewski, 2009, p. 176-189, at n. 18, p. 182, http://ptk.pleszew.pl/zydziwpleszewie2.pdf/, and by Schouten, Frederick Steven Louis, “Ernst Toller: An Intellectual Youth Biography, 1893-1918,” Florence, Italy, Ph.D. Thesis at European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, ©2007, 254 pp., under Hirschberg at fn. 117, p. 46, and at p. 231, http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/8432/2007_07_SCHOUTEN.pdf?sequence=3/. First edition reviewed by Hans George Hirsch in Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Volume IV, No. 2, Spring 1988, pp. 26-27, and cited in nn. 3 and 5, p. 467, and listed, pp. 466 and 469, Luft, Edward, “Prussian Poland Including East Prussia,” pp. 460-470, including Prussian Poland notes and bibliographies, pp. 467-469, and East Prussia bibliography, p. 470; available online at https://kehilalinks.jewish

gen.org/Kaliningrad/Edward.html. Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003; entry 25109 in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 34,1989, p. 459. Reviewed by Franklin, Karen Spiegel, “Posen Naturalizations,” Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society, New York, New York, Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter 1987-1988, p. 14; http://www.jgsny.org/assets/Documents/dorot09-2winter87-88.pdf The revised edition is noted in Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society, New York New York, Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2005, p. 20, col. 2, http://www.jgsnydb.org/

dorot/spring2005.pdf An unidentified person in the United Kingdom has created an undated map of the distribution of the naturalized Jews in “Jewish Naturalisations in Posen 1834-35,” http://www.dangeographics.org.uk/posen.phpl, based upon the book, The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835. Discussed in Fibel, Joseph, “Searching for Schneidemuhl & Finding Miedzychod,” Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogy Society, New York, New York, Winter 2016, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 1, 4-7, at pp. 4 and 6-7; and cited in Czwojdrak, Dariusz, “Ziemianie i filantropi — Rohrowie z Goliny Wielkiej” [Landowners and philanthropists–the Rohr family from Great Golina], pp. 53-71, in Mielewczyk, Wojciech, and Siekacz, Urszula, eds., Żydzi na wsi polskiej: sesja naukowa, Szreniawa, 26-27 czerwca 2006, Szreniawa: Muzeum Narodowe Rolnictwa i Przemysłu Rolno-Spożywczego, 2006 139 pp., including bibliographical references throughout, at p. 54, nn. 5 and 7. DS134.53 .Z93 2006 OVERFLOWJ34; and in Corcella, Aldo, Friedrich Spiro, filologo e libraio: per una storia della S. Calvary & Co., Bari [Italy]: Edizioni Dedalo, ©2014, 180 pp., including bibliographical references throughout, with a name index, pp. 167-176, and an index of publishing houses, publishers, bookshops, and printing presses, pp. 177-180, at p. 14, n. 3. Series: Paradosis, 21. Z315.S755 C67 2014 OVERFLOWA5S. See also Berlowitz, Judith, From the Family Store to the House of Lords: The Jewish Philippsborn/Philipsborn Family of Bentschen/Zbąszyń́ and Their Descendants: A Narrated Genealogy, [Raleigh, North Carolina]: Lulu.com, 2015, 644 pp., including family tree, p. 10; bibliographical references, pp. 601-613; appendices and indexes; 2nd edition. Naturalized Jews ... is listed in the bibliography and an edited version of the list of professions (for Philippsborn family members) is extracted in the book on p. 606. The Berlowitz book is available at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, New York, call number f299. Cited in https://www.jewishlives.nz/our-people/the-shrimski-family-story-from-posen-to-the-antipodes

He is the co-author, with Angelika Ellmann-Krüger, of Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy, Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©1998, 80 pp., Library of Congress call number Z6373.G3E55 1998. Many libraries classify the book as a reference work. The book is noted in Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 18, December 2000, under “Letter from the Editor,” p. 29. [The article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/

stammbaum/, select Issue 18 and scroll to page 29]. DS135.G3A267. Entry 36638, in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 44, 1999, p. 402. Reviewed by Schreiber, Klaus, http://www.bsz-bw.de/depot/media/3400000/3421000/3421308/99_0068.html/; and by Ralph N. Baer in Stammbaum. That article is available in full-text [December 1998, Issue 14, p. 31] at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 14 and scroll to page 31. Favorably reviewed by Ernest Kallmann in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 55, Volume 15, Fall 1998, p. 34. DS135.F8A38. Cited in Fuks-Mansfeld, “Book Review,” Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 95-99, at p. 95.

An article by Mirosław Wlekły about Edward David Luft’s genealogical research appeared as “Gen Dobry w Lesznie!,” ABC, Leszno, Tuesday, 9 January 2007, No. 2 (1849), p. 4, in Polish, with a photograph of Edward Luft. http://www.gazetaabc.pl; Email: abc@gazetaabc.pl/. A subsequent note, “An Emigrant from Leszno as a Savior of the American Revolution,” http://www.yasni.info/ext.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sztetl.

org.pl%2Fen%2Fcms%2Fstory%2F978%2Can-emigrant-from-Leszno-as-a-savior-of-the-american-revolution%2F&name=

Edward+Luft&showads=1&lc=en-s&lg=en&rg=de&rip=

us/, shows that another article, “Dolary Salomona” [http://www.gazetaabc.pl/Dolary_Salomona,5670.html], by Wlekły, appeared in ABC on 16 November 2010, It deals with the research efforts on Haym Salomon in Leszno by Edward David Luft. The article itself, in Polish, appears at http://issuu.com/lukashhh/docs/91/17

Unless a different publication is cited, the following articles appeared in the indicated issues of Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Teaneck, New Jersey, or New Haven, Connecticut: Avotaynu, Inc. [See the index on the Internet at http://www.avotaynu.com], Library of Congress call number DS101.A87; Dewey Decimal number 929/.1/089924 20; New York Public Library number *PWO 91-2012, unless another publication is noted, such as Stammbaum. Stammbaum is entry 37971, Volume 45, 2000, p. 330, with specific mention of Edward Luft. Avotaynu is entry 40372, Volume 47, 2002, p. 350, in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, with specific mention of Edward Luft. Some of the Avotaynu articles listed below can be read free of charge at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/?s=Edward+David+Luft/. For Gen Dobry! citations, see http://www.polishroots.org/GenDobry/

Index/60/. Those pages allow downloading of the articles in .pdf format. The following list is kept up to date at https://sites.google.com/site/edwarddavidluftbibliography/:

“Letter to the Editor” on the subject of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: Newsday (Nassau Edition), Hempstead, New York, Vol. 21, No. 201, 29 April 1961, p. 22, cols. 2-3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/712309417/?terms=%22Rational%20Republican%22&match=1

“Botswana Develops,” Africa Report, New York, New York: African-American Institute, Vol. 16, No. 5, May 1971, pp. 8-9. DT1.A217.

[Luft, Edward David], “Deductions of Contributions to IRC 501(c)(3) Organizations and Other Exempt Organizations,” 1985 EO CPE, Washington, DC: Internal Revenue Service, 12 pp. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopice85.pdf

“Jewish Genealogical Research in Czechoslovakia,” Volume IV, Number 1, Winter 1988, pp. 3-6, available online in full-text at https://archive.org/stream/georgevlada_05_reel05/georgevlada

05_reel05_djvu.txt The Gemeindelexikon der im Reichsräte Vertretenen Königreiche und Länder, Vienna, 1903-1908, 14 volumes, HA1175.A25, Microform No. 39529, cited in the article, is available online at http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/

cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=Gemeinde-

lexikon&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP2=exact&CISOBOX2=&CISOFIELD2=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP3=any&CISOBOX3=&CISOFIELD3=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP4=none&CISOBOX4=&CISOFIELD4=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all&t=a/. Cited in Wasserstrom, Randy, The Old Country and the New: A Wasserstrom Family History, 1780-1930, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Columbus, OH: Wasserstrom Co., distributor, 1997, 161 pp., including bibliographical references, pp. 135-148, and index, pp. 149-161, at p. 141. CS71.W3196 1997. Also cited in Cercle de généalogie juive, ed., Actes du 5ème Congrès international de généalogie juive, Paris, 13-17 juillet 1997, 1998, 572 pp., at p. 230. http://www.cyclopaedia.fr/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_

the_Czech_Republic Discussed at “Second Czechoslovak Cultural/Genealogical Conference - October 18-20, 1991, St. Paul, Minnesota,” Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society, New York, New York, Vol. 12, No. 4, Summer 1991, p. 2, col. 2, http://www.jgsny.org/assets/

Documents/dorot12-4summer1991.pdf

“Jewish Genealogical Research in Poland,” Volume V, Number 2, Summer 1989, pp. 8-10. Listed in Blatt, Warren, “Bibliography: Polish-Jewish Genealogical Research,” http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Poland/biblio.htm; in Kraus, Elisabeth, Die Familie Mosse: deutsch-jüdisches Bürgertum im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Munich: C. H. Beck, 1999, 793 pp, at pp. 617 and 768. DS135.G5K73 1999: and in Cercle de généalogie juive, ed., Actes du 5ème Congrès international de généalogie juive, Paris, 13-17 juillet 1997, 1998, 572 pp., at p. 229.

“A Trip to Poznań: The Poland that Was Not,” Volume V, Number 3, Fall 1989, pp. 16-19.

“East German Jewish Archive to Open by 1994,” Volume V, Number 3, Fall 1989, p. 38.

“Jewish Genealogical Research in the German Democratic Republic,” Volume VI, Number 2, Summer 1990, pp. 6-7.

“Jewish Genealogy in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany,” lecture at the National Archives, Washington, DC, 13 September 1990. Not taped.

“Genealogical Research in Czechoslovakia: An Update,” Volume VI, Number 3, Fall 1990, pp. 8-10. Cited, p. 141, in Wasserstrom, Randy, The Old Country and the New: A Wasserstrom Family History, 1780-1930, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Columbus, OH: Wasserstrom Co., distributor, 1997, 161 pp., including bibliographical references, pp. 135-148, and index. CS71.W3196 1997. Volume VII, Number 4, Winter 1991, p. 60, indicates that the Dutch Jewish genealogical magazine, Misjpoge, Volume IV, No. 3, July 1991, repeats in Dutch much of what appeared in this article. See Hagedoorn, Jaap, “Genealogisch Onderzoek in Tsjechoslowakije,” pp. 73-78, Misjpoge: Verenigingsblad van de Nederlandse Kring voor Joodse Genealogie, Noordwijk, Netherlands: De Kring, Buurweg 24, 2203 CL Noordwijk, DS135.N4M56. The article does not credit Luft with being the source of the information. Cited by Wasserstrom, Randy; see information under “Jewish Genealogical Research in Czechoslovakia,” above.

“THEN and NOW: An American Looks at Botswana more than Twenty Years Ago and Now,” The Northern Advertiser, [Francistown, Botswana]: Premier Investments (Pty) Ltd., No, 282, 3 May 1991, pp. 16 and 18. HF3906.A48 N67.

“An Update of Genealogical Research in Eastern Germany and Western Poland,” Volume VII, Number 1, Spring 1991, pp. 10-12. Cited in Lande, Peter W., “East German Genealogical Records,” Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 1992, pp. 32-33 at p. 32.

