Calendar

Events in March–May 2025

  • Sunday March 9, 2025 - Arolsen Archives: History Exploration and Online Access by Serafina Volkovich
    Arolsen Archives: History Exploration and Online Access by Serafina Volkovich

    Category: General Arolsen Archives: History Exploration and Online Access by Serafina Volkovich


    Sunday March 9, 2025

    Formerly known as the International Tracing Service, the Arolsen Archives was established by the International Red Cross and Allied forces at the end of World War II to trace missing and displaced people and help reunite survivors with their relatives. In this lecture, Dr. Serafima Velkovich will demystify the Arolsen Archives by describing its history, the types of files it holds, and what information can be gleaned from those files. Additionally, she will offer strategies for identifying relevant documents and key clues when searching its Online Archives and additional collections available at the Arolsen Archives and partner institutions worldwide, including Yad Vashem.

  • Sunday April 6, 2025 - The Legacy Project at Mount Hebron Cemetery by Adam Ginsberg and Deirdre Mooney
    The Legacy Project at Mount Hebron Cemetery by Adam Ginsberg and Deirdre Mooney

    The Legacy Project at Mount Hebron Cemetery by Adam Ginsberg and Deirdre Mooney


    Sunday April 6, 2025

    Adam Ginsberg, President of Cedar Grove Cemetery Association, which includes Mount Hebron Cemetery and Deirdre Poulos, Director of the Legacy Foundation at Mount Hebron will discuss research of those buried at Mount Hebron.

  • Tuesday April 22, 2025 - Using FamilySearch to find your Jewish ancestors by W. Todd Knowles
    Using FamilySearch to find your Jewish ancestors by W. Todd Knowles

    Using FamilySearch to find your Jewish ancestors by W. Todd Knowles


    Tuesday April 22, 2025

    For more than 125 years, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been gathering, preserving and sharing genealogical information worldwide. Through the website www.familysearch.org, researchers all over the world have free access to billions of records. This presentation will help the attendees find the records of their Jewish ancestors within the records of FamilySearch.

  • Sunday May 4, 2025 - Genealogy Records in Israel 2024 by Garri Regev
    Genealogy Records in Israel 2024 by Garri Regev

    Category: General Genealogy Records in Israel 2024 by Garri Regev


    Sunday May 4, 2025

    IGRA is the main starting point for researching records of relatives in Israel. With over 3,400,000 records from tens of archives IGRA has records from the Ottoman Empire, British Administration and the State of Israel; records documenting Israel/Palestine, the Mediterranean Basin, references to Europe and more. Join me to learn more about navigating the IGRA website and unlocking information about your family.

  • Wednesday May 28, 2025 - Help! I got my Autosomal DNA results and I'm Confused (Part 3) by Gil Bardige
    Help! I got my Autosomal DNA results and I'm Confused (Part 3) by Gil Bardige

    Category: General Help! I got my Autosomal DNA results and I'm Confused (Part 3) by Gil Bardige


    Wednesday May 28, 2025

    Did you get your autosomal DNA results? Do you, have tens thousands of matches that the testing companies tell you are close relatives, only to find that they don’t share a surname or town in common? Confused? Frustrated? You are not alone. So, take a deep breath and join us in understanding your results of ethnicity and matches; how to prioritize them and reduce the thousands of matches to numbers you can research and maybe find keys to expanding your genealogy family tree. This webinar is Part 3 of a series and is for beginners and others who are just stuck or don’t know what to do next. Maybe you need a restart? Gil will share the processes and techniques that he uses to prioritize matches to get organized and feel like you can accomplish something and know what to do next. In the end, you will be able to say, “Now I understand, I get it, I know what to do"