OUR SOCIETY'S LIFE _______________________________________________________ FAMILIES Day-to-day life life in a rural community of the Moselle Département during the 18th century : Example Hellimer. Pascal Faustini Faustini uses documents unexplored as yet, such as forensic and notary deeds, which complement already known censuses (Stanislas Leczinski's edict, Brancas tax). He draws the picture of the Jewish community in Hellimer at the beginning and at the end of the 18th century. He depicts in depth the personality of notabilities, but also of humbler characters, such as butchers or farm laborers..
Chronicle of the life in Paris during the 19th century. Stéphane Toublanc and Bernard Lyon-Caen
Stéphane TOUBLANC and Bernard LYON-CAEN make use of documents from their family archives, of vital records and notary deeds to show the family trees of two Jewish Families in Paris all over the 19th century. _______________________________________________________ MISCELLANEOUS Basile Ginger compares various genealogy software products.
Eliane Roos-Schuhl, Bernard Lyon-Caen and John Berkowitch add complements to their past papers in this journal.
Ernest Kallmann cites recent research results by Pierre Freund which exemplify that thoroughness and perseverance are a must in genealogy research..
_______________________________________________________ RECENT EVENTS -Next Year in Jerusalem: the next IAJGS conference is scheduled there from July 11 to 14..
-Project BIGENET
-Publication of the book by Henry Schumann: Memorial of the Jewish communities in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, and Vosges. _______________________________________________________ OUR LIBRARY _______________________________________________________ BOOK REVIEW
-Convoy 73: the fourth volume of Eve-Line BLUM's book
-Nicolas STOSKOPF: Paris bankers and financiers during the Second Empire. The book includes biographies of some twenty Jewish bankers.
-Dominique FRISCHER: Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the unforgettable Moses of the Americas.
- Mario MODIANO: Genealogy of the Modiano families: . _______________________________________________________ PRESS REVIEW _______________________________________________________ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |