PAST PROGRAMS
Sunday, May 23, 2021 Webinar Joel Weintraub HERE COMES THE 1950 CENSUS: WHAT TO EXPECT?
Sunday, APRIL 11, 2021 Webinar Avrohom Krauss INTRODUCTION TO LANDSMANSHAFTN
Sunday, March 21, 2021 Webinar Gil Bardige HELP! I JUST GOT MY DNA RESULTS & I'M CONFUSED!
Sunday, February 17, 2021 Webinar Warren Blatt JEWISH GIVEN NAMES Learn why “Mordechai Yehuda” is also “Mortka Leib” is also “Max”
Sunday, January 17, 2021 Webinar Marian Burk Wood FREE (AND ALMOST FREE) GENEALOGY
Sunday, December 20, 2020 Webinar Avraham Groll, Executive Director, JewishGen, https://www.jewishgen.org/ BRIEF INTRO TO THE JEWISHGEN WEBSITE PLUS EXCITING CHANGES & UPDATES
Sunday, November 15, 2020 Webinar THE FIRST ANNUAL MARCIA INDIANER MEYERS MEMORIAL LECTURE: Arthur S. Meyers Marcia's Genealogical Journey
Sunday, October 18, 2020 Webinar Joel Spector THE KRAKOVSKY DOCUMENTS JewishGen's UKRAINE RESEARCH DIVISION PROJECT: TRANSLITERATION, PRESERVATION, & ADDITION OF THE DATA TO JEWISHGEN FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHERS
Sunday, May 17, 2020 Webinar Joel Spector THE GROWTH OF THE JEWISH POPULATION IN RUSSIA THROUGH THE 1897 ALL-RUSSIA CENSUS
Sunday, April , 2020 Webinar Marian Burk Wood FROM CLUES TO CONCLUSIONS: CAN YOU PROVE IT?
Sunday, March 15, 2020 Marian B. Wood FROM CLUES TO CONCLUSIONS: CAN YOU PROVE IT? program POSTPONED due to concerns about spread of the Novel Coronavirus. On March 16, Governor Lamont ordered schools to close and, during the week he ordered non-essential businesses, gyms, theaters, and more to close, as well as launching a campaign to 'Stay Safe, Stay At Home' imposing social distancing.
Sunday, February 16, 2020 Jennifer Mendelsohn Webinar THINKING LIKE A REPORTER TO AVOID ROOKIE MISTAKES
Sunday, January 17, 2020 Webinar - live meeting cancelled due to weather - Judi Gyory Missel SZIA (HI) HUNGARY! DISCOVERING YOUR HUNGARIAN ANCESTORS
Sunday, December 15, 2019 NOSH & KNOWLEDGE:AnOpportunity to Network with Each Other!
Sunday, November 17, 2019 Elayne & Steve Denker SHARING YOUR FAMILY GENEALOGY/HISTORY: How To Design and Construct A Family History Book Entirely by Yourself
Monday, October 28, 2019 Avraham Groll, Executive Director https://www.jewishgen.org/new/
HOW DID JEWS GET TO EUROPE? Program co-sponsored by the Emanuel Synagogue Adult Education Committee, ALEPH: The Institute of Jewish Ideas, the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut
Sunday, October 20, 2019 Jennifer Zinck GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES TO GROW YOUR FAMILY TREE
Sunday, September 15, 2019 Steve Morse, creator & webmaster of stevemorse.org/
Two presentations:
* ONE-STEP WEBPAGES: A POTPOURRI OF GENEALOGICAL SEARCH TOOLS
* THE HISTORY OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY
Sunday, June 2, 2019 ASSISTED RESEARCH USING THE RESOURCES IN THE JGSCT LIBRARY
Sunday, May 19, 2019 Doris Loeb Nabel TWO GENEALOGICAL ROOTS JOURNEYS:
13 Cities Five Countries Seven+ Weeks
Sunday, April 7, 2019 Daniel Horowitz RESEARCH ISRAEL GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES AND BURIAL DATA FROM YOUR COUCH
Sunday, March 17, 2019 Brief Biennial Meeting & Elections, followed by Marcia Indianer Meyers, and Arthur Meyers FAMILY HISTORY BEFORE OUR EYES, the story of a four-hundred-year-old wooden synagogue in Ukraine
Sunday, February 17, 2019 Dan Oren, MD THE WEDDING PHOTO
Sunday, January 20, 2019 Tammy Hepps TECHNOLOGY FOR CREATING COUSIN BAIT THAT WORKS live, online webinar; a *first* for JGSCT. Program in Newington, CT cancelled due to impending snow storm. Members received direct ions via email for acc essing the live online webinar from Home; potential guests could find the directions on JGSCT's website.
