JGS Master Program Calendar Archive 2007-2009 Last updated 26/09/2009 Date Feb. 2, 2007 Feb. 4, 2007 Feb. 7, 2007 Feb. 11, 2007 Feb. 11, 2007 Feb. 18, 2007 Feb. 19, 2007 JGS JGS Greater Miami Speaker Ann Rabinowitz (Miami) JGS Greater Boston Antony Polonsky http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html Program Title What's New on the Web for Researching Lithuanian and South African Genealogy History of Relations Among Jews, Ukrainians and Poles JGS Hamilton – Canada Ralph Bloch (Hamilton) The “Jewish Genealogy in Bavarian Swabia” Project JGS Colorado – Denver Ellen Shindelman Kowitt (Denver) What’s New on JewishGen JGS Denmark Elsebeth Paikin (Copenhagen) Yad Vashem Outreach Campaign JGS of SW Florida Helga Harris (Sarasota, FL) IGS Netanya Arnon Hershkovitz and others (Israel) Dear Helga, Dear Ruth (Letters Binding a Friendship Shattered by History) Online Genealogical Communites: Forums, JGeneWiki and Blogs (English) Feb. 21, 2007 Feb. 21, 2007 IGS Jerusalem Ilan Stayer (Jerusalem, Israel) All About the Hagana Archives (Hebrew) IGS Jerusalem Michael Goldstein (Jerusalem, Israel) Finding Your Way Around Family Tree Maker - Getting the Most out of the Program (English) Feb. 22, 2007 IGS Haifa and Northern Israel Zeev Sharon (Haifa, Israel) Gabriel Berkovitz - From Kivutzat Hulda to the Jewish Brigade (Hebrew) Feb. 25, 2007 Feb. 28, 2007 Feb. 28, 2007 JGS Long Island – New York Dr. Steve Lasky (Long Island) I am My Father's Son - "The Museum of Family History" Website JGS Toronto -Canada Ellen Scheinberg (Toronto) Toronto’s First Synagogues Mar. 5, 2007 Mar. JGS Denmark Kirsten Gradel (Nyborg, Denmark) Jewish Genealogy in Poland and Demonstration of JRI-Poland IGS Haifa and Zeev Sharon (Haifa, Israel) Gabriel Berkovitz - From Kivutzat Annual Mini-Conference/Workshop JGS Palm Beach County 7, 2007 Northern Israel Hulda to the Jewish Brigade (Hebrew) Mar. 7, 2007 Mar. 11, 2007 Mar. 12, 2007 Mar. 12, 2007 Mar. 12, 2007 Mar. 13, 2007 Mar. 14, 2007 Mar. 14, 2007 Mar. 15, 2007 Mar. 18, 2007 Mar. 18, 2007 Mar. 18, 2007 Mar. 19, 2007 Mar. 19, 2007 Mar. 20, 2007 Mar. 21, 2007 IGS Negev Zeev Sharon (Haifa, Israel) Gabriel Berkovitz - From Kivutzat Hulda to the Jewish Brigade JGS Greater Miami Marcia Finkel and Barbara Musikar IGS Tel-Aviv Arnon Hershkovitz and others (Israel) JGS Denmark Anders Villadsen (Kalundborg, Denmark) Beginner Computer Genealogy Workshop and Intermediate and Advanced Genealogy Workshop Online Genealogical Communites: Forums, JGeneWiki and Blogs (Hebrew) Josef Hirsch – A Hatter and His Family in Denmark and USA JGS Greater Philadelphia Fred Blum (Philadelphia) CEO Investigative Services Co. Sharing Secrets for Finding People JGS Hamilton – Canada Dr. Louis Greenspan (Hamilton) JGSWV – Oregon Members Speaking About the Recently Published Book "The Lost" by Daniel Mendelsohn Personal Research and Problem Solving JGS Palm Beach County Dennis Rice and Dr. Marvin Hamburg (local) JGS Illiana Cantor Lisa Doob (local) JGS of SW Florida Members Genealogy in the Round: Sharing Successes and Helpful Hints JGS Sacramento Stephen P. Morse (San Francisco) Jewish Calendar Demystified IGS Netanya Gidon Levitas Sources for My Research of the Levitas Family Story JGS Washington State – Seattle Colleen Fitzpatrick (Seattle) Forensic Genealogy JGS Montreal James Hallam (Montreal) IGS Jerusalem Mathilde Tagger (Jerusalem, Israel) Mormon Family History Centre, LaSalle, Personally- Guided Tour & Hands-on Meeting Female Sephardic and Oriental Given Names - A Database (Hebrew) JGS Colorado – Denver Navigating Through the Family History Centers in Boca Raton and Salt Lake City The Eastern European Cantorial Traditions Mar. 