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How to Leave Important Digital Documents for Your Loved Ones – Even After You’re Gone
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Recently, someone asked me for advice about a very personal and important issue: he wanted to leave behind a document for his children – something they would only receive after he had passed away. “Ideally, I would upload it to ‘the cloud,’ and give my children a code so they can access it when they…
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CABR files in Hague
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The original article first appeared in AVOTAYNU, the International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Vol. XXXV, no. 2, Summer 2019. End May 2018 I made contact, through MyHeritage (which is a very valuable tool for at least first contacts if not more), with descendants of one of my great-grandmother’s siblings from the Strauss family. During one…
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Solving Cold Cases – An Attempt
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I am currently in the middle of reading the book on my Kindle “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” by Michelle McNamara which tells the story about, what is, or better was, considered a cold case. The book tells the gripping story about a mysterious and violent predator, later nicknamed the “Golden State Killer”, who committed fifty…
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My recent visit to the Alsace
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Last summer holiday I stayed with my family in the French Alsace. Since my children don’t have yet a real interest in musea, I have attempted to squeeze in visits to musea and other (not only Jewish) Points of Interest, which I have mostly succeeded in doing so. Places I have visited are: Rosheim –…
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