Sunday, December 16, 2018 Alan Shuchat THE HISTORY OFJEWISH MIGRATION, THE DIASPORA, CHANGING NATIONAL BORDERS, & EXIT ROUTES IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Sunday, November 18, 2018 Nancy Savin THE NEW ENGLAND HEBREW FARMERS OF
THE EMANUEL SOCIETY: The Story Of The Small But Vibrant Russian - Jewish Immigrant Community of Chesterfield, Connecticut
Sunday, October 21, 2018 Irene Levin Berman We Are Going to Pick Potatoes - Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
Sunday, June 3, 2018 Gail Kalison Reynolds What Genealogists Need To Know About Information Security
Sunday, May 20, 2018 POSTPONED due to conflict with Shavuot
Doris Loeb Nabel The Joys & Wonders Of My Genealogy Roots & Research Trips
Sunday, April 25, 2018 Marian Burk Wood Planning A Future For Your Family's Past How to get your genealogy ready for the next generation
Sunday, March 18 2018 Janeen Bjork The Rest Of The Story: Finding Your Family in Online Newspapers A TV researcher and genealogist, she shared the techniques to find information and analyze the results found
Sunday, February 18, 2018 Daniel Horowitz Live Webinar: Efficiently Plan Your Roots Trip To Eastern Europe, Including the 2018 IAJGS Conference in Poland EUROPE featuring preliminary information about lectures and activities, and how to take advantage of the opportunities and experiences. In addition, tips and tricks covering all details about how to plan a roots trip across Europe: hotels, transportation, documents, equipment, language, archives.. (Due to weather conditions, members could watch participate from home)
Sunday, January 21, 2018 Sharing The Bounty of the 2017 Orlando International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies Orlando Conference; Monica Talmor, Doris Loeb Nabel, Marian Burk Wood ; Followed by Assisted Research
Sunday, December 17, 2017 Finding Your Jewish Ancestors | Maximizing Your Success: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar | Part II facilitated by the JGSCT Board: Immigration & Naturalization, Marcia Indianer Meyers & Arthur Meyers; Using Newspapers, Linda Winkleman; Cemeteries, Lew Goldfarb; DNA for Genealogy, Monica Talmor; JGSCT's Library, Janet Carlson
Sunday, November 19, 2017 Finding Your Jewish Ancestors | Maximizing Your Success: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar | Part I facilitated by the JGSCT Board: How to Begin, Monica Talmor; Internet Resources and Strategies, Doris Loeb Nabel; Immigration/Naturalization, Gail Kalison Reynolds; Federal & State Censuses, Barney Miller
Sunday, October 15, 2017 Ron Arons, Sex, Lies, and Genealogical Tape
Focusing on one individual at a time enables a researcher to have a very different experience by going beyond the who? when? and where? by exploring the more interesting and powerful questions why? and how?
Sunday, September 17, 2017 Ava Cohn, AKA Sherlock Cohn, Clued-In: The Stories Are In The Details Beyond who is in the photo and when it was taken are the subtler clues that give us a deeper appreciation of the people who came before us. What are the relationships of the people in the photos? What were their personal and religious choices? Why was this photo taken? What messages were they trying to convey when they sat before the photographer?
Sunday, June 4, 2017 Nolan Altman, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) and the Genealogical Importance of Jewish Burial Records
JewishGen’s Vice President of Data Acquisition will share helpful information and insights based on his many years of involvement as Coordinator for JewishGen’s Holocaust Database, and for JOWBR.
Sunday, May 21, 2017 Doris Loeb Nabel - Securing Your Digital Footprint
Given the concerns about the incredible amount of personal information everyone shares via the digisphere, internet users need to be proactive. The PowerPoint presentation highlighted suggestions genealogy researchers can employ to ensure that their online information is more secure.
Sunday, February 19, 2017 Lara Diamond: Jewish Genealogical Research in Ukraine.
Strategies to get documents from in Ukraine, including hiring researchers privately, crowdsourcing research for specific towns, and utilizing the Family History Library's resources.
Sunday, January 15, 2017 L I B R A R Y T I M E: USE THE JGSCT RESOURCES WITH GUIDANCE FROM BOARD MEMBERS
Sunday, December 18, 2016 R O U N D T A B L E: SHARE YOUR SUCCESSES & CHALLENGES
This is YOUR meeting: learn from one another, share your genealogical success, challenge, or failure, ask questions about your brick walls, and more, describe your brainstorms, your interviewing and research techniques, share advice given; anything and everything that added to your family tree..listen...learn...network!
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Glenn Kurtz: THREE MINUTES IN POLAND: Discovering A Lost World In A 1938 Family Film
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Avraham Groll: JEWISH MIGRATIONS: HOW DID JEWS REACH EUROPE? PT II An exploration of patterns of Jewish migration between the 10th - 14th centuries, as major Jewish centers emerged in Spain, Germany, France, and Italy, with a focus on Spain and Germany
Sunday, Septemeber 18, 2016
THE IAJGS 2016 SEATTLE CONFERENCE? Deb Samuel Holman & Doris Loeb Nabel share information learned by attending sessions, visiting the resource center, and via networking, as well as highlights from Dr. Devin Naar's Opening Keynote address, the first Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture featuring Trinity College's Professor Samuel Kassow, and Gala Keynote speaker Judy G. Russell, the Legal Genealogist.
