The Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County (Florida) has set its annual All-Florida Mini-Conference and Workshop for 9am-4.30pm Sunday, February 20, at the Levis Jewish Community Center in Boca Raton.
Morning sessions:
Doing Your Successful Family Reunion: Dr. Marvin and Natalie Hamburg offer a roadmap for planning a memorable family reunion, and share their experience and expertise.
Following the Paper Trail in the Search of Our Ancestors: Sylvia Nusinov will explain how to find records through effective research in libraries, the Internet, Archives, etc. and what to do with the documentation once found.
The Yiskor Books at Florida Atlantic University: FAU archivist Leslie Siegel will cover the library’s extensive Yiskor Book Collection and discuss other research material in the Judaica Special Collections.
Afternoon sessions:
Census Online with Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest: JewishGen's education vice president Phyllis Kramer will cover census history and how to access it on Familysearch, Heritage Quest and Ancestry.com, with tips and shortcuts.
How I Unraveled My Family History: Stephen Denker of the Greater Boston Jewish Genealogical Society will discuss research techniques used to successfully trace his family business history and Cuban connections, and how he used sources and personal contacts.
Jewish Genealogy - A Hobby with a Purpose: Arnold Tolkin will cover Inheritance Value, Family Traits, and Stem Cell-DNA Testing, the newest scientific technique.
Family Tree Maker for Beginners: Dennis Rice will offer tips and tricks for mastering one of the most popular genealogy programs, work with versions through 2005 and critique the redesigned 2008 version.
Registration begins at 8.30am. Advance registration: members, $30; others, $35; includes kosher box lunch, snacks, materials and gifts. Internet-connected computers will be available in the Resource Room and the Library Collection.
For directions and more details, click here.
04 February 2008
Seattle: Jewish resources, Feb. 11
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State presents "Exploring New Jewish Family History Resources on the LDS Website and Using Local LDS Family History Libraries," with Jerry Watt of the Family History Center, North Seattle Stake.
The meeting begins at 7pm, Monday, February 11, at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island.
Watt will give an overview of regional Family History Libraries and describe how to use these resources efficiently, highlight the Jewish Family History Resources section on Family Search, and provide an update on the status and locations of international records projects.
For directions and more details, click here.
The meeting begins at 7pm, Monday, February 11, at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island.
Watt will give an overview of regional Family History Libraries and describe how to use these resources efficiently, highlight the Jewish Family History Resources section on Family Search, and provide an update on the status and locations of international records projects.
For directions and more details, click here.
California: Using Maps, Feb. 10
Robert Sherins, M.D. will present "Using Maps in Genealogical Research," at the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County, from 1-4pm, Sunday, February 10.
The meeting is co-sponsored with Temple Adat Elohim, in Thousand Oaks.
Basic to all genealogical research is identifying the precise location of ancestral towns. Dr. Sherins will review procedures for obtaining exact map coordinates, locating the smallest villages within countries where national borders have shifted, and the use of atlases and gazetteers. Also covered: guidelines for advanced research using internet resources for cadastral, panoramic-perspective maps, and satellite technology access.
A past board member of the Polish Genealogical Society of California, retired ophthalmologist and a well-informed map researcher, Sherins has made presentations before several genealogy societies and has published 100 articles in various internet publications, JGSLA RootsKey and the Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of California.
For directions and more information, click here.
The meeting is co-sponsored with Temple Adat Elohim, in Thousand Oaks.
Basic to all genealogical research is identifying the precise location of ancestral towns. Dr. Sherins will review procedures for obtaining exact map coordinates, locating the smallest villages within countries where national borders have shifted, and the use of atlases and gazetteers. Also covered: guidelines for advanced research using internet resources for cadastral, panoramic-perspective maps, and satellite technology access.
A past board member of the Polish Genealogical Society of California, retired ophthalmologist and a well-informed map researcher, Sherins has made presentations before several genealogy societies and has published 100 articles in various internet publications, JGSLA RootsKey and the Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of California.
For directions and more information, click here.
California: Protecting digital data, Feb. 10
Longtime genealogist Mark Heckman will present "Protecting Your Digital Genealogical Information," at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento (California), at 10am, Sunday, February 10.
Heckman will guide participants on how to protect digital files and photos in the electronic age.
All researchers collect large amounts of data in the form of names, dates, documents, photos, audio and video recordings. Much of this data will be digitized and stored on your computer and shared by e-mail, on CD or DVD or on the Web. Some is sensitive, all of it is precious, reflecting hours of effort.
But how safe is it? Is your data backed up? How long will backups last? And how safe from theft is data you put on the Internet?
Heckman will discuss ways to protect digital data from loss and theft, on your computer and online.
For location and more details, click here.
Heckman will guide participants on how to protect digital files and photos in the electronic age.
All researchers collect large amounts of data in the form of names, dates, documents, photos, audio and video recordings. Much of this data will be digitized and stored on your computer and shared by e-mail, on CD or DVD or on the Web. Some is sensitive, all of it is precious, reflecting hours of effort.
But how safe is it? Is your data backed up? How long will backups last? And how safe from theft is data you put on the Internet?
Heckman will discuss ways to protect digital data from loss and theft, on your computer and online.
For location and more details, click here.
Ohio: Yiddish with Michael Wex, Feb. 6
The Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland, Ohio will present noted Yiddishist Michael Wex on "Daytsh aftselakis: How Yiddish Stopped Being German," at 7.30pm, Wednesday, February 6.
The meeting is at Menorah Park in Beachwood.
For more information, click here.
Don't dispair if you can't get to Cleveland in time for this meeting, as Wex's
website is headed:
"Yiddish language and culture in all of its moods. Yiddish - whether you want to read it, hear it, learn it, ask a question about it, curse in it or wear it - this is the site for you."