Speaker at Second Czechoslovak Cultural/Genealogical Conference - October 18-20, 1991, St. Paul, Minnesota, Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society, New York, New York, Volume 12, Number 4, Summer 1991, p. 2, col. 2; http://www.jgsny.org/files/dorot/summer1991.pdf

“‘The Complete Catalogue of the Jewish Communities of Bohemia and Moravia, excluding that of Prague,’” Volume VII, Number 3, Fall 1991, pp. 20-21. The underlying article appeared in Judaica Bohemiae, Státní Židovské Muzeum v Praze, Vol. VII, No. 21, 1971. Discussed by Gordis, Patrick, in “Book Reviews,” ZichronNote: The Newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, Palo Alto, California, Vol. XII, No. 1, February 1992, p. 14, http://zichronnote.sfbajgs.org/ZichronNote-1992-2.pdf. Cited by Wynne, Suzan F., “Austro-Hungarian Empire,” pp. 179-184, including bibliography and notes, pp. 183-184, at p. 183, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003. A lengthy interchange of Emails on the issue of finding records on a Jew born in the eighteenth century in a small village in Burgenland appeared in Steichen, Thomas, ed., The Burgenland Bunch News: Dedicated to Austrian-Hungarian Burgenland Family History, BB News No. 217 of 31 January 2012, published only online; http://www.the-burgenland-bunch.org/Newsletter/Newsletter217.htm Cited by Blatt, Warren, “Eastern Europe FAQ,” http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/eefaq.html

“Jewish Records Held in Leipzig Archives,” Volume VII, Number 4, Winter 1991, p. 28. Cited by Blatt, Warren, “Eastern Europe FAQ,”

http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/eefaq.html

“Map Resources for the Genealogist at the U. S. Library of Congress,” Volume VII, Number 4, Winter 1991, pp. 43-46. Reprinted with emendations in Jorgenson, Delores, ed., Naše Rodina: “Our Family”: Newsletter of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International, St. Paul, MN, in three parts, Volume 4, No. 3, Summer 1992, pp. 59-61; Volume 4, No. 4, Fall 1992, pp. 87-89; Reynolds, Pat, ed., Volume 5, No. 1, Winter 1993, pp. 3-7. WMLC 93/1444. Cited by Gyémánt, Ladislau, “Romania,” pp. 484-494, including bibliography and notes, pp. 493-494, at p. 493, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003.

“The Franz Kafka Society,” ACS News: Newsletter of the American Czechoslovak Society, Washington, DC, Volume 2, No. 8, January 1992, pp. 3-4. Available in the Edward Luft Collection, Leo Baeck Institute, New York City, AR 6957; Location 42/5.

“Twenty Miles of Prussian Archives,” Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 1992, pp. 33-34.

“A Czechoslovakian Contact,” Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 1992, p. 34.

“Expands on LOC Map Article,” Volume VIII, Number l, Spring 1992, p. 58.

Bloom, James F., Luft, Edward D., and Reilly, John F., “Foreign Activities of Domestic Charities and Foreign Charities,” 1992 EO CPE, Washington, DC: Internal Revenue Service,36 pp. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopick92.pdf Also available at http://www.docs-archive.com/view/8496fdfbad35f4e3fe1c

4834582c58a4/K.-FOREIGN-ACTIVITIES-OF-DOMESTIC-CHARITIES.pdf/. Cited in Dale, Harvey P., “Foreign Charities,” The Tax Lawyer, New York University Law School, New York, New York, 10 April 1995, 85 pp., at p. 73, http://www1.law.nyu.edu/ncpl/pdfs/1995/Conf1995DalePaper.pdf/, and in Bjorklund, Victoria B., and Jennifer I. Goldberg, “International Grantmaking: Conducting Overseas Site Visits,” The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, Vol. 3, Issue 2, December 2000, fns. 7-10, inclusive; http://www.nclawreview.org/

documents/91/3/mirkay.pdf/; and in “International Advocacy,” Bolder Advocacy, fn. 3, http://bolderadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/International_Advocacy.pdf/; and in Mirkay, Nicholas A., “Globalism, Public Policy, and Tax-Exempt Status: Are U.S. Charities Adrift at Sea?,” North Carolina Law Review, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 91 N.C. L. Rev. 851, pp. 851-887, 2013, fn. 160, p. 879.

“Books and Periodicals from Germany,” Volume VIII, Number 3, Fall 1992, p. 35.

“Nazi Publication Documents ‘Jews and Non-Aryans With Musical Abilities,’” Volume IX, Number 1, Spring 1993, p. 34.

Book Review: “Guide Book: Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia by Jiri Fiedler,” Volume IX, Number 1, Spring 1993, p. 63. Reprinted with emendations in Reynolds, Pat, ed., Naše Rodina: Newsletter of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International, St. Paul, MN, Volume 6, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 25-27. WMLC 93/1444.

“Asks Why Survey of Polish Cemeteries Does Not Include All Regions,” Volume IX, Number 1, Fall 1993, p. 67.

Book Review: “Korzenie Polskie: Polish Roots by Rosemary A. Chorzempa,” Volume IX, Number 2, Summer 1993, p. 61.

Book Review: “Bibliography of Projects on German Jewry and Anti-Semitism,” Volume IX, Number 3, Fall 1993, p. 61. Re: Arbeitsinformationen über Studienprojekte auf dem Gebiet der Geschichte des deutschen Judentums und des Antisemitismus, by Felicitas Hundhausen, ed., for Germania Judaica: Kölner Bibliothek zur Geschichte des deutschen Judentums, e. V.

“Reports on German Emigration Societies,” Volume IX, Number 3, Fall 1993, p. 65.

Book Review: “Auswahlbibliographie zur Jüdischen Familienforschung vom Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart by Angelika G. Ellmann-Krüger,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, Volume I, Number 4 [Issue 4], Fall 1993, p. 26. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 4 and scroll down to page 26.

Book Review: “Parish Registers in Slovakia by Jana Sarmányová,” Volume IX, Number 4, Winter 1994, p. 67.

“More on Polish Jewish Genealogical Research,” Volume X, Number 1, Spring 1994, pp. 12-13. Cited by Blatt, Warren, “Eastern Europe FAQ,” http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/eefaq.html

“Jewish Names in Light of Napoleon’s Decree of July 20, 1808,” Volume X, Number 2, Summer 1994, p. 31. Cited by Leeson, Dan, “A Report on Alsace: Cemeteries, Name Changes, Census,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, Issues 6 and 7, December 1995, pp. 2-5, at p. 2. The article by Leeson is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/

publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issues 6/7 and scroll down to page 2. Cited by Omi [Morgenstern Leissner], “Jewish Women’s Family Names: A Feminist Legal Analysis,” 34 Israel Law Review, Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 2000, pp. 560-599. at fns. 24, 30, 32, and 46. Available through the subscription website, HeinOnline (http://heinonline.org); in “Ostrowo’s Jews under the 1833 Decree Naturalizing the Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen and the Man Behind the Decree,” Studia Iudaica Ostroviensia, Ostrów Wielkopolski: Biblioteka Publiczna im. Stefana Rowinskiego, Volume II, 2009, pp. 65-92, at p. 77, fn. 21.

Krupnak, Laurence Michael, with Luft, Edward David, “Using U. S. Visa Records To Find Post-World War I Immigrants,” Volume X, Number 2, Summer 1994, pp. 35-36. Cited in Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington, ed., “U.S. Department of State Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa Consular Post Records,” http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Israel/group84.htm

“German Emigration Society Records Available,” Volume X, Number 2, Summer 1994, p. 67.

“Researching Post-1906 Naturalizations in Washington, DC,” Volume X, Number 3, Fall 1994, pp. 30-32.

“Brilling Archives in Frankfurt Museum,” with Landé, Peter, Volume XI, Number 1, Spring 1995, p. 34. Cited by Landé, Peter W, “Westphalian Jews,” http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/

Germany/westphalia.htm; and Landé, Peter, “Germany,” pp. 344-352, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp., including bibliography and notes, pp. 351-352, at p. 350 and n. 9 (misnumbered 7 in text and misnumbered as p. 11 in note), p. 352. CS21.G85 2003.

“Genealogy in Its Historical Context,” Volume XI, Number 2, Summer 1995, p. 41. Cited in footnote 55 of “Moral/Ethical Halakhic Concerns of the Online Environment: Safeguarding the Ethical Essence of Judaism Living with Torah in the Digital Age As Librarians Committed to Fostering Ethical-Intellectual-Spiritual Virtue Amongst Our Patrons in Quest for Hokmah, Binah, VeDaas in a Life Long Endeavor in the Cognitive Life of the Mind,” http://databases.jewishlibraries.org/sites/default/files/proceedings/

proceedings2011/levy2011text.docx, citing Carlsson, Carl H., “Yes, Lobby for Open Access to Archives—But Why Not in the U.S. Too?,” Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 47-48. Also cited in Studia Iudaica Ostroviensia, Ostrów Wielkopolski: Biblioteka Publiczna im. Stefana Rowinskiego, Volume II, 2009, pp. 65-92, at p. 88, fn. 24, and at p. 117, fn. 24; and in Luft, Edward David, “Poznań City Genealogical and Historical Research, Emphasizing Jewish Resources,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. X, No. 6, 30 June 2009, pp. 2-19, at p. 17, fn. 7.

Undated list of names and addresses for genealogical research in Poland, Germany, and the United States: ttp://jgsgw.org/scripts/

luft.pdf Now partially outdated.

“Indexing and Record Acquisition Projects Abound,” Volume XII, Number 1, Spring 1996, pp. 61-63. Item on “Jews in Posen Province” by this author. No author of entire article listed but compiled from submissions by each author for inclusion. Erroneously lists Luft’s ZIP Code as 20008 instead of 20009.

“Library of Congress Needs Published Catalogs of Foreign Archives,” Volume XII, Number 1, Spring 1996, p. 67.

“WWW Can Provide Library Information,” Volume XII, Number 2, Summer 1996, p. 67.

Rev. Proc. 96–40, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, Bulletin No. 1996–32, 5 August 1996, pp. 8-9; https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-irbs/irb96-32.pdf

“On-Site Jewish Genealogical Research in the Czech and Slovak Republics,” Volume XII, Number 3, Fall 1996, pp. 15-16. Noted in Maajan = Die Quelle: Zeitschrift für jüdische Familienforschung: Organ der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie + Hamburger Gesellschaft für Jüdische Genealogie E. V., Zürich: Die Vereinigung, Issue 42, First Quarter 1997, Volume 11, March 1997/Adar II 5757, p. 998. DS135.S9M33. Cited in Moving Here, Tracing your roots, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

+/http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/country/czech2.htm; and in Blatt, Warren, “Eastern European FAQ,” http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/eefaq.html

“Slovakian State Archives,” Volume XII, Number 3, Fall 1996, pp. 20-21. Noted in Maajan = Die Quelle: Zeitschrift für jüdische Familienforschung: Organ der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie + Hamburger Gesellschaft für Jüdische Genealogie E. V., Zürich: Die Vereinigung, Issue 42, First Quarter 1997, Volume 11, March 1997/Adar II 5757, p. 998. DS135.S9

M33; and in Hurych, Jitka, Galdun, John, and Iden, Steven, “Czech and Slovak Libraries in the 1990s: Selected Annotated Bibliography of Articles in English,” Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, New York: Haworth Press, Volume 17, No. 1, 1998, pp. 73-89, at p. 83. Z675.S6 B43. Cited in Kahn, Vivian, and Hlavinka, Jan, “Jewish Family Research in Slovakia,” unnumbered p. 7, http://img2.timg.co.il/forums/1_169505742.pdf; and by Blatt, Warren, “Eastern Europe FAQ,” http://www.jewishgen.org/

InfoFiles/eefaq.html

“Research On-Line or In Person at the Library of Congress,” Volume XII, Number 3, Fall 1996, pp. 41-45.

“Searching the German Catalogue,” Volume XII, Number 3, Fall 1996, p. 45.

