From Ancestry.com, comes news of the largest searchable online yearbook collection. The US School Yearbook Collection – 10,000 yearbooks – now includes 60 million records for mere mortals as well as celebs. The books include high schools,... 

The Jewish New Year is almost around the corner. Rosh Hashana begins Wednesday night, September 8. For Jews around the world, regardless of nationality or background, the High Holy Days are the most important days of the year. As we gather with family... 

Activists, community leaders and politicans are supporting restoration efforts at one of Europe’s oldest Jewish cemeteries, which was bombed in 1944. The story includes details of the plans. Architect and amateur historian Susie Clapham, alongside... 

Carmel, California is offering a match made in heaven not usually found in that neck of the woods at this year’s Jewish Food Festival, on Sunday, August 29. From 10.30am-4pm, the cultural festival will offer arts, crafts, live entertainment and... 

One of the largest British Jewish cemeteries – Edgwarebury Lane Cemetery, Edgware – will add 6,500 new burial spaces, after winning an appeal for expansion, which will cost some 1.5 million GBP. According to TotallyJewish.com , the original... 

Each year, the European Day of Jewish Culture offers activities and events in many countries. While the official day is September 5, events are scheduled for other days as well and there is a calendar on the home page of JewishHeritage.org , which offers... 

Learn about the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan in this issue of Tablet magazine. Sarah Marcus’ story provides a good look at this community. Russia’s great expanse stretches south from the Arctic for many thousands of miles until it comes to a halt... 

If I had only one penny each time I’ve heard this story. Do we need a national day to convince people that their names were not changed at Ellis Island? How can we convince people that the romantic myths in their family are simply that – a... 

Photographs taken at IAJGS 2010 are wanted! Did you attend the conference and take photographs? There were hundreds of digital cameras there this year, so many people must have good images. The event’s program committee is asking attendees to share... 

How and why should we care for our family trees? That’s the question author Buzzy Jackson answers in her new book, “Shaking the Family Tree.” Tracing the Tribe is waiting to receive our copy, but this review in Boulder, Colorado’s...