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JGSLI Meeting History Location Key BJC = Bethpage Jewish Center POB = Plainview-Old Bethpage Library DC = Dowling College, Oakdale SAL = Sunrise Assisted Living, Plainview DHJC = Dix Hills Jewish Center SHJC = South Huntington Jewish Center GJGC = Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center, Commack SJ = Sid Jacobson JCC, Greenvale GNH = Great Neck House SPL = Sachem Public Library, Holbrook MIY = Mid-Island Y-JCC, Plainview SY = Suffolk Y-JCC, Commack MPL = Manhasset Public Library TBD = Temple Beth David, Commack PML = Patchogue-Medford Library TBS = Temple Beth Sholom, Roslyn Heights 2019-2020 2019 Sep 22 Two Horses in Lublin MIY Dan A. Oren M.D. 2019 Oct 6 What’s New at Ancestry.com? POB Crista Cowan 2019 Oct 27 Jewish Genealogy: News You Can Use MIY Alex Calzareth, Fern Gutman, Renée Steinig, Chuck Weinstein 2019 Nov 24 Transcarpathia: MIY Jordan Auslander Eastern Slovak and Ukrainian Jewish Research 2019 Dec 15 Cultural Survivals from the MIY Michael Chaplan Great Jewish Migration to NYC, 1881-1924 2020 Jan 26 “The Key to Our Future Is to Remember... Our MIY Edna W. Susman Past”: The Veterans’ Testimonial Project 2020 Feb 23 The Mysterious Mr. Manley: MIY Sue Fialkoff How do you prove something didn’t happen? 2020 Mar 22 Seeking Sanctuary: MIY Brad Kolodny 125 Years of Synagogues on Long Island 2020 Apr 26 Researching Louis Loeb, MIY Joy Kestenbaum A Forgotten Jewish-American Artist 2020 May 17 Life Lessons from the Dead MIY Alec Ferretti 2020 Jun 28 Think Like a Reporter MIY Jennifer Mendelsohn to Avoid Genealogy Mistakes 2018-2019 2018 Sep 16 DNA for Adoptees -- or How, Instead of a MIY Chuck Weinstein Bicycle, I Got a Sister for My Birthday 2018 Oct 28 The Untold Story of the Lehman Family MIY Karen S. Franklin and Its Aid to Refugees: 1933-1945 2018 Nov 18 Branching Out from Sepharad: MIY Sarina Roffé Solving a Converso Mystery 2018 Dec 16 Jewish Given Names and Naming Patterns MIY Debra Braverman 2019 Jan 27 Lost and Found: MIY George Richard Where were the 4,000 members of the Reichard family of Hungary? 2019 Feb 24 A Look at New York's Lost Synagogues MIY Ellen Levitt 2019 Mar 31 Researching the Jews of Prussian Poland MIY Roger Lustig 2019 Apr 28 Who Are We, When and How Did We Get Here? MIY Adam R. Brown 2019 May 19 The Secret of Priest’s Grotto Cave MIY Chris Nicola 2019 Jun 23 The Trip of a Lifetime: MIY Mark Halpern Refugees Find Safe Haven via Japan 2017-2018 2017 Sep 24 Did My Great-Grandmother Have a Family? A MIY Rhoda Miller Documents and DNA Case Study 2017 Oct 18 Cemetery Records and Their Importance MIY Nolan Altman 2017 Oct 22 Memory and Mystery: MIY Emily Garber Breaking Down Family Lore 2017 Nov 19 Henry Alsberg: Unsung Jewish Hero MIY Susan Rubenstein DeMasi 2017 Dec 10 Faces of Dynow: Portraits and Stories MIY Nina Talbot from an Ancestral Town in Galicia 2018 Jan 28 Synagogues of Long Island MIY Ira Poliakoff 2018 Feb 25 New York's Genealogy "Textbook": The NY MIY Susan R. Miller Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer 2018 Mar 24 Galician Globetrotters, MIY Dr. Andrew Zalewski Barber Surgeons and