Program and Schedule
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This IAJGS 2018 Conference schedule is offered for all to organize their attendance. Be aware that there may continue to be adjustments of room assignments, presentations added and, perhaps, a few deleted. This online schedule will continue to be updated as needed.
Prior to and during the Conference, a Conference App will continuously update program changes. In addition, signage outside presentation rooms will keep you current.
Conference Recording
For those unable to attend the Conference, “IAJGS ON-DEMAND!” will give you the opportunity to watch lectures recorded at the Conference and available for on-demand streaming (click here for details). The lectures included in “IAJGS ON-DEMAND!” are noted on the program by the prefix “OnDe!” in the sessionn title. You can easily see all of them by doing a keyword search with that string.
Note that audio recordings will not be available this year as they have been in the past.
Fee-Added SessionsSessions preceded by $$$ are at an additional cost. These include SIG Luncheons, Computer Labs, and the Gala Banquet. These sessions are available for sale through Registration.
Sunday, August 05 | ||||||
Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Handout | Topic or Category | Type of Session |
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | ||||||
1141 | The Past in the Present: How the Polish Partitions Shape Jewish Heritage Work Today |
Marysia Galbraith University of Alabama |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1348 | OnDe! Mapping Jewish Warsaw: Walking in Non-existing Streets |
Aleksandra Sajdak Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute/Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Olga Szymanska The Emanuel RIngelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Archives and Repositories Cemetery Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages |
Presentation | |
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | ||||||
1371 | Conference 101 [OnDe! Canceled] |
Barbara Hershey Judi Missel |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | ||||||
1708 | Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting | Krakow-Warsaw V | SIG Meeting | |||
1208 | Become a Conference App Pro-User: Getting the Most Out The Conference App [OnDe! Canceled] |
Judi Missel Barbara Hershey |
Lodz-Warsaw II | Using Technology for Research | Presentation | |
1377 | OnDe! Writing the History of the Jews of Russia and Poland |
Antony Polonsky |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Ethical and Legal Considerations Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
2702 | SHARE Fair with Chocolate! | Village-SHARE Fair | Open Event | |||
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | ||||||
1382 | Welcome to IAJGS 2018 Warsaw | Ballroom | Opening Session | |||
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | ||||||
2302 | $$ Dinner Lubliners Reunion Dinner | Poznan-Panorama | $$ Dinner | |||
8:05 PM - 8:40 PM | ||||||
3101 | Daily Religious Services (Orthodox) | Radom-HM 7 | Minyan | |||
Monday, August 06 | ||||||
Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Handout | Topic or Category | Type of Session |
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM | ||||||
1281 | Register of the Jews set up in Warsaw in January 1778 and Genealogical Researches |
Hanna Wegrzynek POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1710 | JewishGen Latvia SIG Meeting | Kielce-HM 3 | SIG Meeting | |||
1394 | National Digitization Project of Poland (NDA) | Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | ||
1258 | Hopeless Case Studies: How to Search for Family Roots in Towns Without Records |
Jakub Czuprynski |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1226 | The Lithuanian Shtetl of Šeduva - a Case Study in Restoring Memory |
Milda Jakulyte-Vasil |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1330 | OnDe! Polish Jewish and Gentile Female Resistance to the Third Reich |
Joanne Gilbert |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Family Stories (full presentation) Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1360 | OnDe! Who Are We, When and How Did We Get Here? |
Adam Brown |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
DNA Research and Genetics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | ||||||
1056 | $$$ Computer Workshop: Introduction to JewishGen |
Debra Kay-Blatt Jane Tobias |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research Workshop - Computer |
$$$ Computer Workshop | |
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
4001 | Resource Village - Monday | Village | Open Event | |||
8:35 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1051 | What Should be the Main Question in Genealogy Research? The Story of a Goldfinch |
Irit Shem-Tov |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Methodology and Mechanics Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM | ||||||
1227 | Šeduva''s Jewish Families: Personal Stories and History Reconstruction |
Inga Makarkova Živile Tamulionyte |
Lublin-HM 1 | Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) | Short Presentation | |
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1712 | JewishGen Romania SIG Meeting | Chelm-HM 8 | SIG Meeting | |||
1713 | JewishGen Southern Africa SIG Meeting | Kielce-HM 3 | SIG Meeting | |||
1395 | Old Jewish Cemetery in Lublin | Gdansk-HM 2 |
Cemetery Research Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | ||
1809 | Svencionys BOF Meeting | Katowice-Boardroom | BOF Meeting | |||
1080 | Jewish Records Indexing - Poland: The Impact of Reaching Critical Mass |
Stanley Diamond |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1186 | Moldovan Archives: What Information We Can Find in Addition to Vital Records and Revision Lists |
Yefim Kogan |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research |
Presentation | |
1018 | OnDe! DNA Successes In - and Despite of - Endogamy |
Lara Diamond Lara's Jewnealogy |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV | DNA Research and Genetics | Presentation | |
1076 | OnDe! Jewish Medical Globetrotters and Persevering Women |
Andrew Zalewski |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research |
Presentation | |
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | ||||||
1269 | $$$ Computer Workshop: Integrating Information from Different Sources to Build Map Applications |
Zbigniew Stettner Polish Origins |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research Workshop - Computer |
$$$ Computer Workshop | |
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1126 | Letters from a Lost World: From Lithuania to America and Back |
Marlene Englander |