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Avraham Groll: JEWISH MIGRATIONS: HOW DID JEWS REACH EUROPE?
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Hadassah Lipsius: Techniques for searching the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland database of indices to more than five million records.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Share Your Jewish Genealogical Success: A Round-Table
A moderated roundtable...This is your meeting…Come to share, or listen...Genealogists love to learn, and share…Networking always available!
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Deb Holman facilitated: Evernote Boot Camp Part II. Participants will engage in an informative discussion, and receive handouts, as well as further explanations, to reinforce the information:
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Deb Holman facilitated Thomas MacEntee's Evernote Boot Camp
Learn how to use this popular tool for organizing * your genealogy * your computer * your life
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Israel Pickholtz: JEWISH GENETIC GENEALOGY: A STUDY IN ENDOGAMY
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Assisted Research
Sunday, December 20, 2015
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS / MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar Part III
Gail Kalison Reynolds: IT / & Creative Searching Monica Talmor: DNA for Genealogy Marcia Indiana Meyers: Family Newsletters Janet Carlson: JGSCT's Library Resources
Sunday, November 15, 2015
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS / MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar Part II
Barney Miller: Connecticut Vital Records, Military Records, & Directories Linda Winkleman: Using Newspapers
Lew Goldfarb: Jewish Cemeteries in Connecticut
Sunday, October 18, 2015
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS / MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar Part I
Monica Talmor: How to Start Barney Miller: Federal & State Census Doris Loeb Nabel: Internet Resources and Strategies Marcia Indianer Meyers & Arthur Meyers: Immigration and Naturalization
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Introduction to JGSCT's new home & library by JGSCT Librarian Janet Carlson &
An open session with the JGSCT board members
Sunday, June 6, 2015
Avinoam Patt: Yizkor Books and the Search for Jewish Memory
Shared specific examples and resources available to use Yizkor books both for genealogical research and research on Jewish history, and an overview of the diverse nature of
the genre, its historical development, and the efforts of amateur and professional historians and Holocaust survivors to compile them as well as the proliferation of online resources that have made them far more easily available.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Beth Mariotti: Tips for Advanced Online Research
Tips for: Discovering which documents are available online: Using databases, Successful Google searches, Free sources such as iCONN and familysearch.org, Managing online documents
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Two webcasts: Butcher, Baker Candlestick Maker: What Your Ancestors' Occupations Can Teach You, and How to Request Information From An Archive. Both hosted by “Barefoot Genealogist” Christa Cowan followed by discussion.
Sunday, March 15, 2014
RON ARONS: WHAT'S IN A NAME? T R O U B L E!
Using the Genealogical Proof Standard to show how identities can be merged and separated, Ron researched five people with the same name, born in the same general timeframe, and living in the same place where one of the individuals lived or claimed to live.
Sunday, February 15, 2015; rescheduled for Sunday, February 22, 2015
Patricia Klindienst will lead us through her exhibit No One Remembers Alone: MEMORY, MIGRATION, AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY. at the Slifka Center, New Haven, CT. First date postponed due to weather. Second date cancelled, also due to weather. Unable to reschedule, as the 22nd was the last day of the exhibit.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Beth Mariotti: Tips for Advanced Online Research POSTPONED DUE TO ROAD CONDITIONS
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Ralph Parker: My Experiences Surviving In Germany As A Young Man During World War II
Sunday, November 16, 2014 Deb Holman & Doris Loeb Nabel shared why they attended the IAJGS Salt Lake City conference, highlights of the event, and what they found most helpful and meaningful. Following the presentations, JGSCT Board members assisted attendees to find the resources they needed to progress in their personal research.
Sunday, October 19,2014
GARY MOKOTOFF:
HOLOCAUST RESEARCH: HOW TO DOCUMENT VICTIMS AND LOCATE SURVIVORS
Gary Mokotoff, a noted author, lecturer and leader of Jewish genealogy, has been recognized for his achievements by three major genealogical groups. He is the first recipient of the IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award, recipient of the Grahame T. Smallwood Award of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award of the Federation of Genealogical Societies.
He is also known for the application of computers to genealogy. He co-authored the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system and authored the JewishGen Family Finder, Family Tree of the Jewish People and the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index.
Sunday, September 21. 2014
MONICA TALMOR: DNA & JEWISH GENEALOGY
Monica earned a BS from UConn and Master of Science degree in Biology from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. She has worked at Yale since 1985, and is currently the Manager of the Molecular Diagnostics Lab in the Department of Pathology at Yale University Medical School. Monica has worked with DNA for research and clinical applications for most of her professional life.
Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
AN AFTERNOON OF P E R S O N A L R E S E A R C H *WITH ASSISTANCE*
Sunday May 18, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
MONICA TALMOR: THE JOYS AND WONDERS OF GENEALOGY RESEARCH TRIPS Part II
JGSCT Secretary Monica Talmor: Return to Romania After 40 Years: Timisoara, Dorohoi, Botosani, Bucharest & Constanta
Sunday March 16, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
ELLEN CASSEDY WE ARE HERE: MEMORIES OF THE LITHUANIAN HOLOCAUST
Probing the terrain of memory and moral dilemmas, the author takes us to the archives and kitchen tables where her family history revealed its confounding secrets, and to the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, to complex commemorative sites, and to encounters with the leaders of Jewish education efforts in Lithuania today, giving a close-up view of how a post-Holocaust nation explores its own “Jewish family history.”
