| January |
Sunday,
January 13, 2013 |
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Program: |
We are Here: A Lithuanian
Encounter
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Location:
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Time: |
1:00 PM - Schmooze
1:30 PM - Short Business Meeting, Announcements,
and Program
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Speaker:
Ellen
Cassedy (click
here for bio) |
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Ellen Cassedy set off into the Jewish heartland of Lithuania to study
Yiddish and connect with her Jewish forebears.
When she read something given to her by an uncle, she learned something
she had never suspected, and her journey to Lithuania changed her
forever. What had begun as a personal quest expanded into a
groundbreaking exploration of how people in Lithuania – Jews and
non-Jews – are confronting their Nazi and Soviet past in order to move
forward into the future. |
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| February |
Sunday, February 10, 2013
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Program: |
"The Stones Speak: Recent Genealogical Findings from the Bulgarian
Zone of Occupation in Greece”
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Location:
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Time: |
1:00 PM - Schmooze
1:30 PM - Short Business Meeting, Announcements,
and Program
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Speaker:
Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos
(bio) |
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Due to the brutality of the Bulgarians in the Occupied Zones of
Northeastern Greece (Thrace and Macedonia) there are few descendants to
shed light on Jewish genealogy (from 97-100% of the Jewish population
perished in the Holocaust). Only amid the weed-covered tombstones do we
get a glimpse of centuries of Jewish presence. Join us as Marcia Haddad
Ikonomopoulos reveals recent genealogical findings from the Bulgarian
Zone of Occupation in Greece. Ms. Ikonomopoulos is the Museum Director
of Kehila Kedosha Janina in New York City. |
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| March |
Sunday, March 10, 2013 |
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Location: |
B'nai
Israel |
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Workshop: |
Beginner's Workshop |
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Instructor: |
Marlene Bishow |
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Time: |
11:00 am - 1:00 pm |
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The role of the family
archivist and historian will be explored in the context of the how to
begin researching your Jewish ancestors. Where do you start and where to
go next? Collecting and preserving family photos and interviewing family
members will be discussed, as well as getting started with JewishGen.
Participants will receive a copy of the JGSGW publication “Jump-Start
Your Jewish Genealogy Research: A Beginner’s Guide.”
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: |
"Searching New York Roots"
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Time: |
1:00 PM - Schmooze
1:30 PM - Short Business Meeting, Announcements,
and Program
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Speaker: Avrum Geller (bio) |
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New York City has for two centuries been
the golden door into which Jewish immigrants entered America. Avrum
Geller will explore the wealth of resources to discover family roots and
connections through New York area resources. This will include both
great buildings and the stuff inside them, and also many online
resources. Quite a number of these resources are hidden in plain sight,
and it will be revealed where to find them and how to use them. He will
focus on New York City archival and library resources with an emphasis
on finding the less obvious treasures which lie therein. He will also
give practical tips on conducting your on-site research in New York
City, getting below the surface when you visit an archive, a library, a
courthouse, etc. and throw in some tips on going below the surface to
arrive there.
Avrum will be available after the meeting answer questions on a
one-to-one basis.
Click here for the meeting handout - Searching New York Roots. |
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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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Time: |
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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Time: |
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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| May |
Sunday,
May 5, 2013 |
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Program: |
"Genealogical Travel: How to plan and get the most from your trip"
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Location:
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Time: |
1:00 PM - Schmooze
1:30 PM - Short Business Meeting, Announcements,
and Program
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Speaker: see below |
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Have you ever dreamed about walking where your ancestors
may have walked? Most genealogists have experience that fantasy on an
occasion, but some lucky ones get to fulfill their dreams. Hear what
five of our JGSGW members have to tell us about various aspects of their
trips – the the planning through the execution.
This program will be a series of presentations by JGSGW
members. Each will focus on a specific location and each will address an
aspect of the planning and execution of that trip. Each of the
presentations will be accompanied by slides from the trip.
Jeff
Miller
Lithuania
Faith Klein Ukraine
Ben Terner Kishinev, Moldova
Jeff Malka Transcarpathia
John Hirschmann Germany
At the end of the program, there will be ample time to
ask questions of the panel. |
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