21, 2007 IGS Jerusalem Rabbi Shalom Bronstein (Jerusalem, Israel) An Intimate Glimpse of Jewish Life in Galicia Before and on the Eve of the Shoah (English) Mar. 25, 2007 Mar. 25, 2007 Mar. 25, 2007 Mar. 28, 2007 JGS Greater Boston Gary Mokotoff (New Jersey) Holocaust Research: Basics and Recent Developments JGS Montreal Members Israel Day at Cavendish Mall JGS Long Island – New York David M. Kleiman (New York) Publishing Family History to PDF Files JGS Toronto -Canada Vivian Felsen (Toronto) Jews of Lithuania Apr. 11, 2007 Apr. 11, 2007 Apr. 11, 2007 Apr. 11, 2007 Apr. 12, 2007 Apr. 15, 2007 Apr. 15, 2007 Apr. 16, 2007 Apr. 16, 2007 JGS Illiana Mr. Isaac Skromne Growing Up Jewish in Mexico JGSWV – Oregon Dr. Nathan Tublitz (Eugene, Oregon) Genetics and Inheritance as They Relate to the Jewish People JGS Palm Beach County Ron Arons (California) The Internet, Beyond Steve Morse and JewishGen IGS Negev Arnon Hershkovitz & others (Negev) Online Genealogical Communites: Forums, JGeneWiki and Blogs JGS Broward County Ron Arons (California) Researching Jewish Criminals JGS of SW Florida Dr. Norman L. Weinberg (Sarasota, FL winter resident) Jewish Genealogy-Reclaiming our Heritage and Preserving our Past JGS Colorado – Denver Alan Gass (Denver) Photo Restoration/Preservation JGS Washington State – Seattle Heather McLeland-Wieser (Seattle) Inter-Library Loans San Francisco Bay Area JGS Irene Reti (Los Altos Hills) Listening to the Past: An Introduction to Oral History for the Family Historian Apr. 16, 2007 Apr. 16, 2007 JGS Sacramento Joyce Buckland (Sacramento) Using the Family History Lib. - SLC JGS Montreal Judy & Myer Gordon (Montreal) Two Jewish Orphanages in Montreal, 1920’s and 1930’s http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html http://isragen.org.il/NROS/sch edule.html www.jewishgen.org/jgscolorado/meetings.html www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html Demonstration of His “One Step”Website Apr. 16, 2007 Apr. 22, 2007 JGS Greater Philadelphia Stephen P. Morse (San Francisco) JGS New York Apr. 22, 2007 Apr. 22, 2007 JGS Long Island – New York Nolan Altman (Oceanside, NY) Family History and the Holocaust: A Zvi Bernhardt (Jerusalem, Israel) Day of Learning Prof. Jan Gross (Princeton, NJ) Peter Lande (Washington, DC) Prof. Robert Moses Shapiro (Brooklyn, NY) City Directories Online Logan Joseph Kleinwaks (Washington, DC) Apr. 25, 2007 Apr. 25, 2007 Apr. 29, 2007 Apr. 29, 2007 Apr. 29, 2007 JGS Hamilton – Canada May 2, 2007 May 6, 2007 IGS Negev May 7, 2007 May 7, 2007 May 7, 2007 JGS Washington State – Seattle May 8, 2007 JGS Colorado – Denver San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html Jill Culiner (Toronto) Tour of Robarts Library (University of Toronto) JGS Toronto -Canada JGS Greater Boston Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers Arthur Kurzweil (New York) Genealogy as a Spiritual Pilgrimage Warren Blatt (Southern California) Why Mordechai, Motel and Max Might be the Same Fellow Hankus Netsky Jewish Wedding Music and Traditions in Eastern Europe Abraham Pressburger (Negev) The Life of the Partisan in Slovakia During the War http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html JGS Greater Boston http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html JGS Greater Boston http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html http://isragen.org.il/NROS/sch edule.html The Holocaust Center of Northern California San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html Warren Blatt (Southern California) Overview of JewishGen Discussion of Names Eliezer Frolich (Corvallis, Oregon) Family History Center Resources Daniel Mendelsohn (New