Sunday February 16, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
MARY DONOHUE A LIFE OF THE LAND: CONNECTICUT'S JEWISH FARMERS
Mary Donohue, the co-author of A Life of the Land: Connecticut’s Jewish Farmers, described how The Jewish Agricultural Society in New York began an effort in the 1880s to settle some of the new immigrants on farms in Connecticut. One area the society chose was centered around Colchester, Lebanon, and Montville. Her talk about these families, included and how they owned and worked the farms for generations, then developed the resorts of Moodus, and other towns.
Sunday January 19, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
THE JOYS AND WONDERS OF GENEALOGY RESEARCH TRIPS
MONICA TALMOR: Return to Romania After 40 Years: Timisoara, Dorohoi, Botosani, Bucharest & Constanta
DORIS LOEB NABEL: A Genealogical Journey to 10 Cities & Towns in Holland, France, Switzerland, and Germany. Information about planning the trip, suggestions, and hints for maximizing results included.
Sunday December 15, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Cancelled due to impending inclement weather:
AN AFTERNOON OF P E R S O N A L R E S E A R C H *WITH ASSISTANCE*
Sunday November 17, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
DR. LEON CHAMEIDES WILL DISCUSS HIS TWO RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS
In Strangers in Many Lands he traces his family back to 1790, and discusses the experiences of each generation, including his own experiences during World War II. Using genealogical tables, photographs, maps, and copies of documents, it presents the trials of modern Jewish history by following the ordeals of one Jewish family.
On the Edge of the Abyss is a collection of essays written by his father, who was Rabbi of the Katowice Jewish Community between 1932 - 1936. Dr. Chameides discovered these essays in a community newspaper, 118 issues of which have been preserved in a library in Poland.
Sunday October 20, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
PUBLISHING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
BARNEY MILLER and GEORGIA HAKEN: JGSCT board members, and long- time genealogists, will explain how to publish the results of your genealogical research.
Sunday September 22, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
AN AFTERNOON OF TRANSLATION
Translators of Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, German, and French will be available to translate your documents!
Sunday June 9, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Personal Research *With Assistance*
JGSCT Board members will assist members, and guests, helping them to find the resources they need
Sunday May 19, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
BARBARA KRASNER - My Home Is Gone - Remnants of Jewish Poland - Barbara presented her 2008 trip to Warsaw and to her grandparents’ shtetlikh, which connected her to her roots.
Sunday April 21, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
NOLAN ALTMAN: JewishGen’s Vice President for Data Acquisition for 12 years, and coordinator for the Holocaust and JOWBR databases, also on the Board of the IAJGS, and President of the JGS of Long Island: JEWISHGEN DATABASES, including popular Holocaust resources and underutilized databases
Sunday March 17, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
IVAN BACKER
HOW ONE JEWISH FAMILY ESCAPED FROM HITLER'S CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1939
A family of four - four different escapes, four different stories, including escape via Kindertransport
Sunday February 17, 2012 1:30 PM
An Afternoon of Assisted Research: This informal session is free and open to anyone researching Jewish ancestors. JGSCT board members will be available to answer questions and guide users to the resources they need.
Sunday January 20, 2013 1:30 PM
BETH MARIOTTI Executive Director, Godfrey Memorial Library:
FIND YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS AT THE GODFREY
A wonderful opportunity to learn about resources available at the Godfrey, including:
Sunday, December 16, 2012 1:00 - 3:30 PM
IVAN BACKER: HOW ONE JEWISH FAMILY ESCAPED FROM HITLER'S CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1939
Postponed due to forecast for mixed precipitation and hazardous conditions
Sunday, May 23, 2021 Webinar Joel Weintraub HERE COMES THE 1950 CENSUS: WHAT TO EXPECT?
Sunday, APRIL 11, 2021 Webinar Avrohom Krauss INTRODUCTION TO LANDSMANSHAFTN
Sunday, March 21, 2021 Webinar Gil Bardige HELP! I JUST GOT MY DNA RESULTS & I'M CONFUSED!
