|
Saturday, July 22
|
| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
Type of Session |
|
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
|
| 2539 |
Ostrow Mazowiecka BOF
|
|
Dove |
BOF
|
|
Sunday, July 23
|
| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
Type of Session |
|
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM
|
| 2601 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Outreach for Societies and Organization Leaders
|
Ellen Kowitt
Shipley Munson
|
Toucan 1 |
|
|
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
|
| 2703 |
New Attendee Welcome & Orientation
|
|
Swan 10 |
|
|
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
|
| 2342 |
EXPO! RootsMagic: Your Home Base for Online Research
|
Bruce Buzbee
RootsMagic, Inc.
|
Osprey 2 |
|
| 2602 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Casually Curious Survey Results
|
Shipley Munson
|
Toucan 1 |
|
| 2063 |
Essential Jewish Genealogical Research Part 1
|
Nancy Adelson
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2322 |
EXPO! DNA Matching at MyHeritage
|
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2208 |
Hatched, Matched and Dispatched: Vital Record Research
|
C. Ann Staley
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2012 |
LIVE! The Immigrant Voyage
|
Phyllis Kramer
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2270 |
LIVE! JRI-Poland 101: Discovering Hidden Treasure in the JRI-Poland Database
|
Robinn Magid
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
|
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
|
| 2339 |
EXPO! Family Tree DNA
|
Bennett Greenspan
FamilyTreeDNA
|
Osprey 1 |
|
| 2603 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Event Playbooks
|
Ellen Kowitt
Marlis Humphrey
|
Toucan 1 |
|
| 2064 |
Essential Jewish Genealogical Research Part 2
|
Nancy Adelson
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2329 |
EXPO! Ancestry Tools for Sharing Family Stories
|
Crista Cowan
Ancestry.com
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2205 |
LIVE! Jewish Records Indexing - Poland; Where Do We Go From Here?
|
Stanley Diamond
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2007 |
LIVE! Ships of our Ancestors
|
Hal Bookbinder
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2247 |
Personalizing History
|
Janette Silverman
AncestryProGenealogists
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
|
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 2167 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Israel Research using IGRA's AID Resources
|
Garri Regev
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
|
| 2097 |
EXPO! Discovering Your Family History with MyHeritage Unique Technologies
|
Daniel Horowitz
MyHeritage
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2114 |
EXPO! Putting Your DNA Matches to Work (Ancestry)
|
Anna Swayne
Ancestry
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
|
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
|
| 2523 |
YDNA Project Administrators BOF Brown Bag lunch
|
|
Pelican 2 |
BOF
|
| 2303 |
Brown Bag Luncheon: More than 250 Years of Jewish Life in Florida
|
Marcia Zerivitz, LHD
|
Pelican 1 |
Presentation
|
| 3001 |
$$$ JRI-Poland Luncheon: When a Community Comes Back to Poland: The Lubliners
|
Robinn Magid
|
Mockingbird 1 |
$$$ Luncheon
|
|
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
|
| 6000 |
SHARE Fair
|
|
Swan Foyer |
|
|
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
|
| 4000 |
Resource Room
|
|
Macaw 1 |
|
|
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
|
| 2605 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Promoting Your Event
|
Marlis Humphrey
Shipley Munson
|
Toucan 1 |
|
| 2321 |
EXPO! Getting the Most Out of Family Tree Maker
|
Duff Wilson
Family Tree Maker
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2213 |
EXPO! The FamilySearch Website - Demystified
|
C. Ann Staley
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2283 |
How Immigration Bureaucracy Helps Find Our Ancestors
|
Mark Fearer
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2254 |
LIVE! DNA 101: Solving Research Problems with DNA Testing (YDNA, atDNA, mtDNA)
|
Rachel Unkefer
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2320 |
LIVE! The Inquisition: The Jews Who Left
|
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2271 |
My Dear Children and the Story of the Post-WWI Anti-Jewish Massacres
|
LeeAnn Dance
Feiga's Choice, LLC
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2006 |
The Changing Borders of Eastern Europe
|
Hal Bookbinder
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
|
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
|
| 5030 |
Film: They Came for Good: A History of the Jews in the U.S. - Present at the Creation, 1654-1820
|
|
Swan 7 |
|
|
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
|
| 2140 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Introduction to JewishGen
|
Debra Kay-Blatt
Jane Tobias
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
|
| 5033 |
Film: They Came for Good: A History of the Jews in the U.S. - Taking Root, 1820-1880
|
|
Swan 7 |
|
|
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
|
| 2340 |
EXPO! The Geni.com World Family Tree
|
E Randol Schoenberg
|
Osprey 2 |
|
| 2606 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: GoToMeeting & GotToWebinar for Societies and Organization Leaders
|
Jeanette Rosenberg
Mark Nicholls
JGSGB
|
Toucan 1 |
|
| 2517 |
Warszawa Research Group
|
|
Parrot 2 |
Meeting
|
| 2107 |
CSI: Crowd Sourced Indexing
|
Banai Lynn Feldstein
Feldstein Genealogy Services
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2180 |
Intro to JewishGen and Jewish Genealogy
|
Avraham Groll
JewishGen
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2059 |
LIVE! Real-World Examples of the Frustrations of Endogamy (Autosomal)
|
Lara Diamond
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2319 |
LIVE! The Inquisition: The Jews Who Stayed
|
Genie Milgrom
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2186 |
Using the VA to Obtain Records on Deceased Veterans
|
James Gross
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
|
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
|
| 5016 |
Film: "Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
|
| 2074 |
$$$ JRI-Poland Beginner's Computer Workshop
|
Hadassah Lipsius
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
|
| 2522 |
Descendants of Musicians BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2607 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Crowdsourcing Project Success Factors
|
Shipley Munson
Daniel Horowitz
MyHeritage
Banai Lynn Feldstein
Feldstein Genealogy Services
|
Toucan 1 |
|
| 2110 |
LIVE! Jewish Genealogy: How Is This Research Different from All Other Research?
|
Janice M. Sellers
Ancestral Discoveries
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2127 |
Searching the Family History – Step by Step
|
Anna Royzner
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2315 |
Technology for Creating Cousin Bait that Works
|
Tammy Hepps
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2013 |
You've Found the Town, Now What?
|
Phyllis Kramer
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2257 |
LIVE! DNA 201: Before Surnames: Y DNA Lineage Research (Next Steps/Mentoring)
|
Gil Bardige
Rachel Unkefer
|
Swan 3 |
Panel Discussion
|
|
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
|
| 5015 |
Film: "No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
|
| 2600 |
IAJGS President's Reception (Invited Guests Only)
|
|
Pelican 1 |
|
|
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
|
| 2332 |
LIVE! Keynote: Alexander Hamilton, the Jews and the American Revolution
|
Robert Watson
Lynn University
|
Swan 5A/6A |
Keynote Address
|
|
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
|
| 2700 |
Dessert Reception
|
|
Swan Foyer |
Reception
|
|
10:00 PM - 10:30 PM
|
| 5022 |
Film: "Sons of Liberty: Haym Salomon"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
Monday, July 24
|
| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
Type of Session |
|
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM
|
| 3050 |
FamilySearch Breakfast (by invitation only)
|
|
Pelican 1 |
Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner
|
| 2608 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Graphics Tools Workshop for Societies and Organization Leaders
|
Binyamin Lewis
|
Swan 8 |
|
|
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
|
| 2533 |
Kupiskis and Rokiskis SIG
|
|
Parrot 2 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2272 |
Jewish Life in Poland - Part 1 (10th-15th centuries)
|
Avraham Groll
JewishGen
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2166 |
Latvian Family Research: The Process of Discovery, Recording, and Preserving for Future Generations
|
Henry Blumberg
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2207 |
LIVE! Finding Your Kaplans: How to Research Common Names
|
Mindie Kaplan
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2154 |
LIVE! Get the Kids Involved: How to Teach Genealogy to Students
|
E Randol Schoenberg
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2037 |
Sephardic Research: The "Other" Side of Jewish Genealogy
|
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2121 |
The Blank Box Became a Person
|
Paul Gardner
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2334 |
The Nazi Titanic
|
Robert Watson
Lynn University
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2008 |
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
|
Hal Bookbinder
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
|
8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
|
| 2314 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Using the Double Match Triangulator for Autosomal DNA Analysis
|
Louis Kessler
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
|
| 4000 |
Resource Room
|
|
Macaw 1 |
|
|
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
|
| 2534 |
Lida and Oshmiany Districts BOF (Lithuania and Belarus)
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2026 |
Beyond a Doubt: What We Know vs. What We Can Prove
|
Israel Pickholtz
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2273 |
Jewish Life in Poland - Part 2 (16th-18th centuries)
|
Avraham Groll
JewishGen
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2268 |
Latvian Genealogy: The Road Ahead
|
Henry Blumberg
Eric Benjaminson
University of Oregon
Ella Barkan
|
Swan 2 |
Panel Discussion
|
| 2157 |
LIVE! Galicia Basics: What Every Galitzianer Needs to Know
|
Shelley K. Pollero
Renee Steinig
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2295 |
LIVE! Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victim's Names and other Yad Vashem Resources for Beginners
|
Serafima Velkovich
Yad Vashem
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2265 |
Preserving Your Family Papers, Photographs, Books, and Digital Materials for Future Generations
|
Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2027 |
The History of Passports and Passports of Famous Individuals in the U.S.
|
Phil Goldfarb
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
|
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
|
| 5028 |
Film: "The Last Journey: The Lost Jews of Russia"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
|
| 5024 |
Film: "Standing on the Shoulders of Sholem Aleichem"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 2095 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Planting a Family Tree Online in MyHeritage.com
|
Daniel Horowitz
MyHeritage
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
|
| 2502 |
Belarus SIG
|
|
Toucan 1 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2525 |
Geni.com BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2507 |
Gesher Galicia SIG
|
|
Swan 2 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2274 |
Jewish Migration Patterns – Part 1 (How Did Jews Get To Europe?)