Lublin-HM 1 | Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) | Short Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | ||||||
1385 | Collections of Jewish Interest at the Polish State Archives | Krakow-Warsaw V | Ashkenazi Research | Presentation | ||
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1804 | Klaipeda BOF Meeting | Katowice-Boardroom | BOF Meeting | |||
1179 | Charting: A Graphic Display of Data |
Avrohom Krauss |
Kielce-HM 3 | Methodology and Mechanics | Presentation | |
1354 | Getting the Most Out of Family Tree Maker? |
Duff Wilson Family Tree Maker |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1289 | Latvian Jewry - What the Records Tell Us |
Paul Cheifitz |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1114 | Preserving Photos, Scanning, and Digital Backup |
Philip Trauring |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1088 | Shtetl Routes: Genealogical Aspects of Traveling across Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian borderlands |
Emil Majuk Grodzka Gate - Theatre NN Centre |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1095 | OnDe! Intro to JewishGen.org and Jewish Genealogy |
Avraham Groll JewishGen |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1292 | OnDe! Not All Your Family Died in the Holocaust |
Daniel Horowitz |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1386 | Special Collections of the Lodz Branch of the Polish State Archives | Krakow-Warsaw V | Ashkenazi Research | Presentation | ||
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | ||||||
1015 | $$$ Computer Workshop: JewishGen Viewmate, Google Translate, and Other Online Tools |
Celia Haupt |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research Workshop - Computer |
$$$ Computer Workshop | |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
2105 | Disna District Research Group BOF BYO Lunch | Chelm-HM 8 | BYO Lunch | |||
2001 | $$$ JRI-Poland Luncheon |
Miroslaw Reczko |
Lodz-Warsaw II | $$$ Luncheon | ||
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM | ||||||
1351 | In Genealogy, like Real Estate, Location is Everything! |
Neville Lamdan International Institute for Jewish Genealogy |
Radom-HM 7 |
Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
1365 | Jewish Community In Challenging Times: Rare Archival Film Footage from Poland & Eastern Europe |
Linda Levi American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
12:50 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
1206 | From Suwalki to Sweden: Jewish Migration and Integration, 1850-1920 |
Carl Henrik Carlsson Uppsala University, Sweden |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM | ||||||
1007 | A Forgotten Land: Growing up in the Jewish Pale |
Lisa Cooper |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | ||||||
1387 | Galicianer Records at the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw | Krakow-Warsaw V | Ashkenazi Research | Presentation | ||
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | ||||||
1817 | Disna DRG BOF Meeting | Chelm-HM 8 | BOF Meeting | |||
1705 | JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG Meeting | Katowice-Boardroom | SIG Meeting | |||
1116 | All Roads Lead to Eretz Israel |
Rose Feldman |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Sephardi Research |
Presentation | |
1257 | Archives from Romanian Moldavia: Sources for Jewish Genealogical and Demographic Studies |
Marius Chelcu A. D. Xenopol Institute of History – Iasi |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1023 | Rural Jewish Families in Ashkenazi Area in 1700-1800´s and Their Academic Descendants Today |
Vaclav Chvatal TAMUS Tachov Archives & Museum Society |
Radom-HM 7 |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Family Stories (full presentation) Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1364 | Worldwide Privacy Regulations Restricting Access to Genealogical Records |
Jan Meisels Allen |
Wroclaw-Lightroom | Archives and Repositories | Presentation | |
1201 | OnDe! Dark Tourism meets Destination Culture: The Evolution of Jewish Heritage Travel |
Ruth Ellen Gruber Jewish Heritage Europe |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | ||||||
1367 | OnDe! Our Ancestors at Risk: Can the Jewish Cemeteries of Poland be Saved? |
Dan A. Oren Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland Steven Reece The Matzevah Foundation Michael Schudrich Chief Rabbinate of Poland Monika Krawczyk Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage (FODZ) |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Panel Discussion | |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | ||||||
1306 | $$$ Computer Workshop: Making the Most of FamilySearch for Jewish Research |
W. Todd Knowles FamilySearch |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Ashkenazi Research Sephardi Research Using Technology for Research Workshop - Computer |
$$$ Computer Workshop | |
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | ||||||
1388 | The Collections of the Rzeszow Branch of the Polish State Archives | Krakow-Warsaw V | Ashkenazi Research | Presentation | ||
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM | ||||||
1273 | A Hungarian Holocaust Journey: A Daughter's Search for Family |
Risa Heywood Research by Risa |
Radom-HM 7 |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Preserving our Jewish Past Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||
1815 | Jewish Genealogy Portal BOF Meeting | Chelm-HM 8 | BOF Meeting | |||
1333 | CANCELED Finding Needles and Haystacks: Using the Russian Gubernskiye Vedomosti |
Darren King |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1068 | Documenting the Vilna Ghetto Library |
Judy Baston |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1216 | Galicia Basics: What Every Galitzianer Needs to Know |
Shelley K. Pollero Renee Steinig |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1150 | GenealogyIndexer.org: Searching Historical Directories, Yizkor Books, and More |
Logan Kleinwaks |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1004 | Using Family Newsletters as a Genealogical Tool |
Bubbles Segall |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1163 | OnDe! Fragments that Remained: The Search for My Grandparents and their Courageous Fight for Freedom |
Jennie Milne |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
DNA Research and Genetics Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | ||||||
1368 | OnDe! Expert Report: What's the Future of Jewish Cemetery Indexing in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania? |
Dan A. Oren Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland Alex Denysenko Witold Wrzosinski Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries Sandra Petrukonyte |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Panel Discussion | |
