Past Programs

2025

Sunday, March 16, 2025 - Hybrid, in-person and on Zoom
Time:  1:00 Membership vote on new officers for next year
Time:  1:30 pm
Speaker:  Deborah Samuel Holman on Writing Your Heirloom’s Story: A Creative Workshop

Sunday, February 16, 2025 - Virtual Only Meeting
Board Meeting 11:30 am, Program at 1:30 pm
Speaker:  Steve Little spoke on Genealogy Meets AI: A Friendly Guide to the Latest Research Tools

Sunday, January 20, 2025 - Virtual Only Meeting
Board Meeting 11:30 am, Program at 1:30 pm
Speaker Arthur Sissman spoke on ​Join the New World Order: Chatbots, Extensions, and Other Search Tips

2024

​Sunday, November 17, 2024 - Hybrid Meeting
Speaker Deborah S. Holman spoke on "​Resilience Across Generations: A Conversation with Author Deborah S. Holman" for the Annual Marcia Indianer Meyer's Memorial Lecture

Sunday, October 13, 2024 - No program

Sunday, September 14, 2024 -Hybrid Meeting
Board Meeting at 12:30, Program at 1:30 PM
Speaker Ann M. Altman, Ph.D. spoke on Genealogy to Preserve the Past and Educate the Living which focused on her family's fascinating history in the Czech Republic.

Sunday, June 9th - Hybrid meeting
1:00 pm for a 30 minute schmooze session 1:30 pm for the start of the webinar
Topic:  “Help Session”
Board members will be available to help with your genealogical research.


​Sunday, May 19, 2024.5.19, at 1:00 pm Webinar Only
Schmoozing 1:00 PM  - Program * 1:30 PM 
Speaker Leo Cooper will present "Ashkenazi mtDNA: History, Migration, and Culture". 

Sunday, 2024.2.18 Webinar Only
Schmoozing 1:00 PM  - Program * 1:30 PM 
Share Your Unconventional Genealogical Connections

Sunday, 2024.1. 21  Webinar Only
Program at 1:00 PM
Jarrett Ross - "An Introduction to Geni"

2023

Sunday, 2023.4.16  Webinar    
Marian Burk Wood, RESEARCHING MILITARY RECORDS AND MORE ON FOLD 3

Sunday, 2023.3.19  Webinar   
 Mindie Kaplan, FINDING YOUR KAPLANS - HOW TO RESEARCH COMMMON NAMES`2

Sunday, 2023.2.12  Webinar    
Dr. Alexander Beider, PhD  NEWLY UPDATED: JEWISH SURNAMES FROM THE EASTERN EUROPEAN RUSSIAN EMPIRE 

Sunday, January 15, 2023  Webinar    
Dr. Adina Newman, EdD   DNA AND ENDOGOMY: MAKING SENSE WHEN YOUR DNA DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

2022

Sunday, November 11, 2022   Webinar    
Deb Holman THE THIRD ANNUAL   
MARCIA INDIANER MEYERS  MEMORIAL LECTURE: SHARING OUR FAMILY’S STORIES

​Sunday, October 23, 2022   Webinar   
Alex Calzareth   MAPPING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY: HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOMIZED GOOGLE MAP 

Sunday, June 12, 2022   Webinar   
GENEALOGY ROUND TABLE

Sunday, May 15, 2022   Webinar   
Todd Knowles   THE KNOWLES COLLECTION AT FamilySearch: TOURING JEWISH RECORDS

Sunday, April 24, 2022 Webinar   
Miles Meyer   MAPPING YOUR ROOTS Google Earth: How to create map overlays (David Rumsey Maps), mark locations, and add photos or stories to a location marker

Sunday, March 20, 2022  Webinar  
Marian Smith   RESEARCHING US CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) RECORDS

Sunday, February 20, 2022  Webinar 
Amy Wachs HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY: TOOLS FOR EASTERN EUROPEAN RESEARCH
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Sunday, January 16, 2022  Webinar  
Jeanette R. Rosenberg OBE
RESEARCHING YOUR GERMAN-JEWISH FAMILY HISTORY - What information is available, and where you can find it

2021

Sunday, December 19, 2021   Webinar   
Ellen Shindelman Kowitt   A COMPARISON OF THE GENEALOGY GIANTS: Ancestry, Family Search, Findmypast, MyHeritage

Sunday, November 21, 2021  Webinar 
Deborah Samuel Holman   THE SECOND ANNUAL  MARCIA INDIANER MEYERS  MEMORIAL LECTURE: BLOG; SHARE YOUR FAMILY STORIES IN SMALL "BYTES" 

Sunday, October 17, 2021  Webinar   
Randy Schoenberg   HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR FAMILY TREE WITH COLLABORATION ON Geni.com

​Sunday, September 19, 2021 Webinar  
Jeanette R. Rosenberg OBE   JEWISH GENEALOGY IN WESTERN EUROPE

Sunday, June 6, 2021 Webinar   
Deborah Munk Long   OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND: RESOURCES FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH, Finding Your Family Lost in the Holocaust 

​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

2020

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 T
HE 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 
HINKING 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

2019

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 F
AMILY HISTORY BEFORE OUR EYES, the story of a four-hundred-year-old wooden synagogue in Ukraine
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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.

2018

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 I
rene Levin Berman
We Are Going to Pick Potatoes - Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story

​Sunday, June 3, 2018
Gail Kalison Reynolds W
hat Genealogists Need To Know About Information Security

Sunday, May 20, 2018 POSTPONED due to conflict with Shavuot
Doris Loeb Nabel T
he Joys & Wonders Of My Genealogy Roots & Research Trips

Sunday, April 25, 2018 M
arian Burk Wood P
lanning A Future For Your Family's Past How to get your genealogy ready for the next generation

Sunday, March 18 2018 
Janeen Bjork T
he 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

2017

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 A
va Cohn, AKA Sherlock Cohn, C
lued-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

2016

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: 
EWISH GENETIC GENEALOGY: A STUDY IN ENDOGAMY

Sunday, January 17, 2016 
Assisted Research

2015

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.

2014

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.

2013

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

2012

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

• 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!

• 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

• 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