Sunday, February 17, 2021 Webinar Warren Blatt JEWISH GIVEN NAMES Learn why “Mordechai Yehuda” is also “Mortka Leib” is also “Max”
Sunday, January 17, 2021 Webinar Marian Burk Wood FREE (AND ALMOST FREE) GENEALOGY
Sunday, December 20, 2020 Webinar Avraham Groll, Executive Director, JewishGen, https://www.jewishgen.org/ BRIEF INTRO TO THE JEWISHGEN WEBSITE PLUS EXCITING CHANGES & UPDATES
Sunday, November 15, 2020 Webinar THE FIRST ANNUAL MARCIA INDIANER MEYERS MEMORIAL LECTURE: Arthur S. Meyers Marcia's Genealogical Journey
Sunday, October 18, 2020 Webinar Joel Spector THE KRAKOVSKY DOCUMENTS JewishGen's UKRAINE RESEARCH DIVISION PROJECT: TRANSLITERATION, PRESERVATION, & ADDITION OF THE DATA TO JEWISHGEN FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHERS
Sunday, May 17, 2020 Webinar Joel Spector THE GROWTH OF THE JEWISH POPULATION IN RUSSIA THROUGH THE 1897 ALL-RUSSIA CENSUS
Sunday, April , 2020 Webinar Marian Burk Wood FROM CLUES TO CONCLUSIONS: CAN YOU PROVE IT?
Sunday, March 15, 2020 Marian B. Wood FROM CLUES TO CONCLUSIONS: CAN YOU PROVE IT? program POSTPONED due to concerns about spread of the Novel Coronavirus. On March 16, Governor Lamont ordered schools to close and, during the week he ordered non-essential businesses, gyms, theaters, and more to close, as well as launching a campaign to 'Stay Safe, Stay At Home' imposing social distancing.
Sunday, February 16, 2020 Jennifer Mendelsohn Webinar THINKING LIKE A REPORTER TO AVOID ROOKIE MISTAKES
Sunday, January 17, 2020 Webinar - live meeting cancelled due to weather - Judi Gyory Missel SZIA (HI) HUNGARY! DISCOVERING YOUR HUNGARIAN ANCESTORS
Sunday, December 15, 2019 NOSH & KNOWLEDGE:AnOpportunity to Network with Each Other!
Sunday, November 17, 2019 Elayne & Steve Denker SHARING YOUR FAMILY GENEALOGY/HISTORY: How To Design and Construct A Family History Book Entirely by Yourself
Monday, October 28, 2019 Avraham Groll, Executive Director https://www.jewishgen.org/new/
HOW DID JEWS GET TO EUROPE? Program co-sponsored by the Emanuel Synagogue Adult Education Committee, ALEPH: The Institute of Jewish Ideas, the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut
Sunday, October 20, 2019 Jennifer Zinck GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES TO GROW YOUR FAMILY TREE
Sunday, September 15, 2019 Steve Morse, creator & webmaster of stevemorse.org/
Two presentations:
* ONE-STEP WEBPAGES: A POTPOURRI OF GENEALOGICAL SEARCH TOOLS
* THE HISTORY OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY
Sunday, June 2, 2019 ASSISTED RESEARCH USING THE RESOURCES IN THE JGSCT LIBRARY
Sunday, May 19, 2019 Doris Loeb Nabel TWO GENEALOGICAL ROOTS JOURNEYS:
13 Cities Five Countries Seven+ Weeks
Sunday, April 7, 2019 Daniel Horowitz RESEARCH ISRAEL GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES AND BURIAL DATA FROM YOUR COUCH
Sunday, March 17, 2019 Brief Biennial Meeting & Elections, followed by Marcia Indianer Meyers, and Arthur Meyers FAMILY HISTORY BEFORE OUR EYES, the story of a four-hundred-year-old wooden synagogue in Ukraine
Sunday, February 17, 2019 Dan Oren, MD THE WEDDING PHOTO
Sunday, January 20, 2019 Tammy Hepps TECHNOLOGY FOR CREATING COUSIN BAIT THAT WORKS live, online webinar; a *first* for JGSCT. Program in Newington, CT cancelled due to impending snow storm. Members received direct ions via email for acc essing the live online webinar from Home; potential guests could find the directions on JGSCT's website.
