This event will take place on a Thursday evening, please note the irregular date/time.

Program Description: This program continues JGSGB’s series of artificial intelligence topics, and will be helpful whether or not you attended prior presentations.  Using AI tools effectively can accelerate your research … Continue reading Blaine Bettinger – 10 Generative AI Prompts Every Genealogist Needs to Know →

Program Description: Enid Cherenson will explore incredible wartime survival stories and her work ferreting out the details featured in the book Childhood on the Run. A young boy escapes from Vienna … Continue reading Enid Cherenson – Escape from Vienna: Two Cousins, Two Journeys →

Program Description: A century ago, Susan Liebman’s four-year-old uncle was said to have been killed when his mother’s heavy dressmaker's mirror fell on him. Had it really? Digging into old … Continue reading Susan Leibman – The Dressmaker’s Mirror: A Family Secret, a Deadly Gene, and the Records That Told the Truth →

Program Description: Genealogists are more than familiar with passenger lists for immigrant arrivals in American ports. However, that is only half of the puzzle. What about where they left from? … Continue reading Logan Knight – Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934 →

Program Description: Eighty-four years after the Jews of Šeduva (Lithuania) were murdered in the Holocaust, the Lost Shtetl Museum opened there. The museum's exhibits and memorial grounds will be highlighted … Continue reading Marlene Englander – The Lost Shtetl Museum: Jewish Lives Remembered in Šeduva, Lithuania →

Program Description: By focusing on the legal restrictions on residency, movement and occupations imposed on the Jewish population in the Pale of Settlement, this talk explores the impact of prejudice … Continue reading Elissa Bemporad – The Boundaries of Belonging: Jewish Life in the Pale of Settlement →