As a sign of our times, there was a conspicuous presence of security people
at the Jewish conference in Toronto. Garry Stein of the hosting society told
me the conference was the largest Jewish conference to be held in Canada so
far this year. The conference area was in a sub-basement of the Sheraton
Centre Hotel making it easier to isolate the events. People wanting access
to the area had to pass security guards, not of the type you see at exits to
department stores, but more like ex-Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There
were two security men there that were obviously Israelis. The extra security
had no impact on the conference attendees. For example, there were no metal
detector screenings or searches of personal belongings--you just knew the
security people were there.

Audio tapes are available ...Order forms for the Jewish
conference can be gotten by e-mailing Metro Media, vkirton@sympatico.ca.
Include your mailing address. Cost per tape is CDN$10.00 plus shipping. All
U.S. national conferences and some past Jewish conferences are taped by
Audiotapes.com. For example, there are 51 tapes of my past lectures--some
repeat topics as I tend to give updated versions of the same topic at the
various annual conferences. Price is $8.50 plus shipping. The genealogy
portion of their Web site is at
http://www.audiotapes.com/browse.asp?topic=1.

<snip>

Future conferences for IAJGS are:
Washington, DC - July 20-25, 2003
Jerusalem - 2004
Las Vegas - 2005

As a sign of our times, there was a conspicuous presence of security people
at the Jewish conference in Toronto. Garry Stein of the hosting society told
me the conference was the largest Jewish conference to be held in Canada so
far this year. The conference area was in a sub-basement of the Sheraton
Centre Hotel making it easier to isolate the events. People wanting access
to the area had to pass security guards, not of the type you see at exits to
department stores, but more like ex-Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There
were two security men there that were obviously Israelis. The extra security
had no impact on the conference attendees. For example, there were no metal
detector screenings or searches of personal belongings--you just knew the
security people were there.

Audio tapes are available ...Order forms for the Jewish
conference can be gotten by e-mailing Metro Media, vkirton@sympatico.ca.
Include your mailing address. Cost per tape is CDN$10.00 plus shipping. All
U.S. national conferences and some past Jewish conferences are taped by
Audiotapes.com. For example, there are 51 tapes of my past lectures--some
repeat topics as I tend to give updated versions of the same topic at the
various annual conferences. Price is $8.50 plus shipping. The genealogy
portion of their Web site is at
http://www.audiotapes.com/browse.asp?topic=1.

<snip>

Future conferences for IAJGS are:
Washington, DC - July 20-25, 2003
Jerusalem - 2004
Las Vegas - 2005

From: korman3@ix.netcom.com (korman3)
Reply-to: korman3@ix.netcom.com (korman3)
To: h-sig@lyris.jewishgen.org (Hungarian SIG)
Could someone give us an update on the HSIG meeting and the Hungarian
and Slovak lectures in Toronto?

Thanks
Debbi
Los Angeles

Moderator VK: We're organizing our notes >from the H-SIG business meeting
and hope to get a report to you this weekend. I encourage anyone who has
notes or comments on sessions of interest to H-SIG members to submit
messages on this subject.

From: korman3@ix.netcom.com (korman3)
Reply-to: korman3@ix.netcom.com (korman3)
To: h-sig@lyris.jewishgen.org (Hungarian SIG)
Could someone give us an update on the HSIG meeting and the Hungarian
and Slovak lectures in Toronto?

Thanks
Debbi
Los Angeles

Moderator VK: We're organizing our notes >from the H-SIG business meeting
and hope to get a report to you this weekend. I encourage anyone who has
notes or comments on sessions of interest to H-SIG members to submit
messages on this subject.