Sunday, December 16, 2018 Alan Shuchat THE HISTORY OFJEWISH MIGRATION, THE DIASPORA, CHANGING NATIONAL BORDERS, & EXIT ROUTES IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Sunday, November 18, 2018 Nancy Savin THE NEW ENGLAND HEBREW FARMERS OF
THE EMANUEL SOCIETY: The Story Of The Small But Vibrant Russian - Jewish Immigrant Community of Chesterfield, Connecticut
Sunday, October 21, 2018 Irene Levin Berman We Are Going to Pick Potatoes - Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
Sunday, June 3, 2018 Gail Kalison Reynolds What Genealogists Need To Know About Information Security
Sunday, May 20, 2018 POSTPONED due to conflict with Shavuot
Doris Loeb Nabel The Joys & Wonders Of My Genealogy Roots & Research Trips
Sunday, April 25, 2018 Marian Burk Wood Planning A Future For Your Family's Past How to get your genealogy ready for the next generation
Sunday, March 18 2018 Janeen Bjork The Rest Of The Story: Finding Your Family in Online Newspapers A TV researcher and genealogist, she shared the techniques to find information and analyze the results found
Sunday, February 18, 2018 Daniel Horowitz Live Webinar: Efficiently Plan Your Roots Trip To Eastern Europe, Including the 2018 IAJGS Conference in Poland EUROPE featuring preliminary information about lectures and activities, and how to take advantage of the opportunities and experiences. In addition, tips and tricks covering all details about how to plan a roots trip across Europe: hotels, transportation, documents, equipment, language, archives.. (Due to weather conditions, members could watch participate from home)
Sunday, January 21, 2018 Sharing The Bounty of the 2017 Orlando International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies Orlando Conference; Monica Talmor, Doris Loeb Nabel, Marian Burk Wood ; Followed by Assisted Research
Sunday, December 17, 2017 Finding Your Jewish Ancestors | Maximizing Your Success: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar | Part II facilitated by the JGSCT Board: Immigration & Naturalization, Marcia Indianer Meyers & Arthur Meyers; Using Newspapers, Linda Winkleman; Cemeteries, Lew Goldfarb; DNA for Genealogy, Monica Talmor; JGSCT's Library, Janet Carlson
Sunday, November 19, 2017 Finding Your Jewish Ancestors | Maximizing Your Success: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar | Part I facilitated by the JGSCT Board: How to Begin, Monica Talmor; Internet Resources and Strategies, Doris Loeb Nabel; Immigration/Naturalization, Gail Kalison Reynolds; Federal & State Censuses, Barney Miller
Sunday, October 15, 2017 Ron Arons, Sex, Lies, and Genealogical Tape
Focusing on one individual at a time enables a researcher to have a very different experience by going beyond the who? when? and where? by exploring the more interesting and powerful questions why? and how?
Sunday, September 17, 2017 Ava Cohn, AKA Sherlock Cohn, Clued-In: The Stories Are In The Details Beyond who is in the photo and when it was taken are the subtler clues that give us a deeper appreciation of the people who came before us. What are the relationships of the people in the photos? What were their personal and religious choices? Why was this photo taken? What messages were they trying to convey when they sat before the photographer?
Sunday, June 4, 2017 Nolan Altman, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) and the Genealogical Importance of Jewish Burial Records
JewishGen’s Vice President of Data Acquisition will share helpful information and insights based on his many years of involvement as Coordinator for JewishGen’s Holocaust Database, and for JOWBR.
Sunday, May 21, 2017 Doris Loeb Nabel - Securing Your Digital Footprint
Given the concerns about the incredible amount of personal information everyone shares via the digisphere, internet users need to be proactive. The PowerPoint presentation highlighted suggestions genealogy researchers can employ to ensure that their online information is more secure.
Sunday, February 19, 2017 Lara Diamond: Jewish Genealogical Research in Ukraine.
Strategies to get documents from in Ukraine, including hiring researchers privately, crowdsourcing research for specific towns, and utilizing the Family History Library's resources.
Sunday, January 15, 2017 L I B R A R Y T I M E: USE THE JGSCT RESOURCES WITH GUIDANCE FROM BOARD MEMBERS
Sunday, December 18, 2016 R O U N D T A B L E: SHARE YOUR SUCCESSES & CHALLENGES
This is YOUR meeting: learn from one another, share your genealogical success, challenge, or failure, ask questions about your brick walls, and more, describe your brainstorms, your interviewing and research techniques, share advice given; anything and everything that added to your family tree..listen...learn...network!
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Glenn Kurtz: THREE MINUTES IN POLAND: Discovering A Lost World In A 1938 Family Film
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Avraham Groll: JEWISH MIGRATIONS: HOW DID JEWS REACH EUROPE? PT II An exploration of patterns of Jewish migration between the 10th - 14th centuries, as major Jewish centers emerged in Spain, Germany, France, and Italy, with a focus on Spain and Germany
Sunday, Septemeber 18, 2016
THE IAJGS 2016 SEATTLE CONFERENCE? Deb Samuel Holman & Doris Loeb Nabel share information learned by attending sessions, visiting the resource center, and via networking, as well as highlights from Dr. Devin Naar's Opening Keynote address, the first Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture featuring Trinity College's Professor Samuel Kassow, and Gala Keynote speaker Judy G. Russell, the Legal Genealogist.
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Avraham Groll: JEWISH MIGRATIONS: HOW DID JEWS REACH EUROPE?
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Hadassah Lipsius: Techniques for searching the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland database of indices to more than five million records.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Share Your Jewish Genealogical Success: A Round-Table
A moderated roundtable...This is your meeting…Come to share, or listen...Genealogists love to learn, and share…Networking always available!
