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35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
Jerusalem, Ramada Hotel, 6-10 July 2015.
Conference Details
Geni Israel
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Geni Jerusalem Conference Team
- Dennis Aron - USA
- Yigal Burstein © - Israel
- Adam Brown © - USA / Symposium Lecture Presenter
- Kevin Hanit © - Canada
- Laurence Harris © - UK
- Shmuel Kam © - Israel
- Pam Karp © - Sydney, Australia / Symposium Lecture Presenter
- Rafi Kornfeld © - Israel
- Charles Lebow - Israel
- Mark Melmed - USA
- Malka Mysels © - USA
- Sheryl Prenzlau - Israel
- Randy Schoenberg © - USA / Symposium Lecture Presenter
- Marco Soria © - Italy / Symposium Lecture Presenter
Geni BOF gathering
GENI BOF member get-together, Thursday, July 9th, 2.00 pm. All Geni members are welcome!
Geni Jewish Genealogy Curators
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Preliminary schedule for the 2015 IAJGS
- Keynote Speaker: Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
- Gala Banquet – Speaker, Dick Eastman
Monday, July 6
Check Conference website often for Revisions and Updates
“A Frankenstein by Any Other Name” – Michael Shade
“Ancestry.com” - Workshop
“Archival sources for Sephardic Jewish Onomastics and Genealogy Research in the Middle Ages: Inquisition Trials and Tax Records” – Dr. Ricardo Muñoz Solla
“Connecting to Jewish Heritage through Jewish Genealogy”- KEYNOTE- Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
“Damascus Jews (1583-1909) as Reflected in the Muslim Sharia Courts” – Jacob Rosen
“Death Certificates, Obits, Headstones and Probate Records – What Our Ancestors Have Been Dying to Tell Us” – Kenneth Bravo
“Different Traditions Even in Death: Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi Tombstones” – Madeleine Isenberg
“Digital Staszów: Combining Information Technology with Second-Generation Initiative to Memorialize a Vanished Jewish Community” – Jean-Pierre Stroweis
“Documenting the Vilna Ghetto Library” – Judy Baston
“Evacuatzia - Searching for Documentation on Those Evacuated to the Depths of the USSR during WWII” – Serafima Velkovich
“Footnotes, Sidenotes and Remarks in European Vital Records” – PANEL – Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia, Rony Golan and Orit Lavi
“From the Banks of the Dnieper to the Banks of the Seine via the Yishouv” – Anne Lifshitz-Krams
"Gathering the Fragments": Yad Vashem's National Campaign to Rescue Personal Items from the Holocaust Period – Dr. Haim Gertner
"Genealogical Data from the Archives of the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam” – Ton Tielen
Gesher Galicia Luncheon – Speaker Dr. Haim Gertner
Gesher Galicia Meeting
“How IGRA has gone global AND changed genealogy research in Israel” – Garri Regev
“Introduction to JewishGen” - COMPUTER LAB – Debra Kay-Blatt
“JCR-UK – Project Outline and a Possible Blueprint for Other Regions of the World” – David Shulman
“Jewish Genealogy – How to Start, Where to Look and the Breadth of What’s Available” –Lara Diamond
“Jewish Immigrants in Belgium (1918-1940): How Can We Follow Them?” – Vincent Vagman
“Jewish Names, Red Herrings and Name Changes” – Philip Trauring
“Jewish Surnames from North Africa: Civil Records as Clues for the Etymology” – Dr. Alexander Beider
“Jews in the Trenches: Historical and Genealogical Material at the National Library of Israel” – Daniel Lipson
Latvia SIG Luncheon
Latvia SIG Meeting
“New Attendees!”
