Leighton & Dianne (Ziskin) Siegel Family Web Site
For PHOTOGRAPHY please go to Leighton's other web site:
www.SiegelPhotos.com
|
To contact Leighton or Dianne E-mail |
|
|
January, 2012: IMPORTANT WEB SITE CHANGE
PHOTOGRAPHY has been moved to a new web site www.SiegelPhotos.com.
This one remains, as before, FAMILY ORIENTED: www.SiegelPhotos.net.
NOTE the same name except the photography site ends ends in, ".com", and the family site ends, as before in, ".net". |
|
Included are ancestors, descendents and relatives of these families:
Siegel, Milavetz, Ostrin, Strimling, Ziskin, Wilensky, Rubin, Levin
Of special interest are historical family records, stories and trees but there is much more.
|
|
Dianne and I are involved in a project to restore B'nai Abraham, a beautiful, but deteriorating and abandoned, historic building, in Virginia, Minnesota that was once a synagogue. It will be for community cultural activities, exhibits and to house a small museum documenting the history of Jewish settlement on the Iron Range. It is the only synagogue building in Minnesota to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The project is remarkably interesting and worthy of support. You can learn more at www.IronRangeJewishHeritage.org |
|
| The Garske Colony near Devils Lake, North Dakota was settled by Jewish pioneers beginning in 1883. A dedication took place at the Sons of Jacob Cemetery
and Monument Honoring the original
Jewish homesteaders near Devils Lake, North Dakota on September 17, 2006. Dianne's great-grandparents, grandparents and parents came from there & she I worked with others to bring the dedication about. www.SOJNorthDakota.org |
|
I have been the webmaster for TRACES for a number of years. TRACES is a non-profit educational organization created to gather, preserve and present stories of people from the Midwest and Germany or Austria who encountered each other during World War II. After a number of years, it's St. Paul museum closed on November 28th, 2008. TRACES was transformed into a number of mobile BUSeum exhibits. TRACES "Green" is also working for the future to to protect nature and a sustainable arable land in Iowa as a setting for diverse learning opportunities. |
|
This is a prototype of what, hopefully, will become comprehensive documentation of this historic cemetery in St. Paul, Minnesota. The project is a labor of love undertaken by Bill Rosenbloom. My part is the creation of this example web presence. The cemetery is maintained by Beth Jacob Congregation. The project, and it's web presence, is eventually destined to be transferred to the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
For more information contact Bill Rosenbloom at bill@airlineposters.com. |
Other interests, activities and organizations I support |
|