Presenter: Rhoda Miller
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Naturalization records and passenger ship manifests are the critical United States documents for discovering ancestral towns and connecting family history to ancestors ?in the old country.? Strategies for finding these records will be explored as well as understanding their content. Other unique aspects of Jewish genealogy will be presented, such as managing foreign languages, using online research tools, learning naming patterns for given and surnames, and understanding the impact of historical events.