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23nd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy
July 21, 2003
JW Marriott Hotel, Washington DC |
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Welcome & Introductions |
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Report from Belarus SIG coordinator |
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History of the Belarus SIG |
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Accomplishments of the past year |
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Coming Very Soon |
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Future priorities |
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Thank You to our Volunteers |
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Organizational Overview |
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Financial Report |
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How you can help |
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Lectures of interest |
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Parting words |
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Founded at the 18th annual IAJGS conference in
Los Angeles - July 1998 |
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David Fox, and about 25 people found a room, and
decided to form a group for people with ancestral roots in Belarus |
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SIG Membership - July 2003: 1,550 - largest in JG |
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First SIG to organize under JG 501 (c) (3)
umbrella |
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First SIG to go all electronic |
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Discussion Group (mailing list) |
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Website |
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On Line Newsletter |
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The 13 CD project continues with 9,000 records
in the ABD |
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1907 Slutsk duma list, which contains over 4000
names |
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37 new web pages have been added to our website
since last years conference |
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Thousands of new records have been added to the
All Belarus Database |
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Our membership has increased to around 1550
members |
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Russian Jewish Encylopedia 8,500 Jewish Names |
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Usvyaty 1883-1889 Births, Marriages, Deaths |
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Many Name List from Landsmanshaften files at
YIVO |
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Reexamined the SIG organizational structure. |
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Consolidation of all the completed duma lists in
the ABD |
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Additional birth, marriage, divorce, and
revision list records from the 13-CD project not enough volunteers.
Need $$ to complete and extent project. |
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Vileika District Revision Lists |
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Additional years and gubernnia Vsia Rossia
(Business Dir.) |
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New research methodology need funds to
accomplish! |
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Encourage more people to volunteer their time
and talents |
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Aggressive Fund Raising Effort |
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Complete started projects and initiate new ones. |
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Acquire additional CDs from the Family History
Library |
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Acquire additional microfilms from the Central
Archives for the History of the Jewish People, LOC, and Norman Ross |
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Digitize the microfilms that the Belarus SIG
acquires and have the data translated by ??? |
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Edward Rosenbaum for efforts to make our website
a meaningful research resource and keep our databases in order\ |
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Nancy Holden for her dedication in keeping the
projects moving along and for handling numerous administrative tasks. |
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Vitaly Charny for his expertise in everything
having to do with Belarus and recruiting his family members to help the
SIG. |
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Fran Bock, our newsletter editor, who takes your
contributions and makes them available for all to read. |
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Joanne Saltman and Paula Zieselman, for the
thankless job of being our newsgroup moderators. |
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Jerry Seligsohn for his dedication and countless
hours spent at YIVO in New York, manually coping landsman names from
letterheads, pamphlets, and ledger books.
In the last year, Jerry has collected over 5000 names. |
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Irene Kudish and her team of translators for the
13 CD project |
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Leon Koll - assistant project coordinator |
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Tilford Bartman for his video editing skils luncheon. |
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David Brill for his translation of the Usvyaty
marriage death records. |
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Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky for his many scholarly
articles about the history of the Jews in Belarus. |
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Avi Ariav, Meyer Swirsky, Dr. Sonia Peltzer,
Joyce Weaver, and others for their contribution of material for our web
site. |
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Michael Tobias and Warren Blatt for their help
and technical abilities in maintaining the All Belarus Database. |
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Joanna Fletcher for her administrative support
at JG Hq. |
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Dave Fox - Coordinator, Research Coordinator and
Moderator |
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Risa Heywood - Webmaster |
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Elsebeth Paikin and Bryan Polikoff - Newsletter
Editors |
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Dave Fox and Risa Heywood - SIG Co-coordinators
and Research Coordinators |
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Edward Rosenbaum - Webmaster |
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Elsebeth Paikin - Newsletter Editor and
Moderator |
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Dave Fox - SIG Coordinator |
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Mike Meshenberg - Research Coordinator |
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Edward Rosenbaum - Webmaster |
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Elsebeth Paikin - Newsletter Editor and
Moderator |
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Joanne Saltman and Paula Zieselman - moderators |
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Dave Fox - SIG Cooordinator |
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Edward Rosenbaum Webmaster |
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Joanne Saltman and Paula Zieselman - moderators |
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Fran Bock - Newsletter Editor |
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Liaison between research coordinators and
researchers |
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Educate new researchers to resources for your
area |
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Encourage establishing research projects,
ShtetLink pages |
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Will be privy to latest information first |
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Need to be: |
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Computer literate |
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Tactful and organized |
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Knowledge of resources for your district |
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Attentive to detail |
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Able to work without supervision |
