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JGS 11 Sep 2019.Key “Uncovering Family Mysteries” and “Lessons from the 39th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy” Jewish Genealogy Bernie Grossman Marla Westberg Society of NE Florida September 11th, 2019 Agenda: Sept. 11, 2019 ❖ Introductions (first timers) ❖ Society Business ❖ Presentations ❖ “Uncovering Family Mysteries using Centimorgan Data and Known DNA Matches” - Mitch Gordon ❖ “Lessons from the 39th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy” - Bernie Grossman ❖ Adjourn Society Business ❖ Dues for our 2019-2020 fiscal year are due. $10 for an individual and $15 for a family. Check or cash only. ❖ Let us know about any ideas that you have for future meetings and please consider volunteering to make presentations at our meetings ❖ Don’t forget our website, especially Upcoming Events, Useful links and Presentations ❖ https://jgsofneflorida.wordpress.com ❖ No meeting in October ❖ Next meeting November 13, 2019. Agenda to follow Presentations ❖ “Uncovering Family Mysteries using Centimorgan Data and Known DNA Matches” • by Mitch Gordon • (Presentation not available on the internet) ❖ “Colorizing Black and White and Sepia Photographs” • by Mitch Gordon • presentation follows On a completely different note, how many of you have old family photos that are black and white or sepia? I’ve found a website called colourise.sg that allows you to colorize your photos for free and is easy to use. Here’s how: Colourise.sg Colourise.sg Presentations ❖ “Lessons from the 39th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy - How our genealogical research can benefit from attending an IAJGS conference” • by Bernie Grossman Conference Overview - Sunday through Friday noon ❖ ~ 1500 attendees: amateurs to professionals ❖ ~ 250 Sessions, In-depth presentations (75 minutes) by experts ❖ Special Interest Group and Birds of a Feather meetings and Luncheons ❖ Resource Room and Translation Tables ❖ Exhibit Hall: vendors, genealogy organizations ❖ Computer workshops, Educator’s Workshop, Breakfast with Experts ❖ Opening Reception, Banquet ❖ Kosher food available throughout Name Tag Exhibitors Resource Room • Room with 20-30 computers that has FREE access to a huge number of databases • These include subscription databases, JGS and SIG databases which require a donation • Consultations with representatives of: Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfusot, Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem • American Ancestors by the New England • Museum of the Jewish People Beit Hatfutsot Historic Genealogical Society • MyHeritage.com (all databases including their • Ancestry.com (worldwide database) newspaper database) • Cleveland Public Library Genealogy Resources/ • Newspapers.com Research Databases • TAMUS Gravestone Records Accessibility • Findmypast.com Project (Czech Republic) • Fold3.com • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum • Geni.com • Yad Vashem • Genteam.at • Cercle de Généalogie Juive • Godfrey.org (premium subscription databases) • Israel Genealogical Society (IGS) • IAJGS.org • Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) • JewishGen.org • Gesher Galicia • Jewishdata.com (images of Jewish tombstones, • JRI-Poland school yearbook pages, and Citizen) • Jewish Heritage Center at the New England Historic Genealogical Society Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Groups SIGs BOFs BOFs • Austria-Czech SIG • Bukovina BOF • Siaulai District Research Group • Belarus SIG • Canada BOF • Trakai District of Vilna Gubernia • Bessarabia SIG • Chernigov Gubernia BOF • Webmaster Roundtable BOF • DNA Project Administrators • JewishGen.org Yizkor Book BOF • BialyGen SIG • Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy • Vilnius Household Registers BOF • German Jewish SIG • Geni.com Users BOF • Siedlce Gubernia • Hungary SIG • Israel Research Group BOF • Podzelva BOF • Latvia SIG • Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF • Tracing the Tribe • Romania SIG • JGS Newsletter Editors • Klaipeda (Memel) District Res. Gp • Sub-Carpathia SIG • Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF • Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Gp • Mac/Apple Product Users BOF • Kolbuszowza Region BOF • United Kingdom SIG • Mogilev-Podolsky & Shargorod • Kremenets District Research Gp • Gesher Galicia • Ostrow Mazowiecka BOF • Kupiskis SIG and Rokiskis SIG • JRI Poland • Professional Genealogists • Lida District/Oshmiany District • Litvak SIG • Rohatyn District BOF • Suchostaw Region Research Gp • Svencionys District Res. Gp. • Vilnius District Research Gp Monday, July 29 SESSION SESSION TITLE SPEAKER(S) CODE 6:35 AM - 6:59 AM Typical Daily Schedule 2500 Torah Study Avraham Groll JewishGen.org 7:00 AM - 7:45 AM 2505 Shacharit 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM 1700 $$$ Breakfast with the Experts - Sephardic Research Adam Brown Avotaynu DNA Schelly Talalay Dardashti 1709 $$$ Breakfast with the Experts - Israeli Resources Garri Regev 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM 1178 $$$ Computer Workshop: Techniques for Using Debbie Kroopkin Jewishgen.org 