“On-Site Jewish Genealogical Research In Poland: An Overview,” Volume XII, Number 4, Winter 1996, pp. 4-5.

Book Review: “Book on Jews of Posen” discussing Heppner and Herzberg’s Aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der Juden und der Jüdischen Gemeinden in den Posener Landen, Koschmin and Bromberg, 1904-1914 and 1921, etc., Volume XIII, Number 1, Spring 1997, p. 65.

Collaboration with Hirsch, Claus W., on “The Volks-Kalender as a Source for Obituaries,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 11, June 1997, pp. 11-15. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 11 and scroll down to page 11. For a comment by Claus W. Hirsch, see “Questioning the Experts: Dorot questions JGS members about their genealogical adventures and elicits their advice for those embarking on similar paths: Interview with Claus W. Hirsch,” Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society, New York, New York, Vol. 33, No. 2, Winter 2011-2012, pp. 23-26, at p. 25, http://www.jgsny.org/assets/Documents/winter2011-2012.pdf

“German Documents in Poland,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 11, June 1997, pp. 28-29. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 11 and scroll down to page 28. Noted in Avotaynu, Volume XIII, Number 3, Fall 1997, p. 57.

Collaboration with Ellmann-Krüger, Angelika, “Civil Vital Records for Berlin Jews Discovered in the Potsdam Archives,” Volume XIII, Number 2, Summer 1997, pp. 41-42. Noted in Maajan=Die Quelle, Issue 51, Volume 13, 4th Quarter, December 1999/Tamus 5759, pp. 1440-1441. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 53, Volume 14, Spring 1998, p. 32. DS135.F8A38; and in KehilaLinks: Berlin, Germany, http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/berlin/Research.html

A note in “Ask the Experts” on tracing a specific person who lived in Meseritz during the Prussian administration of the area, Volume XIII, Number 2, Summer 1997, p. 62.

Book Review: Hamburg Passengers from the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire: Indirect Passage to New York 1855-June 1873, by Geraldine Moser and Marlene Silverman, Volume XIII, Number 2, Summer 1997, pp. 65-66. Cited by Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Newman, Aubrey, “Modern Jewish Migrations,” pp. 73-76, at p. 74 and nn. 1 and 3, p. 76 , Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003.

“U. S. Immigration Records to Be Indexed,” Volume XIII, Number 3, Fall 1997, p. 37. Cited by Josef J. Barton in a posting on 6 February 1998, http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-ethnic&month=9802&week=a&msg=/OygHQp7x

CZZBlU5YfnObQ&user=&pw=

“An Update: Civil Vital Records for Berlin Jews in the Potsdam Archives,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 12, November 1997, pp. 25-27. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 12 and scroll down to page 25. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 53, Volume 14, Spring 1998, p. 32. DS135.F8A38; and in KehilaLinks: Berlin,Germany, http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/

berlin/Research.html

“...For On That Day the Dead Shall Give Up Their Secrets,” Volume XIII, Number 4, Winter 1997, p. 76.

“Researching Famous or Near-Famous German Ancestors?” Volume XIII, Number 4, Winter 1997, p. 99.

Ellmann-Krüger, Angelika, with Luft, Edward David, “Literary Sources for Genealogical Research on Jews with German Roots,” Volume XIV, Number 1, Spring 1998, pp. 31-35. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 54, Volume 15, Summer 1998, p. 30. DS135.F8A38.

“How to Find a Post-1906 U. S. Immigrant Ancestor,” Volume XIV, Number 1, Spring 1998, pp. 41-42. Cited in Kurzweil, Arthur, From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Blass, a Wiley Imprint, ©2004, 367 pp., including bibliographical references and index. CS21.K87 2004 LH&G Ref. Table of contents at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003021191.html.

“Some Jewish Holdings in Vienna,” Volume XIV, Number 2, Summer 1998, p. 49.

“Jewish Records in Sopron, Hungary, Archives,” Volume XIV, Number 2, Summer 1998, p. 51. Cited by Wynne, Suzan F., “Austro-Hungarian Empire,” pp. 179-184, including bibliography and notes, pp. 183-184, at p. 184, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 55, Volume 15, Fall 1998, p. 32. DS135.F8A38.

“Comments on Jewish Roots in Poland [by Miriam Weiner et al.],” Volume XIV, Number 2, Summer 1998, p. 65.

“A Tip for Locating Pre-1906 Immigrants to the United States,” Volume XIV, Number 3, Fall 1998, p. 42.

Book Review: The Jewish Experience: A Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress by Gary J. Kohn, compiler, Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 14, December 1998, pp. 27-29. Used as an example of how to do subject searches. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/

publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 14 and scroll down to page 27.

“The importance of understanding the local history of the area you are searching,” television program 25, recorded 13 December 1998, televised 10 January 1999. http://tracingroots.nova.org

Extract of a talk by Edward David Luft, in Mugdan, Joachim, “Posen zwischen Polen und Deutschland, (Tagungsbericht), Kalonymos: Beiträge zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte aus dem Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut, Essen: University of Duisburg-Essen, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 8-9, at p. 8, http://steinheim-institut.de/

edocs/kalonymos/kalonymos_1999_1.pdf

“Records for West Prussia Found in East German Archives,” Volume XV, Number 1, Spring 1999, pp. 33-34. Flatow records found in the Landesarchiv Greifswald. Discussed in Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society, York, New York, Volume 20, Numbers 3-4, Spring-Summer 1999, p. 10, col. 1; http://www.jgsny.org/files/dorot/spring-summer1999.pdf Noted in Maajan=Die Quelle, Issue 51, Volume 13, 2nd Quarter, June 1999/Tamus 5759, pp. 1440-1441; in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 58, Volume 15, Summer 1999, p. 35 DS135.F8A38; in Polish Genealogical Society of America, Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer 1999, p. 11, col. 1; and in Virtual Shtetl, http://www.sztetl.

org.pl/en/article/zlotow/27,bibliographies/. Cited in Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003, by Landé, Peter, “Germany,” pp. 344-352, including bibliography and notes, pp. 351-352, at p. 346 and n. 1, p. 352 [but no page citation], and by Luft, Edward, p. 466, and n. 23, p. 468.

“‘Lost at Sea’ or How to Find a Post-1906 Immigrant Ancestor Who Does Not Appear in the New York City Soundex List of Ship Passengers,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 15, July 1999, pp. 1-4. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 15 and scroll down to page 1. Cited in “Seen Elsewhere: New York-Related Articles in Issues of Some Non-New York Genealogical Journals (Part 2),” http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/modules.

php?name=sections&op=printpage&artid=114. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 59, Volume 15, Fall 1999, p. 19. DS135.F8A38.

“In Search of Elusive German Books and Magazines,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 17, June 2000, pp. 14-18. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/

stammbaum/, select Issue 17 and scroll down to page 14. How to find, for example, a book review for a period prior to any bibliographical listings of book reviews in German bibliographies. Noted in Avotaynu, Volume XVI, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 60.

“Editorial: Genealogists Must Lobby for Open Access to Archives,” Volume XVI, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 3-4 and 45. Cited in Sobel, Richard, “Guidelines for Respecting Privacy in Jewish Genealogy,” Volume XXIII, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp. 19-20, nn. 2-3. http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2007/04/some-issues-in-

ashkenazic-name-searches-by-alexander-beider/#_edn3; and in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 63, Volume 16, Fall 2000, p. 32. DS135.F8A38. Bibliographical citation in Levy, David B., “Moral/Ethical Halakhic Concerns of the Online Environment: Safeguarding the Ethical Essence of Judaism Living with Torah in the Digital Age,” Association of Jewish Libraries, 2011 Conference Proceedings, http://databases.jewishlibraries.org/sites/default/files/

proceedings/proceedings2011/levy2011bib.pdf

Ellmann-Krüger, Angelika, with Luft, Edward David, “German Name Adoptions,” Volume XVI, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 43-45. Using Amtsblätter and similar governmental publications to find name adoptions. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 63, Volume 16, Fall 2000, p. 32. DS135.F8A38. Noted in Singerman, Robert, ed. by David L. Gold, Jewish Given Names and Family Names: A New Bibliography, Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston, Massachusetts: Brill, 2001, 245 pp, including bibliographical references, pp. 1-2, and author index, pp. 224-225. Z6824.S5 2001 CS3010. See p. 144, item 1970 at https://books.google.com/books?id=R0fiurI-I00C&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq=luft+%22german+name+adoptions%22&source=bl&ots=sfob0uFoqa&sig=1CfSDLgsdGJ0kdN8DNa2yTapxqM&hl=en&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAWoVChMI9YzI9ajHyAIVhHch2ixgIY#v=onepage&q=luft%20%22german%20name%20adoptions%22&f=false

Book Review: “Two Guides to the Slovak Archives,” Volume XVI, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 65-66. A Guide to the Slovak Archives by Zuzana Kollárová and Jozef Hanus, and Cirkevné matriky na Slovensku zo 16.–19. Storiča [Slovak parish records for the 16th–19th centuries], by Jana Sarmányová. Also a box on “Slovakian Jewish Archives.”

Conference papers delivered at the Jewish Genealogical Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Summer 2000. See Bookbinder, Hal, ed., for International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Jewish Genealogy Yearbook 2000: 20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, July 9-14, 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, Atlanta, GA: The Association, 2000. CS31.J52 2000 LH&G RR and Hebraic Reference; and at New York Public Library, *PWO 01-731: “Brilling Archives—An Untapped Resource, and Königsberg, Prussia,” in Part I, pp. 184-187.

“Jewish Genealogical Research in Former Prussian Territory Now in Poland or Russia,” in Part I, Bookbinder, Hal, ed., for International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Jewish Genealogy Yearbook 2000: 20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, July 9-14, 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, Atlanta, GA: The Association, 2000. CS31.J52 2000 LH&G RR and Hebraic Reference; and at New York Public Library, *PWO 01-731. See pp. 188-191. Noted, p. 9, n. 9, in Martin, Joseph F., “Researching Polish Civil Census Records: Spis Ludności,” Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 27, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 5-10. CS49.P64; reprinted with emendations from Everton’s Family History Magazine, Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, Volume 57, No. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 52-54 + p. 114, where Luft is cited. CS1.G38. General information on the publication at www.familyhistorymagazine.com. The article cites Luft for indicating that a list of Bydgoszcz city residents exists but that only an employee is permitted to check it for names, and indicating that the source was the talk discussed here and delivered at the July 2000 20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Salt Lake City, UT.

“Report on Brilling Collection in Frankfurt,” Volume XVI, Number 3, Fall 2000, p. 54. Noted in Maajan=Die Quelle, Issue 59, Volume 15, 2nd Quarter, June 2001/Tamus 5761, p. 1804; cited in Honigman, Peter, “Das Heidelberger Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland,” pp. 345-370, n. 24, p. 370, Annual for 2001 of Menora: Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte: im Auftrag des Salomon-Ludwig Steinheim-Instituts für Deutsch-Jüdische Geschichte, Munich: Piper.

“Posen,” television program 57, recorded 27 August 27 2000, televised 22 October 2000. http://tracingroots.nova.org

“Research in the Slovak Republic,” television program 58, recorded 27 August 27 2000, televised 12 November 2000; http://tracingroots.nova.org

[Comments about Prussian reasons for naturalization of the Jews in Posen], Samuel Saga Newsletter, Winter 2000, p. 3-5. Available in the Edward Luft Collection, Leo Baeck Institute, New York City, AR 6957; Location 42/5. An excerpt from this comment, “Adoption of Family Names: Posen,” appears in Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 18, December 2000, pp. 16-17, but erroneously listed in the table of contents as beginning on page 19; corrected in Issue 19, Summer 2001, p. 38. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 19 and scroll down to page 38. Noted in Avotaynu, Volume XVII, No. 1, Spring 2001, p. 64; and cited in Singerman, Robert, with Gold, David L., ed., Jewish Given Names and Family Names: A New Bibliography, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2001, 245 pp., at p. 140. Z6824.S5 2001; online at http://books.google.com/books?q=

Jewish+Given+Names+and+Family+Names%3A+A+New+

Bibliography&btnG=Search+Books/. See also Singerman, Robert, in the names chapter. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 65, Volume 17, Spring 2001, p. 33. DS135.F8A38.

“Finding My Ancestor’s Place of Burial,” Volume XVI, Number 4, Winter 2000, p. 89. Noted in “Friedländers of Bautzen, Saxony,” Series Editor: Rabinowitz, Eli, of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, for JewishGen; German Special Interest Group, 2013, at http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dresden/Joseph_Friedlander.html/.

“Where, O Where Has My Little Town Gone?,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 19, Summer 2001, pp. 26-29. Article available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/

stammbaum/, select Issue 19 and scroll down to page 26. Various resources to locate towns and other sites in any part of Germany at its greatest extent and Poland, on websites and in printed materials. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 67, Volume 17, Fall 2001, p. 22. DS135.F8A38.

“Wants Clarification of Polish Towns,” in “Ask the Experts,” Volume XVII, Number 2, Summer 2001, pp. 66-67.

“The 1869 Austro-Hungarian Census,” Volume XVII, Number 3, Fall 2001, pp. 25-27. Noted by Berlowitz, Chana, in Maajan=Die Quelle, Issue 63, Volume 16, 2nd Quarter, June 2002/Tamus 5762, p. 2001. Cited by Wellisch, Henry, “Austro-Hungarian Military Records,” Volume XIX, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 32-33, at p. 33. Cited by Luft, Edward, “Slovak Republic,” pp. 503-512, including bibliography and notes, pp. 511-512, at pp. 507, 511, and n. 4, p. 512, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003. Noted at p. 113, in Krasner-Khait, Barbara, “Jews in Eastern European Censuses,” Heritage Quest Magazine, Bountiful, UT: American Genealogical Lending Library, Volume 18, No. 2, Issue 98, March/April 2002, pp. 110-116. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 69, Volume 18, January-March 2002, p. 36. DS135.F8A38 and at https://www.genealoj.org/en/1869-austro-hungarian-census-edward-

david-luft At New York Public Library, APA 98-96 History & Genealogy. Cited by Blatt, Warren, “Eastern Europe FAQ,” http://www.jewishgen.org/

InfoFiles/eefaq.html

“German and Polish Archival Holdings in Moscow,” Volume XVII, Number 4, Winter 2001, pp. 11-13. Cited by Sack, Sallyann Amdur, with Dunai, Alexander, “Austrian Poland,” pp. 453-459, including bibliography and notes, p. 459, at p. 458 and p. 455 and n. 9, p. 459, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003. Noted in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 69, Volume 18, January-March 2002, p. 36. DS135.F8A38. Also cited in Baker, Zachary M., “Resources on the Genealogy of Eastern European Jews,” pp. 169-184, at p. 174, in Baker, Zachary M., ed., Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm: Repositories, Collections, Projects, Publications, New York: Haworth Information Press and Slavic & East European Information Resources, Volume 4, Nos. 2/3, 2003, ©2003, 197 pp., including bibliographical references in notes, pp. 181-184, and index, pp. 185-197. Z6373.S55J83 2003. Simultaneously published in Slavic & East European Information Resources: SEEIR, Binghamton, NY: Haworth, Volume 4, Nos. 2/3, 2003, pp.169-184 but no index. Z292.7.S57. “German and Polish Archival Holdings in Moscow” noted in http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN/2002-01/1012502385/.

“Other Useful Sources,” Volume XVII, Number 4, Winter 2001, p. 13.

“How to Determine from Where and When An Ancestor Moved to Berlin,” Volume XVII, Number 4, Winter 2001, pp. 20-22. Cited in KehilaLinks: Berlin. Germany, http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/

berlin/Research.html

“Where to Find Clues as to How Early Your Ancestors Were in Berlin,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 20, Winter 2002, pp. 17-19. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 20 and scroll down to page 17. Cited in KehilaLinks: Berlin, Germany, http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/berlin/Research.html

[Indication of Mormon microfilms for Wreschen/Wreśnia for birth and marriage having been filmed], Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 20, Winter 2002, p. 27. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 20 and scroll down to page 27.

“Königsberg,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 21, Summer 2002, p. 6. Available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/

stammbaum/, select Issue 21 and scroll down to page 6. Noted in Avotaynu, Volume XVIII, Number 2, Summer 2002, pp. 57; and in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 71, Volume 18, July-September 2002, p. 23. DS135.F8A38.

“Internet Subscription Databases For Genealogical Research,” Volume XVIII, Number 3, Fall 2002, pp. 20-22. Cited in Luft, Edward David, “Newspaper and Magazine Websites Valuable For Genealogical Research,” Volume XXIV, No. 3, Fall 2008, pp. 15-17, at p. 17, fn. 2; available in full-text at http://www.avotaynuonline.

com/2008/10/newspaper-and-magazine-websites-valuable-for-genealogical-research-by-edward-david-luft/. Cited by Mokotoff, Gary, “Internet,” pp. 68-72, including bibliography, p. 72, and Kranz, Sharlene, “Library of Congress,” pp. 145-148, including bibliography, p. 148, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003. Noted in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 72, Volume 18, October-December 2002, p. 38. DS135.F8A38.

“Compact Memory Has the Most Important German-Jewish Periodicals in Full-Text,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 22, Winter 2003, pp. 23-24, available in full-text online at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 22 and scroll down to page 23. Noted online at www.compactmemory.de > Dokumentation > Presse>.

“Two Polish Directories Online,” Vol XVIII, Number 4, Winter 2002, p. 91.

“A List of Posen Province Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 23, Summer 2003, pp. 13-15. See revised reprint listed below. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/

periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 23 and scroll down to page 13. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 75, Volume 19, July-September 2003, p. 38. DS135.F8A38.

“Central and Eastern European Magnates and Their Archives,” compiled by Edward David Luft and posted Fall 2003 online at

http://www.avotaynu.com/magnates.htm. Briefly discussed in “Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi,” based upon a 2004 article by Deborah G. Glassman under the topic, “A Town Survey,” http://kehilalinks.

Jewishgen.org/lyakhovichi/ManorialJurisdictions.htm Cited by Jensen, Ceil, “My Poznan Travel Journal, Part II,” Gen Dobry!, Volume 3, No. 6, 30 June 2002, page not indicated. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 77, Volume 20, January-March 2004, p. 39. DS135.F8A38. The website is also noted in Spector, Richard M., “What Can We Learn from Slownik Geograficzny?,” Volume 22, No. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 31-33, at endnote 9, p. 33; and at http://www.pgsca.org/History_of_Poland/Magnet_Landowners.htm.

“Using Polish Magnate Records,” Volume XIX, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 25-27, including notes, p. 27. Cited in Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 26, No. 2, Winter 2003, p. 27. CS49.P64. Note in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 49, 2004, entry 42411, p. 294.

Book Review: “Żródła archiwalne do dziejów Żydów w Polsce,” Volume XIX, Number 3, Fall 2003, p. 64.

“Cites Source for List of Holocaust Victims,” Volume XIX, Number 3, Fall 2003, p. 67.

“A List of Posen Province and Bromberg Jewish Community Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 24, Winter 2004, pp. 38-41. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 24 and scroll down to page 38. Cited in Avotaynu Online as “Posen Province Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw,” at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2003/07/from-the-stammbaum-

archives-a-list-of-posen-province-archival-holdings-at-the-jewish-historical-institute-warsaw/ and cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 77, Volume 20, January-March 2004, p. 39. DS135.F8A38.

“Avotaynu Online Database Lists Nobility Archives,” Volume XIX, Number 4, Winter 2003, pp. 21-22. Cited in Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 27, No. 1, Spring 2004, p. 27. CS49.P64. Also, underlying database cited in Spector, Richard M., “What Can We Learn from Słownik geograficzny?,” Volume 22, No. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 31-33, at p. 32, and in endnote 9, p. 33.

“K. G. Saur International Biographical Archives Series,” Volume XIX, Number 4, Winter 2003, pp. 35-37.

Book Review: “Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia,” Volume XIX, Number 4, Winter 2003, p. 76.

Book listing: “From Prussia with Love,” Volume XIX, Number 4, Winter 2003, p. 77. See also http://www.benkazez.com/dan/udi/

books.html, but the link to his personal genealogy does not work.

“Cites Sources of German, Austrian and Czech Holocaust Victims,” Volume XIX, Number 4, Winter 2003, p. 79.

“Sources on Jews of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Nearby Areas,” Volume XX, No. 1, Spring 2004, p. 41. See update at Volume XXV, No. 2, Summer 2009, p. 59.

“Using the Uncatalogued Collection in the Library of Congress Hebraic Section to Find an Ancestor in Subscriber Lists,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogy, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 25, Summer 2004, pp. 38-40. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/

periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 25 and scroll down to page 38. Noted in Avotaynu, Volume XX, Number 3, Fall 2004, p. 56, without mentioning the author or title.

“Prussian Poland Including East Prussia,” pp. 460-470, including Prussian Poland notes and bibliographies, pp. 467-469, and East Prussia bibliography, p. 470, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003. Chapter on available resources for genealogical research in the respective regions.

“Slovak Republic,” pp. 503-512, including bibliography and notes, pp. 511-512, Sack, Sallyann Amdur, and Mokotoff, Gary, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., ©2004, 608 pp. CS21.G85 2003. Chapter on available resources for genealogical research in the Slovak Republic.

Book Review: “Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in Polnischen Archiven; Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner,” Volume XX, No. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 68-69.

“Useful Free Library Service,” Volume XX, No. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 70.

[Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy], Gen Dobry!, Volume V, No. 8, 31August 2004, p. 12.

[Instructions on use of www.myLITsearch.org and joining www.getcited.org], Gen Dobry!, Volume V, No. 8, 31 August 2004, p. 12.

“Flatow Jewish Cemetery Tombstones Discovered,” Volume XX, No. 4, Winter 2004, p. 79. Noted in Virtual Shtetl, http://www.sztetl.org.

pl/en/article/zlotow/27,bibliographies/.

“Searching for Books in Libraries Outside the United States,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 2, 28 February 2005, pp. 2-3. Cited in

http://forum.axishistory.com/iewtopic.php?f=48&t=70327&

view=next/. Noted in “StudyGuideNow,” http://www.studyguide

now.com/2449999/Searching-Polish-And-Other-Library-Catalogs-Online and http://www.studyguidenow.com/1787034/Catalogs

“Lists of Posen High School Graduates,” in Arnstein, George, compiler, “Topics and Events,” Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogy, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 26, Winter 2005, pp. 44-45. That article is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/stammbaum/, select Issue 26 and scroll down to page 44. The webpage on PolishRoots is available at http://polishroots.com/Research/Posen_Schools/tabid/

209/Default.aspx

Luft, Edward David, and Szumowski, Donald, “Polish Roots: All You Need to Know for Genealogical Research,” talk given at the Polish Embassy, Washington, DC, on 3 March 2005. See https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Polish-Global-Village/

conversations/topics/294

[Franco-Prussian War research], Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 3, 31 March 2005, pp. 3-5.

“A Useful Library Website for City Directories,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 3, 31 March 2005, pp. 7-8.

