DOCUMENT Preliminary document for the 1784 census of the Jews of Rosheim Jean-Pierre KleitzThe "Dénombrement Général des Juifs tolérés en la Province d'Alsace en 1784" is an invaluable genealogical tool for the reconstruction of the Jewish families at the end of the 18th century. Sparse preliminary documents, yet unpublished, have been kept. They provide vital and social status information on the persons "interviewed" which do not appear in the Dénombrement as published. The information for Rosheim is published here. FAMILIES Searching my ancestor Magdeleine in Lorraine Gérard Lévy The author describes his long and patient trudge through documents and his personal exploration of archives in order to find data on his ancestor. He eventually discovers the marriage record in "Les mariages Juifs en Moselle de1792-1892", recently published by Jean-Louis CALBAT. A new link between Mississippi and France Jacob Schleichkorn France and the Deep South are well-known for their connections. Here is a new occurrence. In the Jewish cemetery in Biloxi (Mississippi) only one gravestone remains, that of Michel Lévy, born in Paris in 1880. The author tells its history, which finally leads to Poland, where the search has not yet been pursued. MISCELLANEOUS Jews in the armies of the French Revolution and the Napoleon Empire. Selected portraits and figures. Pierre Lautmann This is a sample of a long-range work undertaken by the author. He has already given a lecture on the topic at the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in London, in July 2001. At the French Military Archives in Vincennes (Service Historique de l'Armée) he has examined some two hundred volumes (out of several thousand) of the matriculation registers where all military personnel serving in the French forces between 1791 and 1815 are listed by regiment and time period. He then has requested and exploited the personal files of those whose names seemed possibly Jewish. Complementary sources are also shown. Two t'filin bags from North Africa : a chronicle in Hebrew paleography. Eliane Roos-Schuhl The author studies two velvet bags used to store the talith and t'filin used in the morning prayer. Their embroidered inscriptions lead to the identification of their owner and of his birth date derived from the date of his bar-mitzvah. RECENT EVENTS A long expected publication of the CGJ is available: Les Cimetières Israélites de Moselle by Jean-Pierre BERNARD, 700 pages showing in detail the 50 Jewish Cemeteries of the Moselle département (France). The14500 names are indexed, making research easy. The new website of the CGJ with its English version, completely revamped, is open at www.genealoj.org Présence Juive dans la Cité is a booklet on the history of the Jewish Communities in the Lyon region. BOOK REVIEW Pierre-André MEYER analyzes in detail the new book by Pascal FAUSTINI : La communauté juive de Metz et ses familles (1565-1665). | 
