JGSGM Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Mark Olsen: What’s New in Family Tree Maker Q&A Discussion
2023-02-14 13:00 (America/New_York)
We are collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL headed by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

Tuesday, February 14 at 1:00 pm via Zoom

Presenter: Mark Olsen, Family Tree Maker Ambassador, see bio below

What’s New in Family Tree Maker Q&A Discussion

Mr. Arthur Sissman

A live Q and A discussion about Family Tree Maker: the latest version, updates, features and more. An interactive session.

Mark Olsen is the Family Tree Maker Ambassador to historical and genealogical societies around the world working to support their members as they use Family Tree Maker. Mark is a graduate of Brigham Young University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Family History with a Spanish records emphasis. He has been working in the genealogy industry since 2007 and has been the Family Tree Maker Ambassador since 2016.

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Please register with JGSGM.VPProgramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous class.

Once you are registered you will be receiving a direct email from the mentor.

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Paulette Bronstein: Creating a family history book using MyCanvas
2023-02-08 13:00
In cooperation with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County Inc.

Live and on Zoom Meeting at South County Civic Center

16700 South Jog Rd, Delray Beach, FL 33446

Paulette Bronstein-President-Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Paulette Bronstein was born in Augusta, Georgia, lived in Woodmere, New York for 56 years and has resided in Aventura Florida since 2003. She began a search for her missing father in 1994 and has been on an extraordinary genealogical journey since then. She has researched her family history during multiple trips to Alaska, South Carolina, Georgia, and Lithuania. A website for her grandfather’s shtetl, Salakas Lithuania, was created by her in 2013 (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Salakas/).

Paulette has been the President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami since 2019. She created four different family history books for her children and grandchildren using the MyCanvas program. Hoping that her children and grandchildren might one day be interested in their family history, Paulette decided that creating these books would be an appropriate culminating activity to her 25 plus years of genealogy research.

Paulette will lead a workshop format to help participants understand how to create a family history book using MyCanvas.

JGSGM Members are invited to attend. You must register with Paulette no later than one week prior to the event: jgsgm.president@gmail.com

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Mona Freedman Morris: Treasures from Historical NY Vital Records
2023-01-15 11:00
THE JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation:

4200 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Florida 33137

Mona Freedman Morris

Ms. Morris is the founding President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County and was awarded the honor of President Emerita of this same organization. She was the past President of the International Professional Jewish Genealogical Society and an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University.

Treasures From Historical NY Vital Records

Many of our ancestors arrived through the Port of New York and spent time there before venturing on to other locations. In this talk, Mona will show us the new website now available for researching the NYC Vital Records. She will show how and why these records are so important to all genealogists and how to utilize them efficiently. As in previous lectures, Mona will include stories so that we see how these records can impact your research and why they are such a treasure.

Election for the board will take place prior to the event at 11:00 am. The nominating committee information will be mailed to our existing members before December 15, 2022. Time to renew your membership! Please view our website www.jgs-miami.org. Click MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION. Fill it out and submit it through the website.

Follow payment instructions as shown.

10:30 AM sign in and early bird visiting – 11:00 AM meeting begins

Please RSVP by email to: ymillman.jgs@gmail.com

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Yom Haplitim: Voices of Jewish Refugees from Islamic LandsYom Haplitim
2022-12-04 11:00
THE JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI AND SEPHARDI VOICES PRESENT

Voices of Jewish Refugees from Islamic Lands: Yom Haplitim

Family Heritage and Remembrance

moderated by Dr. Henry Green

At the Greater Miami Jewish Federation 4200 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33137

The program includes survivor testimonials, video presentations, and distinguished community leaders.

Miami-Dade County Mayor: Danielle Levine Cava

Consul General of Israel in Miami: Maor Elbaz-Starinsky

Foundation Director, Greater Miami Jewish Federation: Scott Kaplan

Refugees from Arab Lands: Michael Sabet and Elise Diaine

Questions: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

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Mr. Arthur Sissman: Geni.com – How to use the website?
2022-11-08 08:00 - 09:30
We are collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL headed by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

Some of the items to be explained…be prepared to follow along with another device!