Among the features: A weekly Yiddish dialogue from Wex, Yiddish-y gifts online store, his blog series, book excerpts and all about the art of Yiddish curses.
Wex says "Remember - you don't have to be Jewish to use this site. Previous knowledge is unnecessary and possibly dangerous."
Wex wrote Born to Kvetch and a follow-up phrasebook, Just Say Nu. A novelist, playwright, lecturer, performer and authority on language and literature, he has been called "a Yiddish National Treasure" and “the finest translator around.”
He provides "a deadly accurate and wickedly funny overview of the language and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Whether he’s revealing the real origins of well-known Jewish customs or explaining how The Three Stooges helped bring Yiddish to millions of unsuspecting children, Wex can turn your world into different — and much funnier — place."
Just Say Nu explains the five most useful Yiddish words – shoyn, nu, epes, takeh, and nebakh – what they mean, how and when to use them, and how they can be used to conduct an entire conversation without anybody ever suspecting that the reader doesn’t have the vaguest idea of what anyone is actually saying.
Enjoy!
The meeting is at Menorah Park in Beachwood.
For more information, click here.
Don't dispair if you can't get to Cleveland in time for this meeting, as Wex's
website is headed:
"Yiddish language and culture in all of its moods. Yiddish - whether you want to read it, hear it, learn it, ask a question about it, curse in it or wear it - this is the site for you."
Among the features: A weekly Yiddish dialogue from Wex, Yiddish-y gifts online store, his blog series, book excerpts and all about the art of Yiddish curses.
Wex says "Remember - you don't have to be Jewish to use this site. Previous knowledge is unnecessary and possibly dangerous."
Wex wrote Born to Kvetch and a follow-up phrasebook, Just Say Nu. A novelist, playwright, lecturer, performer and authority on language and literature, he has been called "a Yiddish National Treasure" and “the finest translator around.”
He provides "a deadly accurate and wickedly funny overview of the language and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Whether he’s revealing the real origins of well-known Jewish customs or explaining how The Three Stooges helped bring Yiddish to millions of unsuspecting children, Wex can turn your world into different — and much funnier — place."
Just Say Nu explains the five most useful Yiddish words – shoyn, nu, epes, takeh, and nebakh – what they mean, how and when to use them, and how they can be used to conduct an entire conversation without anybody ever suspecting that the reader doesn’t have the vaguest idea of what anyone is actually saying.
Enjoy!
02 February 2008
Find My Past: Outbound UK Passenger Lists
Findmypast.com now has just added another decade to their UK Outbound Passenger Lists. Now, some 20 million names on 137,000 outbound passenger lists are available from 1890-1949.
Additionally, there are census, birth, marriage, death records and more.
I gave my subscription a work-out recently, and found information on a multitude of Talalay, Bank and Fink relatives. It answered questions about elusive relatives whom I couldn't find arriving in US ports - they had landed in Canada, confirming family stories about long-lost family there. There are now several new leads to follow.
For some individuals who had only transited the UK, I found extra details such as the name of the ships on which they had arrived in the UK. For others, I found their names on four or five lists, but crossed off, until I found the one they really traveled on. I wonder why they kept missing the boat?
Among the records were a New York-based uncle who was required to come to the UK to take home his wife and son from Lithuanina and from whom he was separated by World War I. It detailed the various crossings of another branch of several brothers who had moved from Mogilev, Belarus->Moscow->Berlin->UK and Canada and the US.
The site is now offering a one-month trial, so you might want to check it out!
Additionally, there are census, birth, marriage, death records and more.
I gave my subscription a work-out recently, and found information on a multitude of Talalay, Bank and Fink relatives. It answered questions about elusive relatives whom I couldn't find arriving in US ports - they had landed in Canada, confirming family stories about long-lost family there. There are now several new leads to follow.
For some individuals who had only transited the UK, I found extra details such as the name of the ships on which they had arrived in the UK. For others, I found their names on four or five lists, but crossed off, until I found the one they really traveled on. I wonder why they kept missing the boat?
Among the records were a New York-based uncle who was required to come to the UK to take home his wife and son from Lithuanina and from whom he was separated by World War I. It detailed the various crossings of another branch of several brothers who had moved from Mogilev, Belarus->Moscow->Berlin->UK and Canada and the US.
The site is now offering a one-month trial, so you might want to check it out!
New: Searching Tracing the Tribe!
Readers have been asking for a way to search Tracing the Tribe's many posts.
If you go to this blog's homepage and scroll down to just below the tag cloud, you will see a box with the words "search this site." Put in the topic or keyword, hit the button and the relevant posts will pop up.
Do let me know if you experience any problems with this search.
If you go to this blog's homepage and scroll down to just below the tag cloud, you will see a box with the words "search this site." Put in the topic or keyword, hit the button and the relevant posts will pop up.
Do let me know if you experience any problems with this search.
New York: CJH extends genealogy hours
Thanks to a grant from the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York, the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History will now be open on Mondays until 7.30pm.
The extended hours will enable researchers otherwise occupied during the day to make use of Institute resources, including a large collection of Jewish interest LDS microfilms. JGSNY members will also be on hand to provide assistance.
The CJH is at 15 W. 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, in Manhattan.
Thanks to Gloria Berkenstat Freund for this news.
The extended hours will enable researchers otherwise occupied during the day to make use of Institute resources, including a large collection of Jewish interest LDS microfilms. JGSNY members will also be on hand to provide assistance.
The CJH is at 15 W. 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, in Manhattan.
Thanks to Gloria Berkenstat Freund for this news.
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