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[WEBINAR] FREE live webinar: How to find your relatives in the 1940 US Census

dan...@myheritage.com (Daniel Horowitz) — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:46:16 UT

FREE live webinar: How to find your relatives in the 1940 US Census -
Register at [link]

This Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 2pm EDT* Laurence Harris and Mark Olsen
will take you step-by-step through researching the census. They’ll
demonstrate how to find the people you’re looking for and how to

[Meeting] Jewish Genealogical Society of CT, May 20, 2012 @ 1:30 Who The Hell Is Ida Gerskill? The Challenges of Researching Jewish Names, Godfrey Library, Middletown, Ct

gail.kalison.reyno...@aya.yale.edu (GKR) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:58:48 UT

Meredith Hoffman, a professional genealogy researcher, writer, educator and
publisher, holds an M.A. in Linguistics, and a Certificate from the Boston
University Genealogical Research Program. “Who the Heck Is Ida Gerskill? The
Challenges of Researching Jewish Names,” focuses on her specialty,

[Meeting] Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut, Sunday, April 15, 2012, at 1:30 pm

gail.kalison.reyno...@aya.yale.edu (GKR) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:14:22 UT

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut will meet on Sunday, April
15, 2012, at 1:30 pm. The program at Godfrey Library, 134 Newfield Street,
Middletown, is open to all.

The speaker, Dr. Ruth Brennan, is a human resource management and
communications consultant with extensive experience in Connecticut. She

JGSMI Publicity

gol...@sbcglobal.net (David Goldis) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:47:20 UT

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Sy Brenner,
The Night I Got Killed
6:15PM, West Bloomfield Public Library
Samuel Brenner was born on June 2, 1922 in Montréal, Canada. He was 9 months old when his family moved to Detroit, Michigan where he was raised.

[Meeting] The Holocaust and Sephardic Jews of the Balkans and North Africa (Thousand Oaks, CA, April 1, 2012)

public...@jgscv.org — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:06:51 UT

Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County*
(JGSCV) (*and surrounding areas)
will hold a general meeting, co–sponsored with Temple Adat Elohim, on
Sunday, April 1, 2012 at Temple Adat Elohim, 2420 E. Hillcrest Drive,
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.

This program will commemorate Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day),

[Event] Jewish Genealogy Program: Uncovering Your Roots

gail.kalison.reyno...@aya.yale.edu (GKR) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:32:33 UT

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
[link]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

How to Uncover Your Family Roots:
A Jewish Genealogy Workshop

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut will present “How to
Uncover Your Family Roots: A Jewish Genealogy Workshop” on Sunday,

JGSMI Programs

d.gol...@gmail.com (David Goldis) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:11:20 UT

Please see below.
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Genealogical Success Stories & Strategies
Join us as we hear the sucess stories of three of our members:!
Alexandra Goldberg, VP of Programming
Recreating ancestors branch based on the databases of the Warsaw Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery, JRI Poland and Yad VaShem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names

[Meeting] JGSCV - "Here Comes the 1940 Census", Thousand Oaks, CA, Mar. 4, 2012

public...@jgscv.org — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:01:36 UT

JGSCV presents "Here Comes The 1940 Census", at our monthly meeting on
March 4, 2012, 1:30-3:30 PM at Temple Adat Elohim, 2420 E. Hillcrest
Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362.

The 1940 U. S. census will become available to the public on April 2,
2012, 72 years after it was taken. This census introduced sampling,

[Event] Jewish Genealogy Research Program February 19

gail.kalison.reyno...@aya.yale.edu (GKR) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:46:23 UT

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut will meet on Sunday,
February 19, 2012 at 1:30 pm. JGSCT programs are at held at Godfrey
Library, 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, and are open to all.

JGSCT Board members will be on hand to assist attendees with family
research. The Society’s purpose is to preserve and disseminate Jewish

[Event] Jewish Genealogy Research Program January 15

gail.kalison.reyno...@aya.yale.edu (GKR) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:44:50 UT

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut will meet on Sunday,
January 15, 2012 at 1:30 pm. JGSCT programs are at held at Godfrey
Library, 134 Newfield Street, Middletown, and are open to all.
Godfrey Library Executive Director Beth Marrioti, a professional
genealogist, will discuss her research on two Jewish families and the

JGSMI

gol...@sbcglobal.net (David Goldis) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:17:46 UT

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JEWISH HISTORY IN CENTRAL EUROPE
This past summer, Ruth Katsnelson and her family traveled to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest and learned first hand about Jewish history in Central Europe.
Despite the summer heat and crowds, it was a wonderful learning experience.

[Meeting] JGSCV - "Ethics, Sensitivities, Sensibilities and Property Rights", Thousand Oaks, CA, Jan. 8, 2012

public...@jgscv.org — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:26:46 UT

The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura
County* (JGSCV) (*and surrounding areas) will hold its monthly meeting
on Jan. 8, 2012, 1:30-3:30 p.m., at Temple Adat Elohim, 2420 E.
Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362.
The program will feature a panel discussion covering the following

JGSMI Movie Program

d.gol...@gmail.com (David Goldis) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:59:23 UT

Please promote this.
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Who Shall Live And Who Shall Die?
This penetrating documentary about America's knowledge of the Holocaust during the Second World War dares to ask, "Could the Jews of Europe have been saved?"
Documentary filmmaker Laurence Jarvik boldly confronts this question, exploring the actions and inaction of the Roosevelt Administration and American Jewish leaders and exposing the political tradeoffs that kept the doors closed to Jewish emigrants fleeing the Nazi regime. Requests were made to bomb Auschwitz, set up a Jewish army and construct rescue havens, yet no action was taken.

[Event] The Lost Minyan December 18, 2011

gail.kalison.reyno...@aya.yale.edu (GKR) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:25:31 UT

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
[link]
CONTACT: Marcia Indianer Meyers 860-638-3819
THE LOST MINYAN
David Gitlitz, a scholar-administrator at the University of Rhode
Island, has researched Sephardic historical topics over the last two
decades. He will discuss his latest book, The Lost Minyan, on Sunday,

[Meeting] JGSCV - "From DNA to Genetic Genealogy: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask", Thousand Oaks, CA, Dec.11, 2011

public...@jgscv.org — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:26:28 UT

Stephen Morse, the creator of the One-Step genealogy website, presents
an introduction to DNA and genealogy. This talk introduces genes,
chromosomes, and DNA, and goes on to show how DNA is inherited. That
knowledge of inheritance can be used for finding relatives you didn't
know you had, learning about your very distant ancestors and the route