How and why, you should have a presence on Geni.com – i.e. BasicMembership – It’s FREE!Overcoming the psychological barrier of I, ME, MY, MINE, or YOU, YOURSvs. WE, US, OUR(S).Be careful: Avoid merges which might create duplicates!!

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Please register with jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous class. Once you are registered you will be receiving direct mail from the mentor.

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Jews of Color - The Controversy
2022-11-01 17:30
A virtual lecture presented by Dr. Ira Sheskin

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://miami.zoom.us/j/92440369884?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 924 4036 9884Passcode: [REDACTED]

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Jeff Wallach (renowned author): Mr. Wizard
2022-10-23 06:30
The following event is done in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon

At Temple Beth Am Chapel:

5950 SW 88th St, Pinecrest, FL 33156

LIVE MEETING Sunday, OCTOBER 23rd, 2022 @ 10:30 A.M.

Jeff Wallach -Renowned Author

LIVE ZOOM from Oregon

Mr. Wizard – A DNA test set off a genetic treasure hunt in search of oneself

A link is available if you are unable to attend. Please contact: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

Please support the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami with your membership for 2023 (register now!). Information and application at our website www.jgs-miami.org

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Rosalind Merritt: A Slice of our Jewish Heritage Community
2022-10-09 06:30
The following event is done in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon

At Temple Beth Am Chapel:

5950 SW 88th St, Pinecrest, FL 33156

LIVE meeting Sunday, OCTOBER 9th, 2022 10:30 A.M.

Presenting recent research of Rosalind Merritt (author)

Miami Beach High! Decades of Fame

This program will be moderated by

Sylvia Gurinsky (Historical researcher of Florida Heritage)

A link is available if you are unable to attend. Please contact: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

Please, support the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami with your membership for 2023 (register now!). Information and application at our website www.jgs-miami.org

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Paulette Bronstein: What Our Genealogical Research Can Reveal
2022-09-18 06:30
What Our Genealogical Research Can Reveal

My great grandfather was a horse thief and brothel owner!

Zoom meeting Sunday, September 18th, 2022 10:30 A.M.

Speaker – Paulette Bronstein – President Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Since 1995 Paulette has been able to trace her paternal ancestry back to the 17 th century. She attended her first IAJGS Conference in 2010 in Los Angeles and an additional seven of the yearly IAJGS conferences (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies). Since then, she has used Jewishgen.org and Litvak SIG to trace her Jewish ancestors. She had success tracing her maternal grandfather’s family, but her maternal grandmother’s family remained a mystery until two months ago. Nikita, a 25-year-old Moscow researcher, contacted Paulette using Jewishgen.org’s Family Finder on May 20, 2022. He found court documents in the Moscow Police Archives accusing Lieb Gamus, Paulette’s great grandfather, of being a horse thief and brothel owner! Join us for a presentation about finding a criminal in the family with the help of a Moscow native with access to court records in Russia.

Please, register with: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

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Search your ancestor’s timeline and historical records via JewishGen.org KehilaLinks
2022-06-01 07:00
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami is pleased to announce the start of workshops for our members. The meeting will be held during workdays at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation: 4200 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Florida 33137

Search your ancestor’s timeline and historical records via JewishGen.org KehilaLinks. Bring your laptop!

Paulette Bronstein (jgsgm.president@gmail.com) will moderate the forum.

The number of attendees is limited.

Register with jgsgm.vpprogrammimg@gmail.com no later than May 15, 2022. When you register you will get a questionnaire to fill out to help organize the focus of the workshop.