|
Avraham Groll
JewishGen
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2135 |
LIVE! Reading Between the Lines: Discovering What is Not Said in Archival Documents
|
Michael J. Simonson
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2133 |
LIVE! Finding, Assembling, and Digitizing the History of Jewish Settlement in the Republic of Panama
|
Robert Jacobvitz
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami
Lyanne Wassermann
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2185 |
Passing the Torch: A Memorable Journey with my Son and Grandson to Latvia and Lithuania
|
Henry Blumberg
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2088 |
Write What You Know
|
Joan Adler
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2155 |
You Found the Records - Now What? Records Analysis for the Jewish Genealogist
|
Marion Werle
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
|
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 5020 |
Film: "Routes to Roots: Rediscovering Jewish Poland and Ukraine"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
|
|
Avotaynu Working Group (invitation only)
|
|
Teal |
|
| 2299 |
$$$ Belarus SIG Luncheon: A 25-year Grass Roots Effort to Access and Index Records for Lyakhovichi, Belarus
|
Gary Palgon
|
Pelican 1 |
$$$ Luncheon
|
| 2057 |
$$$ Gesher Galicia Luncheon: Learning the ABC in Galicia
|
Andrew Zalewski
|
Mockingbird 1 |
$$$ Luncheon
|
|
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
|
| 5006 |
Film: "Ashkenaz: The Music of Eastern European Jewry"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
|
| 5011 |
Film: "Europe: Toward the Twentieth Century"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
|
| 2337 |
Belarus SIG - New Database!
|
David Feldman
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2521 |
Chernigov Gubernia BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2062 |
The Story of Galicia: Vital Records, Maps, Censuses and Much More
|
Andrew Zalewski
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2094 |
How to Access Burial Data in Israel
|
Daniel Horowitz
MyHeritage
|
Swan 2 |
Panel Discussion
|
| 2275 |
Jewish Migration Patterns – Part 2 (Spain and Germany)
|
Avraham Groll
JewishGen
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2025 |
Lessons in Jewish DNA – One Man's Successes and What He Learned On the Journey (Autosomal)
|
Israel Pickholtz
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2221 |
LIVE! Jewish Portugal: Past and Present
|
Genie Milgrom
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2124 |
LIVE! A Young Man On the Quest for His Own Hungarian Past
|
Dejan Süc
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2323 |
Top Ancestry Search Tips and Tricks
|
Crista Cowan
Ancestry.com
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
|
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
|
| 2101 |
$$$ Jewish Records Indexing-Poland Intermediate Workshop
|
Hadassah Lipsius
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
|
| 5001 |
Film: "Zerach: A Refugee and Remnant"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
|
| 2544 |
Hungarian SIG
|
|
Parrot 2 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2545 |
Israel Research BOF
|
|
Pelican 2 |
|
| 2548 |
Webmasters Roundtable BOF
|
|
Dove |
BOF
|
| 2240 |
Ancestral Towns May Not Have Been So Ancestral
|
Lara Diamond
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2239 |
Crypto-Judaic Studies Panel
|
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Genie Milgrom
Bennett Greenspan
FamilyTreeDNA
|
Swan 2 |
Panel Discussion
|
| 2255 |
LIVE! DNA 301: What Y-DNA Lineages Can Tell Us About Jewish History and Migration (BigY)
|
Michael Waas
Adam Brown
Janet Akaha
Rachel Unkefer
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2139 |
LIVE! Who's Your Daddy? Finding My Mother's Father
|
Debra Kay-Blatt
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2053 |
Patronymic Naming and the Genealogical Value of Jewish Cemetery Records
|
Nolan Altman
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2039 |
Planning a Future for Your Family’s Past: Organize Your Genealogy and Share with Future Generations
|
Marian Wood
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2312 |
The Search for Miklos Reismann and the Rescue of Jewish Children in Budapest, 1944-45
|
Peter Tarjan
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
|
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
|
| 5010 |
Film: "Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
|
| 2285 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Making The Most of FamilySearch for Jewish Research
|
W. Todd Knowles
FamilySearch
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
|
| 2530 |
Kobrin Uyezd Jewish Research Group
|
|
Parrot 2 |
Meeting
|
| 2514 |
Sub-Carpathia SIG
|
Lara Diamond
|
Pelican 1 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2159 |
Landsmanshaftn World
|
Avrohom Krauss
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2289 |
LIVE! The DNA of the Jewish People
|
Bennett Greenspan
FamilyTreeDNA
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2123 |
LIVE! The Twilight Zone: Research Areas that Formerly Belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary
|
Dejan Süc
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2137 |
My Cousin Joseph, the Latvian Holocaust, and New Regional Research Techniques
|
Eric Benjaminson
University of Oregon
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2199 |
My Journey into my Dutch Ancestry
|
Steven Jaron
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2336 |
Sephardi Voices: Iberian Exile, Sephardi Roots, Florida Heritage
|
Henry Green
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2244 |
Tante Freida was Almost Deported by the Feds!
