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Converting Jewish
dates
You can use the JewishGen Calendar Converter at http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/josdates.htm
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Locating
U.S. Cemeteries
This is a great site for locating any cemetery in a U.S. county
Select the State
Type in the County name
Under "Feature Type" select: Cemetery
Click on "Send Query"
From there, you can get a variety of maps for the location,
even aerial maps for some places.
courtesy of E.R. (JG March 2000)
Researching
Hamburg Shipping Lists
HAMBURG HISTORIC
EMIGRATION OFFICE
Those who are researching ancestors who embarked in Hamburg, during
the period of 1850 thru 1934, will find this site of great interest:
For the period above, they have the Hamburg departure passenger lists
with about 5 million names. If the person is found, one can obtain
a
copy of the original passenger list. You can correspond with them in
German or English.
courtesy of T.V. (JG March 2000)
Scanning
photographs and documents
For an introduction to photograph and document scanning, see
http://www.scantips.com
This site includes special pages on the restoration of genealogical
photographs:
http://www.scantips.com/restore.html
and colour correction of faded slides:
http://www.scantips.com/color.html
JG 5 February 1999
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