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.
MEETING LOCATION: Stroum Jewish Community Center
3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island, (206) 232-7115
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The JGSWS library will be available before and after the presentation.
WiFi also will be available—bring your laptops.
NEXT MEETING: Monday, March 15, 2010 (Note change of date)
Doors open at 7 PM.
Presentation starts promptly at 7:30 PM.
"The Power of Stories: Yours, Mine, and Ours" presented by Carol Starin
ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
Arthur Kurzweil ruined Carol Starin’s life. In 1982 she went to one of
his lectures, bought his book, From Generation to Generation, and
asked him to autograph it. He wrote: "Don't stop tracing until you
reach Sinai!" Did he mean that we should trace our families all the
way back to Moses? She’s come to learn that, for Jewish genealogists,
it IS possible.
In this lecture she’ll tell stories about a three-decade search for
her families. She’ll talk about strategies and resources, the special
challenges of Jewish genealogy, the role of history, and a myriad of
tips (including a list of her favorite resources) for making our
family trees bloom – through finding, writing, and preserving stories.
She now understands what Kurzweil meant. We CAN trace our families to
Sinai.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Carol Starin has been a Hebrew school teacher, a public school
teacher, and the director of the Jewish Federation’s Jewish Education
Council. Arthur Kurzweil influenced her interest in genealogy. Since
that time she’s gone to numerous genealogy conferences and completed
the University of Washington certificate course in Genealogy and
Family History. She belongs to JewishGen and three of its special interest groups, the
Seattle Genealogy Society and its MacUsers group, and she subscribes
to Avotaynu and a zillion secular genealogy magazines..
For more information, please e-mail programs@jgsws.org.
FUTURE MEETINGS
April 12: TBD
May 10: Bennett Greenspan from Family Tree DNA
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS
See the Events page.