“Prenumeranten - A Goldmine of Genealogy!” – Rabbi Yehuda Aron Horovitz
President’s Reception
“Project ‘Jews of Latvia: Names and Fates 1941-1945’ as a Genealogical Source” – Rita Bogdanova
“Rabbinical Genealogy - Doubts and Errors" – Chaim Freedman
“Researching your Galizianer Family: Working with Vital Records” – Mark Halpern
“Searching for Relatives in the JDC Names Database” – Naomi Barth
“Sensitive Subjects in Genealogy: What to Reveal, What to Conceal” – Jane Neff Rollins
“Sources for Research of Dutch Jewish Families” – Max van Dam
"Sources of Jewish Genealogy (18th - 20th Centuries) in the Fonds of the Lviv Archives" – Alexander Dunai
Subcarpathia SIG meeting
“The DNA of the Jewish People” – Bennett Greenspan
“The Soul of Heritage: The Ancient Jewish Cemetery on Montjuic, Barcelona” – Dominique Tomasov Blinder
“The World War II Destruction of Latvian Jewry: Rebuilding, Reconnecting and Remembering” –Henry Blumberg
UK SIG
“What’s New in JRI-Poland?” – Stanley Diamond
“When It Takes A Village: Applying Cluster Research Techniques” – Emily Garber
“Who Were the European Jewish Refugees in Casablanca during World War II and how did they Get There?” – Michal Ben Ya'akov
“Why did Our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place Like the Pale? – Hal Bookbinder
“World War I: Photos, Field Post, Forces Mail, War Diaries, Military Records in Archives” – Dr. Ekkehard Huebschmann
אבני דרך להכרת חיי היום יום של משפחות גליציה - באספקלרית לבוב - ד"ר אלי בראונר
אלה שמות - זיהוי שמותיהם של קרבנות צעדות מוות שיצאו מאושוויץ - בירקנאו הקבורים בקברי אחים בפולין- נעמה גליל
הילד הזה הוא אני - המסע לגילוי זהותם הביולוגית ומשפחתם של אליאס ויוליק, תאומי מנגלה A7734, A7733 - עיינה קימרון
חקר יהודי לטביה - מקורות בארץ- אלה ברקן
לודז - תל אביב - סיאטל. צעדים ראשונים לחקר שורשי המשפחה בפולין – צח אוריין אוראץ
מגילות יוחסין בתוך ספרים – אבישי אלבוים
מִספָרים מְסַפרים – מספרים הם לא רק תאריכים- עירית שם-טוב
Tuesday, July 7
“Ask the Experts: Adventures in Archival Research in Poland, Ukraine & Austria” – Alexander & Natalie Dunai
Austria-Czech SIG – speaker, Oded Breda
“Beyond the Graves – the Dual Lives of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland” – Dr. Kamila Klauzinska
“Differences in Autosomal DNA Characteristics Between Jewish and Non-Jewish Populations” – Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull
"Families Reunited: The Jewish Immigrants’ Guide to Locate Lost Relatives in Hungary” – Karoly Vandor
“Films of the Jewish Diaspora” – Deborah Steinmetz
“Finding Family in Vojvodina, Serbia and Beyond” – Loren Greenberg Schonbrun
“Gathering, Preserving and Interpreting the Voices and Memories of People and Communities” – PANEL: Dr. Margalit Bejarano, Dr. Rose Lerer Cohen, Dr. Judith Reifen-Ronen
“Gesher Galicia Magical Map Room Mystery Tour!” – WORKSHOP - Eli Brauner, Jay Osborn, Pamela Weisberger
“Hebrew Epitaphs as a Unique Source for the Study of Jewish History and Genealogy” – Witold Wrzosinski
“Historic Cadastral Maps as Resource for Genealogists: Rohatyn 1846 as Example” – Marla Raucher Osborn
“How to Design and Construct a Family History Book Entirely by Yourself” – Stephen Denker
“How to Document a National Jewry – The Jews of Scotland” – Michael Tobias