Persistent Women 2018 Apr 29 Finding Relatives MIY Daniel Horowitz with MyHeritage DNA Matching 2018 May 24 Sex, Lies, and Genealogical Tape MIY Ron Arons 2018 Jun 24 My Hashava Experience MIY Judi Langer Caplan 2016-2017 2016 Sep 18 The Genealogy of Renee Kaufman: MIY Stephen P. Morse Using the One-Step Webpages 2016 Oct 30 Stories from Ellis Island MIY Fred Voss 2016 Nov 20 Galician Portraits: In Search of Jewish Roots MIY Dr. Andrew Zalewski 2016 Dec 18 Reclaim the Records MIY Brooke Schreier Ganz 2017 Jan 22 Yikhes: Researching Your Roots MIY Amanda Seigel in the NY Public Library’s Jewish Division 2017 Feb 26 Lithuania, Galicia, Ukraine: MIY Rhoda Miller, Renée Steinig, Research Sites and Sources Chuck Weinstein 2017 Mar 19 Sousa Mendes’s List: The Search for Survivors MIY Olivia Mattis 2017 Apr 30 The 1939 German Minority Census MIY Michael Simonson 2017 May 21 Creative and Critical Thinking for Genealogists MIY Ron Arons 2017 Jun 25 The Rest of the Story: MIY Janeen Bjork Finding Your Family in Online Newspapers 2015-2016 2015 Aug 30 Jewish Genetic Genealogy - A Family Study MIY Israel Pickholtz 2015 Sep 20 Finding Joe Seltzer MIY Renée Steinig 2015 Oct 18 Researching the Wandering Jew: MIY Rhoda Miller Two Generations in Six Countries 2015 Nov 22 Rescuing the Evidence: Three Minutes in Poland MIY Glenn Kurtz 2015 Dec 20 How Did Jews Get to Europe? (Part 2) MIY Avraham Groll 2016 Feb 21 Read All About It! Finding Spicy Stories MIY Terry Koch-Bostic of New York Ancestors in Newspapers Online 2016 Mar 27 45 Years as a Jewish Genealogist: MIY Arthur Kurzweil A Cranky Critique 2016 Apr 17 Family Tree DNA MIY Bennet Greenspan 2016 May 22 The Ethical Genealogist MIY Judy G. Russell 2016 Jun 26 Eastern European Travelogue – MIY Bill and Elaine Farran A Taste of the Old Countries 2014-2015 2014 Sep 21 A Connecticut Rabbi on the Archbishop’s Tree: MIY Renée Steinig Tracing John Cardinal O’Connor’s Jewish Roots 2014 Oct 26 Who Do You Think You Are, Lauren Fox? POB Rhoda Miller 2014 Nov 23 The Name Remains the Same: MIY Robin Meltzer Adventures in Finding Sid Caesar’s Grandmother 2014 Dec 14 JOWBR and the Importance of Burial Records MIY Nolan Altman 2015 Jan 25 Ancient Texts Lead to Genealogical Discoveries MIY Janette Silverman 2015 Feb 22 New (and Antique) Resources MIY John Paul Lowens for German Jewish Genealogy 2015 Mar 22 Jewish Records Indexing - Poland: MIY Hadassah Lipsius Small Miracles Continue 2015 Apr 26 How Did Jews Get to Europe? MIY Avraham Groll 2015 May 31 Four JGSLIers’ Success Stories MIY Andy Bader, Michael Chaplan, Marilyn Gotkin, Allan Mallenbaum 2015 Jun 28 GenealogyIndexer.org: MIY Logan Kleinwaks New Sources, New Ways to Search 2013-2014 2013 Sep 22 Finding Granddad’s War MIY Jeffrey A. Badger 2013 Oct 20 The City of Spires Inspires: Jewish Prague MIY Barbara Krasner 2013 Nov 24 There's Nothing New Under the Sun MIY Chuck Weinstein (Except at the Ukraine SIG) 2013 Dec 15 Lodz, Poland: Its Jewish History MIY Roni Seibel Liebowitz and Genealogical Resources" 2014 Jan 26 Organizit: MIY Rhoda Miller Reducing Your Paper and Digital Clutter 2014 Feb 3 Tracking David Stone, MIY Karen S. Franklin