| Genealogy Library Re-Opens Sunday, May 4, 2008 | |
| CURRENT PROGRAMS | |
| June |
| May | Back to Top |
| Bonus Workshop | - 2 Sessions - Members Only |
| Session I: | Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 10 AM-12 PM |
| Session II: | Monday, May 12, 1-3 PM |
| Location: | National Archives and Records Administration 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20408-0001 Room G-24 (entrance to the building is on Pennsylvania Avenue) |
| Speaker: | Katherine Vollen and Rebecca Sharp |
| Topic: | "Passport Applications 1795-1925" |
| Advanced Registration is required - Contact
JGSGW_dc@comcast.net Enrollment is limited to 20 attendees per session. Archives Specialists Rebecca Sharp and Katherine VOllen will discuss how to locate passport applications and how these records can enhance your genealogical research. |
| Workshop | |
| Date: | Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
| Time: | 11:00 AM |
| Location: | B'nai Israel, Fanaroff Auditorium, Rockville, MD |
| Speaker: | Gene Sadick, JGSGW Librarian, Vera Finberg and Elaine Apter |
| Topic: | "Orientation to the New JGSGW Library: Its Holdings, Facilities and Use" |
| This workshop is open to JGSGW members and to members of B'nai Israel. No
pre=registration is required. The JGSGW Genealogy Library at B'nai Israel will open in May, 2008. Members are encouraged to learn about the organization of the holdings of this wonderful facility from the members of our own Library Committee. Policies, volunteer opportunities, hours of operation and who may use the library will be discussed. In addition to more than 500 books, the library has a large collection of periodicals, audio and video tapes, CDs and DVDs, as well as maps, collections of specialized articles organized in binders and files. There is a nearly complete collection of Mishpacha and copies of JGSGW Membership Directories. For the first time in the Society's history, we have volumes of scrapbooks with photos, meeting announcements and other historical documents. |
| Program | ||
| Date: | Sunday, May 18, 2008 | |
| Time: | 1:00 PM Schmooze time; 1:30 Program | |
| Location: | B'nai Israel, Fanaroff Auditorium, Rockville, MD | |
| Speaker: | Rabbi Leonard Cahan | |
| Topic: | "Origins of Jewish Marriage Customs" | |
| The Jewish legal requirements for marriage represent only a
small part of the rituals that take place at a Jewish wedding ceremony. Rabbi
Cahan will guide the participants through the customs that characterize weddings
today, as well as others that have fallen by the wayside. He will explore rituals
that have grown up in the many different societies in which Jews have lived,
and the rich symbolism that has made them so appealing and enduring. Rabbi Leonard Cahan is the Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Har Shalom in Potomac, Maryland, where he served, until 2001, as the Senior Rabbi for 27 years. He was born and grew up in Philadelphia and attended the Akiba Hebrew Academy and Gratz College. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he entered the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, from which he was ordained in 1961. Prior to coming to Har Shalom in 1974, Rabbi Cahan was a Navy Chaplain in Japan for three years and a congregational rabbi in Detroit and Oakland, California. He has served as the Membership Chairman of the Rabbinical Assembly, the President of the Rabbinical Assembly's Washington/Baltimore Region, and the Washington Board of Rabbis. In 1995, he was chosen by CBS This Morning as one of America's outstanding clergy. Rabbi Cahan chaired the Editorial Committee of the new, extensively revised edition of Siddur Sim Shalom, published in 1998 and now used by more than half of the Conservative congregations in America. |
| June | Back to Top |
| Program | Membership Appreciation Luncheon |
| Date: | Sunday, June 8, 2008 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM Set-up and Schmooze Time; 1:30 Program |
| Location: | Clara Barton Community Center, 7425 Macarthur Blvd, Cabin John, MD 20818, telephone 301-229-0010 |
| Speaker: | Warren Blatt |
| Topic: | Jewish Given Names |
| Learn why "Mordechai Yehuda" is also "Mortka Leib" is also "Max". Warren
will provide an introduction to Jewish given names (first names), focusing on
practical issues for genealogical research. Our ancestors each had many
different given names and nicknames, in various languages and alphabets -
this can make Jewish genealogical research difficult. This presentation will
teach the history and patterns of Jewish first names, and how to recognize
your ancestors' names in genealogical sources. Topics that will be included
are: religious and secular names; origins of given names; variants, nicknames
and diminutives; double names (unrelated pairs, kinnui, Hebrew/Yiddish
translations); patronymics; name equivalents; Ashkenazic naming traditions
(naming of children); statistics on the distribution and popularity of given
names in various regions and times; spelling issues; Polish and Russian
declensions; interpretation of names in documents; and the Anglicization of
immigrant Jewish names: adaptations and transformations. Warren Blatt is the Editor-in-Chief of JewishGen (www.jewishgen.org), the primary Internet site for Jewish genealogy, a division of the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (www.mjhnyc.org), in New York City. He is the author of Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston and co-author (with Gary Mokotoff) of Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy. Warren is the Editor of the Kielce-Radom Special Interest Group Journal. He was the Chair of the 15th International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy. In 2004, he was awarded the IAJGS’ Lifetime Achievement Award in Jerusalem. Warren has over 25 years of research experience with Russian and Polish Jewish records, and is the author of the JewishGen FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about Jewish Genealogy, located on the JewishGen website, and many other JewishGen InfoFiles. | |
| Directions: | Directions from google/maps. |
| After turning off of Macarthur Blvd., the Community Center is on the corner,
then there is a school and then a parking lot and a gate for additional
parking behind the school (which we will need to use and are permitted to
use). Then we need to walk back around to the Community Center entrance
(double-doors). From Potomac: Going toward Bethesda on River Road, turn right on Seven Locks Road, and follow it until it dead ends on MacArthur Blvd. Turn left and go one half mile. Turn left on 75th Street, and an immediate right into the community center. From Bethesda: Take either Wilson Lane or Goldsboro Road, and turn right on MacArthur Blvd. Turn right on 75th Street, and an immediate right into the community center. |
| Society News | |
| If you are interested in joining our dynamic team of board members e-mail JGSGW_DC@comcast.net |
| NEW!! | 4th Edition of “Capital Collections: Resources for Jewish Genealogical Research in the Washington, DC Area” |
| Newly expanded and updated. |
| Back to Current Programs | |
| May | June |