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ViewMate translation request - Russian from Szczebrzeszyn, Poland - PUTER?=
#poland
Sonny Putter <sonny_putter@...>
I would appreciate an English translation of the Russian text of the 1893
Szczebrzeszyn, Poland birth record for Berko PUTER, Akta 40. I would like a translation of all the genealogically significant information, especially his date of birth and the names, ages and birth places of his parents. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73038. Please respond using the online ViewMate form. Thank you very much. Sinai (Sonny) PUTTER Bellevue, Washington U.S.A. sonny_putter@prodigy.net Researching: BILK | BLAJSER | CUKIERMAN | DRESZER | DYCHTERMAN | ELBAUM | ERLICH | FAYNER | FEDER | FRAJMAN | GOFMAN | GRYN | HOCHMAN | KREMER | LEMCHEN | LEJWENFUS | LIBEL | MESSYNGIER | METZ | PUTER | ROTFELD | SOBEL | SZAJNBERG | SZLOFMAN | SZNAI | SZOK | SZPISAJZEN | SZRAJBER | SZYR | WAYC | WERTKIN | ZALCMAN In Lublin, Poland and Lublin area shtetlach: Krasnystaw, Izbica Lubelski, Zamosc, Tomaszow Lubelski, Krasnobrod, Gorzkow, Tarnogrod, Jozefow Bilgorajski, Leczna, Biala Podlaska, Chelm. Also in Courland area, Latvia and Babruysk area, Belarus.
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JRI Poland #Poland ViewMate translation request - Russian from Szczebrzeszyn, Poland - PUTER?=
#poland
Sonny Putter <sonny_putter@...>
I would appreciate an English translation of the Russian text of the 1893
Szczebrzeszyn, Poland birth record for Berko PUTER, Akta 40. I would like a translation of all the genealogically significant information, especially his date of birth and the names, ages and birth places of his parents. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73038. Please respond using the online ViewMate form. Thank you very much. Sinai (Sonny) PUTTER Bellevue, Washington U.S.A. sonny_putter@prodigy.net Researching: BILK | BLAJSER | CUKIERMAN | DRESZER | DYCHTERMAN | ELBAUM | ERLICH | FAYNER | FEDER | FRAJMAN | GOFMAN | GRYN | HOCHMAN | KREMER | LEMCHEN | LEJWENFUS | LIBEL | MESSYNGIER | METZ | PUTER | ROTFELD | SOBEL | SZAJNBERG | SZLOFMAN | SZNAI | SZOK | SZPISAJZEN | SZRAJBER | SZYR | WAYC | WERTKIN | ZALCMAN In Lublin, Poland and Lublin area shtetlach: Krasnystaw, Izbica Lubelski, Zamosc, Tomaszow Lubelski, Krasnobrod, Gorzkow, Tarnogrod, Jozefow Bilgorajski, Leczna, Biala Podlaska, Chelm. Also in Courland area, Latvia and Babruysk area, Belarus.
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Viewmate - Translation from Russian to English
#poland
ingrid rockberger
I have posted two vital records in Russian for which I would appreciate
a translation to English. They are records >from Kaluszyn in Poland. Please provide all important genealogical details such as family names, places, dates etc. They are on Viewmate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73040 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73039 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you so much in advance. Ingrid Rockberger Co- Chair, Sharon Branch Israel Genealogy Research Association. Researching: ROCHVERGER:Lowicz and Lodz,Poland, KONIARSKI:Zloczew, Poland, LAJZEROWICZ:Lutotow, Poland, MONKA: Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, SCZNAJDER, Kozow Lacki, Poland.
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JRI Poland #Poland Viewmate - Translation from Russian to English
#poland
ingrid rockberger
I have posted two vital records in Russian for which I would appreciate
a translation to English. They are records >from Kaluszyn in Poland. Please provide all important genealogical details such as family names, places, dates etc. They are on Viewmate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73040 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73039 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you so much in advance. Ingrid Rockberger Co- Chair, Sharon Branch Israel Genealogy Research Association. Researching: ROCHVERGER:Lowicz and Lodz,Poland, KONIARSKI:Zloczew, Poland, LAJZEROWICZ:Lutotow, Poland, MONKA: Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, SCZNAJDER, Kozow Lacki, Poland.