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | ||||||
1259 | $$$ Computer Workshop: Introduction to New Genealogy Website: www.krakowjewishheritage.org |
Jakub Czuprynski |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Using Technology for Research Workshop - Computer |
$$$ Computer Workshop | |
3:20 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||
1195 | Jewish Staszow as Site of Memory: Vestiges of a Past and New Manifestations |
Passi Rosen-Bayewitz |
Radom-HM 7 |
Jewish History and Culture Methodology (25 minute format) Preserving our Jewish Past Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM | ||||||
1044 | New York Cemetery Research Using JGSNY's Burial Societies Database |
Steve Stein |
Radom-HM 7 |
Cemetery Research Methodology (25 minute format) Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Short Presentation | |
1058 | Polish Pronunciation for Genealogists |
Fay Bussgang |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Methodology (25 minute format) Methodology and Mechanics |
Short Presentation | |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1814 | Geni.com BOF Meeting | Chelm-HM 8 | BOF Meeting | |||
1703 | JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Meeting | Lublin-HM 1 | SIG Meeting | |||
1144 | Looking Beyond Family Research - An Historical Exploration |
Rose Lerer Cohen |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1310 | Publish or Perish: Best Practices on Getting Your Family History into Print |
Bill Gladstone |
Kielce-HM 3 | Methodology and Mechanics | Presentation | |
1173 | Researching your Galitzianer Family: Working with Vital Records |
Mark Halpern |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1230 | OnDe! Passport Documentation from Interwar Period as a Source for Genealogical Research |
Maciej Wzorek POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Archives and Repositories Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1260 | Fields of Glass: Tracing the Lives of the Glasmans of Gniewoszow |
Michael Shade |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
1161 | One Family's Shoah Survival Stories |
Hal Bookbinder |
Radom-HM 7 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM | ||||||
2703 | Meet & Greet Reception | Foyer | Reception | |||
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | ||||||
1182 | OnDe! Meet the Family: A Journey of a Thousand Years at POLIN Museum: The JGSLA - Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture |
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
Ballroom |
Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
8:05 PM - 8:40 PM | ||||||
3102 | Daily Religious Services (Orthodox) | Radom-HM 7 | Minyan | |||
Tuesday, August 07 | ||||||
Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Handout | Topic or Category | Type of Session |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1098 | Jewish Migration Patterns - Part 1: How Did Jews Get To Europe? |
Avraham Groll JewishGen |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1716 | United Kingdom SIG Meeting | Radom-HM 7 | SIG Meeting | |||
1220 | Buried Treasures in 19th Century: Hardly Known Files of Genealogical Significance in German Archives |
Ekkehard Huebschmann Genealogy – Publications – Transcriptions |
Gdansk-HM 2 | Archives and Repositories | Presentation | |
1211 | Inheritance Records and Testaments in Polish State Archive Collections: a Practical Guide |
Jakub Czuprynski |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
1109 | Jewish Military Burials in Italy for WWII |
Kathy Kirkpatrick GenTracer |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Cemetery Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
1073 | Reading Between the Lines: Mining Jewish History through Extraction of Polish Archive Data |
Judy Golan Find-My-Roots |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1069 | OnDe! Researching Your Litvak Ancestors |
Judy Baston |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1327 | OnDe! When it Takes a Village: Applying Cluster Research Techniques |
Emily Garber Extra Yad Genealogical Services |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
DNA Research and Genetics Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | ||||||
1197 | $$$ Computer Workshop: Making the Most of IGRA Resources |
Garri Regev |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research Workshop - Computer |
$$$ Computer Workshop | |
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
4002 | Resource Village - Tuesday | Village | Open Event | |||
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1376 | A Personal Project to Remember our Ancestors: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania Then and Now |
Ralph Salinger |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1824 | Mogilev-Podolskiy BOF Meeting | Kielce-HM 3 | BOF Meeting | |||
1193 | Hungarian Jewish Research Overview |
Jordan Auslander |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Cemetery Research |
Presentation | |
1166 | The Central Database of Shoah Victims: Names and other genealogical sources at Yad Vashem |
Serafima Velkovich Yad Vashem |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1301 | Using Polish Court Files in Genealogical Research |
Orit Lavi Rony Golan Golan Genealogy Anna Wiernicka |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
1389 | OnDe! Beit Hatfutsot Database Online – New Developments |
Haim Horia Ghiuzeli Beit Hatfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1152 | OnDe! The Changing Borders of Eastern Europe |
Hal Bookbinder |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM | ||||||
1089 | Genealogy and Responsibility: Who Should Protect Jewish Heritage? |
Teresa Klimowicz Grodzka Gate - Theatre NN Centre |
Chelm-HM 8 |
Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Discussion Mtg. (90 mins) | |
9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | ||||||
1282 | $$$ Computer Workshop: Jewish Records Indexing-Poland Computer Workshop |
Hadassah Lipsius |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Using Technology for Research Workshop - Computer |
$$$ Computer Workshop | |
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1169 | An Amateur Genealogist's Story: Becoming a Member of the Weissenberg and Bloch Families |
Malgorzata Ploszaj |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Preserving our Jewish Past Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM | ||||||
1137 | My Son the Doctor: Feldshers, Barber Surgeons - Misconceptions and Reality |
Gary Patou |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1709 | JewishGen Hungarian SIG Meeting | Lublin-HM 1 | SIG Meeting | |||
1711 | Litvak SIG Meeting | Wroclaw-Lightroom | SIG Meeting | |||
