On December 12, 2021, from 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (CDT) the Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society will host Susan Weinberg, presenting "Mining the Manifest."

 After 1906, immigration manifests offer a wealth of information, but what do you do if your family came over prior to that time? And how did they get from New York to Minnesota?  We will take a look at derivative naturalization documents, trace contacts they were going to through the NY vital records and follow immigrants who found their route through Canada. Once in New York, we will explore how you can follow their journey to Minnesota.  Using a case approach this presentation will explore some of the search challenges associated with immigration in the 1800s and early 1900s as well as locating immigrants where there are name changes and variable spellings. Techniques will address working back from other documents, resolving conflicting data and identifying and linking the person to whom an immigrant is traveling. 

 Speaker Bio

 Susan Weinberg is an artist, writer and professional genealogist. She enjoys solving puzzles and telling stories and genealogy offers her many opportunities to do so. Weinberg serves as President of the Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society (MNJGS) and is on the board of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS). She is the author of We Spoke Jewish: A Legacy in Stories, a book based on the stories of Jewish elders in Minnesota. Her research has taken her to archives and ancestral towns in Poland, Belarus, the Ukraine and Lithuania as well as to Holocaust records in Germany. As a volunteer with Jewishgen.org, she creates websites on ancestral towns and can often be found photographing tombstones in the overgrown cemeteries in Eastern Europe.

The program will take place on-line via Zoom  For more information and to register go to

https://www.mnjgs.org/event

Questions can be emailed to MNJGS at

https://www.mnjgs.org/contact

Members are free, suggested donation of $5 from non-members (https://www.mnjgs.org/donate)
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