>NEW YORK CITY - October 16, 2008 - The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) has awarded the 2008 Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Grant to the Italian Genealogical Group (IGG). The $2,500 grant will be used to create, computerize, and place online an index to the names of women who got married in Brooklyn from 1910 through 1930.< Thanks, Joy, for putting this announcement on our list! I have been waiting over 20 years for this index to be created. It seems to be little known among researchers that there is NO INDEX for brides in this time period, none, nothing, not even at the Municipal Archives. Does anyone have an idea how many women got married in Brooklyn during this period?? And, understand, this is not an index to Jewish brides or Italian brides; it will be an index to ALL brides. Perhaps I can finally discover if Kate C. Smith and Mildred Magdalene Smith, daughters of George and Magdalena Hamm Smith, ever married and passed on their mt-DNA, making it possible for me to compare it with my (deceased) father's mt-DNA report. Only another chapter in the search for his adopted mother's antecedents. thanks, Elizabet