“So Many Things to Search on the Bydgoszcz Academy Main Library Website,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 4, 30 April 2005, pp. 7-8.

“The Jewish Gravestones of Flatow Emerge from Their Own Grave,” Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of

America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 28, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 5-10 [CS49.P64]. Noted in Virtual Shtetl, http://www.sztetl.org.pl/

en/article/zlotow/27,bibliographies/.

“Poland,” television program, 133, recorded 17 April 17 2005, televised 8 May 2005. http://tracingroots.nova.org

“Where Is That Book or Periodical I Want to Read?” Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 5, 31 May 2005, pp. 10-11.

“Looking for a Book or Periodical Article Online at a Library Research Facility,” Volume XXI, Number 1, Spring 2005, p. 18. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 84, Volume 21, October-December 2005, p. 36. DS135.F8A38.

“Gives Advice: Revisit Your Old Research,” Volume XXI, No. 1, Spring 2005, p. 62. Noted in “Friedländers of Bautzen, Saxony,” Series Editor: Rabinowitz, Eli, of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, for JewishGen; German Special Interest Group, 2013, at http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dresden/Joseph_Friedlander.html/.

“Slavic Reference Service Provides Copies of Articles,” Volume XXI, No. 1, Spring 2005, p. 63. See further comment by Luft in “Letters to the Editor,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XVI, No. 4, 30 April 2015, pp. 3-4; also at UCBCA4D213201DF0185EFC40D0@phx.gbl

“Some County Histories Searchable in Full-Text Online,” Gen Dobry!, Volume. VI, No. 6, 30 June 2005, p. 9.

“Searching for Currently Published or Recently Discontinued Polish Journals, Some Available in Full-Text,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 7, 31 July 2005, pp. 6-7.

“New Local Jewish History Books Appearing in Eastern Europe,” Volume XXI, Number 2, Summer 2005, p. 58.

“New Digital Library Websites Available or Soon Available in Poland,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 9, 30 September 2005, pp. 8-9. Augmented by “More Online Sources for Poznań,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VII, No. 5, 31 May 2006, pp. 10-12.

“Polish City Directories Now Online,” Volume XXI, Number 3, Fall 2005, p. 67.

“Coming in January, A Metasearch Engine to Search All of the Digital Libraries of Poland,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VI, No. 12, 31 December 2005, p. 17.

“More Online Sources for Poznań,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VII, No. 5, 31 May 2006, pp. 10-12.

Book review: “A Remarkable Piece of Research on a Town Now on the Fringes,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VII, No. 7, 31 July 2006, pp. 8-10. A review of Cullman, Peter Simonstein, History of the Jewish Community of Schneidemühl: 1641 to the Holocaust. Noted in https://www.facebook.com/historiazydowwpile/photos/a.1357139144323658.1073741836.642030749167838/1357174507653455/

?type=3

“Finding the Location of Someone Whose Exact Address Is Not Shown in the 1860 U. S. Census,” Volume XXII, Number 3, Fall 2006, pp. 38-40. Reprinted with minor emendations in Forum, Austin: TX: Federation of Genealogical Societies, Volume 19, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 8-9; https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManager

Servlet?dps_pid=IE2556381&from=fhd. Noted in Gen Dobry!, Volume VIII, No. 1, 31 January 2007, pp. 4-5, which also mentions related television discussion of the issue and notes an article about the author. That article appeared in ABC, Leszno, Poland, on 9 January 2007, p. 4.

“Finding an 1860 location,” television program 157, recorded 3 December 2006, televised 10 January 2007. See www.youtube.com/

watch?v=aZhr6v8Gzj8/. 27:40 run time. Noted in Gen Dobry!, Volume VIII, No. 1, 31 January 2007, pp. 4-5.

CD review: Ellmann-Krüger, Angelika, and Ellmann, Dietrich, “Bibliographie zur deutsch-jüdischen Familienforschung und zur neueren Regional- und Lokalgeschichte der Juden” [Bibliography on German-Jewish Family Research and on Recent Regional and Local History of the Jews], Volume XXIII, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 67-68. For full text online, see http://www.avotaynu.com/books/Krueger

LuftReview.pdf and http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2007/04/book-review-bibliographie-zur-deutsch-judischen-familienforschung-und-zur-neueren-regional-und-lokalgeschichte-der-juden-by-angelika-

ellmann-kruger-and-dietrich-ellmann/. Reprinted in Stammbaum: The Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research, New York: Leo Baeck Institute, Issue 31, Summer 2007, pp. 43-45. It is available in full-text at http://www.lbi.org/publications/periodicals/

stammbaum/, select Issue 31 and scroll down to page 43. Slightly revised, and in Polish translation by Kamila Bodył, in Makowski, Krzysztof A., et al., eds., Studia Historica Slavo-Germanica, Poznań: Wydawictwo Poznańskie, Volume XXVIII 2008-2010, 2011, pp. 269-272.

“Exhibit on the Jews of Poznan, 1793-1939,” Volume XXIII, No. 1, Spring 2007, p. 71, along with drawing of the Posen Synagogue, c. 1908, taken from a postcard that was originally an insert accompanying Aus der Posener Lande, on the back cover of the issue, [p. 72]. Available in full-text online at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2007/04/from-our-mailbox-spring-2007/.

“How to Locate Hard-to-Find Library Holdings,” Volume XXIII, Number 2, Summer 2007, pp. 36-39. Available in full-text online at

http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2007/07/how-to-locate-a-hard-to-find-library-holding-by-edward-david-luft/. The article is also reproduced at http://www.farhi.org/files/Avotaynu_Sephardic_

DNA_Study.pdf/. Cited favorably by Isroff, Saul, “How to Locate a Hard-to-Find Library Holding” [sic], “From Our Mailbox,” Volume XXIII, No. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 66-67. http://www.avotaynuonline.

com/2007/10/from-our-mailbox-fall-2007/; and in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 92, Volume 23, October-December 2007, p. 32.

“Antwerp Alien Registers Can Be Used to Find Immigrants from Poland to the New World,” Gen Dobry!, Volume VIII, No. 9, 30 September 2007, pp. 2-3.

Book review: “Germanic Genealogy: A Guide to Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns,” Volume XXIII, No. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 62-63. Available in full-text online at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2007/10/book-review-germanic-genealogy-a-guide-to-worldwide-sources-and-migration-patterns/. Edward David Luft’s review in full-text: http://www.tc.umn.

edu/~brand050/books/bookgermanic.htm/.

Luft, Edward David, and Abrams, Bruce, “Three Manhattan Databases: Using Newspapers to Find Bankruptcy Cases Leading to Court Cases,” Volume XXIII, No. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 17-19. Available in full-text online at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/

2007/12/three-manhattan-databases-using-newspapers-to-find-bankruptcy-cases-leading-to-court-cases-by-edward-david-luft-and-bruce-abrams/. Noted by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, http://www.newenglandancestors.org/publications/eNews_

5239.asp/. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 93, Volume 24, January-March 2008, p. 35. DS135.F8A38; and by Fernandez, Angela, “The Lost Record of Pierson v. Post, the Famous Fox Case,” Law and History Review, Ithaca, New York: Cornell Law School and the American Society for Legal History, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 27, Issue 1, Spring 2009, pp. 149-178; see endnote 32; http://journals.cambridge.org/action/display

Abstract?fromPage=online&aid=7789177&fileId=

S0738248000001693, published online: 18 August 2010. Discussed in detail in Luft, Edward David, “Two Useful Newspaper Search Web Sites for Genealogists,” Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 34, No. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 17-20. [CS49.P64]. Reprinted in Gen Dobry!, 30 November 2011 issue, pp. 7-12.

A note in “Ask the Experts” on finding the death record for Caroline Marks, Volume XXIII, No. 4, Winter 2007, p. 60. The reply was of

virtually no help because it makes wrong assumptions.

“Tracking a Package or Registered Letter Even Before It Leaves a Foreign Country,” Gen Dobry!, Volume 9, No. 3, 31 March 2008, pp. 9-10. https://www.polishroots.org/Resources/Gendobry/Gen

Dobry_IX_3.pdf Reprinted in https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/

POLISHAUSTRALIANGENEALOGY/conversations/messages/498/

Book Review: “Posen Place Name Indexes,” Volume XXIV, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 51-52. Available online in full-text as “Book Review: Posen Place Name Indexes: Identifying Place Names Using Alphabetical and Reverse Alphabetical Indexes, by Roger P. Minert,” http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2008/04/book-review-

posen-place-name-indexes-identifying-place-names-using-alphabetical-and-reverse-alphabetical-indexes-by-roger-p-minert/#comment-7508

“Aerial Photographs at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany and Other Map Resources,” Gen Dobry!, Volume IX, No. 8, 31 August 2008, pp. 4-6.

“The Rich Ones Rode in Third-Class Railway Cars to Hamburg or le Havre,” Gen Dobry!, Volume IX, No. 9, 30 September 2008, pp. 2-4. The publication, European Rates of Fare ..., discussed in the article, can be accessed in full-text, free of charge, at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20091023001ha/

20091023001ha.pdf and search http://www.polishroots.org/

Immigration/. Imperfectly reprinted in The Galitzianer: A Publication of Gesher Galicia, Inc., Brookline, MA, Volume 16, No. 1, November 2008, pp. 16-17; and in Galizien German Descendants: A publication dedicated to family history research of the German descendants from the Austrian Province of Galicia, GGD #58, April 2009, pp. 2-3 + illustration of the cover page of the publication, p. 4. Reprinted without attribution to the author in the Saskatoon Branch of the SGS, Armchair Genealogist, Issue No. 58, November-December 2008, pp. 5-7; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.

com/~sksgs/Armchair_Genealogist_58.pdf/. Apology printed in Spring Edition, May 2016, No. 83, p. 3. https://blu179.mail.live.

com/mail/ViewOfficePreview.aspx?messageid=mgWyyYFOUi5

hGQNNidZ1zNng2&folderid=flinbox&attindex=0&cp=-1&attdepth=0&n=94119610 In turn, Fred Hoffman, the editor of Gen Dobry!, commented upon the apology in “Hurray for Taking Responsibility!,” Gen Dobry!, 30 May 2016, pp. 2-4. Kornowski, Ed, commented upon the original article in a “Letter to the Editor,” Gen Dobry!, Volume IX, No. 10, 31 October 2008, pp. 7-10. Noted by Szczepankiewicz, Julie Roberts, on the Facebook page of the Polish Genealogy Society of Massachusetts, https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=171275172961018&

story_fbid=763978237024039/ and noted in Venturing into Our Past: Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV), Agoura Hills, California, Volume 4, Issue 3, December 2008, p. 2, col. 1, (It also lists photographs of Hamburg Harbor, to be found on the PolishRoots website), provided by Luft, http://www.iajgs.org/jgscv/pdf/Venturing_V4_N3.pdf Noted in Facebook at https://business.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/

1029059357116219

“U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service Opens Fee-for-Service Genealogy Program,” Volume XXIV, No. 2, Summer 2008, pp. 35-38. Available in full-text online at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/

2008/07/us-citizenship-and-immigration-service-opens-fee-for-service-genealogy-program-by-edward-david-luft/. The article failed to provide a snail-mail address, which is rectified in “Writing to USCIS,” Volume XXIV, Number 4, Winter 2008, p. 83.

“Newspaper and Magazine Websites Valuable For Genealogical Research,” Volume XXIV, No. 3, Fall 2008, pp. 15-17. Available in

full-text online at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2008/10/

newspaper-and-magazine-websites-valuable-for-genealogical-research-by-edward-david-luft/. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 97, Volume 25, January-March 2009, p. 26. DS135.F8A38.

“Cites Differences Between Ancestry And Ancestry Library Edition,” Volume XXIV, No. 4, Winter 2008, p. 81.

“Źródła do badań genealogicznych o poznańskich Żydach” [Genealogical and Historical Research Sources on the Jews of the City of Poznań], Kronika Miasta Poznania, Poznań, Poland: Wydawnictwo Miejskie, No. 1 of 2009, pp. 342-356. Also available online at http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=131068&

dirids=1/. Translated by Rafał Witkowski. See the English version, “Poznań City Genealogical and Historical Research, Emphasizing Jewish Resources,” listed later in 2009.

“Ostrowo’s Jews under the 1833 Decree Naturalizing the Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen and the Man Behind the Decree,” Studia Iudaica Ostroviensia, Ostrów Wielkopolski: Biblioteka Publiczna im. Stefana Rowińskiego, Volume II, 2009, pp. 65-92; Polish translation by Alina Wesołowska, pp. 93-123. DS134.66.O85O85 2007. Article reproduced at Polish Australian Genealogy, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/POLISHAUSTRALIAN

GENEALOGY/conversations/topics/599/. Cited in Nowak, Marian F., “Zarys dziejów rodu Matyjaszów Dobrzeca (XVIII-XXI w.)” [An outline of the history of the Matyjasz family of Dobrzec, 18th-21st centuries], Rocznik Ostrowskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne, Ostrów Wielkopolskie: Ostrowskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne, Volume 4, 2009, pp. 13-52, at p. 15. Reviewed by Witkowski, Rafał, as part of the review of Volume 2 of the Studia Iudaica Ostroviensia in Makowski, Krzysztof A., et al., eds., Studia Historica Slavo-Germanica, Poznań: Wydawictwo Poznańskie, Volume XXVIII, 2008-2010, 2011, pp. 275-277, at p. 276. DR37 .S77.

Report of a 29 April 2009 visit to Kępno, Poland, by Edward David Luft in response to an invitation by Mirosław Łapa, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tygodnik Kępinski, and city authorities, http://tygodnikkepinski.pl/nius/archive.php?show=week&day=

29&month=April&year=2009

“Edward David Luft’s Articles Published in Poland,” Gen Dobry!, Volume X, No. 5, 31 May 2009, pp. 2-3. Text online from Polish Australian Genealogy, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/

POLISHAUSTRALIANGENEALOGY/conversations/topics/599

“Directories in Addition to City Directories,” Volume XXV, No. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 34-36. Available in full-text online at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2009/04/directories-in-addition-to-

city-directories-by-edward-david-luft/. Cited in Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 99, Volume 25, July-September 2009, p. 23. DS135.F8A38.

“U. S. Newspapers at LOC Site,” Volume XXV, No. 1, Spring 2009, p. 63. Cited in Luft, Edward David, “Archival Research in Person or by Mail,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XII, No. 5, 31 May 2011, pp. 16-23, at p. 23, fn. 27.

“Poznań City Genealogical and Historical Research, Emphasizing Jewish Resources,” Gen Dobry!, Volume X, No. 6, June 2009, pp. 2-19, including endnotes, pp. 17-19. Also available at Polish Australian Genealogy, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/

POLISH AUSTRALIANGENEALOGY/conversations/messages/

602. This is the English version of “Źródła do badań genealogicznych o poznańskich Żydach,” which appeared earlier in 2009 and is listed above. The English version, under the title, “Genealogical and Historical Research Sources on the Jews of the City of Poznań,” is reprinted in Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 33, No. 1, Winter 2010, pp. 13-24. [CS49.P64]. The Rodziny version is cited in The Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Newsletter, South Saint Paul, Minnesota, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 2010, p. 5, http://pgsmn.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ 2010_V18_1_

Spring.pdf/. Cited favorably in Corcella, Aldo, Friedrich Spiro, filologo e libraio: per una storia della S. Calvary & Co., Bari [Italy]: Edizioni Dedalo, ©2014, 180 pp., including bibliographical references throughout, with a name index, pp. 167-176, and an index of publishing houses, publishers, bookshops, and printing presses, pp. 177-180, at p. 14, n. 3. Series: Paradosis, 21. Z315. S755 C67 2014 OVERFLOWA5S.

“Mecklenburg-Schwerin Sources on Internet,” Volume XXV, No. 2, Summer 2009, p. 59. Cited in the Leo Baeck Insitute Year Book, London: Berghahn Books, Vol. 50, 2005, entry 43827, p. 388.

“Describes New Source for Determining When Immigrant Arrived in U. S.,” Volume XXV, No. 3, Fall 2009, p. 67. The U. S. Post Office held letters for immigrants poste restante, and the list of intended recipients was published regularly in the New York Herald. Unclaimed letters were eventually destroyed.

“How the Virtual Shtetl Project’s Website Can Help Genealogists,” Volume XXV, No. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 18-19. Available online in full-text at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2010/04/jewish-vital-records-in-the-polish-state-archives-not-listed-elsewhere-by-edward-david-luft/. Noted in the Schaumburg Township District Library Genealogy Group Newsletter, Schaumberg, Illinois, May 2010, No. 176, p. 20; http://genealogywithtony.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/

0510-stdl-pdf-genealogy-newsletter.pdf Cited in Nash, Peter, “A Different Approach to Polish Research,” 1 July 2010, at https://www.avotaynuonline.com/2010/07/a-different-approach-to-polish-research-by-peter-nash/ and in http://www.ajgs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2010-07-e-KK.pdf [Photographs from Tuesday, 16 March 2010, visit and discussion in Śrem, Poland,] http://www.isrem.pl/wiadomosci/207/Niezwykly-gosc-zdjecia/

“What Is the Geographical Distribution of My Family Name?,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XI, No. 4, 30 April 2010, p. 6-7. Cited by Pretare, Dorothy, “Locating Living Descendants of Our Ancestors,” Bulletin Board, Eastside Genealogical Society, Bellevue, Washington, Volume XXIX, No. 1, June 2010, p. 5; http://edoqs.com/pdf/bulletin-bboardb_b33c130480b3ebd37d9078f71d61949d/ and at https://gmcnayblog.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/2010-binder.pdf

“Directories in Addition to City Directories,” television program recorded 16 May 2010, televised June 2010; http://www.veoh.com/

browse/videos/category/educational_and_howto/watch/v20121279mgAnre47/.

“Jewish Vital Records in the Polish State Archives Not Listed Elsewhere,” Volume XXVI, No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 21-22. Available online in full-text at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/

2010/04/jewish-vital-records-in-the-polish-state-archives-not-listed-elsewhere-by-edward-david-luft/ Discussed in Luft, Edward David, “An Index to Online Vital Records from the Archives of Wielkopolska (Great Poland),” Gen Dobry!, Volume XIV, No. 4, 30 April 2013, pp. 2-3, at p. 2.

“How Assimilated Was Your U.S. Citizen New York City Ancestor in 1880?,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XI, No. 7, 31 July 2010, pp. 2-3.

“Resources to Find Any Location in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Similar Resources for Imperial Russia and Imperial Germany,” Volume. XXVI, No. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 19-22. Available online in full-text at http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2010/10/resources-to-find-any-location-in-the-austro-hungarian-empire-similar-resources-

for-imperial-russia-and-imperial-germany-by-edward-david-luft/. Cited in the Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 104, Volume 26, Winter 2010-2011, p. 26. DS135.F8A38.

“More About Polish Research,” Volume XXVI, No. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 66-67. Re: Pakość research.

“He Left the United States: Where and When Did He Go?” Volume XXVI, No. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 29-31. Cited by the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH, http://americanjewisharchives.org/

collections/genealogyResources.php/. Noted in the Schaumburg Township District Library Genealogy Group Newsletter, Schaumberg, Illinois, April 2011, No. 187, p. 21, https://genealogywithtony.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/0411-stdl-

pdf-genealogy-newsletter.pdf

“Using the Same Technique to Locate Jewish Communal Registers,” Volume XXVI, No. 4, Winter 2010, p. 30.

“Kendler’s Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon Can Now Be Searched Online Free of Charge,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XII, No. 4, April 2011, pp. 2-3. https://www.polishroots.com/Resources/Gendobry/GD_XII_

4.pdf Reprinted in ZichronNote: The Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, San Francisco, California, Volume XXXI, No. 3, August 2011, pp. 4 and 12; http://zichronnote.sfbajgs.org/ZichronNote-2011-8.pdf/. Noted in a lengthy interchange of Emails on the issue of finding records on a Jew born in the eighteenth century in a small village in Burgenland, in Steichen, Thomas, ed., The Burgenland Bunch News: Dedicated to Austrian-Hungarian Burgenland Family History, BB News No. 217 of 31 January 2012, published only online. http://www.the-burgenland-bunch.org/Newsletter/Newsletter217.htm/. Elucidated and amended in “Letters to the Editor,” Gen Dobry!, Volume

XVI, No. 4, 30 April 2015, p. 3, and in “Letters to the Editor,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 29 February 2016, p. 3. Noted in Facebook at https://business.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/

1029059357116219 A similar but expanded version: “Austro-Hungarian Empire Lexicon Now Online,” Vol. XXXII, No. 4, Winter 2016, p. 83. Under the heading, “Austro-Hungarian 1905 Gazetteer,” Phyllis Kramer posted a notice on JewishGen on 4 July 2017 about accessing Kendler’s Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon. See the general JewishGen Discussion Group, http://data.jewishgen.org/

wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archview~210790~Edward+Luft~367;6; and the Galician SIG, http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~sigsview~201215~austro~332;6

“Archival Research in Person or by Mail,” Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 34, No. 2, Spring 2011, pp. 19-23 [CS49.P64]. Reprinted with corrections in Gen Dobry!, Volume XII, No. 5, 31 May 2011, pp. 16-23. Supple-mented by “Letter to the Editor,” Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 34, No. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 1-2.

“Two Useful Newspaper Search Web Sites for Genealogists,” Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Volume 34, No. 3, Summer 2011, pp. 17-20. [CS49.P64]. Reprinted in Gen Dobry!, 30 November 2011 issue, pp. 7-12. Elucidated in a Luft comment within a comment by Jan R. Fine at http://soc.genealogy.Jewish.narkive.com/mR93mLoE/

searching-for-documents-patent-applications/. Cited in Underhill, Tom, publisher, Immigrant Genealogical Society Newsletter, Burbank, California, October 2011, No. 331, p. 2, col. 2, “New York State Newspapers Search Web Site,” http://www.immigrantgensoc.

org/newsletters/NL331.pdf

A note by Edward David Luft in “Ask the Experts” on researching information on Ida Schwab, Volume XXVII, Number 2, Summer 2011, pp. 63-65. Points out avenues of further research in finding a mother and illegitimate baby where there was a court prosecution, by consulting medical records, prosecution and court records, newspaper articles by employing subscription and free search engines, along with consulting various other records. The article suggests what to use and how to use it best.

“Try to Use More Than One Source,” Volume XXVII, Number 2, Summer 2011, p. 67. A search for the same document on a different subscription website produces a key piece of information not found on the first website consulted.