York) Author of " The Lost: A Search For Six of Six Million” Ed Richard (Denver) What’s New for Family Tree Maker www.jgsws.org/meetings.php JGS Willamette Valley Oregon www.nwfam.com/jgswvo.html JGS Broward County (FL) www.jgsbroward.org/meetings .html www.jewishgen.org/jgscolorado/meetings.html May 9, 2007 JGS Palm Beach County May 9, 2007 May 10, 2007 May 14, 2007 JGS Willamette Valley Oregon May 14, 2007 May 15, 2007 May 20, 2007 May 20, 2007 May 20, 2007 May 20, 2007 May 20, 2007 JGS Denmark May 21, 2007 JGS Sacramento May 21, 2007 JGS Montreal May 29, 2007 May 30, 2007 May 31, JFRA – Tel Aviv Members SOS!!! Share Our Success Eliezer Frolich (Corvallis, Oregon) Family History Center: Records and Searches www.jgspalmbeachcounty.org /index_%20files/Calendar.htm #2007 www.nwfam.com/jgswvo.html JGIBC Vancouver, B.C. Warren Blatt (Southern www.geocities.com/Heartland/ California) Jewish Genealogy Hills/4441/ Harry Boonin (Philadelphia) Historical Jewish Newspapers in Philadelphia Helen Liesel Krag (Copenhagen, Denmark) A Dressmakers Odyssey – A Captivating Tale of Elke Berditschewski from Galicia How Do You Do Research at NARA JGS Illiana Mr. Myras Osman (local) Changing European Borders circa 1880-1930 JGS of SW Florida Members Annual Pot Luck Luncheon JGS Colorado – Denver Ellen Shindelman Kowitt and Terry Lasky (Denver) Annual Beginners Workshop Suzan Wynne (Maryland) Galicia Research JGS Greater Philadelphia www.jewishgen.org/jgsp/2007 %20Meetings.htm www.jewishgen.org/jgsdenmark/m-program.htm JGS Greater Boston http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html www.jewishgen.org/jgscolorado/meetings.html JGS Long Island – New York www.jgsli.org/ San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html Nancy Zimmelman (Sacramento) California State Archives www.jewishgen.org/jgssacramento/html/meetings_20 07.html www.jgsmontreal.org/meetingschedule-2006.html Stephen P. Morse (San Francisco) Demonstration of His “One Step”Website Dr. Neville Y. Lamdan Who Needs an Institute for Jewish Genealogy Stanley Diamond (Montreal) JRI-Poland: What's New Stanley Diamond (Montreal) Medical & Genetic Family History; The Role of the Genealogist www.genealogy.org.il/ JGS Toronto –Canada www.jgstoronto.ca/Events.htm l JGS Hamilton – Canada 2007 www.jgsh.org/Events.php June, 2007 JGS Denmark June 3, 2007 June 3, 2007 June 6, 2007 June 10, 2007 June 10, 2007 June 11, 2007 JGS Greater Boston June 11, 2007 June 13, 2007 June 13, 2007 Jun. 18, 2007 JGS Washington State – Seattle June 18, 2007 JGS Sacramento June 18, 2007 JGS Montreal Jun 24, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area JGS June 27, 2007 JGS Toronto, Canada www.jewishgen.org/jgsdenmark/m-program.htm Stephen P. Morse (San Francisco) Demonstration of His “One Step”Website Michael Good The Search For Major Plagge Various Teenage Genealogy Contest Presentations Yizchak Kerem (Negev) Sources for Researching Military Records of Sephardic Jews in the Balkans Discussion on Family and Personal Histories http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html JGS Tallahassee (FL) www.rootsweb.com/~fljgst/Ne xtMeeting.htm IGS Negev http://isragen.org.il/NROS/sch edule.html JGS Colorado – Denver Members www.jewishgen.org/jgscolorado/meetings.html JGS Hamilton, JGS Toronto, JGS Buffalo Stephen P. Morse (San Francisco) One-Step Searching for the Genealogist JGS Greater Philadelphia Rabbi Lance Sussman, Kenneseth Israel Synagogue (Philadelphia) A Jewish Historian's View of Jewish Genealogy Rabbi Doug Slotnick New Library Material Highlights and Research Night Trisher Wilson Reuniting Families of Holocaust Survivors www.jewishgen.org/jgsp/2007 %20Meetings.htm