Regardless of your technological skills, you can do it!
Learn all about JewishGen ShtetLinks at the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado on Sunday, November 14.
The program runs from 10am-noon at Congregation Har HaShem, Boulder.
Judy Petersen will present "What are, why use, and how to create a ShtetLinks website."
A JGSCO member, Judy wanted to do more than just keep files of family trees.
She wanted to share the information and place her family in an historical and geographical context. Collaboration with other researchers of the same area was also on her agenda.
Using ShtetLinks on JewishGen, volunteers create individual web pages for their ancestral towns.
Judy will share how she overcame her "technologically-challenged" status and how anyone can develop a site, increase their computer skills and make progress by networking with others researching the same towns.
She began researching her family after her father told about being an orphan after his parents and brother died. She contacted her paternal first cousins and this developed into a quest to find out as much about her extended family.
All she knew was that they came from Russia and her mother's family from Hungary. Today she has determined the towns of origin for all but one of her great-grandparents, constructed an extensive family tree and located living relatives in California, New York, Canada, Argentina, Israel and Denver.
Judy is also active in JewishGen's Hungarian SIG.
In real life, she is a physical therapist and library director for Congregation Har Shalom, Fort Collins.
For more information and directions, visit the JGSCO website.
No comments:
Post a Comment