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Future Meetings
Lara Diamond: SUCCESS IN -- AND IN SPITE OF -- ENDOGAMY
January 20, 2019
1:30 pm
Speaker: Lara Diamond
Lara Diamond: SUCCESS IN -- AND IN SPITE OF -- ENDOGAMY January 20th, 2019 Sunday Afternoon 1:30 pm at AJU Genetic genealogy is particularly daunting for those whose forebears come from endogamous populations (such as Ashkenazi Jews, Native Hawaiians and Cajuns, who have married in a closed group for generations). The work of identifying actual relatives from the mass of genetic distantly-related family can be frustrating. Drawing on case studies, this lecture explains how you can have success in such a situation. For Lara Diamond, this work has led to reunification with many relatives, including a family branch thought to have been killed in the Holocaust. [...]
Robinn Magid: Discovering Hidden Treasure in the JRI-Poland Database
February 17, 2019
1:30 pm
Speaker: Robinn Magid
Robinn Magid: Discovering Hidden Treasure in the JRI-Poland Database February 17th, 2019 Sunday Afternoon 1:30 pm at AJU The Jewish Records Indexing – Poland (JRI-Poland.org) database is the premier finding aid for the surviving documentation of Jewish vital records from the current and former territories of Poland. Many original records can now be viewed through our website. More extracted details about these records are now available through us than ever before. Finding or recognizing the record you need to further your research can be challenging for many reasons. This lecture will focus on how to help you perform better searches [...]