“A Web Site with Databases for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Nuremberg, Bavaria,” East European Genealogist, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: East European Genealogical Society, Volume 19, No. 4, Summer 2011, pp. 7-14. Review of www.genteam.at/, containing numerous databases of interest to genealogical researchers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and continuing to grow. See a list of databases added after the article went to press, Gen Dobry!, Volume XII, No. 11, 30 November 2011, pp. 3-7. https://www.polishroots.com/Resources/Gendobry/GD_XII_11.

pdf

A short note on using patents for genealogical research, Jan R. Fine at http://soc.genealogy.jewish.narkive.com/mR93mLoE/searching-for-documents-patent-applications/. Cited in Underhill, Tom, publisher, Immigrant Genealogical Society Newsletter, Burbank, California, No. 331, October 2011, p. 2, col. 2, “New York State Newspapers Search Web Site,” http://www.immigrantgensoc.org/

newsletters/NL331.pdf

“Finding Probate and Other Estate Records,” Volume XXVIII, Number 2, Summer 2012, pp. 40-42. Cited in the Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 112, Volume 28, Winter 2012-2013, p. 26. DS35.F8A38.

“Back Issues of Avotaynu Now Available Online Are Boon for Researchers,” Volume XXVIII, Number 3, Fall 2012, p. 67.

“Lists of Online Historical Newspapers and Books,” Volume XXVIII, Number 4, Winter 2012, p. 35.

“An Index to Online Vital Records from the Archives of Wielkopolska (Great Poland),” Gen Dobry!, Volume XIV, No. 4, 30 April 2013, pp. 2-3. Discusses http://www.basia.famula.pl/en/.

“More Sources for Online Historical Newspapers and Books,” Volume XXIX, Number 1, Spring 2013, p. 65. Explains how to obtain limited free access at home to JSTOR, ProQuest, and other websites. Comment by Marc Roehling in Volume XXIX, Number 3, Fall 2013, p. 66, indicates that city directories for areas formerly in Germany are located at http://addressbuecher.genealogy.net/book/

list/. A list of free directories not yet indexed is at http://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/book/list/. Fee-based unindexed city directories are accessed at http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/

Kategorie: Adressbuch_mit_kommerziellem_Standort/.

“Friedländers of Bautzen, Saxony,” Series Editor: Rabinowitz, Eli, of Perth, Western Australia, Australia, for JewishGen; German Special Interest Group, 2013, at http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/

dresden/Joseph_Friedlander.html/. Webpage on Joseph Friedländer and his wife Henriette, both of whom lived in Bautzen and were buried in Dresden, Germany. See also https://www.facebook.com/

leobaeckinstitute/posts/811000542256760

“Provides Information About Austrian Empire Records,” Volume XXIX, Number 3, Fall 2013, p. 67.

“How to Find an Ancestor’s Place of Burial Online,” Volume XXIX, Number 4, Winter 2013, pp. 25-28. Online cemetery search resources discussed. Cited in Généalo-J, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 118, Volume 30, Summer 2014, pp. 48-49. DS135.F8A38.

“Alternative Sites for Jewish Records Online,” being a short referral to an article posted by Roger Lustig to the German SIG of JewishGen.org, Gen Dobry!, Vol. XV, No. 1, January 2014, p. 7.

[A short reference to a lifespan calculator, based upon statistical data, the Northwest Mutual Life Insurance Company Lifespan Calculator], Gen Dobry!, Vol. XV, No. 4, April 2014, p. 12.

“Free Copies of Vital Records,” Volume XXX, Number 1, Spring 2014, p. 67.

[Discussion of my new bibliography website], Gen Dobry!, Volume XV, No. 8, 31 August 2014, p. 10.

“Additional Resources for Published News Articles about Ancestors,” Volume XXX, No. 2, Summer 2014, pp. 66-67.

Book Review: Żydzi powiatu złotowskiego (1859-) 1874-1945 / Juden des Landkreises Flatow (1859) 1874-1945 [Jews of Złotów County (1859-) 1874-1945] by Prof. Joachim Zdrenka, Volume XXX, No. 3, Fall 2014, p. 65.

“Using Max Vasmer’s Russisches geographisches Namenbuch to Find Locations in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XVI, No. 1, 31 January 2015, pp. 2-6. The article was reprinted with emendations in Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2015, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 9-13. [CS49.P64]. Reprinted by the Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast at https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=

891507844269900&id=175145372572821 Reprinted in Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=

801043563317506&id=171275172961018/. Supplemented in “Letters to the Editor,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVI, No. 4, April 2015, pp. 3-4. Further commented upon at http://news2.nemoweb.net/?Jid=BLU179-W94CBCA4D213201DF0185EFC40D0@phx.gbl

“A Blog and Some Dutch Websites of Value,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XVI, No. 2, 28 February 2015, pp. 5-8. Reprinted in the cache of “Boxing News Posts,” http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/

search?q=cache:Wpm9M9FSCGQJ:www.yopsy.com/boxing-news/

posts/4/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

“Updates on sources by Kendler and Vasmer,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XVI, No. 4, 30 April 2015, p. 3. See comment by Luft in “Letters to the Editor,” Gen Dobry!, Volume XVI, No. 4, 30 April 2015, pp. 3-4 and at http://news2.nemoweb.net/?Jid=BLU179-W94CBCA4

D213201DF0185EFC40D0@phx.gbl See the Facebook note at https://business.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/

1029059357116219/. Also see “Kendler’s Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon Can Now Be Searched Online Free of Charge,” above.

Stop Thief! The True Story of Abraham Greenthal, King of the Pickpockets in 19th Century New York City, as Revealed from Contemporary Sources, ©2015 by Edward David Luft, Washington, DC, 178 pp., including bibliography, pp. 135-166, and index, pp. 167-178, and addendum, 2 pp.; http://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/results/?qtype=pid&term=

2928280; http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/Content/381538/Jews%20

of%20Posen%20Province.pdf; at the Library of Congress, HV6651.L84 2015; and https://familysearch.org/search/

catalog/2586241?availability=Family%20History%20Library. The author spoke about his book on 24 February 2019, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9aba1uIiQ Video noted in Gen Dobry!, Vol. XX, No. 3, March 2019, p. 24. Book noted in Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVI, No. 5, 31 May 2015, p. 14. The book is also available on-site at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. Book review by Martin Edwin Andersen, appearing in “Genealogist’s Bookshelf,” Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Winter 2016, Volume 39, Number 1, pp. 14-15, and briefly noted in Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 31 January 2016, p. 9. Book review reprinted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-review-stop-thief-true-story-abraham-greenthal-king-andersen and in Gen Dobry!,

Vol. XVII, No. 2, 29 February 2016, pp. 6-8. The Andersen book review in turn was reprinted in ZichronNote: The Journal of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, San Francisco, California, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, May 2016, pp.; http://zichronnote.sfbajgs.org/ZichronNote-2016-

5.pdf/. The book is favorably commented upon by Kuntz, Jerry, on the website, “Professional Criminals of America — REVISED,” https://criminalsrevised.blog/2018/02/20/abraham-greenthal-152-and-hirsch-harris-153/. Genealogical information on Abraham Greenthal and his family is available free of charge to those who register at https://www.geni.com/

people/ Abraham-Greenthal/6000000074806447246/. Cited in “History of the Jewish Community in Betsche (Pszczew),” https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/juedische-friedhoefe-pl/friedhof-pszczew/geschichte-der-gemeinde

The Jews of Posen Province in the Nineteenth Century: A Selective Source Book, Research Guide, and Supplement to The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835, Washington, D.C.: Edward David Luft, ©2015, 1,967 pp. Available on Digibaeck at https://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/

results/?term=Luft+Posen+Province&qtype=basic&stype=

contains&paging=25&dtype=any/; at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/

2586236?availability=Family%20History%20Library; and online at http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/poznan/Jews_of_Posen.html; at https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/publication/472066/edition/

381538/content; and on-site at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. The kehilalinks website entry also contains links to other relevant data on the Jews of Posen Province. Extracted from Chapter 9 of the book is “List of Jewish graduates of the Royal Catholic High School in Ostrów in the years 1849-1914,” in both English and Polish, pp. 115-135, with a short biography of Edward David Luft in both Polish and English, p. 135, in Biernaczyk, Jarosław, Ich korzenie tkwiły w Wielkopolsce: Źydzi z Ostrowa i Raszkowa na kartach historii [Their roots were in Greater Poland: Jews from Ostrów and Raszków in the pages of history], Raszków-Wrocław, [Poland]: Urząd Gminy i Miasta Raszków, 2019, 321 pp. and illustrations, including photograph of Edward Luft, p. 194. Edward Luft is cited in the book as follows: Preface, re: List of Jewish high school graduates at the Royal Catholic High School in Ostrowo, Polish, p. 10; English, p. 212. Moses Spiro naturalization, Polish, p. 43, n. 2; English, p. 241, n. 2. citing Naturalized Jews..., p. 88. Naumann (Naftali) Priebatsch naturalization, Polish, p. 55, n. 1; English, p. 251, n.1, citing Naturalized Jews..., p. 73. Raphael Kempinski naturalization, Polish, p. 61, n. 2; English, p. 257, n. 2, citing Naturalized Jews ...., p. 45. Discussion of the list of Jewish students who graduated from the Royal Catholic High School in Ostrowo, Polish, p. 104; English, p. 298, and p. 298, n. 5, indicating that the graduates were mostly the sons of merchants but also the sons of innkeepers, printers, teachers, and rabbis, citing Jews of Posen Province .... The last three Jewish graduates from the Royal Catholic High School in Ostrowo in 1914 were Siegfried Brandt from Ostrowo, Leo Jacobowitz from Adelnau, and Georg Seidenberg from Groß Strelitz, Polish, p. 112, n. 20; English, p. 305, n. 20, citing Jews of Posen Province, pp. 201, 205, and 207. A summary of Edward David Luft’s research in and visits to Ostrowo, pp. 143-144, and p. 143, n. 8, citing Jews of Posen Province ...; and English, p. 313 in the body of the essay and not in a footnote. Book review by Sonja Nishimoto in her blog, at http://treeclimbingwithsonja.blogspot.

com/2016/04/the-jews-of-posen-province-in.html/, including the announcement of a talk on the book at the Library of Congress and photographs of the talk on 21 March 2016. The video itself is viewable, free and anonymously, at http://www.loc.gov/today/

cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7239&loclr=eanw; at https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCpLDaN-l9hJJcfkhEHe

NqwQ/videos/upload?d=ud&filter=%5B%5D&sort=%7B%22

columnType%22%3A%22date%22%2C%22sortOrder%22%3A%

22DESCENDING%22%7D&udvid=NIGnz_lHpt4/, and also free of charge but with a transcription of the text at http://www.allreadable.

com/707bL5Km The May 2016 issue, p. 10, of Gen Dobry! notes that the 17 May 2016 issue of Nu? What’s New? included a note on the lecture Edward David Luft gave at the Library of Congress on 21 March on the subject of the Jews of Posen Province and discusses related matters. That article cites https://www.loc.gov/

item/webcast-7239 Lecture to see the talk. See the original article in Nu? What’s New? at http://www.avotaynu.com/nu/V17N19.html The book is favorably reviewed at http://treeclimbingwithsonja.

blogspot.com/2016/04/. Cited in the Wikipedia article on the Luisenschule, https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisenschule, n. 6. Cited in notes to the article about the Luisenschule, https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisenschule/ and by the Israel Genealogy Research Association, https://www.facebook.com/

israelgenealogy/posts/online-lecture-on-jews-of-posen-on-march-21-edward-david-luft-gave-a-lecture-at-/820417601397152/.

“Resources To Identify Central European Locations,” Vol. XXXI, No. 3, Fall 2015, pp. 33-34. Noted in Rodziny: Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Winter 2016, Volume 39, Number 1, p. 31.