1187 | Incarceration & Legal Restrictions on European Refugees in the UK during the 1930s and 1940s |
Jeanette Rosenberg |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages |
Presentation | |
1268 | Search List from the Kovenskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti as a Genealogical Research Source |
Ruth Leiserowitz Jews in East Prussia: History and Culture Society |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish Given Name and Surname Research |
Presentation | |
1055 | Using Pre-1826 Polish Parish Records in Jewish Research |
Debra Kay-Blatt Warren Blatt JewishGen |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1372 | OnDe! Memory Conflicts in Poland Related to the Jewish Past and the Holocaust |
Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs Jagiellonian University |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1065 | OnDe! The History of the Joint in Poland and What We Have to Offer Jewish Genealogists |
Linda Levi American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1140 | Pulling Stories Out of Silence: Uncovering my Hidden Jewish-Polish Heritage |
Marysia Galbraith University of Alabama |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Jewish History and Culture Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
2102 | JewishGen Romania SIG Lunch | Lublin-HM 1 | Luncheon | |||
2002 | $$$ Litvak SIG Luncheon |
Russ Maurer LitvakSIG |
Lodz-Warsaw II | $$$ Luncheon | ||
2005 | $$$ JewishGen German SIG Luncheon |
Malgorzata Ploszaj |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 | $$$ Luncheon | ||
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
1369 | Collecting Information from Polish Books and Newspapers Using Traditional and Digital Libraries |
Maciej Markowski |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1189 | Jewish Cemeteries in Lublin Region: The Inventory Work and its Impact on Genealogy Research |
Monika Tarajko Grodzka Gate - Theatre NN Centre |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1082 | Some Sephardic Families in the 17th - 20th Centuries Central America: Looking for my Ancestor Leon Melgar |
Arandi Melgar |
Radom-HM 7 |
Converso/Anusim Research Family Stories (full presentation) Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Sephardi Research |
Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM | ||||||
1332 | The Birth of JRI-Poland; The Journey from Personal Genetic-Genealogical Research to Making a Difference |
Stanley Diamond |
Radom-HM 7 |
DNA Research and Genetics Preserving our Jewish Past Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | ||||||
1707 | JewishGen German SIG Meeting | Bialystok-HM 4-6 | SIG Meeting | |||
1391 | The Joys of Yiddish Conversation |
Jack Halpern |
Tykochin-HM 5 |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1125 | Finding My Roots: Using the Entire Genealogy Tool Box |
Coral E Grant |
Kielce-HM 3 |
DNA Research and Genetics Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages |
Presentation | |
1026 | From DP Camps to the US and Back to Europe |
Janette Silverman AncestryProGenealogists |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1075 | Ketubot of the 19th Century Portuguese Jewish City of Tunis |
Alain Nedjar CGJ Circle of Jewish Genealogy (France) |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past Sephardi Research |
Presentation | |
1203 | The Jews of Lublin from 17th to 18th century - Genealogy in Early Municipal Records |
Jacek Jeremicz Grodzka Gate - Theatre NN Centre Piotr Zimny Archee - Archaeological Research and Supervision |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1002 | OnDe! Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering the Lost and the Living Through a 1938 Home Movie |
Glenn Kurtz |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1131 | OnDe! Tracing Family History in Official Records of the Russian Empire and Republic of Lithuania |
Vitalija Gircyte |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Family Stories (full presentation) Jewish History and Culture Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | ||||||
1393 | Passports for Life: The Bernese Group Rescue of Polish Jews in WWII |
Jeffrey Cymbler Markus Blechner Jedrzej Uszynski |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
2:05 PM - 2:30 PM | ||||||
1135 | Israeli Immigration Lists |
Rony Golan Golan Genealogy |
Radom-HM 7 |
Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Methodology (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM | ||||||
1254 | The Hohenems Descendants' Reunions |
Helen Brunner |
Radom-HM 7 |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||
1138 | From Shtetl to the Tropics: The Relevant Contribution of Polish Jewish Immigration to Brazil |
Israel Blajberg Jewish Memorial - Brazil |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1288 | Jewish Life and Demographic Processes in the Jewry of a Hungarian County |
Agnes Szego Jewish Theological Seminary-University of Jewish Studies, Á Budapest |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1074 | Jewish-Polish Relations in the Southern Bialystok Region from 1939-1941 |
Miroslaw Reczko |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1224 | New Version of the Virtual Shtetl |
Agata Korba POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1286 | Using the New Jewish-Heritage-Europe Website: New Look, New Features for this Key Jewish Heritage Portal |
Ruth Ellen Gruber Jewish Heritage Europe |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1374 | OnDe! The World Memory Project |
Anna Fechter Ancestry |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
2:45 PM - 4:15 PM | ||||||
1276 | OnDe! Finding Whose Roots? Jewish Genealogists on TV |
Karen S. Franklin |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Archives and Repositories Ethical and Legal Considerations Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture |
Panel Discussion | |
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1390 | A Discussion: Polish Righteous Among the Nations |
Joanna Krol Museum of the History of Polish Jews |
Krakow-Warsaw V | Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 | Discussion Mtg. (90 mins) | |
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM | ||||||
1247 | A Warsaw Jew Deported to Auschwitz from France - Found in the French Archives |
Olivier Szlos |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1704 | Bialystok SIG Meeting | Wroclaw-Lightroom | SIG Meeting | |||
1822 | Israel Research BOF Meeting | Kielce-HM 3 | BOF Meeting | |||
1196 | Accuracy of Hungarian Jewish and Civil Vital Registers and Late Notes |
Karoly Vandor Hungarian Roots |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Ethical and Legal Considerations Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1162 | The Partisan Song Project and Genealogy - Inspiring and Connecting a New Generation |
