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• Dan Dennison talked about old photograph methods and how to use them for genealogy.

• Jonina Duker talked about dispersed and remote Jewish Communities.

• Using Topographic maps with Rick Sayre

• JGSGW 25th anniversary

• Unique data at the National Archives - Take part in a special indexing project. Email us if you want to take part..

• Don Szumowski, president of PolishRoots, Inc. and Edward David Luft, author of The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834-1835 talked about Poland. Web sites mentioned were Center for Jewish History, Polish Gen Web, JewishGen, and Routes to Roots Foundation.

• Charles S. 'Chuck' Mason, Jr., CGRS talked about finding information about female ancestors.

• Sallyann Sack gave the history, the purpose and how she gets the information for both the magazine and Avotaynu Inc. Avotaynu and books publish by them.

• Vadim Altskan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum talked about new information available at the Museum and how the museum acquires their various data bases.

• Bennett Greenspan, President and CEO of Family Tree DNA talked about how his company analysis DNA to establish family relationships.

• Suzan Wynne, JGSGW Research Chairperson, talked about the different projects the society have done to help persons searching information about their family history.

• Valery Bazarov of The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) talked about their Location & Family History Service which are connecting lost family member with these leaving Russia since 1975.

• Mark Halpern, member of the board of JRI-Poland, talked about the indexes of over 2.5 millions records that can be find on their web site.

• Our hosts, who were beta-testers, show how to use Yad Vashem's The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. Now available is information about more than three million Jews murdered in the Holocaust including two millions Pages of Testimony submitted primarily by relatives to memorialize members of their family. For more information, see Nu, What's New?, The E-zine of Jewish Genealogy.

• Peter Lande talked about Holocaust data that is available from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem and other places.

• Harold Rhode talked about research which included one person with 5 different names; brothers having different last names; and more.

• The DNA connection between Ancient Hebrew and modern Jews with Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman of The Center for Kohanim in Jerusalem and author of DNA & Tradition. By comparisons of DNA patterns, historical origins and movements of peoples can be trace. The Y chromosomes of males is passed from father to their son with very little change from generation to generation. All Kohanim are all direct male ancestor of the brother of Moses - Aharon. A very high percentage of them today shares a common set of Y markers. Beside the Y chromosome, there is Mitrochondrial DNA which is passed from mothers to all their childrens and can be used to trace maternal lineages. (Note: This show was taped by Michael Lixenberg of L'Dorot Video Productions.)

• Reports on the Annual Conference in Jerusalem - discoveries in research resources and some interesting talks at the annual conference. Prof. Sachs found orginal German documentions on all but one of her great-grandparents at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. One interesting talk discussed was about an article written in 1868, and quoted in many sources since then, concerning a Rabbi in the early 1700s. Recently found orginal documention proves many errors in the 1868 article. Other talkes discussed were were on DNA and the Ellis Island search engine of Steve Morse.

• Planning a Family Reunion - Stephen Snell talked about the steps he took for a successful celebration of his family's 250-year anniversary of coming to America. He covered topics such as how he was able to locate family members as well as how to plan for future reunions. He mentioned several books he thought were very helpful and other useful ideas that worked. His only disappointment was not getting the young members of the family involved.

• Some Unsusal Material Available at the National Archives II in College Park, Maryland with Michael Hussey, Ph.D.

• History of Northern Transylvania with Daniel Lowy, Ph.D.

• Discovering Your Female Ancestors with Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, author of a book with the same name.

• What's new in the Hebraic Section of Library of Congress with Dr. Peggy Perlstein.

• Hungary Kenneth Nyirady from the European Reading Room of the Library of Congress talked about there Hungarian collection and Portals to the World web sites.

• Vienna Jewish Records Anatol Steck, Program Officer, International Archival Programs, US Holocaust Memorial Museum talked about recent finds of records from the 1930's/40s era.

• Doing research in the middle of the Outback with Bubbles Segall from Winnellie, Northern Territory, Australia

• Afro-American with Karen Hughes White, President of the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County. Books mentioned are "A Prelininary Guide to Pre-1904 County Records in the Virginia State Libaray and Archives", "Fauguier County Virginia Register of Free Negroes 1817-1865" and "Black Laws of Virginia".

• Talked about International Conference schedule for July 4 to 9, 2004 in Jerusalem. For future announcements and inquiries about the conference, join the special mailing list by filling in your name and e-mail address and chosse "Jerusalem 2004"..

• William Connelly, technical information specialist with the Survivors Registry at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum talked about the now available online.

• George Bolotenko talked about the record of the Russian IIIrd (Moscow Police) Department from 1880 to 1917.

• Stanley M. Hordes talked about the Sephardic Jewish legacy in New Mexico (A history of the Crypto-Jew)

• Peter Nash talked about his going from Berlin, Germany to Shanghai, China to escape the Nazi regime, and then to Sydney, Australia to escape the Communists.

• Sallyann Sack talked about her recent finds in Israel.

• Harold M. Leich, the Russian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress' European Division talked about information sources in Siberia.

• Carol Castiel, President of the Jews of Cape Verde Project talked about the role and honors the memory of the numerous Sephardic Jewish families who migrated to Cape Verde from Morocco and Gibraltar in the late 19th century. Project plans include the rehabilitation of the small cemeteries, creation of a website, publication of a book based on oral histories, and encouragement of Jewish heritage tourism in Cape Verde.

• The 100th Show. Hosts talked about the previous shows including thanking the all volunteer crew who helped.

• Reading Photographs. Boris Feldblyum talked about what you can infered from old pictures.

• Boris Feldblyum, President of FAST Genealogy Service talked about the difficulties of doing research in Ukraine and other Easter European countries that were part of the former Soviet Union.

• Jeffrey S. Malka talked about his new book: "Sephardic Genealogy - Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World"

• Marsha Rozenblit talked about her book: Jews of Vienna - 1867-1914 and where she obtained her materials.

• Different Sources for the Information

• New Books useful for doing Jewish Genealogy.

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