Rabinowitz, Eli, compiler, “The Jews of Posen Province by Edward David Luft,” http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/poznan/Jews_of_

Posen.html, linking all references and some actual items in full-text created by Edward David Luft. Favorably reviewed in Nu? What’s New?, Vol. 17, No. 5, 31 January 2016, http://www.avotaynu.com/

nu/V17N05.html/. Noted in Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 31 January 2016, p. 20; and credit given to Eli Rabinowitz for his role in the project, Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 29 February 2016, p. 15. Favorably reviewed in Nu? What’s New?, Vol. 17, No. 5, 31 January 2016, http://www.avotaynu.com/nu/V17N05.html/. Noted in Nu? What’s New?, Vol. 17, No. 5, 31 January 2016, http://www.avotaynu.com/nu/V17N05.html/; and Vol. 17, No. 6, 29 February 2016, http://www.avotaynu.com/nu/V17N06.html/.

“Online 18th- and Early 19th-Century Bohemian Jewish Censuses,” Vol. XXXI, No. 4, Winter 2015, pp. 51-52. See http://www.projektsoupis.cz/aindex.php

Hoffman, Fred, with advice from Edward David Luft, “Legal Notice,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 29 February 2016, pp. 8-9. Discusses what Gen Dobry! will publish anonymously and the restrictive standards for doing so.

“Some Things That You Can Do on Archives.org Including the Wayback Machine,” Vol. XXXII, No. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 27-28.

[A website to teach how to pronounce the names of many foreign locations:] http://loecsen.com/travel/audioworldmap.html,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 4, 30 April 2016, p. 21. The cited link in the short article does not function; instead, use http://www.loecsen.com/

en/audioworldmap to access the website.

“How to Find State Archival Websites,” Vol. XXXII, No. 2, Summer 2016, p. 67.

Rabinowitz, Eli, “Some Useful Resources,” containing databases on European Rates of Fare and Kendler’s Orts- und Verkehrslexikon von Oesterreich-Ungarn by Edward David Luft, http://kehilalinks.

jewish gen.org/poznan/useful_resources.html See also Eli Rabinowitz’s announcement of the posting of “Useful Resources by Edward David Luft - A New Website,” with respect to European Rates of Fare, Kendler’s Orts- und Verkehrslexikon von Oesterreich-Ungarn ..., The Jews of Posen Province, etc. on his blog, http://elirab.me/useful-resources-by-edward-luft-a-new-website On the JewishGen website, Phyllis Kramer has posted a note under the subject “Austro-Hungarian 1905 Gazetteer” that the Library of Congress website for the Kendler gazetteer is discussed in http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archview~

210790~Austro-Hungarian+1905+Gazetteer~332;6 /, where she refers to the gazetteer as an “encyclopedia,” which it is not.

Rabinowitz, Eli, “Useful Resources by Edward David Luft—A New Website,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 9, 30 September 2016, pp.11-12.

“Online Research in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Nearby,” Vol. XXXII, No. 3, Fall 2016, pp. 29-35. Cited in Généalo-J, Paris, France: Cercle de Généalogie Juive, Issue 129, Spring 2017, p. 48. DS135.F8A38.

“Supplementary Information to “Online Research in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Nearby,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVII, No. 12, 31 December 2016, pp. 5-6.

Book Review: History of the Jewish Community of Schönlanke: 1736-1940: A Memorial to the Vanished by Peter Simonstein Cullman, Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, 28 February 2017, pp. 5-6. Noted in https://www.facebook.com/historiazydowwpile/photos/

a.1357139144323658.1073741836.642030749167838/1357174507653455/?type=3 The Polish version of Cullman’s book appeared as Historia Żydów w Pile, Piła: Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Społecznych Effata, 2017, 510 pp. Agnieszka Kin, translator.

“Useful Websites for Researching Jews of Western and Central Europe,” Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 6-9.

“Map Websites for Central Europe and the Larger World: Gazetteers to Access Them,” Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Summer 2017, pp. 13-16.

Comments on the Russisches geographisches Namenbuch and the online version of Meyers Orts-Lexikon, Gen Dobry!, Vol. XVIII, No. 9, 30 September 2017, pp. 6-7.

“How to Get the Most Out of Post-1892 U. S. Passenger Manifests,” Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, Fall 2017, pp. 9-15. Reprinted in Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2019, Vol. XLII, No. 2, pp. 13-22. Expanded upon in “Immigration and Name Changes,” Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Summer 2019, Vol. XLII, No. 3, pp. 20-22. Electronic version: https://pgsa.org/product/2019-rodziny-summer-2019-electronic-version/

“Argues That Name Change at Ellis Island Was More Likely a Transcription Error,” Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, Fall 2017, p. 66.

“De Recife a Nova York: Uma Odisseia” [From Recife to New York: An Odyssey], Revista do Clube Naval, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. 126, Issue 384, October, November, December 2017, pp. 20-21, in Portuguese. https://pt.calameo.com/read/004490675dbf2e

2893184 Discusses the 1654 journey of 23 Jews from Recife, Brazil, to what was then New Amsterdam [now New York City] to create the first permanent settlement of Jews in North America and to found its oldest congregation, Shearith Israel of New York City, still in existence.

“New Databases Added to the GenTeam.at Website And Eisenstadt Gravestones,” Vol. XXXIV, No.1, Spring 2018, pp. 7-8.

“Expands on ‘Name Changed at Ellis Island’ Controversy,” Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 66-67 + outside back cover, showing a card used by the Ellis Island immigration authorities to test for literacy in Hebrew.

“Berthold Goldschmidt: A Própria Definição de um Polímata” [Berthold Goldschmidt: The very definition of a polymath], Revista do Clube Naval, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. 126, Issue 386, April, May, June 2018, pp. 64-65, in Portuguese. https://pt.calameo.com/read/004490675376dc955e47d/. The life of Berthold Goldschmidt, 1817-1893, physician, teacher of German, English, and Hebrew, friend and teacher of the last Emperor of Brazil.

“Jews and Others Expelled from Prussia and Other Parts of Germany in the 19th Century,” Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, Fall 2018, pp. 21-22. Noted in Gen Dobry!, Vol. XX, No. 3, March 2019, p. 16.

Citation in Gen Dobry!, Vol. XX, No. 4, 30 April 2019, p. 22, =http://www.polishroots.org/Portals/0/Gendobry/GD_XX_4.pdf?ver=2019-05-01-145738-417/ to the archival map collection online at the District Archives in Koszalin, Poland, with the text `in Polish, German, and English. http://www.koszalin.ap.gov.pl/wp-content/

uploads/wydawnictwo/Plany_miast/Plany%20miast%20w%20

zawobie%20AP%20Koszalin.pdf

“A List of Favorite European and American Genealogical Research Web-sites and Articles,” https://jgsgw.org/upload/events/files/1553785764_Luft

ListofFavoriteWebsites.pdf

“Immigrant Banks in the United States,” Vol. XXXV, No. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 13-15.

“Online Resources of Genealogical Value at the New York City Municipal Archives,” Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Summer 2019, pp. 11-14.

Under “Brick Walls,” advice on using online newspaper resources to search for a specific person; finding a ship manifest from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to the United Kingdom in order to find the names of those who traveled together; and suggestions on how to find someone who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century. Vol. XXXV, No. 2, Summer 2019, pp. 63-64.

“Teniente-Coronel Francisco Leão Cohn: A presença judia na Guerra do Paraguai 1865-1870" [Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Leão Cohn: A Jewish Presence in the Paraguayan War 1865-1870], Revista do Clube Naval, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vol. 127, Issue 390, April, May, June 2019, pp. 54-55, in Portuguese. https://pt.calameo.com/read/004490675ab6a0882fd57/. A review of the life of Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Leão Cohn in the National Guard of Brazil and his interaction with the Emperor Dom Pedro II. He was the only Jew identified as having served in the Paraguayan War on the Brazilian side.

“Genealogical Research on the Jews of Cuba,” Vol. XXXV, No. 3, Fall 2019, pp. 42-46.

“Using Subject Searches to Find Publications Available for Your Location of Interest,” Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Winter 2020, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, pp. 11-12.

Announcement of talk by Edward David Luft, “Using the Resources of the Library of Congress for Genealogical Research,” Gen Dobry!, Vol. XX, No. 11, 30 November 2019, p. 19; and Vol. XX, No. 12, 31 December 2019, p. 16.

“Using the Library of Congress for Genealogy Research,” a talk on 25 January 2020 in Kensington, Maryland, available at https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=NIGnz_lHpt4

“Using Online Newspaper Resources for Genealogical Research,” a discussion on Skype with the New Hampshire Upper Valley Jewish Genealogical Society, 9 February 2020, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8YcK-gJZKg. List of sources related to the talk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n0O04ocieD03E

eoupBSkwNaDPF61SViZ/view?usp=sharing

“Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness,” Vol. XXXV, No. 4, Winter 2019, pp. 39-40. Noted in Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2020, p. 31.

“Searching for Deceased United States Physicians (and a Few Canadian Ones), Gen Dobry!, Vol. XXI, No. 2, pp. 5-6; reprinted in Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2020, pp. 14-15, with an illustration not included in the Gen Dobry! version.

“Locating United States Naturalization Records Off and Online,” with Marian Smith, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, Spring 2020, pp. 8-13.

Under “Brick Walls,” advice on researching in genealogical resources to find traces of an older person who has been difficult for the researcher to find. Various specific resources for further investigation are suggested. Vol. XXXVI, No. 1, Spring 2020, p. 59, cols. 1-2.

“Emigration Database at the Bremen State Archives and Two Other Ports of German Embarkation,” Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 17-19. Reprinted with permission in Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2021, pp. 13-16.

Under “Brick Walls,” advice on researching Holocaust era relatives from a specific Polish city, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 63-64.

“Origins of My Genealogical Research and Connection to Ostrów Wielkopolski,” [in English] at the VIII Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa “Lokalna społeczność żydowska” [VIII National Scientific Conference "Local Jewish Community”], 19 November 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7vQtpna6Tw/. How Edward Luft started his family history research and how he is connected to Ostrów Wielkopolski.

“More About U. S. City Directories,” Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, Fall 2020, pp. 11-13.

“1870 U. S. Federal Census Second Enumeration: How to Use It,” Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, Winter 2020, pp. 19-20. Noted in Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2021, p. 31.

Brick Wall: “Gap in Birth Years,” Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, Spring 2021, p. 63. Discusses various avenues of further investigation to find information on family in what is now Bydgoszcz, Poland, formerly in West Prussia, Prussia, later Germany. The methods could be used as a template for investigating other locations in Europe.

“Additional Resources to Locate Ancestral Towns in Eastern and Central Europe,” Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, Spring 2021, p. 67. Discusses works by Kendler and Vasmer, as well as the booklet, “European Rates of Fare” and online access to each, when available.

“Six ‘New Christians’ and One Rabbi Who Changed Brazil.. Forever,” Rodziny: The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, Summer 2021, pp. 13-14. In this case, “New Christians” were persons who were forcibly converted to Christianity in what was then Portuguese territory, including colonies, or their descendants, including Tiradentes.

English-language translation of summary, pp. 71-73 + back cover (in Polish), in Kirmiel, Andrzej, Źydzi w Międzyrzczu, Międzyrzcz: Muzeum Ziemi Międzyrzckiej im. Alfa Kowalskiego, ©2021, 94 pp., including bibliography, pp. 54-56.

LBI Collections Intergrated Into a New One-Step Judaica Portal, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, Fall 2021, p. 67.

“Resources for Finding Digitized Jewish Newspapers Online,” Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, Winter 2021, pp. 6-9. Includes various portals where Jewish newspapers are the main or sole focus to websites where Jewish newspapers are just one among many types of online newspapers.

“Free Copies of Vital and Other Records via Email: An Update, Including Two New Services,” Gen Dobry!, 31 May 2023, Vol. XXIV, No. 5, pp. 2-5. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wp5_eFyJO2MinCxbsDO4QCE3SfeBEJyN

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