This event will take place on a Thursday evening, please note the irregular date/time. JGSGB members: Program is free. Members do not need to register.You can find the Zoom link … Continue reading Richard K. Miller – How to Do More Genealogy in Less Time with Goldie May’s Genealogy Tools →

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 contributed to the research, translation and annotation of Rachel Karni’s powerful Holocaust book Childhood on the Run. Enid made breakthroughs and forged new international connections, uncovering … 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: Explore the trades that were the heartbeat of shtetl life. What roles did tailors, shoemakers, and merchants play, and what hidden skills did they master? What professions were … Continue reading Evgenia Kempinski – Shtetl Trades: How Our Ancestors Made a Living →

  Nancy Korn - From Breslau to Britain: German Jewish Refugee in Kitchener Camp and British Army Pioneer Corps   Program Description: Using photographs and personal letters, Nancy Korn will … Continue reading Nancy Korn & Fay Bussgang – Celebrating Our Members’ Stories →

Program Description: This talk demonstrates how, step by step, you can work backwards in time to find records that will help you trace your family from the U.S. back to … Continue reading Alan Shuchat – Tracing a Family From Brooklyn Back to “Russia”, Step-by-Step →

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 →