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The Second Exodus: The Clandestine Jewish Immigrants to Palestine Prior to Israel Independence (Part 2)
2022-05-15 06:30
The following events are done in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon & Sephardi Voices

The Second Exodus: The Clandestine Jewish Immigrants to Palestine Prior to Israel Independence

Sunday, May 15 at 10:30 am (Part 2)

Lyn Julius

Founder of Harif, UK Associationof Jews from Middle east and North Africa

Lyn Julius is a journalist, blogger, and speaker. The British-born daughter of Iraqi – Jewish refugees, her work has appeared in JNS News, Times of Israel, Jewish Chronicle, Haaretz, Fathom, The Guardian, etc. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) has been translated to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic.

Aliya Bet was the illegal immigration of Jewish refugees during WWII, desperate to run the British shipping blockade in order to reach Palestine. Jewish communities in Egypt and Iran played their part in helping refugees escape. At the time, the overwhelming majority of immigrants to Eretz Israel were Ashkenazim from Europe, but a trickle of Jews entered Palestine from Arab countries, either as individuals or in small groups. The great aliyot of entire communities, such as those of Yemen and Iraq, were not to take place until after 1948 when Israel flung its gates open. But clandestine immigration continued, for example from Morocco: the problem was no longer the British refusing to let Jews in, but Arab countries refusing to let them out.

Professor Henry A Green

Founder of Sephardi Voices, Moderator

Henry Alan Green is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami and has taught there since 1984. After completing postgraduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Oxford, and the Sorbonne, he received his Ph.D. in Religion from St. Andrew’s University in 1982. He is the published author or co-author of four books and numerous articles, and has received recognition for his work on documenting the exodus of Jews from Arab countries after the Second World War.

Green is very active as a voice for Sephardi Jews, both in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Green testified before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in Washington D.C. in 2007, on the topic of truth, justice, and reconciliation for Jewish refugees from Arab countries, and serves on a number of boards for Sephardi-related organizations. In particular, he is a member of the Executive Committee for Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC) and was a former member of the Academic Advisory Board of the American Sephardi Federation (ASF). His new book, Sephardi Voices: the Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands, with Richard Stursberg, will be released in late March.

To join us by Zoom, contact to get a link: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

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Dr. Peter Tarjan, Ph.D.: Women fighting the Nazi
2022-05-01 07:00
The Genealogical Society of Greater Miami Live Meeting! at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation (4200 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Florida 33137)**

Observing Yom HaShoah

Women fighting the Nazi by Dr. Peter Tarjan, Ph.D.

Dr. Peter Tarjan, Ph.D. Holocaust Survivor, Professor emeritus of the university of Miami, is also a board member of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami and a well-known Holocaust educator. Peter will present some rarely told stories of young women in Europe resisting the Nazi atrocities. Many of them ended up tortured and murdered for their efforts to save human lives.

His presentation will include details of recent intensive research performed by Dr. Judy Battalion who uncovered so much information for her recently published book, The Light of the Days. Additionally, Peter will offer material provided by ANU – the Museum of the Jewish People (Beit Hatfutsot) in Israel.

RSVP by email to: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

**Access to the parking is through the street in the back of the Federation building. The entrance code is “#001”. For a GPS or Google maps, use “4199 Federal Highway, Miami FL 33137” as the address.

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Ann Rabinowitz: The Value of Kehilalinks in Jewish Genealogy Research
2022-04-10 07:00
Live Meeting! At the Greater Miami Jewish Federation:

4200 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Florida 33137

Ann Rabinowitz

Born in Manchester, England, genealogist Ann Rabinowitz is a resident of South Florida and has been involved in genealogical pursuits since the age of ten. A prolific writer, her monthly articles in the JewishGen Blog are titled “Musings of a Jewish Genealogist.” Ann also contributes articles to The Jewish Chronicle Blog, Jewish genealogy journals, various newspapers, and The Jewish Affairs in South Africa. She updates her Facebook page regularly.

She also was the coordinator of the recently translated and published book “Tales from My Father’s Home” by Shlomo Kodesh, known as the grandfather of the ULPAN. The book is available at JewishGen’s Yizkor Book in print: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Kupiskis.html

We must comply with social distancing rules.

