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Jordan Auslander: Genealogy Goes to the Movies
February 11 @ 11:00 am
We are celebrating our 35th Anniversary
Inviting all our seniors, past and present members who made it happen!
Together with our guest speaker
Jordan Auslander
FAMOUS GENEALOGY DETECTIVE (and comedian as well)
Genealogy Goes to The Movies
Sunday, February 11, 2024, at 11:00 AM
Live Meeting at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
4200 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Florida
GPS search: 15 Federal Hwy, Miami, FL 33137
Jordan Auslander is a New York-based forensic genealogist, title, and real estate historian, who has pursued cases across the United States, The Caribbean, Europe, and Israel. He published an index to Jewish records in Slovak Archives, and a Genealogical Gazetteer of Greater Hungary. He is a former board member of Jewish Genealogical Society of New York. His applied acting pretensions are as “Heir Jordan, Extreme Genealogist,” Telly award winner for RootsTelevision.com and the ‘reliably inappropriate’ host of IAJGS conference Game Show Night.
Genealogy Goes to The Movies
Program summary:
A half hour montage of how genealogy is portrayed in popular films and television. Hollywood does not let accuracy get in the way of a good story. This can be both infuriating in perpetuating myths and hilarious, from a 1930 take on the future 1980 census, name changing at Ellis Island to science fiction, where it is still not “all on the internet:” current vital records on library open stacks and shoot-outs in cemeteries.
Aside from entertainment, the two-fold purpose is to show how genealogy is pervasive in popular media and how resources and methodology are misrepresented. The discussion that follows focuses on how to manage expectations and offer reality checks for what can be accomplished with family research.
RSVP to Paulette Bronstein at JGSGM.President@gmail.com
and a copy to jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com