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- Calendar of Genealogical Events Joel will discuss the planning, unique aspects, questions, and undercount of
the 1940 census and why we wait 72 years to see a U.S. census. If no
1940 name index exists when the census becomes public in 2012,
geographical/locational search tools will be needed to find people.
Joel will discuss the basis of such searches (Enumeration District
numbers) and what the National Archives and the Morse One-Step Web
site are planning (and in some cases already have in place) to make
geographical searches feasible and easy for genealogists. Those tools
can be used now to find people by
location on the 1880 through 1930 U.S. Census schedules.
Joel Weintraub is an emeritus
Biology Professor at California State University at Fullerton. He
became interested in genealogy about 12 years ago and regularly
volunteers at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
in Laguna Niguel, California. Joel started transcribing streets within
census districts in 2001 to help researchers search the 1930 U.S.
Census. He was joined in the venture by David Kehs and Stephen Morse
in 2002, and together they have produced a large number of online
census-searching utilities for both the federal and New York state
censuses on the Morse One-Step Web site. The One-Step team already has
in place finding aids for the 1940 census, to be released in 2012.
Joel has given workshops for NARA, and lectures and computer workshops
for local and international genealogy societies on census searching
(see http://members.cox.net/census1940/).
This lecture will discuss many aspects of Yiddish, including
antecedents and evolution of Yiddish, Yiddish literature, Stalin’s
Socialist Yiddish paradise, the varieties of Yiddish accents, how
academics assassinate Yiddish, and Yiddish gangster and boxing lingo.
Ken Blady was born in Paris, France and grew up in Chassidic
Brooklyn, where he attended yeshiva and rabbinical seminary. A San
Francisco Bay area resident since 1972, he has a B.A. in History from
the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in Clinical
Counseling from California State University at Hayward. He is
currently a lecturer at the American Jewish University in southern California in the Whizen Center and the Schurgin Elderhostel Program.
Many genealogists tour the “old country” and the Jewish homeland, but
few ever visit their archives. This session is a “how to” guided tour:
how to use these archives and how to integrate the material you find.
Among the places to be looked at:
(a) Warsaw: AGAD;
(b) L’viv: State
Historical Archives;
(c) Jerusalem: Central Archives of Jewish People,
Yad Vashem, Kollel Galicia.
The example used will be that of a
Galician (rabbinically connected) family about whom only three pieces
of information were initially known: grandfather’s given name,
occupation, and his place of origin: Belz, a town with no known Jewish
vital records. Through use of these archives, a little sekhel
(strategic smarts), and some mazel (luck), there is now information on
the family going back to 1789 (though not yet complete).
Karen (Gitel Chaye Eta) Rosenfeld Roekard, award-winning author of The
Santa Cruz Haggadah, combines a Yeshiva Flatbush education with an MBA
(’75) subspecialization in strategic market intelligence to nurture
her research passions. She gets lost for weeks at a time in archives
in Eastern Europe, Israel, and the U.S. collecting data that allow the
identification of unnamed Holocaust victims and the multileveled
commemoration of two destroyed communities: Rawa Ruska and Belz,
Ukraine. She studied Yiddish at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
(Lithuania, 2006), and participated in the conference on the Holocaust
in Ukraine (Paris, 2007) and, as an auditor, in the Silberman Seminar
on the Holocaust in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania (USHMM, Washington,
DC, 2008).
Allan Dolgow’s presentation is more than his trip to Ukraine; it is
his genealogical journey. He started a journey into the past, but what
resulted was a journey into the present. He met a cousin in Polonne,
Ukraine who had worked as a surgeon at a field hospital in the Russian
Army during WW II and found relatives living in the Ukraine, Russia,
Israel, Canada, India, and the United States.
Allan Dolgow was born in New York City and graduated NYU with
engineering and MBA degrees. He moved to California in 1979, joining
SRI International in Menlo Park as a management consultant. He retired
in 1996. It was not until 2001, by accident, that he started
looking for his family roots.
Rena Krasno will present the history of the Jewish community of Shanghai and will describe life in this community before and during the war. She was born in Shanghai in 1923 and lived there until 1949. Her parents, Russian Jews from Siberia, arrived in China in the early 20th century. Her family lived in Shanghai’s French Concession where her father, a writer, became a leader of the Ashkenazi Jewish Community.