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Current Programs
Non-members/Visitors
are welcome to attend programs for a $5.00 fee. If a guest joins the Society the fee
will be applied toward the membership dues. Programs generally start at 1:30 PM
- see exact time for each meeting, below. Doors open a half-hour earlier.
Meetings start with JGSGW business, introductions of new members, and then the
guest speaker.
Non-members may attend one meeting a year for free!
 To encourage guests and potential new
members, we have created a one-time fee waiver certificate for those who
wish to attend our monthly meetings. Normally, we charge $5 for each guest,
but if an attendee brings this certificate to one meeting during the program
year, we'll waive the $5 fee.
Click here to print the certificate.
Workshops are open to JGSGW members only. Non-members may join on the day of the
workshop unless advance registration is required.
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Meeting calendar to Spring 2013:
Sunday, April 21, 2013 -
B'nai Israel
Sunday, May 05, 2013
- TBA
Sunday, June 09, 2013 -
Potomac Community Center
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| April |
Sunday, April 21, 2013 |
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Location:
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Workshop: |
Intermediate Workshop |
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Instructor: |
Jonina Duker |
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm |
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What can be learned from the
study of the Jewish tombstone (matzevah)?
This workshop will explore
customs and symbols associated with Jewish burials, including a
discussion of the Hebrew calendar, as well as the history and meaning of
personal names and surnames.
The workshop will also address the basics of effective
search queries in Google, as well as an introduction to Ancestry.com and
optimizing searches there.
Participants will receive a
copy of the new JGSGW publication: “Intermediate Topics in Jewish
Genealogy Research.”
Participation in this workshop is a
benefit of membership in JGSGW. Reservations are required; send an email
to
Class limited to 20 participants. |
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Program: |
"Routes to Roots in the 'Old Country': Where are the Surviving
Documents and How to Obtain Them?"
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1:00 PM - Schmooze
1:30 PM - Short Business Meeting, Announcements,
and Program
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Speaker: Miriam Weiner, President, Routes to
Roots Foundation (click here for bio) |
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This presentation will focus on the
Routes to Roots Foundation website (RTRF) at
www.rtrfoundation.org
including a live “tour” of various components of the website. Our
speaker, Miriam Weiner, has worked officially with the archivists
throughout Eastern Europe beginning in Poland in 1989, then Ukraine,
Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania. She has received unprecedented
cooperation from the archives in identifying and publishing information
about surviving Jewish and civil records.
The RTRF website includes a comprehensive searchable archive database by
town name, covering document holdings relevant to Jewish life in five
countries (and portions of two others) in Central and Eastern Europe, an
image database, and multiple searchable name databases for various
localities. The website is updated regularly with new/revised archive
data, additional name databases and images as well as articles by
archivists, historians and others.
In addition, Miriam will discuss the new collaboration between RTRF and
the Center for Jewish History (CJH) in
New York City. The CJH website features its Online Public Access Catalog
(OPAC) which integrates the holdings of CJH’s five partners into one
searchable database, as well as separate pages for each of the five
partners and a page for the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute. |
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Sunday,
May 5, 2013 |
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TBD
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Location:
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Northern VA location TBA
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Time: |
1:00 PM - Schmooze
1:30 PM - Short Business Meeting, Announcements,
and Program
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Speaker: TBD |
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June |
Sunday, June 9, 2013 |
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Program:
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Membership
Appreciation Luncheon
"Clued-In: Case Studies from Sherlock Cohn, The Photo Genealogist"
Note: This meeting is for members only. |
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Potomac Community
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12:00 PM - Meeting and Luncheon
(This is a pot-luck luncheon; members are requested to bring a dish to share
with 8 people. More information will be forthcoming.) |
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1:00 PM - Program
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Speaker: Ava Cohn, AKA Sherlock Cohn The
Photo Genealogist (bio) |
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Step
aside NCIS and CSI! There are no greater detectives than Jewish
genealogists when it comes to loving the hunt for information about our
ancestors, and no greater tool to find out about the people and the
personalities in our family trees than through our family photographs.
In this
fun and informative talk, Sherlock Cohn, the Jewish genealogy sleuth,
will introduce attendees to the discipline of Photo Genealogy. She’ll
explore how and why it is important to find the clues our ancestors left
for us in their photographic portraits. The program leads off with a
definition of Photo Genealogy and explodes commonly held myths about
dating Jewish photos. Participants will learn what clues an expert looks
for in photos, how to organize your approach to dating and interpreting
photos and how to match photo information with vital records to tell the
stories within the photos.
In the
second half of the presentation, Sherlock will present two of her
challenging cases, “The Case of the Mistaken Date” and “The Case of the
Immigration Snafu.” In the true cerebral style of a Basil Rathbone
character, she’ll offer examples of how accurate photo dating,
identification of individuals in our photos, knowledge of fashion and
decorative arts, and the process of matching photographs with vital
records can illuminate our relatives’ lives and the social context in
which their photos were taken.
After
the presentation, Sherlock will help attendees get started on exploring
the dates and answers to other questions they may have about their own
photographs. Attendees may bring their photo for evaluation. Limit is
one photo per person, unless a second photo is brought for purposes of
identifying the person in the first photo. Due to time constraints, not
all attendees will be able to have their photos evaluated. Selection of
attendees to have their photo evaluated will be by lottery. |
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