|
Gary Gans
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2260 |
The Family Archive as a Genealogical Resource
|
Noam Silberberg
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
|
7:30 PM - 9:10 PM
|
| 5002 |
Film: "A Brivele der Mamen (A Letter to Mother)"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
|
| 2327 |
LIVE! Keynote: Setting the Record Straight: The DNA and Yiddish Origins of Ashkenazi Jewry
|
Harry Ostrer
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Alexander Beider
|
Swan 3 |
Keynote Address
|
|
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM
|
| 5032 |
Film: "Zamke: One Story, A Thousand Thoughts"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
Tuesday, July 25
|
| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
Type of Session |
|
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM
|
| 2609 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: MailChimp Workshop for Societies and Organization Leaders
|
Marlis Humphrey
|
Swan 8 |
|
| 2617 |
IAJGS Unaffiliated Breakfast (by invitation only)
|
|
Pelican 2 |
|
| 3002 |
$$$ Tracing The Tribe Breakfast: Genealogy on Facebook
|
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
|
Pelican 1 |
$$$ Breakfast
|
|
7:15 AM - 8:30 AM
|
| 2549 |
Bloggers' Brown Bag Breakfast
|
|
Dove |
Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner
|
|
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
|
| 2174 |
Death Certificates, Obits, Headstones, Probate Records – What Our Ancestors Have Been Dying to Tell Us
|
Kenneth Bravo
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2230 |
LIVE! 5 Keys to Involving Next Generation Genealogists
|
Jeffrey Schrager
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2206 |
LIVE! Organize and Share your Genealogy: Methods from the Library of Congress
|
Mindie Kaplan
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2225 |
Protected Jews – A Misleading Translation of Schutzjuden
|
Gerhard Buck
Roger Lustig
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2326 |
Q&A on Ashkenazi Surnames with Dr. Alexander Beider
|
Alexander Beider
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2055 |
Seeking Kin Database - Its Content and Importance
|
Roberta Jaffer
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2197 |
Tabula Registers: A Untapped Genealogical Resource in the Lviv Archives, Ukraine
|
Alexander Dunai
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2009 |
Why Did Our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place Like The Pale?
|
Hal Bookbinder
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
|
8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
|
| 2309 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Mastering FTDNA GAP Tools
|
James Brewster
FamilyTreeDNA
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
|
| 4000 |
Resource Room
|
|
Macaw 1 |
|
|
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
|
| 2541 |
Suwalk Gubernia BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2516 |
United Kingdom SIG
|
|
Dove |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2081 |
Filling in the In-Between
|
Rose Feldman
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2018 |
How to Preserve your Precious Family Research in Books, Easily and Inexpensively
|
Merle Kastner
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2052 |
Illuminating the Lives of Your 19th-Century Polish Ancestors
|
Judith Frazin
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2232 |
LIVE! A Journey into the Life of the Jews of France in the 20th Century
|
Patrick Atlas
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2251 |
LIVE! How to Trace Surviving Family Members in the Czech Vital Records
|
Julius Müller
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2156 |
Never Give Up! Taking Your Genealogy Research to the Next Level or Finding the Previously Unfindable
|
Marion Werle
|
Pelican 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2179 |
Newspapers – Researching Your Family Stories
|
Kenneth Bravo
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2325 |
Origins of Jews from North Africa
|
Alexander Beider
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2045 |
Ukraine SIG 101 Presentation
|
Janette Silverman
AncestryProGenealogists
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
|
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
|
| 5031 |
Film: "Without The Past"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
10:30 AM - 11:40 AM
|
| 5004 |
Film: "Absent"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 2306 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Y-DNA Analysis
|
Rachel Unkefer
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
|
| 2509 |
Latvia SIG
|
Arlene Beare
Marion Werle
|
Parrot 2 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2075 |
Archival resources in Poland - where to begin? The case of the Wislicki family
|
Michal Majewski
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2142 |
Beyond the Manifest: Methods for Confirming One’s Ancestral Origins
|
Emily Garber
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2184 |
INS Subject Index: Jewish Refugee files from WWI and WWII
|
James Gross
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2109 |
LIVE! Using Online Historical Jewish Newspapers for Genealogical Research
|
Janice M. Sellers
Ancestral Discoveries
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2152 |
LIVE! What's New in Austrian and Czech Jewish Genealogy?
|
E Randol Schoenberg
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2073 |
My Family: I Could Write a Book
|
Joan Adler
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2134 |
Sephardic Origin of the Surname Portillo and other Surnames: Hypothesis of its Sephardic History
|
Arandi Melgar
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2048 |
Ukraine SIG 102 The Next Level
|
Janette Silverman
AncestryProGenealogists
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
|
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
|
| 2250 |
$$$ Austria-Czechoslovakia Luncheon: Migration to Bigger Towns after 1867, But How to Trace Where They Moved to?
|
Julius Müller
|
Pelican 1 |
$$$ Luncheon
|
| 2103 |
$$$ Ukraine SIG Luncheon: The Trip of a Lifetime – And Then Another, One Year Later
|
Phyllis Berenson
|
Mockingbird 1 |
$$$ Luncheon $$$ Luncheon
|
|
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM
|
| 5014 |
Film: "Lies My Father Told Me"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
|
| 2501 |
Austria-Czech SIG
|
|
Pelican 1 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2515 |
Ukraine SIG
|
|
Mockingbird 1 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2066 |
Facebook for Collaborative Family History Research
|
Beverly Margolies
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2024 |
GEDmatch.com's Lazarus Tool As It Applies to Two Kinds of Endogamy (Autosomal)
|
Israel Pickholtz
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2226 |
Jewish Soldiers in the Armies of Napoleon
|
Nicolas Coiffait
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2223 |
LIVE! 517 Years of Jewish Presence in Brazil: Practical Tips & Tools for Genealogical Research
|
Israel Blajberg
Jewish Memorial
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2222 |
LIVE! Records Access and Privacy: At a Crossroads
|
Dick Eastman
Jan Meisels Allen
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2231 |
What Makes Genealogy So Compelling?
