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LitvakSIG is Participating in the 33rd Annual IAJGS Conference
Thank you to Eden Joachim, President of LitvakSIG, for this announcement. LitvakSIG is the Special Interest Group (SIG) devoted to Lithuanian (Litvak) – Jewish genealogy, heritage and family history. Our website is www.litvaksig.org. Our All Lithuania Database (ALD) containing 1.2 million records is freely searchable, as is our Shtetl Database. Our website has... -
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On February 8th 1887… the Dawes Act, also known as the General Allotment Act, gave authorization to the President of the United States to survey Native American lands for allotment to individuals. The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. Individual ownership of... -
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