"How to use Field-work to Find Family Information: a Czech Case-Study" – Dr. David Fligg
"Hungarian Jewish Genealogy: How to Research your Hungarian Roots in Former Hungarian Areas” – Karoly Vandor
“Hungarian Records at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” – Megan Lewis
Hungarian SIG Meeting
“Hypotheses on Jewish Population Growth on the Lands of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the 15th and 19thCenturies” – Tomasz Jankowski
“Insider’s Guide to the Family History Library” – Banai Lynn Feldstein
“International Institute for Jewish Genealogy in Jerusalem (IIJG): 10 Year Review – Achievements and Challenges” – Dr. Neville Lamdan
"Israeli Sources for Researching Sephardic Jewry in the Holocaust” – Yitzchak Kerem
“Jewish Records Indexing-Poland” - Computer Workshop – Roni Seibel Liebowitz, Hadassah Lipsius
“Jewish Refugees to Sweden in the Late 1930s and in May-June, 1945 – A Jewish Genealogical Perspective” – Thomas Fuerth
“La base BECANE : registres détat civil consulaire et indigène en Tunisie (1809-1912)”- Thierry Samama
“Landsmanshaftn Records” – Avrohom Krauss
“Life Under the Restrictive Laws for Jews in 19th Century Germany” – Dr. Ekkehard Huebschmann
LitvakSIG Luncheon – speaker, Ephraim Lapid
LitvakSIG Meeting
“’Little Halinka’s Bracelet Found Near Auschwitz Returned to Family’, This and Other Anecdotes Related on Meliza’s Genealogy Site”- Meliza Amity
"Matrimonial Registries of the Jewish Community of Tunis in the 19th Century”- Gilles Boulu & Alain Nedjar
“MyHeritage” – Workshop (English)
“MyHeritage” – Workshop (Hebrew)
“New Developments at Beit Hatfutsot” – Haim Ghiuzeli
“Portal to Connections and Discoveries: Case Studies from the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names” – Cynthia Wroclawski
“Reconstructing a Community: A Case Study Using the Synagogue Records of Homestead, PA” – Tammy Hepps
“Researching Your Litvak Heritage with LitvakSIG -- and Beyond” – Judy Baston
“Resources of the Memorial Museum of Hungarian Speaking Jewry” – Jordan Auslander
“Structure of Marriages Registered in the Vienna Jewish Community 1826-1938” - Wolf-Erich Eckstein
“The History of Yiddish as a Clue to the History of Ashkenazic People” – Dr. Alexander Beider
“The JDC Archives: Who We Are and What We Have to Offer Jewish Genealogists” – Linda Levi
“Tracing over Litvak Ancestry back to Today’s Northern Israel and Southern Lebanon 2000 Years Ago” – Harold Rhode
UkraineSIG Luncheon
UkraineSIG Meeting
“UkraineSIG: What is it and What Does it Include?”- Dr. Janette Silverman
“U.S. Immigration and Naturalization” – Hal Bookbinder
“Use of International Tracing Service Material” – Zvi Bernhardt
“Using Pre-1826 Polish Parish Records in Genealogical Research” – Warren Blatt, Debra Kay-Blatt
“Visual Documentation of Jewish Soldiers in Foreign Armies” – Haim Ghiuzeli
“What I learned from my Family’s Shtetl Yizkor Book” – Rabbi Gary Gans
בית טרזין - פעילות הנצחה לצד מוזיאון וארכיון מודרני- עודד ברידא
ה"כוללים" בירושלים בסוף המאה הי"ט וראשית המאה העשרים. אביעד רוזנברג
הגירתה ופיזורה של משפחה יהודית אחת מצפון מזרח הונגריה - מחקר דנא- ד"ר יהודה היימליך
חשיפה קובץ מסמכים מארכיוני הביטחון הפנימי באוקראינה: ברית המועצות בעקבות תנועות ציוניות- חנה כוכבי
טבריה, תולדות הקהילה על פנקסי החברא קדישא – בנימין פנטליאט
יצחק רוזנטל-דנציגר – כולל הו"ד ובתי מחסה בירושלים – זהבה בן דב
קשרי משפחה חבויים במשפחות רבניות: ש"ב ויתר קיצורים- ירון פדהצור
שמות משפחה יהודיים המורכבים מנוטריקונים – ד"ר חנן רפפורט
Wednesday, July 8
American Jewish WWI Service – Jordan Auslander
“Asser Levy – His Extended Family and their Descendants from the 1600’s to the Present” – David Framowitz
Belarus SIG Luncheon- speaker, Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia
Belarus SIG Meeting
Bessarabia SIG Luncheon – speaker, Anastasia Moscaliuc
Bessarabia SIG Meeting
“Botosani County Records, Accomplishments and Analysis” – Sorin Goldenberg
“Connecting the Jewish Future to its Past: Why and How to Teach Jewish Genealogy” –Jeffrey Schrager
“Developing Your Family Tree-Bene Israel Community” – Nissim Moses
“Evidence Analysis: Which is the Right Record?” – Rhoda Miller
“From Bessarabia to North America -the Kogan-Tulchinsky Family Saga” - Alexandra(Ala) Gamulka, Yefim Kogan
“Galician & Polish Research Online! Methods, Techniques and Resources” – Pamela Weisberger
IAJGS Annual Meeting
“Indian Jewry: Bney Yisrael, Cochinis, Baghdadis – Three Communities with Different Backgrounds, Histories, Languages and Customs” – Moshe Felber
“INS Subject Index: Jewish Refugee Files from WWI and WWII” – James Gross
“Is a Rabbi Hiding in your Family Tree? Lessons from Genetic Genealogy for Traditional Genealogists” – Janet Akaha
“Jewish Antwerp – A Shtetl in Belgium” – Gershon Lehrer
“Jewish Architecture without Borders: Kishinev in the First Half of the 20th Century” – Anastasia Moscaliuc
"Jewish Cultural Property, Ownership, Provenance Research and Restitution: Understanding Concepts” – Karen Franklin and Dr. Rose Lerer Cohen
“Jewish Social Service Agencies” –Avrohom Krauss
“JewishGen 2015” - PANEL: Warren Blatt, Avram Groll & Michael Tobias
JewishGen Evening Program
JRI-Poland Board Meeting
“Lunna – Impressions of my Visits to my Father’s Town of Birth” – Dr. Ruth Marcus
“Meet my Singers, A Success Example of Genealogy Research” – Daniel Horowitz
“Migration from the Yishuv Hayashan (Old Yishuv) Before the First World War” – Jules Feldman
“Non-Classified and Unidentified Sources for Genealogy” – Alex Denysenko
“Ottoman Palestinian Genealogical Sources at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People” – Hadassah Assouline
“Personal Files of Rabbis and Assistant Rabbis in the Kingdom of Poland, a Genealogy Source” – Marta Rzepecka – Aleksiejuk
"Privacy Issues with Online Trees” – E. Randol Schoenberg
“Raducaneni, Romania - Civil Records and Jewish Tombstones: Identifying and Matching Data” – Marcel Glaskie
“Reading Between the Lines: Mining Jewish History Through Extraction of Polish Archive Data” – Judy Golan
“Return to Sighet: Remembrance, Culture and Celebration” – Peninah Zilberman
ROM SIG Meeting
“Russian Empire Military Census 1875 as the Unique Genealogy Resource” – Nadia Lipes
SA SIG Luncheon, speaker - Benjamin Pogrund
“Southern African Jewish Genealogy Research” – Saul Issroff
“The DNA Connection – Modern Jews and the Ancient Hebrews” – Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
“The Genealogy of Tunisian Jews: Pushing the Boundaries” – Thierry Samama