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New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
#galicia
Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
#galicia
Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
#germany
Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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German SIG #Germany New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
#germany
Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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Larry Isadore BOBROWSKI and Paul BOBROWSKI
#france
Lemberski Evelyne
Larry Isadore BOBROWSKI and Paul BOBROWSKI
I am looking to meet in contact with Larry Isadore BOBROWSKI and his brother Paul BOBROWSKI who are supposed to live in California. Their father's name was Eliezer Leonard BOBROWSKI born in Samara (Belarus) on 19/05/1919 or 19/05/1920 and their mother Rachel GERZENOWICH born in Pultusk (Poland) on 28/03/1928. Rachel and Eliezer lived in Paris for a few years. Rachel and Eliezer arriv=d in 1952 in the United States. Eliezer was the cousin of my maternal grandfather Max KAMIENIECKI. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have information about Larry Isadore and his brother Paul. Evelyne LEMBERSKI evelynelemberski@yahoo.fr Saint Maurice France
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French SIG #France Larry Isadore BOBROWSKI and Paul BOBROWSKI
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Lemberski Evelyne
Larry Isadore BOBROWSKI and Paul BOBROWSKI
I am looking to meet in contact with Larry Isadore BOBROWSKI and his brother Paul BOBROWSKI who are supposed to live in California. Their father's name was Eliezer Leonard BOBROWSKI born in Samara (Belarus) on 19/05/1919 or 19/05/1920 and their mother Rachel GERZENOWICH born in Pultusk (Poland) on 28/03/1928. Rachel and Eliezer lived in Paris for a few years. Rachel and Eliezer arriv=d in 1952 in the United States. Eliezer was the cousin of my maternal grandfather Max KAMIENIECKI. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have information about Larry Isadore and his brother Paul. Evelyne LEMBERSKI evelynelemberski@yahoo.fr Saint Maurice France
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New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
#france
Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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French SIG #France New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
#france
Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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JOWBR Update
#yiddish
bounce-3675433-772983@...
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest update to the JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. Significant additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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IAJGS Conference Schedule Available; Early-Bird Cutoff Extended
#yiddish
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE ON WEBSITE
The 39th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy is pleased to announce that the program schedule is now live on the Conference website (www.iajgs2019.org). This Conference will be held at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, >from July 28 to August 2, 2019. EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT CUTOFF DATE EXTENDED Early-bird registration for the full Conference at the discounted price of $325 continues through 11:59 PM, CDT (GMT-5), Thursday, May 9, 2019. After that, prices for full registration and spouse/significant other registration will increase by $50. The fees for daily registration and for purchase of the audio recordings will also go up. SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR JEWISH EDUCATORS On Sunday morning there will be a special sub-conference for Jewish educators. It will feature talks >from experts on ways to create a curriculum that will excite young students to study their family histories. A grant will underwrite the cost for up to 35 Cleveland-area educators. For details, look under the PROGRAM tab on the Conference website. PROGRAM OVERVIEW The main Conference will start Sunday morning at 10:15 with the first of some 184 presentations. Sunday will also include the popular SHARE Fair, and the Exhibit Hall will be open. On Sunday afternoon at 2:45, our Keynote Speaker, Daniel Goldmark, Director of the Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University, will describe how Jews contributed to the evolution of rock and roll. That will prepare us for the Sunday evening reception at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, just a few blocks >from the hotel. The "Rock Hall" will be open exclusively for us, and heavy (kosher) hors d'oevres will be served. In addition to the lectures, there will be 11 SIG luncheons during the week, many featuring speakers >from the European areas covered by the SIGs. There will also be 11 "Breakfasts with the Experts" that provide the opportunity to sit down in a small group (maximum 25) with top experts in many facets of Jewish genealogy. The program on Sunday through Wednesday will kick off with workshops for beginners (and those who feel that their skills need some refreshing). They will be led by certified genealogist Dr. Rhoda Miller, Ed.D., who will provide suggestions on how to get started, where to find resources, and how to organize what you are doing. Dr. Miller will also cover how to get the most out of the Conference for those attending their first one. There are over 35 Birds of a Feather (BOF) meetings along with additional SIG meetings. Eleven computer workshops will be offered, limited to 25 attendees each. Participants will need to bring a laptop computer with Internet access. Evening sessions will include the annual JewishGen gathering, which will introduce some major changes coming at that organization. Subsequent evenings will feature the Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture, the ever popular Jewpardy! game show night, and the Gala Banquet, featuring Michael Krasny, well known to NPR and KQED-FM San Francisco listeners. Krasny, a native Clevelander, will discuss the evolution of Jewish humor, the subject of his most recent book "Let There Be Laughter." During the daytime hours, there will be as many as nine sessions at any one time >from which to choose. For most sessions, audio recordings together with the speakers' slides will be available for purchase prior to and during the Conference. This year, there will be no video recording or streaming, so if you want to enjoy the best talks, you need to come to Cleveland. See you there this summer! Jay Sage Communications Chair
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New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
#yiddish
bounce-3679752-772983@...
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre JOWBR Update
#yiddish
bounce-3675433-772983@...
JOWBR Grows Past the 3.4 Million Record Mark!