www.jgsws.org/meetings.php JFRA – Ra’anana www.genealogy.org.il/ JGS Willamette Valley Oregon Richard Sapon-White (Corvallis, Languages of the Jews Oregon) www.nwfam.com/jgswvo.html San Francisco Bay Area JGS Karen Roekard (Los Altos Hills) www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html How Far Should A Genealogist Go? Visits to Ancestral Towns and Archives Aaron Kornblum (Berekley, CA) Western Jewish History Center www.jewishgen.org/jgssacramento/html/meetings_20 07.html www.jgsmontreal.org/meetingschedule-2006.html Claire Lightstone, Nathan Rosenschein, Marvin Tafler (Montreal) Members Presenting Their Own Research Nancy Peterson (Berkeley) Searching for San Francisco Records: Pre-1906 Earthquake Members Member Breakthroughs Plus our Annual Meeting www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html www.jgstoronto.ca/Events.htm l Jul. 1, 2007 JGS Great Britain Jul 13, 2007 Jul. 15, 2007 JGS Willamette Valley Oregon Aug. 8, 2007 Aug. 19, 2007 JGS Willamette Valley Oregon Aug. 19, 2007 Aug. 20, 2007 JGS Conejo Valley Ventura County (CA) www.jgscv.org/ San Francisco Bay Area JGS Aug. 20, 2007 JGS Sacramento Aug. 20, 2007 JGS Montreal Aug. 29, 2007 JGS Toronto Sep. 6, 2007 Sep. 9, 2007 Israel JGS Sep. 9, 2007 Sep. 10, 2007 JGS San Diego Sep. JGS-Denmark www.jgsgb.org.uk/program1.s html Stephen P. Morse (San Francisco) One Step Internet Searching Film www.nwfam.com/jgswvo.html San Francisco Bay Area JGS Nancy Peterson (Berkeley) Searching for San Francisco Records: Pre-1906 Earthquake Gary Tepfer (Eugene, Oregon) Travels of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela Panel (Berkeley) Review of the 27th Annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Panel Highlights of the 2007 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Review of the 27th Annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html www.nwfam.com/jgswvo.html San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html Panel (Los Altos Hills) www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html Members Wrap-up from 2007 IAJGS Conference Members Post IAJGS Conference Wrap-up, Salt Lake City, July, 2007 Doreen Berger (Great Britain) The Jewish Victorian’ - genealogical information from Jewish newspapers 1871-1880 Arnon Hershkovitz Online Genealogical Communities: Forums, JGeneWiki and Blogs Jeff Malka Sephardic Genealogy: Resources, Similarities and Differences Yale Strom Klezmer and Carpati Expert Meliza Amity PhpGedView - The Free Genealogy Program That Enables Families, Societies and Other Groups to Collaboratively Update, Manage and Share Their Genealogy Data Over the Internet Introduction and Demonstration of www.jewishgen.org/jgssacramento/html/meetings_20 07.html www.jgsmontreal.org/meetingschedule-2006.html www.jgstoronto.ca/Events.htm l http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html JGS Greater Washington http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsg w/ http://www.sdjgs.org/meetingi nfo.html Israel JGS http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html Anna Margrethe Krogh- 10, 2007 Sep. 10, 2007 Sep. 11, 2007 Sep. 16, 2007 Sep. 16, 2007 http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsdenmark/m-program.htm Thomsen (Copenhagen) www.familysearch.org JGS Washington State Nicolette Bromberg Understanding and Preserving Your Old Photos Joe Cahn (Denver) WorldCat Resources Members Remembering How We Celebrated the High Holidays Panel (San Francisco) Review of the 27th Annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Sep. 16, 2007 Sep. 16, 2007 Sep. 17, 2007 Sep. 17, 2007 JGS Long Island Members Panel of Salt Lake City Conference Attendees Valery Bazarov