the Jewish Bank Robber of Frost, Texas" 2014 Mar 23 From Tangier to Argentina and Back: MIY Sarina Roffé An International Journey 2014 Apr 27 They Fought Back: MIY Allan Mallenbaum Jewish Heroines of Auschwitz 2014 May 18 Finding Living People on the Internet MIY Ron Arons 2014 Jun 22 Passenger Manifests and the Immigrant Voyage MIY Phyllis Kramer 2012-2013 2012 Sep 23 We Are Here: MIY Ellen Cassedy Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust 2012 Oct 28 Chutes and Ladders: MIY Pamela Weisberger Innovative Approaches to Genealogy 2012 Nov 18 The JDC Names Database GNH Naomi Barth 2012 Dec 16 The Awards for Israel’s 1948 War Casualties MIY Arnon Hershkovitz Finally Come Home 2013 Jan 20 Sixteen million searchable records? MIY John Martino How did he do it? 2013 Feb 17 Wills and Estates MIY Allan Jordan 2013 Mar 17 Holocaust Research and Records Plus: MIY Peter Lande, Bill Farran Lost Synagogues 2013 Apr 28 Family History Mystery Day! MIY --- 2013 May 19 From DNA to Genetic Genealogy: Everything PML Stephen P. Morse You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask / The Ketubah: The Jewish Marriage Contract and What It Really Says 2013 Jun 23 Lithuania, Galicia, Ukraine: MIY Rhoda Miller, Renée Steinig, Research Sites and Sources Chuck Weinstein 2011-2012 2011 Sep 25 Reports from the DC Conference SJ Panel 2011 Oct 30 Who Do You Think You Are, Roger Tilles? MIY Nolan Altman, Rhoda Miller, Judy Simon, Renée Steinig 2011 Nov 27 Mapping Madness MIY Ron Arons 2011 Dec 18 Genealogical Implications of Chasidic Ancestry MIY Raphael G. Guber 2012 Jan 22 Breaking Down Brick Walls MIY Panel 2012 Feb 26 The Legacy of Primo Levy MIY Stan Pugliese 2012 Mar 25 Social Media for Genealogists PML Terryn Barrill Tower and Family Historians 2012 Apr 22 Holocaust Research MIY Gary Mokotoff 2012 May 20 Searching the 1940 Census SPL Stephen P. Morse 2012 Jun 24 Intermediate and Advanced MPL Phyllis Kramer Online Research Techniques 2010-2011 2010 Sep 26 Reports from the L.A. Conference SJ Judy Simon, Renée Steinig, Jackie Wasserstein, and others 2010 Oct 24 25th Anniversary Brunch TBD Leona Schwartz 2010 Nov 21 What to Do With All That Data MIY Debbie Wang Etzion 2010 Dec 19 Breaking Down Brick Walls SPL Panel 2011 Jan 23 Jewish Geography and DNA – A Player's Guide SJ Judy Simon 2011 Feb 27 Home Bittersweet Home: SPL Rhoda Miller Litvak Research and Travel 2011 Mar 27 For the Sake of the Children SJ Joan Adler 2011 Apr 24 How to Share and Preserve Memories MIY Daniel Horowitz in a Digital Age 2011 May 22 DC2011 Conference Preview SPL Sue Isman 2011 Jun 19 “Sherlock” Cohn, Photo Genealogist POB Ava Cohn 2009-2010 2009 Sep 13 Reports from Philly2009 (Plus return of a ring MIY Panel found via the JGSLI Yearbook Project.) 2009 Oct 25 Jewish Genealogical Sources in Prussian Poland MIY Roger Lustig 2009 Nov 22 General Meeting MIY Group Discussion 2009 Dec 13 Jewish Genealogy as a Spiritual Pilgrimage POB Arthur Kurzweil 2010 Jan 24 Exploring the 1940 Census MIY Dorothy Dougherty 2010 Feb 21 One Woman’s Journey” MIY Roma Baran 2010 Mar 21 Sephardic Research MIY Dr.
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