Nadia Lipes, an Ukrainian Jewish genealogist and guide explained what one should do before asking the help of a professional genealogist in another country.	VIEW NOW
Nadia Lipes, an Ukrainian Jewish genealogist and guide, talked about resources that she accesses in Ukraine.	VIEW NOW
Genie Milgrom talked about how she search her maternal lineage back to pre-inquisition Spain and Portugal.	VIEW NOW
Genie Milgrom talked about her unbroken maternal lineage going back as far as 1480 to pre-inquisition Spain and Portugal.	VIEW NOW
Mark Strauss explained how he used Autosomal DNA to contact formerly unknown family members.	VIEW NOW
Mark Strauss told how he and his family went on a visit to his ancestral home town of Zétény, which is now in Slovakia.	VIEW NOW
Robin Meltzer explained how she was able to find the Jewish origins of Sid Caesar and whether the name had or had not been changed when the family came to this country.	VIEW NOW
Robin Meltzer talked about the small town feeling of the 15th ward of Syracuse, NY and the families who lived there and their present locations. There is a trailer title “The Road to Yesterday” about the documentary title is “Stories from the Syracuse Jewish Community.”	VIEW NOW
Rose Lerer Cohen talked about doing research in Israel and getting ready to for the 2015 Jewish Genealogy Convention there. She emphasized that Israel has a lot of data from European countries besides data from the Ottoman and British occupation periods.	VIEW NOW
Rose Lerer Cohen showed her 4 volume book about Jews who perished in the Holocaust in Lithuania and discussed how to do research there.	VIEW NOW
Jennifer Hammond discussed the 19th century German Jewish population in Alexandria, Virginia, their association to Beth El Hebrew Congregation, and their integration into the general population.	VIEW NOW
Vera Finberg talked about the 33rd IAJGS International Conference that was held in Boston in August 2013.	VIEW NOW
Arline Sachs talked about her recent Eastern European tour that included many places where Jews lived, worshiped and were buried.	VIEW NOW
Chuck Mason and Arline Sachs questioned Sallyann Sack about changes in genealogical research in Israel and in the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy	VIEW NOW
The online Avotaynu Anthology of Jewish Genealogy was the subject.	VIEW NOW
Jeffrey S. Malka talked about Livorno and the Medicis.	VIEW NOW
A lively preview of the 31st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy recently was taped for airing on the Internet and broadcast on the Fairfax, Va., cable TV show "Tracing Your Family Roots," with host Arline Sachs. Conference Co-chairs Marlene Katz Bishow, Victor Cohen and Susan Isman chatted with Arline about the program, hotel & food, and technology for the forthcoming conference.	VIEW NOW
Peggy Pearlstein talked at the Hebreaic Section, which she head, at the Library of Congress.	VIEW NOW
What you should do before attending a conference	VIEW NOW
Mark N. Ozer would talk about his new book The Litvak Legacy.	VIEW NOW
Jeff Miller, President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW), talked about why one should join his genealogy society.	VIEW NOW
David Zinner, exective director of Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington talked about Jewish funerals, burial and mourning customs.	VIEW NOW
Jacob Thiessen and Andrea Meyerhoff joined Arline Sachs to talked about the 2008 Conference on Jewish Genealogy that was in Chicago.	VIEW NOW
Prof. Sachs and Dr. Sacks discuss the emotional aspects of their recent visit to three small towns in Germany, where Jews used to live. The towns were Bad Arolson, Vöhl and Vokmassen. In each town a few local people are maintaining the Jewish cemetery, restoring a synagogue or building a Jewish museum.	VIEW NOW
Rita Souther talked about Family History Centers.	VIEW NOW
Ruth Ellen Gruber, author of "National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe" talked about her background that allow her to write the book.	VIEW NOW
Jeffery S. Malka will go online to show his "Sephardic Genealogy" web site "http://Sephardicgen.com".	VIEW NOW
Micheal Matsas, author of "The Illusion of Safety, the Story of Greek Jews during the Second World War" talked about his book and where he found the information. One place was the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.	VIEW NOW
