The latest news from JewishGen about the Memorial Plaques Database has been announced: JewishGen is proud to announce its 2014 year-end report for the Memorial Plaques Project database. The MPP database can be accessed at jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPP database includes the data from plaques and Yizkor lists from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update adds approximately 15,000 new records and 11,000 new photos from 20 synagogues/organizations. The database now includes more than 75,500 records from the US, Israel Canada and Morocco. These records come from 111 different synagogues and other institutions. We believe that the MPP is a good example of how users of JewishGens databases can give back. If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. This update includes US data sets from California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas. Also included is a new data set from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Nolan Altman [email protected] JewishGen Acting VP for Data Acquisition December, 2014 More plaques are being added all the time through the IAJGS/JewishGen Memorial Plaques Indexing Challenge iajgs.org/blog/memplaq/ Join in and boost the numbers further.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:43:27 +0000
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