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Deb Holman facilitated: Evernote Boot Camp Part II. Participants will engage in an informative discussion, and receive handouts, as well as further explanations, to reinforce the information:
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Deb Holman facilitated Thomas MacEntee's Evernote Boot Camp
Learn how to use this popular tool for organizing * your genealogy * your computer * your life
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Israel Pickholtz: JEWISH GENETIC GENEALOGY: A STUDY IN ENDOGAMY
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Assisted Research
Sunday, December 20, 2015
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS / MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar Part III
Gail Kalison Reynolds: IT / & Creative Searching Monica Talmor: DNA for Genealogy Marcia Indiana Meyers: Family Newsletters Janet Carlson: JGSCT's Library Resources
Sunday, November 15, 2015
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS / MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar Part II
Barney Miller: Connecticut Vital Records, Military Records, & Directories Linda Winkleman: Using Newspapers
Lew Goldfarb: Jewish Cemeteries in Connecticut
Sunday, October 18, 2015
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS / MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS: A Jewish Genealogy Seminar Part I
Monica Talmor: How to Start Barney Miller: Federal & State Census Doris Loeb Nabel: Internet Resources and Strategies Marcia Indianer Meyers & Arthur Meyers: Immigration and Naturalization
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Introduction to JGSCT's new home & library by JGSCT Librarian Janet Carlson &
An open session with the JGSCT board members
Sunday, June 6, 2015
Avinoam Patt: Yizkor Books and the Search for Jewish Memory
Shared specific examples and resources available to use Yizkor books both for genealogical research and research on Jewish history, and an overview of the diverse nature of
the genre, its historical development, and the efforts of amateur and professional historians and Holocaust survivors to compile them as well as the proliferation of online resources that have made them far more easily available.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Beth Mariotti: Tips for Advanced Online Research
Tips for: Discovering which documents are available online: Using databases, Successful Google searches, Free sources such as iCONN and familysearch.org, Managing online documents
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Two webcasts: Butcher, Baker Candlestick Maker: What Your Ancestors' Occupations Can Teach You, and How to Request Information From An Archive. Both hosted by “Barefoot Genealogist” Christa Cowan followed by discussion.
Sunday, March 15, 2014
RON ARONS: WHAT'S IN A NAME? T R O U B L E!
Using the Genealogical Proof Standard to show how identities can be merged and separated, Ron researched five people with the same name, born in the same general timeframe, and living in the same place where one of the individuals lived or claimed to live.
Sunday, February 15, 2015; rescheduled for Sunday, February 22, 2015
Patricia Klindienst will lead us through her exhibit No One Remembers Alone: MEMORY, MIGRATION, AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY. at the Slifka Center, New Haven, CT. First date postponed due to weather. Second date cancelled, also due to weather. Unable to reschedule, as the 22nd was the last day of the exhibit.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Beth Mariotti: Tips for Advanced Online Research POSTPONED DUE TO ROAD CONDITIONS
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Ralph Parker: My Experiences Surviving In Germany As A Young Man During World War II
Sunday, November 16, 2014 Deb Holman & Doris Loeb Nabel shared why they attended the IAJGS Salt Lake City conference, highlights of the event, and what they found most helpful and meaningful. Following the presentations, JGSCT Board members assisted attendees to find the resources they needed to progress in their personal research.
Sunday, October 19,2014
GARY MOKOTOFF:
HOLOCAUST RESEARCH: HOW TO DOCUMENT VICTIMS AND LOCATE SURVIVORS
Gary Mokotoff, a noted author, lecturer and leader of Jewish genealogy, has been recognized for his achievements by three major genealogical groups. He is the first recipient of the IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award, recipient of the Grahame T. Smallwood Award of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award of the Federation of Genealogical Societies.
He is also known for the application of computers to genealogy. He co-authored the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system and authored the JewishGen Family Finder, Family Tree of the Jewish People and the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index.
Sunday, September 21. 2014
MONICA TALMOR: DNA & JEWISH GENEALOGY
Monica earned a BS from UConn and Master of Science degree in Biology from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. She has worked at Yale since 1985, and is currently the Manager of the Molecular Diagnostics Lab in the Department of Pathology at Yale University Medical School. Monica has worked with DNA for research and clinical applications for most of her professional life.
Sunday, June 8, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
AN AFTERNOON OF P E R S O N A L R E S E A R C H *WITH ASSISTANCE*
Sunday May 18, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
MONICA TALMOR: THE JOYS AND WONDERS OF GENEALOGY RESEARCH TRIPS Part II
JGSCT Secretary Monica Talmor: Return to Romania After 40 Years: Timisoara, Dorohoi, Botosani, Bucharest & Constanta
Sunday March 16, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
ELLEN CASSEDY WE ARE HERE: MEMORIES OF THE LITHUANIAN HOLOCAUST
Probing the terrain of memory and moral dilemmas, the author takes us to the archives and kitchen tables where her family history revealed its confounding secrets, and to the Vilnius Yiddish Institute, to complex commemorative sites, and to encounters with the leaders of Jewish education efforts in Lithuania today, giving a close-up view of how a post-Holocaust nation explores its own “Jewish family history.”
Sunday February 16, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
MARY DONOHUE A LIFE OF THE LAND: CONNECTICUT'S JEWISH FARMERS
Mary Donohue, the co-author of A Life of the Land: Connecticut’s Jewish Farmers, described how The Jewish Agricultural Society in New York began an effort in the 1880s to settle some of the new immigrants on farms in Connecticut. One area the society chose was centered around Colchester, Lebanon, and Montville. Her talk about these families, included and how they owned and worked the farms for generations, then developed the resorts of Moodus, and other towns.