Reserve by email to: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

For more information check our website: http://www.jgs-miami.org

**Access to the parking is through the street in the back of the Federation building. The entrance code is “#001”. For a GPS or Google maps, use “4199 Federal Highway, Miami FL 33137” as the address. The Federation phone is 305-573-9174-(Security desk)

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The Second Exodus: The Clandestine Jewish Immigrants to Palestine Prior to Israel Independence (Part 1)
2022-04-03 06:30
The following events are done in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon & Sephardi Voices

The Second Exodus: The Clandestine Jewish Immigrants to Palestine Prior to Israel Independence

Sunday, April 3 at 10:30 am (Part 1)

Gemma R. Birnbaum

Executive director of American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS)

This presentation will focus on clandestine immigration immediately before, during, and after World War II, as persecuted Jews in Europe tried to make their way into the British Mandate of Palestine, often deemed illegally by the British authorities who controlled the region. This journey was dangerous and failed more often than it succeeded. These immigration restrictions, many of which were laid out in 1939’s British White Paper, became the subject of international debate after images of Jewish refugees being forced off ships at gunpoint and incarcerated in camps in Cyprus emerged in the media. Conspiracy theories around whether the Jews were truly refugees began to emerge, and Jewish leaders around the globe, members of the United Nations, and the Truman administration found themselves embroiled in a fight to have these restrictions lifted and the prisoners in Cyprus released. By 1948, increased Jewish immigration to Palestine increased regional tensions, and as the state of Israel was established, the situation exploded into a continued refugee crisis and all-out war.

Sunday, May 15 at 10:30 am (Part 2)

Lyn Julius

Founder of Harif, UK Associationof Jews from Middle east and North Africa

Lyn Julius is a journalist, blogger, and speaker. The British-born daughter of Iraqi – Jewish refugees, her work has appeared in JNS News, Times of Israel, Jewish Chronicle, Haaretz, Fathom, The Guardian, etc. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) has been translated to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic.

Aliya Bet was the illegal immigration of Jewish refugees during WWII, desperate to run the British shipping blockade in order to reach Palestine. Jewish communities in Egypt and Iran played their part in helping refugees escape. At the time, the overwhelming majority of immigrants to Eretz Israel were Ashkenazim from Europe, but a trickle of Jews entered Palestine from Arab countries, either as individuals or in small groups. The great aliyot of entire communities, such as those of Yemen and Iraq, were not to take place until after 1948 when Israel flung its gates open. But clandestine immigration continued, for example from Morocco: the problem was no longer the British refusing to let Jews in, but Arab countries refusing to let them out.

Professor Henry A Green

Founder of Sephardi Voices, Moderator

Henry Alan Green is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami and has taught there since 1984. After completing postgraduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Oxford, and the Sorbonne, he received his Ph.D. in Religion from St. Andrew’s University in 1982. He is the published author or co-author of four books and numerous articles, and has received recognition for his work on documenting the exodus of Jews from Arab countries after the Second World War.

Green is very active as a voice for Sephardi Jews, both in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Green testified before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in Washington D.C. in 2007, on the topic of truth, justice, and reconciliation for Jewish refugees from Arab countries, and serves on a number of boards for Sephardi-related organizations. In particular, he is a member of the Executive Committee for Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC) and was a former member of the Academic Advisory Board of the American Sephardi Federation (ASF). His new book, Sephardi Voices: the Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands, with Richard Stursberg, will be released in late March.

To join us by Zoom, contact to get a link: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

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Professor Miriam Hoffman: Curious Rabbinic Tales: The Shortest Tall Stories
2022-03-13 06:30
Sunday Salons

Presented monthly by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Professor Miriam Hoffman is a retired professor of Yiddish language, literature and film, Jewish culture, Yiddish humor, and classical and minor Yiddish writers. She is also a known Yiddish journalist and worked as a feature writer for the Yiddish Forward from 1982 to today. Now, with her latest book, she brings us the magic of storytelling. Folktales belong to the earliest folk literature, predating Jewish sources. Once they were adapted into the Jewish setting, the tales were integrated into our own mythology. Folktales were told as parables with a moral undercurrent to expose human frailty and strength, vanity, and heroism. Anything that was not said openly was disguised as a parable or a folktale.

