This page provides links to web sites (1) of interest to researchers and (2) of individual family members.
I. Research Links:
The Jewish Museum of Maryland, http://www.jewishmuseummd.org, 15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, has considerable BAYL materials, including copies of old bulletins and a few photographs and 8mm and 16mm film. Please contact the Jewish Museum of Maryland for more information. Following is the Museum's list of some items:
1989.028.001, Print, Photographic, Black and white photograph of a meeting of the B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Circle, 1946. The meeting possibly took place at Sharei Zion Synagogue on Park Heights Avenue. [This is the photo at the top of this page.] See photograph for identifications.
1989.028.002, Print, Photographic, Black and white photograph of a meeting of the B’nai Abraham/Yehuda Laib family circle held at Greenhaven, Pasadena, MD, 1944.
1989.028.003, Print, Photographic, Black and white photograph of a meeting of the B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Circle, at Greenhaven in Pasadena, MD, 1944.
1989.028.004, Print, Photographic, Black and white photograph of a meeting of the B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Circle, at Greenhaven in Pasadena, MD, 1944.
1989.028.005, Print, Photographic, Black and white photograph of (second from left to right) Sol Levine, Dr. Sol Smith, Philip Rosen, and Louis Silverman, officers of the B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Circle, at the Family Circle’s summer meeting at Greenhaven, Pasadena, MD, 1944.
1989.028.006, Print, Photographic, Black and white photograph of a meeting of the B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Laib Family Circle, at Greenhaven in Pasadena, MD, 1944.
Photo Record 1994.168.001, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 16mm, Community Hall Banquet #1, c. 1954.
Photo Record 1994.168.002, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 16mm, Community Hall Banquet #2, c. 1954.
Photo Record 1994.168.003, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 16mm, Family Banquet, 1954.
Photo Record 1994.168.004, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 8mm, Greenhaven Meeting, Herring and Potato Supper, 1939, canister marked #1.
Photo Record 1994.168.005, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 8mm, Greenhaven, 1940, canister marked #2.
Photo Record 1994.168.006, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 8mm, Greenhaven, 1940, canister marked #3.
Photo Record 1994.168.007, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 8mm, ”You Asked For It,” 1954, canister marked #7.
Photo Record 1994.168.008, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 8mm, ”Guests entering and seated at the tables,” 1959, canister marked #8.
Photo Record 1994.168.009, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 8mm, ”Seated at the tables, awards, Show Time S.S. Yehuda Laib,” 1959, canister marked #9.
Photo Record 1994.168.010, Film, Film from B’nai Abraham and Yehuda Leib Society, 8mm, ”Show Time Dancing,” 1959, canister marked #10.
Jewish genealogy generally -- http://www.jewishgen.org
Litvak section of “Jewish Gen” -- http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak
Kupisik / Kupiškis -- http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/kupiskis/kupishok.htm (Kupisik was the home of BAYL founder Myer Smith)
Rokisik / Rokiškis -- http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/rokiskis/rokmain.htm (Rella Krok lived in Rokisik as an adult)
References to BAYL relatives in the 1897 census of Rokiškis -- http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/rokiskis/census.htm
References to BAYL relatives in the 1921 list of Rokiškis real property owners and renters -- http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/rokiskis/property.htm (Our relative, Slava Krukas, who is also a Holocaust survivor, has identified lot #105 as that of her grandfather, Zalmanas Zametas (Zalman Samet), and lot #135 as that of her uncle, Besselis Zametas (Bessel Samet).)
Other Research Links:
Interesting Information about Jewish Genealogy -- http://jewishwebindex.com
New York Passenger Records Search -- http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
Social Security Death Index -- http://ssdi.rootsweb.com
II. Individual BAYL Members’ Web Sites: