Welcome to the preliminary schedule of presentations, lectures, workshops, computer labs, breakfasts and luncheons for 2010. This schedule is subject to change or modification over the next few weeks.
For those of you new to the IAJGS Conference:
- BOF: Birds-of-a-Feather meetings are where participants network with others who share similar interests in towns, regions, subject matter or hobbies.
- SIG: Special Interest Groups focus on a specific geographic area and sponsor business meetings and presentations pertaining to these areas, emphasizing the latest research updates. Many have an Internet presence on JewishGen.org.
Programs with a "$" preceding the title are optional fee-based items and can be purchased on the registration page. These are:
- Regional Special Interest (SIG) Group Luncheons: network with your landsleit and enjoy delicious cuisine along with presentations covering the SIG's area of research
- Breakfast with the Experts: early risers gather to break bread and learn from experts in a particular field of research or region of genealogical interest. Usually an expert at each table facilitates expanded Q & A.
- Midnight with the Mavens: night owls will enjoy late night munchies with an eclectic group of speakers, experts and know-it-alls. A chance to pose questions and trade theories with a small, but lively group. Kibitzing encouraged.
- Computer classes: hands-on opportunities to learn from superb teachers in a small classroom setting. Please note the range from beginner through advanced, and pick your class according to your abilities. All levels and topics will be offered, but these have limited seating and fill up quickly.
These options are a click away on the registration page. If you have already registered, you can return to registration and add selections by logging back in to the "Attendee Service Center" (on the "Registration" drop-down menu). Use your email and the password provided in your original confirmation email to access your existing registration.
- For more information, please refer first to the Frequently Asked Questions.
- For registration queries contact: registration@jgsla2010.com
- For program queries contact: programs@jgsla2010.com
| Friday, July 9 | ||||||||||||||
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Speaker(s) | Room | ||||||||||||
| 7:15 PM - 9:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Shabbat Welcome Dinner: Heroes & Villains: Jews of the Old West |
Lewis Holzman |
Studio 1 | ||||||||||||
| Saturday, July 10 | ||||||||||||||
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Speaker(s) | Room | ||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
Morning Minyan |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
Ostrow Mazowiecka Research Family |
Stanley Diamond |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Shomer Shabbos Downtown Los Angeles Historical Jewish Walking Tour |
Laura Gold |
Meet in Lobby | ||||||||||||
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
Kabbalah For Dummies: So What's the Big Secret Anyway? |
Arthur Kurzweil |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Welcome Dinner with Arthur Kurzweil: Genealogy as a Spiritual Pilgrimage |
Arthur Kurzweil |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sunday, July 11 | ||||||||||||||
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Speaker(s) | Room | ||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
Morning Minyan |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
| 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
IAJGS Board Meeting (private) |
Studio 2 | |||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Old LA, From the First Jews Forward: A Walking Tour |
Laura Gold |
Meet in Lobby | ||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: The First Basket |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
$ Introduction to JewishGen: Computer Workshop for Beginners (Computer Lab) |
Debra Kay-Blatt |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | ||||||||||||||
From DNA to Genetic Genealogy: Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask |
Stephen P Morse |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Genealogy at the Los Angeles Public Library |
Michael Kirley |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
Haunting Cemeteries: A Genealogist's Favorite Pastime! |
Gary Gans |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
Only in New York: Finding NYC Vital, Naturalization, Immigration, Court and Business Records |
Linda Cantor |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
The Jewish Zodiac: A Culinary History of Jews in America (Based on the Astrological Signs of the Delicatessen) |
Seth Front |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
The Wonderful World of Genealogy Blogging |
Schelly Talalay Dardashti |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Wrongful [Jewish] Wraskals of the West |
Ron Arons |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Boyle Heights & Breed Street Shul Downtown Jewish L.A. Bus & Lunch Tour |
Meet in Lobby | |||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
Clued-In: Case Studies from Sherlock Cohn, The Photo Genealogist |
Ava Cohn |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
How to Create a Tallit: A Hands-on and History Workshop |
Rita Lipshutz |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
Jewish Genealogical Research Beginner Strategies—Part 1 |
Nancy Adelson |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Jewish Given Names: From Avram to Zlata |
Warren Blatt |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
Luach for Dummies: Solving Date Discrepancies in Genealogical Records |
Avrohom Krauss |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
My Uncle, the Hollywood Producer: A Spicy Tale |
Robin Seidenberg |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
Writing Jewish Family Stories and Memoirs — Part I |
Lil Blume |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Absolute Beginners: Computer Basics for Technology Challenged Genealogists (computer lab) |
Harriette Hinderstein |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Introduction to Google Earth (Beginners) |
Gregg Legutki |
Atrium 2 | ||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Jewish Records Indexing (JRI)-Poland Lunch: The Jewish Genealogy & Family Heritage Center in Warsaw: The Road Ahead |
Yale J. Reisner |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
| 12:40 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art |
Jim Ruxin Irvin Unger |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 12:45 PM - 3:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Hollywood Forever Cemetery–The Jewish Heritage Tour: Resting Place of the Stars |
Karie Bible |
Meet in Lobby | ||||||||||||
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
And a Branch Shall Grow Out of His Roots: What Can We Know About the Descendants of King David? |
Jonathan Kirsch |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
Lunch 'n Learn: Social Networking—New Horizons for Genealogists |
Thomas MacEntee |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Tracing Your Jewish Roots: A Workshop for Parents, Grandparents and Children |
Arthur Kurzweil |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1:20 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: 8 Stories That Didn’t Change the World |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
The Market Square Fair |
Machers & Mavens |
Platinum Foyer | ||||||||||||
| 2:05 PM - 3:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
DAVKA, The Survival of A People |
Jacqueline Semha Gmach |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Finding and Using Los Angeles County Records |
Mara Fein |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
From Shiterein to Showpiece: Cooking Jewish for the 21st Century |
Judy Bart Kancigor |
Salon H | ||||||||||||
Geni.com: Building the World's Largest Family Tree! |
Noah Tutak |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
How to Create Your Own (Genealogical) Heirloom Quilt |
Rivi Shulman |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
Jewish Genealogical Research Beginner Strategies—Part 2 |
Nancy Adelson |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Jewish Geography and DNA: A Player's Guide |
Judy Simon |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
Writing Jewish Family Stories and Memoirs—Part 2 |
Lil Blume |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2:05 PM - 3:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Inside Hana’s Suitcase |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
$ Introduction to JewishGen: Computer Workshop for Beginners (computer lab) |
Debra Kay-Blatt |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Creating a Google Earth Tour & Virtual Visit to Your Ancestral Towns (Beginning/Intermediate Computer Lab) |
Gregg Legutki |
Atrium 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: A Man from Munkacs: Gypsy Klezmer |
Atrium 3 | |||||||||||||
| 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
Klezmer Concert—Hot Pstromi with Yale Strom |
Yale Strom |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
JewishGen Board of Governors Meeting (Private) |
Studio 2 | |||||||||||||
| 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod |
Avrom Bendavid-Val Jeremy Goldscheider |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Grandma's Name Was Rosenberg: Am I Jewish? Uniquely Jewish Surnames—What They Prove and What They Don't |
Yale J. Reisner |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
JewishGen Moderators Meeting (private) |
Salon H | |||||||||||||
Technology and Museums–A Success Story To Retrieve Information |
Daniel Horowitz |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
The Intricate Tapestry of Iranian Jews |
Nahid Pirnazar |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
Yad Vashem Database for Beginners |
Zvi Bernhardt |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Pomegranate Guild Jewish Papercutting Workshop |
JoDee (Rut bat Sarah) Kane |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
IAJGS Management Seminar: 21st Century Marketing for Genealogists & Genealogy Societies |
Thomas MacEntee |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools |
Stephen P Morse |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Crowd Fundraising for Jewish Films |
Roberta Grossman Michael Kerschner Zach Sherwood |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Family Tree Maker for Beginners (Computer Lab) |
Duff Wilson |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Using Google Earth's Layer Feature to Superimpose Maps (Intermediate/Advanced Computer Lab) |
Gregg Legutki |
Atrium 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
Finding Your Jewish Ancestors on Ancestry.com |
Crista Cowan |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
Displaced Persons Material within The International Tracing Service: A Postwar Window |
Jo-Ellyn Decker |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
Google: A Goldmine of Genealogy Gems—Part I |
Lisa Louise Cooke |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
Interactive Web Sites Bring Our Family Trees to Life |
Adam Brown |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Recreating Your "Shtetl"—Creating a Group and/or Website Dedicated to your Ancestral Town |
Susana Leistner Bloch |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
The Lviv (Ukraine) Archive Research Experience: A First-hand Account |
Brian J. Lenius |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
Vayis’u Vayahanu [and they traveled and they encamped]: The Nature and Consequences of Jewish Migration |
Zvi Gitelman |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
| 5:00 PM - 6:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: No. 4 Street of Our Lady |
Alexander Denysenko |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 5:05 PM - 6:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Reunion for the Mac—Beginners & Intermediates |
Jordan Auslander |
Atrium 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5:05 PM - 6:20 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Jewish Records Indexing-Poland for Beginners (Computer Lab) |
Roni Seibel Liebowitz |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
IAJGS Presidents' Reception (by invitation only) |
Olympic 1 | |||||||||||||
| 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
Klezmer Concert—Hot Pstromi with Yale Strom |
Yale Strom |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
Donors Reception (by invitation only) |
hosted by the JGSLA |
Presidential Suite | ||||||||||||
| 6:45 PM - 7:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Genealogy Goes to the Movies: Better than Ever! With Jordan Auslander |
Jordan Auslander |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 7:45 PM - 9:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
Opening Ceremony and Keynote Address |
Daniel Mendelsohn |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
Dessert Reception |
hosted by the JGSLA |
Platinum Foyer | ||||||||||||
| Monday, July 12 | ||||||||||||||
|
Speaker(s) | Room | ||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
Morning Minyan |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
| 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Breakfast with the Experts: "Only Connect!"—Social Networking & Blogging for Genealogists |
Lisa Louise Cooke Thomas MacEntee Schelly Talalay Dardashti |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast with the Experts: Eureka! Finding Californians:Los Angeles and Statewide Research |
Mara Fein Lara Michels |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With the Experts: Jews, Genes and Genetics & Unlocking the Medical Secrets in Your Family Tree |
Gary Frolich Adele Schneider |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Bolechow Jewish Heritage Society |
Daniel Mendelsohn Alexander Dunai Larry Kirsch |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Canadian Roots and Researchers |
Stanley Diamond Merle Kastner |
Studio 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Kremenets (Volynhia) Coop Research Group |
Ronald Doctor |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Kupiskis-Rokiskis Group |
Linda Cantor |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: New England Gathering with JGS of Greater Boston |
Heidi Urich |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Identifying, Dating and Interpreting Your Family Photographs |
Maureen Taylor |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
Jewish Genealogical Research Beginner Strategies: Vital Records, Naturalizations, Passenger Manifests, Online & Repository Research |
Rhoda Miller |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Locating Lost Classmates |
Hal Bookbinder |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
| 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Going Down the Jewish East End (of London) with Aumie Shapiro |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM | ||||||||||||||
Further Unlocking the Medical Secrets in Your Family Tree |
Gary Frolich Adele Schneider |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
Immigration and Emigration Records on Ancestry.com |
Crista Cowan |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Naturalization: Where Are the Documents? |
Phyllis Kramer |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Research in Galicia: Part I— Beginning the Search for Your Galician Ancestors |
Suzan Wynne |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
SIG: GER-SIG (German Special Interest Group) Meeting |
Werner Frank |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
SIG: The Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting |
Saul Issroff Roy Ogus |
Salon H | ||||||||||||
The ITS Resources Website: Improving Your Research Experience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Jo-Ellyn Decker Megan Lewis |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Within and Beyond the Pale: Jews in the Russian Empire |
Benjamin Nathans |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
$ Using JewishGen's Databases and Search Capabilities (Computer Lab)—Nolan Altman |
Nolan Altman |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: California Orange Jews: The Story of the Jews of Orange County |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Saved By Deportation |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
An Introduction to JewishGen's Databases: A Beginner's Guide |
Warren Blatt Michael Tobias |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Beyond the Y Chromosome. Tracing Your Genealogy Wth the "Other" DNA |
Bennett Greenspan |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
From Cincinnati to Chihauhua: Rebecca Cohen Mayer's Journey in 1852 |
Kay Goldman |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
Goldmine of Records: Detailing Householder Lists and Land Cadastral Records of Galicia |
Brian J. Lenius |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
Jewish Genetic Diseases: Ashkenazi and Persian (History, Detection & Education) |
Richard Gladstein David Rimoin |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Ost Meets West: Immigrant Moguls, Émigré Directors, and the Rise of Film Noir |
Vincent Brook |
Salon H | ||||||||||||
Preserve Your Ancestors Legacy: Write Their Life Story |
Mike Karsen |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
SIG: Romania ROM SIG Meeting |
Roseanne Leeson |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Publish or Perish, Using Microsoft Publisher (Computer Lab) |
Banai Lynn Feldstein |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: For the Life of Me |
Peter Vanlaw |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ GERSIG (German) Luncheon: Our Crowd: Historians for the Straus and Morgenthau Families Tell (Almost) All |
Karen Franklin Joan Adler |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Gesher Galicia Luncheon: The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story |
Chris Nicola |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
$ ROM SIG (Romanian) Luncheon: Klezmers, Khazna and Lautare: Doing Ethnographic Music Research in Romania |
Yale Strom |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
| 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh |
Roberta Grossman |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
A Different Memory: Poles, Jews & What We Think We Know About Them |
Anna Przybyszewska Drozd |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Genealogy of the Jewish People: Lost and Dispersed Jewish Communities of India, Uganda, Peru, China, Nigeria, Southern Africa, Italy & Ethiopia |
Jonina Duker |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
How Helping Our Cousins Emigrate from the USSR Uncovered the 250-Year Colorful History of a Litvak Family |
Sonia Hoffman |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
Not Only Pages of Testimony—Sources For Genealogy at Yad Vashem |
Zvi Bernhardt |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
The Virtual Jewish Community in Germany and Genealogical Research |
Werner Frank |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Toto, I'm Afraid We're Not in New York City, Anymore!: A Look at 19th Century Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Kansas and the West |
Jeffrey Marx |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
What's New at Ancestry.com |
Crista Cowan |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
$ Geni.com - A Hands on Computer Lab (Computer Lab) |
Noah Tutak |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2:20 PM - 3:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: The Peretzniks (Perecowicze) |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
Crypto Jews: Hidden Among Us |
Arthur Benveniste |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
Extent, History and Legal Basis of Jewish Civil Records in Southern Germany |
Ralph Bloch |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
FILM: Brailov: A Town Without Jews |
Michael Masterovoy |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Genealogy From the Inside Out: Pursuing the Elusive & Unknown |
Steve Luxenberg |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
It's Carved in Stone |
Madeleine Isenberg |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
Itsik "Cara" Svarts: The "Ansky" of Iasi, Romania: A Personal Remembrance |
Yale Strom |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
SIG: Danzig/Gdansk SIG Meeting |
Logan Kleinwaks |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
SIG: Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting: Update on Galician Research |
Brian J. Lenius Alexander Dunai Alexander Feller Pamela Weisberger |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Litvak Seek—Finding Your One in a Million (Searching the ALD Successfully) (Computer Lab) |
Eden S. Joachim |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 3:15 PM - 4:40 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Passages |
Gabriela Böhm |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
An Insider's Guide to Researching Western Jewish Families in the Magnes Collections |
Lara Michels |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Bessarabia: Revision Lists (Revizskie Skazki) of 19 century. New records for towns, townlets (shtetlech) and agricultural colonies |
Yefim Kogan |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Lida District (Lithuania, Belarus) |
Judy Baston |
Studio 2 | ||||||||||||
Creating a Family Tree Scroll |
Lois Rosen |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
From Victims of Nazism to Survivors of the Holocaust |
Margarete Feinstein |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
Magnificent Maps: Examining Cadastral Land Maps of Galicia |
Brian J. Lenius |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Solving Family History Mysteries with Google Earth |
Lisa Louise Cooke |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
$ How to Make Your Database Searchable—It's Easy! (Computer Lab) |
Daniel Horowitz |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 4:45 PM - 6:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Lonely Man of Faith |
Ethan Isenberg |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
BOF: Mac Users/Schmoozers |
Doris Nabel |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island—The Lucille Gudis Memorial Lecture |
Vincent Cannato |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Between Germany and Poland—Jewish Life and Rituals in Late 19th to Early 20th cent. Illustrated Jewish Postcards |
Shalom Sabar |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
| 7:30 PM - 9:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 8:45 PM - 10:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People |
Harry Ostrer |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
Looking for Louie: A Second-Generation Russian Jewish American Sometimes) Redhead Goes Off in Search of her Mysterious Great-Grandfather. |
Stacie Chaiken |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: The Legacy of Jedwabne |
Atrium 3 | |||||||||||||
FILM: In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
The Late Late (Game) Show: Jewpardy Returns! |
Jordan Auslander |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 PM - 12:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Midnight with the Mavens |
Presidential Suite | |||||||||||||
| Tuesday, July 13 | ||||||||||||||
|
Speaker(s) | Room | ||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
Morning Minyan |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
| 8:00 AM - 9:10 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With the Expert: From Russia With Love: A Report on the Archives of the Former Soviet Union |
Benjamin Nathans |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast with the Experts: Alexander the Great & The Life of Brian:Galician & Ukrainian Research and Travel |
Alexander Denysenko Brian J. Lenius |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With The Experts: Israeli Research: Past, Present and Future |
Rony Golan Michael Goldstein |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: DNA Project Administration |
Elise Friedman |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Krakow Researchers |
Stephanie Weiner |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Professional Genealogists |
Eileen Polakoff |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
JewishGen SIG Coordinators Meeting |
Studio 2 | |||||||||||||
Research Group: Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville |
Jonina Duker |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
Write What You Know: How Writing Helps You Learn about Your Family in New and Novel Ways |
Joan Adler |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
| 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: A Great Day on Eldridge Street: A Celebration of Klezmer Music |
Yale Strom |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 9:05 AM - 9:10 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Souvenir, an Animated Short |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: In the Name of Their Mothers: The Story of Irena Sendler |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM - 10:30 AM | ||||||||||||||
Creating One-Step Search Tools |
Stephen P Morse |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
Genealogical Gems in Rural Hungary |
Rony Golan Theodore Grossman |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Google: A Goldmine of Genealogy Gems—Part II |
Lisa Louise Cooke |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
I Found My Family in Our Shtetl Yizkor Book |
Gary Gans |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
JewishGen’s Holocaust Resources and JOWBR (JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry) Project |
Nolan Altman |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
Not Everyone Lived in New York |
Gayle Saini |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Research in Galicia: Part II—Working with Galician Vital Records |
Suzan Wynne |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Shtetl Sport: The Sporting Life in Jewish Culture |
Yale Strom |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
The Jewish HapMap: What Genetics Has Given to Jews and What Jews Have Given to Genetics |
Harry Ostrer |
Salon H | ||||||||||||
| 9:15 AM - 10:40 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Accessing Genealogy Sites Successfully (Computer Lab) |
Phyllis Kramer |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM - 12:15 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Neighbors and Murderers |
Menachem Hadar |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
Documenting a Murdered Community: Goldingen [Kuldiga, Latvia] |
Martha Levinson Lev-Zion |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
For the Sake of the Children, A New Book About the Relationship of Otto Frank and Nathan Straus Jr. |
Joan Adler |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
From Korolowka to Borchov: Behind the Scenes of the Discovery of Priest's Grotto |
Chris Nicola |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Geospatial Genealogy: Micro and Macro-Genealogic Approaches |
Stephen Egbert Karen (Gitel Chaye Eta) Rosenfeld Roekard |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland: What’s New |
Stanley Diamond |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Navigating the New York Census with Fewer Tears |
Stephen P Morse Joel Weintraub |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Odessa: The Jewish Soul of a Cosmopolitan City |
Valery Bazarov |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Putting the Flesh on the Bones |
Ron Arons |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM - 12:10 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Creating One-Step Search Tools for your Website—Intermediate/Advanced (Computer Lab) |
Stephen P Morse |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Reunion for the Mac—Beginners (Computer Lab) |
Jordan Auslander |
Atrium 2 | ||||||||||||
| 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Belarus SIG Luncheon: Exploring Belarus—Past, Present and Future |
Michael Masterovoy |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
$ H-SIG (Hungarian) Luncheon—Paprikás: Cooking Up My Family Stories |
Lynn Saul |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Latvia SIG Luncheon: Return to Viski |
Bruce Dumes |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
| 12:20 PM - 1:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Tovarisch: I Am Not Dead |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 12:40 PM - 1:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
BOF: Suwalk Lomza Interest Group (Lunch 'n Learn) |
Jeffrey Marx |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
Create a DNA Project: The IberianAshkenaz DNA Project As a Case Study (Lunch 'n Learn) |
Schelly Talalay Dardashti |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
My Grandmother's Suitcase: Lunch 'n Learn |
Jim Van Buskirk |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
New Resource: Jewish Genealogy from India at Beit Hatfutsot |
Horia Haim Ghiuzeli |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Polish Records— Getting the Most out of Your Research— from the JRI-Poland Experts |
Judy Baston Hadassah Lipsius |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
SIG: Hungarian SIG Meeting |
Plaza 2 | |||||||||||||
SIG: Latvia SIG Meeting |
Barry Shay |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: Jews from Many Lands |
Saul Issroff |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
The Sephardi Ketubbah Before and After the Expulsion (as a research tool for genealogy) |
Shalom Sabar |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Yiddish: A Fun Look at the Language of Our Ancestors |
Ilene Schneider |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1:50 PM - 3:05 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Family Tree Maker for Intermediate Users (Computer Lab) |
Duff Wilson |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 1:50 PM - 3:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood |
Vincent Brook |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
Breaking News: The Montefiore Censuses Database Is Here and in English |
Rose Feldman |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
Footnote Holocaust Collection: History As Biography |
Eric Keith |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History |
Arthur Kurzweil |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
JewishGen ShtetLinks Coordinators Meeting |
Studio 2 | |||||||||||||
Lodz:"The Manchester of Poland": Exploring Records on the Internet and Beyond |
Debra Kay-Blatt Roni Seibel Liebowitz |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
SIG: Belarus SIG Meeting |
Sharon Fingold |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
Transliterating Newly Available Birth, Marriage, and Death Records for the Shtetls of Latvia |
Christine Usdin |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
You Can “Go Home Again": Everything You Wanted To Know About Research, Planning and Making Ancestral Visits to Eastern Europe But Were Afraid To Ask! |
Alexander Dunai Sol Sylvan |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
$ Genealogy Super Search Engines (Computer Lab) |
Daniel Horowitz |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Genealogy Goes to the Movies: Better than Ever! With Jordan Auslander |
Jordan Auslander |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 4:15 PM - 7:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Tour & (kosher) Dinner with Randy Schoenberg |
E. Randol Schoenberg |
Meet in Lobby | ||||||||||||
| 4:30 PM - 6:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Yippee! A Journey to Jewish Joy |
Paul Mazursky |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
BOF: BialyGen Research Group |
Judy Baston |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Newsletter Cooperation-IAJGS Session |
Banai Lynn Feldstein Kahlile Mehr |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
Building Memorials To Destroyed Jewish Communities |
Karen (Gitel Chaye Eta) Rosenfeld Roekard |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
God-Seekers, Lumbermen, and Scholars Under the Carpathians: The Jews of Sziget |
Rony Golan Vivian Kahn |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
Tapping into the Ancestry.com and RootsWeb Community |
Crista Cowan |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
The Jews of the Texas Frontier: Assimilation, Accommodation and Adaptation |
Kay Goldman |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
The Knowles Collection, What Is It and How Do I Use It? |
W. Todd Knowles |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
The Litvak v. Galitzianer Wars: Jewish Cultural Geography |
Zvi Gitelman |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
$ South African Resources on the Internet (Computer Lab)—Roy Ogus & Saul Issroff |
Roy Ogus Saul Issroff |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 6:30 PM - 6:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: A Bridge of Books: The Story of the National Yiddish Book Center |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 6:45 PM - 7:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: The Jews of Iran |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Against the Tide |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
JewishGen LIVE at L.A. LIVE |
Michael Tobias Avraham Groll Warren Blatt |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 8:45 PM - 10:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
The Bialy Eaters: The Story of Bread and a Lost World ~ A Literary Cabaret Performance starring Tovah Feldshuh |
Ellen Sandler Tovah Feldshuh Mimi Sheraton Yale Strom Elizabeth Schwartz |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 8:45 PM - 10:20 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Nora's Will |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 10:45 PM - 12:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Midnight with the Mavens |
Presidential Suite | |||||||||||||
| Wednesday, July 14 | ||||||||||||||
|
Speaker(s) | Room | ||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
Morning Minyan |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With the Experts: From Bratislava to Budapest to Bucharest:Travel & Research in Slovakia, Romania & Hungary |
Vivian Kahn Beth Long Rony Golan |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With the Experts: How To Do Genealogy Research In Poland–And How Not To: The Potential and Pitfalls |