Four Lives of Gregory Meisler: Jew, Warrior and Polish Patriot Avrohom Ofek Sep. 18, 2007 JGS Oregon Report on the 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy held in Salt Lake City The Hidden Jewish Community in 18th Century New France; Building a Nation: The Unknown Jewish Giants; More Tall Tales of Jewish Montreal We Were There: Exciting Developments from the IAJGS Conference in Salt Lake City Sept. 19, 2007 Sept. 19, 2007 Sept. 19, 2007 JGS Palm Beach County Sept. 19, 2007 Sept. 19, 2007 Israel JGS http://www.jgsws.org/meeting s.php JGS Colorado – Denver www.jewishgen.org/jgscolorado/meetings.html JGS Illiana http://ijgs.home.comcast.net/ San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html http://www.jgsli.org/ JGS New York http://www.jgsny.org/events.ht m Israel JGS http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html JGS Montreal Joe King (Montreal) http://www.jgsmontreal.org/meetingschedule.html Members http://www.rootsweb.com/~orj gs/calender.htm Members Update on Salt Lake City IAJGS 27th Annual Conference Lisa Newman Trip to Ivansk: Cemetery Restoration Project Hagit Mizrachi The Israel-Cherezli Family Traces its History Back to 1807 When the Head of the Family, Rabbi Isaac Israel Migrated to Jerusalem from Serres (Sherez), a Town North-east of Thesaloniki Beyond Epitaphs: How to Maximize Information from Tombstones www.jgspalmbeachcounty.org JGS Toronto http://www.jgstoronto.ca/Even ts.html Israel JGS http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html Prof. Mareleyn Schneider http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html JGS Hamilton – Canada www.jgsh.org/Events.php Ruth Goldberg Growing My Family Tree from 20 to 200+ Sept. 19, 2007 Sep. 23, 2007 Sept. 23, 2007 Sept. 24, 2007 Sept. 25, 2007 Sep. 2830, 2007 JGS Southern Nevada Members http://www.jgssn.org/ JGS Greater Boston http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html Keith Stokes Israel JGS http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html Prof. Mareleyn Schneider JGS Los Angeles http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsl a/upcoming%20meetings.htm Pamela Weisberger JFRA – Tel Aviv Members Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago Stephen Morse (posted independently) http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule Stephen Morse (posted independently) http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsi/ Back to Basics, Pt. 1 - Arrival & Departure Records Faith, Family & Freedom in Colonial Jewish Newport, Rhode Island Exploring Trumpeldor Cemetery: More than the Final Resting Place of Legendary Figures When Leopold Met Lena: Marriage, Divorce and Deception in 1892 New York What’s In the Library One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools; What Color Ellis Island Search Form Should I Use?; Playing Hide and Seek in the US Census; Deep Linking and Deeper Linking Sept. 30, 2007 JGS Illinois – Chicago meetings.htm http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule Oct. , 2007 Israel JGS Yitzchak Kerem Sources for Researching Military Records of Sephardic Jews in the Balkans Oct. 1, 2007 Cercle de Généalogie Juive - Paris Jacques-Henri Gougenheim A Few Guggenheims: From the Small Tailor at Lengnau, Forward to Nobel Prize Winners Oct. 2, 2007 Oct. 7, 2007 Oct. 7, 2007 Oct. 8, 2007 Oct. 8, 2007 Oct. 8, 2007 Oct. JGIBC Vancouver, B.C. Members http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html http://www.genealoj.org/ENte xte/page04.html What Color Ellis Island Search Form Should I use?; Jewish Calendar Demystified Annual Roundtable Workshop www.geocities.com/Heartland/ Hills/4441/ JGS Michigan Dick