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OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA

 

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NEXT SOCIETY MEETING

Monday, November 9, 2009

7:30 PM

Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel

8339 Old York Road

Elkins Park, PA 19027

Directions

Jill Culinar

 Author, Artist, Photographer

                                             

Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers

( Fusgeyers were Jews who fled persecution in Romania in the early 1900s to find refuge)


29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

Co-Hosted by JGSGP is OVER

 

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said:

"The reward of having anything well done is to have done it"

(thanks Steve!)

WE DID IT and IT WAS EXCEPTIONAL

THANKS TO EVERYONE


NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE !!

JGSGP FOUNDING PRESIDENT, HARRY BOONIN,

RECEIVES HONORS FROM IAJGS AND JGSGP

SEE VIDEO AND PHOTOS OF THE CONFERENCE
SEE PRESS COVERAGE OF THE CONFERENCE

SEE THE EXCEPTIONAL PHILADELPHIA AREA  RESOURCE GUIDE

 SEE MUSEUM OF FAMILY HISTORY PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITS


DECEMBER MEETING

NOTE LOCATION & DATE

Congregation Rodeph Shalom

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Topic: How Visiting Israel & Poland Reignited My Passion for Genealogy

Speaker: Felicia Mode Alexander

 

Delaware County Affiliate Meeting

Martins Run Lifecare Community

Sunday, November 15, 2009, 1:30 pm

Topic: The Joy & Rewards of Genealogical Research

Speaker: Wesley Argo

  OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST
 

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7:30 pm

Beth El Synagogue , West Windsor, NJ

See Steve Morse

A Hodgepodge of Lesser Known Genealogical Gems

 
 

Upcoming Programs

Past Programs

 
 

 

PJAC has Moved

Now at Urban Archives

at Temple University

Samuel S. Paley Library

 
 
 
 
 
 
News from PJAC  

 
The Life and Times of Congregation Kesher Israel  
by Harry Boonin  
      

Getting Started in Genealogy

 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 28 and

Noon Friday, October 30

Genealogical Resources at HSP

 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 4

Click on HSP Logo for more details

 
 
 
Click HERE for Details  

 

 

22 Films

October 24 - November 14

www.pjff.org

 

The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home

Sadia Shepard - Author and Filmmaker

 

November 8, 2009, 12-2 pm

Painted Bride Art Center

2300 Vine Street, Philadelphia

 

Presentation, film screening, Q&A, book signing, lunch, concert

Fee -- Click Here for more information


 

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