To join us by Zoom or Live Streaming, contact JGSGM to get your link: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

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Professor Hal Bookbinder: Practicing Safe Computing
2022-03-08 05:00
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami (JGSGM) is collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL mentored by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

Zoom presentation:

Practicing Safe Computing by Professor Hal Bookbinder

Along with malware infecting your computer and hackers attempting to con you, your data on the Web is also at risk from breaches beyond your control. Facebook (March 2021), Microsoft (January 2020), Capital One (July 2019), Marriott (November 2018), Twitter (May 2018), Yahoo (September 2016) and even MyHeritage (June 2018) have experienced massive breaches in which millions of customer records were exposed. Even in the absence of bad actors, computers become corrupted and storage devices fail resulting in the potential loss of years of genealogical research. This talk discusses the risks, the myths, ways to reduce the likelihood of being hacked and how to minimize the impact of hacks and breaches that do occur. For a road map of issues and solutions, see Hal’s monthly series of Safe Computing articles, published in the JGSCV Newsletter, at https://www.tinyurl.com/SafeComputingArticles.

Hal is a retired information systems professional who continues to instruct business courses at the university level.

He has been actively researching his genealogy for more than three decades, identifying over 4,000 relatives and tracing two lines to the mid-1700s in modern Ukraine. Hal has written and spoken on border changes, migration, citizenship, safe computing unique research techniques.

Hal is a past president of the JGS of Los Angeles and of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Hal publishes a series of monthly articles on safe computing which are freely available at https://www.tinyurl.com/SafeComputingArticles. He and his wife, Marci, were raised in the Catskills of New York State and now live in the Los Angeles area.

Please register with jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous classes with the mentor. Once you are registered you will be receiving direct mail from the mentor.

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Mr. Arthur Sissman: How to set up to be a successful and cooperative genealogist...
2022-02-08 05:00
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami (JGSGM) is collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL headed and mentored by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

How to set up to be a successful and cooperative genealogist, just like you would want everyone else to do! Or “do for yourself, as you would have others do for you.”

Various websites (Ancestry for sure) will be visited, and a handout sent to those who attend the meeting.

Please register with jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous classes with the mentor. Once you are registered you will be receiving direct mail from the mentor.

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Hiding In Plain Sight: A Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust
2022-02-06 05:30
The following Zoom event is done in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon

in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Allan J. Hall J.D. with his own testimony

Allan Hall was born in Cracow, Poland in 1935. He led a charmed life until September 1939, when Nazis marched into Poland. Seeking safety, the family walked over two hundred miles to Lvov, where Allan was the first child picked up in the children’s pogrom in the Lvov Ghetto. With false identity papers, the family fled to Warsaw, where Allan and his mother were arrested and taken to the train station to be sent to Treblinka. When the trains briefly stopped running, Allan was marched to an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. Allan’s father, passing as Aryan, rented an office in a high-rise building which housed German Air Force headquarters, where they hid for two years. When the war ended, Allan’s father was arrested, and his mother sent Allan with his baby brother to make his way to Palestine. Hunted by the Soviets for months, eleven-year-old Allan bravely made his way across Europe.

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Robbin M. Smith: Writing Genealogical Stories
2022-01-09 05:30
The following event is done in collaboration with:

Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon

Writing Genealogical Stories. Everyone has a story – How to put it together?

Start with a time line-An inter active discussion together with the audience which will go over the process of preparation, organizing and put together your personal records to generate your own book.

Presenter: Robbin M. Smith

A professional genealogist for 20 years and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Her other current professional affiliations include the National Genealogy Society, Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Miami, and Utah Genealogy Association.

Sampling of work done for her grandchildren by grandma: Paulette Bronstein, President of the Jewish Genealogical Society will be shared at the event.