Paul Shapiro, director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, talked about the 50 million pages of information of the International Tracing Service. Some of the data have been received with additional data arriving over the next few years. Shapiro also suggested how to access the information. Slides of Incarceration, Forced Laborer, Post-War, Auxiliary Indexes and Non-Personal Documents.	VIEW NOW
Sallyann Sack talked about her 30 years of researching her maternal Amdur line from her home. Before the internet was available, she used only the telephone and wrote letters. Just recently she and a relative in Australia prepared a web page for Almdur family tree. While doing this she realized again how important it was to review all gathered information periodly. She finally realized how someone she had corresponded with 20 years ago was related.	VIEW NOW
Logan Kleinwaks has a venture to link persons interested in specific Pages of Testimony (PoT). It is called ShoahConnect. A user who go to the Pages of Testimony site and flags all PoT of interest. If two of more people flag the same PoT, they all receive notice of the match. The mechanism is external to the Yad Vashem site; the potential matches are stored by ShoahConnect. It uses the Google Toolbar, which must be installed, to flag the PoT of interest. The fact that you are looking for people associated with a particular PoT is not noted at the Yad Vashem site (it would require the cooperation of Yad Vashem itself). It only creates a match if another person using the ShoahConnect system expresses interest in the same PoT.	VIEW NOW
Genealogists are very good at doing research and collecting many facts about our families. For a number of reasons, however, most of us delay publishing the results of this research. Mike Karsen, a professional genealogist, explained how to write your family history in books that vary from a simple 30 pages to one that contains detailed biographies and places your family in historical context. Your goal should be to organize your findings and share them with your family NOW!	VIEW NOW
From the Chicago Jewish community's origins in the 1840s, the city has been home to a great number of Jews. Mike Karsen, author of Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland, highlights the major sources for tracing your Jewish roots in Chicago.	VIEW NOW
Iris Posner, president of "One Thousand Children" spoke of her role in finding the identifying about 1400 unaccompanied children who were rescued from the Holocaust during the years 1934 through the end of the war in 1945. These children whose ages varied from a few months to sixteen years old usually came to the United States in small groups of about 10 and were then sent to various homes throughout the country. Few ever saw both parents again.	VIEW NOW
Sirak Sabahat, an Ethiopian Jew, who is the lead actor of the award winning film "Live and Become" talked about his pre-Taludic roots.	VIEW NOW
"Why Jewish Genealogical Societies?" The Jews, like the Poles or Italians, have special needs in tracing their roots based on their customs and where they were living.	VIEW NOW
Our hosts talked about Yizkor (Memorial) Books written to remember villages destroyed during the Holocaust. Most of these books were written by survivors and include a history of the town, testimonials, lists of survivors, and lists of those who perished.	VIEW NOW
Olga Zabludoff talked about how she help restored an old cemetery in Butrimonys, Lithuania.	VIEW NOW
Sallyann Sack talked about the International Institue for Jewish Genealogy. It is located at the Jewish National and Hebrew University Library in Jerusalem. She head the founding committee for this professionsl reseach organization.	VIEW NOW
Leon B. Taranto spoke about offline resources for Turkey and Greece that he used researching his family. Web sites mentioned were Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Review and Society, American Sephardi Federation, The Rhodes Jewish Museum, Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture and Sefard SIG.	VIEW NOW
Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy. A book edited by host Sally Amdur Sack. It is the definitive guide to Jewish genealogical research. Written by more than 60 authors, all experts in their own field. The list of authors is a veritable "Who's Who in Jewish Genealogy." Its more than 100 chapters cover all important aspects of the rich body of information available to do Jewish genealogical research. Also shown was co-hosts Arline Sachs' book The Dairies of Bernhard Cahn. Both books can be ordered from Avotaynu.	VIEW NOW