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Zoom information will be sent out the week before the meeting to JGSMD members. Did you finally find your ancestor's birth record from Galicia, Austrian Empire, and get it translated? Were you confused by finding s/he was illegitimate? Did your confusion get worse when you saw that different surnames were being used by that ancestor's siblings and parents? Many birth, marriage and death records in the Jewish community use terms like “illegitimate” and “ritual marriage.” Punitive and restrictive laws in the Austrian Empire resulted in the Jewish community finding ways to circumvent these. Originally instituted to curtail the size of the Jewish community and create boundaries, the communities themselves changed and found ways to work around the laws. Sometimes our ancestors had multiple surnames, or even hyphenated surnames. This session will discuss these and the insight we can gain about the lives of our ancestors. Dr. Janette Silverman is a professional genealogist, heading up a team of 11 researchers specializing in Eastern European and Jewish genealogy at AncestryProGenealogists® the division of Ancestry.com that does private client research. Janette began her journey into her own family's history more than 40 years ago, with her dad, hoping to answer some questions about their family's early days in the U.S., never thinking that they would be able to trace parts of the family back to 18th century Europe. What began as a hobby turned into an obsession and ultimately led to a shift in her career from Jewish education to genealogy. Her doctoral dissertation, "In Living Memory" was based on her genealogical research into four branches of her own family, putting into historical context their experiences as they made their way from Eastern Europe to settle in the U.S. from the 1880s until the 1920s. She was previously the chair of the Phoenix (Arizona) JGS, lead co-chair of the 2016 IAJGS conference in Seattle, Washington, and a JewishGen volunteer. She speaks virtually and in-person at conferences and for smaller groups all over the world, has been published in Avotaynu, APGQ, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, The Galitzianer, and Genealogy at a Glance. She is looking forward to publication of her book, Stories They Never Told Us, in 2024.
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