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Dick Eastman alerts us to this new development:

A New Version of the Census of the Canadian Northwest Provinces, 1906 Database, is Now Available

The new Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906 database is available at http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1906/Pages/1906.aspx.

Logan Kleinwaks alerts us to an incredible find - there is a 
reproduction of a map "identifying 77 Jewish property owners and 
their properties in Plock, Poland in 1803.  [A version of it] has 
been provided as a special exception, by the Biblioteka 
im.Zielinskich Towarzystwa Naukowego Plockiego.  To download the map 
image and a spreadsheet with [Logan's] transcription of the property 
owners' names (most with patronymics, not fixed surnames), and for 
more details about the source, visit 
http://genealogyindexer.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3190."
Thank you Logan!

I am starting a new project and I would like to be in touch with anyone who was a passenger on the March 3, 1949 sailing of the SS Marine Jumper from Hamburg, Germany to Boston, Massachusetts, USA.  There were quite a number of babies and small children on the sailing and I am hoping someone reading this might know of someone who was on that sailing.  The ship carried slightly under 600 passengers, most if not all of them were refugees from Displaced Persons Camps in Europe.  There was a sister ship, the Marine Flasher that left at the end of February and landed in New York.  The Marine Jumper and the Marine Flasher made  many trips during 1949 but I am only interested in that particular sailing.

Genealogy.com’s Genealogy Pointer’s Jan 8, 2013  included a reminder about using tax records to find genealogical information.  They quoted from Emily Anne Croom’s excellent manual The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research

“[Some] information the genealogist [might] glean from studying some tax rolls?

1. Relationships, either expressed, deduced, or suggested
2. Suggestions of birth order among sons in a family, depending on when they first were named or became a head of household
3. Suggestions of death year or moving, when someone no longer was listed, when an estate was listed, when someone was named as guardian of the children or administrator of an estate, or when someone is taxed for the property formerly belonging to another person
4. Occupations, expressed or implied by paying license fee
5. Suggestions of family groups of slaves, when, over the years, the same slaves were named in a household; sometimes, slaves’ ages
6. Changes in a person’s net worth or lifestyle, expressed in changes in the number of slaves, livestock, and luxury items
7. Preliminary identification of neighbors by studying adjoining landowners and watercourses, or when the tax collector dated each entry and it appears that he visited the households in person”

If you’re interested in obtaining a copy, the guide can be ordered at www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=1221

Dick Eastman pointed out in Eastman’s On-Line Genealogy Newsletter that”Find My Past” is beginning a new series on UK TV starting Tuesday, January 8 at 9 PM.  Regretfully the series is only available on British TV.  If you don’t subscribe to Dick Eastman’s newletter, check it out at http://blog.eogn.com/ – he has lots of very interesting tips and tidbits.

The LA Times reports on the children who were part of the Kindertransport which took about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany to Britain.  Interviews with some of these now grwon children took place at a recent gathering in Irvine, CA.  Read the whole story at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kindertransport-20130104,0,1276347.story

Many thanks to Jan Meisels Allen, IAJGS Vice President, the Chairperson
IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee for alerting us about the post at “Dear MYRTLE Your friend in genealogy” about a  new WWI online source of records.

USA Today reports on the plight of several cemeteries in coastal New Orleans that are sinking and washing away.  Check out the full story at http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/03/louisiana-cemeteries-sinking/1806415/