Anna Przybyszewska Drozd Yale J. Reisner |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast with the Experts: Outlaws & Outliers: Black Sheep & Family Skeleton Experts Share Their Research Secrets! |
Ron Arons Steve Luxenberg |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
| 8:15 AM - 9:30 AM | ||||||||||||||
BOF: Boryslav, Drohobycz & Sambor |
Judith Goldsmith |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Yizkor Book Project |
Jan Meisels Allen |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
DNA and the Maharal of Prague |
Herbert Huebscher |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Infectious Disease and the Jewish Immigrant Experience |
Stanley Shapiro |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
Polish State Archives Online |
Kahlile Mehr |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Restitution of Property of Holocaust Victims to Families in Israel and Genealogical Research |
Rony Golan |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Three Guides, Four Countries: A Daugher of Holocaust Survivors Travels to her Ancestral Villages in Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia + a Stop in Germ |
Deborah Long |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
Yad Vashem Database for Beginners |
Zvi Bernhardt |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
$ Using Excel to Mine your Data (Computer Lab) |
Rhoda Miller |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski - His Life and His Music |
Yale Strom |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
1783 and 1793 Censuses in Bohemia—Comparative Study on Jewish Surnames |
Julius Müller |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Lodz Area Research Group |
Roni Seibel Liebowitz |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
Exploring Tabula Registers in Ukranian Archives |
Alexander Dunai |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
FILM: Bearing Witness: Post-Holocaust Perspectives on Holocaust Icons and Commemoration |
Ornit Barkai |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
GenealogyIndexer.org: Full-Text Search Engine for Historical Directories, Yizkor Books, and Other Resources Not Searchable Elsewhere |
Logan Kleinwaks |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
SIG: French SIG Meeting |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
The Afterlife of “An Island Called Home”: The Jews of Cuba |
Ruth Behar |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
The Development of Zionism in Lithuanian (1906-1940): Underlying Ideas and Practices of Lithuanian Zionism |
Egle Bendikaite |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
The Registry of Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: A View to the Future |
Lisa Yavnai |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
United Kingdom Research for Beginners |
Geraldine Winerman Saul Issroff |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Family Tree Maker for Beginners (Computer Lab) |
Duff Wilson |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Captain László Ocskay, The Forgotten Hero |
Dan Danieli |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Romania, Romania |
Elizabeth Schwartz |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
SIG: Ukraine SIG Meeting |
Freya Maslov |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
| 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
Family History in the Kitchen: Recipes as a Conduit to the Generations |
Judy Bart Kancigor |
Salon H | ||||||||||||
PANEL: Celebrating Jewish Genealogy Month |
Schelly Talalay Dardashti |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Researching Your Litvak Roots Using the LitvakSig Website: An Overview of the Special Interest Group, It's Research Projects and Websites |
Judy Baston Eden S. Joachim |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
Resources of the IKG (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde): Jewish Community of Vienna |
Wolf-Erich Eckstein |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
The Changing Borders of Eastern Europe |
Hal Bookbinder |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
$ How to Use FamilySearch.org (computer lab) |
W. Todd Knowles |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: One Day Crossing |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
The Affinity Between the Romanian Doina and the Klezmer Doyne |
Elizabeth Schwartz |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Austria-Czech SIG Lunch: The Latest Advances in Austrian & Czech Jewish Genealogy |
E. Randol Schoenberg |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
$ Litvak SIG Luncheon: Where is our Home? Lithuanian Jewish Forced Migrations Before and After WWI |
Egle Bendikaite |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Ukraine SIG Luncheon: Archives in Western Ukraine |
Kahlile Mehr |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
FILM: On Moral Grounds |
Robby Kushner |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 1:15 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||||||||||
$ Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Jewish Heritage Tour (Resting Place of the Stars!) |
Karie Bible |
Meet in Lobby | ||||||||||||
| 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
BOF: Paterson, New Jersey |
Roni Seibel Liebowitz |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Volhynia Province |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
One-Step Webpages: A Hodgepodge of Lesser-Known Gems |
Stephen P Morse |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Slow Boat From and To China—A Journey of History and Self Discovery |
Faith Beckerman Goldman |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
The Captives Return: Descendants of Forced Iberian Converts Find Their Way Back to Judaism |
Jonina Duker |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