Eli Rabinowitz |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1164 | Vital Records from the Former Prussian Provinces of Posen and Silesia |
Joachim Mugdan |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1041 | OnDe! The 1784 Grand Duchy of Lithuania Census Records: Finding your Pre-Shtetl and Family Name Origins |
Harold Rhode |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1225 | The Soloveychik Family from Raseiniai: Financiers, Merchants, Clerks, Doctors and Rebels |
Tatiana Wojtas Farrago Intercultural Family Counseling |
Radom-HM 7 |
Ashkenazi Research Rabbinic and Dynastic Research Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM | ||||||
2704 | Meet & Greet Reception | Foyer | Reception | |||
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | ||||||
1378 | Overcoming the Dark Past in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine |
Antony Polonsky |
Ballroom |
Ashkenazi Research Ethical and Legal Considerations Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | ||||||
1122 | FILM: A Shtetl in the Caribbean |
Mark Wiznitzer |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Family Stories (full presentation) Immigration and Migration Over the Ages |
Film | |
8:00 PM - 8:35 PM | ||||||
3103 | Daily Religious Services (Orthodox) | Radom-HM 7 | Minyan | |||
Wednesday, August 08 | ||||||
Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Handout | Topic or Category | Type of Session |
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | ||||||
2613 | Starting a Local Jewish Genealogical Society (JGS) (Invitation Only) |
Nolan Altman Mark Nicholls JGSGB |
Tykochin-HM 5 | Meeting | ||
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM | ||||||
1185 | Everyone Didn't Die in the Holocaust: A 2018 Warsaw Jewish Family Reunion |
Ellen Kowitt |
Radom-HM 7 | Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) | Short Presentation | |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1714 | JewishGen SubCarpathia SIG Meeting | Lublin-HM 1 | SIG Meeting | |||
1807 | Lublin-Zamosc BOF Meeting | Kielce-HM 3 | BOF Meeting | |||
1151 | A Methodology to Reconstruct the Daily Life in Belgium of Migrants from the Yiddishland (1900-1950) |
Vincent Vagman Agence Les mots pour le lire |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1181 | Polish Jews in Western French-Speaking European Countries: How to Research Them |
Daniel Dratwa Max Polonovski Cercle de Généalogie Juive (French Jewish Genealogical Society) |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1159 | Why Did Our Jewish Ancestors Leave a Great Place Like the Pale? |
Hal Bookbinder |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1059 | OnDe! Poland: Resources on JewishGen for Polish Research |
Warren Blatt JewishGen |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1352 | OnDe! Researching Jewish Families for the Unfamiliar |
Marek Koblanski Ancestry – ProGenealogists Janette Silverman AncestryProGenealogists Lina Kuzminskaite Ancestry – ProGenealogists |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Cemetery Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
4003 | Resource Village - Wednesday | Village | Open Event | |||
8:35 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1342 | Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States |
Barbara Sontz |
Radom-HM 7 | Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) | Short Presentation | |
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM | ||||||
1210 | The Hirschfeld Family from Raczki, Poland |
Carl Henrik Carlsson Uppsala University, Sweden |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1381 | Meet with an Archivist: Step up Your Lithuanian Research |
Carol Hoffman |
Katowice-Boardroom | Archives and Repositories | Presentation | |
1046 | Arthur Szyk: Historical Shaping of a Polish Artist |
Rhoda Miller Ancestry ProGenealogists |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1242 | Creating a Scottish Holocaust-era Study Centre - Jewish refugees in Scotland in 1930s and 1940s |
Harvey Kaplan Scottish Jewish Archives Centre |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1105 | The 43 Thousand Project: Documenting an Entire Lost Community of Lublin |
Tadeusz Przystojecki Grodzka Gate - Theatre NN Centre |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1346 | The Collections of the Emanuel Ringleblum Jewish Historical Institute |
Michal Czajka The Emanuel RIngelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw Noam Silberberg Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute/Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1066 | What's New in Austrian and Czech Jewish Genealogy? |
E Randol Schoenberg |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
2605 | OnDe! IAJGS 2019 Cleveland Conference Preview | Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Sephardi Research |
Presentation | ||
1339 | OnDe! We Were Here Together - Bylismy tu razem |
Barbara Sontz |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV | Preserving our Jewish Past | Presentation | |
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1011 | Shtetlach in Lithuania: Krekenava, Surviliskis, Seredzius, Cekiskis, Krakes |
Celia Haupt |
Radom-HM 7 |
Cemetery Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM | ||||||
1104 | Book of Residents of Kozienice, 1934-1948 |
Patrick Atlas |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Methodology (25 minute format) Methodology and Mechanics |
Short Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1383 | Becoming Bielski: A Personal Story of the Bielski Partisans |
Sharon Rennert |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1803 | Ilza BOF Meeting | Katowice-Boardroom | BOF Meeting | |||
1715 | JewishGen Ukraine SIG Meeting | Wroclaw-Lightroom | SIG Meeting | |||
1022 | Between the Front Lines: Jews in Britain and the First World War |
Daniel Morgan-Thomas |
Kielce-HM 3 | Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 | Presentation | |
1266 | Gute Apetit - On Jewish Names and Jewish Food |
Haim Horia Ghiuzeli Beit Hatfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1204 | Jewish Shtetl in Moldova without Jews: How Can the Jewish Past Be Remembered? |
Serghei Daniliuc Yefim Kogan |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1345 | The Jewish Emigration from the Bohemian Lands to Hungary 1750-1848: A genealogical Survey |
Georg Gaugusch |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1379 | OnDe! Antony Polonsky in Conversation |
Antony Polonsky |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Ethical and Legal Considerations Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1380 | OnDe! The ITS: What it Is, What it Isn't and When is it Useful |
