Gesher Galicia & BOF Meeting-NYC-Nov. 20th #galicia
Pamela Weisberger <pweisberger@...>
Reminder:
Gesher Galicia will be holding a regional meeting jointly sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York on Sunday, November 20th at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. In addition to the main program, beginning at 2:00PM with speakers Mark Halpern (on JRI-Poland), Suzan Wynne (on Jewish Life in Galicia), Logan Kleinwaks (on using OCR to search Galician/Polish directories) and Shelley Pollero (on Allegro-Polish auction site), and a showing of two short films: "The Jews of Poland-Lvov" shot in 1939, and "I Remember Jewish Drohobycz," an interview with David Einsiedler, we will be holding many birds-of-a-feather meetings >from 12:00N - 2:00PM. These are the towns/villages and cities represented so far are: SUCHOSTAW REGION RESEARCH GROUP (SRRG) (Including towns: Skalat, Grzymalowe. Trembowla, Zalesczczki, Kopyczynce, Zbaraz, Borsczow, Buczacz) KOBUSZOWA REGION RESEARCH GROUP (KRRG) & RZESZOW (Including towns: Lancut, Mielec, Nisko, Pisno Ropczyce, Stryzyzow, Tarnobrzeg) DROHOBYCZ, BORISLAW, SAMBOR & STRYJ KOLOMEA REGION KRAKOW REGION IVANO FRANKIVSK BROZOW, SANOK, LESKO, KROSNO LVIV REGION PRZEMYSL For some regions and towns there will be special presentations on travel, maps, books, Holocaust, archival and vital record research and cemetery restoration updates, with opportunities to network and share information with others. If you want to present a report on your town, or have information for a handout specific to your region, please contact Eden Joachim who is coordinating the BOF groups: esjoachim@... For more information on the main program or BOF meetings go to Gesher Galicia's event page: http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/joint_meeting.html#BOF Or the JGSNY web site: http://www.jgsny.org/events.htm These sites provide directions to the Center for Jewish History, lunch options, and detailed program information. We look forward to seeing you there! Pamela Weisberger Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia pweisberger@...
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