To join us by Zoom or Live Streaming, contact JGSGM to get your link: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

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Janice Masur: Shalom Uganda
2021-12-05 05:30
December Sunday Salons

Presented monthly by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

Janice Masur grew up in a tiny, remote European Jewish community in Kampala, Uganda, under British Imperial rule, with no rabbi or Jewish infrastructure. And yet, this community of only twenty-three families formed a cohesive group that celebrated all Jewish festivals together and upheld their Jewish identity. Sadly, while Kampala Jewry made every effort to survive, it eventually failed and withered under the hot African sun.

In Shalom Uganda: A Jewish Community on the Equator, Masur tells her story of living in this little-known Ashkenazi Jewish community from 1949 to 1961. Because so many Jewish communities were obliterated in the last century, she documents, remembers, and preserves Kampala European Jewry with all the respect that it deserves.

Robert Jacobvitz, who serves on the Advisory Board of the Sousa Mendez Foundation, brings us this fascinating author as part of his foundation’s programs.

To join us by Zoom or Live Streaming, contact JGSGM to get your link: jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com

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Alex Krakovsky: World-Renowned Ukrainian genealogical researcher
2021-11-09 05:00
The following event is done in collaboration with the Jewish Genealogical SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co. Fl

Alex has scanned and published thousands of digital images of Ukrainian archives on various Wiki pages created and supported by him. His scanned files are being included on JewishGen and a team of volunteers are transcribing them.

Alex shares the news of his projects on his Facebook page.

His cataloged Jewish records are included in the TKF (TSAL KAPLAN FOUNDATION) archive database (https://www.tkfgen.org/inventory_provinces.html)

We will begin the meeting with a conversation with Alex then we will explore the TKF database as a research tool and a method to finding and understanding scanned archival images.

Join us via Zoom – to get a link contact jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com and specify the event of interest to you.

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Genie Milgrom: Finding Hidden Lineages Through Crypto-Jewish Genealogy
2021-11-07 05:30
The following event is done in collaboration withTemple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon

Join us for an amazing lecture by Genie Milgrom, world-renowned researcher and representative of the Crypto-Jewish Society. Genie will cover all the new sources that are available to search and to locate the Crypto-Jews as they began their diaspora through Portugal, London, Antwerp, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Join us via Zoom – to get a link contact jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com and specify the event of interest to you.

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Horia Haim F. Ghiuzeli: Centuries-old history of the family names of the Jews of Morocco
2021-10-10 06:30
Temple Beth Am Sunday Salons via Zoom and live streaming

Slice of Jewish Life + The Morocco Community, presenting:

Horia Haim F. Ghiuzeli

Horia Haim F. Ghiuzeli, a historian, is the Director of the Databases of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People. The presentation focuses on the centuries-old history of the family names of the Jews of Morocco. Surnames may provide an insight into the geographical origins of some families or into the occupations of their ancestors, the role they played in the life of their communities and the way family members were perceived by their neighbors and friends. Understanding the rich linguistic background of the Jews of Morocco is an essential clue for a correct interpretation of the meaning of their family names. A knowledge of the meaning of these family names may reveal details about past Jewish life in Morocco and could be instrumental for a successful research of family roots.

Moderated by Professor Henry Green

Professor of Religious Studies of Judaic and Sephardi Studies at the University of Miami – founder of Sephardic Voices – whose latest book published through Just in Press is SEPHARDI VOICES: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands

Participant Sete Bentata, a renowned architect born in Tetouan, Morocco, tracing her family story.

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Libby Copeland: The Cultural Phenomenon of Home DNA Testing
2021-09-26 06:30
The following event is done in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon:

The Cultural Phenomenon of Home DNA Testing

Libby Copeland: is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Washington Post, New York magazine, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She specializes in the intersection of science and culture and will explore with us the extraordinary cultural phenomenon of home DNA testing, which is redefining family history. It will draw on Libby Copeland’s years of research for her new book The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are (Abrams, 2020), which The Wall Street Journal calls “a fascinating account of lives dramatically affected by genetic sleuthing.” With more than 37 million people having been tested, a tipping point has been reached. Virtually all Americans are affected whether they have been tested or not, and millions have been impacted by significant revelations in their immediate families. The presentation will discuss the implications of home DNA testing for Jewish genealogy, as well as the unique challenges of genetic genealogy for Ashkenazim.