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 5001 Exhibitors' Hall 3000 Resource Room 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM 1816 JewishGen Latvia SIG Meeting 1917 Kupiskis and Rokiskis BOF 1937 Siaulai District RG BOF 1250 An Introduction to the Cleveland Jewish Archives Sean Martin Western Reserve Historical Society 1058 Beginners Workshop – Part 2 Rhoda Miller Ancestry ProGenealogists 1016 How to Locate Individuals through Genealogy Fred Blum 1293 Jewish Records Indexing – Poland; A Vision for the Future. Stanley Diamond Jewish Records Indexing-Poland 1026 Out of the Whirlwind: Finding Your Family Lost in the Deborah H Long Holocaust 1267 The Blumenthals of the Upper Lower Peninsula of Michigan Janette Silverman Ancestry ProGenealogists 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM West Side Cemeteries Tour 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM 1148 $$$ Computer Workshop: Using Tools to Organize and Kelli Bergheimer Analyze Your Autosomal DNA Matches Mess on the Desk 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM 1906 Geni.com Users BOF E Randol Schoenberg Jewish Genealogy Portal 1801 JewishGen Belarus SIG Meeting I 1342 Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry.com, Sunny Morton FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com. Family Tree Magazine (US) 1370 DNA Case Study: Finding the Mystery Father Jay Sage 1039 History and Geography: Helpful Eastern Europe Research Amy Wachs Tools 1361 Introduction to DNA Research for Jewish Genealogists Adam Brown Avotaynu DNA Gil Bardige 1323 JRI-Poland - Congress Poland Records Michael Tobias 1372 Researching Louis Loeb, a Cleveland Native Son and Joy Kestenbaum Jewish-American Artist on the World Stage 1074 Researching Your Litvak Heritage -- with LitvakSIG and Judy Baston Beyond 1076 The Changing Borders of Eastern Europe Hal Bookbinder 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM 1504 $$$ Luncheon: JewishGen Belarus SIG Yuri Dorn Jewish Heritage Research Group of Belarus 1507 $$$ Luncheon: JRI-Poland Aleksandra Sajdak Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute/ Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 1373 $$$ Computer Workshop: Why and How to Dig for Historical Sunny Morton Veterans B Records on FamilySearch Family Tree Magazine (US) 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM 1903 Chernigov BOF Center Street B 1802 JewishGen Belarus SIG Meeting II Center Street C 1049 Following the Breadcrumbs Garri Regev Superior A 1091 Location, Location, Location: How Historical Maps Can Ed Mitukiewicz Hope C Help to Identify and Locate Your Ancestral Towns 1292 Palevskys in Cleveland, New York, Belarus and Beyond: Elise Friedman Veterans C Anatomy of a Global Surname Study Hariette Gershon 1213 Researching Your Galitzianer Family: Working with Vital Mark Halpern Hope B Records 1037 Resources for Researching Refugees in World War II: The Karen S. Franklin Superior B Case of Max Neugass 1384 Revolutionizing Y-DNA for Genealogy Bennett Greenspan Superior C FamilyTreeDNA 1106 The Grossmann Family from Mór in Hungary and Police in Thomas Fürth Veterans A Moravia 1252 Vilnius Household Registers One Year Later: The Latest and Russ Maurer Superior D Greatest in Litvak Records LitvakSIG 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM 1908 Israel RG BOF Center Street B 1808 JewishGen Romania ROM-SIG Meeting Center Street C 1934 LitvakSIG Vilnius DG and Vilnius Household Registers BOF Hope A 1926 Rohatyn District BOF Center Street D 1240 Genealogical Gems: Jewish History and Research in Central Toby Brief Veterans C Ohio Columbus Jewish Historical Society Eizabeth Plummer 1207 Iberia to Amsterdam: A Genealogical look at the Portuguese Jarrett Ross Veterans A Jewish Community of Amsterdam GeneaVlogger 1123 Privacy and Records Access: Restrictions Abound and Jan Meisels Allen Hope B Growing 1205 Scandals, Shandehs, and Lies: The Stories Families Don't Renee Steinig Hope C Tell 1209 Shoah Record in the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute Aleksandra Sajdak Superior D Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute/ Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in 1366 The Genetic Founders of the Jewish People Adam Brown Superior C Avotaynu DNA 1188 Virtual Yizkor/Memorials Books: Creating Webpages Barbara Ellman Superior B Dedicated To Jewish Communities (Kehilot) 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM 1143 $$$ Computer Workshop: Using OneNote to Organize Your Kelli Bergheimer Veterans B Genealogical Research Mess on the Desk 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM 1810 JewishGen Sub-Carpathia SIG Center Street B 1910 JewishGen Yizkor Book BOF Hope A 1925 Prof Genealogists BOF Center Street D 1133 Clued-In: Interpreting Real Photo Postcards from the Ava (Sherlock) Cohn Hope B Diaspora Sherlock Cohn, The Photo Genealogist 1299 Creating a Shtetl Community: The Friends of Jewish Aaron Ginsburg Hope C Dokshitsy The Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy 1244 MyHeritage New Advanced Features and Technologies Daniel Horowitz Superior C MyHeritage
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