|
Mary Grover Ehrgood
Sallyann Sack-Pikus
Jeffrey Schrager
|
Swan 2 |
Panel Discussion
|
| 2243 |
Yizkor Books: An Amazing Shtetl Resource
|
Gary Gans
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
|
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
|
| 2542 |
Svencionys District Research
|
|
Dove |
Meeting
|
| 2261 |
A Vast Online Library: Finding Family History in [Free!] Books on the Internet
|
Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2183 |
A Y-DNA Haplogroup Project
|
Sidney Sachs
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2209 |
City Directories - A Line-by-Line Account of Our Ancestors
|
C. Ann Staley
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2200 |
Family Stories in a Shoe Box
|
Ella Barkan
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2120 |
Learn How My German-Jewish Genealogy Case Study Can Help You With Your Own Family History
|
Jeanette Rosenberg
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2293 |
LIVE! How Can the Next Generation Use Documentation to Reconstruct Personal Stories of Holocaust Survivors?
|
Serafima Velkovich
Yad Vashem
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2288 |
LIVE! Using the Gesher Galicia Website and All Galicia Database to Research Towns and Families
|
Brooke Ganz
Reclaim the Records
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2234 |
Lodz Area Research Group (LARG) Meeting
|
Debra Kay-Blatt
|
Parrot 2 |
Meeting
|
| 2092 |
The Volynian Quiz
|
Alex Denysenko
|
Mockingbird 1 |
Presentation
|
|
3:30 PM - 6:10 PM
|
| 5007 |
Film: "Barbeque People"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
|
| 2508 |
JRI-Poland Volunteers Meeting
|
|
Mockingbird 1 |
Meeting
|
| 2513 |
Southern Africa SIG
|
|
Parrot 2 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2164 |
Charting: A Tool for Evaluation and Data Display
|
Avrohom Krauss
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2175 |
From Generation to Generation: Sharing your Family History
|
Carol Hoffman
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2168 |
GenealogyIndexer.org: New Sources, New Ways to Search
|
Logan Kleinwaks
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2202 |
LIVE! A Headstone, a Plate, a Strange Pedigree: Researching German Jewish Families in the 1700s
|
Gerhard Buck
Karen S. Franklin
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2113 |
LIVE! Genealogical Research of Caribbean Conversos via Inquisitorial Documents of the Archivo Historico Nacional in Madrid
|
Eugenio Alonso
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2172 |
Locating Your Ancestors’ Naturalization Records – A Tool For Finding Your Family’s Shtetl and Other Information
|
Kenneth Bravo
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2301 |
The DNA of Reuniting Family: The Strauss Family Experience (YDNA/Autosomal)
|
Mark Strauss
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2276 |
The Origins of Hassidism
|
Avraham Groll
JewishGen
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
|
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
|
| 2051 |
LIVE! The Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture: 1917: A Turning Point in American Jewish History (Sponsored by JGSLA)
|
Hasia Diner
New York University
|
Swan 3 |
Keynote Address
|
|
9:30 PM - 11:10 PM
|
| 5008 |
Film: "Casablanca"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
Wednesday, July 26
|
| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
Type of Session |
|
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM
|
| 2560 |
Brown Bag Breakfast with the Experts: Duff Wilson, Family Tree Maker
|
|
Pelican 2 |
Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner
|
| 2610 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Fundraising Workshop for Societies and Organization Leaders
|
Jane Berenbeim
|
Swan 8 |
|
| 3000 |
$$$ Breakfast Q&A with the German Research Experts
|
Alex Calzareth
Jeanette Rosenberg
Roger Lustig
|
Pelican 1 |
$$$ Breakfast
|
|
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
|
| 2704 |
Proposed New Database of Kiev and Ukrainian Archival Records
|
Sallyann Sack-Pikus
Nadia Lipes
|
Parrot 2 |
|
| 2341 |
Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way
|
Hasia Diner
New York University
|
Osprey 2 |
|
| 2290 |
LIVE! Visiting Poland: Everything You Should Know Before Coming to Your Ancestral Town
|
Witold Wrzosinski
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2130 |
LIVE! How to Find Ancestors in German Archives – and Why?
|
Bettina Joergens
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2112 |
Online Doesn’t Mean Free: Copyright Issues for Genealogy
|
Janice M. Sellers
Ancestral Discoveries
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2096 |
Reuniting Holocaust Survivors … Not Mission Impossible
|
Daniel Horowitz
MyHeritage
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2016 |
The Polish Inter-wars Parliament Voters' Lists a Source for Genealogy
|
Alex Denysenko
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2023 |
Why Did My Father Know That His Grandfather Had An Uncle Selig?
