Genealogy events in March
During March, Jewish family researchers can attend programs on the Middle Ages in Spain, an online genealogy course focused on Jewish Internet research, Tel Aviv University’s second Netvision seminar on the Internet and genealogy, working with Shoah resources to track family, archival research in the FSU, UK resources, a Jewish migration database and a genealogist’s vacation idea
Dr. Sallyann Amdur Sack (Washington, DC) will be visiting and will speak at several venues in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. She is editor of Avotaynu: The International Journal of Jewish Genealogy, and founder of the recently opened International Institute of Jewish Genealogy,
Send event notices to [email protected].
Wednesday, 1 March, 8 p.m. (Hebrew)
IGS – Negev branch
Mordechai Ben Abir
"Organization of the family in the Middle Ages"
Ben Abir has traced his family to the 1200s using original resources from church archives and legal repositories. In organizing these sources, he’s been able to weave a tapestry of family life and interactions in the Middle Ages. He will tell, in his ancestors’ words, how they functioned as a family and why certain traditions developed.
Kehilat Magen Avraham, Ad-Ad and Margalit Sts, Omer
Info: Martha Lev Zion, http://www.isragen.org.il
Thursday, 2 March (English)
Online Genealogy Course – Jewish Internet Research
Learn how to locate what you want when you need it with an online course focusing on Jewish Internet Research. The four-week course begins Thursday, 2 March, and includes a detailed syllabus, two online class chats each week and access to www.ancestry.com databases during the class; fee. Class language is English, with students in several countries. Instructors: JFRA Israel’s Micha Reisel and Schelly Talalay Dardashti.
Info: http://tinyurl.com/dlglw, or Micha Reisel, [email protected]
Monday, 6 March, 7.30 p.m. (English)
JFRA Israel – Rehovot
Elinor Rasco
“From dust, ashes and no hope to concrete information”
Rasco will take the group through a 20-year quest, sifting the Shoah’s tragic history, until she finally finds information on her grandfather’s family. Her experience will help listeners to trace their own families and avoid the pitfalls she encountered.
Private home. Reservations recommended.
JFRA Israel memberships and renewals accepted. NIS 100, individual; NIS 160, couple. Checks payable to JFRA.
Info: Linda Geffon, [email protected]
Monday, 6 March, 7 p.m. (Hebrew)
IGS – Tel Aviv
Amb. Neville Lamdan
“Archival Research in the Former Soviet Union”
Beit Hatanach, 16 Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv
IGS members, free; others, NIS 20.
Info: Rose Feldman, http://www.isragen.org.il
Monday, 6 March, 7.30 p.m. (English)
IGS Jerusalem – Special Program
Dr. Sallyann Amdur Sack
“The evolving world of Jewish genealogy: The challenge to the societies.”
Beit Frankfurter, 80 Derekh Beit Lehem, Bakaa, Jerusalem
Info: Rose Lehrer Cohen, http://www.isragen.org.il
Tuesday, 7 March, 3-7.15 p.m. (English/Hebrew)
Tel Aviv University Seminar -- Netvision Institute for Internet Studies
Seminar: The Internet, Genealogy and the Jewish People
Speakers include Dr. Sallyann Amdur Sack, Avotaynu editor; communities online panel includes Zimbabwe, Ukraine, Belarus, Libya and Tunisia; panel on Israeli institutions and the missing.
Kes HaMishpat Hall, Trubowitz Building (Faculty of Law), TAU
No fee, but registration required: [email protected].
Program: http://users.tapuz.co.il/familyroots/tau.html
Wednesday, 8 March, 7.30 p.m. (English)
JFRA Israel – Ra’anana
David Kravitz
“Researching your family in the UK”
A recent oleh from the UK, Kravitz has been researching his family for more than 20 years. He is a retired IBM systems analyst, university lecturer in computing, and author of computer textbooks and Greek-Roman mythology.
Beit Fischer, 5 Klausner St., Ra’anana
JFRA members, NIS 5; others, NIS 20.
Info: Ingrid Rockberger, [email protected]
Thursday, 9 March (English)
JFRA Israel – Petah Tikva
Dr. Sallyann Amdur Sack (Washington, DC), Avotaynu editor
An informal evening
Private home; invitation-only event
Info: Gilda Kurtzman, [email protected]
Wednesday, 15 March, 7.30 p.m. (Hebrew)
Galil Genealogical Society – Tivon
Dr. Gur Alroey, Department of Israel Studies, Haifa University
“Mass Jewish Migration Database – Jewish Migration in the Early 20th Century”
Dr. Alroey’s database includes applications (1904-1914) of Jewish emigrants who applied to JCA and ITO offices in the Pale of Settlement. The JCA component includes 3,000 applications of those who applied and who migrated to the US, Argentina, Canada, South Africa and Palestine. The ITO includes 5,000 Jews who migrated to Galveston, Texas. The project aims to understand causes, characteristics, patterns of Jewish migration in the early 20th century and, via search engine, to help researchers look for relatives who may have migrated through these two organizations.
Mercaz Hantzacha Library, Kiriat Tivon
Info: Yael Hollander, [email protected]
Monday, 20 March, 8 p.m. (English)
IGS – Netanya
Gilda Kurtzman, co-chair JFRA Petah Tikva
"A genealogist’s holiday: Searching in cemeteries."
She will speak on JewishGen's Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBRA), which includes 50,000+ Petah Tikva burials and 35,000+ Netanya burials, both were JFRA volunteer translation/transliteration projects; the Pushalot, Lithuania project; and her own cemetery experiences in cleaning and reading old inscriptions.
Library opens 7.30 p.m., program begins 8 p.m.
AACI, 28 Shmuel Hanatziv, Netanya.
IGS members, free; others, NIS 20.
Info: Joe Isaacs, http://www.isragen.org.il
Wednesday, 22 March, 7.30 p.m.
IGS – Jerusalem
Amb. Jacob Rosen
“Genealogy and the Internet”
Beit Frankfurter, 80 Derekh Beit Lehem, Bakaa, Jerusalem
Info: Rose Lehrer Cohen, http://www.isragen.org.il
International Events
Sunday, 26 March, Seattle
DNA, Genetic Health and Genealogy Symposium
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Washington State (JGSWS)
Info: www.jgsgws.org
3-6 July, Haifa
World Congress of the Jews from Egypt
In cooperation with Haifa University
Info: www.wcje.net
13-18 August, New York City
26th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
Some 2,000 researchers and international experts are anticipated.
For online conference/hotel registration; full event details, www.jgsny2006.org
5-7 June 2007, Jerusalem
Eternal House of David Family Reunion
Historic gathering of descendants of the Royal House of David.
Info: www.davidicdynasty.org