To join us by Zoom, contact to get a link

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Mr. Arthur Sissman: How to share your Family Tree on Ancestry or My Heritage and Keep your Privacy
2021-09-14 06:00
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami (JGSGM) is collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL headed and mentored by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

The September Meeting will take place via Zoom.

The Topic: How to share your Family Tree on Ancestry or My Heritage and Keep your Privacy

Focus will be on sharing your Family Tree on Ancestry.com while protecting your privacy as best you can.Handout info will include info on doing the same on MyHeritage and Ancestry.com.Topics to cover make a tree public, private, private non-searchable, sharing trees, sharing parts of trees – leaving live people private, splitting trees using software, sharing gedcoms, etc. What specific item in this sharing and privacy do YOU need to know more about? Send ideas/requests to genresearch13@yahoo.com, with your request for a Zoom link!

The presentation is designed so you are encouraged to follow along on your device, using your data, to follow the Zoom demo. If you can have the Zoom up on one device (phone, tablet, laptop, etc.) while you are following along on your tree on Ancestry.com. Be interactive if you can – have you got a tree you need to share?Q&A will follow the presentation.

Please register with jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous classes with the mentor.

Once you are registered you will be receiving direct mail from the mentor.

** Write us if you are unable to attend because of the time or the day. Let us know what time or day is convenient for you.

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Mr. Arthur Sissman: GEDmatch.com – Should I Upload or Not? Part II
2021-08-10 06:00
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami (JGSGM) is collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL headed and mentored by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

The August Meeting will take place via Zoom.

The Topic: GEDmatch.com – Should I Upload or Not?

The August meeting is a continuation of the July meeting on the Free Tools at GEDmatch that were not covered & Tier 1 (Paid alternative).

Please register with jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous classes with the mentor.

Once you are registered you will be receiving direct mail from the mentor.

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41st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
2021-08-01 20:00 - 2021-08-05 19:59
(Virtual Event hosted by IAJGS)

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Mr. Arthur Sissman: GEDmatch.com - Should I Upload or Not?
2021-07-13 06:00
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami (JGSGM) is collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL headed and mentored by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

The July Meeting will take place via Zoom.

The Topic: GEDmatch.com – Should I Upload or Not?

What is GEDmatch?Why should I upload my raw data to GEDmatch?What questions can GEDmatch answer for me?Is GEDmatch hard to manipulate?How much does GEDmatch cost?What are the best tools to use at GEDmatch?

Please register with jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous classes with the mentor.

Once you are registered you will be receiving direct mail from the mentor.

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Mr. Arthur Sissman: Visit your deceased relatives via Find-a-Grave
2021-06-08 06:00
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami (JGSGM) is collaborating with the Jewish Genealogy SIG (Special Interest Group) of Naples/Lee Co FL headed and mentored by Mr. Arthur Sissman.

The Topic: Visit your deceased relatives via Find-a-Grave. How Do I Use Find-a-Grave in genealogical research?

Please register with jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com if you did not attend the previous classes with the mentor.

Once you are registered you will be receiving direct mail from the mentor.

** Write us if you are unable to attend because of the time or the day. Let us know what time or day is convenient for you.Your feedback is important to plan our future programming.

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The Forgotten Exodus: Florida's Hispanic Jews from the Islamic World
2021-06-06 09:00
Sephardi Voices & Florida Humanities proudly present:

The Forgotten Exodus: Florida’s Hispanic Jews from the Islamic World

An afternoon of history, culture and storytelling like no other – The inside story on Florida’s Hispanic Jews in the Islamic World.

Click HERE for Eventbrite link to get the program details and register for the online event.

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