Zvi Bernhardt |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1133 | Janowo (the one near Chorzele): Endogamy, Family and Fishmongers among Newly Found Records |
Martin Meyers |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology and Mechanics Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
1317 | FILM: A Town Called Brzostek with Introduction and Q&A |
Jonathan Webber |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Film | |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
2101 | JewishGen French SIG BYO Lunch | Katowice-Boardroom | BYO Lunch | |||
2003 | $$$ JewishGen Ukraine SIG Luncheon | Lodz-Warsaw II | $$$ Luncheon | |||
2006 | $$$ JewishGen Austria-Czech SIG Luncheon |
Lenka Matusikova |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 | $$$ Luncheon | ||
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
1717 | JRI-Poland SIG - Current Volunteers | Radom-HM 7 | SIG Meeting | |||
1049 | Evidence Analysis: Which Is The Right Record? |
Rhoda Miller Ancestry ProGenealogists |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | ||||||
1801 | Bukovina BOF Meeting | Lublin-HM 1 | BOF Meeting | |||
1701 | JewishGen Austria-Czech SIG Meeting | Bialystok-HM 4-6 | SIG Meeting | |||
1054 | Books of Residents and Other Valuable Polish Resources |
Julian Bussgang Fay Bussgang |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1265 | Reclaiming Przysucha: A Hassidic Center of Personal Self-Examination, Change, and Renewal |
David Czernobilsky |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Cemetery Research Family Stories (full presentation) Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1370 | Reconstructing Rutners: Tracing a Family through Changing Borders & Languages |
Lara Diamond Lara's Jewnealogy |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Ashkenazi Research DNA Research and Genetics Family Stories (full presentation) Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1304 | Researching the Jews of Prussian Poland |
Roger Lustig |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research |
Presentation | |
1086 | Three Adoptions and an Ethical Dilemma |
Banai Lynn Feldstein |
Radom-HM 7 |
DNA Research and Genetics Ethical and Legal Considerations Family Stories (full presentation) Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1005 | OnDe! I Know Absolutely Nothing! Ethnographic Know-How of Interviewing Elderly People about Difficult Topics |
Tatiana Wojtas Farrago Intercultural Family Counseling |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Ethical and Legal Considerations Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | ||||||
1375 | OnDe! Discovering the Archives of Eastern Europe |
Mark Halpern Renee Steinig Lenka Matusikova Hubert Wajs Archiwum Glowne Akt Dawnych Vitalija Gircyte Magdalena Marosz National Archive, Krakow, Poland |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV | Archives and Repositories | Panel Discussion | |
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||
1366 | From Israel to Ashkenaz through Italy. And Back |
Nardo Bonomi Braverman Italian Family History |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Sephardi Research |
Presentation | |
1028 | Genealogy and Family Heritage Tours: What Comes First? |
Alex Denysenko |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1275 | How to Create a Strong Personal Story Out of Pure Facts |
Agata Jujeczka |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1205 | Jewish Cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova: Current Status and Future Projects |
Serghei Daniliuc Yefim Kogan |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1147 | Matzeva (Tombstone) Reading Guidance |
Madeleine Isenberg |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1198 | The Abandoned Baby Girl in Krosno Streets is My Cousin - Discovering Maria's Identity |
Leah Teicher |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Ashkenazi Research DNA Research and Genetics Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1106 | The Lublin-Antwerp Connection: Migration Patterns of a Town with Discoveries and New Chapters |
Malgorzata Milkowska Grodzka Gate - NN Theatre Centre Jackie Schwarz Tadeusz Przystojecki Grodzka Gate - Theatre NN Centre |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish Given Name and Surname Research |
Presentation | |
1302 | OnDe! Genealogy Research at Historical Sites: Teaching History |
Tomasz Cebulski Jagiellonian University / POLIN TRAVEL |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1823 | Kupiskis/Rokiskis BOF Meeting | Katowice-Boardroom | BOF Meeting | |||
1806 | Lida-Oshmiany BOF Meeting | Radom-HM 7 | BOF Meeting | |||
1207 | Did My Great Great Grandfather Really Have Three Wives? Roots in Slovakia and Hungary |
Judi Missel |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Ashkenazi Research Family Stories (full presentation) Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1234 | Mine, Yours, Ours - Jewish Prenuptial Agreements in Kingdom of Poland |
Anna Wiernicka |
Lublin-HM 1 | Jewish History and Culture | Presentation | |
1003 | Preservation for the Next Generation: Building a Living Community While Restoring a Cemetery |
Glenn Kurtz |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1175 | The Trip of a Lifetime: Refugees Find Safe Haven via Japan |
Mark Halpern |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1110 | Unique Surname Gives Insight into the History, Adoption, and Regulation of Jewish Surnames: Poland, Galicia |
David Elbaum Heshel Teitelbaum University of Ottawa |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Cemetery Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Rabbinic and Dynastic Research Sephardi Research |
Presentation | |
1238 | Where are the Oldest Gravestones? Exploration Progress of the Cemetery in 1600-1800´s |
Vaclav Chvatal TAMUS Tachov Archives & Museum Society |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1334 | CANCELED Strategies for Using the Polish Digital Library Database |
Darren King |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1373 | OnDe! The Jewish Record Collection on Ancestry.com |
Crista Cowan |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Sephardi Research Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM | ||||||
2705 | Meet & Greet Reception | Foyer | Reception | |||
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | ||||||
1094 | JewishGen 2018 Annual Meeting |
Avraham Groll JewishGen |
Ballroom |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
8:00 PM - 8:35 PM | ||||||
3104 | Daily Religious Services (Orthodox) | Radom-HM 7 | Minyan | |||
Thursday, August 09 | ||||||
Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Handout | Topic or Category | Type of Session |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1802 | Canada BOF Meeting | Lublin-HM 1 | BOF Meeting | |||
1816 | Professional Genealogists BOF Meeting | Bialystok-HM 4-6 | BOF Meeting | |||
1812 | Yizkor Book BOF Meeting | Radom-HM 7 | BOF Meeting | |||
1328 | From Where Came the Holocaust Victims of France? Extended Klarsfeld Memorial as Online Searchable Database |
Jean-Pierre Stroweis |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Sephardi Research Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1267 | Giro D'Italia - A Genealogical Tour of Jewish Italy |
Haim Horia Ghiuzeli Beit Hatfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1123 | Memory Keepers of Poland's Jewish Past |
Menachem Daum Kamila Klauzinska |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Cemetery Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1218 | OnDe! Family History of Fear and Secrets: My Story |
Agata Tuszynska |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
1384 | OnDe! Traces of Memory: Jewish Heritage in Former Galicia |
Jakub Nowakowski Galicia Jewish Museum |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
8:00 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
2600 | IAJGS Annual Meeting | Krakow-Warsaw V | Annual Meeting | |||
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1818 | Chernigov Gubernia BOF Meeting | Katowice-Boardroom | BOF Meeting | |||
1810 | Telsiai-Siauliai BOF Meeting | Radom-HM 7 | BOF Meeting | |||
1010 | Autograph Book Translation Promotes Research into Polish Jewish Youth Movements and Education of Female Youth |
Celia Haupt |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1315 | Canadian Resources: An Overview for American Researchers |
Bill Gladstone |
Kielce-HM 3 | Immigration and Migration Over the Ages | Presentation | |
1165 | Polish Jewish Refugees in the USSR during WWII |
Serafima Velkovich Yad Vashem |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Presentation | |
1344 | The Polish-Viennese Connection - Jews from the Polish Lands in Vienna before 1848 |
Georg Gaugusch |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1303 | Working with Survivors and their Families at Historical Sites |
Tomasz Cebulski Jagiellonian University / POLIN TRAVEL |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1128 | OnDe! Leaders of Dialogue: Preservation of Jewish Memory in Poland by Non-Jewish Local Activists |
Zuzanna Radzik Forum Dialogu |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1079 | OnDe! Poland's Jewish Orphans: Researching the History of Jewish Child Welfare |
Sean Martin Western Reserve Historical Society |
Lodz-Warsaw II |
Ashkenazi Research Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM | ||||||
1297 | Wagrowiec: Time Regained, Exploring Jewish History of a Small Town |
Danuta Chosinska |
Radom-HM 7 |
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Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Methodology (25 minute format) Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Short Presentation |
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1702 | JewishGen Belarus SIG Meeting | Wroclaw-Lightroom | SIG Meeting | |||
1283 | Documenting the Life and Death of an Eastern European Shtetl - Research Sources for Genealogists |
Douglas Hykle |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1172 | Jewish Pogroms in the Documents of Ukrainian Archives |
Anna Royzner |
Krakow-Warsaw V |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1020 | Joachim Popper 1722-1795 and His Sisters and their Descendants in Bohemia |
Thomas Fürth |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1331 | The Shoah Journey of 228 Girls from their Homes in 14 European Countries |
Allan Brauner |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1299 | Tracing Pre-1700 Jewish Ancestors using Metrical and Rabbinical Records |
Daniel Wagner |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Methodology and Mechanics Rabbinic and Dynastic Research |
Presentation | |
1099 | OnDe! Jewish Migration Patterns - Part 2: Spain and Germany |
Avraham Groll JewishGen |
Lodz-Warsaw II | Jewish History and Culture | Presentation | |
1129 | OnDe! School of Dialogue: Students as Custodians of Jewish Memory in Former Shtetls |
Marta Usiekniewicz Forum Dialogu |
Warsaw-Warsaw IV |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1249 | The Fanny Bles Diaries |
Helen Brunner |
Radom-HM 7 |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
2303 | Bloggers BYO Lunch Get-Together | Tykochin-HM 5 | BYO Lunch | |||
2103 | Panevezys DRG BOF BYO Lunch | Bialystok-HM 4-6 | BYO Lunch | |||
2104 | Suwalki Gubernia BOF BYO Lunch | Lublin-HM 1 | BYO Lunch | |||
2004 | $$$ JewishGen Belarus SIG Luncheon |
Sharon Rennert |
Lodz-Warsaw II | $$$ Luncheon | ||
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | ||||||
1718 | JRI-Poland SIG - New Volunteers | Radom-HM 7 | SIG Meeting | |||
1168 | FILM: Perseguits i Salvats - Saved in the Pyrenees |
Elizabeth Lissmann |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Ashkenazi Research Ethical and Legal Considerations Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 |
Film | |
1350 | International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (IIJG) Looks to the Future |
Neville Lamdan International Institute for Jewish Genealogy Michael Tobias |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1145 | What Can Voiceless Items Tell Us? Their Benefits and Advantages in Genealogical Research |
Leah Teicher |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Ashkenazi Research Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | ||||||
1392 | Learning Our Craft: Online Opportunities for Improving Our Research Skills |
Emily Garber Extra Yad Genealogical Services |
Wroclaw-Lightroom | Using Technology for Research | Presentation | |
1820 | Panevezys DRG BOF Meeting | Bialystok-HM 4-6 | BOF Meeting | |||
1808 | Suwalki BOF Meeting | Lublin-HM 1 | BOF Meeting | |||
1811 | Vilna DRG BOF Meeting | Radom-HM 7 | BOF Meeting | |||
1821 | Webmasters' Roundtable BOF Meeting | Katowice-Boardroom | BOF Meeting | |||
1221 | Buried Treasures in 20th Century: Hardly Known Files of Genealogical Significance in German Archives |
Ekkehard Huebschmann Genealogy – Publications – Transcriptions |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research |
Presentation | |
1012 | The Cosmopolitan Jewish Community in Alexandria, Egypt as Registered in The Pinkas Mohel of Maatuq Dabi |
Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Sephardi Research |
Presentation | |
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM | ||||||
1084 | Destiny of a Doctor in Poland: Research in Archives and on the Internet |
Patrick Atlas |
Radom-HM 7 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||
