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Next Meeting: Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, 1:00 PM
Mark Halpern, "
Your Jewish Roots in Poland: JRI-Poland, the Records and More …"

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MEETINGS

Non-members/Visitors are welcome to attend programs for a $5.00 fee. If a guest joins the society at the meeting, the fee will be applied toward the membership dues.

Non-members may attend one meeting per year free - see the certificate on the Current Programs page.

Workshops are open to JGSGW members only. Non-members may join on the day of the workshop unless advance registration is required.

Meetings are held at a variety of locations.

 

 

Meeting Calendar

          Meeting calendar for Winter 2012-Summer 2012:

February 12, 2012 - B'nai Israel
March 11, 2012 - Beth El Hebrew Cong.
April 15, 2012 - B'nai Israel

May 6, 2012 - Har Shalom
June 10, 2012 - Potomac Community Center  
  

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The JGSGW Genealogy Library contains the complete set of lectures from the 31st IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy, as well as hundreds of lectures from JGSGW meetings and IAJGS conferences over the past decades. Visit the library and ask the librarian for the title, speaker or subject that you are interested in and then sit at one of the 12 computers using headphones to listen to the lecture.

Research tip: The Oakton, VA, LDS Family History Center has a comprehensive set of the New York vital records index microfilms. These indexes are the first step to obtaining images from the records microfilms. Contact the for more information.

 

        JGSGW members at IAJGS-2011 Conference

SOCIETY NEWS

Reserve the date! March 4 is the JGSGW Day Trip to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Click here for more information and registration form.

The 6th Edition of “Capital Collections: Resources for Jewish Genealogical Research in the Washington, DC Area” is now available. This edition was updated with information for DC2011 IAJGS Conference attendees. 

The regional conferences page was updated with dates for seven conferences in March - May 2011. These conferences are annual events, and future conferences are usually held in the same general timeframe. We will update the dates for 2012 as we receive more information.

Many back issues of Mishpacha, our quarterly newsletter, are now available online. See the Mishpacha page for more  information. Four 2002-2003 issues were recently scanned and added to the archive.

If you are interested in joining our dynamic team of board members, e-mail


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Last updated: January 29, 2012