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beltainelady) wrote2009-04-28 04:06 pm
beltainelady) wrote2009-04-28 04:06 pm
Ancestry.com?
This happens every time I watch Schindler's List. If you've seen it, you may remember the scene where Amon Goethe (Ralph Fiennes) orders a female Jewish engineer to be shot after she tells him that the foundation for the barracks need to be replaced. She gives her name as "Diana Reiter". Since the film is based on the book, which is based on eyewitness accounts, letters and other information found about Schindler's doings, I have reason to believe she existed as a real person.
And a person who is more than likely related to the rest of my mother's father's family: Jews displaced and scattered by the Holocaust. I am only Brasilian by way of Germany, where her mother and father's family originated. I took a quick perusal of Ancestry.com's site, and both my mother's and grandmother's names are found on the immigration lists.
Of course, to access any information, I need to pay for membership to the site. Has anyone done this and had good results? I don't want to pay needlessly if the site doesn't really help. Strange, my mother was always into genealogy and did a lot of research into my father's family (pre-internet! I have letters from Russia, from behind the Iron Curtain. Letters that warn her not to look too far into the family, since apparently, we were still banned from the country) but she didn't leave me too much information regarding her own family. I have some names and remembered stories, but that's about it.
Suggestions?
And a person who is more than likely related to the rest of my mother's father's family: Jews displaced and scattered by the Holocaust. I am only Brasilian by way of Germany, where her mother and father's family originated. I took a quick perusal of Ancestry.com's site, and both my mother's and grandmother's names are found on the immigration lists.
Of course, to access any information, I need to pay for membership to the site. Has anyone done this and had good results? I don't want to pay needlessly if the site doesn't really help. Strange, my mother was always into genealogy and did a lot of research into my father's family (pre-internet! I have letters from Russia, from behind the Iron Curtain. Letters that warn her not to look too far into the family, since apparently, we were still banned from the country) but she didn't leave me too much information regarding her own family. I have some names and remembered stories, but that's about it.
Suggestions?
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- I've never use ancestry.com, but I've heard good things about it for families that have enough widespread members to make documenting sensible. (Mine, on the other hand, might not be a good move.)
- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has useful info on tracing relatives affected by the Holocaust: much more info here: http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/faq/details.php?lang=en&topic=03#01
- Your local library (ideally, the main library, they tend to have more resources). Many have a genealogy section, special subscriptions, and other resources - at least enough to get an idea what's worth pursuing. You might also look at the state history library: they have genealogy resources and training even for stuff outside the state.
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I'm related to Joan Collins!
:-)
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However -- find an LDS Family History Center near you; they have access to all of the information there and it won't cost you anything. The folks who work at the FHCs are very helpful and can likely point you towards additional resources as well.
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http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Welcome
Maybe that could help too.