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FEEFHS Genealogical News Update

The latest news about genealogy in Eastern Europe, powered by Google News.

This search is based on key genealogical words, plus the names of our countries of interest.

Some material on some news sites does not meet the FEEFHS standard for diversity, harmony and unit. We have made an attempt to block stories that would not be appropriate for this site.

Be warned that not everything here will be relevant - for every interesting story there might be 10 that are little more than ads for local events. We expect, however, that this summary will usually contain a few nuggets to make it worth coming back.




ABC Online

The Curse of Katyn
ABC Online
This monumental crime in the forest had indelibly stained Poland's relationship with Germany. Now though, the nation shifted its disdain toward Russia and ...


Hrpcha digs up facts on cemeteries
Morris Daily Herald
Hrpcha will reveal her insights to the Will/Grundy Genealogical Society during ts monthly membership meeting at 10 am Saturday, Sept. ...


Japan seeks new identity in Asian resurgence
Asian Tribune
In our young days Western Allied propaganda claimed that Japan's defeat - like the capitulation of Nazi Germany on May 5, 1945 - was the triumph of good ...

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Australian travels halfway around world to Brockville in genealogical search
EMC St. Lawrence
They gathered data from many around the world, including previously unpublished information from Russia, about the ancient magnetic fields found in rocks. ...

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Jewish United Fund: Chicagoan explores family history in Ukraine
Kyiv Post (subscription)
Inspired by his grandfather, the younger Resnick has cultivated an interest in family history and genealogy, reaching out to far-flung relatives throughout ...


Community Calendar
Wilmette Life
The North Suburban Genealogical Society will meet from 1-3 pm Sept. 11 at Northbrook Historical Society, 1776 Walter Ave., Northbrook. ...

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Indian River county Community Calendar, updated Sept. 2
TCPalm
Indian River Genealogical Society: Hooligans, Scamps & Rascals - panel reveals secrets of their black sheep. Indian River County Main Library, 1600 21st St ...

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Boston Globe

New databases ease tracking of Jewish roots
Boston Globe
Rosen's search has been simpler because scores of his father's ancestors arrived in Boston in 1889 from a part of Russia that is now Poland. ...


Sharapova has not forgotten her family's tragic roots
Montreal Gazette
You would think that Maria Sharapova's trek through the irradiated wilderness of eastern Belarus should end, definitively, her portrayal as the selfish ...

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Researchers Discover Possible Genetic Risk Factor for ALS
EmpowHer (blog)
Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, working in conjunction with scientists in Germany, have discovered what they believe is the most common ...

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How to record your family's story
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Before my matzah ball soup arrived, he had told me about his childhood in Poland, his parents' clothing business and about being sent, at 14, ...


Film co-produced in Estonia "The Poll Diaries" to be presented in Toronto
The Baltic Course
Kraus has made a film of a Baltic community on the brink of the World War I, drawing from his own family history. The movie is a dramatic depiction of the ...


Baltic Reports

Estonian Lutherans lash out at Mormons
Baltic Reports
The Evangelical Lutheran Church is the most attended in Estonia with 15 percent of the population currently members. After its experience with under Soviet ...


Quaff a pint of Heritage Alt at the German Heritage Festival
GoErie.com
Then donations are made to the Erie Public Library, Erie Historical Society, and the Erie Society for Genealogical Research. Last, a fund is started to set ...


Never has so little history been known by so few...
Independent
David Cameron underlined his own failings last month when he called us the "junior partner" in 1940 in the fight against Germany, although America did not ...

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Across The Generations -- More websites to lend a hand with your searches
Brandon Sun
You will remember in past columns covering the best 130 genealogy websites, sites that required a fee were shown with a dollar sign ($). ...


Boston Globe

We are family
Boston Globe
In "Faces of America,'' Henry Louis Gates Jr. has found a middle path: He applies the most rigorous genealogical and genetic tools to the family histories ...


A Good, Sacred Memory from a Family Reunion
Huffington Post (blog)
It isn't often that one is exposed to as much family history as I just was, and discovers things my forebears either didn't know of chose not to tell me. ...


The Guardian

'To hell with him ...'
The Guardian
What happens when your family history throws up something really horrible, toxic and worrying? Where you realise that your forebears, far from nobly ...

