Author Archive
Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! We had 40 responses and everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
This week was difficult! After discussing the possibilities with others, and going back and forth on the letters many times, the names we have settled on are:
1a – Dinivan
1b – Meloy
2 – Hoogs
3a – Divner
3b – Maredin, Mardin
We appreciate everyone’s help and are excited to see the suggestions for the next set of challenges!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! We had 60 responses, and everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
After going through every response, the names we have settled on are:
#1a – Donolan
#1b – Dowely
#1c – Desmond
#1d – Kaefes, Keefes
#1e – McGinnis
#2 – Demeris, Demaris
#3 – Rooney
We appreciate everyone’s help and are excited to see the suggestions for the next set of challenges!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! We had 58 responses, and everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
It was really interesting and helpful to see how many ways everyone transcribed this difficult handwriting. After going through every response, the names we have settled on are:
#1 – Nighy
#2 – Carleman
#3 – Dwyre
We appreciate everyone’s help and are excited to see the suggestions for the next set of challenges!
After a long hiatus, we are excited to announce that the Transcription Challenge has returned! You can participate by going to the “Transcription Challenge” tab at the top of the page and submitting your suggestions in the comments.
We will review your comments every week and will post new challenges as we find them!
We look forward to hearing from you and appreciate your help!
We are excited to announce a new collection! Lynn, MA: Harry Lipsky Company Records, 1934-1936, a collection From the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC).
The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (JHC) at New England Historic Genealogical Society is a destination for exploring, preserving, and advancing the history of Jewish families, institutions, and communities in New England and beyond.
The Harry Lipsky Company was a furniture moving company founded in 1910 in Lynn, Massachusetts by Harry Lipsky, who owned and operated the company until his death in 1926. He was born between 1887 and 1888 in Slavita, Russia (modern-day Ukraine) and immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts around 1904. He married Dora Rabotnick in 1910, and together they had three children, Jacob “Jack,” Sidney Samuel, and Rose. His sons took over operations until the company was sold in 1988.
This database contains a detailed ledger of all the moves that the Harry Lipsky Company undertook between 1934 and 1936, including the names and addresses of clients, and the cost and contents of the moves.
We are grateful to the volunteers who indexed all of the names for this project, including Karen Del Vecchio, Sara Stison, Joan Sullivan, Amelia Devin Freedman, Jaimie Williams-Peterson, Eileen McCarthy.
If you would like to become part of the team working on rewarding genealogical projects, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to all Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.