The International Tracing Service (ITS Arolsen) Collection—What It Is and What It Isn't |
Zvi Bernhardt |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
The Kissing Blonde: Researching a Family Scandal |
Robin Seidenberg |
Salon H | ||||||||||||
True Defiance: A Filmmaker Investigates her Grandfather's Legacy as Savior of 1200 Jews during the Holocaust |
Sharon Rennert |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Galician Research on the Web (Computer Lab) |
Pamela Weisberger |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2:15 PM - 3:40 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Swimming in Auschwitz: Survival Stories of Six Women |
Jon Kean |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
IAJGS Annual Meeting |
Salon C | |||||||||||||
| 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
Advanced Website Design Class: Enhance, Maximize and Expand Your Internet Presence! |
Brooke Ganz |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG) |
Susana Leistner Bloch |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
City Directories—A Variety of Uses |
Diane M. Freilich, JD |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
Eugene Van Mieghem (1875-1930) and the Jewish Immigrants of the Red Star Line |
Erwin Joos |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
FILM: Mendelsohn, the Nazis and Me |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
History of Jews in Argentina and How To Find Their Records |
Rob Weisskirch |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
Lithuanian Research—Past, Present, Future |
Howard Margol |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
Planning & Making a Trip to Your Family Shtetlach & How to Find the Invisible Monuments of Jewish Material Culture in Poland, Ukraine & Bukovina |
Alexander Denysenko |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
The Lost Tribes of Poland: Apostasy, Intermarriage And Jewish Genealogy In Poland |
Yale J. Reisner |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Reunion for the Mac—Intermediate & Advanced (Computer Lab) |
Jordan Auslander |
Atrium 2 | ||||||||||||
$ Family Tree Maker for Intermediate & Advanced Users (Computer Lab) |
Duff Wilson |
Atrium 1 | ||||||||||||
| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: The Longing: The Forgotten Jews of South America |
Gabriela Böhm |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
New Developments in the Research of Balkan Jewish Genealogy |
Yitzchak Kerem |
Plaza 3 | ||||||||||||
BOF: Suchostaw Region Region Group (SRRG) |
Susana Leistner Bloch |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
How Do We Share and Preserve Memories in a Digital Era? |
Daniel Horowitz |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
Northern California: Shtetl of the Gold Rush? A Genealogical JigSaw Puzzle |
Victoria Fisch |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
SIG: Litvak SIG Meeting |
David B. Hoffman |
Plaza 2 | ||||||||||||
Simplifying Online Research with Ancestry.com Family Trees |
Crista Cowan |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
The Paternal Ancestry of Bernie Madoff |
Gary Mokotoff |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
The Records of Moravia, Silesia and Bohemia—Similarities and Differences |
Julius Müller |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Nora's Will |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | ||||||||||||||
Childbirth and Magic—Jewish Amulets and Popular Beliefs in the Pre-Modern Era |
Shalom Sabar |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
Names, Faces, People, Places: The USC Shoah Foundation Institute Comes Alive |
Stephen Smith |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 8:45 PM - 10:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
Searching for God in the Magic Shop |
Arthur Kurzweil |
Salon C | ||||||||||||
What's in a Name? The Origins and Meanings of Jewish Family Names |
Zvi Gitelman |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
| 8:45 PM - 10:15 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | |||||||||||||
| 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM | ||||||||||||||
FILM: Genealogy Goes to the Movies: Better than Ever! With Jordan Auslander |
Jordan Auslander |
Salon I-J (Film Festival) | ||||||||||||
| 10:45 PM - 12:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Midnight with the Mavens |
Presidential Suite | |||||||||||||
| Thursday, July 15 | ||||||||||||||
|
Speaker(s) | Room | ||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | ||||||||||||||
Morning Minyan |
Georgia 1 | |||||||||||||
| 7:00 AM - 8:15 AM | ||||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With the Experts: A Baltic Road Map—Travel & Research in Lithuania and Latvia |
Howard Margol Aldona Sudeikiene |
Olympic 1 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With the Experts: No Stone Unturned—Furthering Your Holocaust Research |
Lisa Yavnai Zvi Bernhardt Stephen Smith |
Olympic 3 | ||||||||||||
$ Breakfast With the Experts: People of the Book: Expert Advice on Writing Newsletters, Memoirs and Family Histories |
Lil Blume Mike Karsen Marlis Humphrey |
Olympic 2 | ||||||||||||
| 8:15 AM - 9:30 AM | ||||||||||||||
21st Century Sephardic Genealogy: Trends and Resources |
Schelly Talalay Dardashti |
Plaza 1 | ||||||||||||
A Tailor's Tale, From Transylvania to Tennessee |
Robert J. Friedman |
Atrium 3 | ||||||||||||
Arthur Szyk: An Artist’s Self-Portrait in Documents |
Rhoda Miller |
Georgia 2 | ||||||||||||
Creating the Morgenthau Exhibition: A Genealogist Confronts the Twentieth Century |
Karen Franklin |
Georgia 1 | ||||||||||||
Newly Acquired Archival Collections from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
Megan Lewis |
Platinum Ballroom | ||||||||||||
Polish Gazetteers and Maps Online |
Kahlile Mehr |
Salon C | ||||||||||||