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Airship's 1925 crash commemorated
Marietta Times
"As we say in genealogy, as long as somebody remembers you, you won't be forgotten." Hunt said he appreciates the efforts of the Rayners to keep the memory ...


Mormon Times

South Dakota family history center helps residents find answers
Mormon Times
ABERDEEN, SD - When Kathy Jordan's ancestors came to the United States years ago from Germany, they couldn't speak English. So when the man on the boat ...


UT expert says family searches boil down to two questions
Knoxville News Sentinel
Those are the queries Knoxville resident and genealogical expert Dr. George K. Schweitzer asks anyone researching family history. ...

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Attis family enjoys touching 'reunification'
Times and Transcript
The different coloured leaves each represent one of their children, most of whom emigrated from Dorbyan, Lithuania to Moncton from 1904-1928. ...


Schrader: Family history found at flea market
Dekalb Daily Chronicle
... Johann Schroeder (aka John Schroder or Schrader) had taken up farming just a few years after getting off the boat from Germany in 1856. ...


Indian River County Community Calendar, updated Aug. 31
TCPalm
Indian River Genealogical Society: Hooligans, Scamps & Rascals - panel reveals secrets of their black sheep. Indian River County Main Library, 1600 21st St ...

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Sharapova learns a few home truths from the misery that is Chernobyl
Sydney Morning Herald
You would think that Maria Sharapova's trek through the irradiated wilderness of eastern Belarus should end, definitively, her portrayal as the selfish ...
Emotional return home for SharapovaGulfNews

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Parental history of depression or anxiety and the cortisol awakening response
British Journal of Psychiatry
These participants reported no parental history of depression or anxiety disorder, as assessed by the family history inventory (n = 238) on which the ...

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Armstrong delivers TV gold for BBC
Herald.ie
The genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? has turned from a family tree into a money tree for the BBC. The first run went out, unassumingly enough, ...


'Model' citizen keeps history alive
Sherwood Park News
As evidenced by the model-building, Neuman recalls his family history. He said if it weren't for rabbits, many would have starved in the winter, ...


New Jersey author probes his family's past
newjerseynewsroom.com
But as Stroebel learned, even in the Internet era, getting reliable genealogical information can be a challenge. Official records are often lost, haphazard, ...


Genealogy enriches county's history
Columbia Daily Tribune
"Now Living in Boone County" is 680 pages of history and genealogy spiced with interviews, legends, great stories, area history, even a farmer's daily diary ...


Family ties: Man restores home shared by nine generations of relatives
Northern Virginia Daily
The Sheetz family originally came to the New World from Germany in the 1740s, Sheetz explained, and then to the Northern Shenandoah Valley from Pennsylvania ...


Sammamish Forum September 1
Sammamish Review
I saw quick lessons in history, geography and genealogy as parents explained to their children where their pin should go. I never expected that a simple map ...


Rich in history
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Although the community was founded in 1849 by a German, Joseph Spielmann, the community feels stronger ties to its Czech and Bohemian heritage. ...


Ticagrelor, Prasugrel Overcome Platelet Reactivity Better than Clopidogrel
TCTMD
Baseline characteristics were similar between the 2 groups, which both showed a high prevalence of family history of CAD, hyperlipidemia, prior MI, ...


Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Our Parents: Mourning & Families-of-Origin
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
He longed for his brothers and sister left behind in Russia. He longed for home and didn't become an American citizen until 1948, in the McCarthy Era. ...


Short takes, August 21
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
The focus of the program is the works of Dietrich Buxtehude who flourished in north Germany in the late 17th century. CHINO - The Chino Stake Center will ...

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A Skillful Writer Tackles Her Family History With Grace In 'I Just Lately ...
PopMatters
The topics (her grandmother's roots in the Ukraine, her travels there to somehow connect with her, the fleeting nature of memory, ill advised love affairs, ...


A liberator's story
Grand Forks Herald
In addition to his war experiences, Konop had written about his life on the farm, his grandparents the pioneers and his Czech heritage. ...


Bible family marks 100 years of reunions
Coshocton Tribune
Snedeker put together a trivia game on Bible family history. The original spelling of the family name was Biebel. The first female ancestor that can be ...

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