|
Israel Pickholtz
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2049 |
Your Litvak Roots
|
Carol Hoffman
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
|
8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
|
| 2307 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Getting Started with GEDMatch (Autosomal DNA)
|
Sandy Aaronson
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM
|
| 4000 |
Resource Room
|
|
Macaw 1 |
|
|
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
|
| 2519 |
Bukovina BOF
|
|
Osprey 2 |
BOF
|
| 2529 |
JGS Newsletter Editors BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2136 |
Clued-In: Interpreting Real Photo Postcards from the Diaspora
|
Ava Cohn
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2070 |
Enhancing Your Litvak Research
|
Judy Baston
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2298 |
LIVE! The JDC Archives and What We Have to Offer Jewish Genealogists
|
Linda Levi
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2249 |
LIVE! The Gatermann and RSA Films: A Tragic Treasure
|
Roger Lustig
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2126 |
Multimedia Presentation: Ukrainian Shtetlah of Ivano -Frankivsk Region Then and Now
|
Anna Royzner
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2069 |
My Adoption Search: Follow My Journey in Solving the Puzzle, Piece by Piece
|
Jean Moss
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2054 |
Reconstructing Small-Town Jewish Communities in America: A Case Study
|
Tammy Hepps
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
|
10:00 AM - 11:20 AM
|
| 5021 |
Film: "Saved by Deportation"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 2117 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Mind Maps and Concept Maps for Genealogy
|
Ron Arons
|
Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
|
|
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 2546 |
Litvak SIG
|
|
Swan 9 |
SIG Meeting
|
|
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
|
| 2506 |
GerSIG
|
|
Osprey 2 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2536 |
Lublin and Zamosc Area BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2163 |
City Council Elections as a Source for Genealogical Research – a Case of Interwar Czestochowa
|
Magdalena Mizgalska-Osowiecka
Museum of the History of Polish Jews
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2313 |
Last Letters from Hungary: My Family's Internal Correspondence During the Holocaust
|
Peter Tarjan
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2144 |
LIVE! Learning Our Craft: Online Opportunities for Improving Our Research Skills
|
Emily Garber
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2294 |
LIVE! The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names and Other Sources at Yad Vashem
|
Serafima Velkovich
Yad Vashem
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2105 |
Search as an Art
|
Banai Lynn Feldstein
Feldstein Genealogy Services
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2196 |
Shtetl Travel throughout Ukraine
|
Alexander Dunai
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
|
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 5013 |
Film: "Kinder-Exodus 1939"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
|
| 5025 |
Film: "The Double Crossing: The Voyage of the St. Louis"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
|
| 5023 |
Film: "Sosua: Haven in the Caribbean"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
|
| 2352 |
Sephardi SIG Meeting and Brown Bag Lunch: AvotaynuDNA Sephardi Project
|
Michael Waas
Joyce Ben-Ezra
Adam Brown
|
Toucan 1 |
Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner
|
| 2131 |
$$$ German SIG Luncheon: Dr. Bettina Joergens, State Archives of North-Rhine-Westphalia
|
Bettina Joergens
|
Pelican 1 |
$$$ Luncheon
|
| 2331 |
$$$ Litvak SIG Luncheon: Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
|
Elisa New
Harvard University
|
Mockingbird 1 |
$$$ Luncheon
|
|
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
|
| 5029 |
Film: "The Last Refuge: The Story of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
|
| 2532 |
Suchostaw Region Research Group (SRRG)
|
|
Parrot 2 |
Meeting
|
| 2318 |
Bessarabia/Moldova: Questions and Answers
|
Yefim Kogan
|
Swan 8 |
Presentation
|
| 2138 |
Finding 400 Needles in a Haystack of 6 Million
|
Chuck Weinstein
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2324 |
Jewish Records on Ancestry
|
Crista Cowan
Ancestry.com
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2219 |
LIVE! From the Spanish Inquisition to the Present: A Search for Jewish Roots
|
Genie Milgrom
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2194 |
LIVE! Polish Magnate Landowner Records: Bringing "The Lords' Jews" to Life
|
Alexander Dunai
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2162 |
Social Services for the Jewish Community
|
Avrohom Krauss
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2143 |
When It Takes a Village: Applying Cluster Research Techniques
|
Emily Garber
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2079 |
When Y-DNA and Yichus Tell Different Stories
|
Jeffrey Paull
A Noble Heritage
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
|
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
|
| 5017 |
Film: "Persona Non Grata"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
|
| 2618 |
IAJGS Annual Meeting
|
|
Swan 9 |
|
|
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
|
| 2503 |
BialyGen SIG
|
Judy Baston
|
Pelican 1 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2526 |
Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF
|
|
Dove |
|
| 2527 |
Kolbuszowza Region BOF (KRRG)
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2317 |
Bessarabia SIG Progress and the Future
|
Yefim Kogan
|
Swan 8 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2256 |
DNA 401: The Keys to Successful DNA Projects
|
Gil Bardige
Adam Brown
Janet Akaha
|
Osprey 2 |
Panel Discussion
|
| 2022 |
Ensuring Against Forgetting: the Arthur Obermayer Awards of 2017
|
Michael J. Simonson
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2328 |
LIVE! Migration of Jews to the Caribbean