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(Reports to Research Coordinator) |
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No need to be fluent in Russian |
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Willingness to become familiar with Cyrillic
alphabet |
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Computer skills in Excel spreadsheet |
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(Assigned by Research Coordinator to SIG
projects - reports to the project coordinator) |
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10 hours / month (if there are 3 or 4) |
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Rotate with other volunteers |
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Need to be: |
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Computer literate |
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Tactful |
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Attention to detail |
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Able to work w/o supervision & make
decisions |
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Knowledgeable of Belarus, genealogy, and
research |
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(Experience with prior moderation duties
helpful, but not required) |
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Knowledge of bibliographic format |
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Communicate with webmaster and research
coordinator |
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Glean appropriate entries from discussions
groups and other sources |
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Prepare and maintain a list that can be
published on our website |
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Looking for a professional librarian with word
processing skills and who has access to computer library catalogs. |
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Currently - No dues structure |
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Overhead currently provided by JewishGen/Museum |
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1550 members - less then 300 have ever donated |
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GOAL:
To have every member contribute at their own level to the Belarus SIG
general fund and to projects of personal interest, as well as to JewishGen. |
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Since June of last year, $3581 has been donated
to the SIG |
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$440 for the 1903 Russian Business Directory (5
donations) |
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$100 for the duma list project (4 donations) |
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$1954 for the Belarus general fund (41
donations) |
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$95 for Grodno research (4 donations) |
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$235 for Lida district research (4 donations) |
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$78 for Minsk revision lists (3 donations) |
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$70 for Mir revision list (3 donations) |
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$255 for Mogilev vital records (5 donations) |
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$150 for Novogrodok records (1 donations) |
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$100 for Pinsk revision list records (2
donations) |
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$30 for Slutsk property owner records (2
donations) |
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$76 for Vileika Uyezd revision list records (2
donations) |
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Since June of last year, the SIG has spent $1716 |
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$1300 to researcher in Belarus for special
Grodno project. |
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$185 Toronto Conference expenses |
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$203 London Conference expenses |
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Note: Approximately 1,000 outstanding to be paid |
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Only 76 separate donations received in the past
12 months. Some people made more then one donation during the year. |
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Less then 5% or the 1,550 SIG subscribers made
any donation to the SIG in the last 12 months. |
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Volunteer |
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Donate Funds to the Belarus SIG and to JewishGen |
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Contribute material to our website |
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Contribute material to our newsletter |
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Volunteer |
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Develop a ShtetLinks page for your shtetl |
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Organize a Yizkor book translation |
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Promote the SIG at your local JGS meetings |
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Actively participate on the SIG Discussion Group |
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Volunteer |
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Belarus SIG Luncheon, Monday at 12:15pm, Solon
II |
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Finding Family in 18th Century
Records of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania/King. of Poland, by S. & D.
Hoffman, Monday at 2:00pm, Salon IV |
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Opening Up Records of the Russian IIIrd (Moscow
Police) Department 1880-1917: Genealogical Gold, by George Bolotenko,
Monday at 3:30pm |
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SIG-Fair, Tuesday at 9:00am 11:00am, Lobby |
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Grodno SIG Board Meeting, Tuesday at 9:30am,
Cannon |
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Jewish Surnames in Russia, Poland and Galicia by
Alexander Beider, Tuesday at 11:00am, Salon III |
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Jewish Life in Belorussia, Ukraine &
Lithuania in the 14th 15 Centuries, by Alexander Beider,
Tuesday at 3:30pm, Salon II |
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Regional and Time Period Specifics of
Researching Personal Genealogy in Belarus, by Dr. Oleg Perzashkevich on
Wednesday at 11:00am, Cannon |
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Belarus BOF Meeting on Wednesday at 9:30am.
Garden Terrace |
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Magnate Landowner Records of Eastern Europe, by
Gayle Riley, Wednesday at 2:00pm, Salon D |
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Eastern European Archival Database: An Online
Demonstration, by Miriam Weiner on Wednesday at 3:30pm, Salon II |
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Russian Archival Research: Challenges and
Strategies for Success, by Boris Feldblyum on Thursday at 8:00am, Salon III |
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SIG-Fair on Thursday at10:30am 12:30pm, Lobby |
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The Pinkas of the Chevra Kadisha of Slutsk, by
Harry Boonin, Thursday at 11:00am |
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Russian Encyclopedias as Sources of Genealogical
Information, by Joel Spector on Thursday at 3:30pm, Cannon |
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Please attend the Belarus related lectures at
the conference |
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See Marlene Bishow to buy SIG shirts. |
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Please help us make the Belarus SIG the best it
can be |
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Participate |
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Donate |
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Volunteer |
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If you have any questions, feel free to contact
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David Fox davefox@jewishgen.org |
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Edward Rosenbaum erosenbaum@jewishgen.org |
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Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com |
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Thank you for coming to Washington DC, and to
the Belarus SIG meeting. |
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Next Year in Jerusalem |
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Notes