and Caryn Jaeger Scrapbooking Your Family History Members Assisted Research Day for Members Haim Ghiuzeli A Tool For an Innovative Approach to Jewish Genealogy Martin Grunz (Copenhagen) Jews in Danish Politics Stephanie Weiner Doing the One Step in Ancestry.com Leona Maltz Abraham Zacuto, The Mapmaker for http://www.jgsmi.org/calendar .php JGS Los Angeles http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsl a/upcoming%20meetings.htm Israel JGS http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html JGS Denmark http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsdenmark/m-program.htm JGS Washington State http://www.jgsws.org/meeting s.php JGS Willamette Valley 10, 2007 Oregon Christopher Columbus: Family Migration to Turkey, Amsterdam, Israel, Argentina and Brazil Oct. 10, 2007 Oct. 10, 2007 JGS Palm Beach County JFRA – Raanana Members Oct. 13, 2007 Sacramento, Cal State Archives Stephen Morse (posted independently) Oct. 14, 2007 JGS Montreal Oct. 14, 2007 JGS San Diego Oct. 14, 2007 Oct. 14, 2007 Oct. 14, 2007 JGS Greater Boston Oct. 15, 2007 Oct. 15, 2007 Israel JGS Oct. 15, 2007 JGS Sacramento Oct. 16, 2007 Oct. 17, 2007 Oct. 17, www.nwfam.com/jgswvo.html www.jgspalmbeachcounty.org Screening of Documentary Film: "Chicken Soup and Scouse" - A Portrait of the Liverpool Jewish Community from the 18th Century to the Present Day One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule Mel Solman (Toronto) http://www.jgsmontreal.org/meetingschedule.html Michael Bart http://www.sdjgs.org/meetingi nfo.html Henry Wellisch http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html JGS Colorado – Denver The Internet, PowerPoint and Novel Ways of Presenting Your Family History: or How I Found My Goldbergs, Vinebergs and Salmanovitzs Research and Documentation of the Experiences of His Parents in the Vilna Ghetto and With the Partisans of Vilna The Austro-Hungarian Empire; Conventional and Non-Conventional Resources Ron Arons (Oakland, California) Putting the Flesh on The Bones Logan J. Kleinwaks Searching Online Historical Directories" Chana Furman Judy Baston (San Fran) An Unbelievable Meeting - Jewish Descendants in the Heart of the Amazon Doing Research in Poland Pam Dallas (Sacramento) Beginning Genealogy Research JGS Oregon Dr. Oren Kosansky Lineages, Priests and Saints: Genealogy and Anthropology in Jewish Morocco JGS Southern Nevada Members Back to Basic, Pt. 2-Census Records Dr. Yehuda Klausner Recording Genealogical Data www.jewishgen.org/jgscolorado/meetings.html JGS Greater Washington http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsg w/ http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html www.jewishgen.org/jgssacramento/html/meetings_20 07.html http://www.jgssn.org/ JFRA – Petach Tikva 2007 Oct. 18, 2007 Oct. 21, 2007 Oct. 21, 2007 Oct. 21, 2007 JGS North Jersey Susan Amsterdam Writing Your Family History Ginger Frere Searching Electronic Databases Anita M. Stone Using Ancestry.com at the JCC Karen Roekard (Berkeley) How Far Should a Genealogist Go? Members West Island Outreach Workshop Susana Leistner Bloch Recreating Your Shtetl – Why and How: Creating a Research Group and Website Dedicated to Your Ancestral Town Pamela Weisberger Cadastral Maps and Landowner Records, Cemetery Restoration/Shtetl Travel, JRI-Poland Update, Stan Diamond film “The Genographic Project” - DVD on the Journey of Man, Sponsored by the National Geographic Society Central Zionist Archives - A Field Trip http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2g npn JGS Illinois – Chicago http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsi/ meetings.htm JGS Illiana http://ijgs.home.comcast.net/ San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html Oct. 21, 2007 JGS Montreal Oct. 21, 2007 Oct. 21, 2007 JGS New York http://www.jgsmontreal.org/meetingschedule.html http://www.jgsny.org/events.ht m Gesher Galicia SIG Regional Meeting – NYC www.jewishgen.org/galicia/ Oct. 21, 2007 Oct. 23, 2007 Oct. 24, 2007 Oct. 27, 2007 JGS Buffalo Oct. 28, 2007 Oct. 28, 2007 Oct. 28, 2007 Oct. 28, 2007 Oct. 31, Members www.jewishgen.org/jgs/jgsbuffalo/YearlyProgram.html Israel JGS Members http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html Sherilyn Bell A Primer on DNA and Its Role in Genealogical Research Patchogue NY, Patchogue-Medford Library Stephen Morse (posted independently) One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools; Deep Linking and Deeper Linking JGS Long Island Stephen Morse http://www.jgsli.org/ http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule JGS Hamilton – Canada Merle Kastner JGS Toronto http://www.jgstoronto.ca/Even ts.html http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule www.jgsh.org/Events.php JGS Broward County (FL) Jeffrey Shoulson www.jgsbc.org JGS Greater Britain http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/prog0 7q3.shtml Schelly Talalay Dardashti (posted independently) Genealogy Workshop of Stephen Morse (posted independently) the Huntington Navigating the New York Census with Fewer Tears; Jewish Calendar Demystified Rebirth of the Jewish Community in Vilnius, Lithuania & Visiting Jewish Sites in Eastern Europe Discussion and Presentation of His Documentary Film of a Family Convention in Israel for 2500 People One Day Annual Conference One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools 2007 Historical Society – Long Island http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule Nov. 2, 2007 Bellport NY, Suffolk Cooperative Library System (Not open to public) Stephen Morse (posted independently) Nov. 3, 2007 Bethpage NY, IGG & Irish Family History Forum Stephen Morse (posted independently) Nov. 4, 2007 Nov. 4, 2007 Nov. 4, 2007 Nov. 6, 2007 Nov. 7, 2007 JGS Colorado – Denver Stanley Hordes Hidden Voices: Crypto Jews of the Southwest Gayle Saini JGS Michigan Library Holdings Members http://www.jgsli.org/ Beginners Workshop – Genealogy 101 JGIBC Vancouver, B.C. Members Film Nov. 7, 2007 Nov. 11, 2007 Nov. 11, 2007 JGS Toronto Nov. 12, 2007 Israel JGS - Givatayim Nov. 12, 2007 Nov. 14, 2007 Nov. 14, 2007 JGS Washington State http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule www.jewishgen.org/jgscolorado/meetings.html JGS Michigan One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools What Color Ellis Island Search Form Should I Use?; Playing Hide and Seek in the US Census http://www.jgsmi.org/calendar .php JGS Long Island www.geocities.com/Heartland/ Hills/4441/ Israel JGS Meliza Amity http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html Peter Lande (Washington) http://www.jgstoronto.ca/Even ts.html JGS Greater Boston Moshe Tessone http://home.comcast.net/~jgsg b/upcoming.html JGS Greater Washington Wendy Turman http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsg w/ http://www.isragen.org.il/NRO S/schedule.html Third Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy Stephen P. Schwartz http://www.jgsws.org/meeting s.php JGS Palm Beach County PhpGedView - The Free Genealogy Program That Enables Families, Societies and Other Groups to Collaboratively Update, Manage and Share Their Genealogy Data Over the Internet Holocaust Research: The Breakthrough, And ? Contemporary Sephardic Communities in America - History and Overview Preserving Your Family’s or Synagogue’s History (Tips on Safeguarding Family