|
Ainsley Henriques
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2292 |
LIVE! Polish Jewish Refugees in the USSR during WWII
|
Serafima Velkovich
Yad Vashem
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2145 |
Memory and Mystery: Breaking Down Family Lore
|
Emily Garber
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2300 |
Passing the Mantle: A Grandfather and Grandson Visit Their Ancestral Home
|
Sol Sylvan
Elliot Wood
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2061 |
Webinars, Online Courses and Videos, Conference Broadcasts and Podcasts as Genealogy Research Tools
|
Elena Bazes
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
|
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
|
| 5003 |
Film: "A Day of Deliverance and Touching the Future"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
|
| 2538 |
Mogilev-Podolsky BOF
|
|
Dove |
BOF
|
| 2512 |
Romania SIG
|
|
Parrot 2 |
SIG Meeting
|
| 2091 |
Did My Great-Grandmother Have A Family? A Documents and DNA Case Study
|
Rhoda Miller
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2191 |
From Bella to Joe, 2-3-43: In Search of a Jewish GI's Family
|
Renee Steinig
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2233 |
In the Footsteps of Zalman Tzoref: Tracing 200 Years of Litvak Family History and Legacy
|
Eli Rabinowitz
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2220 |
LIVE! How to Find your Jewish Roots through Catholic and Inquisition Records
|
Genie Milgrom
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2141 |
LIVE! Using Pre-1826 Polish Parish Records in Jewish Research
|
Debra Kay-Blatt
Warren Blatt
JewishGen
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2210 |
Overlooked Research Sources: A Gold Mine to be Discovered
|
C. Ann Staley
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2036 |
Talk About Endogamy! The Jewish Persian DNA Project (Autosomal)
|
Nika Hazini Missaghi
Schelly Talalay Dardashti
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2146 |
Where's the Beef? Well-Done Research and Evidence Analysis
|
Emily Garber
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
|
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
|
| 2343 |
Film: "Aida's Secrets" with Q&A sponsored by MyHeritage
|
Daniel Horowitz
MyHeritage
|
Swan 3 |
|
| 2181 |
JewishGen 2017 Annual Meeting
|
Avraham Groll
JewishGen
Warren Blatt
JewishGen
Michael Tobias
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
|
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
|
| 5019 |
Film: "Return to Life"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
Thursday, July 27
|
| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
Type of Session |
|
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM
|
| 2611 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Membership Database Solutions Workshop for Societies and Organization Leaders
|
Binyamin Lewis
Mike Karsen
|
Swan 8 |
|
|
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
|
| 2520 |
Canada BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2165 |
Calendars for Jewish Genealogy
|
Avrohom Krauss
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2122 |
Finding Living People on the Internet
|
Ron Arons
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2203 |
LIVE! A Missing Link: Did Your Earlier Relatives Settle in the Caribbean?
|
Molly Staub
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2277 |
LIVE! Blogging Family History: Reading, Writing, and Sharing
|
Emily Garber
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2238 |
Next-Generation YDNA Sequencing Projects: J-Z640, R-BY3314 and others
|
Michael Waas
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2160 |
Virtual Shtetl - New Version with New Research Opportunities
|
Michal Majewski
Magdalena Mizgalska-Osowiecka
Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Joanna Krol
Museum of the History of Polish Jews
|
Toucan 1 |
Presentation
|
|
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
|
| 4000 |
Resource Room
|
|
Macaw 1 |
|
|
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
|
| 2540 |
Professional Genealogists BOF
|
|
Parrot 2 |
BOF
|
| 2188 |
APPsolutely Genealogy!
|
Garri Regev
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2177 |
Finding Frida, a Holocaust Survivor
|
Kenneth Bravo
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2218 |
LIVE! Converso Genealogy Project
|
Genie Milgrom
|
Swan 3 |
Panel Discussion
|
| 2227 |
LIVE! In Search of Multiple Truths: Genealogy as a Significant Part of Heritage Tours to Poland
|
Aleksandra Sajdak
Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute/ Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Polan
Matan Shefi
|
Swan 1 |
Panel Discussion
|
| 2297 |
Preserve Your Family's Legacy with a Video Biography
|
Diane Hirsch
My video life story
|
Swan 9 |
Presentation
|
| 2010 |
Virtual Yizkor/Memorials Books - Creating Webpages Dedicated To Jewish Communities (Kehilot)
|
Susana Leistner Bloch
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
|
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
|
| 5026 |
Film: "The Jews of Lvov and The Jews of Vilna"
|
|
Swan 7 |
|
|
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
|
| 5005 |
Film: "Aftermath"
|
|
Swan 7 |
Film
|
|
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
|
| 2547 |
JewishGen KehilaLinks BOF
|
|
Toucan 1 |
Meeting
|
| 2543 |
Telsiai/Siaulai District Research Groups of LitvakSig
|
|
Parrot 2 |
Meeting
|
| 2296 |
How to Maximize Your Reunion Software
|
Susan Kobren
|
Swan 10 |
Presentation
|
| 2190 |
It's All in How You Ask: Getting the Most from Discussion Group Queries
|
Renee Steinig
Judy Baston
|
Osprey 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2287 |
LIVE! Reclaim The Records - How to Use State Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogy
|
Brooke Ganz
Reclaim the Records
|
Swan 3 |
Presentation
|
| 2217 |
LIVE! Researching your Warszawa Family Roots
|
Hadassah Lipsius
|
Swan 1 |
Presentation
|
| 2330 |
The Lost Jews of St. Maarten: Rediscovery through Modern Forensics and Research
|
Dana Cohen-Sprott
|
Osprey 2 |
Presentation
|
| 2176 |
You’ve Been Invited to Speak – Now What?
