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Open house highlights Jewish family histories, honors local leaders

Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood hosted a honey-themed Family History and Genealogy Open House on Aug. 11, allowing more than 40 attendees to explore their family history and genealogy with talks, interactive tables, activities and tours.

The event was put on by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland and Congregation Mishkan Or.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (ET)

Woman in Gold with Randy Schoenberg

In partnership with Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning

The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family. Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court and forces her to confront difficult truths about the past along the way.

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MyHeritage.com: My Favorite Tool for Jewish Genealogy

by Robin Selinger

I joined MyHeritage as a subscriber in 2018, and have had a wonderful experience using it to research my own family tree and to assist others as a “search angel.” It’s my favorite online resource for genealogy research.

MyHeritage made it easy for me to build my tree. With help from “Smart Matches” and “Instant Discoveries,” I added new family members—plus parents, spouses, siblings and children—with matches to historic records and other family trees. Most of my ancestral lines are documented back five generations; many extend to the 1700s, and a handful back to the 1500s... READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

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JGSC offers monthly programs open to members and non-members on a variety of topics applicable to Jewish genealogy and research.  Please check the program listings for time, location and format.  Advance registration required.  A special thank you to The Temple-Tifereth Israel Hartzmark Library for hosting our new in-person Genealogy Discussion Group and Coffee Talk.  Please stop by.


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