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Unless noted otherwise, we
meet at 7:30
pm on the first Wednesday of each month in the Miller Auditorium on the
second floor of Menorah Park, 27100 Cedar Road, Beachwood. For a
MapQuest map,
click here.
Meetings are free and open to members, their guests and other
interested persons.
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Wednesday
January 2, 2008
Computers
and the Internet: 21st Century Tools for Finding 19th Century Ancestors |
Ken Bravo
Ken will present a
program about the variety of uses to which the
internet can be put to do genealogical research. |
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 7:30 p.m.
in the Main
Auditorium of Menorah Park
Daytsh aftselakis: How Yiddish Stopped Being German
We will hold
our regular monthly meeting after the talk at 8:30p.m. upstairs in the
Miller Boardroom. |
Michael Wex, renowned Yiddishist,
will be the Scholar on Campus at Menorah Park in February.
His
website says Wex "…has done so
much to bring Yiddish back to the centre of Jewish culture".
http://www.the-yiddish-world-of-michael-wex.com |
Wednesday
March 5, 2008
Organizing and Preparing a
Genealogical Scrapbook
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Beth
Stachiw, President of the Lake County Genealogical Society.
Beth, who is a local Creative Memories Consultant, will present an
interesting and informative program that will teach us about the tools
and techniques that we can use to create genealogical scrapbooks. |
Wednesday
April 2, 2008
Researching
20th
Century American Military Records
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Wallace Huskonen, CG
Mr. Huskonen, a certified genealogist and committee chairman for the
Ohio Genealogical Society, will give us resources for tracing relatives
who were in the U.S. military service.
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Wednesday
May 7,
2008
Information
in Original
Eastern European Records |
Richard Spector
A personal experience of how 19th
century records in Ukraine and Romania burst through long-standing brick
walls and greatly enriched an ancestor search. |
Wednesday June 4, 2008
The
Jewish Calendar Demystified |
Stephen P. Morse
This talk presents the Hebrew calendar in an easy-to-understand -- and
sometimes tongue-in-cheek -- fashion. The aim is …to give you an
appreciation for what's involved in such calculations.
Topics covered include the 19-year calendar cycle, the origin of time,
errors in the Jewish and secular calendars, and the use of Hebrew
letters to represent dates on tombstones.
Check out www.stevemorse.org and see what he has made available on the
Hebrew calendar.
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NEXT
MEETING
Wednesday,
July 2, 2008
Coming
to America: Who Came and Why?
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Alan
Levenson
Dr.
Alan Levenson is a Professor at Siegal College of Judaic Studies and a
specialist on 19th century German Jewry. His latest book is "Between
Philosemitism and Antisemitism: Defenses of Jews and Judiasm in
Germany, 1871-1932." His talk is taken from the material in a course he
recently taught at Siegal College about the pre-Holocaust world of
Eastern Europe.
He will
discuss how conditions in that world drove many Jews, but not all, to
immigrate to America.
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Wednesday August 6, 2008
Historic
Jewish Clevelanders |
Dr.
Sean Martin
Dr. Martin of the Western Reserve Historical Society will talk about
some of the prominent Jewish Clevelanders of the early 20th century. |
Wednesday September 3, 2008
Locating
Your Ancestors' Naturalization Records and Learning about the Secrets
They Hold |
Ken Bravo |
Wednesday
October, 2008
NO
MEETING - ROSH HASHANAH |
NO
MEETING - ROSH HASHANAH |
Wednesday November 5, 2008
What
It Takes to Be an Author of Books on Genealogy
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Vicki
Vigil
Member Vicki Vigil will tell how she began to write and publish books
with genealogical themes, and what is involved with having a book
published and getting paid for it. |
Wednesday December 3, 2008
Election
of Officers
and
Program To Be Announced
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