The House of Rothschild in Italy and the Jewish Community of Naples: History Meets Genealogy” – Dr. Marco Soria
“The Jewish Communities of the Caribbean” – W. Todd Knowles
“The Jewish Community in 19th Century Eretz Israel: New Available Resources” – Rose Feldman
"The Jews of Maramaros: Exploring On-line and Off-line Genealogical Sources” – Dr. Menachem Keren-Kratz
“The Mother of all Genealogies (Genesis 10)” – Prof. Aaron Demsky
“The Vienna Jewish Cemetery in Waehring 1784-1879 as a Genealogical Source” - Wolf-Erich Eckstein
הגירות יהודים ממרוקו לאנגליה במאה ה- 19- סידני קורקוס
המחקר הגניאולוגי במיגזר החרדי- הרב מאיר וונדר
הצצה נדירה לעולמו של יהודי מבלרוס, משפחתו וקהילתו מהמאה ה-19 עד לתחילת המאה ה-20.- לרה צינמן
לחקר בתי העלמין והנקרולוגיה של יהודי איזמיר (המאות הי"ז-הכ) ד"ר דב הכהן
מיסתורין ואניגמות במחקר הגניאולוגי אודות משפחת ענתבי - ד"ר אליעוז ענתבי חפר
שמות משפחה של נשים - בעיות ואתגרים במחקר- ד"ר לאה הבר גדליה
Thursday, July 9
“19th Century Censuses in Central Ukraine, Overview of the Key Resource for Genealogy” – Tomasz Jankowski
“A Portal into German-Jewish History” – Dr. William Weitzer
"A Tragic Romance and its Consequences: From One Photo to Journeys of Research and Discovery!” – Eli Rabinowitz
“An Ultimate Guide for Free-to-Use Russian Military Databases in Jewish Genealogy Research” – Nadia Lipes
“Archive Documents Discovered on Additional First Names Imposed on German Jews in 1939" – Dr. Fritz Neubauer
“Are German-Jewish Community Histories Trustworthy Source Material for Your Family Tree” – Jeanette Rosenberg
“Bessarabian Jewish Records – What our Group have Translated and What’s New” – Yefim Kogan
“Derniers Développements de la Recherche sur la Généalogie Juive dans la Francophonie” – PANEL – Daniel Dratwa…
“Exciting New Avotaynu Foundation Program to Promote Jewish DNA Projects” – Adam Brown
Gala Banquet – Speaker, Dick Eastman
“Generation Alliance: A Social Network for Alliance Israelite Universelle Schools Alumni” - Jean-Claude Kuperminc
GerSIG Luncheon – speaker, Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia
GerSIG Meeting
“Getting the Most out of FamilySearch.org for Jewish Research” – W. Todd Knowles
“I Couldn’t Put it Down! Series: What They Don’t Tell You About Family History Publishing” Marlis Humphrey
“It Isn’t All Online – Getting Away from Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage and Finding the Best Stories” – Lara Diamond
“Jewish Genealogy Research at Ukraine 1795-1938: Tips & Tricks, Specific Documentation, Jewish Migration and Archives” – Oleksiy Lipes
“Jewish Vital Records from the Period of the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia (1941-44)”- Tony Kahane
“Jews in the News! International Historical Newspaper Research for Genealogists” – Pamela Weisberger
“JRI-Poland – Congress Poland Records and Digital Images” – Hadassah Lipsius
JRI-Poland Luncheon – speaker, Michal Majewski
JRI-Poland Volunteers Meeting
“Krotoschin and its Virtual Cemetery” Neil Rosenstein
“Making You Memory-able – Tips, Tricks and Tools to Write Your Memoirs” – Danny Verbov
“Multidisciplinary Academic Research in Genealogy” – PANEL – Dr. Dov HaCohen, Dr. Arnon Hershkovitz, Dr. Judith Kalik
“Prepare for a Cemetery Trip” – Daniel Horowitz
