Phyllis Kramer, V.P. of Education, JewishGen Inc.

 Background and Experience:  Phyllis is a genealogist with primary interest in Eastern European Jewish research. She lives in  New York City and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Phyllis has a B.S. from Cornell and an MBA from Fordham University. Her work experience was technical and managerial, primarily for IBM;  her final position was Business Consultant, where she was  responsible for designing client image processing systems.

 Phyllis’s genealogical accomplishments since taking early retirement, include: 

compiling a family tree of 6400 people and locating relatives all over the world;

•  creating and teaching genealogy classes at Norwalk College, Savannah JCC and NYC's Museum of Jewish Heritage. Classes emphasize Genealogy on the Internet.

•  At JewishGen, Phyllis  began in 1997 as an active member of the support staff

  • taught a 12 week on-line genealogy course to 270 students
  • created the online version of the 1891 Galician Business Directory
  • developed 15 Shtetlinks web pages for her ancestor’s shtetls
  • is a frequent contributor to the Discussion Group
  • accepted the position of V.P. of Education in June of 2005, and
  • became a member of the Advisory Board of Governors in 2009 
• As part of her active role in the New York Jewish Genealogical Society, Phyllis was Co-chair of the Computer Committee at the 1999 IAJGS Genealogy Conference and Chair of (the first ever) Computer Laboratory at the August 2006 Conference. She is also a board member of the Palm Beach JGS.

 Phyllis finds genealogy to be challenging, stimulating, fascinating and absorbing.