Allan Jordan
2019-04-30 18:46:00 UTC
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Spring has arrived and time for the genealogists in the north to head
to the cemeteries again!
First up for me is going to be Mount Zion in Maspeth Queens, New York.
I am happy to look for graves and take photos provided you can ID the
appropriate person. Mount Zion has a database where you can start with
your research but be aware while the year is always correct, their
database defaults to the first day of the month when a date is not
specified or the first day of the year when a month is not specified.
So if they did not have complete data when they were entering the person
into the database you might see the date as the first or it as January 1
when your research says a different date from the death certificate or
such. Also a lot of times the date differs from the death certificate
because the database mostly has date of burial not date of death.
I am pretty good at finding my way around in Mount Zion but some spots
can allude even the best searcher. But still I try. Infants, babies
and children are the most difficult because a lot of times they did not
have as significant stones and they do not survive the years. Some
areas of Zion also unfortunately do not have maps.
Please be specific in your requests because I can not help you if you
write with a common name and say can you find for example Harry Cohen
.... you can guess how many there are in this cemetery. Mount Zion
Cemetery has more than 210,000 burials on its 78 acres.
I do appreciate but do not demand a few dollars in return to help off
set the cost of doing these search for everyone and to make it possible
for me to continue to offer this as a service to the community. As you
can understand the costs of these repeated searches add up on me.
I am also happy to offer advice online if you email me. As I said I
have been through Mount Zion enough to know what's possible and also
some tricks on how to locate people in the database.
Allan Jordan
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Spring has arrived and time for the genealogists in the north to head
to the cemeteries again!
First up for me is going to be Mount Zion in Maspeth Queens, New York.
I am happy to look for graves and take photos provided you can ID the
appropriate person. Mount Zion has a database where you can start with
your research but be aware while the year is always correct, their
database defaults to the first day of the month when a date is not
specified or the first day of the year when a month is not specified.
So if they did not have complete data when they were entering the person
into the database you might see the date as the first or it as January 1
when your research says a different date from the death certificate or
such. Also a lot of times the date differs from the death certificate
because the database mostly has date of burial not date of death.
I am pretty good at finding my way around in Mount Zion but some spots
can allude even the best searcher. But still I try. Infants, babies
and children are the most difficult because a lot of times they did not
have as significant stones and they do not survive the years. Some
areas of Zion also unfortunately do not have maps.
Please be specific in your requests because I can not help you if you
write with a common name and say can you find for example Harry Cohen
.... you can guess how many there are in this cemetery. Mount Zion
Cemetery has more than 210,000 burials on its 78 acres.
I do appreciate but do not demand a few dollars in return to help off
set the cost of doing these search for everyone and to make it possible
for me to continue to offer this as a service to the community. As you
can understand the costs of these repeated searches add up on me.
I am also happy to offer advice online if you email me. As I said I
have been through Mount Zion enough to know what's possible and also
some tricks on how to locate people in the database.
Allan Jordan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The IAJGS Conference schedule is now available, and the
EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE has been extended to May 9.
Register now at the discounted rate. Go to www.iajgs2019.org
and get ready to Rock & Roll in Cleveland.
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Watch JewishGen's video -- click here:
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Planning to use Ancestry.com? Start by using the "Ancestry Search Box"
on the JewishGen homepage.
By doing this, any eventual subscription to Ancestry.com will result in
Jewishgen receiving a commission.
It's an easy way to help JewishGen!
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Support JewishGen with a contribution to the JewishGen General Fund!
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen-erosity/
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Sign up for the JGFFAlert!
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