“Preserving Photographs, Scanning, and Digital Backups” – Philip Trauring
“Relief Aid, Safe Haven and Displaced Persons Camps: JDC and World War II” – Naomi Barth and Linda Levi
“Resource Centre of the Museum of History of Polish Jews Polin” – Michal Majewski
“Sephardic Dynasties: Irish Crypto Rabbis with a Converso Twist” – Sarina Roffe
“Star of David on the Green and Yellow Flag: Brazilians Jewish Military of WWII” – Israel Blajberg
“Testimonies of Odengatan 28 - Memorial Records from Swedish Post-Holocaust Rehabilitation Camps” – Seth Jacobson
“The History, Adoption and Regulation of Jewish Surnames in the Russian Empire” – Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull
“The Jewish Surnames in Bessarabia/Moldova: What makes our Surnames Unique” – Yefim Kogan
“The Next 30 Years; Predictions of Trends in Jewish Genealogy” – Sallyann Sack Pikus
“The Story of One Extended German Family During the Shoa” – Debbie Lifschitz
“Threading Layers of Memory into our Family Histories” – Rosemary Eshel
“Tracing the Women in Your Family through Socialism and Community Work: Case Study Eretz Israel” – Rose Feldman
“Under the Tuscan Sun: The Story and the Genealogy of the Jews of Tuscany” –Nardo Bonomi Braverman
“U.S. City Directory Unique Uses” – Diane M. Freilich
“Using the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Online Oral Histories to Research Your Family” – Megan Lewis
“Virtual Yizkor/Memorials Books - Creating Webpages Dedicated To Jewish Communities (Kehilot)” – Susana Leistner Bloch
בית הקברות בהר הזיתים – דניאל שני Mount of Olives Cemetery - Daniel Shani
"בנתיבי העפלה" מרכז המחקר והמידע למורשת ההעפלה ע"ש אלוף מרדכי (מוקה) – רינה אופנבך Illegal Immigration - Atlit, Rina Offenbach
חציית התהום בגנאולוגיה רבנית: קו התפר שבין הרשומות האזרחיות למקורות יהודיים- ירון פדהצור
לה קהילה אז קומו לה פמיליה (הקהילה כמשפחה)- ד"ר לאה טייכר
עקבות שושלת משפחת זקס, במקורות ובמאגרי המידע – גידי פורז, ד"ר מוטי פרידמן
Friday, July 10
“Beta Israel – Descendants of King Solomon or Descendants of the Tribe of Dan? Origins Shrouded in Mystery” – Avivah Pinski
FAMILY FRIDAY!!
“Family Generations at War: Weaving World History and Ancestral Genealogy” – Paul King
“Finding Aron Baum in Pre-War St. Petersburg” – Prof. H. Daniel Wagner
“Genealogical Sources in the Central Archives on Jewish Soldiers in WWI and Their Families” – Denise Rein
“JewishGen (Hebrew)” - WORKSHOP
“JRI-Poland (Hebrew)” – WORKSHOP – Jean-Pierre Stroweis
“Search as an Art” – Banai Lynn Feldstein
“Teaching Jewish Genealogy for Teenagers” – Rony Golan, Dr. Arnon Hershkovitz
“The Central Database of Shoah Victims Names – Plans for the Future” – Dr. Alexander Avram
“The poor and the Pious in Jerusalem 1639-1800 - Support for Eretz Israel from Amsterdam” –Ton Tielen
“Yad Vashem Resources for Advanced Level” – Zvi Bernhardt
אבני דרך לאיתור מידע על חיילי צבא אנדרס- מרוסיה, ארץ ישראל, איטליה ועד פירוק הצבא- ד"ר אלי בראונר
מי היה אלישע בן אבויה- מריאנה קרונפלד
מקורות מידע לא שגרתיים: אוספי הארכיון הציוני כמקור מידע ייחודי בתחום חקר השורשים – סימון שליאכטר Holdings at the Central Zionist Archives - Simone Schliachter
עץ המשאלות - סיפורי מחקר מרגשים - גידי פורז
שמות פרטיים מחפירות ארכיאולוגיות בארץ ישראל בתקופת בית ראשון- ד"ר מיתקה גולוב