1029 | Giving a Face to the Fallen |
Yoram Igael |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Cemetery Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1229 | Is My Family's Story Unique? Between Family Memory and the Historical Context |
Jagna Kofta POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1078 | Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew: Jewish Life in Krakow |
Sean Martin Western Reserve Historical Society |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1171 | The Short Lives of the Lodsch/Lódz Ghetto Children |
Fritz Neubauer |
Gdansk-HM 2 | Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 | Presentation | |
1284 | Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims Names - Achievements and Plans for the Future |
Alexander Avram Yad Vashem |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
3:20 PM - 3:45 PM | ||||||
1285 | Retrieving and Preserving Fragments of Jewish Gravestones in Greater Poland |
Bruce Brill Joachim Mugdan |
Radom-HM 7 |
Cemetery Research Preserving our Jewish Past |
Short Presentation | |
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM | ||||||
1236 | Family Registration Cards (FRC): An Overlooked Genealogical Resource |
Kamila Klauzinska |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1805 | LARG (Lodz) BOF Meeting | Gdansk-HM 2 | BOF Meeting | |||
1217 | Back From the Polish and Litvak Diaspora: Virtual Journeys That Connect Us To Our Roots. |
Eli Rabinowitz |
Bialystok-HM 4-6 |
Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1347 | Bridging the Gaps in Polish-Jewish History |
Matan Shefi The Emanuel Ringleblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw Anna Przybyszewska Drozd The Emanuel RIngelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish Given Name and Surname Research |
Presentation | |
1176 | Landsmanshaftn: A Key for Hometown Research |
Avrohom Krauss |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Cemetery Research Jewish History and Culture |
Presentation | |
1108 | The Jewish Cemetery at Pisa |
Kathy Kirkpatrick GenTracer |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Cemetery Research Converso/Anusim Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Sephardi Research |
Presentation | |
4:35 PM - 5:00 PM | ||||||
1006 | Where's My Shtetl OR What's in a Name? |
Carol Hoffman |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Jewish History and Culture Methodology (25 minute format) Preserving our Jewish Past |
Short Presentation | |
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM | ||||||
2706 | Evening Reception | Foyer | Reception | |||
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM | ||||||
3105 | Daily Religious Services (Orthodox) | Radom-HM 7 | Minyan | |||
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | ||||||
2700 | $$$ Gala Banquet | Ballroom | $$$ Banquet Dinner | |||
9:00 PM - 9:15 PM | ||||||
3106 | Daily Religious Services (Orthodox) | Radom-HM 7 | Minyan | |||
Friday, August 10 | ||||||
Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Handout | Topic or Category | Type of Session |
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM | ||||||
1233 | Tracing Family Networks in Austro-Hungary: From Mosciska to Vienna and to Sheffield |
Judith Silver |
Radom-HM 7 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1813 | Kaunas DRG BOF Meeting | Wroclaw-Lightroom | BOF Meeting | |||
1261 | Back to Russia! East End Jews and The Anglo-Russian Military Convention 1917 |
Michael Shade |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Family Stories (full presentation) Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW1 Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
1214 | Faces to Victims: Using Genealogy Research to Reconnect Holocaust Survivors with Their Past |
Michael Morgenstern |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Archives and Repositories Ethical and Legal Considerations Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1021 | Who Murdered Ryfka Spinner? Genealogy through Old Newspapers from Galicia |
Agnieszka Michalik |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Family Stories (full presentation) Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
8:35 AM - 9:00 AM | ||||||
1200 | They Left No Footprint: A Personal Story of Memory and Fear of Forgetting |
Diana Cook |
Radom-HM 7 | Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) | Short Presentation | |
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM | ||||||
1255 | When a Jew Loved a Goy: Forbidden Love and Its Consequences for a Genealogical Research |
Tatiana Wojtas Farrago Intercultural Family Counseling |
Radom-HM 7 |
Ashkenazi Research Ethical and Legal Considerations Methodology and Mechanics Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1191 | Location, Location, Location: Using Historical Maps to Find Your Ancestral Towns in Eastern Europe |
Ed Mitukiewicz |
Wroclaw-Lightroom |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1014 | Polish Jews In Australia in the 19th Century - My Ancestor's Experience |
Greta Davis |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
1322 | Search as an Art |
Banai Lynn Feldstein |
Gdansk-HM 2 |
Methodology and Mechanics Using Technology for Research |
Presentation | |
1090 | Wooden Synagogues of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania |
Bill Farran |
Kielce-HM 3 |
Immigration and Migration Over the Ages Jewish History and Culture Preserving our Jewish Past |
Presentation | |
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM | ||||||
1199 | Jewish Cemeteries as a Source for Genealogy |
Krzysztof Bielawski POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews |
Radom-HM 7 |
Cemetery Research Jewish Given Name and Surname Research Methodology (25 minute format) Preserving our Jewish Past |
Short Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM | ||||||
1071 | In the DP Camp, A Child Is Born |
Steve Stein |
Radom-HM 7 |
Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Telling Your Family Story (25 minute format) |
Short Presentation | |
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1174 | Did You Know Your Grandfather was a Twin? And Other Questions I've Asked My Mother |
Renee Carl EasternEuropeanMutt.com |
Lublin-HM 1 |
Archives and Repositories Ashkenazi Research Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Methodology and Mechanics |
Presentation | |
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM | ||||||
1325 | Documenting Cemeteries Around the World |
Daniel Horowitz |
Radom-HM 7 |
Cemetery Research Methodology (25 minute format) Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past Using Technology for Research |
Short Presentation |
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