JewishGen is proud to announce its latest update to the JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you visit our screencast page at www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts. This update, adds approximately 116,600 new records and 29,800 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 430 cemeteries. This update brings JOWBR's holdings to 3.45 million records >from close to 8,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 128 countries! Please note, this update only includes submissions that were made through last November 30th. Anything that was submitted after that will be in the June pre-Conference update. If you have new material to submit, please do so by May 31st to be included in the next update. Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. Significant additions to JOWBR by country include: . Argentina - approximately 11,300 records >from new and existing cemeteries. . Brazil - approximately 7,800 records >from 3 Rio de Janeiro cemeteries . Canada - updated records and 4,250 new and/or improved photos from Montreal area cemeteries . Chechia (Formerly Czech Republic) - approximately 1,500 new records from 6 cemeteries. England - 1,850 records >from 6 cemeteries . France - 3,000 new records covering 68 new or existing cemeteries . Germany -8,650 new records covering 33 new or existing cemeteries . Hungary - 1,750 records >from 3 new cemetery listings . Moldova - added 1,250 new records >from 2 Bessarabia cemeteries . Netherlands - 2,900 records >from 49 new and existing cemeteries . Poland -approximately 4,000 new records >from 14 new and existing cemeteries . Ukraine -approximately 2,600 new records >from 10 new and existing cemeteries . United States - approximately 66,400 new records and 16,300 photos for 76 new and 45 updated cemeteries Please see www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of all cemeteries in JOWBR. I want to particularly thank Eric Feinstein who has been finding and gaining permission to add many non-US records >from Germany, France and under-represented countries. Eric's group of volunteers includes Sandra Bennet, Lyn Bos, Malka Chosnek, George Goldschmied, Ann Meddin Hellmann, Maurice Kessler, Hans Nord, Marilyn Shalks, Deborah Ross, Molly Mark Strauss, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, a big thank you to our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery / cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman NAltman@JewishGen.org JewishGen VP for Data Acquisition April, 2019
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Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre IAJGS Conference Schedule Available; Early-Bird Cutoff Extended
#yiddish
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE NOW AVAILABLE ON WEBSITE
The 39th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy is pleased to announce that the program schedule is now live on the Conference website (www.iajgs2019.org). This Conference will be held at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, >from July 28 to August 2, 2019. EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT CUTOFF DATE EXTENDED Early-bird registration for the full Conference at the discounted price of $325 continues through 11:59 PM, CDT (GMT-5), Thursday, May 9, 2019. After that, prices for full registration and spouse/significant other registration will increase by $50. The fees for daily registration and for purchase of the audio recordings will also go up. SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR JEWISH EDUCATORS On Sunday morning there will be a special sub-conference for Jewish educators. It will feature talks >from experts on ways to create a curriculum that will excite young students to study their family histories. A grant will underwrite the cost for up to 35 Cleveland-area educators. For details, look under the PROGRAM tab on the Conference website. PROGRAM OVERVIEW The main Conference will start Sunday morning at 10:15 with the first of some 184 presentations. Sunday will also include the popular SHARE Fair, and the Exhibit Hall will be open. On Sunday afternoon at 2:45, our Keynote Speaker, Daniel Goldmark, Director of the Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University, will describe how Jews contributed to the evolution of rock and roll. That will prepare us for the Sunday evening reception at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, just a few blocks >from the hotel. The "Rock Hall" will be open exclusively for us, and heavy (kosher) hors d'oevres will be served. In addition to the lectures, there will be 11 SIG luncheons during the week, many featuring speakers >from the European areas covered by the SIGs. There will also be 11 "Breakfasts with the Experts" that provide the opportunity to sit down in a small group (maximum 25) with top experts in many facets of Jewish genealogy. The program on Sunday through Wednesday will kick off with workshops for beginners (and those who feel that their skills need some refreshing). They will be led by certified genealogist Dr. Rhoda Miller, Ed.D., who will provide suggestions on how to get started, where to find resources, and how to organize what you are doing. Dr. Miller will also cover how to get the most out of the Conference for those attending their first one. There are over 35 Birds of a Feather (BOF) meetings along with additional SIG meetings. Eleven computer workshops will be offered, limited to 25 attendees each. Participants will need to bring a laptop computer with Internet access. Evening sessions will include the annual JewishGen gathering, which will introduce some major changes coming at that organization. Subsequent evenings will feature the Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture, the ever popular Jewpardy! game show night, and the Gala Banquet, featuring Michael Krasny, well known to NPR and KQED-FM San Francisco listeners. Krasny, a native Clevelander, will discuss the evolution of Jewish humor, the subject of his most recent book "Let There Be Laughter." During the daytime hours, there will be as many as nine sessions at any one time >from which to choose. For most sessions, audio recordings together with the speakers' slides will be available for purchase prior to and during the Conference. This year, there will be no video recording or streaming, so if you want to enjoy the best talks, you need to come to Cleveland. See you there this summer! Jay Sage Communications Chair
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Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
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JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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New JewishGen Class - Writing Short Reports May 10-May 31
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Nancy Holden
JewishGen will again offer a class in publishing your research. This
class concentrates on writing short reports. Time to get your data out of the shoebox and arrange it in a summary report? A quick, short report is great to send to relatives or other researchers and to remind you just where your last project left off. In this class we will practice writing 3 styles of reports: * a list style, * a lineage style report * a longer Genealogical Summary Report. The instructor will offer directions for using your genealogical software "publishing features," organizing your files and folders, citing your sources and making decisions about media snips and images. Requirements: Students must have done enough research to be ready to write. Students should have access to a genealogical software program and be comfortable with computers. Students must have 8-10 hours per week to study the assignments, write their reports and interact with the instructor. To meet the needs of international students this course is open 24/7. Tuition is $150 for this 3 week class and includes editing suggestions upon request. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. Address questions to: Nancy Holden JewishGen-Education@lyris.JewishGen.org If you have questions, I will be glad to review your project before you enroll. Nancy Holden
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