Treasures) The Wandering Jew: Jewish Migration Between The 18th to 20th Centuries, Third Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy Creative Ways (Including Technology) to Share and Preserve Your Family History Helene Kenvin www.jgspalmbeachcounty.org JGS Willamette Valley Oregon www.nwfam.com/jgswvo.html Dr. Richard Littman Oral History Demonstration and How to Conduct an Interview Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 JGS Long Island Nov. 18, 2007 JGS Sacramento Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 18, 2007 Nov. 20, 2007 JGS Colorado – Denver Nov. 20, 2007 JGS Oregon Nov. 21, 2007 Nov. 25, 2007 Nov. 26, 2007 Nov. Israel JGS Kathy Wallach Travel to Vienna and Western Ukraine David M. 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JGS Toronto http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsg w http://www.jgsswf.org/ San Francisco Bay Area JGS www.jewishgen.org/sfbajgs/ca lendar.html www.jewishgen.org/jgsp/ JGS Montreal Victor Armony www.jgs-montreal.org/ JGS Oregon www.rootsweb.com/~orjgs/cal ender.htm JGS Long Island Janet Irwin and Michael Constan Valery Bazarov Four Lives of Gregory Meisler: A Jew, A Warrior and A Polish Patriot Members Hadassah: A Night with the King Book Discussion http://www.jgsli.org/ Illiana JGS http://ijgs.home.comcast.net/~i jgs/ JGS Broward County Travelling to the Ukraine With a Little Silver Spoon in my Pocket Mining the Genealogical Resources at your Public Library Fred Blum www.jgsbc.org/ JGS Hamilton – Canada Jim Pogany The Jewish Communities of Northern Ontario Stephen Morse (posted independently) One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools www.jgsh.org/Events.php San Mateo County Genealogical Society http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule Alan Greenberg (Montreal) The Naturalisation Database Project 30, 2008 http://www.jgstoronto.ca/Even ts.html Apr. 2008 JGS Washington State Apr. 6, 2008 Apr. 6, 2008 Apr. 9, 2008 Apr. 12, 2008 JGS Greater Boston Suzan Wynne (Maryland) Organizing Family Reunions: The Important Role of YOU, the Family Genealogist The Lives of Our Galician Ancestors Valery Bazarov (New York) HIAS; History in the Making Phyllis Kramer All About Ancestry.com Ridgewood NJ, Genealogical Society of Bergen County Stephen Morse (posted independently) One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools Apr. 13, 2008 Apr. 13, 2008 JGS New York Stephen Morse http://www.jgsny.org/events.ht m http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule JGS Greater Washington Ron Arons Apr. 13, 2008 Apr. 13, 2008 Apr. 13, 2008 Apr. 13, 2008 JGS Long Island Apr. 14, 2008 Apr. 15, 2008 Apr. 19, 2008 JGS Greater Philadelphia Lancaster PA, Lancaster Family History Conference Stephen Morse (posted independently) Apr. 20, 2008 JGS Michigan Stephen Morse (posted independently) Brad Fanta http://www.jgsws.org/meeting s.php http://www.jgsgb.org/upcomin g.html JGS Michigan http://www.jgsmi.org JGS Palm Beach County www.jgspalmbeachcounty.org http://stevemorse.org/abstracts.html#sche dule The Jewish Calendar Demystified – and – Searching the New York State Census with Fewer Tears The Kosher Nostra - There's a Criminal in Every Jewish Family http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsg w Herb Huebscher DNA and Classic Genealogy Join to Solve Genealogical Puzzle Wendy Berenbaum Ashkenazi Diseases of Importance to Jews Today Jennifer Singer Ketubahs Members Spring into Genealogy at the South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society Library Harry Boonin The Life and Times of Congregation Kesher Israel and More. 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