Sunday January 19, 2014 1:30 - 3:30 PM
THE JOYS AND WONDERS OF GENEALOGY RESEARCH TRIPS
MONICA TALMOR: Return to Romania After 40 Years: Timisoara, Dorohoi, Botosani, Bucharest & Constanta
DORIS LOEB NABEL: A Genealogical Journey to 10 Cities & Towns in Holland, France, Switzerland, and Germany. Information about planning the trip, suggestions, and hints for maximizing results included.
Sunday December 15, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Cancelled due to impending inclement weather:
AN AFTERNOON OF P E R S O N A L R E S E A R C H *WITH ASSISTANCE*
Sunday November 17, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
DR. LEON CHAMEIDES WILL DISCUSS HIS TWO RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS
In Strangers in Many Lands he traces his family back to 1790, and discusses the experiences of each generation, including his own experiences during World War II. Using genealogical tables, photographs, maps, and copies of documents, it presents the trials of modern Jewish history by following the ordeals of one Jewish family.
On the Edge of the Abyss is a collection of essays written by his father, who was Rabbi of the Katowice Jewish Community between 1932 - 1936. Dr. Chameides discovered these essays in a community newspaper, 118 issues of which have been preserved in a library in Poland.
Sunday October 20, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
PUBLISHING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
BARNEY MILLER and GEORGIA HAKEN: JGSCT board members, and long- time genealogists, will explain how to publish the results of your genealogical research.
Sunday September 22, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
AN AFTERNOON OF TRANSLATION
Translators of Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, Romanian, German, and French will be available to translate your documents!
Sunday June 9, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Personal Research *With Assistance*
JGSCT Board members will assist members, and guests, helping them to find the resources they need
Sunday May 19, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
BARBARA KRASNER - My Home Is Gone - Remnants of Jewish Poland - Barbara presented her 2008 trip to Warsaw and to her grandparents’ shtetlikh, which connected her to her roots.
Sunday April 21, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
NOLAN ALTMAN: JewishGen’s Vice President for Data Acquisition for 12 years, and coordinator for the Holocaust and JOWBR databases, also on the Board of the IAJGS, and President of the JGS of Long Island: JEWISHGEN DATABASES, including popular Holocaust resources and underutilized databases
Sunday March 17, 2013 1:30 - 3:30 PM
IVAN BACKER
HOW ONE JEWISH FAMILY ESCAPED FROM HITLER'S CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1939
A family of four - four different escapes, four different stories, including escape via Kindertransport
Sunday February 17, 2012 1:30 PM
An Afternoon of Assisted Research: This informal session is free and open to anyone researching Jewish ancestors. JGSCT board members will be available to answer questions and guide users to the resources they need.
Sunday January 20, 2013 1:30 PM
BETH MARIOTTI Executive Director, Godfrey Memorial Library:
FIND YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS AT THE GODFREY
A wonderful opportunity to learn about resources available at the Godfrey, including:
- Newspapers
- City Directories
- State and Local Histories
- Funeral and Cemetery Records
- The Family History Center - how it can be used for researching immigrant ancestors
Sunday, December 16, 2012 1:00 - 3:30 PM
IVAN BACKER: HOW ONE JEWISH FAMILY ESCAPED FROM HITLER'S CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1939
Postponed due to forecast for mixed precipitation and hazardous conditions
Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:00 - 3:30 PM
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS
A Jewish Genealogy Workshop, Part II
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS
A Jewish Genealogy Workshop, Part II
- Vital Records: Birth, Marriage, Death, WWI and WWII Draft Registrations, City Directories; BARNEY MILLER
- Newspapers: LINDA WINKLEMAN
- Cemeteries & JOWBR: LEW GOLDFARB
- Sending Your Family Research As A Newsletter: MARCIA INDIANER MEYERS
- Brick Walls & Creative Searching: GEORGIA HAKEN
- IT Information & Suggestions: GAIL KALISON REYNOLDS
Sunday, October 21, 2012 1:30 PM
SHARE YOUR JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SUCCESSES: A ROUND-TABLE FOR AND BY YOU!
SHARE YOUR JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SUCCESSES: A ROUND-TABLE FOR AND BY YOU!
- An opportunity for participants to share successes with other Jewish genealogists, newbies to experts, from throughout Connecticut. During the moderated roundtable, attendees had five to ten minutes to explain one or more successes found on their genealogical journeys.
- Describing brainstorms, interviewing and research techniques, advice given—anything and everything that added to their family trees. One person's success could aid some else to break down a genealogical brick wall. Participants shared...listened...learned...and networked.
Sunday, September 9, 2012 1:00 - 3:30 PM
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS
A Jewish Genealogy Workshop, Part I
FINDING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
MAXIMIZING YOUR SUCCESS
A Jewish Genealogy Workshop, Part I
- Beginning Your Genealogy Research: MONICA TALMOR
- Internet Resources: DORIS LOEB NABEL
- Immigration and Manifests: MARCIA INDIANER MEYERS and ARTHUR MEYERS
- Federal and State Censuses: BARNEY MILLER