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Re: GELLERMAN Last name origin
#germany
Gerhard Buck <buckidstein@...>
Lars Menk does not have the surname GELLERMANN (nor variations of it) in
his "Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames". The name means that its first bearer came >from Geldern, a German city between the Lower Rhine and the German-Dutch border. By assimilition of the letters l and d Geldermann became Gellerman. The name may also refer to the Dutch province of Gelderland. Originally the name could mainly be found in the Rhineland near the Netherlands. (Source: Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Namenslexikon. 1967) If you want to see, where this or any other German surname can be found in Germany nowadays, go to the website of the local (= oertlich) telephone directory: www.dasoertliche.de <http://www.dasoertliche.de> and enter the family name on top of the first page. A map will show you all the places, where persons with this name live. I got an interesting result, when I tried it with Kahn. Gerhard Buck, Idstein, Germanybuckidstein@... buckidstein@...
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German SIG #Germany RE: GELLERMAN Last name origin
#germany
Gerhard Buck <buckidstein@...>
Lars Menk does not have the surname GELLERMANN (nor variations of it) in
his "Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames". The name means that its first bearer came >from Geldern, a German city between the Lower Rhine and the German-Dutch border. By assimilition of the letters l and d Geldermann became Gellerman. The name may also refer to the Dutch province of Gelderland. Originally the name could mainly be found in the Rhineland near the Netherlands. (Source: Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Namenslexikon. 1967) If you want to see, where this or any other German surname can be found in Germany nowadays, go to the website of the local (= oertlich) telephone directory: www.dasoertliche.de <http://www.dasoertliche.de> and enter the family name on top of the first page. A map will show you all the places, where persons with this name live. I got an interesting result, when I tried it with Kahn. Gerhard Buck, Idstein, Germanybuckidstein@... buckidstein@...
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Hagedorn help
#general
Neil@...
Can anyone help me to reach these folk??
The emeail address bounced back Dixie and Joe Hagedorn Updated June 28, 2005 Dixie Allen Hagedorn dhagedorn@... thanks-- Neil Rosenstein www.neilrosenstein.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Hagedorn help
#general
Neil@...
Can anyone help me to reach these folk??
The emeail address bounced back Dixie and Joe Hagedorn Updated June 28, 2005 Dixie Allen Hagedorn dhagedorn@... thanks-- Neil Rosenstein www.neilrosenstein.com
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First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#rabbinic
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#scandinavia
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#sephardic
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#yizkorbooks
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#rabbinic
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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Scandinavia SIG #Scandinavia First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#scandinavia
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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Sephardic SIG #Sephardim First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#sephardic
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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Yizkor Books #YizkorBooks First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#yizkorbooks
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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1873 Riga Birth records, 1872 Riga Death records, Main page of my translations of Raduraksti
#latvia
Christine Usdin
Riga 1873 Birth records and 1872 Death records:
http://usdine.free.fr/rigarecordsandcensus.html Main page: http://www.premiumorange.com/rigavitalrecords/ Happy Passover! Christine Usdin
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First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#latvia
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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Latvia SIG #Latvia 1873 Riga Birth records, 1872 Riga Death records, Main page of my translations of Raduraksti
#latvia
Christine Usdin
Riga 1873 Birth records and 1872 Death records:
http://usdine.free.fr/rigarecordsandcensus.html Main page: http://www.premiumorange.com/rigavitalrecords/ Happy Passover! Christine Usdin
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Latvia SIG #Latvia First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#latvia
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#dna
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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DNA Research #DNA First Day Events at International Conference in Boston
#dna
Florence Schumacher, Boston 2013 Publicity Chair
SHARE Fair Will Kick Off International Conference
March 20, 2013 Boston -- The first day of this year's International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will feature a new version of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair. Now called the SHARE Fair, an acronym for SIGs and BOFs, Historical Societies, Archives, Repositories, Eminent Jewish Genealogical Societies, the expanded event will include a broader range of participants. The conference will take place in Boston >from August 4-9, at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Over 1,000 family researchers, >from beginners to experts, are expected to attend. Twenty-one SIGs and nearly 30 BOFs will be participating in the Conference. The SIGs that will be at the SHARE Fair (as of March 3) are: Bessarabia SIG, French SIG, GerSIG (German Jewish), Gesher Galicia (Galicia), H-SIG (Hungarian), JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland), Kremenets District Research Group (Ukraine) Litvak SIG (Lithuania), LARG (Lodz Area Research Group), ROM-SIG (Romania), Sub-Carpathia SIG, UK SIG (United Kingdom), and Ukraine SIG. The BOFs are: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society, Bukovina BOF (Czernowitz - Sadagora Area), Canadian BOF, DNA Project Administrators BOF, Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy, Geni.com Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF, IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association), Jewish Polesie BOF, Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group, Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (Poland), Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF, Mac Users BOF, Next Generation Jewish Genealogists, Novogrod-Volhynsky (Zvhil) BOF (Ukraine), Rohatyn District Research Group (Ukraine), Suchostaw Region Research Group, and Svencionys District BOF. The Fair will be held on Sunday, August 4th >from 1:30-5:00 pm, so attendees can find out what is available locally and make plans to visit the places of interest during the week. Local groups participating include the New England branch of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS), the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Boston Public Library's Map Collection, the Vilna Shul, City of Boston Archives, the Jewish War Veterans, Documenting Old Maine Jewry, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut partnering with the Godfrey Library. During the week of the Conference, the SIGs and BOFs will hold individual meetings for their groups, many with speakers and meals. Some repository groups like the AJHS will make their restricted databases available in the Resource Room during the week for attendees to examine their holdings in detail. At the opening plenary session on Sunday evening, the keynote speaker will be Aaron Lansky, founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center. Mr. Lansky is responsible for revitalizing the study of Yiddish literature and language and motivating hundreds of young scholars to study and teach Yiddish. He has saved over a million Yiddish books since he started collecting them as a 23-year old graduate student in 1980. His mission to rescue Yiddish literature earned him a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1985. The remaining four and a half days will feature 250 programs on a rich and varied range of topics. The program Committee is putting the final touches on these and will announce them shortly. So plan to arrive in time to enjoy these important first-day events. Register today to take advantage of the early registration discount, which expires on April 30th. For more information or to register, visit iajgs2013.org. Co-hosts of the conference are the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Florence Schumacher Publicity Chair 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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