Meetings
JGSWS meets in the auditorium of the Stroum JCC on the second Monday of each month, September through June, at 7 PM, unless noted otherwise. Admission is free for JGSWS members, $5 for nonmembers. Members may bring one guest per year at no charge.
NEXT MEETING: Monday, February 13, 2012
Doors open at 7:00 PM
Presentation begins promptly at 7:30 PM
"Researching Your Ancestors from Ukraine"
Presented by Dr. Ron Doctor, Ukraine SIG Coordinator
ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
Ron Doctor will discuss his efforts to make the JewishGen Ukraine Special Interest Group (SIG) more relevant to researchers. He'll describe the SIG's new town-centered organization and the projects the SIG is developing to improve Jewish Ukrainian research. He'll discuss how you can learn the names of your ancestral towns and find old country data that may help you research your ancestors. You will see examples of some of the records that are available, including vital records and revision lists (censuses). Records like these have enabled Ron to extend his direct ancestral lines back to the early 1700s. This is a must-see presentation if you have any possible ancestry from Ukraine.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Dr. Ron Doctor is Coordinator of the JewishGen Ukraine SIG and President of the Kremenets District Research Group. Ron coordinated a project that translated 15,500 vital records from Kremenets. He currently is managing projects to translate 2,600 pages of Yizkor Books from Kremenets and Vishnevets and 16,000 pages of Russian revision list records from the Kremenets District. He also is coordinating the Kremenets and Vishnevets Jewish Cemetery Projects (about 4,200 gravestones). Ron is Past President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon and serves on the JGSO Board. He has given numerous public and conference presentations and wrote a monthly Jewish genealogy column for the Jewish Review. He began working on his family history in 1992.
For more information, please e-mail programs@jgsws.org.
The JGSWS library will be available before and after the presentation.
WiFi also will be available—bring your laptops.
FUTURE MEETINGS AND EVENTS
March 12, 2012: One-Step Approach to 1940 Census: Surviving Without a Name Index
AND One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools, by Dr. Stephen Morse
April 16, 2012: Michael Goldstein, IAJGS President
May 14, 2012: Natan Meir
June 11, 2012: Genealogy Gadgets for the 21st Century, by Mary Kozy
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS
See the Events page.