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• Ron Arons talked about tracing the life of his great-grandfather by using prison, police and courts records and newspaper articles.

• Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center is a national clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath. They assist U.S. residents searching for proof of internment, forced/slave labor, or evacuation from former Soviet territories on themselves or family members. The guest was its director Linda Klein.

• Latest Developments New books from Avotaynu and new databases were highlighted.

• 1930 Census with Connie Potter of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Stephen Morse's One Step web site is http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse/census/.

• Local History & Genealogy Reading Room, Library of Congress - Judith Roach talked about what 40,000 personal genealogies, 100 local (regional including from Germany, United Kingdom) history, and city directories that is available in the section that she head. They could be reached by e-mail or by calling them at 202-707-5537.

• Values of a Diary - Host Arline Sachs talked about her great-great-grandfather's diary that she spent 20 years translating, reasearching and finally writteng a still not published book "Bernald Cahn, A Man of his Times - Life in 19th Century Germany".

• What News? - New databases are becoming available. The National Archives of Canada Launched the 1901 Canadian census online. Also mentioned were programs to help with searching the Ellis Island on-line information and What is New in Isreal.

• Community Archives of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington - Laura Cohen Apelbaum, Executive Director and Wendy Turman, Archivist and Society Curator of Small Jewish Musuem of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington talking about what it takes to run a small archives.

• Preserving your pictures and documents with Janice Goldblum, archivist at National Academy of Sciences and chair of the Jewish Historial Society of Greater Washington's Collections Committee.

• Early American and Scottish Genealogy of the Bucklew family with Bob Bucklew

• 18th and 19th century Southern Germany with author Emily C. Rose - She told how she did the research for her book "Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside" and gave helpful hints to doing research in Germany.

• Romania Research with Ruth Gavin - Web sites mentioned are Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC, American Embassy in Bucharest and Romanian National Tourist Office. Some researchers available are Gheorghe Mireuta and Ladislau Gyemant,Ph.D. in Romania and Alexander Dunai in Lviv, Ukraine.

• Sephardi Genealogy: The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and Greece with Leon Taranto - Web site mentioned are ETSI-Sephardi Genealogical & Historical Society, Sephardic House and Rhodes Jewish Museum. (Also see Dr. Malka Web site.)

• Research in Great Britain with Anthony Joseph of Birmingham, England

• Language and Names, with Daniel Schlyter of Family History Library of Salt Lake City, UT, USA

• Jewish Historical Clock, a system for showing family trees in parallel, with Micheal Honey of London England.

• Italian Research with John P. Colleta, author of Finding Italian Roots, talked about records that available are available in Italy. He highly recommended using www.Italiangen.org.

• Finding Relatives in the Netherlands - Flora Atkin describes how she found long lost relatives of her maternal grandmother of whom she knew only the name.

• Finding Relatives in Russia - Maury Atkin describes the process he used to find a first cousin in Russia from whom he last heard in 1946. Pictures show the happy reunion.

• Research in Moldova - Marlene Zakai, president, JGSGW (Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington) discussed resources for research in Moldova. Two sources in the United States that are available about Moldova are from Repeat Performances, a company which has taped most of the lectures given at the International Seminars including the 2000 seminar lecture on Moldova and the book Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova which can be found thru the "Routes To Roots" web site.

• Unusual sources of data in Israel - Marlene Zakai, president, JGSGW (Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington) discussed many lesser known institutions and resources useful to the Jewish genealogist. Those mentioned that have web pages include the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center with the e-mail address: babylon@babylonjewry.org.il and the Jabotinsky Institute in Israel with the e-mail address of jabo@atcom.com.il

• Jews of Sudan - Eli S. Malka, author of Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi, Jews of the Sudan described the history of once flourished Jewish community in the African interior of Sudan. Of interest to genealogists is the detailed histories of most of the Jewish families in the Sudan as well as an appendix listing all Jewish marriages that had occurred during the community's existence in the Sudan. The documents for Jewish Civil Records are in the National and University Library in Jerusalem's Department of Manuscript, call number Heb. 4 7306/1-2. Jeffrey S. Malka, the author son co-hosted the show with Arline Sachs.

• "Ask the Experts" - The hostesses talked about recents questions from Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy and their recent finds.

• Gesher Galicia with Shelley Kellerman Pollero, its coordinator.

• Belarus SIG with David M. Fox, its founders and coordinator

• Preserving old photographs with Andrew Robb, Photograph Conservation. Websites of interest are:
  • Washington Conservation Guild (guide to conservators in the area)
  • American Institute for Conservation (conservation information)
  • Conservation On-Line (conservation information)
  • Image Permanence Institute (information about photographs)
  • Wilhelm Imaging Research (information about digital prints)

• Fairfax Genealogical Society with Richard Camaur, C.G.,President

• Sephardim with Jeffrey Malka, MD

• Hamburg's Emigration Records. Records from 1890 to 1914 now on-line. Other web links are for Ellis Island, Association of European Migration Institutions (AEMI), and Research Center German Emigration in USA. For paid research in Hamburg email Elizabeth Sroka.

• International Tracing Service

• Getting Started with Faith Klein.

• Historical Alexandria with Ruth Sinberg Baker, historian and author of Jewish Residents of Alexandria, Virginia 1850-1929.