|
Kenneth Bravo
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Swan 9 |
Presentation
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12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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| 2537 |
Brown Bag Luncheon: Mac Users BOF
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Doris Nabel
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Pelican 1 |
BOF
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| 3003 |
$$$ JewishGen/Jewish Genealogy Portal Luncheon: The future of networking and connecting
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Mockingbird 1 |
$$$ Luncheon
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2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
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| 5027 |
Film: "The Jews of Warsaw and The Jews of Bialystok"
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Swan 7 |
Film
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2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
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| 2504 |
Danzig-Gdansk SIG
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Parrot 2 |
SIG Meeting
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| 2528 |
JewishGen Yizkor Book Research Group
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Toucan 1 |
Meeting
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| 2192 |
Detectives from Warsaw, Poland
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Marta Mackowiak
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Swan 2 |
Presentation
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| 2076 |
Discovering your Lost Rabbinic Jewish Heritage through Y-DNA
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Jeffrey Paull
A Noble Heritage
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Osprey 2 |
Presentation
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| 2108 |
Isaac Joseph of South Carolina and Daniel Joseph of Virginia
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Janice M. Sellers
Ancestral Discoveries
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Swan 10 |
Presentation
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| 2286 |
LIVE! Using the Knowles Collection
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W. Todd Knowles
FamilySearch
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Swan 1 |
Presentation
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| 2310 |
LIVE! Why Knowing Your Ancestry is Important for Your Family's Health
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Karen Grinzaid
JScreen at Emory University
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Swan 3 |
Presentation
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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| 2085 |
$$$ Computer Workshop: Map Your Family History with Google Maps
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Moriah Amit
Center for Jewish History
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Swan 8 |
Computer Workshop
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2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
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| 5012 |
Film: "Image Before My Eyes"
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Swan 7 |
Film
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3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
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| 2338 |
LIVE! Jewish Genes as Time Machines
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Nadine Epstein
Moment Magazine
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Swan 1 |
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| 2291 |
How to Utilize a Valuable Jewish Genealogy Tool: JewishData.com
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Avraham Laber
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Swan 9 |
Presentation
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| 2161 |
LIVE! 2018 Warsaw Jewish Genealogical Conference Preview
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Michal Majewski
Matan Shefi
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Swan 3 |
Presentation
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| 2153 |
Privacy and Genealogy: What Are The Rules?
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E Randol Schoenberg
Jan Meisels Allen
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Swan 10 |
Panel Discussion
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| 2128 |
The Parfitt Genetic Research: Implications on Identity for the Lemba, Gogodalas, Lost Tribes and Anousim
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Bonita Sussman
Gerald Sussman
Carmen Maria Rodriguez
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Osprey 2 |
Panel Discussion
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4:00 PM - 4:50 PM
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| 5018 |
Film: "Pilgrimage of Remembrance: Jews in Poland Today"
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Swan 7 |
Film
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5:45 PM - 6:30 PM
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Awardee's Reception (by invitation only)
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Pelican 2 |
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6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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| 2701 |
Pre-Banquet Reception
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Swan Foyer |
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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| 2335 |
Genealogy and Genetics in America
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Henry Louis Gates
Harvard University
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Swan 5A/6A |
$$$ Banquet Dinner
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Friday, July 28
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| Session Code |
Session Title |
Speaker(s) |
Room |
Type of Session |
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7:00 AM - 8:15 AM
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| 2612 |
IAJGS Leadership Series: Wordpress Workshop for Societies and Organization Leaders
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Banai Lynn Feldstein
Feldstein Genealogy Services
Binyamin Lewis
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Swan 8 |
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8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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| 2619 |
IAJGS Executive Board Meeting
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Dove |
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8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
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| 2702 |
DNA Administrators Brown Bag Breakfast: Conference Wrap-up and Discussion of Future Plans
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Gil Bardige
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Pelican 2 |
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| 2021 |
How to Locate Individuals Through Genealogy
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Fred Blum
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Swan 9 |
Presentation
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| 2111 |
Immigration and Naturalization Records
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Janice M. Sellers
Ancestral Discoveries
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Swan 2 |
Presentation
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| 2241 |
Oral History in Genealogy Research at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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Joanna Krol
Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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Swan 10 |
Presentation
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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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| 4000 |
Resource Room
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Macaw 1 |
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9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
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| 2281 |
The Galveston Project: Immigration, Jews and Texas
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Mark Fearer
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Swan 9 |
Presentation
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| 2198 |
The Z Family: A Genealogical Journey from 1789 through the Holocaust to the present day
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Dennis Rice
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Swan 10 |
Presentation
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10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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| 5034 |
Film: "Decent Country"
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Swan 7 |
Film
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11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
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| 5035 |
Film: "Children of the Inquisition"
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Swan 7 |
Film
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11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
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| 2215 |
Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong, and Other Assorted Courthouse Records
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C. Ann Staley
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Swan 9 |
Presentation
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| 2047 |
Networking to Research
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Janette Silverman
AncestryProGenealogists
|
Swan 2 |
Presentation
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| 2316 |
Please Write to Me. I Miss my Daily Fix: Professional Genealogists and their Clients
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Karen S. Franklin
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Swan 10 |
Presentation
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