Presenter: Barbara Ellman
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A webpage dedicated to a Kehila or Jewish community becomes a repository of all the information we can gather about it. Memorializing the Jewish communities and learning about their lives and places where they lived is the key to understanding our past. It is accessible throughout the world, provides a link from the past to the future and serves as a valuable resource for their descendants. This presentation applies to any place where there was a Jewish community, including Europe, Africa, Asia, Sephardic communities and new immigrant neighborhoods, Moshavim and Kibbutzim. Potential resources and content will be discussed, including: geography, history, family biographies, Holocaust, Landsmanshaftn and outreach. Advantages for personal research will be described. The PowerPoint presentation gives detailed examples of the design; lay out, suitable material, sources of information. Examples of webpages will be shown.